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6975301 Remote control for interactive television  
An improved remote control for interactive televisions is disclosed. The conventional remote control is improved by adding a light-scope as a remote-pointing device for defining an aiming point on...
6970098 Smart biometric remote control with telephony integration method  
A handheld remote control device for a Media Computing Device has a biometric sensor to authenticate a user. The handheld remote control device includes a microphone and speaker to enable...
6970127 Remote control for wireless control of system and displaying of compressed video on a display on the remote  
A system for wireless remote control of a gateway and ordering or invocation of services provided by a headend. The remote control includes a video display and user input device or keyboard and can...
6967588 System and method for controlling a home entertainment system  
A system and method for controlling a home entertainment system includes a television having one more peripheral electronic entertainment devices connected thereto. Also, the system includes a...
6967695 Remote control network system for remotely controlling a plurality of electric apparatus such as home appliances  
The field of view of a video camera is set to include electric appliances such as a refrigerator, TV set, air conditioner and lamp installed within a room. When the user operates a remote...
6968151 Remote control  
A remote control includes a base and an insert that is attached in a detachable manner to the base. The base includes a remote control circuit, a button coupled to operate the remote control...
6965369 Method and apparatus for smoothing cursor movement in relation to a refresh rate of a display  
A method and apparatus for smoothing cursor motion on a display is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, an indication of an amount of movement of an operation instrumentality of a pointing...
6965511 System and method for personalizing an electrical device  
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for personalizing an electrical device. In one arrangement, the system comprises an electrical device having a plurality of button openings...
6956496 Method and apparatus for updating universal remote databases through TV VBI processing  
Universal remote control device database is updated through television video blanking interval (TV VBI) or sub-picture signal processing. As relayed through TV receiver, remote control database(s)...
6946970 Remote control device with smart card capability  
A remote control device including a processor, a transmitter in communication with the processor, a receiver in communication with the processor, and a smart card reader/writer in communication...
6947101 Control device with easy lock feature  
Methods for identifying control keys with particular devices are disclosed along with methods of assigning control keys to particular devices. In particular, a remote control comprises a set of...
6947062 Seamlessly combined freely moving cursor and jumping highlights navigation  
A remote control, operating an on-screen set-top box (STB) menu, has a force sensitive resistor (FSR) for coarse or free navigation and a keypad, placed around the FSR, for fine navigation. A user...
6944880 Methods for audio capture and communication during television broadcasts  
A remote control for an interactive television system includes an integrated microphone and a wireless transmitter for transmitting audio information generated by the microphone to the interactive...
6940562 Controller for remotely controlling two or more controlled devices  
The present invention provides for controlling a controlled apparatus, which is controlled by a remote control signal. The remote control signal transmitted from a remote control apparatus is...
6940419 Adaptable remote control for electrical appliances having several functions to be controlled  
A remote control including a microprossesor with a first storage zone containing a file of trademarks of the main appliances available on the market, and a storage zone containing code files...
6930730 Control system and user interface for network of input devices  
Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and...
6917302 System and method for retrieving information while commanding operation of an appliance  
When a command key of a controlling platform is activated, the platform performs an operation associated with the command key and also initiates the retrieval of information from an information...
6918136 Control of interconnected audio/video devices  
A local communication system comprises a plurality of devices interconnected for data communication. One of the devices is a display device arranged to display data from one or more other devices...
6906696 Method of controlling multi-user access to the functionality of consumer devices  
Methods are described whereby multiple users can swap a controller of consumer devices between themselves frequently, whilst each retains the ability to reinstate their own customized controller...
6903655 Remote control device with illumination  
A remote control device including a housing, a processor located in the housing, and a motion detector in communication with the processor. The device also includes at least one input device in...
6895252 Economical extension of the operating distance of an RF remote link accommodating information signals having differing carrier frequencies  
A system for economically extending the effective operational range of an infrared remote control system having a remote control unit with an infrared transmitter, and a controlled device having an...
6882729 System and method for limiting access to data  
A data system includes a secured appliance capable of receiving broadcast programming and a remote control used to transmit data frames to the secured appliance. The secured appliance is provided...
6882299 Portable internet-enabled controller and information browser for consumer devices  
A remote control uses IR (infrared) commands to control various consumer appliances made by various manufactures. The remote control is low-cost, consumer-friendly, programmable, has its own...
6879351 Method and apparatus for remote control  
Methods and apparatus to facilitate communication between a user and one or more devices which are remote from the user, reduce the number of required button presses and further reduce keystroke...
6870579 Smart-channel: learning-capable television channel changing apparatus, system and method  
System and method for learning the optimal channel change instruction recognition speed for an entertainment system. A memory stores information relating to: time increments between channel change...
6862741 System and method for displaying event related electronic program guide data on intelligent remote devices  
A method and system for displaying event related program content and program guide data are disclosed. Upon the occurrence of an event such as a channel selection or change input, event related...
