Insert for use with a remote control base

• US 20050255435A1
• Filed: 07/25/2005
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Donald S. Stern, Peter M. Redford
• Original Assignee: Donald S. Stern, Peter M. Redford
• Inventors: Stern, Donald S., Redford, Peter M.
• Application Number:
  US11/188,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20050255435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/307.R
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0238 Programmable keyboards key guide holders G06F3/0224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/047 using sets of wires, e.g. crossed wires
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2239/056 Keyboard or overlay identification features
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 9/0235 specially adapted for remote control, e.g. of audio or video apparatus

Abstract

A remote control includes a base and an insert that is attached in a detachable manner to the base. The base includes a remote control circuit, a button coupled to operate the remote control circuit and a fastener capable of holding the insert. The insert includes a printed publication (such as a card, a sheet of paper or a booklet) containing at least one leaf having human-understandable content (such as text and/or graphics). To assemble the remote control, a user attaches the insert to the fastener, so that the human-understandable content is laid over the button. Thereafter, when the user operates the button (e.g. by touching the leaf), the base transmits a remote control signal that causes a host device to visually display information related to the human-understandable content at the touched location. A base in the form of a three ring binder gives the user an intuitive feel of simply touching human-understandable content on a leaf in the binder to view a display of information related to the content. In addition to the human-understandable content, the insert can carry a predetermined pattern that can be sensed by a sensor during mounting of the insert on the base. The base transmits, in the remote control signal, a number determined from the predetermined pattern thereby to indicate to the host device the insert currently in the base.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. An insert for use with a remote control base, said insert comprising a printed publication and devoid of one or more electronic components permanently attached to said printed publication, said printed publication having a group of leaves connected each to the other at a spine, each of said leaves having a plurality of holes adjacent to said spine, each leaf in said group having printed content and a mark, each mark being positioned differently from the position of another mark, each mark being substantially identical to another mark.

10. The insert of claim 9 further comprising:

a storage media holder for holding a storage media encoded with information in the form of electronic content, said information being related to at least a portion of said printed content.

11. The insert of claim 9, wherein said mark identifies the leaf in a signal generated by said remote control base when said insert is mounted on said base and said mark is touched.