Automatic adjustment of devices in a home entertainment system
AssigneePorto Vinci Ltd. Limited Liability Company
InventorsPatrick T. Igoe, Leonid Kravets
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Abstract
A method of detecting missing devices in a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub includes obtaining a registration of at least one device that includes a source device. An instruction is received from a user to present program content from the source device. A set of one or more sink devices missing from the home entertainment system for a presentation of the program content based on an assessment by the wireless home entertainment hub of presentation capabilities of the home entertainment system using the at least one device registered with the wireless home entertainment hub is determined. The set of one or more sink devices is presented to the user.
Claims20
A method of adjusting a device in a home entertainment system, the method comprising:
- designating a first display device of a plurality of display devices in the home entertainment system as a primary device based on at least one characteristic of the first display device;
- designating a second display device of the plurality of display devices as a secondary display device for display of content supplemental to main content displayed on the primary display device;
- identifying, via an identification device associated with a home entertainment system, a user at an initiation of an entertainment session;
- retrieving a user profile corresponding to the user, the user profile including positioning information of at least the first and second display devices;
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- causing adjustment of a position of the first and second display devices based on the user profile.
A method of adjusting a device in a home entertainment system, the method comprising:
- receiving a first instruction from a wireless home entertainment hub to designate a particular display device of a plurality of display devices of the home entertainment system as a secondary display device for display of content supplemental to main content displayed on a primary display device designated by the wireless home entertainment hub;
- receiving a second instruction from the wireless home entertainment hub to adjust a position of the secondary display device in a home entertainment system, wherein the instruction is based on a user profile of a user identified via an identification device associated with the home entertainment system, the user profile specifying positioning information of the secondary display device and the primary display device;
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- adjusting the position of the secondary display device in response to the second instruction received from the wireless home entertainment hub.
A computer readable storage device storing computer instructions, which, in response to being executed on a processor, cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:
- designating a first display device of a plurality of display devices in a home entertainment system as a primary display device based on at least one characteristic of the first display device;
- designating a second display device of the plurality of display devices as a secondary display device for display of content supplemental to main content displayed on the primary display device;
- identifying, via an identification device associated with a home entertainment system, a user at an initiation of an entertainment session;
- retrieving a user profile corresponding to the user, the user profile including positioning information of at least the first and second display devices in the home entertainment system;
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- causing adjustment of a position of the first and second display devices based on the user profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.