CN100342696C - Household electronic resource sharing system - Google Patents

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CN100342696C
CN100342696C CNB2004100434384A CN200410043438A CN100342696C CN 100342696 C CN100342696 C CN 100342696C CN B2004100434384 A CNB2004100434384 A CN B2004100434384A CN 200410043438 A CN200410043438 A CN 200410043438A CN 100342696 C CN100342696 C CN 100342696C
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The present invention relates to a household electronic resource sharing system which comprises that a plurality of interface units are respectively and electrically connected with a bus, wherein one interface unit is additionally and electrically connected with a management unit; the rest interface units are additionally, respectively and electrically connected with household electronic products to make connection compact and make various electronic products combined into a system for sharing a hardware resource. The present invention has a powerful operating function.

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The household electronic resource sharing system
Technical field
The relevant system of taking the photograph household electronic products such as machine, laser disc broadcast/CD writers, video-audio signal output/inputting interface in conjunction with PC (PC), TV (television set), digital camera/numeral of the present invention, especially make each electronic product connect to a system, the system that makes each electronic product provide its related software, hardware resource to use for other products.
Background technology
Electronic product in family is towards networking, digitlization, and introduction wideband communication network, as ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) network, cable of cable TV (Cable) network, after satellite (Satellite) communication, binding framework between various electronic products becomes very complicated, and as shown in Figure 1, TV and sound system 10 are main audio-visual broadcast instrument.Various wideband video-audio signal transport interface, as box (Cable Set-top Box) 13 or individual panadaptor (PVR on box (Set-topBOX) 12, cable (cable TV network) machine on box on the subhost (Satellite Set-top BOX) 11, IP (world-wide web) machine, Personal Video Recorder), laser disc broadcast/CD writers (DVD/DVR) 14 and game machine (Game Machine) 15, link TV and sound system 10 with the video-audio signal transfer wire respectively.One media center PC (Media Center PC) 20 links digital camera/take the photograph video recorder (Digital Camera/Camcorder) 21 with signal transmission wire respectively, MP3 player/media player (MP3Player/Media2Go) 22, personal digital assistant/mobile phone (PDA/Smart Phone) 23, miniscope (Smart Display) 24, the 2nd PC/ notebook computer (2nd PC/Notebook) 25, holder (Storage) 26, wideband path (Broadband Gateway) 27 and video-audio signal transducer (A/VNode) 28.Video-audio signal transducer 28 links TV and sound system 10, makes TV and sound system 10 can broadcast the audio and video information that transmits via media center PC20.
Box 12 and wideband path 27 link ADSL network cable (ADSL) respectively on the world-wide web machine, and box 13 and Media Center PC 20 link cable TV network cable (Cable) respectively on the cable TV network cable gear.Digital camera/take the photograph video recorder 21, MP3 player/media player 22 utilizes USB/IEEE1394 transport interface link signal transmission line respectively.Personal digital assistant/mobile phone 23 connects signal transmssion line with the USB transport interface.Also can the wireless mode transmission signals between personal digital assistant/mobile phone 23, miniscope 24, the 2nd PC/ notebook computer 25 and the Media Center PC 20.Also can utilize ether (Ethernet) network to be connected between the 2nd PC/ notebook computer 25, holder 26 and the Media Center PC 20.
Above-mentioned known most domestic electronic appliances need use many signal conductors to be linked to TV and sound system 10 and media center PC20, cause the binding circuit very numerous and diverse; Most of again electronic product all has other arithmetic unit, power supply unit, memory etc., causes the dispersion and the overlapping investment of resource, and lacks unified management organization between each electronic product, so management is difficult for.
Other has a kind of framework that links domestic electronic appliances, as shown in Figure 2.Be that box 13, holder 26, wideband path 27 and video-audio signal transducer 28 on box 12, the cable gear on box 11, the IP machine on the subhost shown in Figure 1 are integrated into a medium server 30, and the video-audio signal of each electronic product output is sent to TV and sound system 10 via 30 controls of medium server.Can solve binding circuit complicated problems though this kind links framework, the complex structure of medium server 30 or media access, unit price are very high.This kind framework is centralized control architecture, when peripheral number of electronic products increases, or when increasing new function, need bigger communication frequency range, be subject to the operational capability of central processing unit, medium server 30 can become the bottleneck of video-audio signal transmission, and reduces the quality of signal transmission.When medium server 30 crashes, can influence the running of all electronic products in the family.If during roomed separating, too centralized control architecture can cause operational inconvenience in the family.When the technology innovation of each electronic product, when adding new function, the user needs integral body to consider more new media server 30 and peripheral electronic product, can increase the buying expenses of whole domestic electronic appliances.
