Home audio video display device (AVDD) as sensor monitor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8964121-B2
Application number	US-201314055259-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2013
Priority date	Dec 8, 2011
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

An audio video display device (AVDD) system includes a display, a processor controlling the display, and a computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and programmed with instructions. The instructions cause the processor to establish communication with at least one sensor. The instructions then cause the processor to receive information from the sensor conforming to an application programming interface (API) provided by a manufacturer of the AVDD to an entity affiliated with the sensor, or sent from the AVDD to the sensor. Thereafter, the instructions cause the processor to present the information from the sensor on the display in accordance with the API.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An audio video device (AVD) system, comprising:
a processor configured for controlling a video display;
a computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and programmed with instructions that when executed by the processor configure the processor to:
establish communication with at least one sensor;
send to the sensor an application programming interface (API) defining one or more of: (a) content in information received from the sensor to…

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Jiang Libiao
• Li Adam
• Liu Aixin
• Nguyen Djung

Classifications

• H04N5/445 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/42202

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4131 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4431

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4312

  Electricity · mapped topic