Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Remote controller and remote control method
- Patent Title (中): 遥控器和遥控方式
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Application No.: US11441104Application Date: 2006-05-26
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Publication No.: US08031056B2Publication Date: 2011-10-04
- Inventor: Morito Arai
- Applicant: Morito Arai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2005-157943 20050530
- Main IPC: G08C19/00
- IPC: G08C19/00

Abstract:
A remote controller with a plurality of keys arranged, which remotely controls, upon manipulations of the keys, control-target equipment by transmitting a remote control signal allocated to each of the keys. The remote controller includes a storing section which stores information of a plurality pieces of control-target equipment; an equipment selection operating section which selects control-target equipment to be operated under a remote control from the plurality pieces of control-target equipment whose information is stored in the storing section; a control unit that generates, in a case of manipulation of the equipment selection operating section, a remote control signal to power on the selected control-target equipment, and generates a remote control signal to power off the other control-target equipment information of which is stored in the storing section, except for the selected control-target equipment; and a transmitter for transmitting the remote control signal generated by the control unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060279430A1 Remote controller and remote control method Public/Granted day:2006-12-14
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