On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:04 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Em 28-07-2010 11:41, Jon Smirl escreveu: > >> >> Are there any IR protocols less than 20 (or 17) years old? If they are >> older than that the patents have expired. I expect IR use to decline >> in the future, it will be replaced with RF4CE radio remotes. > > UEI's XMP protocol for one, IIRC.
The beauty of LIRC is that you can use any remote for input. If one remote's protocols are patented, just use another remote. Only in the case where we have to xmit the protocol is the patent conflict unavoidable. In that case we could resort to sending a raw pulse timing string that comes from user space. > > UEI are the folks that sell/make "OneForALL" branded remotes. > > You can read about their patents' remaining lifetimes in this March 2010 > SEC filing: > > http://www.faqs.org/sec-filings/100315/UNIVERSAL-ELECTRONICS-INC_10-K/ > > 1 to 18 years - that includes the ones they just bought from Zilog. > That is not to say that all those patents cover protocols. > > > Regards, > Andy > > -- Jon Smirl [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
