CN112990393B - Method and device for generating operation interface - Google Patents

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CN112990393B
CN112990393B CN201911213142.5A CN201911213142A CN112990393B CN 112990393 B CN112990393 B CN 112990393B CN 201911213142 A CN201911213142 A CN 201911213142A CN 112990393 B CN112990393 B CN 112990393B
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翟元义
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周宗旭
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Abstract

The invention discloses a method and a device for generating an operation interface, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring Near Field Communication (NFC) tag information of a household appliance read by a terminal, wherein the NFC tag information comprises an identifier of the household appliance; acquiring type information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, and acquiring a corresponding operation interface according to the type information; and controlling the terminal to load the operation interface. According to the method for generating the operation interface, the identification of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, and the operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal, so that the operability of a user is improved, the viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, and the method is simple and easy to realize.

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Method and device for generating operation interface
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a method and a device for generating an operation interface.
Background
With the rapid development of intelligent technology, the functions of household appliances are more and more, and great convenience and excellent experience are brought to the life of people.
However, when using the household appliance, the user often needs to walk to the front of the household appliance, and the user needs to operate by hand (e.g. select a corresponding function key) to control the household appliance to enter a corresponding working mode, which is complicated and results in poor user experience.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention aims to solve at least one of the technical problems in the related art to some extent. Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to provide a method for generating an operation interface, which reads an identifier of a home appliance through an NFC function of a terminal, and displays an operation interface corresponding to the home appliance on the terminal, so that operability of a user is improved, and viscosity of the user using the home appliance is improved.
A second object of the present invention is to provide an operation interface generating device.
A third object of the present invention is to propose a terminal.
A fourth object of the present invention is to propose an electronic device.
A fifth object of the present invention is to propose a computer readable storage medium.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of a first aspect of the present invention provides a method for generating an operation interface, including: acquiring near field communication (Near Field Communication, NFC) tag information of a household appliance read by a terminal, wherein the NFC tag information comprises an identifier of the household appliance; acquiring type information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, and acquiring a corresponding operation interface according to the type information; and controlling the terminal to load the operation interface.
In addition, the method for generating an operation interface according to the above embodiment of the present invention may further have the following additional technical features:
according to one embodiment of the invention, the operation interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with the type information of the household appliances.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: and acquiring state information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, wherein the operation interface is generated according to the type information and the state information.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the generating the operation interface according to the type information and the state information includes: acquiring a default operation interface corresponding to the household appliance according to the type information, wherein the default operation interface comprises a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module; judging whether state information exceeding a preset range exists in the state information or not; if the state information exceeding the preset range exists, the state information exceeding the preset range is used as abnormal state information; and acquiring an operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information, and replacing an alternative operation interface module in the default operation interface with the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: acquiring user information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance; acquiring user attribute information of the user according to the user information; and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: acquiring environment attribute information of the household appliance, and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface according to the environment attribute information of the household appliance.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: acquiring a history operation record of the user; generating a user model of the user according to the historical operation record of the user, and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface according to the user model of the user.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface according to at least two of the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the near field communication NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the method further includes: judging whether the terminal is provided with an application program APP corresponding to the household appliance or not; and if the terminal is not provided with the corresponding application program APP, downloading and installing the application program APP corresponding to the household appliance after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the near field communication NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the method further includes: and detecting and recognizing that the terminal is not in a networking state, and entering a terminal distribution network guiding interface after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the type information of the household appliance is any one of a microwave oven, an electric cooker, an electromagnetic oven, an electric oven, a washing machine, a water heater, an air conditioner, a fan, and a water purifier.
