公开(公告)号：US06469634B1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-22

申请号：US09584285

申请日：2000-05-31

申请人： Christopher D. Williams ,  Michael L. Harvey ,  Gregory D. Buscheck

发明人： Christopher D. Williams ,  Michael L. Harvey ,  Gregory D. Buscheck

IPC分类号： H04Q100

CPC分类号： F16K25/005 ,  F16K1/36 ,  H04B10/1141

摘要： A method and apparatus for controlling the operation of electronic entertainment devices in an entertainment system is described herein. A hardware system is coupled to a plurality of electronic entertainment devices to receive and transmit audio-video signals Transmit logic is coupled through a digital computer interface, preferably a SCSI interface, to the hardware system. The transmit logic has a plurality of ports and a memory associated with each port for storing control data sequences for each respective port. Each portis independently addressable by the hardware system A plurality of transmitters, each coupled to a respective one of the transmit logic ports transmits the respective store; control data sequences to respective ones of the electronic devices. In a preferred embodiment, the hardware system has a microprocessor, user interface and system memory and the transmitters are infrared light transmitters, one of which is a blaster transmitter for transmitting control data sequences simultaneously in multiple directions.

摘要翻译： 这里描述了用于控制娱乐系统中的电子娱乐设备的操作的方法和装置。 硬件系统耦合到多个电子娱乐设备以接收和发送音频 - 视频信号。发射逻辑通过数字计算机接口，优选地SCSI接口耦合到硬件系统。 发送逻辑具有多个端口和与每个端口相关联的存储器，用于存储每个相应端口的控制数据序列。 每个端口可由硬件系统独立地寻址。多个发射机各自耦合到相应的一个发射逻辑端口，发射相应的存储器; 控制数据序列到各个电子设备。 在优选实施例中，硬件系统具有微处理器，用户界面和系统存储器，并且发射器是红外光发射器，其中之一是用于在多个方向上同时传输控制数据序列的射频发射器。

公开(公告)号：US5945988A

公开(公告)日：1999-08-31

申请号：US866707

申请日：1997-05-30

申请人： Christopher D. Williams ,  Jean M. Goldschmidt Iki ,  Anthony A. Shah-Nazaroff ,  Earl Michael Watts ,  David N. Hackson ,  Kenneth Alan Moore

发明人： Christopher D. Williams ,  Jean M. Goldschmidt Iki ,  Anthony A. Shah-Nazaroff ,  Earl Michael Watts ,  David N. Hackson ,  Kenneth Alan Moore

IPC分类号： H04H60/46 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N17/04 ,  H04N21/441 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/81

CPC分类号： H04H60/46 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/11 ,  H04N21/441 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/17354 ,  H04N17/04

摘要： A method and apparatus for automatically determining and dynamically updating user preferences in an entertainment system is provided. In a first embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage medium to store user preference information corresponding to at least a subset of a plurality of entertainment system users and a processor agent. The processor agent, communicatively coupled to the storage medium, is operative to monitor user interaction with the entertainment system and to automatically detect which user of the plurality of entertainment system users is currently using the entertainment system.

摘要翻译： 提供一种用于在娱乐系统中自动确定和动态更新用户偏好的方法和装置。 在第一实施例中，一种装置包括存储介质，用于存储对应于多个娱乐系统用户和处理器代理的至少一个子集的用户偏好信息。 通信地耦合到存储介质的处理器代理可操作以监视用户与娱乐系统的交互并自动检测多个娱乐系统用户当前正在使用娱乐系统的用户。