Remote control apparatus

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote control apparatus comprising a controlled appliance and a server being connected via communication means, in which if data stored in the server is present, a notice command is promptly issued to the corresponding controlled appliance, and the controlled appliance having received the notice command automatically transmits a data acquisition request and receives the data stored in the server, whereby complicated operation by the user is not necessary and the capacity of the storage device of the server can be suppressed significantly.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a remote control device for controlling, for example, household electronic equipment, especially audio-visual equipment (AV equipment) via a network. Background technique [0002] Recently, in household electronic equipment, such as audio-visual equipment (AV equipment), not only image data, audio data, and text data but also various data can be recorded, and products with large-capacity storage devices such as hard disks are being developed. Therefore, in conventional AV equipment, new applications such as acquisition and storage of various data such as image data generated by other AV equipment may be considered in addition to the recording / playback function using a large-capacity storage device. [0003] Next, a conventional remote control device that uses electronic equipment such as AV equipment as a controlled device and is remotely controlled by a server device will be described. Figure 13 It is a block diagram ...

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[0011] In the conventional remote control device, since it is impossible to automatically judge whether or not data has arrived and stored in the server device 150, when the controlled device 100 acquires data from the server device 150, it is necessary to perform complicated operations in the controlled device 100 such as a personal computer. The operation of the data acquisition request is generated every time

In addition, there is a problem that the data stored in the server device 150 cannot be obtained when the user is not in a place such as a home where the controlled device 100 is located.

[0012] In addition, since the data acquisition request generated by the user's operation on the operation unit 107 or the data acquisition request from the application software is sent to the server device 150, the server device 150 will keep storing the data, so in the conventional remote control device It is necessary for the server device 150 to prepare a storage device with a considerable capacity for each user

Therefore, in the conventional remote control device, there are problems such as an increase in operating man-hours and operating costs of the server device 150.

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