Patent ID: 7685341

Claim:
An apparatus for the remote wireless control of a consumer electronic (CE) appliance, comprising a remote control handset that is configured to directly or indirectly control the CE appliance for playing, displaying, transitioning or editing audio or visual data, or both (hereinafter “A/V” data), or combinations thereof, including a push-button image processing interface including multiple push-buttons configured to be depressable by one or more fingers or a thumb or both of a same hand within which the remote control handset is being held by a user, and a second interface for receiving the A/V data from an A/V device; and a wireless receiver coupled to the CE appliance, wherein the interface of the remote control handset comprises a display unit, and one or more of a reader for a removable storage medium for A/V data, or a cable or wireless communications interface to the A/V device for receiving the A/V data, such that A/V data transmitted to the receiver is respectively read from the storage medium by the reader or is read from the A/V device via the cable or wireless communications interface, or combinations thereof; wherein the remote control unit is configured for processing A/V data prior to transmission to the wireless receiver, or the wireless receiver is configured for processing the A/V data prior to playing or displaying the data, or both, on the CE appliance, or both; wherein the remote control unit is configured to transmit the A/V data and control codes wirelessly to the receiver, and wherein the receiver is configured to be responsive to the A/V data and control codes from the remote control handset, and to process the A/V data responsive to metadata associated with the A/V data, and to control the CE appliance to output the A/V data, and wherein the wireless receiver processes the A/V data, including dust or other blemish removal, motion blur compensation, transition effects, color correction, exposure correction, red eye reduction, rotating, panning, scrolling or cropping, or editing an object, selecting which objects to display, or erasing and reordering objects, or combinations thereof, under the push-button control of the remote control handset for providing a processed image or processed A/V data, or both, to be output at the CE appliance based on the processed image data.