TWI585688B - Control system and method and control device - Google Patents

Description

Control method, control device and control system

The content disclosed in the present application relates to a control method, a control device, and a control system, and more particularly to a method for controlling a device to be controlled without installing a control program of a device to be controlled, a control device for implementing the control method, and an application thereof The control system of the control method.

Smart home appliances are being widely used in the home. For a smart home appliance product, an application for controlling the smart home appliance product (hereinafter referred to as "application") is usually accompanied. These applications can be installed on a user's mobile device (such as a smart phone or tablet) to control smart home appliances.

Developers of smart home appliances develop dedicated applications for their smart home appliances. Individual applications can only control a single (or a single series) of smart home appliances, even if they largely achieve the same functionality. This can be analogous to the fact that for traditional home appliances, the remote control between different brands of home appliances is incompatible; for smart home appliances, different applications are also incompatible. If the user purchases a plurality of different brands of smart home appliances, it is necessary to install their own applications for each brand of smart home appliances, which will cause unnecessary trouble to the user. In order to avoid such troubles, users can only choose a single (or a few) brands.

In addition, developers of smart home appliances are not only developing applications for smart home appliances, but also developing programs that run on smart home appliances to realize various functions of smart home appliances (hereinafter referred to as "functional programs"). Therefore, developers need to maintain and/or upgrade these two programs. And the programs in these two aspects are closely related to each other, when one of them After the program has been modified or upgraded, it usually causes the program on the other side to be modified or upgraded accordingly.

Furthermore, applications for smart home appliances need to run on devices such as smart phones and tablets. Developing low-quality applications can result in overall performance degradation for user devices such as smartphones and tablets. Even some malicious code can exploit the vulnerability of a low-quality application to invade the user's device, causing security problems.

The inventive concept has been proposed in response to these problems in the prior art. According to the control device of the present invention, control of the device to be controlled can be realized without installing a control program (i.e., an application) for a specific device to be controlled on a user such as a smart phone or a tablet. Furthermore, the inventive concept also provides a control method and a control system.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a control device is provided, comprising: a communication unit that receives control description information from a device to be controlled, the control description information is used to describe a control mode of the device to be controlled; and a control unit The control description information received by the communication unit is parsed, wherein the control information is input according to the parsed control description information, and the communication unit sends the input control information to the device to be controlled.

According to the control device of the inventive concept, before controlling the device to be controlled, the control device may receive control description information from the device to be controlled and parse the received control description information. Subsequently, control information is input based on the analysis result of the control description information to control the device to be controlled. That is to say, an inventive concept is proposed in which before the control device is controlled, the control device does not know how to control the device to be controlled, and obtains control description information provided by the device to be controlled, and controls the device. Can have the ability to control the device to be controlled. Thus, when controlling a device to be controlled by the control device according to the inventive concept, the user does not need to install a control program for a specific device to be controlled.

Correspondingly, the developer of the device to be controlled does not need to develop an application installed on the user device, but only needs to develop a functional program that implements various functions of the device to be controlled, provides control description information according to a prescribed format, and describes the control The information is stored on the device to be controlled for transmission to the control device, thereby reducing the workload of the developer. In addition, when the functional program is modified to change the control mode, the developer only needs to modify the control description information stored on the device to be controlled accordingly, without updating the application on the user device. That is to say, when the change of the functional program on the device to be controlled causes the control mode to change, the user does not need to update the application on the control device (for example, a user device such as a smart phone or a tablet). Only after receiving the updated control description information from the device to be controlled, the updated control mode can be controlled on the updated device to be controlled.

When controlling the device to be controlled, the control device (for example, the user's smart phone or tablet) receives the control description information only from the device to be controlled and parses the received control description information, thereby ensuring that the control device is not operated. The influence of the device to be controlled and the safety hazard of the control device is reduced.

According to the control device of the present invention, the user can freely select and control the desired device to be controlled as long as the device to be controlled can provide the control description information in a prescribed format.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the control device may further include a display unit that displays a control interface corresponding to the received control description information according to the parsed control description information, and inputs control information through the displayed control interface.

