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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2001
Nicoll B. Shepherd, Coulsdon, GB;
Nicoll B. Shepherd, Coulsdon, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A local communication system comprises a plurality of devices interconnected for data communication. One of the devices is a display device arranged to display data from one or more other devices of the system, and one of the devices is a remote control carrying a first group of controls (A . . . G) for controlling respective operational functions of a device of the system. The system is configured to identify a selected device of the system to be controlled by user operation of a remote control device, and to determine which operational functions of that selected device are missing on the remote control. For such functions, the system generates on the display device a user actuatable simulacrum of a control for that function (H, J, K, L).