Lighting device and voice broadcasting system and method thereof

• US 9,990,175 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• 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: Zhang, Zonggen, Cao, Shuyu, Xie, Zhen, Zhou, Weisheng, Shen, Jinxiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas-Homescu, Anne L
• Application Number:
  US14/902,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,134 Days
• 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 diode configured to emit light;

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

a wireless communication circuit configured to establish wireless connections to the Internet;

a microphone configured to receive voice information from a user;

a memory configured to store audio contents;

a processor configured to receive the voice information from the microphone, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command; and

a speaker configured to select and play an audio content according to the voice command;

wherein the processor is further configured to adjust at least one of a brightness or a color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on information associated with the audio content being played by the speaker,

the processor is respectively connected to the light-emitting diode, the power supply, the wireless communication circuit the microphone, the memory, and the speaker; and

the processor is further configured to, after determining the voice command, send control instructions to at least one of the wireless communication circuit, the memory, the speaker, or the light-emitting diode according to the voice command,

wherein the audio content played by the speaker is a story; and

the processor is further configured to adjust at least one of the brightness or the color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on the information associated with the story.

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 wireless communication circuit adopts 2.4G or 5G WI-FI technology, or adopts 2.5G, 3G or 4G mobile wireless communication technology.

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

the processor is further configured to gradually dim the emitted light from the light-emitting diode at preset time intervals when the speaker is playing the audio content.

18. The lighting device according to claim 17, wherein:

the processor is further configured to dim the emitted light for a preset brightness level at each of the preset time intervals.

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

the processor is further configured to turn off the emitted light after the speaker plays the audio content for a preset time duration.

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

the information associated with the story includes at least one of an environment mentioned in the story or a type of the story.

4. A voice broadcasting system, comprising:

a lighting device, comprising;

a light-emitting diode configured to emit light;

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

a wireless communication circuit configured to establish wireless connections to the Internet;

a microphone configured to collect voice information from a user;

a memory configured to store audio contents;

a processor configured to receive the voice information from the microphone, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command; and

a speaker configured to select and play an audio content according to the voice command;

wherein the processor is further configured to;

adjust at least one of a brightness or a color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on information associated with the audio content being played by the speaker; and

after determining the voice command, send control instructions to at least one of the wireless communication circuit, the memory, the speaker, or the light-emitting diode according to the voice command, 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 communication circuit,

wherein the audio content played by the speaker is a story; and

the processor is further configured to adjust at least one of the brightness or the color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on the information associated with the story.

5. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 4, wherein the voice command includes commands to start playing, play along a single loop of contents, or play by circulating all contents.

6. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 4, wherein the lighting device is configured to be initialized by:

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

7. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 4, 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.

8. The voice broadcasting system according to claim 4, wherein the smart mobile terminal is a smart phone, a tablet computer, a smart TV, or a laptop computer.

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

providing a lighting device, comprising;

a light-emitting diode configured to emit light;

a wireless communication circuit configured to establish wireless connections to the Internet;

a microphone configured to collect voice information from a user;

a memory configured to store audio contents;

a processor configured to receive the voice information from the microphone, to recognize and determine whether the voice information is a voice command; and

a speaker configured to select and play an audio content according to the voice command;

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

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

enabling a network command interrupt;

enabling a voice command recognition interrupt, inquiring whether the microphone of the lighting device receives the voice information, and performing, by the processor, voice recognition on the received voice information and sending control instructions to at least one of the wireless communication circuit, the memory, the speaker, or the light-emitting diode according to the voice command;

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

broadcasting, by the speaker, the selected audio content; and

adjusting at least one of a brightness or a color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on information associated with the audio content being broadcasted by the speaker,

wherein the audio content played by the speaker is a story; and

the method further comprises;

adjusting at least one of the brightness or the color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on the information associated with the story.

10. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, wherein the voice command includes commands to start playing, play along a single loop of contents, or play by circulating all contents.

11. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, wherein the parameter initialization is performed by:

turning on a broadcasting,

setting a default broadcasting path using the memory; and

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

12. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, 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.

13. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, 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 processor of the lighting device controls other components according to the modified parameters.

14. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, wherein the step of selecting the audio content in the memory comprises, when the audio contents from the Internet are read, a preset website link is visited, and the audio contents are downloaded to the memory while being read.

15. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, before the step of selecting the audio content in the memory, further comprising:

enabling an alarm interrupt including;

determining whether a current time is the 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.

16. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 15, wherein:

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

21. The voice broadcasting method according to claim 9, wherein:

adjusting at least one of the brightness and the color temperature of the light further comprises;

adjusting at least one of the brightness or the color temperature of the light emitted by the light-emitting diode based on at least one of an environment mentioned in the story or a type of the story.