CN115708344A

CN115708344A - Method for sharing remote controller among devices, sending terminal device and receiving terminal device

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Publication number: CN115708344A
Application number: CN202110957702.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈鹏辉; 卞超
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-18
Filing date: 2021-08-18
Publication date: 2023-02-21
Also published as: WO2023020393A1

Abstract

The method can support a user to share the equipment remote controller added on the sending end equipment to the receiving end equipment, and the user can manually select part of controls or all the controls included in the equipment remote controller as target controls to share according to the use requirement; correspondingly, the receiving terminal equipment can automatically add the equipment remote controller in the local machine according to the received equipment remote controller file, and only adds the target control selected and shared by the user. The method can get rid of dependence on an entity remote controller, and simplify the complicated process of adding the equipment remote controller; the method can support a plurality of users to control the same equipment, and meet the control requirements of the plurality of users on the equipment; in addition, the control authority of different people on the equipment can be limited, and potential safety hazards caused by the fact that too many people have the operation right on certain equipment are avoided.

Description

Method for sharing remote controller among devices, sending end device and receiving end device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of electronic technologies, and in particular, to a method for sharing a remote controller among devices, a sending end device, and a receiving end device.

Background

With the improvement of living standard of people and the rapid development of equipment, the types and the number of the equipment used by each family are more and more in daily life. For example, the devices in the home scene may include traditional household appliances such as a refrigerator, an oven, an air conditioner, and the like, and may also include electronic devices such as a mobile phone, a smart screen, a set-top box, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a smart speaker, a router, and the like. For household equipment such as a refrigerator, an intelligent screen and an air conditioner, a user can control the working state and the working mode of the equipment through an entity remote controller (such as an infrared remote controller) and adjust parameters in the working process.

Generally, each home device may only be configured with one entity remote controller when leaving a factory, and for a family with many family members, one entity remote controller may not satisfy the use requirements of all the family members. For example, in the case of a television, one television remote controller cannot meet the use requirements of multiple people. In addition, the situation that the television remote controller is lost may occur when a plurality of people control the use of the television through the same television remote controller, and the television remote controller cannot be found in the critical time; or, the service life of the television remote controller may be reduced by using the television remote controller by multiple people, and the use experience of the user is influenced.

In a scene that multiple people control the same device, how to meet the control requirement of the multiple people on the device and improve the use experience of users is a problem which needs to be solved urgently at present.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a method for sharing a remote controller among devices, a sending terminal device and a receiving terminal device, wherein in the process of controlling the working state of the devices by a user, the method can get rid of dependence on an entity remote controller, can support a plurality of users to control the same device, and meets the control requirements of the plurality of users on the device; in addition, the control authority of different people on the equipment can be limited, and potential safety hazards caused by the fact that too many people have the operation right on certain equipment are avoided.

A first aspect provides a method for sharing a remote controller among devices, which is applied to a sending end device including a display screen, the sending end device having a first application installed thereon, and the method including: displaying a main interface of the first application, wherein the main interface of the first application comprises icons of one or more remote controllers; detecting a first operation of a user on a main interface of the first application, and displaying a detail interface of a target remote controller in response to the first operation, wherein the target remote controller is any one of the one or more remote controllers, the target remote controller can control the working state of a target device, and the detail interface of the target remote controller comprises one or more controls; determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller; acquiring information of the target control to be shared; generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control; displaying a sharing interface of the target remote controller file, wherein the sharing interface of the target remote controller file comprises one or more sharing modes; detecting a second operation of a user on a sharing interface of the target remote controller file, responding to the second operation, determining a target sharing mode of the target remote controller file from the one or more sharing modes, and displaying one or more electronic devices on the sharing interface of the target remote controller file, wherein each electronic device in the one or more electronic devices can receive the target remote controller file sent by the sending end device based on the target sharing mode; detecting a third operation of a user on a sharing interface of the target remote controller file, and determining receiving end equipment from the one or more electronic equipment in response to the third operation; and the sending end equipment sends the target remote controller file to the receiving end equipment in the target sharing mode.

Optionally, the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" in the present application are two different electronic devices.

Optionally, the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" in the present application may be the same type of device, for example, both the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" are mobile phones; or the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" may be different types of devices, for example, the "sending end device" is a mobile phone, and the "receiving end device" may be a tablet computer, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

It should also be understood that in the present application, both "sending end device" and "receiving end device" satisfy: the infrared module, such as an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver, can transmit or receive infrared signals; and the sending end equipment and the receiving end equipment are both provided with the same type of intelligent remote control application.

Alternatively, the target device may be any type of device in a home setting, smart screen, air conditioner, set-top box, and user's camera, web box, DVD, projector, etc.

Optionally, the first application may be an intelligent remote control application, or any remote control application developed by any company and capable of implementing a remote controller control function of the home device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

By the method for sharing the remote controller among the devices, the information of the added device remote controller in the intelligent remote control application of the sending terminal device can be shared to the receiving terminal device in multiple possible modes; correspondingly, the receiving end device can display the detailed interface of the target remote controller according to the received information of the device remote controller, and automatically add the device remote controller in the intelligent remote control application.

In addition, for a scene that a plurality of users expect to control the same equipment, when the number of the entity remote controllers is limited or the entity remote controllers cannot be found, the method can respectively send the equipment remote controllers added to the electronic equipment such as a mobile phone of a certain user to the electronic equipment of different users, so that the dependence of the process of controlling the equipment by the users on the entity remote controllers is eliminated, and convenience is provided for the plurality of users to control the same equipment.

Meanwhile, the method can avoid the complicated process that each user needs to add the equipment remote controller on the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone and learn the control, optimizes the flow of using the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone by different users to control the equipment, meets the control requirements of a plurality of users on the equipment, and improves the use experience of the users.

It should be understood that the intelligent remote control application may preset different types and/or different styles of virtual remote controllers, and match different types and/or different styles of virtual remote controllers for different devices, and the user may add remote controllers for different devices in the intelligent remote control application in different ways. For example, a user may add a remote controller (which may be referred to as a "virtual remote controller") of one or more different devices to the smart remote control application, and then an icon of the added remote controller or remote controllers may be displayed on the main interface of the smart remote control application, wherein each of the remote controllers is capable of controlling an operating state of a different corresponding device, and each remote controller may have a function of a physical remote controller of the corresponding device.

One possible implementation is when the owner user adds a virtual remote control, the device type may be manually selected, e.g., the user selects television, selects brand a, etc. The smart remote control application may match different types and/or styles of virtual remote controls based on the device type.

In another possible implementation manner, the user selects the current target device as a television, and may send an infrared signal to the television when pairing with the television, and may also receive a response signal returned by the television to the mobile phone, where the response signal may carry device information of the television, such as a brand a and a model S. The smart remote control application may match the virtual remote control type and/or style of the target device based on the device information of the television.

In another possible implementation manner, the user owner may also customize the type and/or style of the virtual remote controller for the current target device according to the user requirement, that is, add one or more controls in a customized manner.

Specifically, for any control element included in the remote controller of the target device added by the user owner, the key information of the control element corresponding to a certain key on the entity remote controller is acquired by learning the corresponding key on the entity remote controller of the target device. Alternatively, the "key information" of each key on the physical remote controller of the target device may include key value information, key function information, and the like of each key.

Through the implementation mode, the user adds the target remote controller of the target device in the intelligent remote control application of the sending end device, and after the learning of the control, when the user clicks any one control of the target remote controller, the same pulse signal can be generated by pressing the key of the entity remote controller corresponding to the control, or the same operation instruction can be generated, so that the same function can be realized. In other words, the virtual remote controller of the target device in the intelligent remote control application may have the same function as the physical remote controller, and the user may control the target device through the virtual remote controller in the intelligent remote control application.

It should also be understood that the virtual remote controller of any device that has been added in the intelligent remote control application may be used as the "target remote controller" to be shared in the embodiments of the present application. The process of sharing the target remote controller in the embodiment of the present application may be understood as follows: the user shares the remote controller of the target device added to the electronic device such as the mobile phone of the user as the target remote controller to be shared to the electronic device of other family members or visitors, so that the other family members or the visitors can control the target device through the electronic device of the user.

With reference to the first aspect, in certain implementations of the first aspect, the target control is some or all of the one or more controls included in the details interface of the target remote control.

According to the method, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, a user can be supported to manually select the target control to be shared in the target remote controller on the sending terminal device. For example, a user may only share some of the controls included in the device remote controller to the receiving end device according to the use requirement; correspondingly, when the device remote controller automatically added by the receiving end device is received, only part of the control elements of the device remote controller are added.

Through the implementation mode, the user can only open the control authority (operation authority) corresponding to part of the controls to the receiving terminal equipment. The method can limit the control authority of different people to the equipment, and avoid the potential safety hazard caused by too many people owning the operation authority to the equipment.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the target control is a fixed control preset in the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller.

In a possible implementation manner, for different types of devices, the target control to be shared corresponding to the remote controller of each type of device may be some fixed controls preset in all controls included in a detail interface of the target remote controller of the target device. For example, if the user triggers sharing of the target remote control, all controls included in the details interface of the target remote control may be displayed in a selected state by default, that is, all controls may be used as target controls.

Through the implementation mode, a user does not need to execute additional operation to select the target control to be shared, the intelligent remote control application can generate the remote controller file to be shared according to some preset fixed controls in advance, the operation is simple, and the time consumption of the sharing process can be saved.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller includes: and detecting the operation of selecting part or all of the controls by the user on a detail interface of the target remote controller, and determining all the controls selected by the user as the target controls to be shared in response to the operation.

In another possible implementation manner, the user may manually select all operable controls or a part of operable controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller as "target controls" to be shared on the detail interface of the target remote controller according to the current usage requirement.

Through the implementation mode, according to the requirements that other family members or visitors use the target remote controller to control the target equipment in different scenes, the user can only share part of controls included in the target virtual remote controller to the receiving end equipment, and the other family members or visitors can conveniently control the target equipment through the shared part of controls.

