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US 12,309,463 B2Granted
Remote control having hotkeys with dynamically assigned functions
AssigneeHisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorsSanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim, Salvador Soto, Alexander de Paz, Saulo Correia Dourado, Ron Cassar
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Abstract
An intelligent television system provides an operating system and an application framework for controlling a user interface to handle user input events from a handheld remote control. The remote control includes color keys that are configured for triggering different functions in different application panels displayed on the television.
Claims20
An intelligent television comprising:
- a display;
- a memory configured to store instructions and data associated with the display;
- one or more input ports configured to connect to one or more external devices;
- a remote controller comprising one or more color hotkeys and one or more shortcut keys, the one or more shortcut keys being associated with one or more content applications that provide media content from content sources other than the one or more external devices;
- at least one processor in connection with the display, the memory and the one or more input ports and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to cause the intelligent television to:
- receive a designation for a silo, wherein the silo is a logical representation of a content source for the intelligent television;
- determine the silo based on the designation;
- based on that the silo is associated with one of the one or more external devices:
- present in a first user interface a watermark for identifying the silo;
- activate the one of the one or more external devices;
- determine whether a signal error associated with the silo occurs;
- and
- based on an occurrence of the signal error associated with the silo, present a second user interface for indicating the signal error, and based on no occurrence of the signal error, present a content associated with the silo;
- based on that the silo is a first content application of the one or more content applications:
- determine whether the first content application is in an error state;
- and
- based on that the first content application is in an error state, present a third user interface indicating the first content application is in the error state, otherwise, provide a content from the first content application;
- and
- in response to a command for information about the content from the first content application via the remote controller, present a fourth user interface comprising at least one of:
- a first indicator having a first color of a first hotkey of the one or more color hotkeys indicating a first assigned function for the first hotkey, a second indicator having a second color of a second hotkey of the one or more color hotkeys indicating a second assigned function for the second hotkey, a third indicator having a third color of a third hotkey of the one or more color hotkeys indicating a third assigned function for the third hotkey.
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A method for an intelligent television comprising:
- receiving a designation for a silo, wherein the silo is a logical representation of a content source for the intelligent television;
- determining the silo based on the designation;
- based on that the silo is associated with one of one or more external devices:
- presenting in a first user interface a watermark for identifying the silo;
- activating the one of the one or more external devices;
- determining whether a signal error associated with the silo occurs;
- based on an occurrence of the signal error associated with the silo, presenting a second user interface for indicating the signal error, based on no occurrence of the signal error, present a content associated with the silo;
- based on that the silo is a first content application of the one or more content applications:
- determining whether the first content application is in an error state;
- based on that the first content application is in an error state, presenting a third user interface indicating the first content application is in the error state, otherwise, providing a content from the first content application;
- and
- in response to a command for information about the content from the first content application via a remote controller, presenting a fourth user interface comprising at least one of:
- a first indicator having a first color of a first hotkey of the one or more color hotkeys indicating a first assigned function for the first hotkey, a second indicator having a second color of a second hotkey of the one or more color hotkeys indicating a second assigned function for the second hotkey, a third indicator having a third color of a third hotkey of the one or more color hotkeys indicating a third assigned function for the third hotkey.
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