All Products for US Patent 6661798 - Digital home information integrating system

Inventor(s): Sano; Reiji (Kawasaki,JP), Nagaoka; Yoshitomi (Osaka,JP), Kanno; Masashi (Osaka,JP), Kushiki; Yoshiaki (Osaka,JP), Ito; Nobuhisa (Ootsu,JP), Asabe; Tsutomu (Osaka,JP), Yamamoto; Terumasa (Osaka,JP), Kobayashi; Masaaki (Kawanishi,JP)

Owner: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka,JP)

Filing Date: October 23, 1997

Issue Date: December 9, 2003

Abstract: A large volume of digital media home information output from each of audio, visual, computer and communication (AVCC) apparatuses is transmitted to a digital media home information network at a high data speed and is received by one AVCC apparatus. Also, a small volume of digital environment home information output from each of self-management apparatuses such as an energy sensor, a security sensor and a health case sensor is transmitted to a digital environment home information network at a low data speed and is received by a digital information transmitting/receiving and protocol converting unit. In this unit, A protocol of the digital environment home information in the digital environment home information network is converted into that in the digital media home information network, and the data speed of the digital environment home information in the digital environment home information network is changed to that in the digital media home information network. Thereafter, the digital environment home information is received and processed by one of the AVCC apparatuses. Therefore, because both the networks are integrated by the converting unit, the digital media home information and the digital environment home information can be used at user's home at a low cost.