TWI566606B - Adaptive control and management for electronic device - Google Patents

Description

Method of controlling electronic device and control machine applying the same

The present invention relates to a control method for a method of intelligently controlling a plurality of electronic devices through a workspace and a control machine to which the method is applied.

With the rapid development of capital technology, creating a smart life of informationization, digitalization, humanization and convenience has become an inevitable trend in the future, and home appliances that are closely related to daily life have naturally become the vision of implementing digital homes and creating a smart life. The key, therefore, the intelligentization of home appliances is an important development direction of the industry in the future.

The so-called smart home appliances generally refer to consumer electronic products and household appliances with network functions. The above-mentioned network connection can be a wide-area service network or a narrow-area home network. Its main purpose is to integrate. It connects with various home appliances to realize the functions of home digitalization, intelligence and system integration.

In order to integrate and connect various home appliances, most developers in the industry tend to communicate through different communication protocols between different brands, different products or different functions of home appliances; for example, Qualcomm proposed The communication chip based on AllJoyn's open software architecture is used by various home appliance manufacturers, so that various home appliances can interact with each other through AllJoyn.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a plurality of home appliances interacting with each other through AllJoyn A schematic diagram of the use of the situation. In the usage scenario shown in FIG. 1 , the first electronic device 11 (such as the first lighting fixture) and the second electronic device 12 (such as the second lighting fixture) are respectively provided with a communication chip developed based on the AllJoyn open software architecture. 111, 121, and the control device 13 (such as a computer) is provided with a first driving program 131 corresponding to the first electronic device 11, a second driving program 132 corresponding to the second electronic device 12, and for controlling The first electronic device 11 and the control management program 133 of the second electronic device 12; wherein, since the first driver 131, the second driver 132, and the control management program 133 are all developed based on the AllJoyn open software architecture, Between an electronic device 11 and the first driver 131, between the second electronic device 12 and the second driver 132, and between the first driver 131, the second driver 132, and the control manager 133 Communicate in accordance with the communication protocol conforming to the AllJoyn open software architecture, that is, the first driver 131, the second driver 132, and the control manager 133 can be compatible and work together, thus controlling The machine 13 can control the operations of the first electronic device 11 and the second electronic device 12, respectively.

In addition, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), established by companies such as Microsoft, Philips, and Sony, has also established a set of interconnections for various home appliances. The communication agreement for joint operations, and the Taiwan Institute of Technology's Energy Institute also proposed the SAANet Control Agreement for use by various home appliance manufacturers. Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a schematic diagram of the usage scenarios of a plurality of different brands of home appliances. In the usage scenario shown in FIG. 2, the first electronic device 11 (such as the first lighting fixture) is provided with a communication chip 111 developed based on the AllJoyn open software architecture, and the third electronic device 16 (such as a third lighting fixture) is disposed. A communication chip 161 developed based on a communication protocol of the Digital Living Network Alliance is provided, and a fourth electronic device 14 (such as a fourth lighting fixture) is provided with a communication chip 141 developed based on the SAANet control protocol; and the control machine 15 ( The first driver 151 corresponding to the first electronic device 11 , the third driver 152 corresponding to the third device 16 , and the fourth driver corresponding to the fourth device 14 are disposed in the computer. 153; wherein the first driver 151 is developed based on the AllJoyn open software architecture to drive the first electronic device 11 to operate, and the third driver 152 is developed because it is based on the digital living network alliance communication protocol. The third electronic device 16 can be driven to perform the operation. Similarly, the fourth driver 153 can be driven to drive the fourth electronic device 14 because it is developed based on the SAANet control protocol. industry.

However, since the first driver 151, the third driver 152, and the fourth driver 153 do not have a common communication protocol with each other, the first electronic device 11, the third electronic device 16, and the fourth electronic device 14 The three cannot be compatible with each other; further, the appliance manufacturers of different brands inevitably have a competitive relationship. Therefore, under the consideration of commercial interests, it is very likely that they are unwilling to use common communication protocols or communication chips with home appliance manufacturers of different brands. .

Furthermore, please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a schematic diagram of another usage scenario of a plurality of different brands of home appliances. The usage scenario shown in FIG. 3 illustrates that if the control device 15' is additionally provided with an interface program 154 designed and developed by a third party, and the interface program 154 is developed as the first driver 151 and the third driver 152. And the communication medium of the fourth driver 153, the first electronic device 11, the third electronic device 16, and the fourth electronic device 14 are compatible with each other; however, in the future, various home appliances are connected to each other to be common. The communication protocol for the operation does not have only the three agreements mentioned above, that is, there will be more communication protocols established by other branded home appliances in the future, and when various communication protocols are continuously introduced, the control machine 15' The interface program 154 has to be updated accordingly to make the various drivers compatible with each other; this will cause a burden on the user, and even more, when the interface program 154 no longer has developers to develop and update. At the time, some of the home appliances using the communication chips developed by the new communication protocol could not communicate with the control machine 15', leaving the user at a loss.

What's important is that there is no operating environment for users to configure the drivers corresponding to the new protocol to be installed in the control machine and other with the new home appliances of the new communication protocol. The drivers configured on the control machine are compatible with each other, or the user can freely combine the drivers corresponding to the communication protocol of the damaged home appliance from the control machine when discarding any damaged home appliances. .

