Television – Receiver circuitry – Remote control
Patent
1995-02-27
1998-09-08
Peng, John K.
Television
Receiver circuitry
Remote control
4551512, 345161, 273438, 341 22, H04N 544
Patent
active
058052569
ABSTRACT:
A remote control can signal equipment that handles a video or audio signal, such as a television. The remote control has a bar with a central longitudinal axis. The bar has a head and is sized to be manually gripped. A thumbswitch mounted at the head of the bar, is approximately aligned with the central longitudinal axis. Also, a signalling device is mounted on the bar for radiating a control signal to the equipment. A processor is coupled to the thumbswitch and the signalling device for commanding through the signalling device in response to a predetermined reciprocation of the thumbswitch an operational change in the equipment, which is unambiguously consummated without further manipulation of the remote control and independently of angular displacement of said central longitudinal axis. For example, the processor can signal the equipment to change channels in response to operation of the thumbswitch.
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Murrell Jeffrey S.
Peng John K.
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