TWI732409B - Smart home appliance control method - Google Patents

Abstract

A smart home appliance control method, implemented by a server, includes: (A) Obtain a target function determination model from a plurality of function determination models according to a received voice information, and the target user end is the user end In one of them, each function determination model is used to determine whether the household appliance corresponding to the household appliance data has a specific function, and the target function determination model is used to determine whether the corresponding household appliance has the function that the user wants to turn on; (B) use this The target function determination model obtains at least one data of a home appliance to be turned on that has the function that the user wants to turn on from at least one piece of target home appliance data corresponding to the target user end; (C) when the number of data on the at least one home appliance to be turned on is At a time, generate and send an electric start command for a household to the household electrical appliance corresponding to the household electrical appliance data to be turned on.

Description

Smart home appliance control method

The present invention relates to an operation method of a smart home appliance, in particular to an operation method for controlling a smart home appliance through voice.

With the advancement of modern technology, smart home appliances are more commonly used in homes. However, in current technology, when users want to operate smart home appliances through voice control, they must clearly indicate the device name of the home appliance and the specific device that they want to turn on. The function can only turn on the corresponding home appliance, but the home appliance with too complicated function is not very intuitive and easy to use compared to the young children or the elderly at home.

In view of this, it is necessary to propose a new solution to overcome the current technical problems.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide an operation method that can turn on the desired home appliance without explicitly indicating the device name of the home appliance and the specific function to be turned on.

Therefore, the smart home appliance control method of the present invention is implemented by a server that connects multiple users and multiple home appliances via a communication network. The server stores a plurality of records corresponding to the users operating the users. User information, each user information includes data of respective home appliances corresponding to at least one home owned by the user. The smart home appliance control method includes one step (A), one step (B), and one step (C).

Step (A) is to use the server to receive a voice message from a target client that is related to the function to be opened by the user who operates the target client, and then, according to the voice information, from multiple In the function judgment model, a target function judgment model is obtained, and the target user end is one of the user ends. Each function judgment model is used to determine whether the household appliance corresponding to the household appliance data has a specific function. The target function judgment The specific function corresponding to the model is the function that the user wants to open.

Step (B) is to obtain at least one home appliance data to be opened from at least one target home appliance data contained in the target user information corresponding to the target user end by using the target function judgment model by the server end. The home appliances corresponding to the opened home appliance data all have the functions that the user wants to open.

Step (C) is that when the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be opened is one, the server generates and sends an electric start command to the home appliance corresponding to the home appliance data to be opened, so that the home appliance data corresponding to the home appliance to be opened The home appliance is activated according to the home appliance activation instruction.

The effect of the present invention is that the server obtains the target function determination model for determining whether it has the function that the user wants to open according to the received voice message, and then uses the target function determination model to at least Obtain the data of the at least one home appliance to be opened from a target home appliance data, and when the number of the at least one home appliance data to be opened is one, control the activation of the home appliance corresponding to the home appliance data to be opened, so as to achieve that there is no need to clearly indicate the device name of the home appliance And the specific function you want to turn on, then turn on the required home appliances.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same numbers.

Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention includes a server terminal 1, a plurality of clients 2 connected to the server terminal 1 via a communication network 200, and a plurality of clients connected to the server via the communication network 200 Home appliance 3 at end 1.

The server terminal 1 includes a server terminal communication module 11 connected to the communication network 200, a server terminal storage module 12, and a server terminal electrically connecting the server terminal communication module 11 and the server terminal storage module 12 Processing module 13.

The server storage module 12 stores a plurality of user information corresponding to the users operating the user terminals 2, a plurality of function determination models, a plurality of keyword tables corresponding to the function determination models, and a plurality of A specific function training set corresponding to various different home appliance functions.

Among them, each user information includes the home appliance data corresponding to at least one household appliance 3 owned by the user (that is, each user terminal 2 is bound to the household appliance 3 corresponding to the at least one household appliance data). The home appliance information includes a model code of an electric appliance. Each function determination model is used to determine whether the household appliance corresponding to the household appliance data has a specific function. Each specific training set contains multiple training appliance data, and each training appliance data contained in each specific training set is marked as an indication that it has a specific function corresponding to the specific training set and an indication that it does not have the specific training Set one of the corresponding specific functions, and each training home appliance data includes an electric model code. The home appliance functions corresponding to the specific function training sets include air cleaning, temperature adjustment, and humidity adjustment, but are not limited to the above.