In addition, when smart home appliances are gradually popularized, how to make smart home appliances efficiently and automatically provide services for home users, and thus more convenient for people's lives is also the direction that developers are currently studying and discussing; for example, due to the building There are a large number of lighting fixtures in the public space, so there is a need for energy saving, but each lighting fixture is set at a different location, and the number of lighting fixtures in different locations is different in the same time zone. Therefore, the controller must design the output lighting control process for each of the lamps to obtain better power saving effect, but such a method is time consuming and laborious; and if used to control the lighting lamps The control machine can intelligently control each lighting fixture to output illumination at an appropriate timing according to actual needs and usage conditions, thereby avoiding the above annoyance.

Based on this, the present invention will propose a method of controlling an electronic device that is more intelligently close to people's living habits based on human nature.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling an electronic device and a control device to which the method is applied, such that drivers of a plurality of electronic devices can be configured in a control machine and compatible with each other via a free combination of users, and These electronic devices can also be operated automatically according to actual application requirements and conditions, so as to alleviate the human consumption caused by the design of manual control processes or manual control, thereby facilitating people's lives.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method of controlling an electronic device, comprising: providing a projectable spatial entity for modeling a workspace to a control machine, and the projectable space The real system is provided with an analysis and control tool, a data capture tool, and at least one unified tool corresponding to the at least one electronic device and used to drive the at least one electronic device; and utilizing a projection means in the control machine Translating the projectable spatial entity such that a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace is built on the control machine and operates to enable the data capture tool to capture the at least through the at least one unified tool A data data of an electronic device is analyzed by the analysis and control tool, and the analysis and control tool controls the at least one electronic device via the at least one unified tool according to the analysis result.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool includes a person formed by being unified by at least one driver.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool includes a plurality of the plurality of unified devices respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices. The driver is formed by being unified; wherein the plurality of drivers are unified and configured in the projected workspace to be compatible with each other.

In a preferred embodiment, the method of controlling the electronic device further includes: storing the data of the at least one electronic device captured by the data acquisition tool to a storage device for the analysis and control tool to perform analysis.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, or the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices provide different functions, or the plurality of electronic devices The at least two are manufactured by different manufacturers and provide different functions.

In a preferred embodiment, the method of controlling the electronic device is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system, or a transportation system.

In a preferred embodiment, the control device is a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device, or a wearable electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensibility markup language (XML), or a structured language or a structured protocol. An entity generated.

In a preferred embodiment, the data acquisition tool is disposed in the analysis and control tool, or is the analysis and control tool disposed in the data acquisition tool, or the data acquisition tool and the analysis and control Tools are a common tool.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention also provides a control device for controlling at least one electronic device, the control device including a projection means and a projection space for constructing a working space An entity is disposed therein, and the projectable space entity is provided with an analysis and control tool, a data capture tool, and at least one unified tool for driving the at least one electronic device; wherein the projection means interprets the The data capture tool is configured to capture the at least one electronic device through the at least one unified tool when a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace is established on the control device and operates a data sheet for analysis by the analysis and control tool, and the analysis and control tool is based on the analysis The at least one electronic device is controlled via the at least one unified tool.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool includes a person formed by being unified by at least one driver.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool includes a plurality of drivers that are respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices, and are formed by being unified; The plurality of drivers are unified in the mapped workspace to be compatible with each other.

In a preferred embodiment, the control device further includes a storage device for storing the data of the at least one electronic device captured by the data acquisition tool for further analysis by the analysis and control tool.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, or the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices provide different functions, or the plurality of electronic devices The at least two are manufactured by different manufacturers and provide different functions.

In a preferred embodiment, the data acquisition tool is disposed in the analysis and control tool, or is the analysis and control tool disposed in the data acquisition tool, or the data acquisition tool and the analysis and control Tools are a common tool.

In a preferred embodiment, the control machine is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system, or a transportation system.

In a preferred embodiment, the control device is a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device, or a wearable electronic device.

