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US 8,947,350 B2Granted
System and method for generating screen pointing information in a television control device
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsJeyhan Karaoguz, Nambirajan Seshadri
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Abstract
A system and method, in a television control device, for generating screen pointing information, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
Claims32
A method for determining an on-screen pointing location, the method comprising:
- by a television control device:
- transmitting an emission to a screen of a television;
- receiving a plurality of signals, each signal of the plurality of signals capable of indicating a different amount of energy received by a respective sensor of a plurality of sensors located on at least one of the television, a television receiver, or at least one speaker;
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- determining the on-screen pointing location pointed to by the television control device based on the energies indicated by the plurality of signals.
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A method for determining an on-screen pointing location, the method comprising:
- detecting, by a plurality of sensors, an emission pointed to a screen of a television by a television control device, the plurality of sensors located on at least one of the television, a television receiver, or at least one speaker;
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- transmitting a plurality of signals to the television control device, each signal of the plurality of signals indicating an amount of energy received by a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors, each signal capable of indicating a different amount of energy received by each of the sensors, wherein the on-screen pointing location pointed to by the television control device is determined by the television control device based on the energies of the plurality of signals.
A television control device comprising:
- an emission source operable to transmit an emission to a screen of a television, wherein the television is operable to present television programming on the screen;
- at least one communication interface operable to receive a plurality of signals, each signal of the plurality of signals corresponding to each of a plurality of sensors located on at least one of the television, a television receiver, or at least one speaker, and each signal indicates an amount of energy incident on the corresponding sensor;
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- a processor in communication with the at least one communication interface, the processor operable to determine an on-screen pointing location pointed to by the television control device based on the energies of the plurality of signals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.