Managing an audio network

MH Deslippe, L Drimusz, HC Knapp… - US Patent 8,214,447, 2012 - Google Patents
Members of a household can listen to different audio selec tions in various rooms, yet each
room does not need addi tional sources. Centralized sources such as a CD changer or a …

Automatically reconfigurable multimedia system with interchangeable personality adapters

E Tu, D Boyden, T Hironaka, T Dawson… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Internet subscriber services. Such secure HDMI-USB inter face also enables a selection of
proprietary application mod ules to be attached. Downloadable user interface templates …

Method and apparatus to speed transmission of CEC commands

B Candelore, A Asam, PR Shintani… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
A method and structure for establishing faster transmission of Consumer Electronic Control
(CEC) commands between first and second HDMI-compatible devices. The first and second …

Peripheral device diagnostics and control over a two-wire communication bus

M Chavez, M Kessler - US Patent 9,946,680, 2018 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for peripheral device diagnostics and control
over a two-wire communication bus. For example, in some embodiments, a slave device …

Distributed audio coordination over a two-wire communication bus

M Chavez, M Kessler - US Patent 9,946,679, 2018 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are systems and technique for distributed audio coordination over a two-
wire communication bus. For example, in some embodiments, a first slave device may …

Routing of communications to one or more processors performing one or more services according to a load balancing function

CA Hopen, GB Tomlinson, J Brooke… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Related US Application Data continuation of application No. 14/624, 533, filed on Feb. 17,
2015, now Pat. No. 9, 268, 656, which is a continuation of application No. 14/185, 178, filed …

Authentication in an audio/visual system having multiple signaling paths

B Candelore, A Asam, T Hironaka - US Patent 8,510,798, 2013 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND In today's digital audio/visual (A/V) systems, it is quite common for a device
to be in communication with multiple other devices and to accordingly have a number of …

Two-wire communication systems and applications

M Kessler, M Chavez, LF Lahr, W Hooper… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are two-wire communication systems and applications thereof. In some
embodiments, a slave node transceiver for low latency communication may include …

Display system and display apparatus

A Ohnuma, T Yoshida - US Patent 8,073,998, 2011 - Google Patents
If a device non-compatible with CEC is contained in an input path when a display apparatus
is HDMI-connected hierarchically to a plurality of external devices, an external device which …

Methods for discovery, configuration, and coordinating data communications between master and slave devices in a communication system

M Kessler - US Patent 9,875,152, 2018 - Google Patents
Various embodiments of the present invention methods for discovery, configuration, and
coordinating data communications between master and slave devices in a communication …