SMART SWITCH WITH VOICE OPERATED FUNCTION AND SMART CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20140100854A1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHEN, TE-SHENG, LI, XIAO-GUANG, HSIEH, KUAN-HONG, XIAO, YUN, PI, SHANG-HUI
• Application Number:
  US14/014,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20140100854A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/12 by detecting audible sound
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/185 via power line carrier transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/195 the transmission using visible or infrared light
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

A smart switch applied to a smart control system in a smart house, includes a storage, a voice input unit configured to receive vocal commands and convert the vocal commands to electronic data, and a remote control unit. A processor unit which includes a voice identifying module, a determining module, and a control module is also included. The smart switch recognizes a voice command and sends a remote control command to the target electronic devices, thereby controlling the electronic devices to execute an operation. A smart control system is also provided.

Claims

1. A smart switch applied to a smart home system, the smart switch comprising:

at least one socket configured to connect an electronic device;

a plug configured to connect the smart switch to an power;

a storage configured to store an one-to-one relationship between unique identification codes of the electronic devices and names of the electronic devices, and one-to-one relationships between voice commands and remote control commands;

a voice input unit configured to receive sounds made by a user, and convert the sounds of the user to electronic data;

a remote controlling unit; and

a processor unit comprising a voice identifying module, a determining module, and a control module;

wherein the voice identifying module identifies the electronic data, and extracts a voice command and the name of the target electronic device;

wherein the determining module obtains the unique identification code of the target electronic device according to the one-to-one relationship between unique identification codes of the electronic devices and names of the electronic devices, and obtains the remote control command corresponding to the extracted voice command according to the one-to-one relationships between the voice commands and the remote control commands; and

wherein the control module controls the remote controlling unit to send the remote control command to the target electronic device.

2. The smart switch as described in claim 1, further comprising a voice output unit, wherein the determining module further determines whether a same voice command is stored in the first storage compared with the extracted voice command, if not, the control module controls the voice output unit to output a first sound to prompt users that the smart switch can not recognize the voice command.

3. The smart switch as described in claim 1, wherein the smart switch is communicated with a registration controller and a gateway, the smart switch further comprises:

a wireless receiver configured to receive wireless signals sent by the registration controller;

a Power Line Communication (PLC) or Optical Fiber Power Line Communication (OPLC) modern unit configured to establish communication between the smart switch and the gateway;

the processor unit stores the wireless signal in the storage and generates a registration code, the PLC or OPLC modern unit encodes the registration code and loads the encoded registration code to the power line to be transmitted to the gateway, the registration code comprises a unique identification code of the smart switch and a unique identification code of the registration controller.

4. The smart switch as described in claim 3, wherein remote controlling unit is an Infrared remote, a ZIGBEE remote, a Z-WAVE remote or a BLUETOOTH remote.

5. A smart control system comprising at least one smart switch, the smart switch connecting to a power and at least one electronic device, the smart switch comprising:

a storage configured to store one-to-one relationship between unique identification codes of the electronic devices and names of the electronic devices, and one-to-one relationships between voice commands and remote control commands

a voice input unit configured to receive sounds made by a user, and convert the sounds of the user to electronic data;

a remote controlling unit; and

a processor unit comprising a voice identifying module, a determining module, and a control module;

wherein the voice identifying module identifies the electronic data, and extracts the voice command and the name of the target electronic device;

wherein the determining module obtains the unique identification code of the target electronic device according the one-to-one relationship between unique identification codes of the electronic devices and names of the electronic devices, and obtains the remote control command corresponding to the extracted voice command according the one-to-one relationships between the voice commands and the remote control commands;

wherein the control module controls the remote controlling unit to send the remote control command to the target electronic device; and

wherein the electronic device executes a corresponding operation according to the remote control command.

6. The smart control system as described in claim 5, wherein the smart switch further comprises a voice output unit, the determining module further determines whether a same voice command is stored in the first storage compared with the extracted voice command, if not, the control module controls the voice output unit to output a first sound to prompt users that the smart switch can not recognize the voice command.

7. The smart control system as described in claim 5, further comprising a registration controller and a gateway, wherein the smart switch is communicated with a registration controller and a gateway, the gateway sends an identification code of the gateway and a secret code to the registration controller when the registration controller is located within the communicating range of the smart gateway and a mating program is run on the gateway, and the registration controller further send a unique identification code of the registration controller to the gateway.

8. The smart control system as described in claim 7, wherein the secret code is the identification code of the gateway or input by a user.

9. The smart control system as described in claim 7, wherein the registration controller comprises:

a second Infrared receiver configured to receive the identification code of the gateway and the secret code sent by the gateway;

a trigger button configured to generate a trigger signal in response of the user'"'"'s pressing;

an Infrared sender; and

a processor configured to control the Infrared sender to send an Infrared signal comprising the identification code of the registration controller and the secret code, and control the registration controller to send a registering request to the gateway;

the smart switch further comprises a first Infrared receiver configured to receive the Infrared signal and a storage configured to save the Infrared signal, the smart switch further sends a registration code encoded by the secret code to the smart gateway, the registration code comprises the identification code of the smart switch and the identification code of the registration controller;

the gateway decodes the registration code and saves the identification code of the registration controller.

10. The smart control system as described in claim 7, wherein the gateway sends a broadcasting signal to the smart switch in response of the received registration request, the smart switch which has received the Infrared signal sends the registration code to the smart gateway in response of the broadcasting signal.

11. The smart control system as described in claim 7, wherein the smart switch comprises a socket, the registration code further comprises a unique identification code of the socket.

12. The smart control system as described in claim 5, wherein remote controlling unit is an Infrared remote, a ZIGBEE remote, a Z-WAVE remote or a BLUETOOTH remote.