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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1998
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A remote control signal transmission device includes a plurality of operation keys; a detector for detecting which operation keys have been operated; a memory for storing correspondence tables between the operation keys and remote control signals, with each of the correspondence tables differing depending on an electronic apparatus taken as a remote control target; a setter that receives a detection output of the detector and, when consecutive operation of a pre-defined plurality of said operation keys is detected as the detection output, selects a correspondence table for an electronic apparatus corresponding to the consecutive operation from within a plurality of the correspondence tables stored in the memory; a remote control signal generator, the signal from which corresponds to an operated key according to a correspondence table set by the setter and transmitting the remote control signal to electronic apparatus taken as the control target; and a setting protector for protecting settings of the setting means.