Remote controlling

• US 8,111,132 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2004
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bose Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bose Corporation
• Inventors: Allen, William A., Reimann, Robert, Knapp, Herbert C.
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, VERNAL U
• Application Number:
  US10/752,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20050146444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,954 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.24, 340/825.22, 340/825.72, 340/825.69, 340/5.61, 340/3.1, 340/13.24, 725/100, 725/39, 725/110, 341/176
• US Class Current: 340/5.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/28 using pulse code
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/205 with control bus for exchanging commands between units

Abstract

A method includes providing, to a user of a control device, an indication of a value currently representative of a preset sound signal source, and simultaneously providing an indication of a possible new value of the preset.

Claims

1. A method comprising enabling a user of a remote control unit for controlling a sound signal source separated from the remote control unit to indicate on the remote control unit a value of possible new preset of a sound signal source and to separately confirm the indication, and, while the new value has been indicated but before the indication has been confirmed, to change an operation of another device separated from the remote control unit in accordance with the indicated possible new value and to provide auditory feed back to the user corresponding to the new value.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the preset is associated with a sound signal source in a multi-media system.

3. The method of claim 2 in which the multi-media system comprises an audio system.

4. The method of claim 1 in which the value comprises an identifier of a station.

5. The method of claim 4 in which the station comprises a radio station and another device comprises a radio receiver.

6. The method of claim 1 in which the sound signal source comprises a source of items to be performed, the source being configured to store the items for performance in response to the preset.