Summary of the invention
The water tumbler that the present invention uses to allow user can tell oneself easily, and point out corresponding information when mistake in water tumbler to user, and the accurate amount of drinking water under the prerequisite of the factor such as diverse geographic location, height above sea level, overcome water tumbler tilt and acceleration of gravity amount of drinking water is calculated to the error caused, and improve the Consumer's Experience of user when arranging custom and reminding, provide a kind of Intelligent water cup identifying user's identity, comprising:
Location and timing unit, for determining the current residing geography information of water tumbler, and record drinking-water time and the drinking-water moment of user;
Water yield determining unit, for determining user's amount of drinking water;
Temperature determining unit, for determining the environment temperature outside the temperature of the water of splendid attire in water tumbler and water tumbler;
Lip interactive unit, for gathering the lip motion of user;
Handle interactive unit, for gathering the area of user's holds handle;
Water tumbler use habit determining unit, for determining the second drinking habit information under the control of described lip interactive unit;
Amount of drinking water setting unit, for arranging suitable amount of drinking water by the lip motion of user;
Memory cell, for recording the first drinking habit information and the second drinking habit information;
Comparing unit, the the second drinking habit information stored for the second drinking habit information of detecting water tumbler use habit determining unit and described memory cell compares, when comparative result meets pre-conditioned again by the first drinking habit recorded in memory cell with the information of locating and timing unit, water yield determining unit and temperature determining unit export is compared;
Reminding unit, for the prompting of delivering necessity exported according to described comparing unit.
Further, described first drinking habit information comprises amount of drinking water, drinking-water time, drinking-water moment and water temperature.
Further, described second drinking habit information comprises water tumbler angle, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle and the mutual area of handle.
Further, described location and timing unit comprise GPS module and timer.
Further, described comparing unit adopts arm processor.
Further, described temperature determining unit adopts temperature sensor.
Further, described temperature sensor comprises infrared temperature sensor.
Further, the current residing geography information of water tumbler comprises the height above sea level residing for water tumbler.
Further, described reminding unit comprises loudspeaker, light emitting diode and wireless communication module.
Beneficial effect of the present invention comprises:
(1) can according to the user record of user's drinking habit accurately and intelligently being differentiated to certain water tumbler and whether belong to current, the information of current water tumbler can be sent to its user originally if desired in the unwitting situation of current user, so that take in involuntary or deliberate mistake, allow user find the Intelligent water cup belonging to himself as soon as possible in the situation such as misplaced;
(2) improve the accuracy in detection to Intelligent water cup user amount of drinking water, overcome water tumbler by during slant setting to amount of drinking water produce metrical error,
(3) by user's lip motion efficient, accurately catch, improve Consumer's Experience when user is arranged for amount of drinking water.
Detailed description of the invention
As shown in Figure 1, the Intelligent water cup that can record user's custom comprises: location and timing unit, water yield determining unit, temperature determining unit, memory cell, comparing unit, lip interactive unit, handle interactive unit, water tumbler use habit determining unit, an amount of drinking water setting unit, and reminding unit.To specifically introduce structure and the principle of unit below:
Timing circuit based on the GPS module that location and timing unit comprise SiRFIII series and the DS1302 clock chip produced based on DALLAS company of the U.S., for determining the current residing geography information of water tumbler and recording the drinking-water time of user and drink water the moment.
After GPS module detects current longitude, latitude and height above sea level, these information are transferred to memory cell using by the current time obtained with GPS module as first condition data.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the cycle that GPS module detects is configured to when described lip interactive unit collects the lip motion of user, gathers once every 60 seconds.
The lip motion that above-mentioned timer is used to collect user in described lip interactive unit starts to carry out timing, and when user makes predetermined lip motion at every turn, all terminates last timing and start new timing.The time of each timing period is transferred to described memory cell.
Water yield determining unit is used for determining user's amount of drinking water.The structure composition diagram of this water yield determining unit as shown in Figure 2.In this water yield determining unit, using the parts of same term can be use identical parts with other assemblies described with other assemblies of Intelligent water cup of the present invention, also can be use the other parts being somebody's turn to do (a bit) parts being different from other assemblies described.
The Intelligent water cup detecting amount of drinking water comprises water tumbler cup 10, also comprises following building block: multiple pressure sensor 1, multiple liquid level sensor 5, three dimension acceleration sensor 2, horizon sensor 3, multiple infrared sensor cell, and amount of drinking water computing unit 4.Below each building block is described in detail.
