Information signal transmission system and remote control device for the same

• US 20060271993A1
• Filed: 08/03/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Junichi Nakata, Yoshihiro Wakita
• Original Assignee: Junichi Nakata, Yoshihiro Wakita
• Inventors: Nakata, Junichi, Wakita, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,917,930 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2829 involving user profiles according to which the execution of a home appliance functionality is automatically triggered
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805

Abstract

An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a living room. A recipient of information is detected referring to identification information set in a remote command device, and monitor devices are alternately switched for continuously providing the viewer with an information signal.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An information signal transmission system, comprising:

a network interface connected to a plurality of presentation devices and a plurality of reproduction devices through a network,

wherein said information signal transmission system provides an information signal reproduced by one of the reproduction devices via one of the presentation devices;

a destination object detecting module for detecting a destination object by detecting identification data associated with a control request in conjunction with controlling one of the reproduction devices,

wherein said identification data is used for identifying a destination object of said information signal;

a storage module for storing the identification data;

a determination module for determining the identification data detected by the destination object detecting module and the identification data stored by the storage module;

a control module for controlling output of the information signal,

wherein the control module controls the storage module to store the identification data and to output the information signal via one of the presentation,

wherein the identification data is detected by the destination object detecting component,

wherein the control module outputs the information signal via the presentation device that matches the identification data,

wherein the identification data include a remote control signal sent by a remote command device, and

wherein one of the presentation devices feeds said received identification data to the destination object detecting module.

17. The information signal transmission system of claim 16, wherein:

when said control module receives a reserve request from one of said plurality of presentation devices through said network interface and said reserve request includes identification data indicating said identification code identifying a user, and

when said control module receives said pause command indicating said first presentation device, said control module terminates outputting said information signal to said first presentation device through said network interface,

such that an information signal module outputs said information signal to a second presentation device from the point in said information signal when said control module stopped outputting said information signal to said first presentation device.

18. The information signal transmission system of claim 16,

wherein in response to a control request received via the presentation device except of one of the presentation devices if the determine component determines that the identification data detected by said destination object detecting component matches the identification data stored by said store component.

19. The information signal transmission system of claim 16,

wherein an identification module determines that the identification code of said identification module in said reserve request matches the identification code of said identification data stored by said identification module and sends a pause command to said control module, said pause command indicating a first presentation device.

20. A method of transmitting an information signal, comprising:

connecting a plurality of presentation devices to a plurality of reproduction devices through a network,

providing an information signal reproduced by one of said plurality of the plurality of reproduction devices via one of the plurality of said presentation devices;

detecting a destination object by detecting identification data associated with a control request in conjunction with controlling one of said reproduction devices,

wherein said identification data is used to identify a destination object of said information signal;

storing the identification data;

determining the identification data detected by the destination object detecting step and the identification data stored in said storing step;

controlling output of the information signal,

wherein the controlling step controls the storing step to store the identification data and to output the information signal via the presentation device related to a control request;

detecting the identification data;

wherein the controlling step outputs the information signal via the presentation device matched by the identification data,

wherein the identification data includes a remote control signal sent by a remote command device.

21. The method of transmitting an information signal of claim 20,

wherein, when said control step receives a reserve request from one of said plurality of presentation devices through said network interface and said reserve request includes identification data indicating said identification code identifying said user, an identification step determines that the identification code of said identification data in said reserve request matches the identification code of said identification data stored by said identification step and sends a pause command to said control step, said pause command indicating said first presentation device, and

when said control step receives said pause command indicating said first presentation device, said control step causes an information signal outputting step to stop outputting said information signal to said first presentation device through said network interface,

such that said information signal outputting step begins to output said information signal to a second presentation device from a point in said information signal when said control step stopped outputting said information signal to said the presentation device.