Remote Control Apparatus

• US 20110080253A1
• Filed: 08/16/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Tatsuro
• Application Number:
  US12/857,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20110080253A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/4.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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: 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 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a remote control apparatus includes a first input module, a second input module, a transmit/receive module and a controller. The first input module is configured to input a gesture pattern. The second input module is configured to input starting of an application. The transmit/receive module is configured to transmit information on the gesture pattern and to transmit or receive a command. The controller is configured to activate the first input module if starting of a particular application is input via the second input module, to transmit a command requesting specification of an operation mode for the starting of the particular application after touch-on via the first input module, and to set the operation mode based on reception of a command specifying the operation mode.

Claims

1. A remote control apparatus comprising:

a first input module configured to input a gesture pattern;

a second input module configured to input starting of an application;

a transmit/receive module configured to transmit information on the gesture pattern and to transmit or receive a command; and

a controller configured to activate the first input module if starting of a particular application is input via the second input module, to transmit a command requesting specification of an operation mode for the starting of the particular application after touch-on via the first input module, and to set the operation mode based on reception of a command specifying the operation mode.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to set the operation mode to one of a first mode in which an input via the first input module is not transmitted via the transmit/receive module, a second mode in which an input via the first input module lasting from the touch-on until touch-off is transmitted via the transmit/receive module, and a third mode in which an input via the first input module lasting for a first continuous time from the touch-on is transmitted via the transmit/receive module.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to set a second continuous time of the operation mode based on the command specifying the operation mode.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to set the first continuous time and the second continuous time, at least one of which varies between a first application and a second application, based on the command specifying the operation mode.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to set the third mode when the first input module is activated.

6. A broadcast reception apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a command for starting of a particular application and a command requesting specification of an operation mode for the starting of the particular application;

a controller configured to output display screen information for the particular application based on the command for the starting of the particular application; and

a transmitter configured to transmit a command specifying the operation mode for the starting of the particular application based on the command requesting the specification of the operation mode.

7. A mode setting method comprising:

activating a touchpad based on an input for starting of a particular application;

transmitting a command requesting specification of an operation mode for the starting of the particular application, after the touchpad is touched;

receiving a command specifying the operation mode; and

setting the operation mode based on the command specifying the operation mode.