Patent ID: 7679682

Claim:
A control method for integrating a display device with a digital television module, comprising the steps of: (A) using the display device to execute a system program; (B) determining whether the display device is in a digital television mode, and executing step (A) when step (B) decides that the display device is not in the digital television mode; (C) further determining whether the display device receives an instruction when step (B) decides that the display device is in the digital television mode, and executing step (A) when step (C) decides that there is no instruction received; (D) further determining whether the instruction received is for the digital television module when step (C) decides that the display device receives the instruction; (E) using the display device to send the instruction to the digital television module through a serial bus and to receive and process a response of the digital television module when step (D) decides that the instruction is for the digital television module, wherein the serial bus is a modified serial bus, and the modified serial bus comprises an indicative line, a transmit line and a receive line respectively connected to the digital television module and the display device; and (F) using the display device to process the instruction when step (D) decides that the instruction is not for the digital television module.