Remote controlling system for controlling electronic equipments within situation

• US 8,310,348 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2006
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Livinglab Development Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Livinglab Development Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Fang, Jui-Kuang
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Nam V
• Application Number:
  US11/594,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20080084280A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,197 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/5.1, 340/5.5, 340/5.61, 340/12.5, 340 1251- 1255, 340/13.24, 455/16, 455/41, 455/419, 379/110.01, 379/90.01, 341/176, 709/229
• US Class Current: 340/12.5
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25168 Domotique, access through internet protocols

Abstract

The invention provides a remote controlling system for controlling a plurality of electronic equipments disposed within a situation, such as a home, a classroom, an office . . . etc. By use of the remote controlling system, a user can conveniently control the electronic equipments in the situation through a user interface or an external communication network such as a radio telecommunication network.

Claims

1. A remote controlling system for controlling N electronic equipments within a situation, N being a natural number, each of the N electronic equipments comprising a respective radiation-based signal receiver and being operated in accordance with a respective set of first instructions, said remote controlling system comprising:

a plurality of radiation-based signal transmitters, separately distributed in the situation so as to cover the N radiation-based signal receivers in wireless communication; and

a processing/controlling apparatus, comprising;

a storage device therein storing a look-up table recording M commands and M sets of second instructions which each set of second instructions correspond to one of the M commands, M being a natural number;

a touch panel, for enabling a user to directly input one of the commands; and

a processing/controlling unit, electrically connected to the radiation-based signal transmitters, the storage device and the touch panel, respectively, for receiving the inputted command, accessing the set of second instructions corresponding to the received command, and controlling the radiation-based signal transmitters to emit a set of radiation-based signals representative of the set of second instructions corresponding to the received command;

wherein one of the N electronic equipments covered by the radiation-based signal transmitters in wireless communication receives, via the radiation-based signal receiver thereof, the emitted radiation-based signals, converts the received radiation-based signals into the set of second instructions, judges if one or more of the set of second instructions match the respective set of first instructions, and if any, operates in accordance with the matched first instructions.

2. The remote controlling system of claim 1, further comprising a communication device electrically connected to the processing/controlling unit, wherein the communication unit is linked to an external communication network, and enables the user to input one of the commands through the external communication network and the communication unit replacing the touch panel.

3. The remote controlling system of claim 2, wherein the external communication network is one selected from the group consisting of a local area network, an intranet, an internet, a radio telecommunication network, and a public switched telephone network.

4. The remote controlling system of claim 1, wherein each of the emitted radiation-based signals is an infrared, each of the radiation-based signal receivers is an infrared receiver, and each of the radiation-based signal transmitters is an infrared transmitter.

5. The remote controlling system of claim 1, wherein the touch panel also enables the user to edit the commands and the second instructions stored in the storage device.