8‧‧‧Users

11‧‧‧First electronic device

12‧‧‧Second electronic device

13‧‧‧Control machine

14‧‧‧4th electronic device

15‧‧‧Control machine

15'‧‧‧Control machine

16‧‧‧ Third electronic device

21‧‧‧First electronic device

22‧‧‧Second electronic device

23‧‧‧Configure the machine

24‧‧‧Control machine

25‧‧‧Storage device

31‧‧‧projectable space entities

32‧‧‧Projected workspace

41‧‧‧Unification tools

42‧‧‧Analysis and control tools

43‧‧‧Data Acquisition Tools

44‧‧‧ operating rules

111‧‧‧AllJoyn Communication Chip

121‧‧‧AllJoyn Communication Chip

131‧‧‧First driver

132‧‧‧Second driver

133‧‧‧Control Manager

141‧‧‧SAANet communication chip

151‧‧‧First driver

152‧‧‧ third driver

153‧‧‧fourth driver

154‧‧‧Interface program

161‧‧‧DLNA communication chip

211‧‧‧First communication chip

221‧‧‧second communication chip

241‧‧‧Projecting means

411‧‧‧ unified first driver

412‧‧‧ Unified second driver

971‧‧‧First electronic device

972‧‧‧Second electronic device

973‧‧‧projectable space entity

974‧‧‧Projecting means

975‧‧‧Working environment

976‧‧‧Projected workspace

977‧‧‧Microcore

979‧‧‧Dropbox

980‧‧‧ Unified script

981‧‧‧personal work space

982‧‧‧Dropbox

983‧‧‧Cloud Hard Drive

984‧‧‧Server

985‧‧‧ original information

985’ ‧ ‧ Unified Information Unit

986‧‧‧Original tools

986’‧‧‧First unified tool

987‧‧‧ original tools

987’‧‧‧Second unified tool

989‧‧‧Transformer

991‧‧‧ original elements

992‧‧‧Element converter

993‧‧‧Unified data structure

994‧‧‧ unified elements

2411‧‧‧Working environment

2412‧‧‧Microcore

9731‧‧‧ Unified script

9761‧‧‧dotted box

9761’‧‧‧Dropbox Input

9762‧‧‧dotted box

9762’‧‧‧ Picture Reader

9791‧‧‧jpg image file

9791’‧‧‧Unified jpg image file

9792‧‧‧jpg image file

9792’‧‧‧Unified jpg image file

9793‧‧‧gif image file

9793’ ‧ ‧ unified gif image file

9881‧‧‧Information input device

9882‧‧‧Information Input

9883‧‧‧Information input device

P1‧‧‧ steps

P2‧‧‧ steps

Figure 1: The interaction between multiple home appliances through AllJoyn Use the situation map.

Figure 2: Schematic diagram of the use of home appliances for a number of different brands.

Figure 3: Schematic diagram of another usage scenario for home appliances with multiple different brands.

Figure 4 is a conceptual diagram showing the implementation of the unified method in one embodiment.

Figure 5: A schematic diagram of a better concept of using a unified script as an intermediate language for implementing a personal workspace.

Figure 6 is a schematic diagram of a preferred configuration of the personal workspace shown in Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a schematic diagram showing the initial state of a method of projecting a workspace in a preferred embodiment.

Figure 8A is a conceptual diagram showing the operation of the method of projecting the workspace shown in Figure 7.

Figure 8B is a conceptual diagram showing the operation of the method of projecting the workspace shown in Figure 7.

Figure 9 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in Figure 7 and the projected workspace shown in Figure 8B.

Figure 10 is a flow chart of a preferred method of the method of controlling an electronic device of the present invention.

Figure 11 is a schematic diagram showing the initial state of the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention and the use of the control machine of the method in a preferred embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing the operation concept of the method for controlling the electronic device shown in FIG. 10 applied to the use scenario shown in FIG.

Figure 13 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in Figure 12 and the projected workspace in a preferred embodiment.

Figure 14 is a conceptual diagram showing the interaction between the projected workspace and the first electronic device and the second electronic device in the control machine shown in Figure 12.

The present invention is described by the following description, including the following glossary of terms and conclusive facts For example, and more fully understand. For the sake of brevity, the publications cited in this specification, including the disclosure of patents, are hereby incorporated by reference.

The following examples of the invention are non-limiting and represent only a variety of aspects and features of the invention. In the most limited technical sense, the term "information source" as used herein refers to a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as useful information, and such useful information is used to organize and tag data; wherein the source of information may include : Websites (such as Internet services), internal networks, online communities, software, e-books, databases, and other informational media (such as storage media available for non-transitory computers, mobile device storage media). Moreover, the "original information" described herein may include files, web pages, databases, policies, rules, or any data accessible to related machines and servers, and the "original tools" described herein may include utilities. An interface tool set, a smart agent tool, an application, a service tool, or any executable element that can access related machines and servers. However, the source of information, original information and original tools are not limited to the above.

Moreover, "original information" and "original tools" are one embodiment of the "original elements" described herein, and in the implementation of the present invention, multiple "original elements" from the same or different "information sources" Each can be modeled into multiple "unified elements" through a unified method, so that multiple "unified elements" in the same working environment can be compatible with each other to coordinate specific tasks; "Unified tools" and "unified information units" are all examples of "unified elements." Moreover, the "Matterizer" described herein is a component, device or code for unifying the "original elements".

In an embodiment, the unified method may be: reconstructing original information obtained from at least one information source of the plurality of information sources according to a unified data structure, thereby modeling the original information into unified information. Unit, and/or reorganizing the original tool obtained from at least one information source of the plurality of information sources according to another unified data structure, thereby modeling the original tool into a unified tool; wherein the unified data structure and the Another unified data structure may be the same or different, and the above unified method may be implemented by an element converter (Matterizer).

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a schematic diagram of the implementation concept of the above unified method in an embodiment. 4 illustrates an element converter 992 reforming an attribute and an associated link of the original element 991 in accordance with the unified material structure 993 to model the original element 991 as a unified element 994, such that the basic attributes of the unified element 994 include The type of the original element and the original element The link (link) where it is.

In this embodiment, the original element 991 includes at least the original information (not shown) or the original tool (not shown), but is not limited thereto. Secondly, in the above unified method, when the attributes obtainable from the original information correspond to the attributes to be unified in the unified information unit, the unified information unit can be directly generated via the element converter 992; When the attributes obtained by the original information cannot correspond to the attributes that are to be unified in the unified information unit, the original information must be redefined by logically reorganizing the attributes and related links of the original information, so that the original information is converted into The new original information corresponding to the attributes that are to be unified in the unified information unit, thereby indirectly generating a unified information unit.