The control device according to the inventive concept may be implemented as a controller having a display unit, and a control interface corresponding to the control description information may be displayed on the display unit. The user can then operate on the displayed control interface to enter various control information. The controller displaying the control interface can send various control information input to the device to be controlled to control it in response to the user's operation.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control server is provided, comprising: a communication unit that receives control description information from a device to be controlled, the control description information used to describe a control mode of the device to be controlled; and a control unit Determining control description information received by the communication unit; and a service providing unit that provides the parsed control description information to a third-party application, wherein the third-party application is used to input information according to the parsed control description Control information, and the communication unit sends the input control information to the device to be controlled.

The control device according to the inventive concept may be implemented as a control server having a service providing unit, and the parsed control description information is provided to a third party application. In this case, various applications running on the user device (for example, a smart phone or tablet), including service class processes running in the background, can conveniently access and control the control device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control method is provided, comprising the steps of: receiving control description information from a device to be controlled, the control description information being used to describe a control mode of the device to be controlled; and parsing the received control description information ; input control information according to the parsed control description information; and send the input control information to the device to be controlled.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the control interface corresponding to the received control description information may be displayed according to the parsed control description information, and the control information is input through the displayed control interface.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control method is provided, comprising the steps of: receiving control description information from a device to be controlled, the control description information being used to describe a control mode of the device to be controlled; and parsing the received control description information Providing the parsed control description information to the third-party application; inputting the control information according to the parsed control description information through the third-party application; and transmitting the input control information to the device to be controlled.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control system is provided, including a control device and a device to be controlled. The device to be controlled sends control description information to the control device, and the control device parses the received control description information, wherein, according to the analysis, The control describes the information input control information, and the control device sends the input control information to the device to be controlled.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the control device may display a control interface corresponding to the received control description information according to the parsed control description information, and input control information through the displayed control interface.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a control system including a control server and a device to be controlled, the device to be controlled transmitting control description information to a control server, the control server parsing the received control description information, and The parsed control description information is provided to the third-party application, wherein the control information is input according to the parsed control description information by the third-party application, and the control server sends the input control information to the device to be controlled.

According to the conception of the present invention, a user can control various devices to be controlled produced by different types and different manufacturers through a unified control device, as long as the device to be controlled can provide control description information according to a prescribed format. Thus, the user can freely select the device to be controlled. In addition, the user does not need to install a specific application for a specific device to be controlled, thereby reducing the security risk of the user device. On the other hand, the developer of the device to be controlled does not need to develop or maintain an application that needs to be installed on the user device or provide a separate controller, thereby reducing the workload of the developer.

According to the control server of the inventive concept, various applications running on the user device can conveniently access and control the control device.

10‧‧‧Control equipment

11‧‧‧Communication unit

12‧‧‧Control unit

13‧‧‧Display unit

14‧‧‧Service Providing Unit

1000‧‧‧Wisdom bulb

101‧‧‧Color selection control

102‧‧‧Brightness selection control

103‧‧‧Switch control

1021‧‧‧ Low-brightness icon

1022‧‧‧High-intensity icon

2000‧‧‧Webcam

201‧‧‧Window Controls

202‧‧‧ button group control

203‧‧‧Switch control

3000‧‧‧Camera application

The above as well as other aspects, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of the drawings. In the drawings: FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a control device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept; FIGS. 2 and 3 exemplarily show a display unit through a control device according to the parsed control description information An example of the displayed control interface; 4 and 5 exemplarily illustrate a third party application that can utilize a parsed control description information provided by a control server according to an embodiment of the inventive concept to control a control device; FIG. 6A And FIG. 6B shows a schematic diagram showing a plurality of devices to be controlled on a display unit of the control device; FIGS. 7A and 7B are schematic views showing a control system according to an embodiment of the inventive concept; A schematic flowchart of a control method of an embodiment of the inventive concept; and FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic flow chart of a method for establishing a control connection between a control device and a device to be controlled according to an embodiment of the inventive concept.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and the scope of the invention will be fully disclosed to those skilled in the art. In the figures, the various components are not drawn to scale, and the same reference numerals will be used to refer to the same or similar components.

The terms "a", "an", "the" and "the" and "the" The terms "including", "comprising", "comprising" and "comprising" are to be interpreted as an open term (ie, meaning "including but not limited to").

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning meaning meaning It is also to be understood that the invention is not to be construed as limited Moreover, unless otherwise defined, all terms defined in a commonly used dictionary may not be overly interpreted.

[controlling device]

FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of a control device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept.

