Patent ID: 11966347
Assignee: BARCO N.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 26:
27. A system for making a functional device available to a processing device, the functional device being connected to or in a base unit of a communications network, the processing device having a memory, a display and an operating system, wherein the processing device hosts a host application, further comprising: the first peripheral device being configured to be coupled to the processing device via a generic communications protocol, the base unit having a transmitter and the first peripheral device having a receiver and at least one fixed or configurable endpoint of the functional device is exposed on the first peripheral device, the system further comprising:
the base unit being configured to transmit and the first peripheral device being configured to receive first processed video data over the communications network,
the functional device being configured for first video data to flow into the base unit or first video data to be captured in the base unit, the first video data being processed in the base unit to generate the first processed video data, wherein the first processed video data is sent to the first peripheral device, the first peripheral device being configured to process the first processed video data received by the first peripheral device to generate second video data, the first peripheral device being configured to make the second video data available through the at least one fixed or configurable endpoint of the first peripheral device, the operating system of the processing device being configured to capture the second video data and to make it available through a custom or standard driver to either the host application or a 3rd party application running on the processing device or to other processing devices, and
wherein the base unit is configured to expose and to make available the functional device that is connected to the base unit, simultaneously with a plurality of first peripheral devices by interpreting, processing and translating the electronic signals coming from the functional device.