Remote control device

• US 20050219221A1
• Filed: 03/31/2005
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohashi, Yoshio, Tokura, Kunihiko, Ohkuri, Kazunobu, Nakagami, Taro, Takebe, Toru, Uryu, Masaru
• Application Number:
  US11/094,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20050219221A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/169
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/00 Electric signal transmission systems G08C17/00 takes precedence

Abstract

A remote control device is configured so that a display direction of contents on a liquid crystal display section can be switched according to slide operation of a slide switch. The remote control device can prevent the display direction from being switched despite the intention of a user, thus more appropriately switching the display direction of contents displayed on the liquid crystal display section.

Claims

1. A remote control device comprising:

a display means;

switching means for switching a display direction of contents displayed on the display means; and

operation means for remote-controlling a main unit thereof,

wherein the display means switches the display direction of the displayed contents according to operation of the switching means.

2. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein the display means displays the operation contents of the operation means as a contents representation and switches a display direction of the operation contents displayed according to the operation of the switching means.

3. The remote control device according to claim 2, wherein the operation means comprises a plurality of operation elements and switches operation contents of the plurality of operation elements according to the operation of the switching means.

4. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein the main unit thereof includes playback means for playing back data, and

the display means indicates an output level display element to be expanded and contracted in a prescribed direction according to an increase and decrease of an output level of the data as the contents and switches an expanding and contracting direction of the output level display element to be displayed according to the operation of the switching means.

5. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein the display means scrolls the contents to be displayed in a prescribed direction if the contents are difficult to display so that whole contents are displayed at one time, and switches a scroll direction of the contents to be displayed according to the operation of the switching means.

6. An electronic device comprising:

display means;

switching means for switching a direction of contents to be displayed on the display means;

operation means for operating a main unit thereof; and

control means for executing control over switching of a display direction of contents on the display means according to the operation of the switching means.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the display means displays operation contents of the operation means as the contents and the control means switches the display of the operation contents to be displayed according to the operation of the switching means.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the operation means comprises a plurality of operation elements and switches operation contents of the plurality of operation elements according to the operation of the switching means.

9. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the main unit includes playback means for playing back data,

the display means displays an output level display element expanding or contracting in a prescribed direction according to an increase or decrease in an output level of the data as the contents, and

the control means switches an expanding and contracting direction of an output level display element to be displayed according to the operation of the switching means.

10. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the control means scrolls the contents to be displayed in a prescribed direction if the contents are difficult to display so that whole contents are displayed at one time, and switches a scroll direction of the contents to be displayed according to the operation of the switching means.