Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Generic control system – apparatus or process – Having operator control interface
Patent
1998-07-01
2000-11-14
Heckler, Thomas M.
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Generic control system, apparatus or process
Having operator control interface
G05B 1900
Patent
active
061482412
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for providing a user interface for a networked target device using panel subunit descriptor information maintained by the target device. The present invention utilizes a panel subunit to allow any compliant device (e.g., a target device) to describe the appearance of its physical (and logical) controls and displays to another device (e.g., an intelligent controller) and allows the controller to trigger actions on the target as if a user had physically manipulated the controls on the target device directly. The panel subunit uses objects defined with several standard types of controls and displays (e.g., push buttons, sliders, dials, LCD screens, etc.) that are commonly found on consumer electronic devices. The control types have well defined behaviors (e.g., buttons are pushed, dials are moved, values are input, etc.). In addition, the panel subunit defines a set of commands which are to be applied to any of these controls when selected by the user. The commands are defined to be sufficiently generic so that they apply to most types of controls. The panel subunit also defines generic user interaction commands (or user events) which can be applied to the controls (e.g., press, press and hold, release, input value, etc.) by a user. The purpose of these user events is to encapsulate the typical user manipulated action for the controls and to let the target device decide the manner in which to interpret the user actions on its own. A status descriptor keeps the intelligent controller informed of the status of the target device being manipulated.
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Kawamura Harumi
Ludtke Harold Aaron
Shima Hisato
Heckler Thomas M.
Sony Corporation of Japan
Sony Electronics Inc.
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