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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1997
Masanori Ishigaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A remote control apparatus for a television receiver and other electronic appliances, wherein a tablet is employed so as to input positional information and a command. The remote control apparatus is arranged by a tablet, a command converting unit for producing command data corresponding to X-coordinate data and Y-coordinate data supplied from the tablet in a command mode, and a data producing unit for producing input positional information in response to the X-coordinate data and the Y-coordinate data supplied from the tablet in a tablet mode. This remote control apparatus is further constructed of a tablet switching key for switching the command mode and the tablet mode, a transmitting unit for transmitting transmission signals produced by modulating the command data and the positional data, and also a control unit for causing the transmitting unit to transmit the positional information as the transmission signal during the tablet mode, and also to transmit the command data as the transmission signal during the command mode.
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