Moreover, when the original tool is compatible with the working environment of the workspace, the unified tool can be directly generated via the element converter 992; and when the original tool is incompatible with the working environment of the workspace, The unified tool is indirectly generated by a software development kit (SDK) driven by an adapter and/or original tool; the adapter is used to provide a workspace compatible interface Interface implementation.

For a specific implementation manner of the unified method described in the embodiment, a specific manner of obtaining the unified element, and a specific operation mode of the element converter, refer to US Patent Application No. 14/324069, entitled " A METHOD OF UNIFYING INFORMATION AND TOOL FROM A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION SOURCES", and the Chinese Patent Application No. 201410768564.X, which is based on the priority of the United States Patent Application No. 14/324,069, entitled "will be from the plural information" The method of unifying the information and tools of the source and the computer program products and devices using the method are not repeated here.

In particular, the above unified method is only one embodiment of the unified method adopted in the present case, and the method for unifying multiple original elements from different information sources is not limited to the above, and those skilled in the art can Make any equal change design based on actual application needs.

The following is an example of a unified method different from the above description. The first unified method is applied to the information unification method in Garmin satellite navigation. The Point of Interest (POI) function of Garmin satellite navigation is input through the information unification method. The original landmark information (original information) is unified to obtain the corresponding unified landmark information (unified information unit); the second method is the unified tool for Android (Android) system, Android (Android) The system is a Linux-based open source mobile device operating system, but the applications (original tools) in Android are mostly written by Java, so the applications written by Java (original tools) can be The tool is unified and modeled as a unified application (unified tool) that is compatible with Android, and can be executed in Android.

Furthermore, the term "workspace" as used herein refers to a workspace that allows at least one element converter and/or at least one tool and/or at least one piece of information to interact to perform a particular task, and at least one information and/or At least one tool can be input into the workspace by at least one element converter, but the manner in which information and/or tools are input into the workspace is not limited thereto; secondly, the information importer (information importer) described below ) (such as the information input devices 9881, 9882, 9883, etc. in FIG. 5) are all an embodiment of the element converter. Furthermore, the "unified script" described herein refers to an intermediate language that can be used as a workspace, and at least one element converter and/or at least one information and/or at least one tool can be made through a "unified script". Is provided (such as built-in or plug-in) to the workspace.

In one embodiment, the at least one information is at least one unified information unit formed by the at least one original information obtained from the at least one information source, and the at least one tool is from at least one information. At least one original tool obtained by the source is formed by at least one unified tool formed by being unified; wherein the user can select the required unified information unit and/or the unified tool according to different tasks. The information source is added (such as built-in or plug-in) to the personal workspace, so the "workspace" can be a user-oriented "personal workspace."

Further, please refer to FIG. 5 and FIG. 6. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a preferred concept of a unified script as an intermediate language for implementing a personal workspace, and FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a preferred configuration of the personal workspace shown in FIG. . 5 and FIG. 6 illustrate the unified information unit 985' corresponding to the original information 985 in the Dropbox 982, corresponding to the compatible original tool 986 in the cloud hard disk 983 according to the requirements of the task. The first unified tool 986' and the second unified tool 987' corresponding to the incompatible original tool 987 in the server 984 are combined into the personal workspace 981; in detail, the user can edit one for the first time. To achieve personal work space 981 The unified language script 980 of the intermediate language, and the information input device 9881 of the Dropbox 982, the information input device 9882 of the cloud hard disk 983, and the information input device 9883 of the server 984 are configured by the unified script 980; The input device 9881 can unify the original information 985 in the Dropbox 982 into the unified information unit 985' and input it to the personal workspace 981.

Furthermore, Figures 5 and 6 also illustrate that the original tool stored in the cloud hard drive 983 is a compatible original tool 986 (i.e., the compatible original tool 986 can be unified with the personal workspace 981). The component is structurally compatible with the tool, and the first unified tool 986' corresponding to the compatible original tool 986 can be directly provided to the individual through the unified script 980 (using the information input device 9882 therein) Work space 981.

Further, Figures 5 and 6 also illustrate that the original tool stored in the server 984 is an incompatible original tool 987 (i.e., the incompatible original tool 987 is used in the personal workspace 981 for the unified tool). The component architecture is incompatible, and the second unification of the incompatible original tool 987 is achieved through the unified script 980 (using the compatible converter 989 and the information input device 9883). Tool 987' is provided to personal workspace 981.

In addition, FIG. 6 also illustrates that the user configures the arrangement (eg, grouping or placing) unified information unit 985', the first unified tool 986', and the second unified tool 987 according to actual application requirements. 'In a specific area of the personal workspace 981; finally, the user can save by using the unified tool in response to the unified tool and the operational relationship between the unified information units (such as click actions or drag actions between the two) Take or control the corresponding unified information unit to perform the required tasks.

