Denon 4802R - 7 Channel Surround Receiver User Manual download pdf

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United

States

Patent

Commons

a].

US007305694B2

7,305,694

Dec.

2007

(10)

Patent

N0.:

(45)

Date

Patent:

(54)

(75)

(73)

(*)

(21)

(22)

(65)

(60)

(51)

(52)

(58)

METHOD

AND

APPARATUS

FOR

REMOTELY

CONTROLLING

RECEIVER

ACCORDING

CONTENT

AND

USER

SELECTION

Inventors:

Christopher

Commons,

Carmel,

(US);

Marty

Wachter,

Phoenix,

(US);

Robert

Bouterse,

Danville,

(Us)

Assignee:

Digital

Networks

North

America,

Inc.,

Cupertino,

(US)

Notice:

Subject

any

disclaimer,

the

term

this

patent

extended

or adjusted

under

USC

154(b)

days.

Appl.

No.:

10/935,068

Filed:

Sep.

2004

Prior

Publication

Data

2005/0100312

May

12,

2005

US.

Application

Data

Provisional

application

No.

60/500,582,

?led

Sep.

2003.

Int.

Cl.

H04N

7/18

(2006.01)

US.

Cl.

..........................

725/80; 725/82; 725/85;

725/133;

725/141;

725/153;

700/94;

348/706;

348/554;

348/555;

381/56;

715/716;

715/717;

715/727;

715/728

Field

Classi?cation

..........

725/39i40,

725/43i44,

48,

52, 53,

59, 80, 82,

85,

131,

725/133*134,139,141,151,153;

348/706,

348/554i555;

700/94; 381/56;

715/716*717,

715/727,

728

See

application

?le

for

complete

history.

Internet

(56)

References

Cited

U.S.

PATENT

DOCUMENTS

5,751,672

5/1998

Yankowski

...............

709/238

5,768,224

6/1998

Tanaka

a1.

...............

369/2

(Continued)

FOREIGN

PATENT

DOCUMENTS

0910088

9/1998

(Continued)

OTHER

PUBLICATIONS

U.S.

Appl

No.

09/453,023,

?led

Dec.

1999,

entitled

Apparatus,

Method

and

Database

for

Control

Audio/Video

Equipment.

(Continued)

Primary

Examinerilason

Salce

(74)

Attorney,

Agent,

irmiMcDonnell

Boehnen

Hulbert

Berghoif

(57)

ABSTRACT

System

and

method

for

automatically

controlling

media

receiver

instructing

the

media

receiver

use

particular

receiver

connection

and

play

selected

media

unit

using

one

plurality

play

modes

according

characteristics

the

media

unit.

Media

units

may

encoded

using

any

variety

encoding

formats.

The

media

management

system

may

interface

With

media

receiver

select

media

receiver

connections

accordance

With

the

media

type

the

media

unit.

The

media

management

system

may

also

interface

With

the

media

receiver

set

media

receiver

settings

for

playing

the

selected

media

unit

according

the

media

receiver

settings

selected

for

play

mode

correspond

ing

the

characteristics

the

selected

media

unit.

29 Claims,

Drawing

Sheets

Personal

Computer

‘

Home

’

Remote

Control

\25

Media

Source

Ports

Control

Port

System

‘

. . .

Mode

Remote

Media

Main

Con?guration

Control

Management

Processor

Process

user

‘

II-

System

Media

Player

Interface

Media

Receiver

1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 16 17

Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Patent:

(12) United States Patent Commons et a]. US007305694B2 US 7,305,694 B2 Dec. 4, 2007 (10) Patent N0.: (45) Date of Patent: (54) (75) (73) (*) (21) (22)

Page 2 - Fujishita

US 7,305,694 B2 9 media receiver type record 196. The media unit record 190, the media type con?guration record 192, the play mode record 194, and the

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US 7,305,694 B2 11 12 cated to the media receiver 38 on a control signal 50 to nary skill in the art will appreciate that Tables 1-10 shows con?gure t

Page 4 - EMZMOME

US 7,305,694 B2 13 14 TABLE 2-c0ntinued Command Priority Character Sample NEO6 CINEMA HIGH FI NEO6 MUSIC HIGH F] THX Adv EX HIGH FK CS5.1 MUSIC HIGH F

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TABLE 6-c0ntinued 15 US 7,305,694 B2 16 TABLE 6-c0ntinued Request Status Command (Status Command) List Request Status Command (Status Command) List Re

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US 7,305,694 B2 17 18 TABLE 7-c0ntinued Request Status Request Command Answer Sample TEST TONE SR P4 TEST TONE SBR P5 TEST TONE SBL P6 TEST TONE SL P7

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US 7,305,694 B2 19 TABLE 10-continued Request Request Status Command Answer Sample Tuner Frequency “@1?a”,OxOD NON Z (MR) XXXX(76.0-108.0) aOXXXX FM (

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US 7,305,694 B2 21 14. An apparatus for controlling a media receiver, the apparatus comprising: a media player interface comprising a plurality of out

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US 7,305,694 B2 23 24 a processor for interfacing to a play selection function to Wherein the processor sends to the media receiver a determlne (1) fr

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US 7,305,694 B2 Page 2 US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,915,026 A 6/1999 MankovitZ ... .. 713/168 5,945,988 A * 8/1999 Williams et al. .. 715/747 5

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Page 14 - NONiDETECTION

US 7,305,694 B2 1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING A RECEIVER ACCORDING TO CONTENT AND USER SELECTION CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICAT

Page 15

US 7,305,694 B2 3 input/output (I/O) ports coupled to a plurality of media sources, (ii) a user interface coupled to at least one user interface devic

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US 7,305,694 B2 5 mass storage device, a ?ash memory system, or a combi nation of ?ash memory and disc-based memory. The media database 19 stores medi

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US 7,305,694 B2 7 Examples of video formats include: (i) Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-l, (ii) MPEG-2, (iii) MPEG-4, (iv) high de?nition televis