In addition, in this implementation, only part of the controls in the remote controller of the device are shared for the receiving end device, in other words, only part of the control authority (operation authority) of the device is opened to other family members or visitors, so that the control authority of the other family members or visitors to the device can be limited, and potential safety hazards caused by too many people having the operation authority to a certain device can be avoided.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the first operation includes multiple consecutive operations performed by a user, the detecting, on the main interface of the first application, the first operation by the user, and in response to the first operation, displaying a detail interface of the target remote controller, includes: detecting a long-press operation of a user on an icon of the target remote controller on a main interface of the first application, and displaying one or more operation options aiming at the target remote controller in response to the long-press operation, wherein the one or more operation options comprise a sharing option; and when the user clicking the sharing option is detected, displaying a detail interface of the target remote controller, and displaying a unique corresponding selection frame for each control of the one or more controls on the detail interface of the target remote controller.

Optionally, the selection box corresponding to each control may be located at a lower right corner, a lower left corner, an upper right corner, and an upper left corner of the control icon, or located at a position right below the control icon, or located at a geometric center of a display area of the control icon, covering the control, and located at an upper display layer of the control, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller includes: detecting the operation that a user clicks the selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls on the detail interface of the target remote controller, and determining the target control by the control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user; or, when the detail interface of the target remote controller further includes a confirmation control, detecting an operation that a user clicks a selection box of each of some or all of the one or more controls and continues clicking the confirmation control on the detail interface of the target remote controller, and determining the target control from a control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user in response to the operation that the user clicks the confirmation control.

In a possible implementation manner, a user may select a target virtual remote controller to be shared from virtual remote controllers of one or more added devices on a host interface of an intelligent remote control application, and trigger a sharing process of the virtual remote controller of the device by long-pressing an icon of the target virtual remote controller.

In another possible implementation manner, the user may further trigger the sharing process of the target remote controller by long-pressing any one control on the detail interface of the target remote controller, and then may select some or all of the controls on the interface as target controls to be shared.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the first operation is a click operation of a user on an icon of the target remote controller.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the determining, from the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller, a target control to be shared includes: detecting a long-press operation of a user on any one of the one or more controls on a detail interface of the target remote controller, and displaying a unique corresponding selection frame for each of the one or more controls on the detail interface of the target remote controller in response to the long-press operation; detecting the operation of clicking the selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls by a user, and determining the control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user as the target control in response to the operation; or, when the detail interface of the target remote controller further includes the confirmation control, detecting an operation that a user clicks a selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls and continues clicking the confirmation control, and determining the target control from the control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user in response to the operation that the user clicks the confirmation control.

Through the implementation mode, according to the requirements that other family members or visitors use the remote controller to control the equipment in different scenes, the user can only share part of controls included in the virtual remote controller of the equipment with the receiving end equipment, and the other family members or visitors can control the equipment through the shared part of controls. In addition, the implementation mode only opens partial control authority (operation authority) of the device to other family members or visitors, so that the control authority of the other family members or visitors to the device can be limited, and potential safety hazards caused by the fact that too many people have the operation authority to the device are avoided.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the storing, by the sending end device, a control data set corresponding to the target remote controller, where the control data set includes information of each of the one or more controls on a detail interface of the target remote controller, and the obtaining information of the target control to be shared includes: and searching and acquiring the information of the target control from the control data set according to the target control to be shared, wherein the information of the target control comprises one or more of remote controller identification ID, control symbol, control code value and control protocol of each control serving as the target control.

In a possible implementation manner, each of all controls of a remote controller of a target device may learn a corresponding key of an entity remote controller, and determine a control code value of the control according to a key value of the corresponding key. After learning all the controls of the remote controller of the target device, the intelligent remote control application can acquire key values of all keys of the entity remote controller, namely an infrared coding table of the entity remote controller, so as to establish and store a 'control data set' corresponding to all the controls of the target remote controller.

It should be understood that the "control data set corresponding to the target remote controller" may include information of each of all the controls of the target remote controller, for example, part of or all of the information of the virtual remote controller ID, the control symbol, the control code value, the control protocol, and the like of each of the controls.

It should also be understood that the smart remote control application may include one or more remote controls for the device, and the remote control for each device may correspond to a "control data set"; or, since the virtual remote controller ID of each device is different and the control code value of each control is different, the device can also be understood as a "control data set" corresponding to the remote controllers of all devices in the intelligent remote control application, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

For avoiding ambiguity, it is assumed that the remote controller of each device may correspond to one "control data set", and one "control data set" may include information of each control in all controls of the remote controller of the device, and details are not described later.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, when a uniquely corresponding selection box is displayed for each control of the one or more controls on a detail interface of the target remote controller, the detail interface of the target remote controller may further include a timing control, where an effective duration is displayed in the timing control, and the effective duration is used to indicate an available duration of the target control to be shared on the receiving end device, and the method further includes: acquiring the information of the effective duration displayed in the timing control; and generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control, wherein the method comprises the following steps: and generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control and the information of the effective duration, wherein the effective duration is preset duration or duration set in the timing control by a user.

In one possible implementation, when selecting a target control of a target remote controller to be shared, a user may manually set an effective duration available on a receiving device for the target remote controller (or "target control") to be shared.

For example, the initial value of the "timing control" display may be 00 hours, 00 minutes and 00 seconds, and the user may manually modify the "timing control" display to the desired effective duration, for example, the user may modify the "timing control" display to 02 hours, 00 minutes and 00 seconds. Alternatively, the user may also keep the "timing control" to display the initial value 00 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds without modification, which may be understood as: the effective duration of the target remote controller to be shared available on the receiving end device is not limited.

In another possible implementation manner, the initial value displayed by the "timing control" may correspond to a preset fixed time length, for example, the initial value displayed by the "timing control" defaults to 01 minutes 00 seconds, that is, the available effective time length of the target remote controller to be shared on the receiving end device is 1 hour. The user can manually modify the effective duration displayed by the timing control, and modify the preset fixed duration into the duration meeting the current use requirement, which is not described herein again.

Through the implementation mode, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, when the user selects the target control to be shared on the sending end device, the available time length of the device remote controller (or the target control) shared to the receiving end device is set, so that the control authority of different people to the device is further limited, and the safety of the device in the using process is improved.

Optionally, a target remote controller (or "target control") shared by the user from the sending end device to the receiving end device may correspond to the preset effective range. The "predetermined effective range" may depend on a corresponding maximum transmission distance when the infrared signal is transmitted between the devices. For example, if the maximum transmission distance from the infrared transmitter to the infrared receiver is 10 meters when the infrared signal is transmitted between the devices, the effective range corresponding to the target remote controller to be shared generated on the mobile phone is as follows: the range of the target device is less than or equal to 10 meters, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the target sharing manner includes any one of a huacheng sharing manner, a sharing manner of a WLAN direct connection channel, a bluetooth sharing manner, a mobile data sharing manner, and a plurality of social software sharing manners.

Optionally, the social software sharing mode may include multiple possible social software paths such as a microblog, a WeChat, a short message, a message, an email, and the like, and the mode of sending the "file of the target remote controller" is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

With reference to the first aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the first aspect, the target remote control file to be shared may further carry an identifier of the first application.

Illustratively, the "target remote controller file" may carry an application identifier of the smart remote control application of the receiving end device, for example, the file suffix is @. The "target remote controller file" may be automatically named "XX air conditioner. Ykq" with the air conditioner as a target device. The receiving end device may trigger the operation of the intelligent remote control application of the local end according to the filename extension of the file, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

A second aspect provides a method for sharing a remote controller among devices, where the method is applied to a receiving end device including a display screen, where a first application is installed on the receiving end device, and the method includes: when a target remote controller file sent by sending end equipment is detected, displaying a prompt window on the display screen, wherein the prompt window is used for prompting a user to select whether to receive the target remote controller file; in the prompt window, when detecting that the user allows the operation of receiving the target remote controller file, receiving the target remote controller file; calling the first application according to the received target remote controller file, analyzing the target remote controller file by the first application, and acquiring information of a target control included in the target remote controller file, wherein the target control can be used for controlling the working state of target equipment, the target control includes one or more controls, the information of the target control includes information of each control in the one or more controls, and the information of each control corresponds to key information of a preset key on an entity remote controller of the target equipment; and running the first application and displaying a detail interface of a target remote controller according to the information of the target control, wherein the detail interface of the target remote controller comprises the one or more controls of the target control.

By the method for sharing the remote controllers among the devices, the information of the target remote controller added in the intelligent remote control application of the sending terminal device can be shared to the receiving terminal device in multiple possible modes; accordingly, the visitor user can automatically add the target remote controller of the target equipment in the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone (receiving end equipment) of the visitor user only by executing the operation of allowing the receiving end equipment to receive the target remote controller file sent by the sending end equipment, and the target remote controller of the target equipment which is automatically added can support the visitor user to control the target equipment on the receiving end equipment.

In addition, for a scene that a plurality of users expect to control the same device, when the number of the entity remote controllers is limited or the entity remote controllers cannot be found, the method can respectively send the device remote controllers added to the electronic devices such as the mobile phone of a certain user to the electronic devices of different users, so that the dependence of the process of controlling the device by the users on the entity remote controllers is eliminated, and convenience is provided for the plurality of users to control the same device.

Meanwhile, the method can also avoid the complicated process that each user needs to add the equipment remote controller on the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone and the like and carry out control learning, optimizes the flow of using the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone and the like by different users to control the equipment, meets the control requirements of a plurality of users on the equipment, and improves the use experience of the users.

It should be understood that when receiving end equipment receives a "target remote controller file," the receiving end equipment may trigger to run an intelligent remote control application according to information such as a file type of the target remote controller file or an application package name corresponding to the file, and the intelligent remote control application may obtain content included in the target remote controller file.

Optionally, in conjunction with the related discussion above, the "target remote control file" includes content in a variety of possible contexts. The receiving end device may determine, according to different contents included in the "target remote controller file", a display interface that may be presented by the virtual remote controller of the target device on the display screen of the receiving end device.