Regarding the "unified script as a specific implementation of the intermediate language of the personal workspace" described in the embodiment, "the user unifies the required unified information unit and/or the required unit according to the actual application requirements. A specific implementation of a tool that can be freely combined into a personal workspace to perform a task. Reference is made to US Patent Application No. 14/325,466 entitled "METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK ON UNIFIED INFORMATION UNITS IN A PERSONAL WORKSPACE" And the Chinese Patent Application No. 201410796528.4, which is based on the U.S. Patent Application No. 14/324,069, the entire disclosure of The method and the computer program product and system using the method are not repeated here.

In particular, the above personal workspace is only an embodiment of the workspace, and the workspace applied to the present case is not limited to the above; for example, a unified script that implements the intermediate language of the workspace can be edited in advance. Make the workspace a workspace with built-in preset element converters and/or preset information and/or preset tools. Such workspaces are not limited to individual operations, but can also be used for multiple applications. The user operates simultaneously or separately.

Furthermore, the "workspace" described herein can be projected to any computing-capable electronic device via a "projection workspace method" so that any user can operate on any computing-capable electronic device. "Projected workspace".

In an embodiment, the method for projecting a workspace includes: first, obtaining a projectable space instance that is instantiated by a unified script via a path link information (URI); wherein, unified The script is defined to configure at least one of an element converter, information, and tools to build a workspace (as previously explained), and the projectable spatial entity is used to create a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace, Providing an interface for operating at least one of an element converter, information, and a tool to perform a task; then, using a projector to interpret the projectable spatial entity and establishing an element converter, information, and tools At least one of the ones are disposed in the work environment of the projectable spatial entity to thereby perform the projected workspace, whereby at least one user interacts with the projected workspace.

The projection means can be obtained from a remote data station, a projectable space entity or a preloaded application, and loaded into an engine for providing a compatible environment to perform projection means, and the engine can be Including the Javascript engine, the Windows application, or the Linux application, but not limited to the above; in addition, the unified script can be defined by a file type (DTD), an extensibility markup language schema (XML schema), a structured language or a structured protocol, etc., but not limited to the above; and the space entity that can be projected can be an object, an extensibility indicator Language (XML) archive, or a structured language or a structured protocol An entity generated by the entity, but not limited to the above.

Further, please refer to FIG. 7, FIG. 8A to FIG. 8B and FIG. 9. FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the initial state of the method for projecting the workspace in a preferred embodiment, and FIG. 8A and FIG. Schematic diagram of the operational concept of the spatial method. FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in FIG. 7 and the projected workspace shown in FIG. 8B. Wherein, in the initial state shown in FIG. 7, there is a first machine 971 and a second machine 972 that are connectable (eg, connected through a network), and the first machine 971 stores a projectable space entity 973. A projection means 974 is built into the second machine 972.

Moreover, the unified script 9731 is declared by a file type definition (DTD), and is defined to configure at least one information input device (which is an implementation aspect of the element converter) and/or at least one Unifying the information unit and/or at least one unified tool to model a workspace, and the projectable spatial entity 973 is an entity generated by an Extensible Markup Language (XML), as shown in FIG. It is used to build a projected workspace 976 corresponding to the workspace and is allowed to be added to or removed from the information importer and/or unified information unit and/or unified tool.

Moreover, the projection means 974 of the second machine 972 establishes a working environment 975 for the projected workspace 976 on the second machine 972 and provides a micro core 977 (see FIG. 9) to the operating environment 975 for loading. Equiring to join at least one information input device and/or at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool in the projected workspace 976; wherein, when the second device 972 obtains the information through a path connection information When a projectable spatial entity 973 in a machine 971, the projection means 974 in the second machine 972 begins to interpret the projectable spatial entity 973 as shown in Figure 8A; again, when the projectable spatial entity After the 973 is interpreted by the projection means 974, the projected workspace 976 is established on the work environment 975 according to the content interpreted by the projectable spatial entity 973, as shown in FIG. 8B, such that the second machine 972 The user can interact with the projected workspace 976 via the second machine 972 to perform related tasks.

The relationship between the above-described unified script 9731, the projectable spatial entity 973, and the projected workspace 976 will be further described below using the usage scenarios shown in FIG. The usage scenario shown in FIG. 9 is: creating a workspace that can be projected and can read the jpg image file and the gif image file stored in the specified network space for the user to view, and in the context of the use case, The script 9731 is declared in a file type definition (DTD), and the projectable space entity 973 is generated in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Moreover, a data input device and a unified tool are added to the projectable space entity 973, and the information input device is configured to input at least one unified information unit corresponding to the at least one original information to the projected work. In the space 976, in the context of use, the information input device is a Dropbox input device (ie, the dashed box 9761 is shown), and the original information is the jpg image file 9791, 9792 and the gif image file 9793 in the Dropbox 979 information source. The information unit is the unified jpg image files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif image file 9793' described later, and the unified tool is a picture reader (ie, the dotted line box 9762), which is used. To read the image file input into the projected workspace 976.

