TWM469687U - Electronic device of remote control system - Google Patents

Description

Electronic device remote control system

This case relates to a remote control system, and more particularly to a system that integrates a home appliance and/or a light control system and that can be remotely controlled using a handheld device.

Due to its high portability and network connectivity, handheld devices such as smart phones and tablets have become the fastest-growing mainstream consumer electronics products in recent years, and have continuously developed new powerful functions for different application fields. In the field of home appliance control, there are also various development applications that combine handheld devices, such as the use of mobile phones as remote controls for home appliances, and many applications have been launched. However, due to the current mobile phone in the short-range wireless communication part, with the Bluetooth module as the mainstream, most of the products on the market are not equipped with the infrared transceiver commonly used by remote control appliances. Therefore, at present, there is a lack of an effective and economical technical solution for remote control of home appliances and lighting equipment.

One of the purposes of this creation is to provide an electronic device remote control system that is easy to install, so that users can easily remotely control various home appliances and lighting devices through handheld devices that are extremely popular, such as smart phones, and reduce unnecessary operating procedures. And equipment costs.

Another purpose of this creation is to provide a complete solution for home appliance remote control and lighting system control, allowing users to remotely control the main electrical appliances and photos in the house through handheld devices such as mobile phones. Ming equipment to improve the convenience of home automation.

Another purpose of this creation is to make the control settings of the remote control device easy through the cloud server and network address sharing function, and provide the functions of multiple handheld devices simultaneously operating the remote control system.

A further object of the present invention is to provide the function of using a handheld device to remotely control the light control system.

Another purpose of this creation is to break through the pointing limit of the general remote control and remotely control the electronic equipment of another space, greatly increasing the space range that can be controlled by a single remote controller.

The present invention provides an electronic device remote control system including a router (Gateway) for receiving a remote control command via a wireless network; and at least one universal remote control signal transceiver device, each of the universal remote control signal transceiver devices having multiple pointing directions The remote control signal transceiver is connected to the router by wireless communication, so that the remote control command is transmitted from the router to the universal remote control signal transceiver, and is sent out by each remote control transceiver. Remote commands are sent by the handheld device over the wireless network. The handheld device is a smart phone, tablet or remote control with wireless internet connection.

In order to provide multiple handheld devices for simultaneous remote operation, the router may further include a network sharing function.

The router can also edit and learn the remote control number to learn the remote control codes of different electronic devices and store them in the router. The electronic device remote control system may further include a cloud server connected to the router through the wireless network to perform editing and learning the remote control number function in the cloud server. The wireless network connecting the router, the handheld device, and the cloud server can be a network such as Wi-Fi.

The electronic device remote control system may further comprise a light control host microprocessor connected to the router by wireless communication to remotely connect at least one light control loop of the light control host microprocessor through the handheld device.

The router can be connected to the universal remote signal transceiver or the light control host microprocessor using radio frequency microwave (RF) communication. The remote control signal transceiver can be an infrared (IR) remote control signal transceiver.

1‧‧‧Electronic device remote control system

11‧‧‧ router

12‧‧‧ universal remote control signal transceiver

121‧‧‧Remote signal transceiver

13‧‧‧Wireless communication

14‧‧‧Network Sharing Module

15‧‧‧Handheld device

151‧‧‧Smart mobile phone

152‧‧‧ Tablet PC

153‧‧‧Remote control

16‧‧‧Cloud Server

17‧‧‧Lighting host microprocessor

18‧‧‧Light control loop

2‧‧‧Wireless network

3‧‧‧Electronic devices

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a remote control system for an electronic device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a remote control system connected to the light control system of the electronic device.

Figure 3 is a schematic plan view of the electronic device remote control system of the present invention installed in the home.

Fig. 4 is a schematic view showing the operation of an embodiment of a remote control sound of a handheld device in the authoring system.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the operation of the remote control television of the handheld device program in the authoring system.

