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US 9,437,994 B2Granted
Electronic apparatus, category determination method for transmission cable and transmission cable
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazuaki Toba
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes a receptacle having a plurality of pins for connecting a plug of a transmission cable and a transmission cable determination section adapted to apply a predetermined voltage to a predetermined one of the pins of the receptacle to determine a category of the transmission cable.
Claims2
A transmission cable, comprising:
- two plugs each having a plurality of pins disposed on an inner side of a shield shell with an insulating member interposed therebetween for connecting to a receptacle of an electronic apparatus;
- two resistors, each of the two resistors resistor being directly connected between a predetermined respective one of the pins and a respective shield shell of said plug,
- wherein each of the predetermined pins which are connected to the two resistors are also connected to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.