Television control system for universal control of hospital televisions
CA 2344688 A1 · Owner: Hill-Rom, Inc. · Inventors: Fridley, Duane Patrick; Dixon, Steven Alan; Palm, Vern
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A television control system for controlling different models of hospital televisions, has an input device (12) for receiving an input from a person and a controller (16) for interfacing with hospital televisions. The controller (16) generates control signal clusters (80 201) reflective of the , input, and the clusters (80 201) include a plurality of sequentiallygenerated, individual control signals for specific operational functions of a plurality of different models of hospital televisions.
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- Filed September 21, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 21, 2019.
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