As shown in FIG. 1 , a control device 10 according to an embodiment of the inventive concept may include a communication unit 11 and a control unit 12 . The communication unit 11 is configured to receive control description information from the device to be controlled. The control unit 12 is configured to parse the control description information received by the communication unit 11. The control information is input according to the parsed control description information, and the communication unit 11 transmits the input control information to the device to be controlled.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the control device may be implemented as a controller. In this case, the control device may comprise a display unit 13 for displaying a control interface. The control interface corresponding to the received control description information may be displayed on the display unit 13 according to the parsed control description information. Users can enter control information through the displayed control interface.

According to another embodiment of the inventive concept, the control device may be implemented as a control server. In this case, the control device may include the service providing unit 14 that provides the parsed control description information to the third party application. The third party application can be used to input control information based on the parsed control description information.

According to still another embodiment of the inventive concept, the control device may be implemented as a control device having both the display unit 13 and the service providing unit 14. Thereby, the control interface corresponding to the received control description information can be displayed on the display unit 13 based on the parsed control description information. Users can enter control information through the displayed control interface. In addition, the parsed control description information may be provided to the third-party application, and the control information is input according to the parsed control description information through the third-party application.

The control description information may include one or more of the following: a control item type, a control word corresponding to the control item, a display position corresponding to the control item, display information corresponding to the control item, a dot map corresponding to the control item, and Description information corresponding to the control item. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the control description information may include any information for describing a control mode of the device to be controlled, or may also include any information for displaying a control interface.

[controller]

An embodiment in which the control device is implemented as a controller having the display unit 13 will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

FIG. 2 exemplarily shows an example of a control interface displayed by the display unit 13 of the control device (controller) 10 based on the parsed control description information. An example of the control interface shown in FIG. 2 can be used to control the smart light bulb 1000. That is, the control interface shown in FIG. 2 is displayed based on the result of parsing the control description information obtained from the smart bulb 1000 (ie, the device to be controlled).

Referring to FIG. 2, a control interface for controlling the smart light bulb 1000 may include, for example, three control items: a color selection control item 101, a brightness selection control item 102, and a switch control item 103.

In the example shown in FIG. 2, the color selection control item 101 may be a circular color map, and the user may control the color of the light emitted by the smart light bulb 1000 through the color selection control item 101. The brightness selection control item 102 can be a bar type control item and includes icons 1021 and 1022 indicating low brightness and high brightness, respectively. The user can control the brightness of the smart light bulb 1000 by sliding on the brightness selection control item 102 or clicking on the corresponding position of the bar type control item. The switch control item 103 can be a button type control item, and in the example shown in FIG. 2, the switch control item 103 is displayed as a common switch icon. The user can turn the smart light bulb 1000 on or off by clicking the switch control item 103.

It should be appreciated that FIG. 2 shows, by way of example only, a control interface that can be displayed based on the results of parsing the control description information, but the invention is not limited thereto.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the communication unit 11 of the control device 10 can receive a data packet from the device to be controlled and parse the received data packet by the control unit 12. Further, it is also possible to display the content corresponding to the received packet on the control interface displayed on the display unit 13 of the control device 10. Alternatively or additionally, the control unit 12 of the control device 10 can process the parsed data package and send the processed data package to the device to be controlled via the communication unit 11.

The data packet received from the device to be controlled may include one or more of the following: a static image data package, a dynamic image data package, an audio data package, a video data package, and a physical sign parameter. The data package, the data package indicating the environmental parameters, and the data package indicating the parameters of the device to be controlled, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

It should be appreciated that there may be various custom types of data packages on the device to be controlled, and the control device is not aware of the type or data format of the data package in advance. In this case, the control device can receive a data template for parsing the data package from the device to be controlled. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a data package may be transmitted from a device to be controlled to a control device together with a data template. For example, the type of material used to provide a package is a type of material with self-describing information and/or metadata. According to another embodiment of the present invention, when the control device attempts to resolve that the data packet received from the device to be controlled is unsuccessful, the control device may issue a request to the device to be controlled to acquire a corresponding data template.

FIG. 3 exemplarily shows another example of the control interface displayed by the display unit 13 of the control device (controller) 10 based on the parsed control description information. An example of the control interface shown in FIG. 3 is used to control the network camera 2000. That is, the control interface shown in FIG. 3 is displayed based on the result of parsing the control description information obtained from the network camera 2000 (ie, the device to be controlled).