According to the method for generating the operation interface, the NFC label information of the household appliance read by the terminal is obtained, the type information of the household appliance is obtained according to the identification of the household appliance, the corresponding operation interface is obtained according to the type information, and the terminal is controlled to load the operation interface. Therefore, the identification of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, and the operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal, so that the operability of a user is greatly improved, the viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, the value of the household appliance is improved, and the use of the user is facilitated.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of a second aspect of the present invention provides an operation interface generating device, including: the terminal comprises a first acquisition module, a second acquisition module and a first control module, wherein the first acquisition module is used for acquiring near field communication NFC label information of a household appliance read by a terminal, and the NFC label information comprises an identifier of the household appliance; the second acquisition module is used for acquiring type information of the household appliances according to the identification of the household appliances and acquiring a corresponding operation interface according to the type information; and the control module is used for controlling the terminal to load the operation interface.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the operation interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with the type information of the household appliances.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: and the third acquisition module is used for acquiring the state information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, wherein the operation interface is generated according to the type information and the state information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the third obtaining module is specifically configured to: acquiring a default operation interface corresponding to the household appliance according to the type information, wherein the default operation interface comprises a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module; judging whether state information exceeding a preset range exists in the state information or not; if the state information exceeding the preset range exists, the state information exceeding the preset range is used as abnormal state information; and acquiring an operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information, and replacing an alternative operation interface module in the default operation interface with the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a fourth obtaining module, configured to obtain user information of the home appliance according to the identifier of the home appliance; a fifth acquisition module, configured to acquire user attribute information of the user according to the user information; and the first generation module is used for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a sixth acquisition module, configured to acquire environmental attribute information in which the home appliance is located; and the second generation module is used for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interfaces according to the environment attribute information of the household appliances.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a seventh obtaining module, configured to obtain a history operation record of the user; and the third generation module is used for generating a user model of the user according to the historical operation record of the user and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface according to the user model of the user.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a fifth generation module for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to at least two of the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model
According to an embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the first acquiring module is further configured to: judging whether the terminal is provided with an application program APP corresponding to the household appliance or not; and if the terminal is not provided with the corresponding application program APP, downloading and installing the application program APP corresponding to the household appliance after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the first acquiring module is further configured to: and detecting and recognizing that the terminal is not in a networking state, and entering a terminal distribution network guiding interface after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the type information of the household appliance is any one of a microwave oven, an electric cooker, an electromagnetic oven, an electric oven, a washing machine, a water heater, an air conditioner, a fan, and a water purifier.
According to the generating device of the operation interface, the NFC label information of the household appliance read by the terminal is obtained through the first obtaining module, the type information of the household appliance is obtained through the second obtaining module according to the identification of the household appliance, the corresponding operation interface is obtained according to the type information, and the terminal is controlled to load the operation interface through the control module. Therefore, after NFC label information of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, an operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal through identification of the household appliance, so that operability of a user is greatly improved, viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, value of the household appliance is improved, and convenience is brought to the user.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of a third aspect of the present invention provides a terminal, which includes the generating device of the operation interface.
According to the terminal provided by the embodiment of the invention, after the NFC label information of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, the operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal through identifying the identification of the household appliance, so that the operability of a user is greatly improved, the viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, the value of the household appliance is improved, and the use of the user is facilitated.
To achieve the above object, an embodiment of a fourth aspect of the present invention provides an electronic device, including: the system comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein the processor realizes the generation method of the operation interface when executing the program.
To achieve the above object, a fifth aspect of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the above-described method of generating an operation interface.
Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method of generating an operator interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method of generating an operator interface according to one embodiment of the invention;
fig. 3 is a block schematic diagram of a generating apparatus of an operation interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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Embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to like or similar elements or elements having like or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below by referring to the drawings are illustrative and intended to explain the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the invention.
The following describes a method and a device for generating an operation interface according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a method for generating an operation interface according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, the method for generating the operation interface includes:
s1, acquiring near field communication NFC tag information of the household appliance read by a terminal, wherein the NFC tag information comprises an identifier of the household appliance.
The terminal may refer to an electronic terminal device (such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, etc.) with an independent operating system, and may be provided by a third party service provider for users to install software and games by themselves, and by using such a program, the functions of the terminal may be continuously extended, and the communication module and other terminals may be used to perform data interaction.
