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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1997
Hiroaki Furuyama, Tachikawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a reproducing apparatus having an editing function arranged to permit an editing recording operation to be performed according to an editing program by using another apparatus which is remotely controllable, there is provided an action control command selection mode in which, when action control commands applicable to the other apparatus connected to the reproducing apparatus are to be selected for transmission, a plurality of kinds of action control command codes are serially and continuously selected one after another at intervals of a constant period of time sufficiently long for verifying whether the selected action control command code is applicable to the other apparatus connected to the reproducing apparatus to perform an accurate remote control over the other apparatus, and an action control command for commanding a predetermined action in each of the plurality of kinds of action control command codes during the period of each selection is automatically transmitted a plurality of times, so that the action control commands to be transmitted to the other apparatus connected to the reproducing apparatus can be simply and accurately selected without any complex operation.