Timer-Based Control of Audiovisual Output Devices
AssigneeRoku, Inc.
InventorAli VASSIGH
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Abstract
A system includes a processor to initiate a timer in response to an action-execution command. The processor identifies expiration of the timer. In response to expiration of the timer, the processor transmits one or more commands to one or more controllable output devices to simultaneously ramp down the sound volume and gradually dim the display brightness generated by said one or more controllable audiovisual output devices over a predetermined ramp-down period of time.
Claims19
A method for effecting gradual timer-based deactivation of a controllable audiovisual output device, comprising:
- detecting at a controller device a connectivity and a capability of the controllable audiovisual output device;
- initiating a timer at the controller device;
- calculating at the controller device a period of time for deactivation based at least in part on a time characteristic associated with the controllable audiovisual output device and a current time of the timer, wherein the period of time for deactivation is greater than one second;
- and
- in response to the calculating, transmitting a command based at least in part on the connectivity and the capability of the controllable audiovisual output device to the controllable audiovisual output device to decrease a sound volume or a display brightness generated by the controllable audiovisual output device over the period of time for deactivation.
A system, comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- detect a connectivity and a capability of a controllable audiovisual output device;
- initiate a timer;
- calculate a period of time for deactivation based at least in part on a time characteristic associated with the controllable audiovisual output device and a current time of the timer, wherein the period of time for deactivation is greater than one second;
- and
- in response to the calculating, transmit a command based at least in part on the connectivity and the capability of the controllable audiovisual output device to the controllable audiovisual output device to decrease a sound volume or a display brightness generated by the controllable audiovisual output device over the period of time for deactivation.
A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:
- detecting at a controller device a connectivity and a capability of a controllable audiovisual output device;
- initiating a timer at the controller device;
- calculating at the controller device a period of time for deactivation based at least in part on a time characteristic associated with the controllable audiovisual output device and a current time of the timer, wherein the period of time for deactivation is greater than one second;
- and
- in response to the calculating, transmitting a command based at least in part on the connectivity and the capability of the controllable audiovisual output device to the controllable audiovisual output device to decrease a sound volume or a display brightness generated by the controllable audiovisual output device over the period of time for deactivation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.