REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE, A FAR-END DEVICE, A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM AND A CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120326851A1
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Published: 12/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: XU, Chun
• Granted Patent: US 9,024,734 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/12.26
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote control device, a far-end device, a multimedia system and a control method thereof. Said remote control device comprising: a communication unit for establishing a connection with a far-end device and performing communication; an operating unit for operating a specific program in said far-end device by the operation of the user; and a mode change unit for switching a operating mode in said remote control device according to feedback information associated with the specific program which is fed back by said far-end device in response to the operation in said operating unit. Through the remote control device, the far-end device, the multimedia system and the control method thereof, it may be operated in any device possessing communication function in despite of the hardware and system configuration of said device.

Claims

1. A remote control device comprising:

a communication unit for establishing a connection with a far-end device and performing communication;

an operating unit for operating a specific procedure in said far-end device by the operation of the user; and

a mode change unit for switching a operating mode in said remote control device according to feedback information associated with the specific procedure which is fed back by said far-end device in response to the operation in said operating unit.

2. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein

said communication unit establishes connection with said far-end device based on HTTP.

3. The remote control device according to claim 2, wherein

said communication unit establishes connection with said far-end device based on WebSocket.

4. The remote control device according to claim 2, wherein

said communication unit establishes connection with said far-end device based on the server push.

5. The remote control device according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein

said operating unit further comprises a display screen, and

said mode change unit switches an interface displayed by said display screen according to said feedback information.

6. The remote control device according to claim 5, wherein

after the communication between said communication unit and said far-end device is established, said communication unit receives a default interface from said far-end device, and said display screen displays said default interface so as to make said user operate said default interface via said display screen to select said specific procedure and perform operation.

7. The remote control device according to claim 6, wherein

said mode change unit switches the default interface displayed in said display screen to an interface associated with the specific procedure according to said feedback information.

8. The remote control device according to claim 7, wherein

after said operating unit quitted said specific procedure in response to the operation of the user, said mode change unit switches the interface associated with the specific procedure displayed in said remote control device back to the default interface.

9. The remote control device according to claim 5, wherein

said communication unit establishes said connection with said far-end device via a browser.

10. The remote control device according to claim 9, wherein

said communication unit automatically disconnects said communication when the user exits the browser.

11. The remote control device according to claim 5, wherein

said feedback information includes the address of website to be accessed by the interface corresponding to the remote control device and the identifier of the interface to be currently displayed by said display screen.

12. The remote control device according to any one of claim 1-4, wherein

said operating unit further comprises an keyboard, and

said mode change unit switches a keyboard mapping of said keyboard in said operating unit according to said feedback information.

13. The remote control device according to claim 12, wherein

a pilot lamp is set on the keyboard to prompt the status of the remote control device or the information about the keyboard mapping.

14. The remote control device according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein

said operating unit further comprises a voice unit which performs various voice prompt according to said feedback information.

15. The remote control device according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein

said operating unit further comprises a sensor which prompts changes of the status of said far-end device by the manner of vibration of said remote control device according to the feedback information.

16. The remote control device according to any one of claims 1-4,

further comprising an imaging unit which establishes said connection with said far-end device through said imaging unit reading QR Code on said remote control device.

17. A far-end device comprising:

a communication unit for establishing a connection with a remote control device and performing communication; and

a feedback unit for feeding back a feedback information associated with the specific procedure to the remote control device according to the operation of the specific procedure in said far-end device performed by said remote control device.

18. A multimedia system comprises a remote control device and a far-end device, wherein

said far-end device comprising:

a communication unit of far-end device side for establishing a connection with a remote control device and performing communication; and

a feedback unit for feeding back a feedback information associated with a specific procedure to the remote control device according to the operation of the specific procedure in said far-end device performed by said remote control device;

said remote control device comprising;

a communication unit of remote control device side for establishing a connection with the far-end device and performing communication;

an operating unit for operating a specific procedure in said far-end device by the operation of the user; and

a mode change unit for switching a operating mode in said remote control device according to the feedback information fed back from said far-end device.

19. The multimedia system according to claim 18, wherein

The number of said remote control devices is at least two, and an operating unit of one remote control device in said at least two remote control devices operates a specific procedure in said far-end device by the operation of the user;

said far-end device sends feedback information associated with the specific procedure to another remote control device in said at least two remote control devices in response to the operation of the user in a operating unit of said one remote control device; and

the mode change unit in said another remote control device switches an operating mode in said remote control device according to said feedback information.

20. A control method in a multimedia system comprises a remote control device and a far-end device, wherein

said control method comprising:

a connection step for establishing a communication connection between said remote control device and said far-end device;

an operating step for operating a specific procedure in said far-end device via the operation to said remote control device performed by the user;

a feedback step for feeding back feedback information associated with the specific procedure which is fed back by said far-end device in response to the operation of the user in said operating unit, and

a mode change step for switching a operating mode of said remote control device per se according to said feedback information.