Multiple pressure sensor 1, it is arranged at bottom and the sidewall of water tumbler cup 10; These pressure sensors 1 preferably adopt resistance strain gage pressure sensor 1.On its bottom being arranged on water tumbler cup 10 and near bottom margin, be also arranged on water tumbler cup 10 sidewall and in region lower than the Sidewall Height at water tumbler cup 10 top about 1/3.Like this, pressure sensor 1 can both measure the pressure of water wherein for cup 10 when placement is normally placed and rolled to water tumbler.
Multiple liquid level sensor 5, it is arranged at the sidewall of water tumbler cup 10; Described liquid level sensor 5 comprises first group of liquid level sensor 5 and second group of liquid level sensor 5, wherein first group of liquid level sensor 5 is arranged in the middle part of the sidewall of water tumbler cup 10, and described second group of liquid level sensor 5 is arranged at the sidewall of water tumbler cup 10 and the bottom of close water tumbler cup 10.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, above-mentioned first group of liquid level sensor 5 and the longitudinal direction of above-mentioned second group of liquid level sensor 5 all along described water tumbler cup 10 extended, and two couple being mutually 90 degree is set on sidewall, the liquid level sensor 5 of often pair is opposed in 180 degree on sidewall.Such set-up mode can produce following beneficial effect: when water tumbler is by slant setting or when gripping, always there is a pair in the liquid level sensor 5 of 90 degree, the level value detected in 180 degree of liquid level sensors 5 arranged each other is different, thus judges now whether be suitable for adopting pressure sensor 1 directly to measure the quality of water water in the cup from the angle of liquid level.
Multiple infrared sensor 6, it is arranged at top and the sidewall of water tumbler cup 10; According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described infrared sensor cell comprises first group of infrared sensor cell and second group of infrared sensor cell, described at least some wherein in first group of infrared sensor cell and described liquid level sensor 5 is adjacent to arrange, and described second group of infrared sensor cell and described first group of sensor are relatively arranged.Further, described first group of infrared sensor cell and second group of infrared sensor cell include infrared transceiver.First group of infrared sensor cell and second group of mutual receiving and transmitting signal of infrared sensor cell, and whether normally its signal received is sent to described amount of drinking water computing unit 4, to judge infrared signal received and transmission.This " communication " between these infrared sensor cell is controlled by described amount of drinking water computing unit 4, and the data of receiving and dispatching between them are produced by described amount of drinking water computing unit 4.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the object that the data that described amount of drinking water computing unit 4 produces are only data communication validation verification uses, and therefore it generally represents a string binary digit, such as " 10100101 ", and figure place is generally 8, i.e. a byte.Like this, the effect of communication validation verification can either be played, communication-cost and required electric power can be saved again.
The present invention arranges above-mentioned first group of infrared sensor cell and second group of infrared sensor cell in some preferred embodiments in the following manner: described first group of infrared sensor cell is arranged at the sidewall of water tumbler cup 10, described second group of infrared sensor 6 is arranged at the top of water tumbler cup 10, like this, first group of infrared sensor cell and second group of infrared sensor cell carry out data communication mutually, can determine whether the infrared sensor 6 in first group of infrared sensor cell is blocked, and indirectly judge whether the liquid level sensor 5 be adjacent is blocked.When described amount of drinking water computing unit 4 does not receive the presupposed information of second group of infrared sensor cell feedback in official hour, then judge that liquid level sensor 5 is now stopped, such as tealeaves etc., like this, information eliminating liquid level sensor 5 detected when calculating amount of drinking water.
Three dimension acceleration sensor 2, it is arranged at the bottom of water tumbler cup 10; It can detect water tumbler and whether be in height above sea level higher or lower than horizontal plane, to such an extent as to the water that impact detects pressure sensor 1 is the judgement be worth accurately to the pressure bottom cup.When the acceleration that three dimension acceleration sensor 2 detects on gravity direction is non-zero, represent that pressure sensor 1 detected value now needs to correct based on the acceleration of this Z axis.In like manner, when X-axis and Y-axis acceleration transducer detected value non-zero time, represent the angle that the value needs that now pressure sensor 1 detects correct.The calculating of this angle can obtain according to stressed trigometric analysis method.
Horizon sensor 3, it is arranged at the bottom of water tumbler cup 10; Whether its water tumbler detected now is in level.If not, no matter whether the Z axis acceleration that then above-mentioned three dimension acceleration sensor 2 collects is 0, the value all relying on the X-axis of three dimension acceleration sensor 2 and Y-axis to record corrects.
