Title:
仮想リモートコントローラ
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP5404213
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
An entertainment system often contains a number of entertainment devices, such as a television, VCR, DVD player, CD player, Cable-TV box, and other devices each of which has a remote controller associated with the device. This often results in a confusing welter of remote controllers to operate the system as a whole. A system and method for displaying control function icons on a television display is presented here. The control function icons are displayed in large font, hi-intensity icons as an overlay on a television screen. There are a number of the graphic icon sets that may be mapped, one to each device in the system that has a remote controller. The user may then select the set of icons for the device to be controlled, select the function desired, and the control function code is sent to the infrared receiver of the device to be controlled. This Virtual Remote Controller is maintained in non-volatile memory within the television and may be expanded to map each non-television device in the entire entertainment system such that all are controlled from visual icons on the television display. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
Inventors:
ユウェット Dee Femme
Yong Chillan
Yong Chillan
Application Number:
JP2009156152A
Publication Date:
January 29, 2014
Filing Date:
June 09, 2009
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Sony Electronics Ink
Sony Corp.
Sony Corp.
International Classes:
H04N21/431; H04N5/44; H04N5/445; H04N21/422; H04N21/436; H04Q9/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Sadao Kumakura
Fumiaki Otsuka
Hiroyuki Suda
Hiroshi Uesugi
Fumiaki Otsuka
Hiroyuki Suda
Hiroshi Uesugi