JPS63287194A - Signal transmitter for remote control - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simply and easily perform remote-control for plural AV appliance, etc., placed in a household by constituting the titled transmitter so that the plural appliances to be controlled can be controlled with one remote control signal equipment. CONSTITUTION:When the power supply for the appliance is turned on, a menu pattern is read out from a ROM 3, and the menu patter is displayed on a touch panel 1A. The pattern is constituted of five segments such as 'BS', 'video', 'television', etc., to select each appliance to be controlled, and of the respective segments to turn on/off the power supply of each appliance collectively. When an operator operates above mentioned segments or various control keys 1B-1D, a CPU 2 reads control data corresponding to a operated segment or key from the ROM 3, and drives an infrared light-emitting diode 5 based on this data, to perform the remote control of the selected appliance to be controlled.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a signal transmitting device for remote control.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, this type of remote control signal transmitting device for controlling home AV equipment such as a television receiver, a satellite broadcast (BS) receiver, a teletext receiver, and a disc player has been designed to transmit signals to each equipment. There was an attached dedicated remote control transmitter or a commercially available multi-remote transmitter.

In the case of a multi-remote control transmitter, regardless of manufacturer or model, it captures and stores transmission signals from remote control transmitters attached to various devices, and uses these signals to control various devices.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, when controlling a plurality of various devices, if a dedicated remote control transmitter is used for each device, the device must be changed and controlled for each device, which makes the operation difficult. There was a risk that it would become complicated.

On the other hand, even if a multi-type remote control transmitting device is used, one device can support only about three devices.

Furthermore, both devices have a problem in that they have a large number of keys, and the keys must be operated for each operation of the device, making the operations complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, to be able to control a plurality of various types of controlled devices with one device, and to be able to control a plurality of controlled devices regardless of their manufacturer, model, etc. An object of the present invention is to provide a control signal transmitting device.

[Means for Solving the Problems] Therefore, the present invention provides a display means having a plurality of mutually independent information display parts, a detection means having a plurality of contact detection parts corresponding to each display part of the display means, and a detection means having a plurality of contact detection parts corresponding to each display part of the display means. The apparatus is characterized by comprising means for executing at least one of changing the display information on the display means and forming a signal for controlling at least one of the plurality of controlled devices based on the detected information from the means.

[Function] According to the above configuration, it is possible to control multiple controlled devices with one remote control signal transmitting device regardless of the device model, and furthermore, the number of manual means and the number of operation processes can be reduced. It is possible to reduce the

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on the example shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.
is an operation board, which is composed of a liquid crystal display (LCD) touch panel IA, a power key IB, a menu key IC, and a volume key ID. The LCD touch panel IA can display various operation screens composed of a plurality of segments, and the operator performs input for controlling each device by touching the segments.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a central processing unit (CPU), which controls each part of the apparatus of this example based on human input signals from the operation board 1. A read-only memory (ROM) 3 stores screen data to be displayed on the LCD touch panel, control data based on human power on the operation board 1, and processing procedures to be described later in FIGS. 2A to 2F. 4 is a carrier frequency variable circuit (PLL)
), and the CPU 2 executes the PLL based on the remote control signal data such as the carrier frequency for infrared modulation, the pulse width of the remote control signal, and the signal content among the control data stored in the ROM 3.
Controls the output signal from 4. Reference numeral 5 denotes an infrared light emitting diode, which transmits an infrared remote control signal corresponding to remote control signal data based on a signal from the PLL 4. Above 1~
The remote control transmitting device of this example is constituted by each part of 5.

2A to 2F are flowcharts accompanying the operation of the device of this example, and below, the operation of the remote control transmitting device of this example will be explained with reference to display examples on the LCD touch panel IA shown in FIGS. 3 to 7. .

When the device is powered on, the entire device is initialized in step Sl of the processing procedure shown in FIG. 2A, and step S2
Reads the menu screen data from ROM3 and displays it on the LCD.
The menu screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the touch panel IA. The menu screen in Figure 3 has five segments: "O5", "Video", "TV" 1M characters, and "Disk" for selecting the controlled device, and turning on the power of the controlled device all at once. It consists of each segment for "/off".