Specifically, the terminal takes the smart phone as an example, because most of the smart phones at present have NFC modules, the smart phone can be close to the household appliance after the NFC function of the smart phone is opened so as to read the NFC tag information of the household appliance, where the NFC tag information may include an identifier of the household appliance, the identifier of the household appliance is a unique identity of the household appliance, and type information of the household appliance may be obtained through the identifier of the household appliance, such as type information including an electric cooker, a fan, an air conditioner, and the like, and state information of the household appliance is obtained.
S2, acquiring type information of the household appliances according to the identification of the household appliances, and acquiring a corresponding operation interface according to the type information. According to one embodiment of the invention, the operation interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with the type information of the household appliances. That is, when the type information of the household appliance is the electric rice cooker, the operation interface may be an operation interface corresponding to the current electric rice cooker; when the type information of the home appliance is an air conditioner, the operation interface may be an operation interface corresponding to the current air conditioner.
Wherein, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the type information of the home appliance may be any one of a microwave oven, an electric cooker, an electromagnetic oven, an electric oven, a washing machine, a water heater, an air conditioner, a fan, and a water purifier. When the user obtains the type information of the current household appliance as the microwave oven, the user can obtain an operation interface corresponding to the microwave oven according to the microwave oven, and when the user reads the type information of the other household appliance again, the terminal can automatically jump to the operation interface corresponding to the type information of the other household appliance.
Specifically, when the smart phone opens the NFC function, approaches to the home appliance, and reads the NFC tag information of the home appliance, the embodiment of the present invention may obtain, according to the read NFC tag information of the home appliance, the identifier of the home appliance according to the NFC tag information of the home appliance, thereby obtaining type information of the home appliance, where different types of information of the home appliance may correspond to different operation interfaces, and the operation interfaces may include a display frame of the type information of the home appliance and parameters in the frame.
For example, according to the identification of the household appliance, the type information of the household appliance is obtained as an electric cooker, the corresponding operation interface of the electric cooker can be an operation interface formed by combining a plurality of menu pages according to the current time (such as breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time and the like), the current time is the lunch time, the operation interface can display the menu of lunch, and the corresponding side dishes and cooking method are displayed in each menu, so that the selection of a user is facilitated, and the value of the household appliance is greatly improved.
For another example, according to the identification of the household appliance, the type information of the household appliance is obtained as a fan, and an operation interface corresponding to the fan can be composed of functions of increasing air quantity, reducing air quantity, power supply, timing and the like.
It should be noted that the above examples are only exemplary, and the types of the home appliances may be air-conditioning, water-purifying, electric water-heating, etc., and may be specifically set by those skilled in the art according to actual situations, and are not particularly limited herein.
S3, controlling the terminal to load the operation interface.
In one example, when the type information of the household appliance is obtained according to the identification of the household appliance is the electric cooker, the terminal can automatically start an application program (app) corresponding to the electric cooker, and load an operation interface obtained according to the electric cooker in the opened app, wherein the operation interface loaded by the terminal can be different menu pages generated according to the current time (such as breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time and the like), so that a user can conveniently select corresponding functions from the operation interface according to own preference, such as cooking porridge, stewing rice and the like, various choices are provided for the user, the user can conveniently refer to the user, the use experience of the user can be greatly improved, and the viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved.
In another example, when the type information of the household appliance is obtained according to the identification of the household appliance is a fan, the terminal can automatically start an application program (app) corresponding to the fan, and load an operation interface obtained according to the fan in the opened app, wherein the operation interface can be sent to the terminal through a cloud server, the operation interface loaded by the terminal can be an operation interface formed by functions of increasing air quantity, reducing air quantity, power supply, timing, one-key operation and the like, and one-key operation can be an optimal operation parameter of the fan obtained through incomplete statistics of big data, so that the fan is controlled to be opened through the terminal, for example, a user can directly control the fan to be opened through the operation interface displayed by the terminal app and adjust to a corresponding gear without moving to the side of the fan for operation, the user is convenient to adjust, and the use experience of the user is improved.
