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US 2010/0134340 A1Published application
Remote control system and method of controlling the remote control system
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorToshihiro Sotomaru
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Abstract
A remote control system (1) comprises a plurality of controlled devices (100, 100a, etc.), a specifying means (101) for specifying one controlled device (100) that the user desires as a remote control target, and a control device (200) for remotely controlling the one controlled device according to first identification information for identifying the one controlled device.
Claims10
-12. (canceled)
A remote control system comprising:
- a plurality of controlled apparatuses;
- a specifying device for specifying one controlled apparatus that is desired by a user as a remote control target, from said plurality of controlled apparatuses;
- and
- a control apparatus for remote-controlling the one controlled apparatus on the basis of first identification information which identifies the specified one controlled apparatus,
- said control apparatus comprising;
- a first receiving device for receiving the first identification information;
- a first transmitting device for transmitting second identification information which identifies said control apparatus;
- a remote controlling device for identifying and remote-controlling the one controlled apparatus on the basis of the first identification information;
- a judging device for judging whether or not the user holds said control apparatus;
- a controlling device for controlling the first transmitting device to transmit the second identification information, if it is judged that the user holds said control apparatus;
- a detecting device for detecting a fixation point on which the user's eyes are fixed with respect to said control apparatus, and
- the one controlled apparatus comprising;
- a second receiving device for receiving the transmitted second identification information;
- and
- a second transmitting device for transmitting the first identification information to said control apparatus specified by the received second identification information,
- wherein
- the judging device judges whether or not the user holds said control apparatus, on the basis of the detected fixation point.
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A remote control system comprising:
- a plurality of controlled apparatuses;
- and a control apparatus for remote-controlling said controlled apparatuses,
- said plurality of controlled apparatuses comprising:
- a first detecting device for detecting at least one of a user's eyes, the user's face direction, and infrared irradiation;
- a specifying device for specifying one controlled apparatus that is desired by the user as a remote control target, on the basis of the detected at least one of the user's eyes, the user's face direction, and infrared irradiation;
- a second receiving device for receiving second identification information which identifies said control apparatus;
- and
- a second transmitting device for transmitting (i) an enable signal for allowing said control apparatus to control the one controlled apparatus, in addition to (ii) first identification information which identifies the specified one controlled apparatus, to said control apparatus identified by the received second identification information,
- said control apparatus comprising:
- a first receiving device for receiving the first identification information;
- a first transmitting device for transmitting the second identification information;
- and
- a remote controlling device for identifying and remote-controlling the one controlled apparatus on the basis of the first identification information.
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A method of controlling a remote control system comprising a plurality of controlled apparatuses and a control apparatus which can remote-control each of said plurality of controlled apparatuses, said method comprising:
- a specifying process of specifying one controlled apparatus that is desired by a user as a remote control target, from said plurality of controlled apparatuses;
- and
- a remote controlling process of controlling said control apparatus to remote-control the one controlled apparatus, on the basis of first identification information which identifies the specified one controlled apparatus,
- said remote controlling process comprising;
- a first receiving process of receiving the first identification information;
- a first transmitting process of transmitting second identification information which identifies said control apparatus;
- a controlling process of identifying and remote-controlling the one controlled apparatus on the basis of the first identification information;
- a judging process of judging whether or not the user holds said control apparatus;
- a controlling process of controlling the first transmitting device to transmit the second identification information, if it is judged that the user holds said control apparatus;
- a detecting process of detecting a fixation point on which the user's eyes are fixed with respect to said control apparatus;
- a second receiving process in which the one controlled apparatus receives the transmitted second identification information;
- a second transmitting process in which the one controlled apparatus transmits the first identification information to said control apparatus specified by the received second identification information,
- wherein
- the judging process judges whether or not the user holds said control apparatus, on the basis of the detected fixation point.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.