Appeal No. 2005-1882
Application No. 09/989,244
adapted to generate, on the basis of said code data, control signals for controlling said further
electronic device, and to transmit said control signals to said further electronic device, said first
electronic device having a data input arranged to receive data from said remote control device.
Such arrangements are generally known from audio and video apparatuses. In the known
arrangements the remote control device has a first memory which is loaded with code data
retrieved from, for example, a smart card. Once the code data has been retrieved from the smart
card and loaded into the first memory the smart card may be disposed of. To control the further
electronic device the user presses or touches a key of the remote control device, which causes the
code data assigned to the selected key to be retrieved from the first memory. The retrieved code
data is supplied to the signal generator, which generates a control signal based on the retrieved
code data. The generated signal is then transmitted to the electronic device to control the latter.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a more user-friendly way of generating
a backup version of the code data.
An arrangement according to the invention is characterized in that said remote control
device has a code data output unit connected to said first memory, said code data output unit
having a further input for receiving an upload signal and being adapted to read, under control of
said upload signal, at least a subset of said set of code data from said memory, said code data
output unit being further adapted to transmit said subset burstwise to said data input of said first
electronic device, which first electronic device includes a second memory for storing a received
subset. By including a code data output unit in the remote control device and a second memory
in the first electronic device, the code data as such can be retrieved from the first memory and
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