Figure 6 is a schematic diagram showing the operation of the remote control air-conditioning apparatus of the handheld device program in the authoring system.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, the electronic device remote control system 1 includes a router 11, a universal remote control signal transmitting and receiving device 12, and a handheld device 15. The router 11 includes a network sharing module 14 and a wireless network connection function, and can receive remote command through the wireless network 2. The router 11 can also have a short-range wireless communication function through a built-in RF module or the like to transmit remote control commands to at least one of the universal remote control signal transmitting and receiving devices 12. Each of the universal remote control signal transmitting and receiving devices 12 has a plurality of remote control signal transceivers 121 pointing in different directions, so that (in the same manner as in FIG. 3), a plurality of remotely controlled and/or different orientations can be used in one use space. The electronic device 3 performs remote control. Universal remote control The signal transceiver device 12 is internally provided with a wireless communication module such as an RF transceiver, so as to be connected to the router 11 via the wireless communication 13, and the remote control command can be transmitted from the router 11 to the universal remote control signal transmitting and receiving device 12, and then transmitted and received by the remote control signal. The device 121 transmits the electronic device 3 such as a home appliance to be remotely controlled. The remote control command is sent by the handheld device 15 to control the router 11, and then transmitted to the universal remote control signal transmitting and receiving device 12 by the wireless communication 13. The hand-held device 15 can be any smart phone 151 or tablet 152 equipped with a remote control application developed for the remote control system 1 of the electronic device 3, or a remote control 153 having a wireless network connection function. The network sharing function provided by the network sharing module 14 of the router 11 (commonly known as the IP sharing function) can provide a plurality of handheld devices 15 to simultaneously perform remote operation.

In order to remotely control various brands, various electronic devices 3 of the specification, the router 11 has the function of editing and learning the remote control number, so as to learn the remote control codes of the different electronic devices 3, and store them in the router 11. The process of these learning operations does not need to be edited by an additional host computer program, but the function of editing and learning the remote control number can be performed through the cloud server 16. The cloud server 16 is connected to the router 11 through the wireless network 2, so the user does not need to install an additional computer host program to complete the remote control code setting, and only needs to connect to the cloud server 16 by using a general computer or a handheld device. It is easy to select the model of the built-in database, or set the remote control code of the remote control electronic device 3 through the learning mode. The wireless network connecting the router 11, the handheld device 15 and the cloud server 16 is a Wi-Fi network, or other similar function network. The remote control signal transceiver 121 can be an infrared remote control signal transceiver or other similarly functioning device.

Please refer to Figure 2, in order to further integrate all the remote control devices in the space to realize the function of the home digital remote control terminal device, the electronic device remote control system 1 can be further The light control host microprocessor 17 is connected to the router 11 by means of a wireless communication 13 for remotely connecting at least one light control circuit 18 of the light control host microprocessor 17 via the handheld device 15. The lamp control host microprocessor 17 can connect the 4 loops, 6 loops, and even the 8 loops of the light control loop 18 distributed throughout the room with a network route such as RJ45 to form a DALI Lighting control system. The conventional light control circuit 18 is controlled by a domain touch panel. By creating a connection between the router 11 and the light control host microprocessor 17, the user can control the lamps controlled by the light control circuit 18 in a touch mode directly in the application through the handheld device 15 (in the figure). Not shown, the function of the switch, the intensity of the light, etc., can also remotely control the electronic device 3 (see Figure 3) that needs remote control in the same space, such as audio, air conditioner, TV, etc.

Before the remote operation, the user needs to use the cloud server 16 and/or directly use the program of editing the infrared universal code and the infrared learning code on the router 11, and then store the respective infrared remote controllers to the router 11 after learning. And the code of the application in the handheld device 15 is interconnected, and the handheld device 15 can replace all the remote controllers, thereby reducing complicated operating procedures and repeated devices. When the setting of the handheld device 15 (such as the smart phone 151) is completed, the sharing mode can be used to support multiple handheld devices 15 (such as another smart phone 151, tablet 152, remote control 153, etc.) Line setting, to achieve the function of multi-machine simultaneous remote control.

