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U.S. Patent Application: US20170185376
Patent Title
Controllers, output devices, or televisions supporting voice activated commands
Meta Information
Appl. No.: 15/458,750
Filed: Mar. 14, 2017
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al
External Links: UPSTO, Google Patents
Technical Fields
Abstract
An output device or controller supporting voice activated commands by using a portable electronic device is herein disclosed and enabled. The output device may be a television, a controller connectable to a television, a printer, a sound output device, or a projector. The portable electronic device for wirelessly managing or driving the output device may include a microphone to receive voice activated commands. The output device includes wireless circuitry to establish a direct wireless connection (e.g., Bluetooth, etc.) with the portable electronic device, and subsequently, the output device, using the established direct wireless connection, is operable to: wirelessly receive first information from the portable electronic device; wirelessly send to the portable electronic device second information in response to receiving the first information; and wirelessly receive from the portable electronic device data related to voice activated commands from a user.
Sample Claim
1. An output device for wireless communicating with a portable electronic device, the portable electronic device for wirelessly managing or wirelessly driving the output device, and the portable electronic device being a distinct device from the output device, wherein the output device includes wireless communication circuitry for wireless communication with the portable electronic device to:
(1) wirelessly detect, using the wireless communication circuitry at the output device, the portable electronic device for availability of the portable electronic, the wireless detecting of the portable electronic device is based, at least in part, on a physical proximity, locally, between the output device and the portable electronic device;
(2) subsequent to having wirelessly detected the portable electronic device in (1), establish a direct wireless connection between the output device and the portable electronic device, using the wireless communication circuitry at the output device, the direct wireless connection is based, at least in part, on a physical proximity, locally, between the output device and the portable electronic device;
(3) wirelessly receive first information from the portable electronic device, using the wireless communication circuitry at the output device and over the direct wireless connection established in (2), the first information related, at least in part, to managing or driving the output device;
(4) wirelessly send to the portable electronic device, using the wireless communication circuitry at the output device and over the direct wireless connection established in (2), second information in response to having received the first information from the portable electronic device in (3); and
(5) wirelessly receive from the portable electronic device, using the wireless communication circuitry at the output device and over the direct wireless connection established in (2), sound data or voice data, the sound data or voice data is related, at least in part, to a voice activated command from a user operating the portable electronic device; and wherein the output device is embodied to be at least one of the following:
(i) a wireless television device, a wireless sound output device, a wireless monitor, a wireless printer, or a wireless projector, individually or in any combination; or
(ii) a wireless controller that is externally connectable, by wired or wireless communication, to a television device or a projection device.