Referring to FIG. 3, a control interface for controlling the network camera 2000 may include, for example, three control items: a window control item 201, a button group control item 202, and a switch control item 203.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, the window control item 201 is a rectangular window, and the user can view the instant dynamic picture transmitted by the network camera 2000 to the control device 10 through the window control item 201. The control device 10 parses the data packets transmitted from the network camera 2000 to display an instant dynamic picture in the window control item 201. In addition, the user can also control the network camera 2000 by touching different parts of the window control item 201. For example, the user can operate the edge portion of the touch window control item 201 or the single-finger swipe gesture to cause the webcam 2000 to be deflected accordingly; or the user can perform a zoom gesture on the window control item 201 through the two fingers. The webcam 2000 is caused to push and pull the lens accordingly.

The button group control 202 integrates a plurality of buttons, such as playing, pausing, shooting or recording, and the like. Further, in the example shown in FIG. 3, the button group control item 202 also integrates an extension button (ie, The button in the middle of the button group control item 202) allows the user to display more buttons by clicking the extension button to control the network camera 2000 or process the displayed content.

The switch control item 203 is shown as an "X"-shaped illustration in the example shown in FIG. The user can turn the network camera 2000 on or off by clicking the switch control item 203. It should be appreciated that the switch control items 103 and 203 having the same function are respectively included in the examples of the control interfaces of FIGS. 2 and 3, but the illustrations of the switch control items 103 and 203 are not the same. This is because, in the control description information provided by the smart light bulb 1000 and the network camera 2000, different dot patterns or picture resources for displaying the switch control items 103 and 203 are respectively provided.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, the content corresponding to the data packet received from the device to be controlled, that is, the instant dynamic picture, can be displayed on the control interface. According to another embodiment of the inventive concept, after the control unit 12 of the control device 10 parses the data packet received from the device to be controlled, the control unit 12 may further process the parsed data packet and pass through the communication unit 11 The processed data package is sent to the device to be controlled.

It should be appreciated that FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate the smart light bulb 1000 and the network camera 2000 as devices to be controlled by way of example only, but the invention is not limited thereto.

The control device according to the inventive concept may be a controller having a physical entity or an application installed on the user device. A control device according to the inventive concept is implemented as a controller having a display unit with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. Furthermore, the control device according to the inventive concept can also be implemented as an application that can run on a user device (eg, a smart phone or tablet) having a display unit. That is, the control device according to the inventive concept can be implemented in a software manner, and can be used as a control device when the software runs on a user device such as a smart phone or a tablet computer. The controller that the device controls.

[Control Server]

An embodiment in which the control device is implemented as a control server having the service providing unit 14 will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

4 and 5 exemplarily illustrate a third party application that can utilize a parsed control description information provided by a control server according to an embodiment of the inventive concept to control a control device.

As shown in FIG. 4, the third party application can be a camera application 3000 running on a user device such as a smart phone or tablet. When the camera application 3000 is executed to prepare for photographing or photographing, the user can set shooting parameters such as color temperature through the setting interface provided by the camera application 3000. At this time, the camera application 3000 may issue a request to the control server according to the present embodiment to obtain the parsed control description information of the smart light bulb 1000 installed in the shooting environment, for example.

According to the control server of the present embodiment, the communication unit 11 receives control description information for describing the control mode of the device to be controlled from the device to be controlled, and the control unit 12 analyzes the control description information received by the communication unit, and The service providing unit 14 then provides the parsed control description information to the requesting third party application.

The control description information may include any information describing the manner of control of the device to be controlled, or may also include any information for displaying the control interface. For the control server, only information describing the control mode of the device to be controlled needs to be provided to the third party application.

A third-party application that obtains the parsed control description information can enter control information. For example, the camera application 3000 can input the color temperature set by the user as control information to the control server according to the present embodiment. Subsequently, the communication unit 11 transmits the input control information to the device to be controlled. For example, the color temperature set by the user is sent as control information to the smart light bulb 1000 to provide a shooting environment consistent with the shooting parameters set by the user.

Furthermore, FIG. 5 schematically shows that the camera application 3000 can obtain a data package provided by, for example, the network camera 2000 by issuing a request to the control server according to the present embodiment.

According to the control server of the present embodiment, the communication unit 11 can receive the data package from the device to be controlled, the control unit 12 parses the received data package, and the service providing unit 14 supplies the parsed data package to the requesting third party. application.

