Sony Group Corporation
Enabling a device with camera and display to control other devices (universal remote control app)

Abstract:

A method of providing a remote-control interface on a smart device for an electronic device by operating an app, developed using machine learning (ML) comprising supervised learning, on the smart device to: use a camera in the smart device to capture an image of the electronic device, with minimal requirements on image quality; operate on the captured image to identify the electronic device in terms of make and model; select from a database of remote-control user interfaces a remote-control user interface corresponding to the identified make and model of the electronic device; and present the selected remote-control user interface on the smart device to a user. In some cases, the captured image is tagged with at least one of date, time, and global location information, allowing further identification in terms of at least one of version ID and region of sale.