Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Henk Kok

Johannes Yzebrand Tichelaar

Hendricus Theodorus Gerardus Maria Penning De Vries

Hendricus Theodorus Gerardus M Penning De Vries

The invention is directed at a remote control device for controlling one or more user devices, comprising a directional optical sensor for receiving one or more optical signals from the user devices and for detecting an incoming direction of said received optical signals, and a processor. For identification of at least one of said user devices, the processor is arranged for analyzing at least one of said received optical signals for associating thereof with the at least one of said user devices and for keeping track of the at least one of said optical signals upon changing of said incoming direction. The one or more optical signals comprise high and low signal states, wherein each optical signal consists of one or more signal fragments. Each signal fragment comprising a leading or trailing low signal state and a high signal state, wherein a duration of the high signal state determines a signal fragment type of the signal fragment and wherein said duration of the high signal state is longer than a duration of the low signal state. The processor is arranged for performing said associating of said at least one received optical signal with the at least one of said user devices by recognition of the one or more signal fragments and associating each signal fragment with its signal fragment type for obtaining therefrom a signal pattern which is uniquely associable with said at least one of said user devices.

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