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US 4,989,081 AGranted
Home-bus-information system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMasayuki Miyagawa, Takao Itabashi, Hisafumi Yamada, Yoshio Osakabe
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Abstract
A home-bus-information display system arranged such that the control status of each of a plurality of home apparatus can be monitored via home bus-lines and additively displayed over a video program on the picture screen of a television receiver to allow a viewer to monitor the control status of each of other home electric apparatus, a security system and so on in a centralized-control fashion.
Claims18
A home-bus-information display system comprising:
- (a) a video monitor having a picture screen;
- (b) a signal source for supplying a video program;
- (c) a plurality of home apparatus to be controlled electrically;
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- (d) electrically controlling means provided in each of the plurality of home apparatus;
- characterized in the combination of
- (e) a bus-line connected between the video monitor and each of the plurality of home apparatus;
- (f) information means provided in each of the plurality of home apparatus for generating a distinctive status information signal in response to the electrically controlling means and for transmitting the status information signal to the video monitor through the bus-line;
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- (g) display means responsive to the video program and the status information for displaying the status information additively to the video program on the picture screen of the video monitor.
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