Amount of drinking water computing unit 4, it is arranged at the bottom of water tumbler cup 10, and obtains amount of drinking water according to the testing result of described pressure sensor 1, liquid level sensor 5, three dimension acceleration sensor 2, horizon sensor 3, infrared sensor 6.Particularly, first judge whether Intelligent water cup is now horizontal according to horizon sensor 3, the three-dimensional acceleration then detected according to three dimension acceleration sensor 2 obtains the correction angle (namely by stressed trigometric analysis method according to the correction proportionality coefficient on this angle acquisition gravity direction) of pressure sensor 1 detected value; Wherein, when described two pairs of liquid level sensors 5 are not all blocked and the value feeding back to second group of infrared sensor cell is at the appointed time preset value, the value detected according to two pairs of liquid level sensors 5 calculates the angle of liquid level in water tumbler cup 10 again.This angle is used for correcting the value detected above by three dimension acceleration sensor 2, to make its value more accurate.When detecting two to the height homogeneous phase of (namely four row) liquid level sensor 5 simultaneously, the value that then can detect according to liquid level sensor 5 detects as follows the variation of liquid in water tumbler and calculates: be used to detect the distance between the water surface to the bottom by the 3rd group of infrared detecting unit at top near water tumbler, and when three dimension acceleration sensor 2 detects that three-dimensional acceleration changes, again detect the distance between the water surface to the bottom, these two distances subtract each other the height that can obtain level change, this height value is used to be supplied to amount of drinking water computing unit 4 and is scaled amount of drinking water, this amount of drinking water is used as the corrected value of the amount of drinking water that pressure sensor 1 detects.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described amount of drinking water computing unit 4 adopts ARM chip.
According to other embodiments of the invention, described Intelligent water cup also comprises on-off circuit, it is controlled by described amount of drinking water computing unit 4, for controlling the work of described amount of drinking water computing unit 4 according to the testing result of described pressure sensor 1, liquid level sensor 5, three dimension acceleration sensor 2, horizon sensor 3, infrared sensor 6 whether.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described Intelligent water cup also comprises solar cell, and it is arranged at the outer wall of water tumbler cup 10.
Temperature determining unit adopts temperature sensor, for determining the environment temperature outside the temperature of the water of splendid attire in water tumbler and water tumbler.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described temperature sensor comprises infrared temperature sensor.Said temperature determining unit not only gathers the water temperature in Intelligent water cup, but also gathers the environment temperature in environment residing for Intelligent water cup.Can contribute to like this setting up environment temperature residing for user and associating between the factor such as amount of drinking water and Drinking Water Temperature, contribute to analyzing the drinking habit of user, and contribute to science, reasonably instruct user to drink water.
Memory cell is for recording the first drinking habit information, and it adopts single Flash chip to form or the storage array of multiple Flash chip composition is formed.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described first drinking habit information comprises amount of drinking water, drinking-water time, drinking-water moment and water temperature.
The capacity of memory cell is 8GByte.The data being transferred to this memory cell are index by the moment that the user's lip motion collected according to described lip interactive unit occurs and set up major key with this index, the information such as geography information, time information, temperature information, amount of drinking water information are arranged to be stored in different row and in the mode of tables of data this memory cell at least partially in.
Lip interactive unit is for gathering the lip motion of user, and it adopts the lip of lip sensing unit collection user whether to fit to described Intelligent water cup.In prior art, although the existing sensing unit realizing similar functions, the accuracy of induction is not enough, and when user utilizes water tumbler to drink water, its lip is also little to the pressure of water tumbler rim of a cup, therefore strongly limit the seizure accuracy of induction action.The present invention, in order to overcome the defect of this prior art, provides following circuit: it has the response speed in tens to one hundred microsecond interval.This lip interactive unit comprises the array of multiple sensing unit composition as shown in Figure 3, and each sensing unit comprises: public electrode 1, pressure sensor module 2, light emitting diode 3, output 4, BDB Bi-directional Data Bus B, replacement control end R, IGCT T1-T4, triode T, electric capacity F1.Wherein, the drain electrode connecting luminous diode 3 of IGCT T1, source electrode connects BDB Bi-directional Data Bus B, and grid connects clock end; The grid of IGCT T2 connects replacement control end R, the control end (Enable Pin) of source electrode Bonding pressure sensor assembly 2, and drain electrode connects clock end; The grid of IGCT T3 connects BDB Bi-directional Data Bus B, the emitter stage of source electrode connecting triode T and the drain electrode of IGCT T4; The grid of IGCT T4 connects the drain electrode of IGCT T2, the control end of drain electrode Bonding pressure sensor assembly, and source electrode connects the source electrode of IGCT T3; The colelctor electrode of triode T connects electric capacity F1, the output of the base stage Bonding pressure sensor assembly 2 of triode T; The drain electrode of IGCT T3 and the emitter stage of triode T are through being connected output 4 with door.Wherein, triode is N-type.
