TERMINAL APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND MULTI-BYTE CHARACTER CODE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

• US 20080186220A1
• Filed: 12/18/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimbayashi, Mitsuru
• Application Number:
  US11/958,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20080186220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/176
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a terminal apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a character, a remote-control code transmission unit configured to transmit a remote-control code to an electronic apparatus, and a remote-control code conversion unit configured to convert a multi-byte character code, which is composed of a plurality of numerical values and corresponds to the character that is input by the input unit, to a plurality of remote-control codes corresponding to the plurality of numerical values, and to successively output the plurality of remote-control codes to the remote-control code transmission unit, in order to transmit the multi-byte character code corresponding to the character input by the input unit to the electronic apparatus via the remote-control code transmission unit.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

an input unit configured to input a character;

a remote-control code transmission unit configured to transmit a remote-control code to an electronic apparatus; and

a remote-control code conversion unit configured to convert a multi-byte character code, which is composed of a plurality of numerical values and corresponds to the character that is input by the input unit, to a plurality of remote-control codes corresponding to the plurality of numerical values, and to successively output the plurality of remote-control codes to the remote-control code transmission unit, in order to transmit the multi-byte character code corresponding to the character input by the input unit to the electronic apparatus via the remote-control code transmission unit.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the remote-control code conversion unit is configured to successively output the plurality of remote-control codes to the remote-control code transmission unit, after outputting to the remote-control code transmission unit a control code indicative of start of a character input mode for transmitting the multi-byte character code by using remote-control codes.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the remote-control code conversion unit is configured to decompose data of the multi-byte character code into a plurality of partial data and to convert each of the plurality of partial data to a remote-control code corresponding to a numerical value indicated by each of the plurality of partial data, thereby converting a plurality of numerical values, which constitute the multi-byte character code, to the plurality of remote-control codes.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multi-byte character code is composed of a plurality of numerical values which are expressed by hexadecimal numbers, respectively, and

the remote-control code conversion unit is configured to convert the plurality of numerical values, which are expressed by hexadecimal numbers, to a plurality of remote-control codes corresponding to the plurality of numerical values.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a camera; and

a bar code analysis unit configured to analyze a two-dimensional bar code, which is photographed by the camera, and to generate a multi-byte character code,

wherein the multi-byte character code, which is generated by the bar code analysis unit, is input to the remote-control code conversion unit.

6. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a remote-control code reception unit configured to receive a plurality of remote-control codes, which are successively transmitted from a terminal apparatus, the plurality of remote-control codes corresponding to a plurality of numerical values which constitute a multi-byte character code;

a remote-control code process unit configured to execute a character code reconstruction process of reconstructing the multi-byte character code by combining a plurality of numerical values corresponding to the plurality of remote-control codes received by the remote-control code reception unit; and

a character process unit configured to process, as a character, the multi-byte character code reconstructed by the remote-control code process unit.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the remote-control code process unit is configured to determine whether a remote-control code, which is received by the remote-control code reception unit, is a control code indicative of start of a character input mode for transmitting the multi-byte character code by using remote-control codes, to execute, if the received remote-control code is the control code, the character code reconstruction process for remote-control codes which are transmitted following the control code, and to execute, if the received remote-control code is not the control code, a process which is assigned to the received remote-control code.

8. A multi-byte character code transmission system comprising:

a transmission apparatus configured to be capable of transmitting a remote-control code, including;

a remote-control code conversion unit configured to convert a multi-byte character code, which is composed of a plurality of numerical values, to a plurality of remote-control codes corresponding to the plurality of numerical values; and

a remote-control code transmission unit configured to successively transmit to outside the plurality of remote-control codes which are output from the remote-control code conversion unit; and

a reception apparatus configured to be capable of receiving a remote-control code, including;

a remote-control code reception unit configured to receive the plurality of remote-control codes, which are transmitted from the transmission apparatus;

a remote-control code process unit configured to execute a character code reconstruction process of reconstructing the multi-byte character code by combining a plurality of numerical values corresponding to the plurality of remote-control codes received by the remote-control code reception unit; and

a character process unit configured to process, as a character, the multi-byte character code reconstructed by the remote-control code process unit.

9. The multi-byte character code transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the remote-control code process unit is configured to determine whether a remote-control code, which is received by the remote-control code reception unit, is a control code indicative of start of a character input mode for transmitting the multi-byte character code by using remote-control codes, to execute, if the received remote-control code is the control code, the character code reconstruction process for remote-control codes which are transmitted following the control code, and to execute, if the received remote-control code is not the control code, a process which is assigned to the received remote-control code.

10. A multi-byte character code transmission method for transmitting a multi-byte character code from a transmission apparatus to a reception apparatus, comprising:

converting a plurality of numerical values, which constitute a multi-byte character code, to a plurality of remote-control codes corresponding to the plurality of numerical values;

successively transmitting the plurality of remote-control codes from the transmission apparatus to the reception apparatus;

executing a character code reconstruction process of reconstructing the multi-byte character code by combining a plurality of numerical values corresponding to the plurality of remote-control codes received by the reception apparatus; and

processing the reconstructed multi-byte character code as a character.

11. The multi-byte character code transmission method according to claim 10, wherein said converting includes decomposing data of the multi-byte character code into a plurality of partial data and converting each of the plurality of partial data to a remote-control code corresponding to a numerical value indicated by each of the plurality of partial data, thereby converting a plurality of numerical values, which constitute the multi-byte character code, to the plurality of remote-control codes.

12. The multi-byte character code transmission method according to claim 10, further comprising:

determining whether a remote-control code, which is received by the reception apparatus, is a control code indicative of start of a character input mode for transmitting the multi-byte character code by using remote-control codes; and

executing, if the received remote-control code is not the control code, a process which is assigned to the received remote-control code,

wherein if the received remote-control code is the control code, the character code reconstruction process is executed for remote-control codes which are transmitted following the control code.