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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7352288 | Apparatus and method for preventing malfunction of remote controller A malfunction of interpreting one remote control operation as a plurality of remote control operations by mistake is prevented without impairing the responsiveness of a remote controller. A counter code which is updated each time a key of the remote controller is op... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353134 | Three-dimensional position and motion telemetry input A three-dimensional position and motion telemetry computer input apparatus includes a wireless movable element configured to repeatedly transmit encoded signals in at least three mutually distinct directions. A set of at least three unidimensional signal detectors a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352414 | Favorite channel remote controller and method The remote controller has separate groups of channels, each accessible by means of a Favorite Channel Key. Channels preferably are grouped in accordance with a common characteristic, such as sports channels, movie channels, etc. One of several channels within each g... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345592 | Control unit A hand-held remote control unit for controlling the operation of a television and other electronic audio/video components, such as a VCR, DVD player, or home stereo, operates in a different mode for use as a video game controller. The location and position of the pu... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342374 | Automatic gate operator A barrier movement operator is having a position sensor in a telescoping barrier control arm is described. A controller, remote from the arm, senses the barrier position to identify limits of barrier travel and to control rate of travel of the barrier between limits... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340763 | Internet browsing from a television A system for automatically using internet information which is contained within a commercial on an entertainment medium e.g. television. The system determines information indicative of the web address. This can be done automatically by optical character recognition ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339513 | Interpreting a script to generate an operational signal on a remote control device A script is stored on a remote control device. When a key is pressed, an interpreter on the remote control device interprets the script thereby causing codeset information (for example, key codes and protocol information) stored on the remote control device to be us... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339493 | Multimedia controller A portable communication device (200) can serve as a multimedia controller and can include a transceiver having wireless access to a client computer (510) coupled to a multimedia device (515, 520, and 525). The multimedia controller can a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339514 | Remote control transmits XML-document A remote control (3, 4) for controlling source devices (PC, DVD, RADIO, MP3, TV1, TV2) and playback devices (B1, B2, TV1, TV2, M) sends a command document (DOC) containing a control command (SB) in the form of text to... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335843 | Computer keyboard backlighting Embodiments of a peripheral backlighting system for keyboards are shown and described, which include one or more light-emitting panels exterior to the keyswitches of the keyboard. The panels are preferably electroluminescent material or light-emitting chemical cells... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336206 | Input key and input apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an input apparatus and input key capable of reducing the number of operations on the input key for input of symbols and permitting a user to designate a symbol to be inputted, by a simpler operation. An input key 1... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336155 | Remote control device for a motor vehicle A remote control for a garage door opener includes a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic signals and at least one manual actuator. The transmitter can be arranged in flexible mounting areas inside or outside the motor vehicle and can be spatially separate f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334735 | Card for interaction with a computer A smart card comprising: a memory for storing information; at least one transmitting or receiving antenna; and a low frequency circuit, for handling information associated with said antenna and said memory, which information is modulated at a modulation frequency of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326866 | Omnidirectional tilt and vibration sensor A sensor contains a first electrically conductive element, a second electrically conductive element, and an electrically insulative element connected to the first electrically conductive element and the second electrically conductive element. The sensor also contain... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326867 | Omnidirectional tilt and vibration sensor An omni-directional tilt and vibration sensor contains a first electrically conductive element, a second electrically conductive element, and an electrically insulative element. The electrically insulative element is connected to the first electrically conductive el... | 02/05/2008 |
