Combination of electronic apparatus and remote controller, remote controller for controlling electronic apparatus and method of remote-controlling electronic apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5764179
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08731165

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A combination of an electronic apparatus and a remote controller for controlling the electronic apparatus is arranged so that one of various functions can be selected speedily and reliably. A pad of a remote controller is operated with a finger to obtain position coordinates, and a cursor displayed on a display unit provided in or connected to an electronic apparatus is moved according to the position coordinates. A certain area is set at a center of the display screen of the display unit. By turning on a switch of the remote controller while positioning the cursor in this area, a channel-tuning and sound volume operation picture, an audio mode operation picture, a video input operation picture, an image quality control operation picture and a tone control operation picture are selected one after another.

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SONY CORPORATION1-7-1 KONAN MINATO-KU TOKYO 1080075 ?1080075

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Tsurumoto, Takashi Saitama, JP 46 756

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