(12) United States Patent
`Us 6,587,067 B2
`Darbee et al.
`(45) Date of Patent:
`Jul. 1, 2003
`
`(10) Patent N0.:
`
`USOO6587067B2
`
`(54) UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL WITH
`MACRO COMMAND CAPABILITIES
`
`(75)
`
`Inventors: Paul V. Darbee, Santa Ana, CA (US);
`Richard E. Ellis, Garden Grove, CA
`(US); Louis Steven Jansky, Long
`Beach, CA (US); Avram S. Grossman,
`Santa Ana, CA (US)
`
`(73) Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc., Cypress,
`CA (US)
`
`( * ) Notice:
`
`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 64 days.
`
`(21)
`
`(22)
`
`(65)
`
`Appl. No.:
`Filed:
`
`09/791,354
`
`Feb. 23, 2001
`Prior Publication Data
`
`US 2001/0010503 A1 Aug. 2, 2001
`
`Related US. Application Data
`
`(63) Continuation of application No. 09/408,729, filed on Sep.
`29, 1999, now Pat. No. 6,195,033, which is a continuation—
`in—part of application No. 07/990,854, filed on Dec. 11,
`1992, now Pat. No. 6,014,092, which is a continuation—in—
`part of application No. 07/913,523, filed on Jul. 14, 1992,
`now abandoned, which is a continuation—in—part of applica—
`tion No. 07/586,957, filed on Sep. 24, 1990, now abandoned,
`which is a continuation—in—part of application No. 07/127,
`999, filed on Dec. 2, 1987, now Pat. No. 4,959,810, which
`is a continuation—in—part of application No. 09/109,336, filed
`on Oct. 14, 1987, now abandoned.
`
`(51)
`(52)
`
`(58)
`
`(56)
`
`Int. Cl.7 ................................................ H04L 17/02
`US. Cl.
`....................... 341/176; 341/173; 345/171;
`345/169; 359/146; 359/148
`Field of Search ................................. 341/173, 176;
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`148; 345/168, 169, 172
`
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`
`(List continued on next page.)
`
`Primary Examiner—Michael Horabik
`Assistant Examiner—Albert K. Wong
`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Mark R. Galis; Gary R.
`Jarosik
`
`(57)
`
`ABSTRACT
`
`Auniversal remote control comprising a keyboard having a
`plurality of pushbuttons including a macro pushbutton and a
`library of codes and data for use in transmitting operating
`commands to a plurality of different home appliances of
`different manufacturers. Instructions within the remote con-
`trol are used to match the universal remote control to a
`
`plurality of different home appliances of different manufac-
`turers such that selected codes and data from the library are
`used to transmit operating commands to the matched home
`appliances in response to activation of selected pushbuttons
`of the keyboard. The instructions are also used to assign to
`the macro pushbutton a subset of the selected codes and data
`from the library whereafter activation of the macro push-
`button causes the universal remote control to use the subset
`
`of selected codes and data from the library to transmit
`operating commands to one or more of the matched home
`appliances.
`
`6 Claims, 17 Drawing Sheets
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`EP
`EP
`EP
`EP
`EP
`EP
`EP
`EP
`EP
`GB
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`JP
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`0176965
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`
`* cited by examiner
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`Jul. 1, 2003
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`SERIAL
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`FIG. 8
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`FIG. I]
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`FIG. 12A
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`CAPTURlNG IR CODE
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`PRESS
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`FIG. 13A
`CAPTURING IR CODE
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`FIG. 14 GENERATING IR CODE
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`LED 4
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`FIG. I?
`DIRECT ENTRY—QUICK SET
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`TO IDENTIFY WHAT DEVICE REMOTE IS SET FOR-BLINK CODE
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`UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL WITH
`MACRO COMMAND CAPABILITIES
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`CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED
`APPLICATIONS
`
`This patent application claims the priority date of US.
`application Ser. No. 109,336 filed on Oct. 14, 1987, now
`abandoned, as a continuation of US. application Ser. No.
`09/408,729 filed on Sep. 29, 1999 now US. Pat. No.
`6,195,033 which is a continuation-in-part of US. application
`Ser. No. 07/990,854 filed on Dec. 11, 1992, now US. Pat.
`No. 6,014,092, which is a continuation-in-part of US.
`application Ser. No. 07/913,523 filed on Jul. 14, 1992, now
`abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of US. applica-
`tion Ser. No. 07/586,957 filed on Sep. 24, 1990, now
`abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of US. applica-
`tion Ser. No. 07/127,999 filed on Dec. 2, 1987, now US. Pat.
