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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Hironaka, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/385 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating HDMI ports. An HDMI port controller assigns virtual addresses when the maximum number of HDMI CEC addresses is exceeded and CEC logical addresses are duplicated with only one HDMI port corresponding to device having a CEC logical address having its port enabled at any given time. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.