In a possible implementation manner, the intelligent remote control application may only include the target control, that is, one or more controls manually selected by the user, when the detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the target device is displayed on the display screen of the receiving end device according to the information of the target control included in the target remote controller file.

In another possible implementation manner, the "target remote controller file" may further include operation parameter information of the target device. For example, for an air conditioner or other device, the intelligent remote control application may determine, according to the current operating parameter information of the target device included in the target remote controller file, information such as a current operating wind speed, a current wind direction, a wind sweeping, a cooling mode, and a target temperature (24 ℃). Therefore, parameters related to the current operation of the air conditioner, such as the wind speed, the wind direction, the wind sweeping mode, the refrigeration mode and the target temperature (24 ℃) can be displayed for a user on a display screen of the receiving end device, and the parameters are not limited in the embodiment of the application.

With reference to the second aspect, in certain implementations of the second aspect, the method further includes: detecting a clicking operation of a user on a first control on a detail interface of the target remote controller, wherein the first control is any one of the one or more controls included in the target control; responding to the click operation, and acquiring a control code value of the first control; generating a pulse signal comprising a first operation instruction according to the control code value of the first control; and sending the pulse signal to the target equipment to control the working state of the target equipment.

Specifically, the intelligent remote control application of the receiving-end device may call an infrared module of the receiving-end device, and an infrared transmitter of the infrared module transmits a pulse signal including the first operation instruction to the target device through infrared rays.

It should be understood that when the receiving end device detects a click operation of another user on the first control, the position coordinate of the first control may be determined according to the click operation event. The intelligent remote control application can determine a first control ID according to the position coordinate of the first control, and then can automatically search the control information in the target remote controller file to obtain the control code value of the first control, and generate a pulse signal including corresponding binary coding information (namely a first operation instruction) according to the control code value of the first control.

In a possible implementation manner, when the "information of the target control" includes all information of the virtual remote controller ID, the control symbol, the control code value, and the control protocol corresponding to each control serving as the target control, the receiving end device may generate and store the "control data set" corresponding to the remote controller of the target device according to the information of the target control. Therefore, the process of "automatically searching" and "acquiring the control code value of the first control" of the receiving end device may be to automatically search according to a "control data set" corresponding to the target device remote controller stored by the receiving end device, so as to acquire the control code value of the first control.

Illustratively, if a user clicks any one of the target controls on the receiving end device, the receiving end device may obtain, according to the clicking operation of the user, a virtual remote controller ID and a control ID corresponding to the control clicked by the user; further searching and determining a control code value of the control in a control data set corresponding to the target equipment remote controller stored by the remote controller according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID; and further generating a pulse signal according to an infrared remote control NEC protocol, and transmitting the pulse signal to target equipment through an infrared transmitter of receiving end equipment.

In another possible implementation manner, when the "information of the target control" includes partial information of each control serving as the target control, for example, when the "information of the target control" only includes a virtual remote controller ID and a control ID corresponding to each control, after the receiving end device receives the "target remote controller file", the receiving end device may determine, according to the information of the target control, a virtual remote controller ID and a control ID corresponding to each control of the target control in the target device remote controller added to the receiving end device. The receiving end equipment determines the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of a certain control clicked by a user, and can return the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control to the sending end equipment. Therefore, the processes of "automatically searching" and "obtaining the control code value of the first control" of the receiving end device may be: and requesting to obtain the control code value of the first control from the sending-end device, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Illustratively, if a visitor user clicks any one of the target controls on the receiving end device, the receiving end device may obtain, according to the clicking operation of the user, a virtual remote controller ID and a control ID corresponding to the control clicked by the user; further, the receiving end device can automatically return the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control to the sending end device according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control, and the sending end device searches and determines the control code value of the control according to the stored control data set corresponding to the target device remote controller; the sending terminal equipment returns the control code value of the control to the receiving terminal equipment; the receiving end equipment can generate a pulse signal according to the infrared remote control NEC protocol, and the pulse signal is sent to the target equipment through the infrared transmitter of the receiving end equipment.

With reference to the second aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the second aspect, the obtaining a control code value of the first control in response to the click operation includes: responding to the click operation, and acquiring the first control identification ID; and acquiring a control code value of the first control according to the first control identification ID and the information of the target control included in the target remote controller file.

In a possible implementation manner, the sending end device detects a click operation of the first control by the user owner, and determines the position coordinate of the first control according to the click operation event. The intelligent remote control application can determine a first control ID according to the position coordinate of the first control, and then search the stored control data set to obtain the control code value of the first control corresponding to the first control ID.

For example, the target remote controller in the smart remote control application of the receiving end device may send an operation instruction to the target device through an infrared signal (pulse signal), where the infrared signal (pulse signal) may include a string of binary coded information, for example, at least an 8-bit address code (user code) and an 8-bit command code (control code value), and the binary coded information is the operation instruction for controlling the target device. Therefore, the intelligent remote control application acquires the "control code value" of a certain control in the target remote controller, and can generate an infrared signal (pulse signal) comprising a string of binary coded information (operation instruction).

With reference to the second aspect and the foregoing implementations, in some implementations of the second aspect, the method further includes: adding an icon of the target remote controller and a name of the target remote controller on a main interface of the first application according to the received target remote controller file; detecting the clicking operation of a user on the icon of the target remote controller or the name of the target remote controller, and responding to the clicking operation to display a detail interface of the target remote controller; or adding an icon of the target remote controller on the main interface of the first application according to the received target remote controller file; detecting the clicking operation of a user on the icon of the target remote controller, responding to the clicking operation, and displaying a detail interface of the target remote controller; or adding the name of the target remote controller on the main interface of the first application according to the received target remote controller file; and detecting the click operation of the user on the name of the target remote controller, and responding to the click operation to display a detail interface of the target remote controller.

With reference to the second aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the second aspect, the information of each of the one or more controls includes one or more pieces of information of a remote controller identification ID, a control symbol, a control code value, or a control protocol.

With reference to the second aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the second aspect, the target remote control file further includes information of a valid duration, where the valid duration is used to indicate an available duration of the target control on the receiving end device, and the method further includes: acquiring the information of the effective duration; determining a termination time according to the effective duration by taking the time when the receiving end equipment receives the target remote controller file as an initial time; at any time within a period determined from the starting time to the ending time, the user can control the working state of the target equipment through the target control; and at any time after the termination time, the target control is in a failure state, or at the termination time, the icon of the target remote controller and/or the name of the target remote controller added on the main interface of the first application are automatically deleted.

In a possible implementation manner, the "target remote controller file" may further include information of a valid duration and/or information of a valid range set by a user. The information of the valid duration and the information of the valid range can be identified by special fields.

Optionally, when the target remote controller is in a failure state, on the smart remote control application main interface of the receiving end device, the icon and the name of the target remote controller may be presented in a gray unavailable state, for example, the user cannot click or does not respond to the user's click operation.

Or, when the target remote controller is in a failure state, the icon and the name of the target remote controller are automatically deleted on the intelligent remote control application main interface, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

With reference to the second aspect and the foregoing implementation manners, in some implementation manners of the second aspect, the invoking the first application according to the received target remote control file may further include: and determining to call the first application according to the identifier of the first application carried by the target remote controller file, and sending the target remote controller file to the first application.

To sum up, the method for sharing the remote controller among the devices provided by the application can share the information of the added device remote controller in the intelligent remote control application of the sending terminal device to the receiving terminal device in multiple possible ways; accordingly, the receiving end device can automatically add the device remote controller in the intelligent remote control application according to the received information of the device remote controller. For a scene that a plurality of users expect to control the same equipment, when the number of the entity remote controllers is limited or the entity remote controllers cannot be found, the method can respectively send the equipment remote controllers added to electronic equipment such as a mobile phone of a certain user to the electronic equipment of different users, so that the dependence of the process of controlling the equipment by the users on the entity remote controllers is eliminated, and convenience is provided for the plurality of users to control the same equipment; meanwhile, the complicated process that each user needs to add the equipment remote controller to the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone and learn the control is avoided, the flow that different users use the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone to control the equipment is optimized, the control requirements of a plurality of users on the equipment are met, and the use experience of the users is improved.

In addition, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, the method provided by the application can support a user to manually select the target control to be shared in the equipment remote controller on the sending end equipment. For example, a user may only share some of the controls included in the device remote controller to the receiving end device according to the use requirement; correspondingly, when the device remote controller automatically added by the receiving end device is received, only part of the control elements of the device remote controller are added. In other words, the user may only open the control authority (operation authority) corresponding to part of the controls to the receiving end device. The method can limit the control authority of different people on the equipment, and avoid potential safety hazards caused by the fact that too many people have the operation right on certain equipment.

In addition, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, when the user selects the target control to be shared on the sending end device, the available duration of the device remote controller (or the target control) shared to the receiving end device can be set. Therefore, the control authority of different people on the equipment is further limited, and the safety of the equipment in the using process is improved.

A third aspect provides an electronic device, which may be a sending end device, including: a touch screen; an infrared module comprising an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver; one or more processors; one or more memories; a module installed with a plurality of applications; the memory stores one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform the method executable by a sender device as defined in any one of the first aspect and the first aspect.

A fourth aspect provides an electronic device, which may be a receiving end device, comprising: a touch screen; an infrared module comprising an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver; one or more processors; one or more memories; a module installed with a plurality of applications; the memory stores one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by the electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform the method as described in any of the second and second aspects that is executable by a receiving end device.

A fifth aspect provides a system comprising a sending end device and a receiving end device capable of communicating with each other, the sending end device being capable of performing the method according to any one of the first aspect and the implementation manner of the first aspect, and the receiving end device being capable of performing the method according to any one of the second aspect and the implementation manner of the second aspect.

Optionally, the system may further include a target device, and the target device may receive an infrared signal (pulse signal) including an operation instruction sent by a "target remote controller" on the sending end device or the receiving end device, and respond according to the infrared signal (pulse signal) including the operation instruction.