In the next step S3, a determination is made as to whether or not the operator's finger or the like is being moved from the LCD touch panel IA, that is, a null key check is performed. If it has not been released, the process waits to proceed to the next process, and if it has been removed, the process moves to step S4.

In step s4, a desired segment or key operation is performed on the operation board 1, and in step S5, control data corresponding to the segment touched or pressed key in step S4 is read from the ROM 3, and based on the data read out in step s6. , steps 5100, 5200
, 5300, 5400 and 5500.

The transition to the remote control signal sending process in step 5100 occurs when the volume key ID is pressed, or when the fourth
This is done when each segment of the LCD touch panel IA on which the screen shown in FIGS. 7 to 7 is displayed is touched. As a result, the volume of the controlled device can be adjusted and predetermined remote control can be performed in accordance with the content of the segment.

The line after the LCD touch panel display screen switching process in step 5200 is "0N10" on the menu screen shown in FIG.
FF" segment is touched or when the menu key IC is pressed.

As a result, the power on/off screen shown in Figure 5 and the third
The menu screen shown in the figure is displayed on the LCD touch panel IA.

The transition to the remote control transmitter power-off processing in step 5300 is performed when the power key IB is pressed. As a result, the power to the remote control transmitter is turned off.

The transition to the one behavior action execution process in step 5400 is made when each segment of "BS", "Video", "TV", "Character", and "Disc" on the menu screen shown in FIG. 3 is touched. Ru. As a result, FIGS. 4(A) to (
Each screen shown in E) is displayed on the LCD touch panel IA in accordance with the content of each segment touched, and furthermore, the manual mode switching to the corresponding device is performed.

To proceed to the controlled model registration process in step 5500, first touch the "ON10FF" segment on the menu screen shown in FIG. As a result, as mentioned above, the power on/off screen shown in Figure 5 is displayed on the LC (1 touch panel LA).If the power key IB is pressed in this state, the transition to the model registration process is performed, and the A menu screen for model registration shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the LCD touch panel IA.

Hereinafter, details of the processing in steps 5100 to 5500 will be sequentially explained with reference to FIGS. 28 to 2F.

Remote control signal sending I in step 5100 shown in FIG. 2B
In Embedded A, first, in step 5101, remote control signal data such as carrier frequency and pulse width is read from the ROM 3, and in step 5102, a remote control signal corresponding to the contents of the command is constructed. Next, step 510 based on the configured content.
3 drives PLL4, resulting in step 5104.
makes the infrared light emitting diode emit light.

When this process is completed, the process returns to step S3.

In the LCD touch panel display screen switching process of step 5200 shown in FIG.
Switch the screen. When these series of processes are completed, the process returns to step S3.

For example, when the "power supply 0N10FF" segment of the menu screen in FIG. 3 is touched in step S4, the power on/off screen shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the LCD touch panel IA as described above, and the process is repeated again. Return to step S3. The display screen shown in FIG. 5 includes "TV", "Video", and BS".

It is composed of segments corresponding to the controlled equipment such as "characters" and "disc", and if you touch the television segment, for example, step S5. After S8, step 5
100 remote control signal sending processes are performed, and the power of the television receiver is turned on/off.

In the remote control transmitter power off process in step 5300 shown in FIG. 2D, the remote control transmitter is powered off in step 5301.

The one-behavior action execution process in step 5400 shown in FIG.
4 remote control transmitter power off processing, step 5405 macro command execution processing, step 5406 all at once 1jii
It consists of one work end process. Step 5402
Steps 5404 to 5404 are similar to those described above, and step 5405 is an attempt to perform one further action in this process.

As is clear from the flowchart shown in FIG. 2E, one action is performed by combining some of the above steps depending on the contents of the command.

