Patent ID: 8395713

Claim:
A multi-screen television receiver remote control system, comprising: a multi-screen television receiver including a plurality of television receivers arranged in a two-dimensional array; and a remote controller configured to control the multi-screen television receiver, the remote controller including: determining means for determining an operation status of each of the plurality of television receivers, manipulating means for receiving user operations and including a two-dimensional array of select keys corresponding in position to the two-dimensional array of television receivers, remote control command generating means for generating a remote control command to be transmitted to the plurality of television receivers based on the operation status of the television receivers and contents of the user operations including user operations of the two-dimensional array of select keys, and transmitting means for transmitting the remote control command; and the multi-screen television receiver including: receiving means for receiving the remote control command from the remote controller, recognizing means for recognizing a status of each of the plurality of television receivers, and executing means for executing predetermined processing for each of the plurality of television receivers based on the recognized status of the television receivers and the remote control command received by the receiving means, wherein each of the two-dimensional array of select keys includes a respective light emitting means for emitting light based on the operation status of the corresponding one of the plurality of television receivers, the remote control command generating means generates a selected one of a plurality of remote control commands, the plurality of remote control commands including a command for delaying an image displayed on the activated television receiver by a predetermined time to sequentially display the image on the plurality of television receivers and a command for changing the predetermined time of the delay, the respective light emitting means of two or more of the select keys being activated in different lighting patterns based on the selected remote control command, and in absence of the remote control command being received by the receiving means, the multi-screen television receiver displays, as a default, different channels on each of the plurality of television receivers.