A sixth aspect provides a graphical user interface system on an electronic device with a touch screen, one or more memories, and one or more processors to execute one or more computer programs stored in the one or more memories, the graphical user interface system comprising a graphical user interface displayed by a sending end device when the electronic device performs a method as set forth in any one of the first and second aspects.

A seventh aspect provides a graphical user interface system on an electronic device with a touch screen, one or more memories, and one or more processors to execute one or more computer programs stored in the one or more memories, the graphical user interface system comprising a graphical user interface displayed by a receiving end device when the electronic device performs the method of any of the second and fourth aspects.

An eighth aspect provides an apparatus, which is included in an electronic device, and the electronic device may be a sending end device or a receiving end device. When the electronic device is a sending end device, the apparatus has a function of implementing the behavior of the sending end device in the first aspect and any one of the possible implementation manners of the first aspect. Or, when the electronic device is a receiving end device, the apparatus has a function of implementing the behavior of the receiving end device in any one of the possible implementations of the second aspect and the second aspect.

Alternatively, the functions of the apparatus may be implemented by hardware, or by hardware executing corresponding software. The hardware or software includes one or more modules or units corresponding to the above-described functions. Such as a display module or unit, a detection module or unit, a processing module or unit, etc.

A ninth aspect provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer instructions that, when executed on an electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform a method for sharing a remote control between any one of the above-mentioned first aspect or any one of the first aspect's possible devices, or cause the electronic device to perform a method for sharing a remote control between any one of the second aspect's possible devices.

A tenth aspect provides a computer program product, which, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform a method of sharing a remote control between any one of the above-mentioned first aspect or any one of the possible devices of the first aspect, or causes the electronic device to perform a method of sharing a remote control between any one of the possible devices of the second aspect and the second aspect.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an example of a home scenario according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of adding a tv remote control to a smart remote control application of a mobile phone.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a process of learning controls of a tv remote control of a smart remote control application of a mobile phone.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of adding an air conditioner remote controller to a smart remote control application of a mobile phone.

Fig. 5 is a schematic process diagram illustrating an example of sharing an air conditioner remote controller on a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 6 is a schematic process diagram illustrating another example of sharing an air conditioner remote controller on a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of an example of a remote controller shared by a receiving end device receiving a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an example of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram of an example of the software configuration of the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 10 is a schematic flowchart of a method for sharing a remote control between devices according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

For example, in the home scenario shown in fig. 1, a variety of home devices such as a smart screen 10, an air conditioner 20, and a set-top box 30 may be included. When a user uses the household devices such as the smart screen 10, the air conditioner 20, and the set-top box 30 daily, the working state and the working mode of the devices can be controlled or changed through the physical remote controller, and parameters and the like of the devices in the working process can be adjusted. Taking the smart screen 10 as an example, the smart screen 10 generally carries a physical remote controller, such as the infrared remote controller 40, when the smart screen 10 leaves a factory, a user can control the smart screen 10 to be turned on or off, switch a playing channel, adjust a volume, set or modify a display parameter of the display screen, and the like through the infrared remote controller 40.

Generally, when any one of the home devices such as the smart screen 10 leaves the factory, only one infrared remote controller 40 may be configured, and for families with numerous family members, after different people use the infrared remote controller 40 of the smart screen 10, the infrared remote controller 40 may be placed at different places at will, which may cause the infrared remote controller 40 to be lost. When other family members desire to control the smart screen 10 by using the infrared remote controller 40, the infrared remote controller 40 may not be found, which affects the user experience.

Another possible scenario is that when a guest visits at home, if the guest desires to switch the playing channel of the smart screen 10 or adjust the temperature parameter of the air conditioner 20 in the cooling mode, the home owner (user) needs to find the physical remote controller of the smart screen 10 and the physical remote controller of the air conditioner 20 and then hand the physical remote controllers of different devices to the guest for use. However, as the number and kinds of devices used in a home scenario increase, it is more and more inconvenient to control different home devices through different physical remote controllers; and under the condition that a plurality of people use the same household equipment, the situation that the remote controller of the equipment cannot be found possibly occurs, and the use experience of the user is influenced.

In a possible mode, based on an intelligent infrared remote control technology, by means of electronic devices such as a mobile phone 100 and a tablet computer of a user, through an intelligent remote control application installed on the electronic devices such as the mobile phone 100 and the tablet computer, and pairing the intelligent remote control application and each device in a home scene respectively, a remote controller of different devices can be added in the intelligent remote control application, so that the intelligent remote control application controls different devices in the home scene, and dependence of each device on an entity remote controller is eliminated.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, devices configured with a physical remote controller (infrared remote controller) in a home scene all have an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver, and can receive a control instruction sent by the infrared remote controller, and can parse the control instruction and respond to the control instruction.

It should also be understood that to realize the control of other devices that can be controlled by the remote controller in the home scene through the electronic device such as the mobile phone 100 or the tablet computer, the electronic device such as the mobile phone 100 or the tablet computer should satisfy the following two conditions:

(1) The electronic device also has an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver, and can transmit or receive an infrared signal. Optionally, the infrared emitter may be an infrared light emitting diode, and the infrared receiver may be an infrared integrated connector, which is not limited in this application.

(2) The electronic device further needs to install an intelligent remote control application, which may be an intelligent remote control application developed by hua, or an application developed by a third-party company and capable of realizing a remote controller control function of the home device, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

Next, a process of adding a television remote controller and an air conditioner remote controller to an intelligent remote control application on the mobile phone 100 is described with the mobile phone 100 satisfying the above conditions in the home scenario of fig. 1 as an electronic device.

It should be understood that, for the purpose of distinguishing from a physical remote controller (infrared remote controller) of a television or an air conditioner, the embodiment of the present application refers to the remote controller added in the smart remote control application of the mobile phone 100 as a "virtual remote controller", for example, a virtual remote controller of a television, a virtual remote controller of an air conditioner, and the like.

In addition, for convenience of description, in the embodiment of the present application, an operation key on an "entity remote controller (infrared remote controller)" of a television or an air conditioner is referred to as a "key", for example, a number key 1, a power key, a return key, and the like, and an operation key displayed on a mobile phone interface in a "virtual remote controller" added in an intelligent remote control application of a mobile phone is referred to as a "control", for example, a power control, a return control, and the like, which is not described in detail later.

Exemplarily, (a) in fig. 2 illustrates an interface 201 displayed by the handset in the unlock mode, where the interface 201 displays a weather clock component, a multiple application (App), and the like. Wherein, the application program can include camera, intelligent life, setting, intelligent remote control and the like. It should be understood that the interface 201 may also include other more application programs, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.

As shown in fig. 2 (a), the user clicks an icon of the smart remote control application, and in response to the user's clicking operation, the mobile phone displays a smart remote control application home interface 202 shown in fig. 2 (b). The main intelligent remote control application interface 202 includes a bottom menu area, where the bottom menu area includes an "intelligent remote control" menu and a "television program" menu, where the interface 202 is an interface corresponding to the "intelligent remote control" menu, and the "television program" menu may be used for a user to query real-time programming of a part of television channels. In addition, the interface 202 also displays prompt information of an add remote controller control 202-1 and an add remote controller: after the addition, the equipment can be controlled through the mobile phone.

The user performs the operation shown in fig. 2 (b), clicks the add remote controller control 202-1, and in response to the click operation of the user, the mobile phone displays an interface 203 shown in fig. 2 (c), where a plurality of different types of devices are displayed on the interface 203, for example, a television, an air conditioner, a set top box, a camera, a network box, a Digital Video Disc (DVD), a projector, and the like, each type of device may correspond to a different type and/or a different style of virtual remote controller, and the user may select any type of device on the interface 203 according to the current actual demand, that is, select the type and style of the virtual remote controller.

Optionally, the interface 203 may also include custom controls 203-1. If the interface 203 does not include the type of the device that the user desires to add, the user can add the required virtual remote controller through the user-defined control 203-1, and define the number of keys and functions of the virtual remote controller, and the like.

When a user desires to add a virtual remote control for a television, the operation shown in (c) of fig. 2 may be performed, the "television" icon is clicked, and in response to the user clicking, the mobile phone displays a select brand interface 204 shown in (d) of fig. 2, on which a plurality of different television brands are provided for the user, and the user may slide the interface 204 to view more television brands. In addition, a search box is displayed on the interface 204, and the user can enter the name of the matching television brand in the search box to quickly find the target television brand.

It should be appreciated that different brands of television may correspond to different types and/or styles of virtual remote controls, or to the same type and/or style of virtual remote controls, and that a user may more quickly match the type and/or style of virtual remote controls by selecting a brand of television.

As shown in fig. 2 (d), assuming that the user clicks the display area of brand a, selects a television of brand a (referred to as "a television"), in response to the user's operation, the cellular phone displays an interface 205 as shown in fig. 2 (e). The interface 205 may be understood as a virtual remote controller pairing interface of the a television, and the power control 205-1 and prompt information of user operation are displayed on the interface 205, for example: 1. please aim the mobile phone at the electric appliance and click a button, and send an infrared signal; 2. and selecting yes/no according to the response result of the electric appliance.

Based on the prompt from interface 205, the user may aim the phone at the a tv to be paired, and then perform operation 1 as shown in fig. 2 (e), click on power control 205-1, and in response to the user clicking, the phone sends an infrared signal to the a tv through the infrared emitter, and determines whether the a tv has a response, such as a response of the a tv switching from off to on, or from on to off, or a response of a tic 8230, or a prompt tone. When the a television is reacted, the user may continue to perform operation 2, click the corresponding control "yes", and in response to the click operation by the user, the mobile phone displays an interface 206 as shown in (f) in fig. 2. The mobile phone can automatically pop up a window 206-1 on the interface 206, and the window 206-1 is used for the user to select whether to save the remote controller of the television a, and display prompt information to prompt the user to: if other key pressing requirements exist, please add through learning key pressing and expansion functions.

