Patent ID: 8274483

Claim:
An apparatus for using remote control signals, comprising: a display panel; a touch panel being placed on the display panel, the touch panel outputting a two-dimensional coordinate value signal in response to a touch; a receiver receiving a first remote control signal from a remote controller; a signal generator generating a second remote control signal from the two-dimensional coordinate value signal, the second remote control signal not overlapping the first remote control signal; a code analyzer analyzing a remote control signal originating from the receiver or the signal generator to determine if the remote control signal is the first remote control signal or the second remote control signal; a remote control processor performing remote control processing depending on the remote control signal, upon the remote control signal being the first remote control signal; and a touch panel operation processor performing a touch panel processing depending on the remote control signal, upon the remote control signal being the second remote control signal, wherein: the remote control signal includes first one-byte data and second one-byte data; the first remote control signal exists on a first portion which is defined as a group of points existing on a diagonal of a two-dimensional coordinate consisting of the first one-byte data and the second one-byte data; and the diagonal has a first endpoint consisting of a minimum value of the first one-byte data and a maximum value of the second one-byte data, and has a second endpoint consisting of a maximum value of the first one-byte data and a minimum value of the second one-byte data.