Remote control apparatus and the control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11074808-B2
Application number	US-201916557394-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2019
Priority date	Oct 17, 2018
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

A remote control apparatus is provided. The remote control apparatus includes a directional antenna, a communicator, and a processor configured to, based on a wireless signal being received from an external device through the directional antenna, identify an angle at which the wireless signal is received, based on the angle being within a predetermine range, obtain identification information of the external device by parsing the wireless signal, based on the identification information, identify whether the external device is registered to a server and based on identifying that the external device is not registered to the server, transmit a signal for requesting registration to the external device through the communicator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A remote control apparatus, comprising:
a directional antenna;
a communicator; and
a processor configured to:
based on a wireless signal being received from an external device through the directional antenna, identify an angle at which the wireless signal is received,
based on the angle being within a predetermined range, obtain identification information of the external device by parsing the wireless signal,
based on the identification information, identify whether the external device is registered to a server, and
based on identifying that the external device is not registered to the server, transmit a signal for requesting registration through the communicator,
wherein the directional antenna includes two parallel antennas, and
wherein the processor is further configured to identify the angle at which the wireless signal is received based on a first signal and a second signal transmitted from the external device and reached the two parallel antennas.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive information on a device registered to the server from at least one of the server and an external electronic apparatus, and
identify whether the external device is a device registered to the server based on the information on the device and the identification information.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to, based on a user input for registering the external device being received, identify the angle at which the wireless signal is received.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
an IR transmitter,
wherein the processor is further configured to, based on a user input for controlling the external device being received, transmit an IR signal corresponding to the user input to the external device through the IR transmitter, and identify the angle at which the wireless signal is received.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the identification information includes information on Mac address of the external device.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to transmit the identification information to an external electronic apparatus for guiding registration of the external device.

7. A method for controlling a remote control apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a wireless signal from an external device;
identifying an angle at which the wireless signal is received;
based on the angle being within a predetermined range, obtaining identification information of the external device by parsing the wireless signal; and
based on identifying that the external device is not registered to a server based on the identification information, transmitting a signal for requesting registration,
wherein the identifying comprises identifying the angle at which the wireless signal is received based on a first signal and a second signal transmitted from the external device and reached two parallel antennas of the remote control apparatus.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the identifying comprises,
receiving information on a device registered to the server from at least one of the server and an external electronic apparatus, and based on the information on the device and the identification information, identifying whether the external device is registered to the server.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the identifying comprises, based on a user input for registering the external device being received, identifying the angle at which the wireless signal is received.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the identifying comprises:
based on a user input for controlling the external device being received, transmitting an IR signal corresponding to the user input to the external device, and identifying the angle at which the wireless signal is received.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the identification information includes information on Mac address of the external device.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method for controlling the remote control apparatus of claim 7 .

13. A remote control system, comprising:
a remote control apparatus; and
an electronic apparatus,
wherein the remote control apparatus is configured to, based on a wireless signal being received from an external device, identify an angle at which the wireless signal is received, based on the angle being within a predetermined range, obtain identification information of the external device by parsing the wireless signal, and transmit the identification information to the electronic apparatus, and
wherein the electronic apparatus is further configured to, based on the identification information, identify whether the external device is registered to a server, and based on identifying that the external device is not registered to the server, transmit a signal requesting registration of the external device,
wherein the remote control apparatus includes two parallel antennas, and
wherein the remote control apparatus is further configured to identify the angle at which the wireless signal is received based on a first signal and a second signal transmitted from the external device and reached the two parallel antennas.

14. The remote control system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the electronic apparatus is further configured to:
identify whether the external device is registered to the server based on at least one of information on a device registered to the server which received from the server or pre-stored information on the device registered to the server, and the identification information.

15. The remote control system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the electronic apparatus is further configured to transmit information on a device registered to the server to the remote control apparatus,
wherein the remote control apparatus is further configured to, based on identifying that the external device is not registered to the server based on the information on the device registered to the server received from the electronic apparatus or the identification information, transmit the signal requesting registration to the external device.

16. The remote control system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the electronic apparatus is further configured to, identify an angle at which the identification information is received, and based on the angle being within a predetermine range, identify whether the external device is registered to the server based on the identification information.

17. The remote control system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the electronic apparatus is further configured to, based on identifying that the external device is not registered to the server, display a user interface (UI) for guiding registration of the external device on a display of the electronic apparatus.

18. The remote control system as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the electronic apparatus is further configured to, based on information on registration completion of the external device being received from the server, display a message indicating the registration completion on a display of the electronic apparatus.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Seo Jehwan
• Kim Minsup
• Song Kihyun
• Yoon Sukhoon
• Lee Jongkeun

Classifications

• H04L2101/622

  Layer-2 addresses, e.g. medium access control [MAC] addresses · CPC title

• H04L61/5076

  Update or notification mechanisms, e.g. DynDNS · CPC title

• H04L67/125 Primary

  involving control of end-device applications over a network · CPC title

• H04L67/104

  Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks · CPC title

• H04B17/20

  of receivers · CPC title