Automatic control method for home appliances using video tape recorder, and device thereof

• US 5,113,294 A
• Filed: 08/21/1989
• Issued: 05/12/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qiang Technologies LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Kyung-su
• Primary Examiner(s): McElheny, Jr., Donald
• Application Number:
  US07/396,104
• Time in Patent Office: 995 Days
• Field of Search: 358/335, 358/194.1, 358/190, 360/33.1, 360/79, 364/145, 364/144, 364/143, 364/705.04, 364/705.07, 364/705.08, 340/825.15, 340/309.15, 340/825.19, 379/102, 379/104, 455/171, 455/181, 455/231, 455/344, 455/603, 369/70
• US Class Current: 386/291
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 15/006 for operating at a number of different times cigar or cigarette receptacles or boxes with means for limiting the frequency of smoking A24F15/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/20 for coupling gramophone pick-up, recorder output, or microphone to receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

An automatic control method for home appliances using a video tape recorder and a device thereof are disclosed, in which the device comprises one or more power source control means, a home automatization mode designation means, and a microcomputer; and the method comprises: a step of appointing power supply starting times and power supply ending times for the respective passively controlled apparatuses; a step of supplying the power source upon arrival of the power source supply time for a particular apparatus; and a step of disconnecting the power supply from a particular apparatus upon arrival of the power supply blocking time. According to the present invention, as many automatic controls of home appliances as the record-capable number of the programmed recordings of broadcasting programs are possible, and it is possible to use a part of the function for programmed recordings of broadcasting programs, and to use the remaining part of the function for automatic controls of home appliances.

Claims

1. An automatic control method for home appliances using a video tape recorder in which television broadcasting programs can be automatically recorded according to a plurality of program numbers at the respective appointed times and for the respective scheduled periods of time, comprising:

a step of appointing power supply starting times and power supply ending times for the home appliances based on the designation of a home automatization mode for the respective program numbers in a setting procedure of programmed recordings;

a step of supplying power from a power source upon arrival of the power supply starting time for a particular home appliance; and

a step of disconnecting the power source upon arrival of the power supply ending time for said particular home appliance.

2. An automatic control device for home appliances using a video tape recorder in which television broadcasting programs can be automatically recorded according to a plurality of program numbers at the respective appointed times and for the respective scheduled period of time, comprising:

at least one or more power source control means connected to an AC power source line, and for supplying and blocking the AC power source to and from the home appliances in accordance with control signals supplied;

a home automatization mode designation means for designating a home automatization mode; and

a microcomputer for memorizing power supply time and the power blocking time for the home appliances under a programmed recording mode correspondingly with the program numbers and in accordance with the designation of the home automatization mode by said home automation mode designation means, for outputting a control signal to the relevant power source control means for supplying power to one of the home appliances upon arrival of the power supply time for said one of the home appliances, and for outputting a control signal to the relevant power source control means for blocking the power supply to said one of the home appliances upon arrival of the power supply blocking time for said one of the home appliances,

wherein in home automatization functions can be carried out by appointing respective AC power source supply times for at least one or more of said home appliances.

3. The automatic control device for home appliances as claimed in claim 2, wherein said power source control means comprises:

a home appliance connecting means connected in parallel to the input line of an AC power source; and

a switching means connected between said AC power source input line and said home appliance connecting means, for turning on or off the connection between said home appliance connecting means and said AC power source input line in accordance with said control signal.

4. The automatic control device home appliances as claimed in claim 3, wherein said switching means comprises:

a relay;

a relay driving means for driving said relay; and

an amplifier for amplifying said control signals from said microcomputer, and for supplying them to said relay driving means.