Optionally, when the a television can receive the infrared signal sent by the mobile phone and has a response, a response signal can be returned to the mobile phone, and the response signal can carry the device information of the a television, so that the mobile phone can accurately acquire the device information of the a television according to the response signal, and further accurately match the type and/or style of the virtual remote controller of the current a television. The device information of the a television may include one or more information of a device identifier, software system information, resolution, memory, a rendering model, a processor processing speed, a sensor, and the like of the a television, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

When the user determines to add the virtual remote controller of the a television, the operation shown in (f) in fig. 2 may be executed, the "save" control is clicked, and in response to the save operation of the user, the virtual remote controller of the a television is successfully added to the smart remote control application of the mobile phone. In other words, through the above process, a virtual remote controller type and/or style adapted to the a television is added to the smart remote control application. However, the keys of the physical remote controller of the a television are numerous and complex in function, and besides the power key, the user may expect that the virtual remote controller of the television in the smart remote control application also has the function of multiple keys used daily.

In a possible implementation manner, the user may learn the controls of the virtual remote control of the a television and expand the functions of the controls according to the prompt information in the window 206-1.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a process of learning controls of a tv remote control of a smart remote control application of a mobile phone. After the user performs the operation shown in (f) of fig. 2 and clicks the "save" control, in response to the save operation of the user, the mobile phone may display an interface 301 shown in (a) of fig. 3, where the interface 301 displays the style and control layout of the virtual remote controller matching the current a tv.

Optionally, in the interface 301, the virtual remote control of the displayed a tv may include: signal input control 11, power control 12, mute control 13, volume control 14,

channel control

15, and 10 digital controls, favorite controls, return controls, etc. In addition, an editing control 17 is also displayed on the interface 301, and the editing control 17 is used for triggering a control of a virtual remote controller of the a television in the interface 301 to enter a learning state.

Illustratively, the following describes the process of learning the function of the key 3 of the physical remote controller by the control 16, taking the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" as an example. As shown in fig. 3 (a), the user first performs operation 1, clicks the "edit" control 17 of the interface 301, and all the controls of the virtual remote control of the a television in the interface 301 may enter the learning state in response to the user operation. The user then executes operation 2, clicks the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" on the interface 301, and in response to the operation of the user, the mobile phone displays the interface 302 shown in fig. 3 (b), only the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" of the virtual remote controller of the a television is displayed on the interface 302, and automatically displays a window 302-1, and displays prompt information for executing key learning operation in the window 302-1, for example: 1. the remote controller is aligned with the infrared receiver of the mobile phone and keeps a distance of 5 cm; 2. and (5) starting learning, holding down the key to be learned for 2 seconds, and keeping the mobile phone and the remote controller still.

After the prompt information in the window 302-1 is viewed, the user can click the control corresponding to "know" of the interface 302, and in response to the operation of the user, the mobile phone displays the learning interface 303 of the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" as shown in (c) of fig. 3. A user can operate according to the prompt message in the window 302-1, align the physical remote controller of the television a with the infrared receiver of the mobile phone, keep a distance of 5 cm, then execute operation 1 shown in fig. 3 (c), click the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" in the interface 303, and respond to the operation of the user, the infrared transmitter of the mobile phone sends an infrared signal to the physical remote controller of the television a; then, according to the prompt information on the interface 303, the key 3 on the physical remote controller is clicked and kept for more than 2 seconds, and in response to the operation of the user, the physical remote controller can return an infrared signal to the mobile phone.

Optionally, the infrared signal returned by the physical remote controller to the mobile phone may include information corresponding to the "key 3" currently being learned, for example, key value information of the "key 3", key function information, and the like.

For example, table 1 lists key values corresponding to keys of the physical remote controller, and contents of information such as key functions. As shown in table 1, assuming that the key value corresponding to the key CH + of the physical remote controller is 226, the function can be described as: the focus of the graphical operation interface is moved upwards, and 1 live broadcast channel is added. In other words, when the user presses the key CH + of the physical remote controller, the physical remote controller may send an infrared signal to the a television through the infrared transmitter, where the infrared signal includes a pulse signal corresponding to the key CH +, and after the a television acquires the pulse signal, the physical remote controller may analyze and acquire an operation instruction corresponding to the pulse signal, and then respond according to the operation instruction.

TABLE 1

In one possible implementation, the infrared signal between the physical remote control and the a television may be transmitted based on the infrared remote control NEC protocol. When a user presses a certain key of the physical remote controller (infrared remote controller), the physical remote controller can determine a pulse signal corresponding to the key, and a string of binary coded information is transmitted to the A television through the pulse signal.

For example, when the user presses the key CH +, the physical remote controller determines that the pulse signal corresponding to the key CH + includes binary coded information as follows: 00000000 11111111 11100010 00011101. Wherein, the first byte "00000000" and the second byte "11111111" constitute the user code, and the user code value is: 0x00FF. The third byte "11100010" is binary-converted to the corresponding decimal 226, and the fourth byte "00011101" and the third byte are the inverse codes of each other. The entity remote controller defines the functions of different keys by using the value of the third byte in the binary coded information.

For example, taking the "back" key of the physical remote controller in table 1 as an example, the key value of the "back" key is assumed to be 1. After the user presses the 'return' key, the entity remote controller determines that binary coded information included in the pulse signal corresponding to the 'return' key is as follows: 00000000 11111111 00000001 11111110. After the television A receives the pulse signal, determining a key value 1 according to binary coded information contained in the pulse signal, determining a key function of a 'return' key according to the key value 1, and responding. It should be understood that the "back" button may correspond to a different function in different scenarios. Specifically, when a user browses an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) of a television, the user can return to the previous operation interface by clicking a "return" key; when a user watches the on-demand television program, the user can return to the selection interface of the on-demand program by clicking the 'return' key; when the user watches a live television channel, the user can return to the previously viewed channel by clicking the "back" button.

For simplicity, key values and function information corresponding to other keys of the physical remote controller are not repeated one by one in the embodiment of the present application. It should be noted here that each key of the physical remote controller has a unique corresponding relationship with the key value.

When the mobile phone starts to receive the infrared signal (response signal) returned by the physical remote controller, a prompt message of 'receiving the remote controller signal \8230;' may be displayed on the interface 303 of the mobile phone, as shown in (c) diagram in fig. 3.

After the infrared signal is received, the prompt information may automatically disappear, and a "cancel" control and a "save" control are displayed on the interface 303, the user performs operation 2 shown in (c) in fig. 3, clicks the "save" control, and in response to the save operation of the user, the mobile phone may jump to the detail interface 304 on which the virtual remote controller of the a television shown in (d) in fig. 3 is displayed.

Alternatively, the process of learning the control of the virtual remote controller may be understood as: and a control of the virtual remote controller acquires the key value information of a corresponding key on the physical remote controller, and determines the control code value of the control according to the key value. After learning all the controls of the virtual remote controller, the intelligent remote control application can acquire key values of all the keys of the entity remote controller, namely an infrared code table of the entity remote controller, so as to establish and store a control data set corresponding to all the controls of the virtual remote controller, wherein the control code value of each control in the control data set is fixed.

It should be understood that the control data set may include information of each of all the controls of the virtual remote controller, for example, part of or all of the information of the virtual remote controller ID, the control symbol, the control code value, the control protocol, and the like of each control.

It should also be understood that a virtual remote control for one or more devices may be included in the smart remote control application, and the virtual remote control for each device may correspond to a "control data set"; or, since the virtual remote controller ID of each device is different and the control code value of each control is different, the control may also be understood as a "control data set" corresponding to the virtual remote controllers of all devices in the intelligent remote control application, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

For the avoidance of doubt, subsequent embodiments will be as follows: the virtual remote controller of each device may be described by taking a "control data set" as an example, and one "control data set" may include information of each control in all controls of the virtual remote controller of the device, which is not described in detail later.

For example, as shown in (d) of fig. 3, a detail interface 304 of the virtual remote controller of the a television includes a plurality of controls, and after the controls on the interface 304 are learned, a control data set as shown in table 2 below can be obtained, where table 2 lists information of some controls in the control data set of the virtual remote controller of the a television, for example, information of a virtual remote controller ID, a control symbol, a control code value, a control protocol, and the like corresponding to each control.

TABLE 2

Virtual remote controller ID	Control ID	Control symbol	Control code values	Control protocol
					01	001	CH-	10100010(162)	NEC/PHILIPS
01	002	CH+	11100010(226)	NEC/PHILIPS
					01	003	Volume of sound	00100010(34)	NEC/PHILIPS
01	004	Volume-	00000010(2)	NEC/PHILIPS
					01	005	Return to	00000001(1)	NEC/PHILIPS
01	006	Number 3	00000111(7)	NEC/PHILIPS
					……	……	……	……	……

In table 2, the "virtual remote controller ID" is used to identify unique Identifiers (IDs) of virtual remote controllers of multiple devices added to the smart remote control application of the mobile phone. For example, a virtual remote controller of a television a, a virtual remote controller of an air conditioner B, a virtual remote controller of a set-top box C, and the like may be added to the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone, the virtual remote controller of each device corresponds to different IDs, and it is assumed that the "virtual remote controller ID" corresponding to a certain control is 01, indicating that the control is a control in the "virtual remote controller of a television a"; the "virtual remote controller ID" corresponding to a certain control is 02, which indicates that the control is a control in the "virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner".

The "control identification ID" is used to identify which of all controls (control position, coordinates, etc.) included in the virtual remote control of the a television shown in the interface 304 the control is, each of which has a unique control identification ID.

A "control symbol" is a symbol, e.g., the

numbers

1, 2, 3, etc., displayed on each control in the virtual remote control of the a-tv shown in interface 304.

The control code value is used for generating an operation instruction, each control corresponds to a unique control code value, and the control code value of each control and the key value of the same key on the entity remote controller have a unique corresponding relation.

The control protocol is a communication protocol of signals between the virtual remote controller of the A television and the A television on the mobile phone by a user. Assuming that the signal is based on the infrared remote control NEC protocol, the infrared signal (pulse signal) between the virtual remote control of the a-tv and the a-tv may comprise a string of binary coded information, for example comprising at least an 8-bit address code (user code) and an 8-bit command code (control code value). Specifically, the data format of the infrared signal (pulse signal) and the like may refer to the relevant content of the infrared remote control NEC protocol, and details are not described in this embodiment of the application.

