Remote control equipment for use with an audio system

• US 4,864,550 A
• Filed: 06/28/1988
• Issued: 09/05/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Kawanaka, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Faber, Alan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoa T.
• Application Number:
  US07/213,504
• Time in Patent Office: 434 Days
• Field of Search: 369/6, 369/24, 369/2, 455/352, 455/353, 358/335, 360/137, 364/138
• US Class Current: 369/6
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/202 by remote control

Abstract

A remote control handset for use with an audio system in which the audio system includes a tuner, a compact disk player an amplifier, speakers, etc. The handset also includes a display for displaying the information contents of the control signals. A cassette recorder also incorporated in the handset produces an output signal which is modulated on a special carrier and transmitted over a signal path to an antenna coupled to the tuner of the audio system in order to reproduce the recorded signals.

Claims

1. A remove control arrangement for use with an audio system, said audio system at least having a tuner for receiving and detecting a modulated carrier representing an audio signal generated from said remote control arrangement, and audio reproduction transducing means for aurally reproducing said audio signal, said remote control arrangement comprising:

remote control transmitter including selection means for selecting the function to be performed by said audio system and outputting a selection signal, transmitter reproduction means for reproducing and transmitting said audio signal from an audio storage means in response to said selection signal, control signal generator for generating and transmitting a control signal in response to said selection signal; and

remote control receiver coupled to said audio system, for receiving said control signal and generating a command signal in response thereto, to control the operation of said tuner and said audio reproduction transducing means.

2. The remote control arrangement in claim 1 wherein said control signal includes a component for tuning said tuner to the frequency of said carrier.

3. The remote control arrangement in claim 1 wherein said audio storage means is an audio tape.

4. The remove control arrangement in claim 1 wherein said selection means includes a keyboard for inputting through keys, the selected functions.