Remote control system

• US 4,121,198 A
• Filed: 12/06/1976
• Issued: 10/17/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsuboi, Yoshikazu, Uzu, Yoshitomo
• Primary Examiner(s): Yusko, Donald J.
• Application Number:
  US05/747,988
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 340/171 R, 340/171 A, 340/171 PF, 340/148, 340/168 R, 325/30, 325/37, 325/392, 343/228, 343/225
• US Class Current: 367/199
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/28 using pulse code
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 9/04 using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves

Abstract

In a remote control system, a transmitted signal comprising several bursts of f₁ Hz arranged by coding input signal and other several bursts of f₂ Hz inserted in spaces between said f₁ Hz bursts is sent from a transmitter to a receiver which decodes the transmitted signal to produce a control signal without error even in the presence of noise.

Claims

1. A remote control system including a transmitter and a receiver,

said transmitter comprising a means for transmitting controlling signals corresponding to selected control functions, each of said controlling signals containing first frequency portions disposed in time sequences in accordance with a pulse code modulation, second frequency portions disposed to fill time spaces between parts of said first frequency, a last second frequency part disposed immediately to follow the coded first frequency part and a control retention signal part of the first frequency disposed after said last second frequency part, length of time of said retention signal part being controlled by means of a switch for controlling analog means;

and

said receiver comprising a means to decode said controlling signal to produce output signals corresponding to said selected items and a means to control said output signal in a manner to continue for the retention signal part.

2. A remote control system of claim 1, wherein said receiver comprises a first band-pass filter for said first frequency portion and a second band-pass filter for said second frequency portion, a first detector and a second detector for detecting outputs of said first and second band-pass filters, respectively, and a means for taking out logic AND signal of output of one of said detector and inverted output of the other detector.

3. A remote control system of claim 1, wherein the transmitter comprises:

a clock pulse generator, inhibited responsive to an inhibit signal applied to a stopping terminal thereof;

a binary counter, responsive to said clock pulse and issuing a set of output pulses from its output terminals;

a logic gate matrix, connected to said output terminals of said binary counter, and issuing several kinds of pulse trains of different length from a set of output terminals;

a set of selection switches which selectively connect the output terminal of said logic matrix to said stopping terminal of said clock pulse generator, so as to stop the issuing of said clock pulses at selected times; and

an oscillator which oscillates in said first frequency when the voltage of said coded pulse train of said logic gate matrix is in one state and in said second frequency when the voltage of said coded pulse train of said logic gate matrix is in the other state.

4. A remote control system of claim 1, wherein said transmitter comprises a means for retaining issuing of said retention signal during a selecting state of a selection switch.

5. A remote controlling system of claim 1, wherein each period of said second frequency portion is shorter than said space period in which said second frequency portion is arranged and said second frequency portions are arranged in a manner immediately to follow the ends of said first frequency portions, respectively.

6. A remote controlling system of claim 5, wherein the transmitter comprises:

a selection means having a specified number of selection switches;

an encoder which issues a first output having a pulse train arranged responding to the switch selectively closed, and issues a second output which lasts during closing of said selection switch;

an oscillator wherein oscillation frequency is controlled to be in said first frequency and in said second frequency when its first input terminal is in one state and in the other state, respectively, and the oscillation is controlled to oscillate and ceasing oscillation when its second input terminal for receiving said second output of said encoder is in one state and in the other state, respectively; and

a pulse generating means which produces a pulse output having said shorter period than said space period upon the end of each pulse of said first output of said encoder and gives said pulse output to said first input terminal of said oscillator.

7. A remote control system including a transmitter and a receiver for controlling a plurality of functional systems,

said transmitter comprising

encoding means for generating a signal indicative of a code;

oscillator means, responsive to said signal indicative of a code, for transmitting to said receiver a control signal with said code, said control signal comprising a first sequence of alternating bursts of said first frequency and said second frequency in accordance with said code, and a subsequent retention pulse of said first frequency immediately following the last burst of said second frequency; and

means, cooperating with said encoding means and said oscillator means, for controlling the duration of said retention pulse; and

said receiver comprises;

decoder means, responsive to said transmitted control signal, for generating a first output signal indicative of said code and a second output signal in accordance with the duration of said retention signal;

said decoder means second output signal being applied to a selected one of said functional systems in accordance with said decoder means first output signal.