For example, in step S4, the menu screen shown in FIG.
When the "Character" segment is touched and a command for one-behavior action processing is given manually, it is determined in steps S5 and S6 to proceed to the one-behavior action processing in step 5401.
Move to. In step 5401, “
It is determined that it is a manual command using the "character" segment, and the process first proceeds to step 5402, where it sends out a remote control signal and switches the input mode to the display of the controlled device to the RG [l signal input from the teletext receiver.Next, step 5402: 54
01, and in step 5403, the display on the LCD touch panel 1^ is switched to a teletext receiver operation screen as shown in FIG. 4(C). Additionally, step 540
1, the process advances to step 5406, where one behavior operation is completed, and the process returns to step S4, via step S3, to wait for a human command.

Thereby, the operator remotely controls the teletext receiver and its display while touching the desired segment of the screen shown in FIG. 4(C) displayed on the LC touch panel IA.

In this example, the one-behavior execution process is performed only when commands are input using the BS'', ``Video'', ``TV'', ``Character'', and ``Disc'' segments of the menu screen shown in FIG. However, one behavior instruction including the execution of a predetermined macro instruction is stored in the ROM.
It goes without saying that if the input operations are stored in 3 and the corresponding input operations are defined, a wide variety of one behavior operations becomes possible.

The controlled model registration process in step 5500 shown in FIG.
Then, the model registration menu screen shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the LCD touch panel IA. The display screen in FIG. 6 includes "TV", "Video", "BS", "Character 0. "disk"
Each segment is displayed, and the operator selects the device to be registered in step 5503. the television receiver of step 5504 in response to the selection of ε, step 550;
5 BS tuner, step 5506 character adapter,
The process advances to the video model registration process in step 5507 or the video disc model registration process in step 5508. In the processing of steps 5504 to 5508, the display on the LCD touch panel is switched to the display shown in FIGS. 7(A) to 7(E), respectively. Figures 7 (A) to (E) show the model registration screens corresponding to each device, and each screen has "1" to "2".
It is divided into 20 □ segments of 0'', and in each segment, the segment number is associated with the manufacturer, model, etc.

For example, in step 5503, the operator
Assuming that registration of the television receiver is selected by touching the television segment, in step 5504, the display on the LC touch panel 1 switches to the screen shown in FIG. ”Touch the segment to register that the manufacturer of the television receiver is Company A. .

When the registration is completed, the process returns to step 5502, and the display on the LCD touch panel IA switches again to the registration menu screen shown in FIG. 6. Next, in step 5503, the operator selects the device to be registered again, or if the operator wants to end the registration, presses the menu key IC in step 5509, and in the next steps 5510 and 5511, the operator selects the device to be registered, or if the operator wishes to end the registration, the operator presses the menu key IC in step 5509, and in the next step 5510, 5511, the operator selects the device to be registered. Display the screen, go through step S3, and then step S
Return to step 4 and wait for command input.

Note that this model registration process may be performed each time the power of the transmitting device is turned on, or if the transmitting device has a backup power source, it may be sufficient to perform the registration setting only once at the beginning. .

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, it is possible to control multiple controlled devices with one remote control signal transmitting device regardless of the device model, and furthermore, the number of input means and operation processing can be reduced. It became possible to reduce the number of

As a result, the effect has been obtained that the remote control operation of a plurality of AV devices installed in a home or the like becomes extremely simple.

Furthermore, an effect has been obtained in that remote control operations can be performed in combination with AV equipment, etc., regardless of manufacturer or model.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIGS. 28 to 2F are flowcharts of processing procedures showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 , FIG. 6, and FIG. 7 are schematic diagrams showing display examples of the LCD touch panel in the embodiment. 1...Operation board, IA...LCD touch panel, 1B...power key, 1G...menu key, ID...volume key, 2...CPII. 3...ROM. 4...-PLL. 5...Infrared light emitting diode.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Display means having a plurality of mutually independent information display parts; a detection means having a plurality of contact detection parts corresponding to each display part of the display means; and based on detected information from the detection means. A signal transmitting device for remote control, comprising means for executing at least one of changing display information on the display means and forming a signal for controlling at least one of a plurality of controlled devices.