It should be understood that through the process of (a) diagram- (c) diagram in fig. 3, the smart remote control application of the mobile phone may establish a correspondence between the key 3 of the physical remote controller and the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" of the virtual remote controller. For example, key 3 (key value 7) of "physical remote controller" in table 1 is associated with number 3 control (virtual remote controller ID is 01, control ID is 006, and control code value 00000111) in "virtual remote controller" in table 2, that is, control 16 of virtual remote controller has the same function as key 3 of physical remote controller.

For example, when a user clicks the control 16 corresponding to the number "3" on the "virtual remote controller of a television" interface 304 of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone, the mobile phone may acquire that the control ID of the control 16 is 006 and the control code value 00000111, generate a pulse signal according to the infrared remote control NEC protocol, and send the pulse signal to the a television through an infrared transmitter of the mobile phone, where the pulse signal may be, for example: 00000000 11111111 00000111 11111000. The television a can analyze and acquire the pulse signal, and determine an operation instruction contained in the pulse signal, the operation instruction can realize a function corresponding to the key 3 (key value 7) of the "entity remote controller", and then the television a can respond according to the operation instruction.

In other words, no matter the user presses the key 3 of the physical remote controller or clicks the control 16 of the virtual remote controller of the mobile phone, for the a television, the same pulse signal is obtained, or the same operation instruction is obtained, and the same function is realized.

Similarly, the user can continue to complete the learning of other controls in the virtual remote controller of the a television according to the learning process of the control 16 corresponding to the number "3", so that all the controls included in the detail interface 304 of the virtual remote controller of the a television shown in fig. 3 (d) establish a one-to-one correspondence with the keys of the entity remote controller; or, the user can also learn only a part of controls with high use frequency according to the use requirements of the user, and for simplicity, the embodiments of the present application are not described in detail one by one.

Through the process, the virtual remote controller of the television A is added in the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone, and through control learning, the virtual remote controller of the television A can have the function of an entity remote controller, and a user can control the television A through the virtual remote controller in the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone.

After the user completes the desired control learning, the operation shown in (d) of fig. 3 may be performed, the "return to previous page" control on the interface 304 is clicked, and in response to the user's return operation, the cell phone displays the interface 305 shown in (e) of fig. 3. The interface 305 is a main interface of the intelligent remote control application, and compared with the interface 202 shown in fig. 2 (b), the added icon 305-1 of the a television and the name of the "a television" are displayed on the interface 305, and by clicking the display area of the icon 305-1 of the a television or the name of the "a television", the interface 304 of the "virtual remote controller of the a television" can be entered, and the a television is controlled by using the control on the interface 304, which is not described herein again.

In addition, if the user wants to add a remote controller with more devices, the user can continue to click the remote controller addition control 305-2 on the interface 305, and continue to add a remote controller with more devices according to the aforementioned process, which is not described herein again.

The foregoing describes adding the virtual remote controller of the television a to the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone and completing the control learning process of the virtual remote controller of the television a in conjunction with fig. 2 and fig. 3, so that the user can control channel switching, volume adjustment, display parameter adjustment, and the like of the television a through the intelligent remote control application of the portable electronic device, such as the mobile phone, the tablet computer, and the like.

For the devices such as the air conditioner 20 and the set-top box 30 in the home scene of fig. 1, the user does not involve too many operations in the process of using some home devices such as the air conditioner 20 and the set-top box 30. For example, for the air conditioner 20, the user may only need to adjust the on/off, wind direction, wind speed, and temperature of the air conditioner, and thus, compared to a physical remote control of a television, the number of keys and functions of the physical remote control of the air conditioner 20 are simpler. Therefore, for the household devices such as the air conditioner 20 and the set-top box 30, the intelligent remote control application can provide another more convenient way for adding the virtual remote controller for the user.

In another possible implementation manner, for a part of home devices, the virtual remote controller of the home device may be a preset remote controller in an intelligent remote control application, where the preset remote controller matches a brand and/or a model of the home device, and the preset remote controller includes preset number and function of controls, control layout, styles, and the like.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of adding an air conditioner remote controller to a smart remote control application of a mobile phone. Optionally, when the user adds the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner to the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone, the intelligent remote control application may determine the virtual remote controller matching the current air conditioner from among multiple preset remote controller types according to the brand and model of the air conditioner.

Exemplarily, fig. 4 (a) illustrates a main interface 401 of the smart remote control application, where the main interface 401 includes the virtual remote controller of the foregoing a tv that has been added. The user clicks on the add remote control 401-1 on the main interface 401, and in response to the user's clicking operation, the cellular phone displays an interface 402 including a plurality of different types of devices as shown in (b) of fig. 4. The user performs the operation shown in fig. 4 (b), clicks the "air conditioner" icon, and in response to the user's clicking operation, the mobile phone displays a select brand interface 403 shown in fig. 4 (c), and a plurality of different air conditioner brands are provided for the user on the select brand interface 403.

Assuming that the user clicks the display area of brand B, as shown in (c) of fig. 4, and selects brand B air conditioner, the mobile phone displays the virtual remote controller pairing interface 404 of the B air conditioner shown in (d) of fig. 4 in response to the user's operation. The interface 404 displays power controls 404-1, as well as prompts for user operation.

Optionally, when a virtual remote controller is added to different home devices in the smart remote control application, the display contents of the interfaces where the mobile phone and the home devices start to pair may be the same. For example, the display contents of the interface 205 for starting pairing by a virtual remote controller of a television shown in fig. 2 (e) and the interface 404 for starting pairing by a virtual remote controller of a air conditioner B shown in fig. 4 (d) may be the same, and both include a power control and prompt information for user operation, please refer to the related description of fig. 2 (e), and are not repeated here.

The user performs operation 1 shown in fig. 4 (d), clicks the power control 404-1 on the interface 404, triggers the mobile phone to send an infrared signal to the air conditioner B for the first time, and determines whether the air conditioner B has a response, for example, the air conditioner B may appear: switching from the off state to the on state, or switching from the on state to the off state, or giving a prompt tone such as "ticker 8230;". When determining that the B air conditioner is reactive, the user may continue to perform operation 2 as shown in (d) in fig. 4, click the "yes" control, and in response to the user's operation, the mobile phone displays an interface 405 as shown in (e) in fig. 4, and a mode control 405-1 of the air conditioner is displayed on the interface 405.

It should be understood that when the B air conditioner receives the infrared signal sent by the mobile phone for the first time and the B air conditioner reacts, the B air conditioner may return a response signal to the mobile phone, and the response signal may carry the device information of the B air conditioner, so that the smart remote control application of the mobile phone may accurately determine, from a plurality of preset remote controller types, the type and/or style of the virtual remote controller matched with the current B air conditioner, that is, determine the type and/or style of the virtual remote controller matched with the B air conditioner, according to the device information of the B air conditioner.

Continuously, the user performs operation 1 as shown in fig. 4 (e), clicks the mode control 405-1, and in response to the user's clicking operation, the mobile phone sends an infrared signal to the air conditioner B for the second time, where the infrared signal may include a request message for requesting to acquire current operating parameters of the air conditioner B, and the user continues to determine whether the air conditioner B has a reaction. When the B air conditioner is reacted, the user may continue to perform operation 2, click the "yes" control, and in response to the user operation, the mobile phone displays an interface 406 as shown in (f) in fig. 4, a window 406-1 pops up on the interface 406, and the window 406-1 may display a prompt message: and (4) loading the air conditioner B and judging whether to store the air conditioner B.

It should be understood that when the B air conditioner receives the infrared signal sent by the mobile phone for the second time and the B air conditioner reacts, the B air conditioner may also return a response signal to the mobile phone, where the response signal may carry information of the current operating parameter of the B air conditioner.

Optionally, the information on the current operating parameters of the B air conditioner includes information on parameters such as a wind direction, a wind speed, a target temperature, an operating mode (e.g., a cooling mode, a heating mode, an automatic mode, a ventilation mode, a dehumidification mode, etc.) and the like in the current operating state of the B air conditioner.

It should also be understood that when the mobile phone displays the window 406-1 as shown in (f) of fig. 4 and prompts the user that "B air conditioner is loaded", that is, the mobile phone has received and acquired the device information of the B air conditioner, the current operation parameter information of the B air conditioner, and the like.

Continuously, the user performs the operation shown in (f) of fig. 4, clicks the "save" control in the window 406-1, and in response to the save operation of the user, the mobile phone jumps to display the detail interface 407 of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner shown in (g) of fig. 4. The interface 407 may include an operation parameter display area 407-1 and a control area 407-2 of the air conditioner B shown by dashed boxes, where the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone may display the wind speed, the wind direction, the wind sweep, the cooling mode, and the target temperature 24 ℃ of the air conditioner B in the display area 407-1 according to the obtained current operation parameter of the air conditioner B.

In addition, as shown in (g) of fig. 4, a control area 407-2 of the B air conditioner, which is shown by a dashed box, includes a plurality of operation controls that the user can click and control the B air conditioner, such as a temperature increasing control 21, a switch control 22, a temperature decreasing control 23, an operation mode control 24, a wind speed control 25, a wind direction control 26, and a wind sweeping control 27. The user may click the control in the control area 407-2, thereby controlling the turning on or off of the air conditioner B, adjusting the operating parameters of the air conditioner B, and the like.

It should be understood that for multiple preset remote controllers in the smart remote control application, each preset remote controller may match a fixed brand and model of home equipment, and each preset remote controller includes preset controls, control layout, style, and the like.

It should also be understood that the information of the virtual remote controller ID, the control symbol, the control code value, the control protocol, etc. of each preset remote controller is known, that is, the control data set of each preset remote controller is already stored in the intelligent remote control application. In other words, a user clicks any one of the preset remote controllers matched with the air conditioner B, the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone can inquire the control code value of the control, generate a pulse signal according to the control code value of the control, send the pulse signal to the air conditioner B through the infrared transmitter, and the air conditioner B can analyze and determine an operation instruction according to the received pulse signal and respond according to the operation instruction.