Handle interactive unit is for gathering the area of user's holds handle.This handle interactive unit has the array of multiple sensing unit composition as shown in Figure 3 equally, and concrete composition as mentioned above.
Above-mentioned lip interactive unit of the present invention and handle interactive unit are all preferably arranged in flexible PCB, with the rim of a cup region of Intelligent water cup of the present invention of fitting and grip area, thus the contact position obtained exactly when user contacts water tumbler rim of a cup and handle and on rim of a cup and handle respective contact area and contact shape (shape is here such as by sensing the action of user's lip and/or hand, such as pressure, matrix notation position corresponding to of sensing unit in its array formed).
Water tumbler use habit determining unit is used under the control of described lip interactive unit, determine the second drinking habit information.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described second drinking habit information comprises water tumbler angle, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle and the mutual area of handle.
Described water tumbler angle is obtained by the gyroscope in this water tumbler use habit unit, and the mutual area of described lip and lip Interactive Shape are detected by described lip interactive unit and obtain.The mutual area of described handle and the mutual area of handle are obtained by the detection of described handle interactive unit.By test, applicant finds above-mentioned sensing unit detection sensitivity of the present invention and precision induction module more of the prior art finished product higher (about exceeding 30%).
In the present invention, comparing unit adopts arm processor, the the second drinking habit information stored for the second drinking habit information of detecting water tumbler use habit determining unit and described memory cell compares, when comparative result meets pre-conditioned again by the first drinking habit recorded in memory cell with the information of locating and timing unit, water yield determining unit and temperature determining unit export is compared.Before using Intelligent water cup of the present invention, water tumbler angle, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle and the mutual area of handle that will collect when memory cell preserves drinking-water are as the information through certification.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, during first three use Intelligent water cup of the present invention, the information of described handle interactive unit and described lip interactive unit and water tumbler use habit determining unit record is carried out average value processing by according to classification, and result is as the authentication information of above-mentioned water tumbler angle, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle, handle mutual area difference correspondence.
Store in memory cell be user collect when drinking water in the past water tumbler angle, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle, the mutual area of handle, amount of drinking water, the moment, drinking-water duration, water temperature, environment temperature information.Like this, when user drinks water, described lip interactive unit is after to receive between the current lip of user and rim of a cup mutual, and whether the deviation of the result that the space angle of the drinking-water water tumbler through certification stored in space angle, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle and the mutual area of handle when starting to judge that current user uses water tumbler residing for water tumbler and memory cell, the mutual area of lip, lip Interactive Shape, the mutual area of handle and the mutual area of handle contrast one by one is all less than default threshold value.If to be all less than or the mean value of each deviation is less than default mean value threshold value, then the user thinking now is the real owner of this water tumbler, the user that namely above-mentioned authentication information is corresponding.Then, by the record in memory cell first drinking habit with the information of locating and timing unit, water yield determining unit and temperature determining unit export is compared.This process compared is such as: be condition according to the described major key in memory cell, and the information of the amount of drinking water collected when the user that the information export above-mentioned location and timing unit, water yield determining unit and temperature determining unit and memory cell store drinks water, moment, drinking-water duration, water temperature, environment temperature compares.When the absolute value of the difference that these factors obtain between two more afterwards exceedes predetermined threshold value, according to this difference, send voice message by reminding unit to user, such as: " this amount of drinking water is very few " or " this amount of drinking water is too much ".
Amount of drinking water setting unit is used for arranging suitable amount of drinking water by the lip motion of user.It comprises switch element and controller, this switch element is for opening or close the work of amount of drinking water setting unit, the information that controller is used for collecting according to described lip interactive unit determines whether the lip motion of user terminates, (namely lip starts to touch water tumbler to the leaving water tumbler) duration that spends that records this lip motion, and is stored in described memory cell as suitable amount of drinking water by this duration.
Reminding unit is used for the prompting of the delivering necessity exported according to described comparing unit.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, this reminding unit comprises loudspeaker, light emitting diode and wireless communication module.Wherein, wireless communication module sends prompting message to be shown by the communication receipt module externally of one or more in the communication modes such as 3G, 4G, WiFi, bluetooth, described PERCOM peripheral communication receiver module is after receiving this prompting message, prompting message is provided to long-range or neighbouring other staff (the real user of such as this water tumbler, the user that namely the above-mentioned authentication information be stored in memory cell is corresponding) by loudspeaker and/or display screen.Above-described embodiment is the present invention's preferably embodiment; but embodiments of the present invention are not restricted to the described embodiments; change, the modification done under other any does not deviate from Spirit Essence of the present invention and principle, substitute, combine, simplify; all should be the substitute mode of equivalence, be included within protection scope of the present invention.