In order to enable those skilled in the art to further understand the method for generating an operation interface according to the embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description will be given below with reference to one embodiment.
For example, in the related art, when a user uses an air conditioner, the user can download a corresponding app (such as a meiju), and when the air conditioner is controlled, the user needs to first click on the meiju app and then click on the corresponding air conditioner, so that the user can enter a control interface of the corresponding air conditioner, and the operation is complicated; in the embodiment of the invention, after the NFC label information of the household appliance is read by the NFC function of the terminal, the user can directly enter the operation interface of the corresponding air conditioner, and the operation interface is the control interface of the corresponding air conditioner, so that the operation is simple and the operation of the user is convenient.
Therefore, the NFC label information of the household appliance read by the terminal is obtained, the type information of the household appliance is obtained according to the identification of the household appliance, the corresponding operation interface is obtained according to the type information, and the terminal is controlled to load the operation interface. Therefore, after NFC label information of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, an operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal through identification of the household appliance, so that operability of a user is greatly improved, viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, value of the household appliance is improved, and the household appliance is convenient to use and easy to realize.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: and acquiring state information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, wherein an operation interface is generated according to the type information and the state information.
Wherein, according to one embodiment of the invention, generating an operation interface according to the type information and the state information comprises: acquiring a default operation interface corresponding to the household appliance according to the type information, wherein the default operation interface comprises a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module; judging whether state information exceeding a preset range exists in the state information or not; if the state information exceeding the preset range exists, the state information exceeding the preset range is used as abnormal state information; and acquiring an operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information, and replacing the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information with a replaceable operation interface module in a default operation interface.
It should be understood that the state information of the home appliance may refer to state information of whether the home appliance can normally operate, for example, if the water purifying filter element of the water purifier does not reach the replacement time, the state information of the water purifier may be non-abnormal state information, and if the water purifying filter element of the water purifier reaches the replacement time, the state information of the water purifier may be abnormal state information; if the magnesium rod in the electric water heater does not reach the replacement time, the state information of the electric water heater is not abnormal state information, and if the magnesium rod in the electric water heater reaches the replacement time, the state information of the electric water heater is abnormal state information. It should be noted that, the replacement of the magnesium rod and the water purifying filter element is only exemplary, and other conditions such as damage of components and parts, water shortage and the like when the household appliance is abnormal can be used as abnormal state information of the household appliance.
In addition, the state information of the household appliance can also refer to whether the machine is in an on state, whether the machine is in normal operation, the current working state of the machine, and the like, and the state information of the household appliance can be obtained according to the current actual working condition of the household appliance in the field.
Further, the embodiment of the invention can identify the type information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, for example, the type information of the household appliance is electric cooker, electric water heater, fan and the like, and each type information corresponds to a respective default operation interface, wherein the default operation interface can comprise a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module.
In an example, taking type information of a household appliance as an electric water heater as an example, the necessary operation interface modules corresponding to the electric water heater may include control button interfaces such as temperature increase, temperature decrease, power supply, timing and the like of the electric water heater, the replaceable operation interface module corresponding to the electric water heater may be an operation interface module corresponding to abnormal state information of the electric water heater, for example, when a magnesium rod in the electric water heater reaches a replacement time, the state information of the electric water heater is abnormal state information, and at the moment, the replaceable operation interface module in a default operation interface may be replaced by the operation interface module prompting that the magnesium rod of the electric water heater needs to be replaced. After the replaceable operation interface module is replaced, the step of replacing the magnesium rod, voice, video and the like can be displayed on the operation interface, so that a user can conveniently replace the magnesium rod according to the content of the replaceable operation interface module, convenience is provided for the user, and the use experience of the user is improved.
In another example, the water purifying filter element of the water purifier is generally replaced once a year, when the water purifying filter element of the water purifier reaches the replacement time, namely when the water purifying filter element of the water purifier is in abnormal state information, the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information of the water purifying filter element can be replaced by the replaceable operation interface module in the default operation interface, so that a user can be reminded of replacing the filter element, the water purifying filter element can be replaced in time, and the water use safety of the user can be improved.
