Remote control terminal

• US 20040130621A1
• Filed: 12/16/2003
• Published: 07/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MyClerk LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 7,492,876 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1961 Movement detection not involving frame subtraction, e.g. motion detection on the basis of luminance changes in the image
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over

Abstract

A remote control terminal includes an input section which allows selection of predetermined services offered from an information provider managing the services, a transceiver for obtaining a service selected by the input section from the information provider, and displaying means for displaying the contents of the service obtained by the transceiver.

Claims

1. A remote control terminal comprising:

a service manager for managing predetermined services;

input means for selecting of the predetermined services provided from the service manager;

obtaining means for obtaining information corresponding to a service selected by the input means from the service manager; and

displaying means for displaying the information corresponding to the service obtained by the obtaining means.

2. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

storing means for storing a plurality of pieces of instruction information, wherein the pieces of instruction information show procedures for obtaining the services;

the input means selects of a plurality of pieces of instruction information stored in the storing means showing procedures for obtaining the services;

the obtaining means obtains the instruction information selected by the input means from the storing means; and

the displaying means displays the instruction information obtained by the obtaining means.

3. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the remote control terminal works as a telephone.

4. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1 wherein the remote control terminal is provided in a guest room.

5. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 4, wherein:

the input means detects a telephone; and

the obtaining means communicates the telephone selected by the input means.

6. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

speech recognition means for recognizing speech as a character string;

wherein,

the obtaining means obtains from the service manager information corresponding to a service related to the character string; and

the displaying means displays the information.

7. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the input means allows selection of images taken by a plurality of cameras provided in a game arcade for taking images of a situation in the game arcade;

the obtaining means obtains at least one of the images selected by the input means as information corresponding to the service; and

the displaying means displays the image obtained by the obtaining means.

8. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the obtaining means controls an electric device.

9. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 8, wherein the electric device is an air conditioner, audio equipment, a video, a camera, a printer, or a personal computer.

10. A remote control terminal as set forth in claim 8, wherein the obtaining means is connected to the Internet.

11. A remote control terminal comprising:

a service manager for managing predetermined services;

an input section for selecting of the predetermined services provided from the service manager;

an obtainer for obtaining information corresponding to a service selected by the input section from the service manager; and

a display for displaying the information corresponding to the service obtained by the obtainer.