Summary of the invention
Link the disappearance that the framework wiring is complicated or centralization control is produced in order to improve present domestic electronic appliances, and propose the present invention.
Main purpose of the present invention provides a kind of household electronic resource sharing system, makes various electronic products one-tenth capable of being combined one system, and prosperous software and hardware resource have powerful operational function altogether.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of household electronic resource sharing system, can simplify the wiring quantity of main frame, makes wiring comparatively succinct.
Another purpose of the present invention provides a kind of household electronic resource sharing system, and each electronic product has independently operational capacity, can not influence the running of associated electrical product during renewal, upgrades easily, and can reduce the cost that the user purchases domestic electronic appliances.
Household electronic product resource of the present invention is prosperous system altogether, is to utilize a management system to link various home-use electronics products respectively, makes each electronic product and management system be combined into a resource prosperous system altogether.
For further specifying above-mentioned purpose of the present invention, design feature and effect, the present invention is described in detail below with reference to accompanying drawing.
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Fig. 1 is the binding framework block schematic diagram between the various electronic products of known family.
Fig. 2 is the binding framework block schematic diagram between the various electronic products of another kind of known family.
Fig. 3 is the binding framework block schematic diagram between the various electronic products of family of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is total to prosperous system configuration block schematic diagram for resource of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the structure block schematic diagram of administrative unit of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is the structure square of boundary element of the present invention and the schematic diagram that combines with bus and binding interface.
Fig. 7 is the schematic diagram of resource kind, quantity and user mode in the management unit records of the present invention system.
Fig. 8 makes the resource flow chart of prosperous system execution work altogether.
Fig. 9 links the structure calcspar of first embodiment for boundary element and electronic product.
Figure 10 links the structure calcspar of second embodiment for boundary element and electronic product.
Figure 11 links the structure calcspar of the 3rd embodiment for boundary element and electronic product.
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See also shown in Figure 3.Household electronic product resource of the present invention is prosperous system altogether, is to utilize a management system 4 to link various home-use electronics product shown in Figure 1 respectively, makes each electronic product and management system 4 be combined into a resource prosperous system altogether.
See also shown in Figure 4.Management system 4 of the present invention comprises administrative unit 40, bus (Bus) 41 and 42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49 compositions of a plurality of boundary element.A plurality of boundary elements 42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49 respectively with bus 41 electric bindings, and can be respectively and administrative unit 40 and the electric binding of various household electronic products.
See also shown in Figure 5.Administrative unit 40 of the present invention has CPU (CPU) 401 association manager module 402, system storage 403 and binding interface 404 respectively.Management program module 402 drives the program with management whole system, carries out the management of whole system for CPU40.System storage 403 is in order to the operating state of record management whole system.Link interface 404 in order to link boundary element.Administrative unit 40 can detect, kind, the quantity of the various electronic products in monitoring and the register system and the hardware resource that various electronic product had, and whether in use, whether state such as damage arranged.
See also shown in Figure 6.Boundary element of the present invention is the example explanation with boundary element 42, has bus and links interface 421, bus control unit 422 and link interface 423.Bus links interface 421 in order to electric binding bus 41; Link interface 423 and have multiple different form, USB linkage interface, IEEE1394 linkage interface, video-audio signal linkage interface, second network linkage interface etc. too for example is to connect the administrative unit or the corresponding binding interface 50 of various household electronic products as shown in Figure 6 respectively.Link interface 423 and also can be the form that links a bus switch, and bus switch directly links the hardware resource of electric product.Bus control unit 422 has CPU and links control circuit module, control program module and memory respectively, control circuit module, control program module drive the working procedure of bus control unit 422, cooperate memory, for CPU control the format conversion that bus links interface 421 output signals is become to meet the transformat that links interface 423, and the format conversion one-tenth that will link interface 423 output signals meets the transformat at bus binding interface 421.And can link the communication of transmission signals between interface 421 and binding 423 two ends, interface by control bus, and monitor the transmission state of two ends transmission signals.The bus control unit 422 of each boundary element 42 has independently address setting, makes administrative unit shown in Figure 5 40 via after linking bus 41, can detect and learn each different boundary element 42.Boundary element can detect kind, the resource of learning with its binding electronic product, and resource whether in being used, whether information such as damage is arranged, and this information is sent to administrative unit.Boundary element can provide the function of carrying out signal communicating, transmission between variant electronic product, and can control the spendable resource of each electronic product and use for system.