Similar to the embodiment of the controller, the data packet received from the device to be controlled may include one or more of the following: a static image data package, a dynamic image data package, an audio data package, a video data package, and a human body. A data packet of the physical parameter, a data packet indicating the environmental parameter, and a data packet indicating the parameter of the device to be controlled, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Further, the control server according to the present embodiment can receive a data template for parsing the data package from the device to be controlled. The manner of receiving the data template is similar to the embodiment of the above controller, and thus the description will not be repeated.

The third party application can display or utilize the content corresponding to the received package. For example, the camera application 3000 shown in FIG. 5 can display an instant dynamic picture of the network camera 2000 and take a picture or video with the network camera 2000. Alternatively or additionally, the third party application may process the parsed data package and send the processed data package to the device to be controlled via the communication unit 11 of the control server.

It should be appreciated that FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate camera application 3000 by way of example only to be able to utilize a parsed control description information provided by a control server in accordance with the inventive concepts to treat a device (eg, smart bulb 1000) A third party application controlled by the network camera 2000), but the invention is not limited thereto.

The control server according to the inventive concept may be a server having a physical entity or a control service program installed on the user device. When the control server according to the inventive concept is implemented in a manner of controlling a service program, various third-party applications on the user device running the control service program can conveniently access and control the control device through the control service program. .

[Control System]

A control device (for example, the control device 10 shown in FIG. 1) according to an embodiment of the inventive concept and a device to be controlled (for example, the smart light bulb 1000 and the network camera 2000 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3) constitute a A control system of an embodiment of the inventive concept. The device to be controlled sends control description information to the control device, and the control device parses the received control description information. According to the analyzed control The system describes the information input control information, and the control device sends the input control information to the device to be controlled.

The control device may be implemented as a controller having a display unit or may be implemented as a control server having a service providing unit. Regardless of the manner in which the control device according to the inventive concept is implemented, it can be used to construct a control system in accordance with the inventive concept.

When the control device is implemented as a controller having a display unit, the control device may display a control interface corresponding to the received control description information according to the parsed control description information, and input control information through the displayed control interface. In addition, the control device can receive the data package from the device to be controlled and parse the received data package. The control device can display the content corresponding to the received data package on the control interface. Alternatively or additionally, the control device may process the parsed data package and send the processed data package to the device to be controlled.

When the control device is implemented as a control server with a service providing unit, the device to be controlled sends control description information to the control server, the control server parses the received control description information, and provides the parsed control description information to the control device. third-party usage. The third party application inputs the control information according to the parsed control description information, and the control server sends the input control information to the device to be controlled. In addition, the control server can receive the data package from the device to be controlled and parse the received data package, and the control server can provide the parsed data package to the third party application. The third party application can display or utilize the content corresponding to the received package. Alternatively or additionally, the third party application may process the parsed data package and send the processed data package to the device to be controlled via the control server.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a control device (controller or control server) may periodically (or manually by a user) search for a device to be controlled and send a control access request to the searched device to be controlled. The device to be controlled may respond after receiving the control access request sent by the control device to allow or deny the control access request of the control device. The control device can establish control of the device to be controlled only after receiving a response signal indicating that access to the control device is allowed to be accessed and controlled. Systematic connection. As used herein, "controlling connection" means that the control device can control the device to be controlled through the connection.

While transmitting the control access request to the searched device to be controlled, or after transmitting the control access request, the control device may send the identity authentication information to the searched device to be controlled. After confirming that the received identity authentication information is valid identity authentication information, the device to be controlled may send a response signal allowing access and control; after confirming that the received identity authentication information is invalid identity authentication information, the device to be controlled may Send a rejection signal.

Taking the control device as a controller having a display unit as an example, FIGS. 6A and 6B show schematic diagrams showing a plurality of devices to be controlled displayed on a display unit of the control device. In the schematic shown in Fig. 6A, three devices to be controlled are shown: a camera in the living room, a camera 2 in the study, and a bulb 1 in the living room. In the schematic shown in Fig. 6B, the bulb 2 located in the kitchen is added. The process shown in FIG. 6A and FIG. 6B is taken as an example to describe the process in which the control device discovers and adds the device to be controlled.

For example, when the control device searches for the bulb 2 located in the kitchen, an illustration representing the bulb 2 can be displayed on the display unit as shown in Fig. 6B. Subsequently, the user can click on the icon representing the bulb 2 to establish a controlled connection with the bulb 2. Before establishing a control connection, you can prompt for a username and password as the authentication information that represents the identity of the user. Initial authentication information can be printed on the device to be controlled (or its packaging). After the first connection is established, the username and password can be modified, or new valid authentication information can be added to the device to be controlled (ie, new users are added).