6850286 Control device for automatically storing information from memory of one receiving device into memory of another receiving device  
A control device ( 32; 35 ) for controlling at least a first receiving device ( 1 ) so as to achieve that television channel information (FKI) stored in correlation with program position...
6844900 Method and system for reverse universal remote control feature  
A system for providing a universal remote control feature for consumer electronics devices includes an existing remote control for remotely controlling a first consumer electronics device using a...
6833878 Channel selection device for use in broadcasting receiver and broadcasting receiver equipped with the same  
In a channel selection device used in a broadcasting receiver, each time a channel UP/DOWN key is pressed for changing a channel, the channel number is changed upward/downward by one immediately...
6833825 Apparatus for remotely controlling a digital processing system  
According to one aspect of the invention an apparatus is provided for remotely controlling a digital processing system, comprising a housing, a scrolling detector, a cursor positioning detector,...
6822698 Remotely controlling video display devices  
A processor-based system may be controlled by a remote control unit. An image of the remote control unit may be displayed on a display associated with the processor-based system. When a particular...
6822602 Method for generating and transmitting/receiving input codes in universal input device and apparatus thereof  
A method for generating and processing universal input codes, for which a universal remote control protocol is applied, and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes the steps of (a)...
6819864 Multi controller  
A multi controller according to the present invention comprise first operating means for generating a control signal in association with a declination operation in plural directions, second...
6812881 System for remote communication with an addressable target using a generalized pointing device  
A system for communication with addressable electronically-controllable appliances using a generalized pointing device is provided. The system includes a pointing device that can communicate with...
6809722 Hand-held mobile mouse  
A hand-held or palm mobile mouse is contained in a mini hand-held shaped housing to be held in the palm of a user with a sphere arranged on the top easily and naturally reached by the user's thumb....
6809779 System and method for automatically configuring remote control device using removable storage media  
A system and method for allowing a viewer to easily program a remote control device with the parameters of various home entertainment components such as TVs, VCRs, DVDs, etc. A removable media is...
6803874 Remote controller capable of submitting real and virtual channel number entries to a cable box, SAT-receiver or TV-set  
A remote controller for use with cable or satellite provided TV program signals in which an original “over the air” TV station's real channel assignment (such as channel 38) may be instead...
6795130 Signal receiving apparatus, remote controller, signal receiving system, and apparatus to be controlled  
A signal receiving apparatus of the present invention has a receiver for receiving television signals, a processor for processing the television signals received by the receiver to obtain image...
6791467 Adaptive remote controller  
A method and system for the remote controlling of appliances includes an adaptive remote controller that adapts itself automatically to its environment so as to remotely control a plurality of...
6788241 System and method for using keystroke data to configure a remote control device  
A remote control device is which key use is monitored. A command key, representative of an appliance function, may be correlated to a target appliance that is determined, as a function of the...
6788242 Method and apparatus for transferring information to a remote control  
A method for transferring information to a remote control includes storing information in a transfer medium, inserting the transfer medium into a remote control that may or may not have already...
6781638 Universal remote control capable of simulating a skip search  
A system and method for using a remote control device to simulate a skip search operation on a consumer appliance playing a recorded media. In response to a sensed activation of a skip search...
6778380 TV mute finger ring  
TV Mute Finger Ring with a hollow C shaped finger ring housing. The housing contains the standard electronics and IR transmitting LED associated with activating the mute function of a standard TV....
6778225 Transferring data from one device to another  
In a method and arrangement for installing or updating a large number of television receivers in, e.g., hotels, one of the television receivers ( 1 ) is manually programmed. The data is then...
6775386 Microphone attached remote controller  
A microphone attached remote controller mainly comprises a coupling unit, a switch unit, a first control unit, a sensor, a second control unit, an amplifier, and a wireless emitter. When the switch...
6771324 Display and apparatus  
It is an object of the present invention to provide equipment, particularly a display, capable of easily corresponding to two or more types of remote controllers (for example, remote controllers of...
6769129 System and method for detecting and resolving IR remote signal conflicts  
Systems and methods for detecting and resolving interference between two IR signals in a remote control system. The two IR signals may include primary signals emitted from a remote control device...
6761635 Remote-control signal receiver  
A photo-receiving unit of an entertainment device stores commands sent from a remote controller into a buffer memory. A main unit of the entertainment device incorporates the stored commands at...
6759967 Remote control for activating household video products and services  
A remote control, particularly for a home entertainment system, includes a display screen generating a query regarding the status of the components. The status may include whether the component is...
6757030 Multi remote control transmitter, video apparatus, and format preset support method for same apparatus  
A code indicating the encoding format classification is recorded in a multi remote control transmitter 10 attached to a video apparatus 20 . The code is transmitted at every interval T...