See also shown in Fig. 4,5,6.When management system of the present invention is used, be to make a plurality of boundary elements 42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49 and bus 41 electric bindings, and make administrative unit 40 and various household electronic product, as box 13, laser disc broadcast/CD writers 14, game machine 15 and media center PC20 on box 12, the cable gear on box 11, the IP machine on TV and sound system 10, the subhost, be linked to bus 41 respectively, and make administrative unit 40 and each electronic product connect to a system via bus 41.
The bus control unit 422 of each boundary element 42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49 can detect the kind and the quantity of various hardware cells of the electronic product of coupled knot, and detects and learn that each hardware is at work or in idle medium resource information.The CPU401 of administrative unit 40 can detect and learn that each bus control unit detects the resource information that obtains, and various resource informations are stored in system storage 403.Therefore, administrative unit 40 can detect at any time and learn, and the whole household electronic resource that linked by each electronic product of record kind, the quantity of the various hardware resources of prosperous system altogether, and the information in being used whether.Another way is exactly in each hardware cell, for example makes game machine 15 set up a resource operating state display unit 151, is used for showing the operating state of game machine 15.Bus control unit 422 removes to check the resource operating state display unit of each hardware cell in the set time, to understand whether in use state of each resource, does the work of detection by converging the CPU401 of current drainage notice administrative unit 40 again.
The embodiment of the administrative unit 40 record resources that various electronic product had, available example shown in Figure 7 illustrates.For example the household electronic resource has device A (desktop computer), device B (notebook computer), device C (television set).The device A have CPU (Pentium 4, xxMHg), memory (512K).The device B have CPU (Pentium M, yyMHg), storage card (CF, MS).Device C has screen, mpeg decoder.And the whether record in being used of above-mentioned each hardware resource arranged.
See also shown in Figure 8.The present invention comprises the steps: the prosperous altogether method of electronic product resource
(1) administrative unit detects and writes down each boundary element and export via bus, and it detects kind, quantity and user mode with its binding resource that electronic product has;
When (2) administrative unit detects and supports the Query Information of resource via the electronic product demand in the boundary element output services, i.e. output relevant idle in the information of required resource;
(3) administrative unit makes electronic product in this work and other electronic products that have required resource carry out electrical connecting wires via bus, makes electronic product and the electric work system that connects to of required resource in the work;
(4) electronic product links required resource and carries out a certain work in the administrative unit testing, and the user mode with resource changes to " in using " simultaneously;
Whether the resource during (5) boundary element continue to detect uses is still in being used, if administrative unit still continues to detect; If not, the user mode of the resource during administrative unit will no longer be used changes to " in idle ", and continues to detect and write down the detected information of each boundary element.
Above-mentioned steps 3, comprise that further administrative unit gives an order to boundary element, control the resource of connected electronic product by the bus control unit of boundary element, the resource of non-demand is failed, and make the resource of demand and the electric work system that connects to of electronic product in the work.Its execution mode is the bus control unit when boundary element, detect administrative unit transmit to use with its binding electric product idle in during the information of certain resource, promptly export control signal, make that other resource decommissions in the electronic product, only allow the electric binding bus of resource of this demand, and with to carry out electronic product electric the connect to work system of a certain work in using.
Boundary element control and each resource of the electronic product of its binding and the electric embodiment that connects to a work system of electric product in the work have following several:
1. see also shown in Figure 9.Make the bus 70 of the binding interface 61 binding electric products of boundary element 60, send by bus control unit 62 and to control signal to each resource, as peripheral device 71, output go into control unit 72, memory 73, whether CPU74 operates and with bus 70 electric bindings, with electric binding boundary element 60, and through bus binding interface 63 binding buses 41.Wherein output is gone into control unit 72 and is linked respectively and export/go into interface 75,76.
2. see also shown in Figure 10.Make the binding interface 61 of boundary element 60 connect an electrical wire 64, the upper end in addition of electrical wire 64 connects a bus switch 741, and bus switch 741 connects in the electric product a certain for the resource of utilizing, for example CPU74.When CPU74 will be utilized by other electric products, bus control unit 62 promptly sends control signal makes the resource that is not used such as peripheral device 71, output go into control unit 72, memory 73 etc. and decommission, and open bus switch 741, make CPU74 and boundary element 60 electric bindings.See also shown in Figure 11.Present embodiment also can make other resources link a bus switch 711,731,751 respectively to be linked to linkage unit 61, make each resource, as peripheral device 71, memory 73, export/go into the electric respectively boundary element 60 that is linked in interface 75, and whether operated by bus control unit 62 control.
