Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control device, control method, and control system
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Application No.: US12456659Application Date: 2009-06-19
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Publication No.: US08458594B2Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- Inventor: Mie Namai , Shuichi Otsu
- Applicant: Mie Namai , Shuichi Otsu
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Priority: JPP2008-161991 20080620
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00

Abstract:
A control device includes a communication unit communicating via a network with a content supply device and reproduction devices, an operation unit, a display unit, and a control unit receiving a signal from the operation unit and controlling the communication unit and the display unit. The control unit has a content list display state displaying on a screen of the display unit a content list received from the content supply device, a device list display state displaying on the screen thumbnail images of the reproduction devices in accordance with device information received from the reproduction devices, and an operation panel display state displaying an operation panel for having a content item of the content list reproduced by one of the reproduction devices set in the device list display state. The thumbnail image of the reproduction device is displayed in the content list display state and the operation panel display state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090319900A1 Control device, control method, and control system Public/Granted day:2009-12-24
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