Video display control device for determining compatibility between the device and an externally connected instrument
View Patent ↗According to one embodiment, a video display device has a connection unit configured to connect to a plurality of external instruments via a network, a receiving unit configured to receive, from the plurality of external instrument connected to the video display device via the connection unit, standard compatibility information indicating that the external instrument meets the mutual controllability standards, a display unit configured to display video information output by one of the plurality of external instruments and a selection unit configured to select one of the plurality of external instruments, corresponded to information based on the standard compatibility information, connected to the connection unit as an output source of video information to be displayed on the display unit.
1. A video display control device comprising:
a connection unit configured to connect to a plurality of external instruments via a network;
a receiver configured to receive, from at least one of the external instruments, instrument type information for the external instrument and mutual controllability information indicating that the external instrument is a mutually controllable instrument, if the external instrument is a mutually controllable instrument; and
a display controller configured to control display list information including the instrument type information, information indicating that the external instrument is the mutually controllable instrument based on the mutual controllability information, and information indicating whether the external instrument can be operated in conjunction with the device by operating the device using a remote controller of the device, which are associated with each other for the external instrument whose type is determined based on the instrument type information, and video information output by one of the plurality of external instruments selected on the list information.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the display controller controls to display the information based on the mutual controllability information at any position on a display.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the display controller controls to display the video information and information based on the mutual controllability information of the selected external instrument.
4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the display controller controls to display the list information and the video information at a first display area and the information based on the mutual controllability information of the selected external instrument at a second display area.
5. The device of claim 1 further comprising a memory configured to store the list information.
6. A video display control device comprising:
a connection unit configured to connect to a plurality of external instruments via a network;
a receiver configured to receive, from at least one of the plurality of external instruments, mutual controllability information indicating that the external instrument is a mutually controllable instrument, if the external instrument is the mutually controllable instrument; and
a display controller configured to control display information indicating whether the external instrument can be operated in conjunction with the device by operating the device using a remote controller of the device according to a compatibility level which is one of version numbers corresponding to a plurality of stages from the mutual controllability information for the external instrument whose type is determined based on the instrument type information.
7. The video display device of claim 6 , wherein if the compatibility level of the external instrument is higher than a compatibility level of the device, the display controller controls display information corresponding to the compatibility level of the device, to the external instrument.
8. The device of claim 6 , wherein the display controller controls to display a function list indicating compatibility for each of the version numbers.