`No. 4,959,810, which is a continuation-in-part of US.
`application Ser. No. 09/109,336 filed on Oct. 14, 1987, now
`abandoned.
`
`This patent application contains the specification of US.
`application Ser. No. 127,999 filed on Dec. 2, 1987, now US.
`Pat. No. 4,959,810.
`This patent application is also related to US. application
`Ser. No. 08/874,184 filed on Jun. 13, 1997, now US. Pat.
`No. 5,959,751, which is a continuation of US. application
`Ser. No. 08/706,794 filed on Sep. 3, 1996, now US. Pat. No.
`5,689,353, which is a continuation of US. application Ser.
`No. 08/314,970 filed Sep. 29, 1994, now US. Pat. No.
`5,552,917, which is a divisional of US. application Ser. No.
`08/093,512 filed on Jul. 16, 1993, now abandoned, which is
`a continuation of US. application Ser. No. 07/586,957 filed
`on Sep. 24, 1990, now abandoned, which is a divisional of
`US. application Ser. No. 07/127,999 filed on Dec. 2, 1987,
`now US. Pat. No. 4,959,810, which is a continuation-in-part
`of US. application Ser. No. 07/109,336 filed Oct. 14, 1987,
`now abandoned.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
`
`1. Field of the Invention
`
`The present invention relates to a universal remote control
`device of the type which is hand held and which can be
`coupled via coded infrared signals with a remote control
`receiver built into a television or other remotely controlled
`electrical apparatus to turn on the apparatus, such as the
`television, at a distance,
`to adjust the volume,
`tone and
`brightness, to change channels, and to turn the television off.
`Additionally, the present invention relates to a method for
`acquiring the infrared codes for a controlled apparatus, such
`as a television, generating code data related to these infrared
`codes for storage in a remote control device and methods for
`using the remote control device for finding, in a library or
`table of code data for generating infarared codes for oper-
`ating different electrical apparatus manufactured by different
`manufacturers stored in a RAM of the remote control device,
`the code data for generating infrared coded signals for
`operating a particular apparatus, such as a television, and
`then for using the stored code data for generating the coded
`infrared signals for operating the controlled apparatus.
`2. Description of the Prior Art
`Heretofore it has been proposed to provide a reconfig-
`urable remote control device and programmable functions
`for such a remote control device which will enable one to
`learn, store and retransmit infrared codes that are emitted
`from the controller for a remotely controlled apparatus, such
`as a television.
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`For example, in the Welles II US. Pat. No. 4,623,887 and
`the Ehlers US. Pat. No. 4,626,848,
`there is disclosed a
`reconfigurable remote control device which has the ability to
`learn, store and repeat remote control codes from any other
`infrared transmitter. Such a reconfigurable remote control
`transmitter device includes an infrared receiver,
`a
`microprocessor, a non-volatile random access memory, a
`scratch pad random access memory, and an infrared trans-
`mitter.
`
`the
`According to the teachings of the Ehlers patent,
`infrared signals received by the remote control device are in
`bursts of pulses and the device counts the number of pulses
`in each burst as well as the time duration of each pause in
`a transmission between bursts.
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`the
`As will be described in greater detail hereinafter,
`universal remote control device of the present invention
`utilizes a single non-volatile RAM does not provide a
`separate scratch pad RAM or, more importantly, a ROM.
`In learning the infrared code and transforming same to
`code data which is then stored in a RAM of the control
`
`device and later used to generate infrared codes, a novel
`method is utilized wherein no counting of pulses takes place,
`and only the time duration of the pulses in a burst of pulses
`from the leading edge of the first pulse in a burst of pulses
`to the trailing edge of the last pulse in the burst as well as
`the time duration of the pause between bursts are sensed and
`used to learn and later to generate the infrared codes.
`Additionally, unique methods for use of the remote con-
`trol device are provided so that a number of infrared
`operation code sequences can be generated by the remote
`control device for operating various types of electronic
`apparatus.
`
`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
`
`According to the invention there is provided a universal
`remote control system having input means for inputting
`commands, signal output means for supplying infrared sig-
`nals to a controlled device, a central processing unit (CPU)
`coupled to the input means and to the signal output means,
`a single non-volatile, read-write RAM (such as a battery-
`backed RAM) coupled to the central processing unit and
`data coupling means including terminal means coupled to
`the CPU for enabling new code data to be supplied from
`outside the system to, or retrieved from the RAM through
`the terminal means and the CPU.
