Philips - sense and simplicity

Input Devices

The growing complexity of home entertainment applications & networks calls for innovative input solutions. Nowadays, a lot of traditional input solutions are enhanced and mostly combined with intuitive user interfaces.

Below you will find a short summary on different input solutions, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. The list of solutions is endless and we keep on innovating.

• Text entry (sw)
• Menu control
• 4 position and center click
• 16 Direction
• Trackball
• Force Sensing Resistor (FSR)
• Fast Scroll (sw)
• Touchpad
• Rotary control
• Touch Screen
• Pointing/Gesture

Displays

Home Control offers a broad range of display possibilities, too many to display here.

Basically, the displays we offer range from:

• Black & White to color
• Different display sizes: from 1.4” to 6.4”
• Different resolutions: from 64x96 to 480x640
• Non touch-screen to touch-screen
 

Power Management

With the renewed focus nowadays on the environment, power management is becoming more important then ever. Luckily, we at Philips Home Control, have been pro-actively working on this.

• Philips already offers several low power consumption protocols
                    • Resulting in a longer battery lifetime and you will thus use less batteries.
                    • Providing a possibility to work with coin cells
                   → When we make use of coin cells, we can cater for a slim & economical design of 
                        the remote, making it more attractive

• Philips also offers rechargeable solutions
                   • Li-Ion, NiMh battery packs
                   • Internal charging or external docking
                   • Worldwide certified power adaptors

• Philips is constantly looking into possible developments for 'green technologies' for remotes. 
 

Backlighting

Home Control offers a broad range of backlighting solutions.
 
The use of different methods & colors offer endless possibilities.
Our account managers are best placed to give you a proper explanation & recommendation for your specific project. They will then also bring a lot of material samples that you can evaluate in real life.
 

Universal databases

Philips partners up with different database suppliers

• A complete database that covers everything does not exist • Different partners have different strengths, each one has its own specialty • We offer the possibility to put databases on different IC platforms Depending on the customer requirements, we recommend which database to use → Different parameters are always taken into consideration:     – Cost price     – Quality/ quantity codesets     – Region     – Devices (TV/DVD/Airco/…)

Learnable solutions

Our learnable solutions offer you the possibility to learn IR codes from any remote control.

• This will make the remote future proof 
   → Even code sets for all new devices can be learned, as your database will not have these codes included yet.

• Our solutions are also very flexible: e.g. You can re-assign the function of a button.

How to learn codes sets? • Via your remote control – Learn each button separately by pointing your original remote to the new remote – Marcrolearning; learn & assign different actions to 1 button • Via the PC - Program your remote with specific editor   software (Pronto)