Patent ID: 8046807
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video display apparatus for receiving video content information and remote-control build up data wirelessly transmitted from a base station that is remote from said video display apparatus, said video content being supplied to said base station from video information providing apparatus that is remote from said video display apparatus and that is remote-controlled by remote operation information generated by the video display apparatus and transmitted to said video information providing apparatus from the base station, said remote-control build up data being stored at said base station and wirelessly transmitted to said video display apparatus, said video display apparatus comprising: an input unit for requesting from an external data base, via said base station, distribution of remote-control build up data associated with said video information providing apparatus and including a remote-controller user interface that provides operating functions for remote-controlling the video information providing apparatus connected to said base station, said requested remote-control build up data being stored in a non-volatile memory in said base station and being transmitted from said non-volatile memory to said video display apparatus in response to user operation of said input unit; a storage unit for storing said remote-control build up data transmitted from said non-volatile memory in said base station, including said remote-controller user interface, whereby substantially the same remote-control build-up data is stored in both the non-volatile memory in said base station and said storage unit in said video display apparatus; a video reception unit for receiving, via said base station, video content information from said video information providing apparatus controlled by said remote-operation information; a display unit having a touch-panel for displaying both said video content information received by said video display apparatus and, superposed thereon, said image of said remote control unit represented by the stored remote-controller user interface included in said remote-control build-up data stored in said storage unit, said displayed remote control unit image having touch-sensitive buttons operable by a user to control functions of said video information providing apparatus as represented by said buttons of said remote control unit image; and a transmit unit for wirelessly transmitting to said base station said remote-operation information in response to user-operation of said buttons of the displayed remote control unit image on said touch-panel for remotely selecting and controlling the operating functions of said video information providing apparatus with said remote-operation information via said base station, whereby the remote-operation information transmitted by said transmit unit of said video display apparatus is sent to said base station which controls said operating functions of said video information providing apparatus directly.