For example, table 3 lists information of a possible matching to the preset virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner, as shown in table 3, all the controls of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner have a unique virtual remote controller ID, for example, the virtual remote controller ID is denoted as "02". In addition, the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B includes fixed controls, such as a temperature increasing control 21, a switch control 22, a temperature decreasing control 23, a working mode control 24, a wind speed control 25, a wind direction control 26, and a wind sweeping control 27, and each control corresponds to a unique control ID, a control symbol, and a control code value, please refer to the related descriptions in table 2, which is not repeated here.

TABLE 3

Virtual remote controller ID	Control ID	Control symbol	Control code values	Control protocol
					02	001	Warming control 21	00110100	NEC/PHILIPS
02	002	Switch control 22	00110101	NEC/PHILIPS
					02	003	Cooling control 23	00110111	NEC/PHILIPS
02	004	Operating mode control 24	10110100	NEC/PHILIPS
					02	005	Wind speed control 25	11110100	NEC/PHILIPS
02	006	Wind direction control 26	00110101	NEC/PHILIPS
					02	007	Wind sweeping control 27	10110110	NEC/PHILIPS

When the user performs the operation shown in fig. 4 (g), the "return to previous page" control on the interface 407 is clicked, and in response to the user's return operation, the mobile phone displays the interface 408 shown in fig. 4 (h). The interface 408 is a main interface of the intelligent remote control application, and compared with the interface 305 shown in the diagram (e) in fig. 3, the interface 408 also displays an icon 408-1 of the added B air conditioner and a name of the "B air conditioner", and by clicking a display area of the icon 408-1 of the B air conditioner or the name of the "B air conditioner", the interface 407 of the "virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner" can be accessed, and the control included in the "virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner" controls the on or off of the B air conditioner, adjusts the operation parameters of the B air conditioner in the working process, and the like.

For example, when a user clicks the working mode control 24 on the "virtual remote controller of air conditioner B" interface 407 of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone, the mobile phone may obtain a control ID of the working mode control 24 as 004 and a control code value 10110100, generate a pulse signal according to an infrared remote control NEC protocol, and send the pulse signal to the air conditioner B through an infrared transmitter of the mobile phone, where the pulse signal may be, for example: 00000000 11111111 10110100 01001011. The air conditioner B may analyze the pulse signal, and determine that an operation instruction included in the pulse signal corresponds to a working mode key of the "entity remote controller", and the air conditioner B switches the working mode, for example, from the cooling mode to the heating mode, in response to the operation instruction, which is not described herein again.

Through the processes of fig. 2 to fig. 4, a virtual remote controller of a television and a virtual remote controller of an air conditioner can be added to an intelligent remote control application of a mobile phone through different methods, and a user can also add virtual remote controllers of other more devices such as a set top box, a camera, a network box, a DVD, a projector and the like in a home scene according to similar methods, so that the user can control the on and off of a plurality of devices, switch the working state, adjust the working parameters of each device in the working process and the like through one mobile phone, and get rid of the dependence of each device on an entity remote controller.

In a possible scenario, in a home scenario, if a virtual remote controller of a television or a virtual remote controller of an air conditioner is added to a mobile phone of a user, when an entity remote controller of the television or the air conditioner cannot be found, and other members in the home or different people such as visiting guests desire to turn on the television, switch a playing channel of the television, adjust playing volume, or adjust working temperature of the air conditioner, the user can only control the using process of the television by means of an intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone of the user, or control a working project of the air conditioner by the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner through the virtual remote controller of the television already added to the mobile phone of the user. In this scenario, if different people control a television or an air conditioner by using the mobile phone of the owner user, the use of the mobile phone by the owner user may be affected, and the owner user may not wish to lend the private mobile phone of the owner user to other people for use, and there may be a risk of revealing privacy content on the owner user's mobile phone.

Or, other family members in the family or different people such as visiting guests can add a virtual remote controller of a television or an air conditioner to the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone according to the above-mentioned introduction process. In the implementation process, if different people add the virtual remote controller of the television or the air conditioner on the mobile phone according to the process, each device of each person needs to be repeatedly added, paired and the like, and the implementation process is complex and time-consuming.

Secondly, for household devices such as televisions, each control in the virtual remote controller generally needs to be learned and paired with a key of the physical remote controller one by one, so that not only is the operation process complicated and tedious, but also if the physical remote controller of the television cannot be found at present, learning and pairing of the control in the virtual remote controller cannot be completed, namely, the virtual remote controller of the television cannot be added on a mobile phone of other people.

In addition, for the child users in the family or the visiting guests, once the television remote controller is added to the mobile phone of the user or the visiting guests by the method and the learning and pairing process of the control in the virtual remote controller is completed, the user has independent and permanent control authority over the television, and the user may not want the child users in the family or the visiting guests to have independent and permanent control authority over the television.

Therefore, the different implementation manners cannot meet the use requirements of multiple people on multiple devices, and cannot meet the control authority requirements of different people on different devices, so that the user experience is poor.

In view of the above problems, embodiments of the present application provide a method for sharing a virtual remote controller among devices, where the method can share an added and available virtual remote controller in an electronic device such as a mobile phone to other electronic devices, and the sharing process can meet the permission requirements of a user, simplify an operation process, and improve the use experience of the user.

It should be understood that the method for sharing a virtual remote controller provided in the embodiment of the present application is applied between two different electronic devices, and for clarity, in the description of the subsequent embodiments, "two different electronic devices" are respectively referred to as a "sending end device" and a "receiving end device".

Alternatively, the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" may be the same type of device, for example, both the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" are mobile phones; alternatively, the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" may be different types of devices, for example, the "sending end device" is a mobile phone, and the "receiving end device" may be a tablet computer, etc.

For example, taking the aforementioned home scenario of fig. 1 as an example, the mobile phone 100 is taken as a "sending end device", and a virtual remote controller of one or more devices has been added to the smart remote control application of the "sending end device (mobile phone 100)". For example, the mobile phone 100 has added "virtual remote controller for a tv" and "virtual remote controller for B air conditioner" to the smart remote control application according to the foregoing processes of fig. 2 to 4.

It should be understood that the virtual remote controller of any device that has been added in the intelligent remote control application may be used as the "virtual remote controller to be shared" described in the embodiment of the present application. The process of sharing the virtual remote controller in the embodiment of the application can be understood as follows: the user of the householder shares the virtual remote controller of the television a or the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B added to the mobile phone 100 of the user to the electronic devices of other family members or visitors, so that the other family members or visitors can control the television a or the air conditioner B through the electronic devices of the user. In this process, the handset 100 of the owner user is "sending end device", and the electronic devices of other family members or visitors are "receiving end device".

It should also be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, both the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" satisfy the conditions of the electronic device described above, for example, both the "sending end device" and the "receiving end device" have an infrared module, such as an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver, which can send or receive infrared signals; and the sending end equipment and the receiving end equipment are both provided with the same type of intelligent remote control application.

Exemplarily, (a) in fig. 5 illustrates a main interface 501 of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone, where an icon and a name of the a tv and an icon and a name of the B air conditioner are displayed on the interface 501, and a virtual remote controller indicating that the smart remote control application of the mobile phone has been added includes: the virtual remote controller of the television A and the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B.

In a possible implementation manner, a user may select a virtual remote controller of a certain device to be shared from virtual remote controllers of one or more devices that have been added on the main interface 501 of the smart remote control application, and trigger a sharing process of the virtual remote controller of the device.

For example, when the user desires to share the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner with the receiving end device, the operation shown in (a) of fig. 5 may be performed, the icon of the B air conditioner may be pressed for a long time, or the display area of the name of the "B air conditioner" may be pressed for a long time, and in response to the long-press operation of the user, the mobile phone may automatically pop up the operation window 502-1, and display the interface 502 shown in (B) of fig. 5. In the operation window 502-1 of the interface 502, a virtual remote controller for the B air conditioner provides a user with a plurality of executable operation options, such as several possible operation options listed below:

(1) And the option of 'deleting' can be used for deleting the virtual remote controller of the added B air conditioner in the intelligent remote control application and related data. If the user clicks the delete option, the added virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B is deleted in the intelligent remote control application, and the icon of the air conditioner B and the name of the air conditioner B are no longer displayed on the main interface 501 of the intelligent remote control application.

(2) The "rename" option may be used to modify the name of the virtual remote control of the B air conditioner. For example, the user may modify the name "B air conditioner" under the air conditioner icon on the main interface 501 of the smart remote control application into "living room air conditioner", "bedroom air conditioner", and the like, according to the location of the B air conditioner in the home scene.

(3) The "set top" option may be used to adjust the display position of the virtual remote control of the B air conditioner. If the user clicks the set-top option, the "virtual remote control for air conditioner B" may be interchanged with the "virtual remote control for tv a" on the main interface 501 of the smart remote control application, i.e., the icon and name of air conditioner B is set to the first position in the remote control list.

(4) And the sharing option can trigger the sharing process of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B. Illustratively, when a user performs an operation as shown in fig. 5 (B), clicks on a "share" option, and in response to the user's operation, a sharing process of the mobile phone entering the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner is triggered, the mobile phone may display a detail interface 503 of the virtual remote controller as shown in fig. 5 (c), and the interface 503 may display all interface contents of the detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner, for example, the interface 503 may include an operation parameter display area 503-1 of the B air conditioner and a control area 503-2 of the B air conditioner, and all operable controls included in the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner on the interface 503 are in a selectable state.

In a possible implementation manner, a user may manually select all operable controls or a part of the operable controls included in the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B as "target controls" to be shared on the interface 503 according to the current usage requirement.

Optionally, when the user performs the operation shown in fig. 5 (b), and clicks the "share" option, and then the mobile phone is triggered to display the interface 503, an icon of each control in the control area 503-2 shown by a dashed line frame on the interface 503 may correspond to one selection box, and the selection box of each control is in an "unselected state", that is, the selection box is in a blank state. The user can click a selection box corresponding to part of the controls according to the current requirement, and the control clicked by the user is determined to be the target control. It should be understood that the "target control" selected by the user is all controls included in the "virtual remote controller to be shared", and other controls not selected by the user are not used as the content of the "virtual remote controller to be shared".