It should be noted that the foregoing examples are merely exemplary, and are not meant to limit the present invention, and those skilled in the art may design the present invention according to practical situations, so that the detailed description is omitted herein for avoiding redundancy.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, further comprising: acquiring user information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance; acquiring user attribute information of a user according to the user information; and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information.
It should be understood that the identification of the home appliance has uniqueness, so that the identification of the home appliance and the user information can be bound in advance, wherein the user attribute information can include the gender, age and the like of the user, and the user attribute information can be obtained through the user information. The embodiment of the invention can obtain the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface matched with the attribute information of the user through limited times of experiments or through limited times of computer simulation, for example, when a child exists in the home, the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the operation interface can be some recipes related to the child, so that the corresponding function can be conveniently selected to cook the child, the value of the household appliance is improved, and the viscosity of the household appliance used by the user is improved.
For example, in the embodiment of the invention, user information can be obtained according to the identification of the electric cooker, and user attribute information of a user is obtained according to the user information, so that selection keys of a plurality of functions of the electric cooker, such as sweet rice, fast rice, porridge, baby rice, infant porridge, rice soup, custard, yogurt and the like, can be generated on an operation interface, namely, the functions are used as default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface, and the user can select corresponding operation parameters according to actual needs.
Therefore, default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface are generated according to the attribute information of the user, so that the requirements of the user can be greatly met, more choices are given to the user, and the use experience of the user is greatly improved.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, further comprising: acquiring environment attribute information of the household appliance, and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the environment attribute information of the household appliance.
Among them, the environmental attribute information of the home appliance may include, but is not limited to, temperature, humidity, altitude, etc. of the environment. For example, when the acquired environmental attribute information is temperature, if the acquired environmental temperature is 30 ℃, the embodiment of the invention can determine the operation parameters of the air conditioner according to the environmental attribute information, such as controlling the air conditioner to operate in a refrigeration state, setting the temperature to be 24 ℃ and the wind power to be strong, thereby taking the operation parameters as default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface, and the user can adjust the default operation parameters.
For another example, when the obtained environmental attribute information is humidity, for example, huang Meitian, the air temperature is not very high, but the humidity is very high, for example, the humidity is 70%, and the person feels wet but sweats, according to the environmental attribute information, the embodiment of the invention can control the air conditioner to open the dehumidification function so as to play a dehumidification function, thereby taking the operation parameter as the default operation parameter of each operation interface module in the default operation interface, and the user can also adjust the default operation parameter.
Therefore, the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface are generated according to the environment attribute information of the household appliance, so that the requirements of users can be met, and the viscosity of the users to the household appliance can be improved.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, further comprising: acquiring a historical operation record of a user; generating a user model of the user according to the historical operation record of the user, and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user model of the user.
Specifically, the embodiment of the invention can count the historical operation records of the user, fuse the historical operation records for a plurality of times, and comprehensively analyze the historical operation records to generate the user model of the user, and further generate default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user model of the user after generating the user model of the user.
For example, the type information of the household appliance is exemplified by a fan, and after statistics is performed on a history operation record (which may be one month) of a user, and the obtained history operation records are fused, a user model of the user is obtained after comprehensive analysis, if a gear favored by the user is a second gear, the fan is in a shaking state, and the noon break time is generally timed to be half an hour, etc., so that according to the user model of the user, the fan operation parameters are used as default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface, so that the fan is adjusted to the most comfortable gear wind speed of the user, the user does not need to adjust again, and the comfort of the user is greatly improved.
Therefore, the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface are generated by combining the historical operation record of the user, so that the requirements of the user can be met, and the viscosity of the user to the household appliance can be improved.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for generating an operation interface further includes: and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to at least two of the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model.
Specifically, after the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model are obtained, the embodiment of the invention can generate the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information and the environment attribute information, can generate the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information and the user model, can generate the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the environment attribute information and the user model, and can generate the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model.
