KR19980039431A - How to display the operation mode button on the remote control - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote controller for displaying an operation mode. More particularly, the present invention relates to a remote controller for displaying a button of a current operation mode, and to display a button of an operation mode switchable from the current operation mode. It is about.

To this end, the present invention, the current operation mode determination step of determining the current operation mode by the operation mode information transmitted from the electronic device (S10); A first light emitting step (S20) of emitting a button corresponding to the current operation mode detected in the current operation mode determination step (S10); A switchable mode determination step (S30) for determining a switchable operation mode according to the current operation mode information; And a second light emitting step (S40) of emitting a button corresponding to the operation mode determined in the switchable mode determining step, thereby making it possible to easily identify the key button of the remote controller.

Description

How to display the operation mode button on the remote control

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote controller for displaying an operation mode. More particularly, the present invention relates to a remote controller for displaying a button of a current operation mode, and to display a button of an operation mode switchable from the current operation mode. It is about.

As is well known, the pursuit of convenience of life has brought many kinds of electronic devices in our daily lives, as well as increasing the number of electronic devices that are remotely controlled using remote controllers.

That is, the user remotely controls the driving of an electronic device such as a video cassette recorder or a television using such a remote controller.

However, when using a remote controller having such a function, the user may be confused by pressing a function button that is not confused due to the inability to see the letters of the function button for remotely controlling the operation of the electronic device or the presence of many function buttons. There was a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the foregoing, and an object of the present invention is to display a button of a current operation mode and to display a button of an operation mode that can be switched from the current operation mode to another operation mode. The present invention provides a method for displaying an operation mode button of a remote controller to facilitate identification and provide convenience to a user.

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is a current operation mode determination step of determining the current operation mode based on the operation mode information sent from the electronic device; A first light emitting step of emitting a button corresponding to the current operation mode detected in the current operation mode determination step; A switchable mode determination step of determining a switchable operation mode according to the current operation mode information; And a second light emitting step of emitting a button corresponding to the operation mode determined in the switchable mode determination step.

The above objects and various advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the preferred embodiments of the invention described below with reference to the accompanying drawings by those skilled in the art.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an operation mode button display device of a remote controller according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying an operation mode button of a remote controller according to the present invention.

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110,240: Receiver 120,220: Micom

130,250 transmitter 230 light emitter

210: key metrics

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described the operation of the preferred embodiment according to the present invention.

Figure is a block diagram showing the configuration of a remote controller for displaying the operation mode information according to the present invention, the electronic device 100 and key metrics consisting of the first receiver 110, the microcomputer 120, the first transmitter 130 210, the microcomputer 220, the light emitter 230, the second receiver 240, and the second transmitter 250.

When the key metrics 210 transmit the key signal pressed by the user to the microcomputer 220 which will be described later, the microcomputer 220 determines an operation mode corresponding to the pressed key signal and supplies code data information corresponding to the operation mode to the second. Output to the transmitter 250.

Therefore, the second transmitter 250 transmits the code data information output from the microcomputer 220 to the electronic device 100 through the infrared carrier wave. That is, the first receiving unit 110 of the electronic device 100 detects the code data information of the remote controller 200 transmitted through the infrared carrier wave and outputs the detected code data information to the microcomputer 120.

That is, the microcomputer 120 outputs a control signal for driving in an operation mode corresponding to the code data information output from the first receiver 110 to a deck not shown, and outputs code data information for the current operation mode. 1 outputs to the transmitter 130.

Accordingly, the first transmitter 130 transmits code data information on the current operation mode output from the microcomputer 120 to the second receiver 240 of the remote controller 200 through the infrared carrier wave. In this case, the second receiver 240 of the remote controller 200 detects code data information from the infrared carrier transmitted from the electronic device 100 and outputs the code data information to the microcomputer 210.

At this time. The microcomputer 220 outputs the light emission signal for the button corresponding to the code data information of the current operation mode output from the second receiver 240 to the light emission unit 230 to be described later, and from the current operation mode to another operation mode. Determine the switchable operation mode.

For example, if it is determined that the code data information about the current operation mode output from the second receiver 240 is a play mode, an operation mode that can be performed after the play mode, that is, a REW (rewind) mode, A light emitting signal for emitting a button corresponding to an FF (fast forword), a stop mode, and a still mode is output to the light emitter 230.

In addition, when the code data information on the current operation mode output from the second receiver 240 is determined to be the stop mode, it corresponds to the operation mode that can be performed after the stop mode, that is, the play mode REW mode, FF mode, and Still mode. A light emitting signal for emitting a button to emit light is output to the light emitting unit 230.

In this case, the process of determining the operation mode switchable from the current operation mode of the microcomputer 220 will be easily understood by those skilled in the art, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Accordingly, the light emitter 230 is configured to emit the key metrics 210 according to the light emission signal output from the microcomputer 220.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying an operation mode button of a remote controller according to the present invention, which will be described with reference to the block diagram shown in FIG.

The microcomputer 220 determines whether information on the current operation mode is output from the electronic device 100 in S10.

As a result of the determination, when the information on the current operation mode is output from the electronic device 100, the microcomputer 220 proceeds to S20 to transmit the current operation mode button emission signal to the light emitting unit 230 so that the corresponding button for the current operation mode emits light. Output

Accordingly, the light emitter 230 emits the key metrics 210 corresponding to the current operation mode according to the current operation mode button emission signal of the microcomputer 220.

In addition, the microcomputer 220 proceeds to S30 to determine other operation modes that can be switched from the current operation mode.

That is, when the microcomputer 220 determines the other operation modes that can be switched in the current operation mode, the microcomputer 220 outputs a light emission signal for emitting the button corresponding to the other switchable operation modes determined to the light emitter 230.

Accordingly, the light emitter 230 emits the corresponding key metrics 210 of another operation mode switchable in the current operation mode by the light emission signal output from the microcomputer 220.

As described above, the operation mode button display device and method of the remote controller according to the present invention emits a key button corresponding to a current operation state, and emits light for a key button corresponding to another operation mode switchable in the current operation mode. Thus, the user can easily identify the key button of the remote controller.

While the invention has been shown and described with respect to certain preferred embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications, changes and omissions can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims (1)

A current operation mode determination step of determining a current operation mode based on operation mode information transmitted from an electronic device (S10); A first light emitting step (S20) of emitting a button corresponding to the current operation mode detected in the current operation mode determination step (S10); A switchable mode determination step (S30) for determining a switchable operation mode according to the current operation mode information; And And a second light emitting step (S40) of emitting a button corresponding to the operation mode determined in the switchable mode determining step (S30).