Device control system, remote control device, and video display device

• US 20070139569A1
• Filed: 12/01/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsubayashi, Kei
• Application Number:
  US11/607,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20070139569A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/734
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0025 in a remote control unit remote control tuning in general H03J9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 2200/22 Remote control device controlling cursor and/or including a cursor detecting device

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a device control system including a video display device and a remote control device. The remote control device includes: an operation section; a detection section that detects movement of the remote control device; and a transmission section that transmits a first signal for making notification of the detected movement and a second signal for making notification of an operation performed on the operation section. The video display device includes: a reception section; a first storage section that stores the first signal and a preparatory operation; a second storage section that stores the second signal and a process corresponding to the second signal; and a control section configured to, if the first signal is received, perform the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal, and, if the second signal is received, perform the process corresponding to the second signal.

Claims

1. A device control system, comprising:

a video display device including a display section configured to display video; and

a remote control device configured to remotely control said video display device,

wherein said remote control device includes

an operation section configured to operate said video display device,

a detection section configured to detect movement of said remote control device, and

a transmission section configured to transmit a first signal for making notification of the movement detected by the detection section and a second signal for making notification of an operation performed on the operation section, and

wherein said video display device includes

a reception section configured to receive the first and second signals,

a first storage section configured to store the first signal and a preparatory operation, the preparatory operation being a process to be performed in said video display device based on an operation that is expected to be performed on the operation section after the first signal is received by the reception section,

a second storage section configured to store the second signal and a process to be performed in said video display device, the process corresponding to the second signal, and

a control section configured to, if the first signal is received, perform the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal, and, if the second signal is received, perform the process corresponding to the second signal.

2. The device control system according to claim 1,

wherein said video display device further includes a timer section configured to measure time, and

wherein the control section, if the first signal is received, controls the preparatory operation to continue for a predetermined set time obtained from the timer section and, if the second signal is not received within the predetermined set time, stops the preparatory operation.

3. The device control system according to claim 2,

wherein said video display device further includes a third storage section configured to store a state of said video display device, and

wherein the control section allows the third storage section to store the state of said video display device, and, if the first signal is received, controls the preparatory operation to continue for the predetermined set time obtained from the timer section and, if the second signal is received within the predetermined set time, obtains the state of said video display device from the third storage section and performs in said video display device the process corresponding to the second signal in accordance with the state of said video display device.

4. The device control system according to claim 3,

wherein said video display device further includes

a fourth storage section configured to temporarily store the first signal and the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal, and

a learning section configured to allow the first storage section to store the first signal and the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal and allow the fourth storage section to temporarily store the first signal and the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal,

wherein the learning section allows the fourth storage section to temporarily store the first signal received,

wherein, if the second signal is received within the predetermined set time in a case where the first signal has not been stored in the first storage section, the learning section regards the process performed in said video display device based on the second signal as the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal temporarily stored in the fourth storage section, and allows the first storage section to store the first signal and the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal temporarily stored, and

wherein, if the second signal is not received within the predetermined set time in the case where the first signal has not been stored in the first storage section, the learning section deletes the first signal temporarily stored in the fourth storage section.

5. The device control system according to claim 3,

wherein said video display device further includes one or more tuners configured to perform channel selection, and

wherein the preparatory operation is a process of causing an unused one of the one or more tuners to start the channel selection in a case where a power of said video display device is in an On state according to the obtained state of said video display device.

6. The device control system according to claim 3,

wherein said video display device further includes a light source configured to light the display section, and

wherein the preparatory operation is a process of starting lighting of the light source in a case where a power of said video display device is in an Off state according to the obtain state of said video display device.

7. The device control system according to claim 1, wherein the detection section is constituted by a combination of at least one of an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor.

8. The device control system according to claim 1, wherein the detection section is constituted by a contact sensor configured to detect approach of an object instead of detecting the movement of said remote control device.

9. A remote control device configured to remotely control a video display device having a display section configured to display video, the remote control device comprising:

an operation section configured to operate said video display device;

a detection section configured to detect movement of said remote control device; and

a transmission section configured to transmit a first signal for making notification of the movement detected by said detection section and a second signal for making notification of an operation performed on said operation section.

10. A video display device, comprising:

a display section configured to display video based on control by a remote control device capable of remotely controlling the video display device;

a reception section configured to receive a first signal for making notification of movement of the remote control device and a second signal for making notification of an operation performed on the remote control device;

a first storage section configured to store the first signal and a preparatory operation, the preparatory operation being a process to be performed in the video display device based on an operation that is expected to be performed on the remote control device after the first signal is received by the reception section;

a second storage section configured to store the second signal and a process to be performed in the video display device, the process corresponding to the second signal; and

a control section configured to, if the first signal is received, perform the preparatory operation corresponding to the first signal, and, if the second signal is received, perform the process corresponding to the second signal.