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US 8,789,129 B2Granted
Television and method for operating the same
AssigneeWistron Corporation
InventorsChien-Tsuen Liu, Yung-Chih Lin
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Abstract
In the specification and drawing a television is described and shown with a multimedia player for playing information, a grabber for producing a word from the information and a controller for controlling a computer to search for data related to the word. Moreover, a method for operating the television is also disclosed in the specification and drawing.
Claims10
A television, comprising:
- a multimedia player for playing information, wherein the multimedia player comprises a display module for displaying at least one frame;
- a grabber for producing at least a word from the information, wherein the grabber comprises a hyphenation dictionary and a character recognition module for recognizing subtitles in the frame that is displayed by the display module and further for dividing the subtitles that are recognized in the frame into various words according to the hyphenation dictionary;
- a high definition multimedia interface connected to a computer;
- a controller for controlling the computer through the high definition multimedia interface, so as to search for data related to the word;
- and
- a user interface for operating the computer, wherein the user interface is a software keyboard or a tactile user interface,
- wherein the controller comprises:
- a signal generation module for generating a CEC command according to the word;
- and
- a control module connected to the high definition multimedia interface for commanding the computer to search the word from the internet via the high definition multimedia interface according to the CEC command.
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A method for operating a television, comprising following steps:
- (a) producing at least one word when the television plays the information, the television comprising a display module for displaying at least one frame, wherein the step (a) comprises recognizing subtitles in the frame that is displayed by the display module and further dividing the subtitles that are recognized in the frame into various words according to a hyphenation dictionary when the display module displays the frame;
- (b) controlling a computer through a high definition multimedia interface, so as to search for data related to the word, wherein the step (b) comprises:
- generating a CEC command according to the word;
- and commanding the computer to search the word from internet via the high definition multimedia interface according to the CEC command, wherein the high definition multimedia interface connects the television and the computer;
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- (c) operating the computer via a user interface that is a software keyboard or a tactile user interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.