LIGHTING DEVICE AND VOICE BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160224315A1
• Filed: 04/28/2015
• Published: 08/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhejiang Shenghui Lighting Company Limited (Tongxiang Shenghui Lighting Electrical Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Zhejiang Shenghui Lighting Company Limited (Tongxiang Shenghui Lighting Electrical Company Limited)
• Inventors: XIE, ZHEN, ZHANG, ZONGGEN, CAO, SHUYU, ZHOU, WEISHENG, SHEN, JINXIANG
• Granted Patent: US 9,990,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0056 Audio equipment, e.g. music instruments, radios or speakers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/10 Controlling the light source
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/12 by detecting audible sound
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a lighting device and related voice broadcasting systems and methods. The lighting device includes a light-emitting module configured to provide lighting, a process and control module, a memory module configured to store audio contents stored in a local memory and downloaded from the Internet, and a voice input module configured to receive voice information from users. The process and control module is configured to receive voice information from the voice input module, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command, and to send control instructions to a corresponding module according to the matched voice command. A voice output module is configured to select and play a audio content according to the control instructions sent from the process and control module.

Claims

1. A lighting device, comprising:

a light-emitting module configured to emit light;

a power supply module configured to drive the light-emitting module and to provide power to the entire lighting device;

a wireless module configured to establish wireless connections to the Internet;

a voice input module configured to receive voice information from a user;

a memory module configured to store audio contents in a local memory;

a process and control module configured to receive the voice information from the voice input module, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command, and after matching with the voice command, to send control instructions to a corresponding module according to the voice command,

wherein the process and control module is respectively connected to each of the light-emitting module, the power supply module, the wireless module, the voice input module, the memory module and the voice output module; and

a voice output module configured to select and play a audio content according to the control instructions sent from the process and control module.

2. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the audio contents include songs, stories, poems, articles, language education materials, weather forecasts, news, and previously-prepared recordings.

3. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein:

the voice input module includes a microphone; and

the voice output module includes a speaker having an amplifier.

4. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless module adopts 2.4G or 5G WI-FI technology, or adopts 2.5G, 3G or 4G mobile wireless communication technology.

5. The lighting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a light adjusting module configured to adjust a brightness or color of the light emitted from the light-emitting module, wherein the light adjusting module is between the process and control module and the light-emitting module.

6. The lighting device according to claim 5, wherein:

the light adjusting module is configured to gradually dim the light emitted from the light-emitting module and configured to change a color of the light emitted from the light-emitting module according to information in the audio content.

7. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the lighting device is a light emitting diode (LED) lighting device.

8. A voice broadcasting system, comprising:

a lighting device, comprising;

a light-emitting module configured to emit light;

a power supply module configured to drive the light-emitting module and to provide power to the entire lighting device;

a wireless module configured to establish wireless connections to the Internet;

a voice input module configured to collect voice information from a user;

a memory module configured to store audio contents in a local memory;

a process and control module configured to receive the voice information from the voice input module, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command, and after matching with the voice command, to send the control instructions to a corresponding modules according to the voice command; and

a voice output module configured to select and play a audio content according to control instructions sent from the process and control module; and

a smart mobile terminal configured to control the lighting device and to change parameters of the lighting device, wherein the lighting device wirelessly connects to the Internet and the smart mobile terminal through the wireless module.

9. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 8, wherein the voice commands include commands to start playing, play along a single loop of contents, or play by circulating all contents.

10. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 8, wherein the lighting device is configured to be initialized by:

turning on a broadcasting, using the local memory as a default broadcasting path, and having a default broadcasting mode by circularly broadcasting all audio contents.

11. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 8, wherein the smart mobile terminal is configured to modify initialization parameters of the lighting device through a control interface of the lighting device on the smart mobile terminal.

12. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 8, wherein the smart mobile terminal is a smart phone, a tablet computer, a smart TV, or a laptop computer.

13. A voice broadcasting method using a lighting device, comprising:

providing a lighting device, comprising;

a light-emitting module configured to emit light;

a wireless module configured to establish wireless connections to the Internet;

a voice input module configured to collect voice information from a user;

a memory module configured to store audio contents preset in a local memory;

a process and control module configured to receive the voice information from the voice input module, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command, and after matching with the voice command, to send control instructions to a corresponding module according to the voice command; and

a voice output module configured to select and play a audio content according to the control instructions from the process and control module;

turning on the lighting device to perform parameter initialization of the lighting device;

establishing network connections by connecting the wireless module of the lighting device to the Internet;

enabling a network command interrupt;

enabling a voice command recognition interrupt, inquiring whether the voice input module of the lighting device receives voice information, and performing, by the process and control module, voice recognition on the received voice information and sending the control instructions to the corresponding module of the lighting device;

selecting audio content in the memory module according to the control instructions; and

broadcasting, by the voice output module, the selected audio content.

14. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 13, wherein the voice commands include commands to start playing, play along a single loop of contents, or play by circulating all contents.

15. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 13, wherein the parameter initialization is performed by:

turning on a broadcasting,

setting a default broadcasting path using the local memory; and

setting a default broadcasting mode by circularly broadcasting all audio contents.

16. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 13, wherein, after the network command interrupt is enabled, the lighting device receives control instructions from a smart mobile terminal to modify parameters of the lighting device.

17. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 13, wherein the step of enabling the voice command recognition interrupt further comprises:

detecting whether there is an inputted voice, if the inputted voice is detected, triggering the voice command recognition interrupt;

performing the voice recognition on the inputted voice to provide a recognized voice; and

determining whether the recognized voice is the voice command, and modifying parameters according to a matched voice command, wherein the process and control module of the lighting device controls other modules according to the modified parameters.

18. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 13, wherein the step of selecting the audio content in the memory module comprises, when the audio contents from the Internet are read, a preset website link is visited, and the audio contents are downloaded to the local memory while being read.

19. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 13, before the step of selecting the audio content in the memory module, further comprising:

enabling an alarm interrupt including;

determining whether a current time is a same as a preset alarm time;

when the current time matches the preset alarm time, triggering the alarm interrupt and playing an alarm sound; and

when the current time does not match the preset alarm time, stop triggering the alarm interrupt.

20. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 19, wherein:

when the alarm interrupt is triggered, the audio contents stored in the local memory are played automatically.