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Patent No.:

US 9462211 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2015

Electronic equipment, control information transmission and reception methods having bidirectional communication using predetermined lines

Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuhisa Nakajima, Kanagawa, JP;

Hidekazu Kikuchi, Kanagawa, JP;

Takamichi Mitsuhashi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, , JP;

Attorney:

Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Michael Lee

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2011.01); H04N 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04B 1/20 (2006.01); H04N 5/775 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 5/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/4403 (2013.01); H04B 1/205 (2013.01); H04N 5/38 (2013.01); H04N 5/44 (2013.01); H04N 5/775 (2013.01); H04N 7/163 (2013.01); H04N 21/4135 (2013.01); H04N 21/42646 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/43632 (2013.01);
Abstract

Electronic equipment and methods for permitting quick control of the operating state of a source equipment side from sink equipment. A television receiver (sink equipment)and an amplifier (repeater equipment)are interconnected over an HDMI cable, and the amplifierand a DVD recorder (source equipment)are interconnected over an HDMI cable. Each of the pieces of equipment includes, in addition to an HDMI receiving unit and an HDMI transmitting unit, a high-speed data line I/F included in a bidirectional communication unit that uses predetermined lines of the HDMI cable. The bidirectional communication unit is used to transmit channel selection information, a remote control code instructing recording, 'theater mode' designating information, a remote control code, or the like from the television receiverto the audio amplifieror DVD recorder

Find Patent Forward Citations

Nakajima, Yasuhisa. (2016). Electronic equipment, control information transmission and reception methods having bidirectional communication using predetermined lines (U.S. Patent No. 9462211). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9462211

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