When the control device is implemented as a control server having a service providing unit, the process of adding the device to be controlled may be without user participation. The control server can automatically provide identity authentication information to the device to be controlled before establishing a control connection. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the control server according to the inventive concept may also include the display unit 13, and the device to be controlled may be added in a manner similar to that described with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B.

7A and 7B illustrate schematic diagrams of a control system in accordance with an embodiment of the inventive concept. In the example of the control system shown in FIG. 7A, the control device is shown as a controller having a display unit, and in the example of the control system shown in FIG. 7B, the control device is shown as a control servo having a service providing unit Device.

In the control system shown in Figs. 7A and 7B, in addition to the control device and the device to be controlled, a registration server is included. The registration server is used to register/unregister the device to be controlled. The control device may access the registration server to search for the device to be controlled according to the registration status of the device to be controlled at the registration server. However, the registration server is not required, and the control device can search for the device to be controlled by itself.

Taking the case shown in FIG. 6A and FIG. 6B as an example again, after the light bulb 2 located in the kitchen performs the registration operation on the registration server, the control device can search for the registered light bulb 2 when accessing the registration server, and can An illustration showing the bulb 2 is displayed on the display unit 13, as shown in Fig. 6B. Subsequently, the user can click on the icon representing the bulb 2 to establish a controlled connection with the bulb 2. Alternatively or additionally, the control server can automatically add the bulb 2 and establish a controllable connection with the bulb 2.

When the device to be controlled is started, the registration server registers the device to be controlled that has been activated, and when the device to be controlled is turned off, the registration server logs out the device to be controlled that has been turned off. For example, during the startup process of the device to be controlled, the device to be controlled may perform a registration operation in the registration server, and the registration server registers the device to be controlled as an activated state. In addition, the registration server can record the control device for which access is made and send a notification to the recorded control device upon registration and/or logout of the device to be controlled. For example, the control device searches through the registration server for the device to be controlled (for example, the bulb 2 shown in FIG. 6B) and establishes a controllable connection with the bulb 2. When the light bulb 2 is logged out of the registration server, the registration server can send a notification that the light bulb 2 has been logged out to the control device, and after the light bulb 2 is registered again on the registration server, the notification that the light bulb 2 has been registered is sent to the control. device. The control device may be a controller having a display unit or a control server having a service providing unit.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the device to be controlled may autonomously perform a registration/logout operation on the registration server. For example, when the device to be controlled is started, it may not be on the registration server. The line is registered, but in the case where the specific condition is satisfied, the device to be controlled autonomously performs the registration operation on the registration server, and when the specific condition is no longer satisfied, the device to be controlled autonomously performs the logout operation on the registration server. The specific conditions include, but are not limited to, an environment in which the device to be controlled is located, a state of the device to be controlled, a predetermined period of time, and the like.

In the case where the control device searches for the registered device to be controlled only by accessing the registration server, the control device cannot know the device to be controlled that has been activated but not yet registered. The control device can issue a request to the registration server to search for the device to be controlled that has been activated but not yet registered. If the registration server searches for a device to be controlled that has been activated but has not yet been registered, and the device to be controlled has established a control connection with the requesting control device, the registration server can "push" the searched device to be controlled. To the control device. The control device may be a controller having a display unit or a control server having a service providing unit.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the registration server may be a separate server in the network environment, or the registration server may be implemented as part of a router providing a network environment. The network environment is preferably a wireless network environment, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). The router providing the network environment is preferably a wireless router. When the activated device to be controlled accesses the WLAN through the wireless router, the registration operation can be performed on the wireless router, or the device to be controlled can perform the registration operation on the wireless router autonomously under the condition that the specific condition is met.

[Control Method]

FIG. 8 shows a schematic flow chart of a control method according to an embodiment of the inventive concept.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 8, in step S01, the control device 10 shown in FIG. 1 can receive control description information from the device to be controlled through the communication unit 11, and the control description information is used to describe the control mode of the device to be controlled. At step S02, the control unit 12 of the device 10 parses the received control description information. In step S03, the control information is input based on the parsed control description information. At step S04, the communication unit 11 of the device 10 transmits the input control information to the device to be controlled.

