US 7,689,095 B2Granted

Electronic device system

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsNobukazu Sugiyama, Makoto Korehisa

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Abstract

An electronic device system includes a plurality of electronic devices each having at least an audiovisual playback device capable of reading one of stored audiovisual content data and received audiovisual content data, and an audiovisual output device capable of outputting desired audiovisual content, a bus establishing connection among the plurality of electronic devices, and a controller capable of controlling the electronic devices connected to the bus. In the electronic device, the audiovisual output device connected via the bus includes a device identifying unit for identifying, under the control of the controller, the audiovisual output device which outputs the desired audiovisual content, and a content output unit for outputting the desired audiovisual content when the audiovisual output device is identified by the device identifying unit.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An electronic device system comprising:

a plurality of audiovisual playback devices;
a plurality of audiovisual output devices capable of outputting desired audiovisual content and having an output device identifying means, each audiovisual output device including a respective user recognition apparatus;
a bus establishing a physical connection among said playback devices and output devices;
and
a controller capable of controlling the playback devices and the output devices physically connected to said bus, the controller controlling the output devices according to the respective output device identifying means,
wherein the controller includes an infrared transmitter and a wireless transmitter,
wherein the controller provides two signals, the wireless transmitter provides a first signal enabling a user to select audiovisual content from any one of the playback devices and the infrared transmitter provides a second signal to cause identification of a selected one of the output devices to establish communication with the selected playback device,
wherein when a plurality of output devices are identified to establish communication with the selected audiovisual playback device at the same time, the audiovisual content is controlled to be output to the output device identified first among the plurality of identified playback devices.

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An electronic device system comprising:

a plurality of audiovisual playback devices;
a plurality of audiovisual output devices capable of outputting desired audiovisual content and having an output device identifying means;
a bus for establishing a physical connection among said playback devices and output devices;
and
a controller including a wireless transmitter and capable of controlling said audiovisual playback devices connected to said bus, wherein said audiovisual output device connected via said bus comprises:
voice recognizing means for recognizing a voice;
and
content output means for outputting the audiovisual content from said audiovisual playback device from which reading is requested by said controller when said voice recognizing means recognizes a specific voice,
wherein the controller provides two signals, the wireless transmitter provides a first signal enabling a user to select audiovisual content from any one of the playback devices and the voice recognizing means provides a second signal to cause identification of a selected one of the output devices to establish communication with the selected playback device,
wherein when a plurality of output devices are identified to establish communication with the selected audiovisual playback device at the same time, the audiovisual content is controlled to be output to the output device identified first among the plurality of identified playback devices.

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An electronic device system comprising:

a plurality of audiovisual playback devices;
a plurality of audiovisual output devices capable of outputting desired audiovisual content and having an output device identifying means;
a bus for establishing a physical connection among said playback devices and output devices;
and
a controller including an wireless transmitter and capable of controlling said audiovisual playback devices connected to said bus, wherein said audiovisual output device connected via said bus comprises:
vibration recognizing means for recognizing a vibration;
and
content output means for outputting the audiovisual content from said audiovisual playback device from which reading is requested by said controller when said vibration recognizing means recognizes a specific vibration,
wherein the controller provides two signals, the wireless transmitter provides a first signal enabling a user to select audiovisual content from any one of the playback devices and the vibration recognizing means provides a second signal to cause identification of a selected one of the output devices to establish communication with the selected playback device,
wherein when a plurality of output devices are identified to establish communication with the selected audiovisual playback device at the same time, the audiovisual content is controlled to be output to the output device identified first among the plurality of identified playback devices.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.