Remote Control and Television System

• US 20140002754A1
• Filed: 07/18/2011
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Haier Group Corporation (Haier Group Company), Qingdao Haier Electronics Company Limited (Haier Group Company)
• Original Assignee: Haier Group Corporation (Haier Group Company), Qingdao Haier Electronics Company Limited (Haier Group Company)
• Inventors: Qi, Hongtao, Chen, Guorui, Chen, Yilong, Yuan, Weitao
• Granted Patent: US 9,247,176 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/734
• 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 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42212 Specific keyboard arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device

Abstract

Provided is a remote control comprising a housing, a keyboard (20) mounted on the housing, a processor (106) electrically connected to the keyboard (20), an analog-digital converter (103) and a high-frequency wireless transmission unit (108) electrically connected to the processor (106), a sampling circuit (102) electrically connected to the analog-digital converter (103) and a microphone interface (30) electrically connected to the sampling circuit (102). Also disclosed is a television system. The remote control and television system in the present solution are simple to operate and can satisfy user'"'"'s multi-function requirements.

Claims

1. A remote control comprising a housing, a keyboard mounted on said housing and a processor electrically connected with said keyboard, wherein, further comprising an analog-digital converter and a high-frequency wireless transmission unit which are electrically connected with said processor, a sampling circuit electrically connected with said analog-digital converter, and a microphone interface electrically connected with said sampling circuit;

a voice received by said microphone is converted to a digital signal through the processing of said sampling circuit and said analog-digital converter;

is said processor is adopted to recognize the digital signal as a control instruction or word information in a voice control mode or voice recognition mode and send out the control instruction or word information via said high-frequency wireless transmission unit.

2. A remote control according to claim 1, wherein, further comprising a memory electrically connected with said processor and adopted to store corresponding relation between the digital signal and the control instruction, said processor recognize control instruction corresponding to the digital signal on the basis of said corresponding relation.

3. A remote control according to claim 1, wherein, further comprising a wireless network processing chip electrically connected with said processor;

said processor accesses the network via said wireless network processing chip to recognize the word signal corresponding to the digital signal.

4. A remote control according to claim 1, wherein, further comprising a mode switching circuit electrically with said processor and adopted to control said process to be in the voice control mode or in the voice recognition mode.

5. A remote control according to claim 4, wherein, said mode switching circuit comprises a pull-up resistor and a switch, two ends of the pull-up resistor are electrically connected with a power supply and an input end of the processor respectively;

one end of the switch is electrically connected with the input end of the processor, the other end is connected to the ground.

6. A remote control according to claim 5, wherein, further comprising an indicator electrically connected with said processor.

7. A remote control according to claim 6, wherein, said indicator comprises an indicator light.

8. A remote control according to claim 5, wherein, said keyboard is further provided with a mode switching key which is mounted above said switch.

9. A remote control according to claim 1, wherein, said high-frequency wireless transmission unit is a 2.4 G wireless transmission unit.

10. A television system, comprising a remote control and a television, wherein, said remote control is a remote control described in the claim 1;

a high-frequency wireless transmission unit, a memory and a processor are disposed inside of said television;

said processor is electrically connected with said high-frequency wireless transmission unit and said memory.