Moreover, the projected workspace 976 is created after the projectable spatial entity 973 is interpreted by the projection means 974 in the second machine 972 such that the projected workspace 976 is provided with a Dropbox input 9761' ( Corresponding to the illustrated dashed box 9761) and a picture reader 9762' (corresponding to the dashed box 9762 shown), the Dropbox input unit 9761' will again use the jpg picture files 9791, 9792 and gif in the Dropbox 979 information source. The picture file 9793 is unified and input to the projected work space 6, so that the unified jpg picture files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif picture file 9793 corresponding to the jpg picture file 9791, 9792 and the gif picture file 9793, respectively. 'presented on the projected workspace 976; then, when the user of the second machine 972 is directed to any of the unified jpg image files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif image file 9793' via a specific operation mode When performing the operation (such as clicking on the unified jpg image file 9791', 9792' and unified gif image file 9793', or unified jpg image file 9791', 9792' and unified gif image file 9793 'The middle of it One is dragged to the picture reader 9762'), and the picture reader 9762' reads the content of any of the unified jpg picture files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif picture file 9793' to render it. Come out for the user to watch. Further, the above-described Dropbox input device 9761' and picture reader 9762' are equivated by the micro core 977.

Specifically, the path connection information of the projectable space entity 973 may be Hyper File Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) path link information, and if the first machine 971 and the second machine 972 are In a common device, the path connection information of the projectable space entity 973 can also be linked to the local file, but the path link information The type is not limited to the above.

For a specific manner of obtaining a method for projecting a workspace as described in this embodiment, reference is made to US Patent Application No. 14/577,772, entitled "METHOD OF PROJECTING A WORKSPACE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME", and a US patent can be referred to. Application No. 14/324069, No. 14/325,466, and No. 14/577,772, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire That is, it will not be repeated.

In particular, the above method of projecting the workspace is only a projection method for projecting the workspace to any computing device, but the projection method of projecting the workspace to any computing device is not To the above, it is well known to those skilled in the art that any equal change design can be made according to actual application requirements.

Next, a method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention will be described. First of all, the method for controlling the electronic device of the present invention is mainly to enable various electronic devices to be automatically operated according to actual needs and usage conditions, so as to reduce manual consumption of manual control, and the electronic devices can be of the same type. The electronic devices may also be different types of electronic devices respectively; wherein different types of electronic devices generally refer to electronic devices that are manufactured by different manufacturers but provide the same functions, or electronic devices that provide different functions but are manufactured by the same manufacturer, Or electronic devices manufactured by different manufacturers and providing different functions. Furthermore, although the following description is directed to the method for controlling an electronic device of the present invention applied to a smart home appliance integrated control system, it is not limited thereto, for example, it can also be applied to a medical device integrated control system and an intelligent security control system. , in the technical field of the Internet of Things, such as fire security control systems or transportation systems.

Please refer to FIG. 10 , which is a flow chart of a preferred method of the method for controlling an electronic device according to the present invention. The method for controlling an electronic device includes: step P1, providing a projectable spatial entity for constructing a workspace to a control machine, and the projectable spatial real system is provided with an analysis and control tool, a data capture tool and at least one unified tool corresponding to the at least one electronic device for driving the at least one electronic device are added thereto; and in step P2, the projectable spatial entity is interpreted by a projection means in the control machine, Having a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace be built on the control machine and functioning, The data capture tool obtains a data of the at least one electronic device through the at least one unified tool for analysis by the analysis and control tool, and the analysis and control tool is unified according to the analysis result by the at least one unified The tool controls the at least one electronic device.

Wherein, the space entity that can be projected is configured according to a control procedure that the user desires to control the machine (which will be further described later in the embodiment), and the method of controlling the electronic device shown in FIG. 10 will be implemented through the following Further explanation is given.

Please refer to FIG. 11 to FIG. 13 . FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of an initial state of a method for controlling an electronic device according to the present invention and a control device using the method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of the control device of FIG. The method of the device is applied to the schematic diagram of the operational concept of the use scenario shown in FIG. 11. FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity and the projected workspace shown in FIG. 12 in a preferred embodiment.

In the usage scenario shown in FIG. 11, there are a first electronic device 21, a second electronic device 22, a configuration device 23, a storage device 25, and a connection (such as a network connection) to the first electronic device 21, and a second The electronic device 22, the configuration machine 23, and the control device 24 of the storage device 25, and the control device 24 can be a computer, a home appliance, a handheld electronic device or a wearable electronic device, etc., wherein the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 is provided with a first communication chip 211 and a second communication chip 221, respectively, and the first communication chip 211 and the second communication chip 221 can be developed based on the same communication protocol, or can be developed based on different communication protocols respectively. In the preferred embodiment, the first communication chip 211 is a communication chip developed based on Qualcomm's AllJoyn open software architecture, and the second communication chip 221 is based on the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). The communication chip developed by the communication protocol, but not limited to the above.

Furthermore, the usage scenario exemplified in the preferred embodiment is “to let the control device 24 automatically control the actuation of the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 according to the actual needs or living habits of the user 8”; In this case, the configuration machine 23 (such as a computer) has a projectable space entity 31, and the projectable space entity 31 is created and compiled according to the actual needs of the user 8, that is, preferably. In an embodiment, the user 8 can appropriately add the analysis and control tool 42, the data acquisition tool 43, and the plurality of unified tools 41 corresponding to the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 to the projectable space. Entity 31, and control The operating rules 44 of the machine 24 are compiled so that when the projectable space entity 31 is loaded into the control machine 24 (as in the manner of linking information via the transport path) and interpreted to cause the projected workspace 32 When the control device 24 is set up and operates, the data acquisition tool 43 retrieves the data of the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22, and transmits the data to the storage device 25 for storage, and the analysis and control tool 42 The data stored in the storage device 25 can be analyzed, and the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 can be controlled according to the analysis result.

