Two-way communication protocol for a web television

Details Two-way communication protocol for a web television Two-way communication protocol for a web television

1997-01-23

2000-06-06

Kostak, Victor R.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Remote data accessing

Accessing a remote server

345328, 348 13, H04N 710

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060731710

ABSTRACT:
A web television includes (i) a display, (ii) an internet module for supporting internet communications between the web television and internet content providers, (iii) a PIP module for providing a PIP area of the display, (iv) a video processor module for supplying video to the display, (v) an audio processor module for supplying audio to a speaker of the web television, (vi) an video/audio switch for switching outputs from a tuner of the web television and from the internet module between the PIP module, the video processor, and the audio processor, (vii) a television controller, and (viii) a two-way communication bus interconnecting the internet module, the PIP module, the video processor module, the audio processor module. The television controller controls the internet module, the PIP module, the video processor module, the audio processor module, and the video/audio switch so as to selectively display the internet communications and television signals on the display. The television controller also transmits messages to, and to receive messages from, the internet module over the two-way communication bus.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5774666 (1998-06-01), Portuesi
patent: 5818441 (1998-10-01), Throckmorton
"Internet" from Sony; Sep. 1996.

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