Remote control device, a far-end device, a multimedia system and a control method thereof

• US 9,024,734 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Xu, Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): Obiniyi, Paul
• Application Number:
  US13/530,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20120326851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,047 Days
• Field of Search: 340 1222- 1231, 340/3.1, 340/10.1, 340/500, 340/506, 725/39, 725/51, 725/58, 725/88
• US Class Current: 340/12.26
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote control device, a far-end device, a multimedia system and a control method thereof. Said remote control device comprising: a communication unit for establishing a connection with a far-end device and performing communication; an operating unit for operating a specific program in said far-end device by the operation of the user; and a mode change unit for switching a operating mode in said remote control device according to feedback information associated with the specific program which is fed back by said far-end device in response to the operation in said operating unit. Through the remote control device, the far-end device, the multimedia system and the control method thereof, it may be operated in any device possessing communication function in despite of the hardware and system configuration of said device.

Claims

1. A remote control device comprising:

circuitry configured to;

establish a connection with a far-end device and perform communication; and

operate a specific procedure in said far-end device;

switch an operating mode in said remote control device according to feedback information associated with the specific procedure which is fed back by said far-end device in response to the operation in said circuitry, the feedback information including runtime information of the specific procedure; and

a display screen that displays is configured to display a control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device, wherein the-circuitry is configured to switch what is displayed in the display screen according to the feedback information associated with the specific procedure the circuitry is configured to receive information on a default control interface to control the far-end device, the information on the default control interface being transmitted from the far-end device to the remote control device when the connection with the far-end device is established by the circuitry, and the circuitry is configured to control the display screen to switch from displaying the default control interface to displaying the control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device when the specific procedure is operated by the circuitry based on the runtime information, wherein said remote control device include a keyboard, and circuitry switches a keyboard mapping of said keyboard in-said according to said feedback information, having a pilot lamp set on the keyboard to prompt the status of the remote control device or information about the keyboard mapping, performing various voice prompt according to said feedback information, wherein said remote control device further comprises a sensing vibrator which prompts changes of a status of said far-end device by a manner of vibration of said remote control device according to the feedback information, and the circuitry receives the data of the control interface when a size of the data does not affect a runtime communication.

2. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein said circuitry establishes connection with said far-end device based on HTTP.

3. The remote control device according to claim 2, wherein said circuitry establishes connection with said far-end device based on WebSocket.

4. The remote control device according to claim 2, wherein said circuitry establishes connection with said far-end device based on server push.

5. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein after said circuitry quitted said specific procedure in response to the operation of the user, said circuitry switches the interface associated with the specific procedure displayed in said remote control device back to the default control interface.

6. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein said circuitry establishes said connection with said far-end device via a browser.

7. The remote control device according to claim 6, wherein said circuitry automatically disconnects said communication when the user exits the browser.

8. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein said feedback information includes an address of website to be accessed by the remote control device and an identifier of the control interface to operate the specific procedure.

9. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein said circuitry further performs various voice prompt according to said feedback information.

10. The remote control device according to claim 1, further comprising an imaging unit which establishes said connection with said far-end device through said imaging unit reading QR Code on said-end device.

15. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry receives an address of a website included in the feedback information for downloading the control interface from the website.

16. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry receives data of the control interface from the far-end device.

17. The remote control device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry transmits event information based on an input from the control interface to the far-end device, and receives updated information on the control interface from the far-end device according to the event information, and the display screen displays an updated control interface according to the updated information.

18. The remote control device according to claim 17, wherein the updated control interface is partly updated from the control interface when the event information indicates only a switch of the control interface in a same program.

