TV PROGRAM PLAYING METHOD, REMOTE CONTROL AND TV

• US 20170054933A1
• Filed: 05/11/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: MASUYAMA, Katsuhiro, ZHOU, Zhigang, LI, Yanfu, ZHAO, Hui
• Granted Patent: US 9,848,155 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a TV program playing method, a remote control and a TV, and the method comprises: obtaining, by the remote control, a first unlock instruction triggered by a first user when a TV system is in standby state; obtaining, by the remote control, a first heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor according to the first unlock instruction; sending, by the remote control, a first playing instruction carrying an identifier of the first user to the TV when a difference between the first heart rate feature information and a second heart rate feature information in a feature library is less than a threshold so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the first user, wherein the feature library pre-stores corresponding relationship between identifiers and heart rate feature information of users.

Claims

1. A TV program playing method applied to a remote control which is provided with an optical sensor, wherein the method comprises:

obtaining, by the remote control, a first unlock instruction triggered by a first user when a TV system is in a standby state;

obtaining, by the remote control, a first heart rate feature information of the first user according to the first unlock instruction via the optical sensor;

sending, by the remote control, a first playing instruction carrying an identifier of the first user to the TV when a difference between the first heart rate feature information and a second heart rate feature information in a feature library is less than a threshold, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the first user, wherein the feature library pre-stores corresponding relationship between identifiers of a plurality of users and heart rate feature information of the plurality of users.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the remote control obtains the first heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor according to the first unlock instruction, the method further comprises:

displaying, by the remote control, the first heart rate feature information of the first user.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending, by the remote control, the first playing instruction to the TV when a difference between the first heart rate feature information and the second heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold, comprises:

lightening, by the remote control, an indicator light of a first key corresponding to the first user when a difference between the first heart rate feature information and the second heart rate feature information pre-stored in the feature library is less than the threshold;

sending, by the remote control, the first playing instruction to the TV when the first user triggers the first key.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after obtaining, by the remote control, the first heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor according to the first unlock instruction, the method further comprises:

authenticating, by the remote control, the first user when the differences between the first heart rate feature information and each of the pre-stored heart rate feature information in the feature library are all larger than the threshold;

obtaining, by the remote control, the heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor, and storing the heart rate feature information of the first user and the identifier of the first user in the feature library when the first user is authenticated.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the remote control sends the first playing instruction to the TV when the difference between the first heart rate feature information and the second heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold, the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the remote control, a third heart rate feature information of the second user via the optical sensor when a second unlock instruction triggered by a second user is obtained;

comparing, by the remote control, a priority of the second user and a priority of the first user when the difference between the third heart rate feature information and a fourth heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold;

sending, by the remote control, a second playing instruction carrying an identifier of the second user to the TV when the priority of the second user is higher than the priority of the first user, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first heart rate feature information of the first user is an average value of the heart rate of the first user measured in a certain time period or a heart rate chart of the first user in a certain time period.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the remote control pre-stores the priority order among all users.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein after the remote controller obtains the first heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor according to the first unlock instruction, the method further comprises:

authenticating, by the remote control, the first user when the differences between the first heart rate feature information and each of the pre-stored heart rate feature information in the feature library are all larger than the threshold;

obtaining, by the remote control, the heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor, and storing the heart rate feature information of the first user and the identifier of the first user in the feature library when the first user is authenticated.

9. The method according to claim 2, wherein after the remote controller sends the first playing instruction to the TV when the difference between the first heart rate feature information and the second heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold, the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the remote control, a third heart rate feature information of the second user via the optical sensor when a second unlock instruction triggered by a second user is obtained;

comparing, by the remote control, a priority of the second user and a priority of the first user when the difference between the third heart rate feature information and a fourth heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold;

sending, by the remote control, a second playing instruction carrying an identifier of the second user to the TV if the priority of the second user is higher than the priority of the first user, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

10. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the remote control obtains the first heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor according to the first unlock instruction, the method further comprises:

authenticating, by the remote control, the first user when the differences between the first heart rate feature information and each of the pre-stored heart rate feature information in the feature library are all larger than the threshold;

obtaining, by the remote control, the heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor, and storing the heart rate feature information of the first user and the identifier of the first user in the feature library when the first user is authenticated.

11. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the remote control sends the first playing instruction to the TV when the difference between the first heart rate feature information and the second heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold, the method further comprises:

obtaining, by the remote control, a third heart rate feature information of the second user via the optical sensor when a second unlock instruction triggered by a second user is obtained;

comparing, by the remote control, the priority of the second user and that of the first user when the difference between the third heart rate feature information and a fourth heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold;

sending, by the remote control, a second playing instruction carrying an identifier of the second user to the TV when the priority of the second user is higher than that of the first user, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

12. A TV program playing method, comprising:

receiving, by a TV, a first playing instruction carrying an identifier of a first user sent by a remote control;

searching, by the TV, a program list pre-stored in a program library and corresponding to the identifier of the first user, wherein the program library pre-stores corresponding relationship between identifiers of a plurality of users and program lists;

playing, by the TV, a program in the program list corresponding to the identifier of the first user.

13. A remote control, comprising an optical sensor, wherein the remote control further comprises:

an obtaining unit, configured to obtain a first unlock instruction triggered by a first user when a TV system is in standby state;

a collecting unit, configured to obtain a first heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor according to the first unlock instruction;

an instruction sending unit configured to send a first playing instruction carrying an identifier of the first user to the TV when the difference between the first heart rate feature information and a second heart rate feature information in a feature library is less than a threshold, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the first user;

a storing unit configured to store the feature library, the feature library pre-storing corresponding relationship between identifiers of a plurality of users and heart rate feature information of the plurality of users.

14. The remote controller according to claim 13, wherein the remote control further comprises:

a displaying unit configured to displays the first heart rate feature information of the first user.

15. The remote controller according to claim 13, wherein the displaying unit is further configured to lighten an indicator light of a first key corresponding to the first user when the difference between the first heart rate feature information and the second heart rate feature information pre-stored in the feature library is less than the threshold;

and the instruction sending unit is further configured to send the first playing instruction to the TV when the first user triggers the first key.

16. The remote controller according to claim 13, wherein the remote control further comprises:

an authenticating unit configured to authenticate the first user when the differences between the first heart rate feature information and each of the pre-stored heart rate feature information in the feature library are all larger than the threshold,

wherein the collecting unit is further configured to obtain the heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor and store the heart rate feature information of the first user and the identifier of the first user in the feature library when the first user is authenticated.

17. The remote controller according to claim 13, wherein the remote controller further comprises a comparing unit, wherein:

the collecting unit is further configured to obtain a third heart rate feature information of a second user via the optical sensor when a second unlock instruction triggered by the second user is obtained;

the comparing unit is configured to compare a priority of the second user and a priority of the first user when the difference between the third heart rate feature information and a fourth heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold;

the instruction sending unit is further configured to send a second playing instruction carrying an identifier of the second user to the TV when the priority of the second user is higher than the priority of the first user, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

18. The remote controller according to claim 14, wherein the remote control further comprises:

an authenticating unit, configured to authenticate the first user when the differences between the first heart rate feature information and each of the pre-stored heart rate feature information in the feature library are all larger than the threshold,

wherein the collecting unit is further configured to obtain the heart rate feature information of the first user via the optical sensor and store the heart rate feature information of the first user and the identifier of the first user in the feature library when the first user is authenticated.

19. The remote controller according to claim 14, wherein the remote controller further comprises a comparing unit, wherein:

the collecting unit is further configured to obtain a third heart rate feature information of a second user via the optical sensor when a second unlock instruction triggered by the second user is obtained;

the comparing unit is configured to compare the priority of the second user and that of the first user when the difference between the third heart rate feature information and a fourth heart rate feature information in the feature library is less than the threshold;

the instruction sending unit is further configured to send a second playing instruction carrying an identifier of the second user to the TV, when the priority of the second user is higher than that of the first user, so that the TV plays a program in a program list corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

20. A TV, comprising:

an instruction receiving unit configured to receive a first playing instruction sent by a remote control, wherein the first playing instruction carries an identifier of a first user;

a searching unit configured to search a program list corresponding to the identifier of the first user and pre-stored in a program library, wherein the program library pre-stores corresponding relationship between identifiers of a plurality of users and program lists of the plurality of users;

a playing unit configured to play a program in the program list corresponding to the identifier of the first user.