Electronic apparatus

• US 20070041578A1
• Filed: 05/19/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohsawa, Hajime
• Application Number:
  US11/437,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20070041578A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/433.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes: an operation button that allows to input remote operation for remotely controlling another apparatus; and a switching unit that switches a function of the remote operation allocated to the operation button in accordance with a change of a state of the another apparatus.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an operation button that inputs remote operation for remotely controlling another apparatus; and

a switching unit that switches a function of the remote operation allocated to the operation button in accordance with a change of a state of the another apparatus.

2. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit that displays the function of the remote operation allocated to the operation button.

3. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with another apparatus;

an operation button;

a state acquisition unit that acquires a state of the another apparatus through the wireless communication unit;

a management unit that manages correspondence between the operation button and an instruction allocated to the operation button for remotely controlling the another apparatus, in accordance with the state acquirable by the state acquisition unit; and

a transmission unit that transmits a command to the another apparatus through the wireless communication unit when the operation button is operated, the command indicating the instruction allocated to the operation button for the state acquired by the state acquisition unit.

4. An electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the state of the another apparatus by transmitting through the wireless communication unit a command for requesting the another apparatus to send a notice of the change of the state when the state of the another apparatus is changed.

5. An electronic apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a display unit; and

a display control unit that controls the display unit to display a list of current correspondence between the operation button and the instruction allocated to the operation button.

6. An electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit controls the display unit so that the display of the list matches with the arrangement of the operation button.

7. An electronic apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a display control unit that transmits a command to the another apparatus through the wireless communication unit, the command for displaying a list of current correspondence between the operation button and the instruction allocated to the operation button.

8. An electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display control unit transmits through the wireless communication unit a list data indicating the correspondence between the operation button and the instruction allocated to the operation button.