It is worth noting that in this embodiment, for each specific function training set, the server-side processing module 13 uses a support vector machine (SVM, Support Vector Machine) to obtain the specific function according to the specific function training set. The function judgment model corresponding to the training set, but not limited to this. Specifically, when the specific functions corresponding to the specific function training sets include air cleaning, temperature adjustment, and humidity adjustment, they will be trained based on different specific function training sets to determine whether they have The function judgment model for the air cleaning function, the function judgment model for judging whether it has a temperature adjustment function, and the function judgment model for judging whether it has the humidity control function, but not limited to this.

Each user end 2 includes a user end communication module 21 connected to the communication network 200, a user end receiving module 22 for receiving any voice, and an electrical connection between the user end communication module 21 and the voice The use-side processing module 23 of the receiving module 22.

In this embodiment, the implementation of the server 1 is, for example, a personal computer, a server, or a cloud host, but it is not limited to this.

In this embodiment, the implementation aspect of each end 2 is, for example, a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a smart speaker, but it is not limited to this.

In this embodiment, the implementation aspect of each home appliance 3 is, for example, a smart home appliance, but it is not limited to this.

Referring to FIG. 2, the operation details of the server 1, the user terminals 2, and the components of the home appliances 3 will be described below by using the embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention. The smart home appliance control method of the present invention includes step 51 ~61.

In step 51, the user-side processing module 23 of one of the user-ends 2 of the target user-end 2 receives through the user-end receiving module 22 a message related to the user's desire to operate the target user-end 2 After the voice information of the opened function, the voice information is sent to the server 1 through the user-side communication module 21.

In step 52, after the server-side processing module 13 receives the voice information from the target client 2 through the server-side communication module 11, it obtains from the function determination models based on the voice information A target function judgment model. Wherein, the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model is the function that the user who operates the target terminal 2 wants to open.

Referring to FIG. 3, it is worth noting that step 52 further includes steps 521 to 522.

In step 521, the server-side processing module 13 receives the voice information from the target client 2 through the server-side communication module 11, and then obtains at least the corresponding voice information according to the voice information. One keyword. Wherein, the server-side processing module 13 uses a speech-to-text algorithm to convert the speech information into a natural text data, and then uses a word segmentation algorithm to obtain at least one first keyword. It is worth noting that the above-mentioned speech-to-text algorithm and word segmentation algorithm are all conventional techniques, and will not be elaborated here.

In step 522, the server-side processing module 13 obtains the target function determination model from the function determination models according to the at least one first keyword and the keyword tables. Wherein, the keyword table corresponding to the target function determination model includes one of the at least one first keyword.

For example, the keyword table corresponding to the function determination model used to determine whether it has a temperature adjustment function includes "temperature, hot, cold", and the voice information is "I am hot", the server processing module 13 It will use the speech-to-text algorithm and the word segmentation algorithm to obtain the at least one first keyword of "I, good, hot", and then determine that the first keyword "hot" appears in the function determination corresponding to the temperature adjustment In the key table of the model, therefore, the function determination model for determining whether the temperature adjustment function is provided is the target function determination model. In addition, the keyword table corresponding to the function judgment model used to judge whether it has the air cleaning function contains "air, smell, taste, PM2.5, odor, peculiar smell", but it is not limited to this; instead, it is used to determine whether The keyword table corresponding to the function judgment model with humidity adjustment function includes "wet, dry, dry, wet, humidity, rain", but it is not limited to this.

In step 53, the server-side processing module 13 uses the target function determination model to obtain at least one household appliance data to be opened from at least one target household appliance data included in the target user information corresponding to the target client 2. Among them, each home appliance 3 corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on has the function that the user wants to turn on.

Referring to FIG. 4, it is worth noting that step 53 further includes steps 531 to 533.

In step 531, for each target household appliance data, the server-side processing module 13 uses the target function determination model to determine whether the household appliance 3 corresponding to the target household appliance data has the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model. When it is determined that the household appliance 3 corresponding to the target household appliance data has the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model, proceed to step 532; when it is determined that the household appliance 3 corresponding to the target household appliance data does not have the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model When corresponding to the specific function, proceed to step 533 of the process.

