Device and Method for Controlling Electronic Appliance

Abstract

A mobile terminal device for controlling an electronic appliance. The mobile terminal device includes a picture acquisition unit, an information identification unit, a control file acquisition unit and an infrared control unit. The picture acquisition unit is configured to acquire pictures of the electronic appliance. The information identification unit is configured to process the pictures and perform character recognition on the pictures to identify device information of the electronic appliance. The control file acquisition unit is configured to acquire a control file from a database of control files according to the device information identified by the information identification unit. The infrared control unit is configured to control an infrared emission unit to emit an infrared control signal according to the control file acquired by the control file acquisition unit.

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