Please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a schematic plan view of the electronic device remote control system 1 of the present invention installed in the home. The router 11 is disposed at any place in the living room or other space, and the universal remote control transceiver 12 is provided. It is set in each room or in a separate space. The router 11 can be connected to the universal remote signal transmitting/receiving device 12 or the light control host microprocessor 17 (see Fig. 2) by radio frequency microwave communication at a bandwidth of 2.4 GHz. In this way, router 11 can The wireless signal transmission is performed with the universal remote control signal transmitting device 12 or the light control host microprocessor 17 placed in each room. The router 11 includes a network sharing module 14 and a wireless network 2 connection function, and can receive remote command through the wireless network 2. The router 11 can also send remote control commands to the universal remote control signal transmitting and receiving device 12 installed in each room through a built-in RF module or the like. Each of the universal remote control transceivers 12 has a plurality of remote control transceivers 121 pointing in different directions so as to remotely control a plurality of electronic devices 3 that need to be remotely controlled and/or placed in different orientations in one use space.

In conjunction with the universal remote control signal transceiver 12 provided in each room, the user can still use other devices in the remote control room of the handheld device 15, such as the volume and ring effect of the audio in FIG. 4; Large and small sound / setting function; as shown in Figure 6 air volume / wind direction / temperature; other such as projector switch and briefing control; fan switch / air volume ... and so on, so you can borrow handheld device 15 The remote control operation can complete the comprehensive situational control of the place.

In addition, in order to facilitate the remote operation of the handheld device 15, the electronic devices 3 to be remotely controlled may be sorted and sorted as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, and the operation chart may be presented using a hierarchical menu. The display, such as audio, TV, projector, etc. can be classified under the same electronic device option, so that the operation interface of various remote control devices can be efficiently found in the application, and the efficiency of clicking and searching can be speeded up.

The above-mentioned electronic device remote control system is only for convenience of illustration, but the actual implementation is not limited thereto, and is not intended to limit the scope of the patent of the present invention, and the electronic device remote control system can be changed according to various application conditions. Any equivalent implementation that is not divorced from the spirit of this creative technique shall be included in the scope of the patent in this case.

1‧‧‧Electronic device remote control system

11‧‧‧ router

12‧‧‧ universal remote control signal transceiver

121‧‧‧Remote signal transceiver

13‧‧‧Wireless communication

14‧‧‧Network Sharing Module

15‧‧‧Handheld device

151‧‧‧Smart mobile phone

152‧‧‧ Tablet PC

153‧‧‧Remote control

16‧‧‧Cloud Server

2‧‧‧Wireless network

Claims (10)

An electronic device remote control system includes a router for receiving a remote control command through a wireless network; and at least one universal remote control signal transceiver device, each of the universal remote control signal transceiver devices having a plurality of remote control signal transceivers pointing in different directions And connecting to the router by wireless communication, so that the remote control command is transmitted from the router to the universal remote control transceiver, and is sent by the remote control transceiver. The electronic device remote control system of claim 1, wherein the remote control command is sent by a handheld device through a wireless network to control the router. The electronic device remote control system of claim 2, wherein the handheld device is a smart phone, a tablet computer or a remote controller with a wireless network connection function. The electronic device remote control system of claim 2, wherein the router further comprises a network sharing function to provide a plurality of the handheld devices for simultaneous remote operation. The electronic device remote control system of claim 2, wherein the router has the function of editing and learning the remote control number to learn the remote control codes of different electronic devices and store them in the router. The electronic device remote control system according to claim 5, further comprising a cloud server connected to the router through the wireless network, so that the cloud server performs the function of editing and learning the remote control number. The electronic device remote control system of claim 6, wherein the wireless network connecting the router, the handheld device, and the cloud server is a Wi-Fi network. The electronic device remote control system of claim 2, further comprising a light control host microprocessor, and the router is connected by wireless communication to remotely connect at least one light of the light control host microprocessor through the handheld device Control loop. The electronic device remote control system of claim 8, wherein the router is connected to the universal remote control signal transceiver or the light control host microprocessor by radio frequency microwave communication. The electronic device remote control system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the remote control signal transceiver is an infrared remote control signal transceiver.