`
`Further according to the invention, there is provided a
`method of loading a RAM in a ROM-less microprocessor
`system comprising a central processing unit, a single non-
`volatile, read-write RAM, input means, output means, and
`means for coupling said central processing unit, said RAM,
`said input means, and said output means together, said
`method including the steps of:
`(a) disabling the central processing unit;
`(b) connecting a separate microprocessor system to said
`RAM;
`(c) transferring instructions and/or data to said RAM;
`(d) re-enabling the central processing unit to enable the
`central processing unit
`to execute the instructions so
`transferred.
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`Still further according to the present invention, there is
`provided a process of learning, storing and reproducing the
`remote control codes of any of a diverse plurality of remote
`control transmitters, comprising the steps of:
`(a) receiving a transmission of a train of pulses from a
`remote control transmitter;
`(b) recording the point-in-time of an edge of each pulse in
`a train of said pulses;
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`(c) transforming the recorded point-in-time data into a list of
`instructions for generating a replica of said train of pulses;
`(d) timing the duration of a train of said pulses;
`(e) timing the period between trains of pulses;
`(f) associating a function key of a universal remote control
`device with said time duration of said train of pulses and
`said list of instructions for generating a replica of said
`train of pulses;
`(g) determining whether or not repetitions of the transmis-
`sion of train of pulses is present;
`(h) ignoring repetitions of the train of pulses;
`(i) noting that repetitions are present; and
`(j) storing for use in a universal remote control device, the
`information acquired in steps (c), (d), (e), (f) and (i).
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of the universal remote
`control device constructed according to the teachings of the
`present invention.
`FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the control
`device shown in FIG. 1.
`
`FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view through
`two of the push buttons of the control device shown in FIGS.
`1 and 2.
`
`FIG. 4 is a fragmentary corner view of a push button
`containing panel and a base panel.
`FIG. 5 is a fragmentary corner view similar to FIG. 4 as
`the panels are brought together and shows one of the push
`buttons cut away from the push button containing panel.
`FIG. 6 is a fragmentary sectional view of the assembly 15
`formed by bringing the push button containing panel into
`engagement with the base panel.
`FIG. 7 is a plan view of the circuit board assembly
`mounted inside the control device viewing the control
`device from the back side thereof with a back cover panel
`removed.
`
`FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the operating circuitry in the
`control device.
`
`FIGS. 9A & 9B are a detailed schematic circuit diagram
`of the operating circuitry shown in FIG. 8.
`FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the connection of
`a programming connector over the central processing unit of
`the operating circuitry in the control device, the program-
`ming connector being connected to a microprocessor, being
`operable to disable the central processing unit, and being
`used to program the random access memory (RAM) of the
`operating circuitry.
`FIGS. 11a to 111' are graphical representations of several
`modulation schemes which are used in infrared remote
`control transmitters.
`
`FIG. 12A is a flow chart of a first part of a method for
`capturing an IR code and FIG. 12B is a graph of the
`envelope of the code.
`FIG. 13A is a flow chart of a second part of a method for
`5 capturing an IR code; FIG. 13B is a waveform of the IR
`bit stream and filtered bit stream; and FIG. 13C is a graph
`of the waveform of a filtered repetition of a filtered bit
`stream.
`
`FIG. 14 is a flow chart of the method used for generating
`an infrared code.
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`FIG. 15 is a front plan view of the control device shown
`in FIG. 1 and shows the various pushbuttons of the device.
`FIG. 16 is a flow chart of the search and set procedure
`followed in using the control device of the present invention.
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`FIG. 17 is a flow chart of a direct-entry/quick-set proce-
`dure followed in using the remote control device.
`FIG. 18A is a flow chart of the procedure followed in
`setting a “DO” command and FIG. 18B is a flow chart of the
`method for executing a “DO” command.
`FIG. 19A is a flow chart of the method used to identify
`what type of unit the remote control device is set for and
`FIG. 19B is a table of the identifying blink code.
`FIG. 20 is a fragmentary perspective view with portions
`broken away of a connector with conversion circuitry
`therein and a special battery case cover for the control device
`by which new data can be inputed into the RAM of the
`operating circuitry of the control device.
`FIG. 21 is a schematic circuit diagram of part of the
`conversion circuitry in the connector shown in FIG. 20.
