Control device, system containing the control device and method of using the same
AssigneeProduction Resource Group, LLC
InventorsScott Blair, Jeremy Hochman
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Abstract
Disclosed is a control device for a serial network protocol controller configured to selectively disable control of a parameter of a controllable media device by at least one channel while the serial network protocol controller continues to transmit the at least one channel to the at least on serial network protocol controllable media device.
Claims31
A control device for a serial network protocol controller, the serial network protocol controller configured to repeatedly transmit an output signal composed of a plurality of channels to at least one controllable media device, two or more of the plurality of channels for controlling corresponding parameters of the at least one controllable media device, the control device comprising:
- a housing;
- a CPU and a memory disposed in the housing;
- a serial network protocol inlet port for communication with the serial network protocol controller;
- and
- an outlet port for communication with the at least one controllable media device;
- wherein the control device is configured to
- receive a user selection to enable or disable any one of the two or more of the plurality of channels to enable or disable control of one or more of the parameters by the serial network protocol controller;
- receive a control value for one of the parameters corresponding to the user-selected disabled channel;
- and
- in response to the user selection to disable one of the two or more of the plurality of channels, ignore the user-selected disabled channel and provide the control value to the at least one controllable media device for control of the corresponding parameter.
A media device control system comprising:
- a serial network protocol controller, a control device for the serial network protocol controller and at least one controllable media device,
- the serial network protocol controller configured to repeatedly transmit an output signal composed of a plurality of channels to the control device, two or more of the plurality of channels for controlling corresponding parameters of the at least one controllable media device and
- the control device comprising:
- a housing;
- a CPU and a memory disposed in the housing;
- a serial network protocol inlet port for communication with the serial network protocol controller;
- and
- an outlet port for communication with the at least one controllable media device,
- where, the control device is configured to
- receive a user selection to enable or disable any one of the two or more of the plurality of channels to enable or disable control of one or more of the parameters by the serial network protocol controller;
- receive a control value for one of the parameters corresponding to the user-selected disabled channel;
- and
- in response to the user selection to disable one of the two or more of the plurality of channels, ignore the user-selected disabled channel and provide the control value to the at least one controllable media device for control of the corresponding parameter.
A method for controlling parameters of a controllable media device comprising the steps of:
- receiving, at a control device operably connected to the controllable media device, an output signal from a media device controller, the output signal composed of a plurality of channels, two or more of the plurality of channels for controlling corresponding ones of the parameters of the controllable media device;
- receiving a user selection to enable or disable any one of the two or more of the plurality of channels to enable or disable control of one or more of the parameters by the media device controller;
- receiving a control value for one of the parameters corresponding to the user-selected disabled channel;
- and
- in response to the user selection to disable one of the two or more of the plurality of channels, selectively disabling, with the control device, control by the media device controller of the parameter corresponding to the user-selected disabled channel by ignoring the user-selected disabled channel and providing the control value to the controllable media device for control of the corresponding parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.