When the control device 10 is implemented as a controller having the display unit 13, in step S03, the control device 10 can display and receive on the display unit 13 based on the parsed control description information. Controls the control interface corresponding to the description information and inputs control information through the displayed control interface. In addition, the control method may further include the step of receiving the data packet from the device to be controlled and parsing the received data packet. The content corresponding to the received package can be displayed on the control interface displayed by the display unit 13 of the control device 10. Alternatively or additionally, the control unit 12 of the control device 10 can process the parsed data package and send the processed data package to the device to be controlled via the communication unit 11.

When the control device 10 is implemented as the control server having the service providing unit 14, in step S03, the service providing unit 14 of the control device 10 can provide the parsed control description information to the third party application and through the third party application. Enter control information based on the parsed control description information. In addition, the control method may further include the steps of receiving the data package from the device to be controlled and parsing the received data package, and providing the parsed data package to the third party application. The third party application can display or utilize the content corresponding to the received package. Alternatively or additionally, the third party application may process the parsed data package and send the processed data package to the device to be controlled via the communication unit 11 of the control device 10.

FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic flow chart of a method of establishing a control connection between a control device and a device to be controlled, according to an embodiment of the inventive concept. The control device may be a controller having a display unit or a control server having a service providing unit.

As shown in FIG. 9, the control device can search for the device to be controlled (step S11), and send a control access request to the searched device to be controlled (step S12). The control device may transmit identity authentication information to the device to be controlled (step S13). In FIG. 9, although the step of transmitting the identity authentication information is shown as being after the step of transmitting the control access request, the inventive concept is not limited thereto. For example, the control device can send identity authentication information while sending a control access request. Further, according to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the step of transmitting identity authentication information may be omitted.

When the control device sends the identity authentication information, the device to be controlled may send the permission to access and control after confirming that the received identity authentication information is valid identity authentication information. The response signal; after confirming that the received identity authentication information is invalid identity authentication information, the device to be controlled can send a rejection signal.

After receiving the response signal allowing access and control (YES in step S14), the control device can establish a control connection with the device to be controlled (step S16). Alternatively, after receiving the rejection signal (NO in step S14), the control device may resend the identity authentication information or discard (step S15).

While various embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, the embodiments of the invention The scope of the invention is intended to cover all such modifications and modifications.

10‧‧‧Control equipment

11‧‧‧Communication unit

12‧‧‧Control unit

13‧‧‧Display unit

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Claims (8)

A control system includes a control device and a device to be controlled, wherein the control device sends control description information to the control device, and the control device parses the received control description information, wherein the control information is input according to the parsed control description information, and The control device sends the input control information to the device to be controlled; wherein: the control device searches for the device to be controlled, and sends a control access request to the searched device to be controlled, and after receiving the response signal of the device to be controlled, The control device establishes a control connection with the device to be controlled, and the response signal indicates that the device to be controlled is allowed to access and the device to be controlled is controlled; wherein: the control system further includes a registration server for registering/ Logging out the device to be controlled, and the control device accesses the registration server to search for the device to be controlled according to the registration state of the device to be controlled in the registration server. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control device displays a control interface corresponding to the received control description information according to the parsed control description information, and inputs control information through the displayed control interface. The control system of claim 2, wherein the control device receives the data package from the device to be controlled and parses the received data package. The control system of claim 3, wherein the control device displays content corresponding to the received data package on the control interface, and/or the control device performs the parsed data package Processing, and sending the processed data package to the device to be controlled. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control device transmits the control access request to the searched device to be controlled while transmitting the control access request to the searched device to be controlled, or after transmitting the control access request Identity authentication information, After the device to be controlled confirms that the received identity authentication information is valid identity authentication information, the device sends the response signal, and/or the device to be controlled confirms that the received identity authentication information is invalid identity authentication information. , send a rejection signal. The control system of claim 1, wherein the registration server records a control device that accesses the control device, and sends a notification to the recorded control device when registering and/or logging out of the device to be controlled . The control system according to claim 1, wherein the registration server registers the activated device to be controlled when the device to be controlled is started, and the registration server is deactivated when the device to be controlled is closed. The device to be controlled, and/or the device to be controlled autonomously performs a registration/logout operation on the registration server. The control system of claim 7, wherein the control device issues a request to the registration server to search for a device to be controlled that has been activated but not yet registered.