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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7675453 | Power saving apparatus A power saving apparatus that uses a plurality of switches, including a switch provided in a remote controller receptacle mounted on a device, to turn on or off power to a device according to whether a remote controller is received in the remote controller receptacl... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671782 | State-sensitive navigation aid Navigation logic and related methods are described for assisting a user in using a remote control (RC) device. The navigation logic determines a current state of a user's interaction with an application, and then determines the keys of the RC device that are relevan... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7639170 | System and method for providing operation of internet powered universal remote controller A system and method for the network operation of a universal remote controller (URC) and the URC for realizing said system have been disclosed in the invention, said system comprises: a user service subsystem, a data storing and exchanging device and a user operatio... | 12/29/2009 |
| RE40956 | 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. The housing also contains a battery type electrical power source. The... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7605742 | Foldable remote controller A foldable remote controller is provided to remotely control a multimedia network device, transmit signals to the multimedia network device, and transmit or receive audio signals between the foldable remote controller and the multimedia network device, so as to comm... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7583220 | State-sensitive navigation aid Navigation logic and related methods are described for assisting a user in using a remote control (RC) device. The navigation logic determines a current state of a user's interaction with an application, and then determines the keys of the RC device that are relevan... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7541965 | Appliance control apparatus An appliance control apparatus including an acceleration sensor which senses an acceleration resulting from a user motion; a recognition unit which recognizes a control-object apparatus and a control attribute set to the control-object apparatus from the acceleratio... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7538711 | Integrated remote control device receiving multimodal input and method of the same An integrated remote control device and method using multi-modal inputs are provided. The integrated remote control device may include an input module that receives inputs of at least two modalities from a user, a first modality recognition module that recognizes an... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535401 | Activation of remote control transmitter functions by external inputs The ability to operate remote control transmitter functions from external sensors, in conjunction with internal or external controls, to provide condition dependant automatic control of devices such as digital video recorders and the like are presented. The system e... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7525473 | Apparatus and method for setting macro of remote control An apparatus and method for easily setting a macro of a programmable remote control using a PC. The apparatus setting a macro of a remote control including: an input unit, inputting data or commands; a display unit displaying the data input by the user and/or data t... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522087 | Remote control device A display apparatus includes a receiving unit, a communication unit, a display unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives from a remote control device position data corresponding to a contact position. The contact position is detected by a track pad unit a... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7504981 | Remote control device, image processing apparatus having the same and method of driving the same A remote control device that can increase the convenience of a user, a display processing apparatus having the same and a method of driving the same are provided. The remote control device has a moving object and a vibration member generating a vibration. If a vibra... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501975 | Remote controller, command transmission method, command receiving apparatus and personal computer apparatus A remote controller detects an ON state or an OFF state of operation of pushing a remote controller key 2. When the detection result is the ON state, the remote controller generates a predetermined ON code S3 previously allocated to the remote controll... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7474248 | Remote controller and remote control method A remote controller includes: a plurality of function keys provided for each of a plurality of target devices as one type of key out of a plurality of keys provided in the controller, and adapted to select the target device to be remotely controlled; a key illuminat... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471232 | Advertising apparatus An advertising apparatus 10 including a generally flat base 12 and a broad face 14 which forms an acute angle 16 with the generally flat base 12. Further, the broad face 14 includes several display portions 20, 22, an... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7460050 | Controlling device using cues to convey information A controlling device, such as a universal remote control, that uses visual, audio, and/or tactile cues, such as sounds, color, patterns, shapes, vibrations, etc., to indicate relationships. Relationships may be between a function key and an intended target appliance... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456777 | Remote control means A remote control for electronic devices in motor vehicles, having a holding part with attachment elements for mounting the holding part on a steering wheel in a releasable manner, having operator control keys on a housing of the remote control means, and having a un... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7436325 | Intelligent floor mat A floor mat suitable for a vehicle is shown in FIG. 1 includes a circuit (1) for operating remotely controllable devices (20) both inside a vehicle or outside a vehicle. In another embodiment, a floor mat is equipped with a transponder that will... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436346 | System, method and interface for controlling multiple electronic devices of a home entertainment system via a single control device A portable communication device is provided and includes a display. At least one remote control soft button is presented at the display and an electronic device control command is associated with each remote control soft button. Further, the electronic device contro... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436345 | Script instruction for jumping to a location, interpreting a predetermined number of instructions and then jumping back A “call relative counted” script instruction is interpreted by a script interpreter of an eight-bit, register-based, virtual machine. In one embodiment, the script instruction has a first argument field and a second argument field. Interpreting the script instru... