Patents by Inventor Kevin Charles DODD

Kevin Charles DODD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8613028
    Abstract: The invention relates to providing audiovisual content on a network, and methods of transferring the audiovisual content between devices attached to the network. The methods involve accepting user input, at a first output device that is outputting audiovisual content, to select a second output device from the output devices associated with the network and subsequently outputting the audiovisual content on the second output device that is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Europe Limited
    Inventor: Kevin Charles Dodd
  • Publication number: 20110162017
    Abstract: The invention relates to providing audiovisual content on a network, and methods of transferring the audiovisual content between devices attached to the network. The methods involve accepting user input, at a first output device that is outputting audiovisual content, to select a second output device from the output devices associated with the network and subsequently outputting the audiovisual content on the second output device that is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Europe Limited
    Inventor: Kevin Charles DODD
  • Publication number: 20100002135
    Abstract: A television device and a method of controlling the television device with a user interface. The television device has an output circuit for outputting audio and video signals and is operable in a normal mode outputting an audio signal and a video signal and in an audio descriptor mode outputting an audio signal additionally including an audio description of images contained in the video signal. The user interface has a plurality of actuable regions/buttons with respective user interface surfaces, the regions/buttons including at least one tactile region/button having a tactile identifier on its respective user interface surface. The television device is controlled to switch between the normal mode and the audio descriptor mode in response to the at least one tactile region/button being actuated in a predetermined way, such as for at least a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: SONY UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED
    Inventor: Kevin Charles DODD