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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
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