In detail, the control machine 24 has a projection means 241 for establishing a working environment 2411 for operation of the projected workspace 32 on the control machine 24, and providing a micro-core 2412 corresponding to the workspace to be equipped ( Equipping and launching an analysis and control tool 42 compiled by the projectable spatial entity 31, a data capture tool 43 and a plurality of unified tools 41, and loading the projectable spatial entity 31 at the control machine 24. At this time, the projection means 241 begins to interpret the projectable spatial entity 31, and when the projectable spatial entity 31 is interpreted by the projection means 241, the projected workspace 32 is interpreted according to the projection means 241. The content of the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 can be retrieved from the data device and transmitted to the storage device 25 according to the operating rule 44. The storage and analysis and control tool 42 can also analyze the data stored in the storage device 25 according to the operation rule 44, and then analyze the first electronic device 21 according to the analysis result. The second electronic device 22 performs control. It should be noted that the projection means 241 is not limited to being built into the control device 24, but may also be loaded from other network-capable storage devices (not shown).

Furthermore, in the preferred embodiment, the plurality of unified tools 41 include a first driver belonging to the first electronic device 21 via the unified 411 and a second device 22 The driver is represented by the unified 412, and the projectable spatial entity 31 is an object exemplified by an Extensible Markup Language (XML); wherein, FIG. 13 illustrates the projectable spatial entity 31. The compiled content and its correspondence with the unified first driver 411, the unified second driver 412, the analysis and control tool 42, and the data capture tool 43 in the projected workspace 32 , which is shown by two corresponding ends of any one of the broken lines in FIG. 13; further, in the preferred embodiment, the first driving process And the second driver can be developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22, respectively, and placed in a specific storage device having a networking function. But not limited to the above.

Please refer to FIG. 14 , which is a schematic diagram of the interaction between the projected workspace and the first electronic device and the second electronic device in the control device shown in FIG. 12 . During the formation of the projected workspace 32, the unified first driver 411, the unified second driver 412, the analysis and control tool 42, and the data capture tool 43 are all unified ( The unifying program is configured in the projected workspace 32, and the unified first driver 411 can communicate with the first communication chip 211 of the first electronic device 21 through the first communication protocol. The unified second driver 412 can communicate with the second communication chip 221 of the second electronic device 22 through the second communication protocol; in particular, since the unified first driver 411 is unified The second driver 412, the analysis and control tool 42, and the data capture tool 43 are all disposed in the projected workspace 32 via the unified program, so the unified first driver 411 The unified second driver 412, the analysis and control tool 42 and the data capture tool 43 can be mutually compatible and can communicate with each other, so that the data capture tool 43 can The data of the first electronic device 21 and the data of the second electronic device 22 are captured and transmitted to the storage device through the unified first driver 411 and the unified second driver 412, respectively. The storage and control tool 42 can also analyze the data stored in the storage device 25 and then control the first through the unified first driver 411 and the unified second driver 412. The operation of the electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22.

Next, the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention will be described by way of two living examples. In the first example, the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 are respectively a first luminaire and a second luminaire of a common space of the building, and the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 are A human body sensor is disposed to detect whether a person enters or exits within the sensing range; wherein the user 8 can compile the projectable space entity 31 according to the requirement of energy saving and power saving, so as to correspond to the first electronic device 21 and be The unified first driver 411, the second driver 412 corresponding to the second electronic device 22 and unified, the analysis and control tool 42 and the data acquisition tool 43 are added to the projectable space entity 31. ; therefore, when projected When the working space 32 is built on the control machine 24, the data capturing tool 43 can capture the sensing data of the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 and transmit the data to the storage device 25 for storage, and the analysis and control tool 42 By analyzing the sensing data stored in the storage device 25, the number of people sensed by each time zone in each of the plurality of time segments of the 24 hours a day is obtained, thereby generating a control law accordingly. The first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 are respectively controlled.

For example, the analysis and control tool 42 controls the first electronic device 21 to be specific to the first electronic device 21 during a certain period of time (such as the following time period) by analyzing the sensing data. The illumination with higher brightness is output during the period, and the first electronic device 21 is controlled because the number of people who pass through the first electronic device 21 during some other specific time periods (such as the midnight time period) is obtained by analyzing the sensing data data. The illumination having a lower brightness is output during the certain period of time, or the first electronic device 21 is controlled to output the illumination only when a human body is sensed.

Similarly, when there are a large number of lamps in the public space of the building, it is also possible to control the pipes according to the above description, thereby achieving the effect of energy saving. In particular, with the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention, the controller of the public space of the building does not need to spend a lot of effort to separately design the time flow for outputting illumination for each luminaire, so the invention also brings labor saving. efficacy.

