Non-standalone tv pc
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsRobert HARDACKER, Christopher Jensen READ, Robert Allan UNGER
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Abstract
A TV includes a TV processor and a TV display and a PC includes a PC processor but no PC monitor. A HDMI link is established between the processors for conveying multimedia content from the PC to the TV for display thereof on the TV display. Also, a link such as a USB link is established between the processors for exchanging control signals therebetween.
Claims20
A portable computer (PC)-TV combination creating an all-in-one PC-TV providing full PC and full TV functionality, including keyboard, mouse, display, mass storage, processing power, TV tuning, USB ports, and network connection.
TV including a TV display and a TV processor executing logic comprising:
- presenting on the TV display a list of input sources, the list including a personal computer (PC) having an optical disk player;
- receiving from a wireless TV remote control (RC) a selection signal indicating that the disk player of the PC is desired as input source to the TV;
- receiving multimedia content from the disk player of the PC over a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) link in response to the selection signal;
- receiving commands from the RC to control the disk player of the PC;
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- exchanging control information over a universal serial bus (USB) link with the PC.
A personal computer (PC) adjunct to a TV comprising:
- a PC processor;
- a source of multimedia content communicating with the PC processor;
- a HDMI port communicating multimedia content from the source to a HDMI port of the TV over a HDMI link for display thereof on a TV display associated with the TV;
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- a USB device port exchanging over a USB link control signals with the TV.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.