INTERACTIVE DEVICE ADAPTED TO INTERACTIVELY COMMUNICATE WITH A REMOTE DEVICE

• US 20120048122A1
• Filed: 05/05/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Dadlani Mahtani, Pavankumar M., Sinitsyn, Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 9,329,589 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 99/357
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23406 Programmer device, portable, handheld detachable programmer
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2643 Oven, cooking
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36159 Detachable or portable programming unit, display, pc, pda
• 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

Abstract

This invention relates to an interactive device (100) to interactively communicate with a remote device (107). A receiver (101) receives event related information from a remote device which supplies the event related information which includes event progress information. A display (102) displays an image of the current status of the event based on the received event related information. A progress indicator (103) indicates the progress of the event based on received progress information. A sensor (104) receives a modification command from a user indicating a modification of the progress of the event, and a transmitter (105) for transmits the modification command to the remote device. The remote device then adjusts the progress of the event in accordance to the received modification command.

Claims

1. An interactive device (100) adapted for communicating with a remote device (107), comprising:

a receiver (101) for receiving event related information (108) from a remote device (107), the remote device being adapted to supply said event related information including event progress information,

a progress indicator (103) for indicating the progress of the event based on received progress information,

a sensor (104) for receiving a modification command from a user indicating a modification of the progress of the event, and

a transmitter (105) for transmitting the modification command (109) to the remote device (107), the remote device being adapted to adjust the progress of the event in accordance to the received modification command.

2. An interactive device according to claim 1, further comprising a light emitting rim structure (106) that at least partly peripherally surrounds a display (102) for displaying an image of the current status of the event based on the received event related information, the progress indicator (103) being indicated by means of illuminating a lengthwise portion of the rim structure (106) such that the length is proportional to the progress of the event.

3. An interactive device according to claim 2, wherein the sensor (104) is a light sensor or touch sensor integrated into the rim structure, whereby touching the rim structure the length of the illuminated lengthwise portion (301) is adjusted and thus the progress of the event.

4. An interactive device according to claim 1, wherein the progress indicator (103) is indicated by means of illuminating a portion of the display, where said sensor is a light sensor or touch sensor integrated into the display adapted to detect a touch command from the user onto the display indicating an adjustment of the illuminated portion and thus an adjustment of the progress of the event.

5. An interactive device according to claim 3, wherein the remote device (107) is a household appliance comprising a built-in progress adjuster for adjusting the progress in accordance to said modification command, the event being cooking food and the event progress information including:

the time until cooking the food is completed, or

the temperature of the item being cooked, or

the temperature within the household appliance during cooking, or

combination thereof.

6. An interactive device according to claim 1, wherein the event related information (108) from said remote device (107) further include image data of the event and where displaying said current status of the event is based on the displaying the received image data of the event.

7. An interactive device according to claim 1, wherein displaying said current status of the event comprised displaying pre-stored image or image sequence of the event, where the received event related information (108) image data of the event and where displaying said current status of the event is based on the displaying the received image data of the event.

8. An interactive device according to claim 1, wherein the event is a person'"'"'s arrival event, the remote device (107) being a positioning system and the received event related information (108) include positioning information indicating the current position of the person (401), the progress of the event being the remaining time until arrival of the person.

9. An interactive device according to claim 1, wherein the event progress information (108) include the person'"'"'s arrival time, the remote device having a built-in progress adjuster, the modification command (109) from the user indicating an updated preferred arrival time, the built-in progress adjuster being adapted to instruct the person to adjust the arrival event in accordance to the received modification command.

10. An interactive device according to claim 8, wherein displaying said image of the current status of the event based on the received event related information includes displaying:

a picture of the expected person (401), or

a geographical data indicating the current geographical position of the person, or

graphically the remaining time until arrival of the person, or

a combination thereof.

11. An interactive device according to claim 1, wherein the event is activity monitoring and the remote device is a user'"'"'s activity monitor, the progress indicator being adapted to define or adjust goal settings.

14. A remote device (107) adapted to interactively communicating with an interactive device (100) as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

a transmitter (201) for transmitting said event related information (108) including said event progress information,

a receiver (202) adapted to receive said modification command from the user indicating a modification of the progress of the event, and

a program adjuster (203) adapted to adjust the progress in accordance to said modification command.

15. A remote device according to claim 14, wherein the remote device is selected from:

an electronic household appliance,

a device comprising a Global Positioning System (GPS), and

a device comprising a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM).

12. A method of interactively communicating with a remote device, comprising:

receiving event related information from a remote device, the remote device being adapted to supply said event related information including event progress information (501),

indicating the progress of the event based on received progress information (503),

receiving a modification command from a user indicating a modification of the progress of the event (504), and

transmitting the modification command to the remote device, the remote device being adapted to adjust the progress of the event in accordance to the received modification command (505).

13. A computer program product for instructing a processing unit to execute the method step of claim 12 when the product is run on a computer.