Electronic appliance
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1. An electronic appliance comprising:
- a signal transmitter/receiver forreceiving signals from a plurality of contents providing apparatuses and transmitting to the contents providing apparatuses control signals for controlling the contents providing apparatuses;
a control signal receiver for receiving control signals from any one of remote control units belonging respectively to the contents providing apparatuses;
a signal discriminator for judging that the one remote control unit that has transmitted the control signals received by the signal receiver, belongs to which contents providing apparatus; and
a selection controller for recognizing, based on a result of judgment by the signal discriminator, what is indicated by the control signals transmitted from the remote control unit and received by the control signal receiver in order to select contents to be monitored and a contents providing apparatus from which to receive the contents.
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Abstract
An electric appliance 1 has a code correspondence data table that accommodates the correspondence among the control signals of the remote control units belonging to recording medium drive apparatuses 2-1 to 2-m and signal reception apparatuses 3-1 to 3-n and a code correspondence data table that accommodates the correspondence between those control signals and the various operations performed by the electric appliance 1 to select contents. With reference to these code correspondence data tables, contents are selected and reproduced according to control signals transmitted from any remote control unit 6.
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1. An electronic appliance comprising:
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a signal transmitter/receiver for receiving signals from a plurality of contents providing apparatuses and transmitting to the contents providing apparatuses control signals for controlling the contents providing apparatuses; a control signal receiver for receiving control signals from any one of remote control units belonging respectively to the contents providing apparatuses; a signal discriminator for judging that the one remote control unit that has transmitted the control signals received by the signal receiver, belongs to which contents providing apparatus; and a selection controller for recognizing, based on a result of judgment by the signal discriminator, what is indicated by the control signals transmitted from the remote control unit and received by the control signal receiver in order to select contents to be monitored and a contents providing apparatus from which to receive the contents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An electronic appliance comprising:
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a signal transmitter/receiver for receiving signals from a plurality of contents providing apparatuses and transmitting to the contents providing apparatuses control signals for controlling the contents providing apparatuses; a control signal receiver for receiving control signals from any one of remote control units belonging respectively to the contents providing apparatuses; a signal discriminator for judging that the one remote control unit that has transmitted the control signals received by the signal receiver, belongs to which contents providing apparatus; a code correspondence data table that accommodates correspondence among control signals produced by the remote control units; and an operation controller for producing control signals to be transmitted to the contents providing apparatuses based on control signals from the remote control unit, wherein, when the control signal receiver receives a first control signal from a remote controller, the operation controller decides and transmits a second control signal for a contents providing apparatus with which communication is currently being conducted by looking up the code corresponding data table.
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9. An electronic appliance comprising:
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a signal transmitter/receiver for receiving signals from a plurality of contents providing apparatuses and transmitting to the contents providing apparatuses control signals for controlling the contents providing apparatuses; and a signal discriminator for judging that a remote control unit that has transmitted the control signals received by the signal receiver, belongs to which contents providing apparatus, wherein first a video signal is produced for displaying a list of all selectable contents, selection of contents to be monitored is achieved, and then recognition of a contents providing apparatus that can provide the contents is achieved from the list. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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