Control device comprising an interface capable of proposing the next control command to be transmitted to a home-automation appliance

• US 8,972,030 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Somfy Activites SA (Somfy SA)
• Original Assignee: Somfy Sas (Somfy SA)
• Inventors: Cavarec, Pierre-Emmanuel, Mignot, Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): HARTMAN JR, RONALD D
• Application Number:
  US13/407,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20120253483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 700/17, 700/83
• US Class Current: 700/17
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• 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: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless

Abstract

Method of operation of a control device for a home-automation appliance, wherein the method comprises at least one step of selecting a possible control command from among a plurality of predefined control commands, that may be sent by the control device and at least one step of displaying the command selected by this control device.

Claims

1. Method of operation of a device for controlling an electromechanically actuated home-automation appliance, wherein the method comprises the control device selecting a single proposed possible control command from among a plurality of predefined control commands that may be sent by the control device, and the control device displaying the single proposed command selected by the control device;

wherein the device controls the electromechanically actuated movements of a mobile element of a home-automation appliance, the mobile element being selected from a closure device, a privacy device, a sun protection device, a screen device, a shutter, a roller blind, a door, and a gate for a building,

wherein the control command selected and displayed by the control device is the next command that the control device proposes to send to the home-automation appliance.

2. Method of operation according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises modifying, according to a choice of a user, the command selected by the control device.

3. Method of operation according to the claim 2, wherein the modifying comprises a scrolling in a sequential manner of the plurality of the control commands that may be sent.

4. Method of operation according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises validating and sending the control command selected.

5. Method of operation according to claim 4, wherein the method comprises displaying a stop command subsequent to the validating and sending the control command selected.

6. Method of operation according operation of a device for controlling an electromechanically actuated home-automation appliance, wherein the method comprises the control device selecting a single proposed possible control command from among a plurality of predefined control commands that may be sent by the control device, and the control device displaying the single proposed command selected by the control device;

wherein the device controls the electromechanically actuated movements of a mobile element of a home-automation appliance, the mobile element being selected from a closure device, a privacy device, a sun protection device, a screen device, a shutter, a roller blind, a door, and a gate for a building,

wherein the selection of the command displayed by the control device results from an analysis of a log of previously sent commands or an analysis of an actual state of the home-automation appliance or a sequence of commands which is predefined by the user.

7. Method of operation according to claim 6, wherein the method comprises modifying, according to a choice of a user, the command selected by the control device.

8. Method of operation according to the claim 7, wherein the modifying comprises a scrolling in a sequential manner of the plurality of the control commands that may be sent.

9. Method of operation according to claim 6, wherein the method comprises validating and sending the control command selected.

10. Method of operation according to claim 9, wherein the method comprises displaying a stop command subsequent to the validating and sending the control command selected.

11. Control device for an electromechanically actuated home-automation appliance, wherein the device comprises hardware means and processing means configured to implement, when executed, the method of operation comprising:

the control device selecting a single proposed possible control command from among a plurality of predefined control commands that may be sent by the control device, and the control device displaying the single proposed command selected by this control device;

wherein the device controls electromechanically actuated movements of mobile element of a home-automation appliance, the mobile element being selected from a closure device, a privacy device, a sun protection device, a screen device, a shutter, a roller blind, a door, and a gate for a building,

wherein the hardware means and processing means comprise a means for selecting a control command and at least one display device intended to display a symbol representing only the control command selected.

12. Control device according to claim 11, wherein the hardware means and processing means comprise a means for modifying the command selected.

13. Control device according to claim 12, wherein the hardware means and processing means comprise a means for sending the command selected.

14. Control device according to claim 12, wherein the hardware means comprises a key comprising the display device and the modifying means, this key being able, when it is activated, to trigger the sending of the control command.

15. Control device according to claim 11, wherein the hardware means and processing means comprise a means for sending the command selected.

16. Control device according to claim 11, wherein a first key comprises the display device and wherein at least one second key comprises at least one of the means for modifying or triggering the send of the control command.

17. Method of operation of a device for controlling an electromechanically echanically actuated home-automation appliance, wherein the method comprises the control device selecting a single proposed possible control command from among a plurality of predefined control commands that nay be sent by the control device, and the control device displaying the single proposed command selected by the control device;

wherein the device controls the electromechanically actuated movements of a mobile element of a home-automation appliance, the mobile element being selected from a closure device, a privacy device, a sun protection device, a screen device, a shutter, a roller blind, a door, and a gate for a building,

wherein the method comprises displaying only the single proposed command.

18. Method of operation according to claim 17, wherein the method comprises modifying, according to a choice of a user, the command selected by the control device.

19. Method of operation according to the claim 18, wherein the modifying comprises a scrolling in a sequential manner of the plurality of the control commands that may be sent.

20. Method of operation according to claim 17, wherein the method comprises validating and sending the control command selected.

21. Method of operation according to claim 20, wherein the method comprises displaying a stop command subsequent to the validating and sending the control command selected.