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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
May. 29, 2001
Takeshi Fujita, Chiba, JP;
Hitoshi Endoh, Saitama, JP;
Nariaki Hatta, Tokyo, JP;
Yasufumi Fujikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Fujita, Chiba, JP;
Hitoshi Endoh, Saitama, JP;
Nariaki Hatta, Tokyo, JP;
Yasufumi Fujikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims to share such a unit for controllably operating a wide variety of electronic apparatuses to be uniformly compatible with each of them. Concretely, such data pictures comprising picture data and relevant data as a single dealing unit are utilized. Data pictures are individually displayed on a display unit of the inventive operating device to enable user to specify () any of them. When a certain data picture has been specified by user's operation, a relevant data is extracted () from the specified data picture, and then, based on the extracted relevant data, a controlling data is transmitted.