SkinHD: Skin-Based Customized User Interface for Home Entertainment Devices

• Main Authors: Hsien-ChaoHuang, 黃顯詔
• Other Authors: Yueh-Min Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75928225141557876457

博士 === 國立成功大學 === 工程科學系碩博士班 === 98 === With the rapid development of home network technologies, such as OSGi, UPnP, HAVi, and Jini, sharing multimedia content among home entertainment devices, like digital televisions, stereo systems, DVD players, home theatres, and personal video recorders, has become easier. However, the operations of these home entertainment devices have become more complicated. As the result, the design of customized user interface for home entertainment devices has also become a big challenge for software programmers. As mentioned above, we propose SkinHD (Skin-based customized user interface for Home entertainment Devices), a software framework based on XML technology, to rapidly develop the customized user interface for home entertainment devices. In this dissertation, we applied SkinHD framework to digital television systems and universal remote controls, respectively, for developing customized user interface. With SkinHD-based user interface of digital television systems, there is no need to modify any of the programming codes for making additions or changes to the user interface. Therefore, the whole cycle of the product development can be shortened. This will make the design of a customized user interface of digital television systems and the replacement of its mechanism as easy as in the case of a popular skin-based user interface of a desktop application. In this way, a user interface can be used more than ones. The SkinHD-based universal remote control with AV virtualization, called V-URC (Virtualization based Universal Remote Control), proposed to control home entertainment devices. The V-URC dynamically generates user interfaces, which conform to the current state of devices; this not only simplifies the operation of home entertainment devices, but also eliminates the issues caused by LCD/LCM display and OSD-based home entertainment. In addition, for new home entertainment devices, V-URC can be used directly without the need to go through complicated learning programs or update of firmware.