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436319 | Method and apparatus for uploading and downloading remote control codes An online remote control configuration system for efficiently programming a remote control to recognize a plurality of external electronic devices. The online remote control configuration system includes a remote control having a housing, a keypad, and an electronic... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432845 | Hot-water supply system To provide an inexpensive hot-water supply system that allows a user to readily select a desired unit for a physical quantity indicated on a display section of a remote controller. A bathroom-installed remote controller 4 is provided with a indication unit sw... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429932 | Remote control code set identification system The present invention greatly enhances the user experience when the user is attempting to “teach” an electronic control device the code set used by a remote control unit. In one embodiment, the user is simply instructed to depress a button on the remote control ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427941 | State-sensitive navigation aid Navigation logic and related methods are described for assisting a user in using a remote control (RC) device. The navigation logic determines a current state of a user's interaction with an application, and then determines the keys of the RC device that are relevan... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7417556 | Wireless addressable lighting method and apparatus An improved technique of utilizing a centralized control protocol for lighting devices such as DALI. A technique is disclosed for utilizing such protocols in a wireless environment. The first step involves associating particular slave devices with a specified master... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417566 | Sequential two-key system to input keyboard characters and many alphabets on small keypads This invention discloses a sequential two-key system to input letters of the English alphabet and of many world languages, numbers, punctuation marks, page-control characters, line-control characters, cursor-control characters and many other symbols on keypads with ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414517 | Radio frequency identification transponder A radio frequency identification transponder includes a power supply and a dynamic memory array that stores data. When power from the power supply ceases, the data in the dynamic memory array is validly maintained for a predetermined period of time. The dynamic memo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7397413 | Communication unit provided with intra-changeable elements In communication units the input and/or output of data is normally performed using keypad input, voice input/output or display output. This limits the input/output of the communication unit. The claimed invention proposes a new way of inputting/outputting of data by... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388536 | Remote control unit, electronic device and method for controlling electronic device A remote control unit, an electronic device and a method for controlling an electronic device using the same are provided. The remote control unit includes: a key input part including a menu key for allowing an electronic device to enter a setup mode, a numeric key ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385548 | Remote control device with directional mode indicator Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for a remote control device. Means for detecting orientation of the remote control device couples to a processor. The processor is operative to change a mode of operation of the remote control device in response to a chan... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375673 | System and method for universal remote control configuration A controller is connected to one or more media devices. Each media device includes an associated native remote control. The controller includes a data store comprising one or more descriptions of remote control protocols. The user presses a button on the native remo... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375674 | Switching device and remote control using the switching device The invention relates to a switching device and a remote control unit using the switching device to be used for operating a variety of electronic products. The invention aims to provide a device and unit which can be miniaturized and which can utilize a high-density... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374489 | Steering wheel adapted for connection to finger dial of RC control unit A steering wheel adapted for replacing a rotatable control shaft-mounted finger dial of an RC control unit includes a wheel having a diameter at least as large as at least one dimension of a side of the RC control unit adjacent to the wheel, a coupler located on one... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376441 | Apparatus and method of interacting with a mobile phone using a TV system An apparatus and a method for interacting with a mobile telephone are provided. A remote control unit receives a user command and transmits it to a TV system which recognizes the user command as a telephone function command and transmits the function command to the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372453 | Foot operated computer mouse A computer cursor control system (10) including a foot operated cursor control device (16) connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) (12). The cursor (20) is positioned by the operator (18) by depressing a left pedal (24)... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362234 | Controller for remote vehicles and craft and for virtual subjects A control system which provides directional control over various real and virtual vehicles, craft and moveable subjects. The control system includes a housing, a controller in the housing having an electronic radio control PC board or an electronic video control PC ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363028 | System and method for controlling device location determination A controlling device location determination system and method. A controlling device such as a remote control has programming for transmitting a signal response to a plurality of control environments, each environment including a signaling device. Each signaling devi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362256 | Loading a machine code API onto an 8-bit virtual machine to enable new functionality A machine code API can be loaded onto an eight-bit, register-based virtual machine. A higher level script that is interpreted by a script interpreter of the virtual machine can then use the new functionality provided by the added API. The API may, for example, provi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363225 | Compressing language models with Golomb coding A list of integer values is generated from n-grams of a user input. The list of integer values is sorted. Differences between adjacent integer values in the list are calculated. Each calculated difference is encoded using a Golomb code. A Golomb compressed language ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356141 | Baud rate modulation encoding/decoding method and device for remote controller A encoding/decoding method and device for a remote controller utilizing a baud rate to encrypt data for transmission. The encoding device includes an encoder encoding an identification code into an encrypted code; and an interpreter interpreting the un-encoded porti... | 04/08/2008 |