In step 532, the server-side processing module 13 uses the target home appliance data as one of the at least one home appliance data to be opened.

In step 533, the server-side processing module 13 does not use the target home appliance data as one of the at least one home appliance data to be opened.

In step 54, the server processing module 13 determines whether the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be opened is one. When it is determined that the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be turned on is one, proceed to step 55; when it is determined that the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be turned on is not one, proceed to step 57.

In step 55, the server-side processing module 13 generates an electrical start command, and transmits the household electrical appliance starting command to the household electrical appliance 3 corresponding to the household electrical appliance data to be turned on through the server communication module 11.

In step 56, the home appliance 3 corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on is activated according to the home appliance activation instruction after receiving the home appliance activation instruction. Preferably, the home appliance 3 corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on can also execute the function desired to be turned on by the user operating the target terminal 2 according to the home appliance activation command (that is, the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model). Features).

For example, when the at least one target home appliance data includes A101 (air conditioner), B101 (dehumidifier), and C101 (air cleaner), and the target function determination model is used to determine whether it has a temperature adjustment function When determining the model, the server-side processing module 13 uses the target function determination model to determine whether A101, B101, and C101 each have a temperature adjustment function, and when it is determined that A101 has a temperature adjustment function, it is regarded as the minimum One wants to open the home appliance data, and because the number of the at least one home appliance data to be opened is one, the server-side processing module 13 directly activates the home appliance 3 (air conditioner) corresponding to A101 and executes the temperature adjustment function to adjust the ambient temperature .

In step 57, the server processing module 13 transmits the data of the home appliance to be opened (or the name of the home appliance 3 corresponding to the data of the home appliance to be opened) to the target user 2.

In step 58, the user-side processing module 23 of the target user-side 2 receives the data of the home appliance to be opened (or the data of the home appliance to be opened after receiving the data of the home appliance to be opened through the user-end receiving module 22). The name of the home appliance 3 corresponding to the home appliance data) is played by voice to notify the user who operates the target terminal 2. In addition, the client processing module 23 can also display the data of the home appliances to be opened (or the names of the home appliances 3 corresponding to the data of the home appliances to be opened) on the screen of the target client 2 to notify the target client 2 to operate Of users.

In step 59, the client processing module 23 of the target client 2 receives through the client receiving module 22 the user who operates the target client 2 selects one of the household appliances to be opened. After the user’s other voice information, the other voice information is transmitted to the server 1 through the client communication module 21.

In step 60, after the server-side processing module 13 receives the other voice information from the target client 2 through the server-side communication module 11, it generates another home appliance activation based on the other voice information. Command, and send the other home appliance activation command through the server communication module 11 to the home appliance 3 corresponding to the one selected by the user operating the target user end 2 in the home appliance data to be turned on.

Referring to FIG. 5, it is worth noting that step 60 further includes steps 601 to 603.

In step 601, after receiving the other voice information, the server processing module 13 obtains at least a second keyword corresponding to the other voice information according to the other voice information. Obtaining the at least one second keyword in this step is the same as step 521.

In step 602, the server-side processing module 13 obtains, according to the at least one second keyword, the one selected by the user who operates the target terminal 2 to open the home appliance data. It is worth noting that the at least one second keyword is used to indicate the one of the household electrical appliances to be turned on selected by the user operating the target client 2 and includes the household electrical appliances to be turned on selected by the user The one in the data (ie, the home appliance model code selected by the user), and at least one of the home appliance 3 names corresponding to the one selected by the user in the home appliance data to be opened, but not as limit.

In step 603, the server-side processing module 13 generates the other home appliance activation command, and transmits the other home appliance activation command through the server-side communication module 11 to the user who operates the target terminal 2 and selects the Wait for the home appliance 3 corresponding to the one in the home appliance data to be opened.

In step 61, the home appliance 3 corresponding to the one selected by the user operating the target terminal 2 of the home appliance data to be turned on receives the other home appliance activation instruction, and then activates it according to the other home appliance activation instruction . Preferably, the home appliance 3 corresponding to the one selected by the user operating the target terminal 2 of the home appliance data to be turned on can also execute the operation of the user operating the target terminal 2 according to the other home appliance activation instruction The function you want to open (that is, the specific function corresponding to the target function judgment model).