For example, taking an example of generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in a default operation interface according to user attribute information, environment attribute information and a user model of a user in the embodiment of the present invention, the embodiment of the present invention may obtain environment attribute information, such as humidity, temperature, altitude, etc. of an environment where a household appliance is located, obtain user attribute information, such as gender, age, etc., of the user, and generate a user model of the user according to a user history operation record, thereby generating operation parameters most suitable for the user according to the above information, and using the operation parameters as default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface. It should be noted that, the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface are generated according to any two of the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model, which are the same as the above-mentioned manner of generating the default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model, so that redundancy is avoided, and no specific limitation is made herein.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the near field communication NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the method further includes: judging whether an application program APP corresponding to the household appliance is installed on the terminal or not; if the terminal is not provided with the corresponding application program APP, after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance, downloading and installing the application program APP corresponding to the household appliance.
It should be understood that the application APP may be a metazate, and in general, when a user reads NFC tag information of a home appliance through a terminal, the terminal automatically opens the metazate and jumps to an operation interface corresponding to type information of the home appliance. Therefore, if the local area Network (NFC) tag information of the household appliance is read, the user can automatically jump to a downloading interface of the local area Network (NFC) app, and download and automatically install the local area network after clicking the downloading by the user.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the near field communication NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the method further includes: and detecting and recognizing that the terminal is not in a networking state, and entering a terminal distribution network guiding interface after reading the NFC label information of the near field communication of the household appliance.
It should be understood that if the mobile phone of the user is not in a networking state, some data of the cloud end cannot be obtained, so that the user can use the mobile phone better conveniently, after reading the NFC tag information of the household appliance in near field communication, if the mobile phone is not networked, the mobile phone automatically jumps to a distribution network interface, the user can conveniently networking, and particularly for people with some ages, great convenience is provided, and the viscosity of the user for using the household appliance is greatly improved. In order to enable those skilled in the art to further understand the method for generating an operation interface according to the embodiments of the present invention, two specific embodiments are described in detail below.
For example, as shown in fig. 2, the method for generating the operation interface may include the following steps:
s201, acquiring near field communication NFC tag information of the household appliance read by the terminal.
S202, starting a corresponding application program app of the household appliance.
S203, the application program app can generate a thousand-person thousand-surface operation interface according to big data such as user attribute information, environment attribute information and the like; if the user touches the electric cooker, the app generates different menu pages according to the current time (breakfast, chinese, dinner) and user attributes, and default operation parameters of each operation interface module in default operation interfaces; or, the application program APP automatically sets the running parameters of the household appliance according to the big data such as the historical operation record of the user, the attribute information of the environment and the like, if the user touches the fan, the APP controls the fan to be opened and adjusted to the corresponding gear according to the using habit of the user and the current temperature state, and the current control page is displayed for the user to operate, namely, the default running parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface.
It should be noted that, the identifier of the home appliance in the embodiment of the present invention may be bound with multiple pieces of user information at the same time, and after different users read NFC tag information of the home appliance through the NFC function of the terminal, default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface may be generated according to different user history operation records, different user attribute information, and different environment attribute information, so that redundancy is avoided, and detailed description is omitted here.
According to the method for generating the operation interface, the NFC label information of the household appliance read by the terminal is obtained, the type information of the household appliance is obtained according to the identification of the household appliance, the corresponding operation interface is obtained according to the type information, and the terminal is controlled to load the operation interface. Therefore, the identification of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, and the operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal, so that the operability of a user is greatly improved, the viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, the value of the household appliance is improved, and the use of the user is facilitated.
Fig. 3 is a block schematic diagram of a generating device of an operation interface according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 3, the generating device of the operation interface includes: a first acquisition module 100, a second acquisition module 200, and a control module 300.
