Remote control receiver and method of controlling the same

A remote control receiver of the present invention comprises power-on detecting block 7 operating on a low speed subclock during a standby mode of remote control receiver 10 on the side of electronic apparatus body 4 for decoding an instruction code signal through the medium of an infrared ray transmitted from remote control transmitter 1 in the standby mode and for outputting a code match pulse when the instruction thereof corresponds to "power-on," and interrupt controller 5 for acquiring the code match pulse output from power-on detecting block 7 to output an interrupt request signal for waking CPU 6 up. The remote control receiver suppresses an increase in power consumption caused by erroneous remote control input or input produced by a noise source in the standby mode state with the power turned off.