Electronic device controlling apparatus and electronic device controlling method

• US 20050246746A1
• Filed: 04/18/2005
• Published: 11/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yui, Yasuji, Yaegashi, Akira, Matsumura, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,482,922 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/80
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/41 Remote control of gateways

Abstract

At a time of a movement made by a user viewing a television broadcast program, which is recorded on a hard disk device and read from the hard disk device to enable time shift viewing, and is reproduced at a TV set, the movement of the user is detected via a transmitting and receiving unit to which an electronic key card is held, and a reproduction position on a hard disk is recorded in a memory of a controlling apparatus main unit. A destination of the user is detected via a transmitting and receiving unit to which the electronic key card is held, and the broadcast signal is read from the stored reproduction position on the hard disk and then transferred to an electronic device at the destination, thereby enabling a continuation of the broadcast program that was viewed to be viewed in a room at the destination.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A device controlling apparatus comprising:

communication means for communicating with a plurality of electronic terminals;

state detection means for detecting a state of a user using content at a first electronic terminal;

state change detection means for detecting a state change from said first electronic terminal to a second electronic terminal;

storage means for storing a reproduction position of said content being used at said first electronic terminal, when said state change detection means detects said state change; and

control means for controlling said first electronic terminal and said second electronic terminal, to use said content at said second electronic terminal from said reproduction position of said content stored in said storage means.

21. (canceled)

22. A device controlling method comprising:

a communication step for communicating with a plurality of electronic terminals;

a state detection step for detecting a state of a user using content at a first electronic terminal;

a state change detection step for detecting a state change from said first electronic terminal to a second electronic terminal;

a storing step for storing a reproduction position of said content being used at said first electronic terminal in storage means, when said state change is detected; and

a control step for controlling said first electronic terminal and said second electronic terminal, to use said content at said second electronic terminal from said reproduction position of said content stored in said storage means.