The first acquiring module 100 is configured to acquire near field communication NFC tag information of a home appliance read by a terminal, where the NFC tag information includes an identifier of the home appliance. The second obtaining module 200 is configured to obtain type information of the home appliance according to the identifier of the home appliance, and obtain a corresponding operation interface according to the type information. The control module 300 is used for controlling the terminal to load the operation interface.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the operation interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with the type information of the household appliances.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: and a third acquisition module. The third acquisition module is used for acquiring the state information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, and generating an operation interface according to the type information and the state information.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the third acquisition module is specifically configured to: acquiring a default operation interface corresponding to the household appliance according to the type information, wherein the default operation interface comprises a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module; judging whether state information exceeding a preset range exists in the state information or not; if the state information exceeding the preset range exists, the state information exceeding the preset range is used as abnormal state information; and acquiring an operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information, and replacing the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information with a replaceable operation interface module in a default operation interface.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: the device comprises a fourth acquisition module, a fifth acquisition module and a first generation module. The fourth acquisition module is used for acquiring user information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance. And the fifth acquisition module is used for acquiring the user attribute information of the user according to the user information. The first generation module is used for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a sixth acquisition module and a second generation module. The sixth acquisition module is used for acquiring environment attribute information of the household appliance, and the second generation module is used for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the environment attribute information of the household appliance.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a seventh acquisition module, a third generation module and a fourth generation module. The seventh obtaining module is used for obtaining a historical operation record of the user. The third generation module is used for generating a user model of the user according to the historical operation record of the user, and the fourth generation module is used for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user model of the user.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generating device of the operation interface further includes: a fifth generation module for generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to at least two of the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model
According to an embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the first acquiring module 100 is further configured to: judging whether an application program APP corresponding to the household appliance is installed on the terminal or not; if the terminal is not provided with the corresponding application program APP, after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance, downloading and installing the application program APP corresponding to the household appliance.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, before acquiring the NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal, the first acquiring module 100 is further configured to: and detecting and recognizing that the terminal is not in a networking state, and entering a terminal distribution network guiding interface after reading the NFC label information of the near field communication of the household appliance.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the type information of the home appliance is any one of a microwave oven, an electric cooker, an electromagnetic oven, an electric oven, a washing machine, a water heater, an air conditioner, a fan, and a water purifier.
It should be noted that the foregoing explanation of the embodiment of the method for generating an operation interface is also applicable to the generating device of the operation interface in this embodiment, and will not be repeated here.
According to the generating device of the operation interface, which is provided by the embodiment of the invention, the NFC tag information of the household appliance read by the terminal is acquired through the first acquisition module, the type information of the household appliance is acquired through the second acquisition module according to the identification of the household appliance, the corresponding operation interface is acquired according to the type information, and the terminal is controlled to load the operation interface through the control module. Therefore, after NFC label information of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, an operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal through identification of the household appliance, so that operability of a user is greatly improved, viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, value of the household appliance is improved, and convenience is brought to the user.
The invention provides a terminal which comprises the generating device of the operation interface.
According to the terminal provided by the embodiment of the invention, after NFC label information of the household appliance is read through the NFC function of the terminal, the operation interface corresponding to the household appliance is displayed on the terminal through identification of the household appliance, so that the operability of a user is greatly improved, the viscosity of the user using the household appliance is improved, the value of the household appliance is improved, and the use of the user is facilitated.
An embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, including: the computer program comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein the processor realizes the generation method of the operation interface when executing the program.
The embodiment of the invention provides a computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which when executed by a processor, implements the method for generating an operation interface described above.
In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings are merely for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like, are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, the meaning of "plurality" means at least two, for example, two, three, etc., unless specifically defined otherwise.
In the present invention, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly, through intermediaries, or both, may be in communication with each other or in interaction with each other, unless expressly defined otherwise. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.
In the present invention, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, a first feature "up" or "down" a second feature may be the first and second features in direct contact, or the first and second features in indirect contact via an intervening medium. Moreover, a first feature being "above," "over" and "on" a second feature may be a first feature being directly above or obliquely above the second feature, or simply indicating that the first feature is level higher than the second feature. The first feature being "under", "below" and "beneath" the second feature may be the first feature being directly under or obliquely below the second feature, or simply indicating that the first feature is less level than the second feature.
