Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.

Feng Chen

An example method and device for controlling a controllable device involves using a control device comprising a numeric keypad and a delimiter key. Control operations for the controllable device are respectively associated with digits of the numeric keypad and one of the control operations is initiated by pressing the delimiter key followed by the digit key associated with the one control operation. Control operations include by way of example channel tuning operations for a television, input selection operations for a television and menu screen selections.

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Feng Chen