In the second example, the first electronic device 21 is a sound sensor disposed near the sofa in the living room of the home, and the second electronic device 22, the third electronic device (not shown), and the fourth electronic device (not shown) The fifth electronic device (not shown) and the sixth electronic device (not shown) are respectively five-piece speakers surrounding the living room of the home; wherein the demand of the user 8 is automatically controlled by the control device 24 The five-piece speaker performs accurate sound localization, so that when the user sits on the sofa, the best surround sound can be felt; accordingly, the user compiles the projectable space entity 31 according to the demand, so that the analysis And the control tool 42 and the data acquisition tool 43 are respectively corresponding to the first electronic device 21, the second electronic device 22, the third electronic device, the fourth electronic device, the fifth electronic device, and the sixth electronic device, and are unified The first driver 411, the second driver 412, the third driver, the fourth driver, the fifth driver, and the sixth driver are added to the projectable space entity 31; therefore, when being projected Workspace 32 When the control device 24 is built, the data acquisition tool 43 can capture the sensing data of the first electronic device 21 (the sound data data belonging to a plurality of orientations respectively) and transmit the data to the storage device 25 for storage and analysis. The tool 42 can control the corresponding ones of the second electronic device 22, the third electronic device, the fourth electronic device, the fifth electronic device, and the sixth electronic device to be enhanced after analyzing the sensing data stored in the storage device 25. Or weakened; therefore, any user can easily install the surround sound at home without the need for professional sound localization to assist.

In particular, in the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention, the analysis method to be used for the analysis and control tool 42 can be set according to the actual application requirements, and there are many related data explorations currently on the market ( The algorithm of Data mining is available for use by those skilled in the art and will not be described here.

According to the above description, the method for controlling an electronic device of the present invention provides an operating environment for a user to configure a plurality of electronic device drivers in a control device in a freely combinable manner and compatible with each other, and the electronic devices are compatible with each other. The device can also operate automatically according to actual application requirements and conditions, thereby reducing the manpower consumption caused by the design or manual control of complex control processes, thereby facilitating people's lives.

Of course, the above are only examples, and those skilled in the art can make any equal change design according to actual application requirements; for example, the design can be changed to control the machine and configure the machine as a common machine; It can be changed to design whether the data acquisition tool is designed to be set in the analysis and control tool, or whether the analysis and control tool is designed to be set in the data acquisition tool, or whether the data acquisition tool and the analysis and control tool are designed. For a common tool. Further, it is possible to change the design so that the storage device is installed in the control device.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the patent application of the present invention. Therefore, any equivalent changes or modifications made without departing from the spirit of the present invention should be included in the present case. Within the scope of the patent application.

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Claims (20)

A method of controlling an electronic device, comprising: providing a projectable spatial entity for modeling a workspace to a control machine, and the projectable spatial real system providing an analysis and control tool, a data Extracting a tool and at least one unified tool corresponding to the at least one electronic device and driving the at least one electronic device; and interpreting the projectable spatial entity by using a projection means in the control machine A projected workspace of the workspace is configured to operate on the control device to enable the data capture tool to retrieve a data of the at least one electronic device through the at least one unified tool for the analysis and The control tool performs analysis, and the analysis and control tool controls the at least one electronic device via the at least one unified tool according to the analysis result. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one unified tool comprises a person formed by being unified by at least one driver. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device. The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 2, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool comprises a plurality of drivers respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices The program is formed by being unified; wherein the plurality of drivers are unified and configured in the projected workspace to be compatible with each other. The method of controlling the electronic device of claim 1, further comprising: storing the data of the at least one electronic device captured by the data acquisition tool to a storage device for the analysis and Control tools for analysis. The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices. The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 6, wherein the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, or the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices provide different The utility, or at least two of the plurality of electronic devices, are manufactured by different manufacturers and provide different functions. The method for controlling the electronic device according to claim 1 is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system or a transportation. system. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control device is a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device or a wearable electronic device. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensibility markup language (XML) or a structured language (structured language) Or an instance of a structured protocol generated by an organized protocol. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the data acquisition tool is disposed in the analysis and control tool, or is the analysis and control tool disposed in the data acquisition tool, or The data capture tool is a common tool with the analysis and control tool. A control machine for controlling at least one electronic device, the control machine comprising a projection means, and a projectable space entity for constructing a working space, wherein the projectable space entity is disposed Providing an analysis and control tool, a data capture tool, and at least one unified tool for driving the at least one electronic device; wherein the projection means interprets The data-capturing tool captures the at least one through the at least one unified tool when the projectable space entity corresponding to the workspace is built on the control device and operates A data data of the electronic device is analyzed by the analysis and control tool, and the analysis and control tool controls the at least one electronic device via the at least one unified tool according to the analysis result. The control machine of claim 11, wherein the at least one unified tool comprises a person formed by being unified by at least one driver. The control device of claim 13, wherein the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device. The control device of claim 13, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool comprises a plurality of drivers respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices. Formed after the avatar; wherein the plurality of drivers are unified and configured in the projected workspace to be compatible with each other. The control device of claim 12, further comprising a storage device for storing the data of the at least one electronic device captured by the data acquisition tool for further use by the analysis and control tool analysis. The control device of claim 12, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices. The control machine of claim 17, wherein the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, or the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices provide different functions, or The at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers and For different functions. The control device of claim 12, wherein the data acquisition tool is disposed in the analysis and control tool, or is the analysis and control tool disposed in the data acquisition tool, or is the data acquisition Tools and the analysis and control tools are a common tool. The control machine according to claim 12 is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system or a transportation system; and/ Or the control device is a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device or a wearable electronic device.