Sony Corporation

Yasuhisa Ikeda

Yuji Yamada

Naomasa Takahashi

Masahiro Nakano

Hidenori Karasawa

Akira Katsuyama

Takashi Tsurumoto

Takayoshi Yamasaki

Tetsuya Nakamura

Kazunori Kikuchi

Takayuki Shiomi

Provided is a remote control terminal, including: a first terminal-side wireless-communication unit configured to interactively communicate with a control-target information processing apparatus by using a first wireless communication system, to control the information processing apparatus; a second terminal-side wireless-communication unit configured to interactively communicate with the information processing apparatus by using a second wireless communication system, the second wireless communication system being higher in speed than the first wireless communication system; a camera unit configured to obtain video data; and a first controller configured to control the second terminal-side wireless-communication unit to transmit the video data obtained by the camera unit to the information processing apparatus by using the second wireless communication system.

Remote control terminal and information processing apparatus

A remote-control system includes a remote controller which transmits the command signal corresponding to an operation performed by a user, and an information-processing device which receives the command signal and performs the processing corresponding to the command signal. The remote controller includes a sensing unit that has the sensing areas corresponding to areas provided on a screen showing an image of a video signal transmitted from the information-processing device on a one-to-one basis and that senses at least one of a touch operation and a press-down operation performed by a user for the sensing area, a generation unit that generates the command signal according to the sensing result, and a transmission unit that transmits the command signal. The information-processing device includes a reception unit that receives the command signal, and a processing unit that performs the processing corresponding to the command signal.

Remote-control system, remote controller, remote-control method, information-processing device, information-processing method, and program

A remote controller for operating another apparatus has: an operating unit having operation keys to which different key numbers have been allocated and with which operation commands for operating the another apparatus have been associated; a transmitting/receiving unit for communicating with the another apparatus by bidirectional radio communication; a memory to store the operation commands; and a control unit for reading out the operation command according to the executed operation and transmitting the operation command to the another apparatus. The control unit forms a request signal for requesting code information including a key number and the operation command, transmits it to the another apparatus, receives the code information corresponding to the request signal, and stores the operation command into the memory so as to be associated with the operation key.

Remote controller for enabling an operation command to be obtained from an electronic apparatus and set into an operation key, remote control system having said remote controller, and remote control method pertaining thereto

A remote controlling system is disclosed. An infrared remote controller generates a first serial signal containing a command corresponding to a user's operation and outputs the first serial signal by infrared communication. A radio remote controller generates a code signal containing a key number corresponding to a user's operation and outputs the code signal by radio communication. An electronic device includes a light receiving section, a radio receiving section, a selecting section, and a controlling section.

Remote controlling system, electronic device, and controlling method

A sound reproducing device including a signal processing device including a first signal processing circuit supplied with an input audio signal of at least one channel to convert the input audio signal to a 2-channel audio signal with which an acoustic image is located at a predetermined position when the input audio signal is reproduced substantially by a 2-channel speaker system, and a second signal processing circuit supplied with the 2-channel audio signal to subject the 2-channel audio signal to signal processing which is equivalent to a transfer function of the 2-channel speaker system to both the ears of a listener, thereby converting and outputting the input audio signal to a 2-channel audio signal. Also included is an earphone device including a pair of electro-acoustic transducers supplied with the 2-channel audio signal from the second signal processing circuit, and a detector for detecting movement of the head of the listener, wherein the second signal processing circuit performs the processing corresponding to an alteration of the transfer function in accordance with the output of the detector to control the location position of the acoustic image which is perceived by the listener.

Sound reproducing device, earphone device and signal processing device therefor

The system is in form of a double-deck video cassette recorder incorporating a video/audio reproducer and a video/audio recorder/reproducer. Reproduced video signal output from the video/audio reproducer is coupled to the video/audio recorder/reproducer via a selector. The video/audio recorder/reproducer is coupled to an externally introduced video signal through a video selector and connected to a mixer that combines reproduced audio signal output with an externally introduced audio signal. In response to reproduction or interruption of the reproduction of the video/audio reproducer, the video/audio recorder/reproducer is activated through a control line to record signals or interrupt it.

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Chiba, Japan

Yasuhisa Ikeda