System and method for infrared dongle
AssigneeTubetime Inc.
InventorsRachad Alao, Michael Wayne Ambrose, Bertrand Boudaud
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Abstract
A method of controlling consumer devices using an infrared dongle coupled to a mobile device includes receiving power for the infrared dongle from the mobile device. The infrared dongle includes an infrared transmitter coupled to a microcontroller. One or more instructions are received in the microcontroller from the mobile device. The received one or more instructions are generated from codes stored in a memory of the mobile device. In response to the receiving, one or more infrared signals are transmitted via the infrared transmitter to at least one of the consumer devices.
Claims16
An infrared dongle for communicating with one or more consumer devices, the infrared dongle comprising:
- an infrared transmitter to transmit one or more infrared signals to the one or more consumer devices;
- a microcontroller coupled to the infrared transmitter to control operation of the infrared transmitter, the microcontroller being in communication with an application installed on a mobile device such that the microcontroller receives one or more instructions from the mobile device, the received one or more instructions being generated from codes stored in a memory of the mobile device, the received one or more instructions including non-return-to-zero (NRZ) coded data, wherein the NRZ coded data is bipolar coded data, and wherein receiving the NRZ coded includes using an edge detector, the microcontroller further including a one time programmable read only memory;
- wherein in response to the microcontroller receiving the one or more instructions from the mobile device, the microcontroller causes the infrared transmitter to transmit the one or more infrared signals to the one or more consumer devices, and wherein the dongle receives power from the mobile device;
- further wherein the infrared dongle is directly coupled to the mobile device using one or more audio channels of the mobile device such that the microcontroller communicates with the application over the one or more audio channels of the mobile device;
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- further wherein at least a portion of the one or more instructions received by the microcontroller from the mobile device are sent in an uncompressed format.
A method of controlling one or more consumer devices using an infrared dongle coupled to a mobile device using one or more audio channels of the mobile device, the method comprising:
- receiving power for the infrared dongle from the mobile device over the one or more audio channels of the mobile device, the infrared dongle including an infrared transmitter coupled to a microcontroller, the microcontroller including a one time programmable read only memory;
- receiving, in the microcontroller, one or more instructions from the mobile device over the one or more audio channels of the mobile device, at least a portion of the one or more instructions being received in an uncompressed format, the received one or more instructions being generated from codes stored in a memory of the mobile device, further wherein the receiving one or more instructions includes receiving non-return-to-zero (NRZ) coded data, wherein the NRZ coded data is bipolar coded data, and wherein the receiving the NRZ coded data includes detecting the NRZ coded data using an edge detector;
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- in response to the receiving, transmitting, via the infrared transmitter, one or more infrared signals to at least one of the one or more consumer devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.