Patent ID: 6225916
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: G08C

Abstract:
A remote control signal reception controller that is connected to a CPU that controls operation of an electric appliance, receives control data for controlling the operation of the electric appliance transmitted from a remote control signal sender, and notifies the CPU of information on the received control data comprising:reception means for receiving control data;interval measurement means for measuring, when the reception means receives a second piece of control data following a first piece of control data, an interval between reception of the first and second piece of control data;notification means for notifying the CPU of the information on the received control data by interrupting; andnotification control means for having the notification means notify the CPU of information on the second piece of control data when the interval measured by the interval measurement means is larger than a first value that represents an interval between transmissions of a same piece of control data which is repeatedly transmitted from the remote control signal sender, and for preventing the notification means from notifying the CPU of the information on the second piece of control data irrelevant to a route via which the second piece of control data has been transmitted from the remote control signal sender to the reception means when the interval measured by the interval measurement means is equal to or smaller than the first value.