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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2015
Applicants:

Hisense Usa Corp., Suwanee, GA (US);

Hisense Electric Co.,ltd, Qingdao, Shandong, CN;

Hisense International Co., Ltd., Qingdao, Shandong, CN;

Inventors:

Jinlong Huang, Suwanee, GA (US);

Jianchun Zhang, Suwanee, GA (US);

Assignees:

Hisense USA Corp., Suwanee, GA (US);

Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., Qingdao, Shandong, CN;

Hisense International Co., Ltd., Qingdao, Shandong, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04N 5/60 (2006.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/607 (2013.01); H04N 5/4403 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 5/44582 (2013.01); H04N 5/44591 (2013.01); H04N 21/4221 (2013.01); H04N 21/439 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04N 2005/4412 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to TV devices that implement methods for switching an accompanying sound of a TV program. According to the method, the TV device may display a current TV program under a first operation state of a plurality operation state associated with the current TV program; when receiving a first controlling signal, display a target menu on the screen, wherein the target menu includes a target menu option of operation which is a default option and is associated with the plurality of operation states of the current TV program; and when receiving a second controlling signal, directly switch the TV device to a second operation state along a sequence of the plurality of operation states.


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