`FIG. 22 is a schematic circuit diagram of another part of
`the conversion circuitry in the connector shown in FIG. 20.
`DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED
`EMBODIMENT
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`Referring now to FIG. 1 in greater detail, there is illus-
`trated therein a universal remote control device 10 con-
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`structed according to the teachings of the present invention.
`As shown, the device 10 includes a housing 11 including
`an upper housing member 12 having a base panel 14, and a
`lower housing member 16. An overlay face panel 18 is
`positioned over the base panel 14.
`The two panels 14 and 18 have openings 22 and 24 (FIG.
`2) therethrough for receiving elastomeric pushbuttons 25, all
`of which extend from and are fixed to or integral with an
`elastomeric body panel 26 as shown in FIG. 2.
`The pushbuttons 25 are arranged in rows and columns and
`are identified as follows on the overlay face panel 18:
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`VCR 1
`VCR 2
`Rec
`Rew
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`1
`4
`7
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`DO
`A
`B
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`Cable
`CD
`TV.VCR
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`D
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`DO 1
`Stop
`Play
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`Recall
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`DO 2
`Pause
`Fast FwdMute
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`Vol Dn
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`CH Dn
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`This arrangement is shown in FIG. 15 and the manner in
`which these pushbuttons 25 are utilized in operating the
`control device 10 will be described in greater detail
`in
`connection with the description of FIGS. 15—19B.
`At a top or forward end 28 of the device 10, there is
`provided an opening 30 for three light emitting diodes, LED
`1, LED 2 and LED 3. The opening 30 is covered by an
`infrared-transport lens 31. Also, provided on a top surface 32
`of the upper housing member 12 of the control device 10 is
`a light emitting diode, LED 4, by which information, in the
`form of red and green blink codes, is communicated to the
`user of the device 10.
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`FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the components of the
`device 10. As shown, the device 10 includes the overlay face
`panel 18 with pushbutton-receiving, generally rectangular
`openings 22, the upper housing member 12 with base panel
`14 having a plurality of generally rectangular, pushbutton
`receiving openings 24, the elastomeric body panel 26 having
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`pushbuttons 25 extending from an upper surface 34 thereof,
`a printed circuit board 36 having conductive switches 38 on
`an upper surface 40 thereof and operating circuitry 42 (FIG.
`7) mounted on the underside 43 thereof, the lower housing
`member 16, a cover 44 for a battery compartment 45 (FIG.
`7) for receiving batteries 46 (FIG. 10) for the circuitry 42 of
`the control device 10, and the infrared-transport lens 31.
`It will be noted that the base panel 14 of the upper housing
`member 12 has pushbutton openings 24 completely across
`each one of fourteen (14) rows across and four (4) columns
`down. However, not all of these openings or holes 24 have
`pushbuttons 25 extending therethrough, as noted by the
`lesser number of pushbutton-receiving openings 22, in the
`overlay face panel 18. Likewise, the body panel 26 initially
`has pushbuttons 25 arranged completely across the upper
`surface 34 thereof in fourteen (14) rows across and fourteen
`(14) columns down.
`The printed circuit board 36 has conductive switches 38
`aligned with each one of the pushbuttons 25 so that more
`switches 38 are provided than may be necessary for this
`particular control device 10.
`The availability of additional pushbutton openings 24 in
`the base panel 14 will enable the control device 10 to be
`modified as necessary by the addition of further pushbuttons
`25 to perform numerous other functions as called for.
`This mechanical construction of the upper and lower
`housing members 12 and 16 and the panels 14 and 18 and
`circuit board 36 enable the control device 10 to be modified
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`to include additional circuits in the operating circuitry 42
`and pushbutton switches 25 for performing additional
`functions, if desired. In this respect, overlay face panel 18 is
`easily replaceable to modify the device 10 to include more
`or less pushbuttons 25 and associated switches 38.
`The simplicity of the construction of the pushbuttons 25,
`the base panel 14 and the overlay panel 18 is shown in FIGS.
`3—6. As shown in FIG. 3, the body panel 26 has a plurality
`of raised pushbuttons 25 formed thereon. Each raised rect-
`angular button 25 has a recessed area or hollow 48 on the
`underside 49 of each button 25 in which is mounted a
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`conductive plunger or puck 50 adapted to engage one of the
`conductive switches 38 on the circuit board 36. With the
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`pushbuttons 25 and the panel 26 being formed from a sheet
`of elasto