REMOTE CONTROL METHOD AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20110047474A1
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Keum-koo, Sung, Ju-yun, Kwahk, Ji-young, Choo, Hee-jeong
• Application Number:
  US12/860,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20110047474A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time

Abstract

A remote control system and a remote control method are provided. The remote control system includes a first device, and a second device that controls the first device using an image generated based on a manipulation means provided for manipulation of the first device. Accordingly, it is possible for a user to remotely use the home device, and can feel the same effect as that felt when the user directly manipulates the home device at home.

Claims

1. A remote control system comprising:

a first device; and

a second device that controls the first device using an image generated based on a manipulation means provided for manipulation of the first device.

2. The remote control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the manipulation means provided for manipulation of the first device is a UI provided in the first device or a UI provided in a control device that controls the first device as a controlled device.

3. The remote control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image is a GUI image that is graphics of the manipulation means or a GUI image that is displayed on a screen of the first device through manipulation of the manipulation means, and

the second device controls the first device by manipulating the GUI image.

4. The remote control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second device is provided with a touch screen on which the GUI image is displayed, and when a touch for the GUI image is input, the second device generates the same control signal as a control signal generated when the manipulation means is input and transmits the generated control signal to the first device to control the first device.

5. The remote control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein, in the case where a plurality of manipulation means are provided, the GUI image is generated as many as the number that corresponds to the plurality of manipulation mean, and the respective manipulation means correspond to the respective GUI images.

6. The remote control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a control signal transferred to the first device through manipulation of the manipulation means is the same as a control signal that is transferred to the first device through selection of the image through the second device.

7. The remote control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image is generated from the first device and is transferred to the second device.

8. The remote control system as claimed in claim 7, wherein if there is a transmission request for the image from the second device, the image is transferred from the first device to the second device.

9. The remote control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first device is a home device provided at home and the second device is a portable device that a user can carry outside of home, and

the second device remotely controls the first device using a wireless communication.

10. A remote control method of a first device using a second device comprising:

generating an image based on a manipulation means provided to manipulate the first device, and

the second device controlling the first device using the image.