11. A far-end device comprising:

circuitry configured to;

establish a connection with a remote control device and perform communication; and

feedback information associated with a specific procedure in the far-end device to the remote control device according to an operation of the specific procedure in said far-end device operated by said remote control device, the feedback information including runtime information of the specific procedure, wherein the remote control device displays a control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device, the remote control device switches what is displayed in the remote control device according to the feedback information associated with the specific procedure the circuitry is configured to transmit to the remote control device information on a default control interface to be displayed on the remote control device to control the far-end device when the connection with the remote control device is established by the circuitry, and the remote control device switches from displaying the default control interface to displaying the control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device when the specific procedure is operated by the remote control device based on the runtime information, wherein said remote control device include a keyboard, and circuitry switches a keyboard mapping of said keyboard in-said according to said feedback information, having a pilot lamp is set on the keyboard to prompt the status of the remote control device or information about the keyboard mapping, performing various voice prompt according to said feedback information, wherein said remote control device further comprises a sensing vibrator which prompts changes of a status of said far-end device by a manner of vibration of said remote control device according to the feedback information, and the circuitry receives the data of the control interface when a size of the data does not affect a runtime communication.

12. A multimedia system comprising a remote control device and a far-end device, wherein said far-end device comprising:

first circuitry configured to;

establish a connection with the remote control device and perform communication; and

feedback information associated with a specific procedure in the far-end device to the remote control device according to an operation of the specific procedure in said far-end device operated by said remote control device, the feedback information including runtime information of the specific procedure, said remote control device comprising;

second circuitry configured to;

establish the connection with the far-end device and perform communication;

operate the specific procedure in said far-end device;

switch an operating mode in said remote control device according to the feedback information associated with the specific procedure that is fed back from said far-end device in response to the operation in said second circuitry, the feedback information including the runtime information of the specific procedure; and

a display screen that display is configured to display the control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device, wherein the interface second circuitry is configured to switch what is displayed in the display screen according to the feedback information associated with the specific procedure, the second circuitry is configured to receive information on a default control interface to control the far-end device, the information on the default control interface being transmitted from the far-end device to the remote control device when the connection with the far-end device is established by the circuitry, and the second circuitry is configured to control the display screen to switch from displaying the default control interface to displaying the control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device when the specific procedure is operated by the circuitry based on the runtime information, wherein said remote control device include a keyboard, and circuitry switches a keyboard mapping of said keyboard in-said according to said feedback information, having a pilot lamp is set on the keyboard to prompt the status of the remote control device or information about the keyboard mapping, performing various voice prompt according to said feedback information, wherein said remote control device further comprises a sensing vibrator which prompts changes of a status of said far-end device by a manner of vibration of said remote control device according to the feedback information, and the circuitry receives the data of the control interface when a size of the data does not affect a runtime communication.

13. The multimedia system according to claim 12, wherein a number of said remote control devices is at least two, and the second circuitry of one remote control device in said at least two remote control devices operates the specific procedure in said far-end device;

said far-end device sends the feedback information associated with the specific procedure to another remote control device in said at least two remote control devices in response to the operation in the second circuitry of said one remote control device; and

the second circuitry in said another remote control device switches the operating mode in said remote control device according to said feedback information.

14. A control method in a multimedia system comprising a remote control device and a far-end device, wherein said control method comprising:

a connection step for establishing a communication connection between said remote control device and said far-end device;

an operating step for operating a specific procedure in said far-end device;

a feedback step for feeding back feedback information associated with the specific procedure which is fed back by said far-end device in response to the operation of the specific procedure in said far-end device operated by said remote control device, the feedback information including runtime information of the specific procedure, a step for displaying in a display screen of the remote control device a control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device, and a mode change step for switching an operating mode of said remote control device according to said feedback information, wherein the mode change step further including a step for switching what is displayed in the display screen according to the feedback information associated with the specific procedure, said control method further comprising;

a step of receiving at the remote control device information on a default control interface to control the far-end device, the information on the default control interface being transmitted from the far-end device to the remote control device when the connection with the far-end device is established, and a step of controlling the display screen to switch from displaying the default control interface to displaying the control interface to operate the specific procedure in the far-end device when the specific procedure is operated in the remote control device based on the runtime information, wherein said remote control device include a keyboard, and circuitry switches a keyboard mapping of said keyboard in-said according to said feedback information, having a pilot lamp is set on the keyboard to prompt the status of the remote control device or information about the keyboard mapping, performing various voice prompt according to said feedback information, wherein said remote control device further comprises a sensing vibrator which prompts changes of a status of said far-end device by a manner of vibration of said remote control device according to the feedback information, and the circuitry receives the data of the control interface when a size of the data does not affect a runtime communication.