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US 2010/0245668 A1Published application
Pc dock for tv
AssigneeSony Corporation and Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsRobert Hardacker, Christopher Jensen Read, Robert Allan Unger
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Abstract
A computer dock communicates with a TV over a HDMI link and a USB and/or Ethernet link. The dock can include a keyboard and mouse and the user can select whether the keyboard/mouse signals are sent to the computer or the TV. The input devices of the computer in the dock and/or the input devices of the dock can be used to provide navigation input to the TV to navigate around user interfaces such as a cross-media bar (XMB).
Claims20
System comprising:
- TV including a TV display and a TV processor;
- computer dock communicating with the TV processor and configured to engage a portable computer, the computer dock including at least one user-manipulable input device generating input signals to the TV processor to navigate a user interface (UI) presented on the TV display.
A computer dock for a TV comprising:
- surface configured to engage a computer;
- at least one input device;
- HDMI port configured to communicate with a TV;
- USB and/or Ethernet port configured to communicate with the TV.
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Portable computer comprising:
- portable housing;
- processor in the housing;
- computer monitor on the housing communicating with the processor;
- at least one computer input device on the housing, wherein when the processor determines that the computer is engaged with a dock, the processor causes a user interface to be presented and navigated by a user to determine whether input signals from the dock are provided as input to a TV communicating with the dock or as input to the computer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.