Patent ID: 7450148
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: G08C

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a plurality of devices including a master device having AV terminals and slave devices connected to the master device through a communication control line, with the use of a single remote control, comprising: (a) detecting the slave devices, and allocating a device ID to each of the respective detected slave devices; (b) identifying to which slave device of the detected slave devices each AV terminal is connected, by controlling the detected slave devices to be powered on or off through the communication control line with the use of the device IDs; (c) receiving a predetermined key code from a user's remote control; and (d) determining which device among the master device and the detected slave devices to control and determining an operation of the determined device, by referring to an item of a mapping table corresponding to the key code, and controlling an operation of the determined device through the communication control line with the use of the device ID of the determined device.