The present invention makes the electronic product in the family connect to a resource prosperous system altogether, when a certain electronic product will be carried out a certain when surpassing the work that itself hardware can bear, can be total to prosperous system via resource and link the resource that other electronic products have, set up a work system to finish the work that to carry out.Therefore the user can buy the product that needs, and need not repeat to purchase identical resource, can reduce the expense of buying electronic product.
The present invention can improve present domestic electronic appliances and link the disappearance that the framework wiring is complicated or centralization control is produced, make wiring comparatively succinct, and make various electronic products one-tenth capable of being combined one system, be total to prosperous software and hardware resource, has powerful operational function, and make each electronic product have independently operational capacity, can not influence the running of associated electrical product during renewal, upgrade easily.
Though the present invention describes with reference to current specific embodiment, but those of ordinary skill in the art will be appreciated that, above embodiment is used for illustrating the present invention, under the situation that does not break away from spirit of the present invention, also can make the variation or the replacement of various equivalences, therefore, as long as in connotation scope of the present invention in the scope to the variation of the foregoing description, claims that modification all will drop on the application.

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1. household electronic resource sharing system, comprise a plurality of boundary elements respectively with the electric binding of bus, one of them boundary element in addition with the electric binding of administrative unit; Remaining boundary element respectively with the electric system that connects to of household electronic product, and make this administrative unit detect, monitor and write down hardware resource that electronic product, this electronic product had and in use state whether in this system, and this boundary element is carried out carry out signal communicating and transmission between different electronic products, and control the spendable resource of this electronic product and use for this system; This boundary element has bus and links interface, bus control unit and link the interface; Wherein this bus binding interface is used to this bus of electric binding; This binding interface is used to link this electronic product; This bus control unit has CPU and links control circuit module, control program module and memory respectively, become to meet the transformat that links the interface with the format conversion that bus is linked the interface output signal, the format conversion that links the interface output signal is become to meet the transformat that bus links the interface, reach the communication that control bus links the interface and links transmission signals between the two ends, interface, and the transmission state of monitoring two ends transmission signals.
2. shared system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that this administrative unit has CPU association manager module, system storage and binding interface respectively; Wherein this management program module has the program of this system of management, carries out the management of whole system for this CPU; This system storage is used to the operating state of record management whole system; This binding interface is used to link this boundary element.
3. shared system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that this bus control unit has independently address setting, learns the boundary element that each are different so that this administrative unit detects.
4. shared system as claimed in claim 1, the binding interface that it is characterized in that this boundary element be selected from USB linkage interface, IEEE1394 linkage interface, video-audio signal linkage interface, second too the network linkage interface one of them.
5. shared system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the binding interface of this boundary element links the bus of this electric product.
6. shared system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the binding interface of this boundary element links at least one bus switch, and this bus switch links the hardware resource of this electric product.
7. one kind makes the prosperous altogether method of electronic product resource, comprises the steps:
(1) administrative unit detects and writes down each boundary element and export via bus, it detects kind, quantity and user mode with its binding resource that electronic product has, the bus control unit of this boundary element is in the set time, carry out to detect the operating state display unit of resource that this each electronic product has, to obtain whether in use information of each resource;
When (2) administrative unit detects and supports the Query Information of resource via the electronic product demand in the boundary element output services, i.e. output relevant idle in the information of required resource;
(3) administrative unit makes electronic product in this work and other electronic products that have required resource carry out electrical connecting wires via bus, makes electronic product and the electric work system that connects to of required resource in the work;
(4) electronic product links required resource and carries out a certain work in the administrative unit testing, and the user mode with this resource changes to " in using " simultaneously;
Whether the resource during (5) boundary element continue to detect uses is still in being used, if administrative unit still continues to detect; If not, the user mode of the resource that administrative unit will no longer be used changes to " in idle ", and continues to detect and write down the detected information of each boundary element.
8. method as claimed in claim 7, it is characterized in that this step 3, further comprise, this administrative unit gives an order to this boundary element, control the resource of connected electronic product by the bus control unit of this boundary element, the resource of non-demand is failed, and make the resource of demand and the electric work system that connects to of electronic product in the work.
9. method as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that the binding interface of this boundary element links at least one bus switch, and this bus switch links the hardware resource of this electric product; This bus control unit can send control signal decommissions the resource that is not used, and opens this bus switch, makes the resource and the electric binding of this boundary element of this demand.
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