For example, when the at least one target home appliance data includes A101 (air conditioner), B101 (dehumidifier), and C101 (air purifier), and the target function determination model is used to determine whether it has a humidity adjustment function When determining the model, the server-side processing module 13 uses the target function determination model to determine whether A101, B101, and C101 each have a humidity adjustment function, and when it determines that A101 (air conditioner) and B101 (dehumidifier) are both When the humidity control function is provided, A10 and B101 are used as the data of the at least one home appliance to be opened, and because the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be opened is not one, the server-side processing module 13 transmits the data through the server-side communication module 11 A101 and B101 (or their corresponding names of household appliances 3) are sent to the target terminal 2, and the user can choose to turn on one of A101 (air conditioner) and B101 (dehumidifier) through the target terminal 2 and perform humidity adjustment Function to adjust the environmental humidity.

Referring to Fig. 6, another embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention includes steps 51'~59'. In the other embodiment, each user information stored in the server storage module 12 further includes a priority sequence corresponding to the at least one electrical data. Wherein, steps 51'-56' are the same as steps 51-56, and only the different process steps of the two embodiments are described here. When it is determined in step 54' of the other embodiment that the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be turned on is not one, proceed to step 57' of the process.

In step 57', the server-side processing module 13 obtains a corresponding quasi-open household appliance data with the highest priority from the data of the household appliances to be opened.

In step 58', the server-side processing module 13 generates another home appliance activation command, and transmits the other home appliance activation command to the home appliance 3 corresponding to the quasi-on home appliance data through the server communication module 11.

In step 59', the home appliance 3 corresponding to the quasi-on home appliance data is activated according to the other home appliance activation instruction after receiving the other home appliance activation instruction. Preferably, the home appliance 3 corresponding to the quasi-open home appliance data can also execute the function desired to be opened by the user operating the target terminal 2 according to the start command of the other home appliance (that is, the target function determination model corresponds to The specific function).

For example, when the at least one target home appliance data includes A101 (air conditioner) and its corresponding priority is 1, B101 (dehumidifier) and its corresponding priority is 2, C101 (air cleaner) and its corresponding priority is 3, and When the target function determination model is a function determination model used to determine whether it has a humidity adjustment function, the server-side processing module 13 uses the target function determination model to determine whether A101, B101, and C101 each have a humidity adjustment function. Function, and when it is determined that both A101 (air conditioner) and B101 (dehumidifier) have the humidity adjustment function, A10 and B101 are used as the data of the at least one appliance to be turned on, and the number of data for the at least one appliance to be turned on is not one Therefore, the server-side processing module 13 will start the home appliance 3 (air conditioner) corresponding to the quasi-on home appliance data A101 with the highest priority and execute the humidity adjustment function to adjust the environmental humidity.

To sum up, the smart home appliance control method of the present invention uses the server processing module 13 to obtain the target function determination model for determining whether the user wants to open the function according to the received voice message, and then Using the target function determination model to obtain the at least one home appliance data to be turned on from at least one target home appliance data, and when the number of the at least one home appliance data to be turned on is one, control the activation of the home appliance 3 corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on; In addition, when the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be turned on is not one, control the activation of the home appliance 3 corresponding to the quasi-on home appliance data corresponding to the highest priority, or control one of the home appliance data to be turned on selected by the user The home appliance 3 corresponding to this one starts and executes the function that the user wants to turn on, so as to achieve that without clearly indicating the device name of the home appliance 3 and the specific function to be turned on, the required home appliance 3 is turned on, making the home living environment Better ease and convenience. Therefore, it can indeed achieve the purpose of the invention.

However, the above are only examples of the present invention. When the scope of implementation of the present invention cannot be limited by this, all simple equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the scope of the patent application of the present invention and the content of the patent specification still belong to Within the scope covered by the patent of the present invention.

200: Communication network

1: Server

11: Server communication module

12: Server-side storage module

13: Server-side processing module

2: use end

21: User-side communication module

22: Consumer receiving module

23: User-side processing module

3: Home appliances

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Other features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the embodiments with reference to the drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the method for operating a smart home appliance according to the present invention; Figure 2 is a flowchart illustrating the embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention; 3 is a flowchart illustrating how the embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention obtains a target function determination model; FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating how the embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention obtains at least one home appliance to be turned on; FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating how the embodiment of the smart home appliance control method of the present invention obtains the activation of the corresponding home appliance according to another voice information; and FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating steps 57'-59' of another embodiment of the method for controlling smart home appliances of the present invention.

