Control device for objects in a physical space

• US 10,289,090 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2017
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation, Inventec Technology Company Limited (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation, Inventec Technology Company Limited (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Lo, Sheng-Hsin
• Primary Examiner(s): Fennema, Robert E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Jigneshkumar C
• Application Number:
  US15/455,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20180120802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 700 65
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0423 Input/output
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23051 Remote control, enter program remote, detachable programmer
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/91 Remote control based on location and proximity

Abstract

A control device is provided. The control device includes a communication module, a processing module, a driving module and a control module. The communication module is configured for receiving a control instruction forwarded from another control device. The control instruction corresponds to a target object of at least one object. The processing module is configured for capturing a target location of the target object. The driving module is configured for driving the control device to move according to the target location. The control module is configured for performing an operation task to the target object according to the control instruction after the control device is moved according to the target location.

Claims

1. A control device, comprising:

a communication module configured to receive a control instruction forwarded from a counterpart control device, wherein the control instruction corresponds to a target object of at least one object;

a processing module coupled to the communication module and configured to capture a target location of the target object and further calculate the target location of the target object according to a configuration figure;

a driving module coupled to the processing module and configured to drive the control device to move according to the target location; and

a control module coupled to the processing module and configured to perform an operation task to the target object according to the control instruction after the control device moves according to the target location;

wherein the configuration figure is a three dimensional figure corresponding to a physical space, the processing module further calculates a plurality of searching move path in the physical space according to a recursive algorithm and controls the driving module, wherein a plurality of images are captured by the control module, the processing module recognizes the at least one object from the plurality of images, and the configuration figure is created according to a location corresponding to each image.

2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein when the communication module receives an object-added instruction, the processing module controls the driving module for moving in the physical space according to the recursive algorithm to search for a new object for updating the configuration figure.

3. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one object is an electric device, the communication module is further connected to a cloud server for downloading an instruction set of the electric device, and the control module performs the operation task according to the instruction set corresponding to the control instruction.

4. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the operation task comprises:

capturing an image of the target object via the control module;

wherein the communication module sends the captured image to the counterpart control device.