Handheld electronic device having universal remote control mechanism and operation method of the same

摘要

A handheld electronic device having a universal remote control mechanism is provided. The electronic device comprises a touch display unit, a storage unit, a wireless transmission unit and a processing unit. The touch display unit receives device information and displays a user interface having virtual function keys. The storage unit stores a device code discrimination table. The processing unit retrieves the device code discrimination table and initiates a test procedure according to an order of the hit rate of the instruction codes of plural rows of device codes in the device code discrimination table. The processing unit further terminates the test procedure and controls the electronic device to be controlled by using a specific device code when the processing unit can control the electronic device to be controlled by using all the instruction codes of the specific device code through the wireless transmission unit.

主权项

1. A universal remote control operation method, applied in a handheld electronic device which comprises a touch display unit, a storage unit, a processing unit and a wireless transmission unit, the universal remote control operation method comprising:
enabling the touch display unit to receive device information and display a user interface having a plurality of virtual function keys according to the device information; enabling the processing unit to retrieve a device code discrimination table from the storage unit, wherein the device code discrimination table comprises a plurality of rows of device codes each corresponding to one specific type of device, and each of the plurality of rows of device codes comprises a plurality of instruction codes arranged in an order of a hit rate; and enabling the processing unit to initiate a test procedure which comprises: (a) enabling one instruction code having the highest hit rate in the instruction codes of a specific device code of the device code discrimination table as a first instruction code; (b) controlling the touch display unit to receive an input from a specific virtual function key of the virtual function keys, wherein the specific virtual function key corresponds to the first instruction code; (c) enabling the processing unit to control the wireless transmission unit to transmit a function instruction to an electronic device to be controlled according to the input and the first instruction code; (d) enabling the processing unit to determine whether the electronic device to be controlled is operated according to the function instruction; (e) excluding the specific device code and the device codes having the same first instruction code in the plurality of rows of device codes by the processing unit when the electronic device to be controlled is not operated according to the function instruction, to enable one device code of the remaining plurality of rows of device codes as the specific device code to repeat steps (a)-(d) for testing; (f) further determining whether the first instruction code is a final instruction code of the specific device code by the processing unit when the electronic device to be controlled is operated according to the function instruction, to enable a second instruction code after the first instruction code in the specific device code as the first instruction code to repeat steps (b)-(d) for testing when the first instruction code is not the final instruction code, wherein the step (f) further comprises enabling the processing unit to determine whether the remaining instruction codes are repeated in the specific device and the device codes having the same first instruction code in the plurality of rows of device codes, and to determine whether the repeated instruction codes enables the electronic device to be controlled to operate according to the function instruction if the instruction codes are repeated, and further enabling one instruction code not repeated in the instruction codes as the first instruction code by the processing unit to repeat steps (b)-(d) for testing; and (g) terminating the test procedure by the processing unit and controlling the electronic device to be controlled by using the specific device code when the electronic device to be controlled is operated according to the function instruction and the first instruction code is the final instruction code.