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Claims (7)

A smart home appliance control method implemented by a server connected to multiple users and multiple home appliances via a communication network. The server stores multiple pieces of user information corresponding to the users operating the users , And a plurality of keyword tables respectively corresponding to the function determination models, each user information includes the data of each corresponding home appliance of at least one electric appliance owned by the user, and the smart home appliance control method includes the following steps: (A) by After the server receives a voice information from a target client that is related to the function to be opened by the user operating the target client, it obtains a function from a plurality of function determination models based on the voice information The target function determination model, the target user terminal is one of the user terminals, each function determination model is used to determine whether the household appliance corresponding to the household appliance data has a specific function, and the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model is For the function that the user wants to open, step (A) includes the following steps: (A-1) through the server, after receiving the voice information from the target client, at least one pair is obtained based on the voice information The keyword that should be the voice information, and (A-2) using the server to obtain the target function determination model from the function determination models based on the at least one keyword and the keyword table, the target function The keyword table corresponding to the judgment model includes one of the at least one keyword; (B) the server uses the target function to determine the model, and at least the target user information corresponding to the target user includes at least A goal In the home appliance data, at least one home appliance data to be turned on is obtained, and each home appliance corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on has the function that the user wants to turn on. Step (B) includes the following steps: (B-1) For each target home appliance Data, by using the server side, using the target function determination model, determine whether the home appliance corresponding to the target household appliance data has the specific function corresponding to the target function determination model, and (B-2) for each determination corresponding to The home appliance has target home appliance data with a specific function corresponding to the target function determination model, and the server uses the target home appliance data as one of the at least one desired home appliance data; and (C) when the at least one desired home appliance data When the number of opened home appliance data is one, the server generates and sends an electrical start command to the home appliance corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on, so that the home appliance corresponding to the home appliance data to be turned on is activated according to the home appliance activation command. The smart home appliance control method according to claim 1, wherein after step (B), it further includes the following steps: (D) when the number of data of the at least one home appliance to be opened is not one, use the server to perform the Waiting for the data of the home appliance to be opened to be sent to the target user; and (E) through the server, in the selection of the data of the home appliance to be opened by the user who is related to the operation of the target user and received from the target user After one of the other voice information, according to the other voice information, generate and send another home appliance activation instruction to the user who operates the target terminal The user selects the home appliance corresponding to the one in the home appliance data to be turned on, so that the user operating the target end user selects the home appliance corresponding to the one in the home appliance data to be turned on according to the other home appliance The instruction starts. The smart home appliance control method according to claim 2, wherein step (E) includes the following steps: (E-1) after receiving the other voice information by the server, according to the other voice information, Obtain at least one key word corresponding to another voice information; (E-2) According to the at least one key word by the server, obtain the data of the home appliances to be opened selected by the user operating the target end user The one; and (E-3) generating and transmitting the another home appliance activation command by the server to the home appliance corresponding to the one in the home appliance data selected by the user operating the target end user. For the smart home appliance control method described in claim 1, each user information further includes a priority sequence corresponding to the at least one electrical data, wherein, after step (B), the following steps are further included: (F) when the When the number of data of at least one home appliance to be turned on is not one, obtain a corresponding quasi-open home appliance data with the highest priority from the data of the home appliance to be turned on; and (G) generate and send another home appliance activation by the server Command to the home appliance corresponding to the quasi-on home appliance data, so that the home appliance corresponding to the quasi-on home appliance data is activated according to the another home appliance activation instruction. The smart home appliance control method according to claim 1, wherein the server also stores a plurality of specific function training sets corresponding to various different home appliance functions, and each specific training set includes multiple training appliance data, and each specific training set Each training appliance data included is marked as one of one indicating that it has a specific function corresponding to the specific training set and one that indicates that it does not have a specific function corresponding to the specific training set. Return it before step (A) It includes the following steps: (H) For each specific function training set, the server uses the support vector machine according to the specific function training set to obtain the function determination model corresponding to the specific function training set. The smart home appliance control method according to claim 1, wherein, in step (A), the specific functions corresponding to the function determination models include air cleaning, temperature adjustment, and humidity adjustment. The smart home appliance control method according to claim 1, wherein each home appliance data includes a household appliance model code.

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