In the description of the present specification, a description referring to terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "examples," "specific examples," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, schematic representations of the above terms are not necessarily directed to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, the different embodiments or examples described in this specification and the features of the different embodiments or examples may be combined and combined by those skilled in the art without contradiction.
While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it will be understood that the above embodiments are illustrative and not to be construed as limiting the invention, and that variations, modifications, alternatives and variations may be made to the above embodiments by one of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the invention.

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1. The method for generating the operation interface is characterized by comprising the following steps:
Acquiring Near Field Communication (NFC) tag information of a household appliance read by a terminal, wherein the NFC tag information comprises an identifier of the household appliance;
acquiring type information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, and acquiring a corresponding operation interface according to the type information; and
controlling the terminal to load the operation interface;
acquiring state information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance, wherein the operation interface is generated according to the type information and the state information;
wherein the generating the operation interface according to the type information and the state information includes: acquiring a default operation interface corresponding to the household appliance according to the type information, wherein the default operation interface comprises a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module; judging whether state information exceeding a preset range exists in the state information or not; if the state information exceeding the preset range exists, the state information exceeding the preset range is used as abnormal state information; and acquiring an operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information, and replacing the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information with a replaceable operation interface module in the default operation interface.
2. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, wherein,
the operation interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with the type information of the household appliances.
3. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, further comprising:
acquiring user information of the household appliance according to the identification of the household appliance;
acquiring user attribute information of the user according to the user information;
and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user attribute information.
4. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, further comprising:
acquiring environment attribute information of the household appliance;
and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the environment attribute information of the household appliance.
5. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, further comprising:
acquiring a historical operation record of a user;
generating a user model of the user according to the historical operation record of the user,
and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to the user model of the user.
6. The method for generating an operation interface according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising:
and generating default operation parameters of each operation interface module in the default operation interface according to at least two of the user attribute information, the environment attribute information and the user model.
7. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, further comprising, before acquiring the NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal:
judging whether the terminal is provided with an application program APP corresponding to the household appliance or not;
and if the terminal is not provided with the corresponding application program APP, downloading and installing the application program APP corresponding to the household appliance after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance.
8. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, further comprising, before acquiring the NFC tag information of the home appliance read by the terminal:
and detecting and recognizing that the terminal is not in a networking state, and entering a terminal distribution network guiding interface after reading the NFC label information of the household appliance.
9. The method for generating an operation interface according to claim 1, wherein the type information of the home appliance is any one of a microwave oven, an electric cooker, an electromagnetic oven, an electric oven, a washing machine, a water heater, an air conditioner, a fan, and a water purifier.
10. An operation interface generating device, comprising:
the terminal comprises a first acquisition module, a second acquisition module and a first control module, wherein the first acquisition module is used for acquiring near field communication NFC label information of a household appliance read by a terminal, and the NFC label information comprises an identifier of the household appliance;
the second acquisition module is used for acquiring type information of the household appliances according to the identification of the household appliances and acquiring a corresponding operation interface according to the type information; and
the control module is used for controlling the terminal to load the operation interface;
a third obtaining module, configured to obtain state information of the home appliance according to the identifier of the home appliance, where the operation interface is generated according to the type information and the state information;
the third obtaining module is specifically configured to: acquiring a default operation interface corresponding to the household appliance according to the type information, wherein the default operation interface comprises a necessary operation interface module and a replaceable operation interface module; judging whether state information exceeding a preset range exists in the state information or not; if the state information exceeding the preset range exists, the state information exceeding the preset range is used as abnormal state information; and acquiring an operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information, and replacing an alternative operation interface module in the default operation interface with the operation interface module corresponding to the abnormal state information.
11. A terminal comprising the operation interface generating device according to claim 10.
12. An electronic device, comprising: memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the processor implementing the method of generating an operation interface according to any one of claims 1-9 when executing the program.
13. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, characterized in that the program, when being executed by a processor, implements a method of generating an operation interface as claimed in any one of claims 1-9.
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