Remote control terminal

• US 7,492,876 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2003
• Issued: 02/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MyClerk LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahee; Md S
• Application Number:
  US10/735,665
• Publication Number:
  US 20040130621A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,890 Days
• Field of Search: 379/88.01, 379 9312- 9313, 379/93.17, 37910201-10207, 379 74- 77, 463/42, 463/1, 455/420, 455/3.03, 455/419, 455/92, 455/151.1, 455/352, 348/143, 348/734, 348/14.05, 704/275, 715/716, 715/864, 34042613-42617, 341/176
• US Class Current: 379/102.01
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1961 Movement detection not involving frame subtraction, e.g. motion detection on the basis of luminance changes in the image
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over

Abstract

A remote control terminal includes an input section which allows selection of predetermined services offered from an information provider managing the services, a transceiver for obtaining a service selected by the input section from the information provider, and displaying means for displaying the contents of the service obtained by the transceiver.

Claims

1. A remote control terminal, comprising:

input means for selecting of predetermined services provided from a service manager which manages the predetermined services;

obtaining means for obtaining information corresponding to a service selected by the input means from the service manager; and

displaying means for displaying the information corresponding to the service obtained by the obtaining means to a user,

wherein the service manager includes storing means for storing a plurality of pieces of instruction information, the pieces of instruction information showing the user procedures how to obtain the predetermined services and being referred to by the user,

the input means selects of the plurality of pieces of instruction information stored in the storing means and selects a telephone,

the obtaining means obtains the instruction information selected by the input means from the storing means and communicates the telephone selected by the input means, and

the displaying means displays the instruction information obtained by the obtaining means, the instruction information showing the user the procedures how to obtain the selected service and being referred to by the user.

2. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the remote control terminal works as a telephone.

3. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the remote control terminal is provided in a guest room.

4. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

speech recognition means for recognizing speech as a character string;

wherein,

the obtaining means obtains from the service manager information corresponding to a service related to the character string; and

the displaying means displays the information.

5. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the input means allows selection of images taken by a plurality of cameras provided in a game arcade for taking images of a situation in the game arcade;

the obtaining means obtains at least one of the images selected by the input means as information corresponding to the service; and

the displaying means displays the image obtained by the obtaining means.

6. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the obtaining means controls an electric device.

7. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 6, wherein the electric device is an air conditioner, audio equipment, a video, a camera, a printer, or a personal computer.

8. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 6, wherein the obtaining means is connected to the Internet.

9. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a transceiver configured to obtain an image from the obtaining means.

10. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the remote control terminal receives tabulated game information from a tabulation server.

11. The remote control terminal as set forth in claim 10, wherein the displaying means displays information tabulated by the tabulation server, said information including tracking goods purchased by users and places where users play games.

12. A remote control terminal, comprising:

an input section configured to select of predetermined services provided from a service manager which manages the predetermined services;

an obtainer configured to obtain information corresponding to a service selected by the input section from the service manager; and

a display configured to display the information corresponding to the service obtained by the obtainer to a user, wherein

the service manager includes a storing section configured to store a plurality of pieces of instruction information, the pieces of instruction information showing the user procedures how to obtain the predetermined services and being referred to by the user, the input section selects of the plurality of pieces of instruction information stored in the storing section and selects a telephone,

the obtainer obtains the instruction information selected by the input section from the storing section and communicates the telephone selected by the input section,

the display displays the instruction information obtained by the obtainer, the instruction information showing the user the procedures how to obtain the selected service and being referred to by the user.