For example, as shown in (c) of fig. 5, assuming that the user clicks and selects the selection box of the temperature increasing control 21 and the selection box of the temperature decreasing control 23, the smart remote control application of the mobile phone may determine the temperature increasing control 21 and the temperature decreasing control 23 as "target controls", that is, the temperature increasing control 21 and the temperature decreasing control 23 will be contents included in the "virtual remote controller to be shared", and other controls such as the switch control 22 will not be contents of the "virtual remote controller to be shared".

In another possible implementation manner, for different types of devices, the target control to be shared corresponding to the virtual remote controller of each type of device may be some fixed controls preset in all controls included in the detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the target device. For example, if a virtual remote controller sharing the device is triggered, all the controls included in the detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the device may be displayed in a selected state by default, that is, all the controls may be target controls.

For example, when the user performs the operation shown in fig. 5 (B), and clicks on the "share" option, a process of sharing the virtual remote control of the B air conditioner is triggered, and the mobile phone may display an interface 503 shown in fig. 5 (c), an icon of each control in a control area 503-2 shown by a dashed frame on the interface 503 may correspond to a selection box, and the selection box of each control is presented in a "selected state," that is, the selection box is presented in a black filled state and includes a selected symbol "+". This scenario can be understood as: and when the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B is shared, all controls included in a detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B are used as target controls to be shared by default.

Optionally, the user may click a selection box corresponding to a part of the controls to cancel sharing of the part of the controls according to current requirements, and determine the controls that remain un-clicked and cancel and still appear in the "selected state" as the "target controls".

For example, if the selection box of each control in the interface 503 is in the "selected state", the user may click the selection box of the switch control 22, the selection box of the working mode control 24, the selection box of the wind speed control 25, the selection box of the wind direction control 26, and the selection box of the wind sweeping control 27 to cancel, and determine the temperature increasing control 21 and the temperature decreasing control 23, which still appear in the "selected state" without clicking to cancel, as the "target controls".

Through the mode, according to the requirements that other family members or visitors use the remote controller to control the equipment in different scenes, the user can only share part of controls included in the virtual remote controller of the equipment with the receiving end equipment, and the other family members or the visitors can control the equipment through the shared part of controls.

For example, parents generally limit the duration that children watch television every day and limit program contents watched by children, parents can hide a physical remote controller of a television, add a virtual remote controller of the television in an intelligent remote control application of a mobile phone, and control the television to be turned on for the children within a fixed time period every day, only share a volume adjustment control of the virtual remote controller of the television with electronic equipment of the children, the children can only adjust the volume of television playing, and cannot switch channels or change the played program contents, so that the use permission of the children on the television is controlled.

Optionally, the selection box corresponding to each control may be located at a lower right corner, a lower left corner, an upper right corner, and an upper left corner of the control icon, or located at a position right below the control icon, or located at a geometric center of the control icon display area, covering the control, and located at a previous display layer of the control.

For example, as shown in fig. 5 (c), the selection frame of the temperature increasing control 21 is located at the lower right corner of the temperature increasing control 21, and the selection frame of the operating mode control 24 is located directly below the operating mode control 24, and the display position of the selection frame corresponding to each control is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, when the user selects a target control of the virtual remote controller to be shared, an available effective duration of the virtual remote controller to be shared (or "target control") on the receiving end device may also be set.

Illustratively, on the interface 503 shown in (c) of fig. 5, a timing control 503-3 may be further included. The user can set the available effective duration of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B to be shared on the receiving end device through the "timing control 503-3", that is, the available effective duration of the temperature-increasing control 21 and the temperature-decreasing control 23 on the receiving end device.

Alternatively, the initial value of the "timing control 503-3" display may be 00 hours, 00 minutes and 00 seconds, and the user may manually modify the effective time period to his or her desired duration, for example, the user modifies the "timing control 503-3" display to 02 hours, 00 minutes and 00 seconds. Alternatively, the user may keep the "timing control 503-3" displaying the initial value 00 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds all the time without modification. When the user performs the operation shown in fig. 5 (c) and clicks the "confirm" control, if the "timing control 503-3" displays 00 hours, 00 minutes and 00 seconds, it can be understood that: the available effective time of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B to be shared on the receiving end equipment is not limited.

Or the initial value displayed by the "timing control 503-3" may correspond to a preset fixed time length, for example, the initial value displayed by the "timing control 503-3" defaults to 01 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds, that is, the available effective time length of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B to be shared on the receiving end device is 1 hour. The user may manually modify the effective duration displayed by the "timing control 503-3" to modify the preset fixed duration to a duration meeting the current usage requirement, which is not described herein again.

Optionally, a virtual remote controller (or "target control") shared by the user from the sending end device to the receiving end device may correspond to the preset effective range. The "predetermined effective range" may depend on a corresponding maximum transmission distance when the infrared signal is transmitted between the devices.

For example, if the maximum transmission distance from the infrared transmitter to the infrared receiver is 10 meters when the infrared signal is transmitted between the devices, the effective range corresponding to the virtual remote controller (or the temperature-increasing control 21 and the temperature-decreasing control 23) of the air conditioner B to be shared generated on the mobile phone is: the range of the air conditioner B is less than or equal to 10 meters, and the range is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

When the user selects the temperature increasing control 21 and the temperature decreasing control 23 as the "target controls" according to the current use requirement, and sets the effective duration displayed in the "timing control 503-3" to be 2 hours, the operation shown in (c) of fig. 5 may be executed, the "confirmation" control is clicked, the mobile phone resumes to display the main interface 504 of the intelligent remote control application shown in (d) of fig. 5 in response to the confirmation operation of the user, and the sharing window 504-1 is automatically popped up on the interface 504.

Optionally, in the sharing window 504-1, a file name to be shared may be displayed: "B air conditioner remote controller". The sharing window 504-1 may also provide a plurality of possible sharing manners for the user, such as a Huawei sharing (Huawei Share) manner, a sharing manner through a WLAN direct channel, a bluetooth sharing manner, and a mobile data sharing manner.

It should be understood that, in addition to the above listed multiple sharing manners such as Huawei sharing (Huawei Share), the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may also be sent to the receiving end device through social software paths such as micro blogs, micro messages, short messages, and emails, and the sharing manner of the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

It should also be understood that when the user performs the operation shown in (c) of fig. 5 and clicks the "confirm" control, the smart remote control application of the mobile phone may determine that the user clicks the information of the selected "target control", for example, the information of the "temperature increase control 21" and the information of the "temperature decrease control 23". Specifically, the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone may obtain information of the "temperature increase control 21" and information of the "temperature decrease control 23" from information of all controls included in table 3, that is, part or all of information of virtual remote controller ID, control symbol, control code value, control protocol, and the like corresponding to the "temperature increase control 21" and the "temperature decrease control 23" listed in table 3, respectively.

In a possible implementation manner, after the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone obtains the information of the "temperature increasing control 21" and the information of the "temperature decreasing control 23" from the information of all the controls included in table 3, a "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" or a "file to be shared" may be generated according to the information of the "temperature increasing control 21" and the information of the "temperature decreasing control 23", that is, a content corresponding to the "virtual remote controller to be shared" described above.

It should be understood that table 3 shows information of all the controls included in the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner, and in the embodiment of the present application, according to the "target control" selected by the user, the generated "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" only includes information of the "target control" to be shared, which is selected by the user. Specifically, the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may include information of an ID of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner, and part or all of information such as a control ID, a control symbol, a control code value, and a control protocol respectively corresponding to the "temperature increasing control 21" and the "temperature decreasing control 23" selected by the user, but does not include information of other controls such as the switch control 22.

Optionally, the generated "file of B air conditioner remote controller" may further include information of a valid duration (e.g., 2 hours) set by the user and/or information of a valid range. The information of the valid duration and the information of the valid range can be identified by special fields.

In a possible situation, in the process that the mobile phone shares the remote controller with the receiving end device, if the B air conditioner is currently in the operating state, the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may further include the current operating parameter information of the B air conditioner.

For example, as shown in fig. 5 (c), the "current operating parameter information of the B air conditioner" may include parameter information related to the operation of the B air conditioner, such as a current wind speed, a current wind direction, a sweep wind, a cooling mode, and a target temperature (24 ℃), of the B air conditioner, displayed in the operating parameter display region 503-1 shown in fig. 5 (c).

In another possible situation, in the process that the mobile phone shares the remote controller with the receiving end device, if the air conditioner B is currently in a non-operating state (off state), the "file of the air conditioner remote controller B" may further include operation parameter information set for the air conditioner B by the user at the previous time closest to the current time through the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B of the mobile phone, for example, parameter information such as a wind speed, a wind direction, a wind sweeping mode, a cooling mode, and a target temperature set for the air conditioner B at the previous time, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may have different generation manners, and the type and the generation process of the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" to be shared in the embodiment of the present application are not limited.

For example, when a user shares the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B with the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone, the intelligent remote control application may create a data set corresponding to the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B, where the data set includes information corresponding to all controls on the detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B. For example, the data set may include all the contents listed in table 3, and may further include information such as an identifier of the B air conditioner, a file name, and the like.

After the intelligent remote control application determines the information or content included in the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller", the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may be generated according to the included information or content. For example, the file may be a new file, and the information of the "temperature raising control 21" and the information of the "temperature lowering control 23" listed above, and the field information corresponding to the effective time period, and the like may be written in the new file. In addition, the new file may also carry an application identifier of the intelligent remote control application of the receiving end device, for example, the suffix of the file is ykq, the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may be automatically named as "B air conditioner ykq", which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Continuously, assuming that the user performs the operation shown in fig. 5 (d), and clicks the "Huawei Share (Huawei Share)" option in the sharing window 504-1, the mobile phone may further display an interface 505 shown in fig. 5 (e), and one or more near-field devices searched by the mobile phone are displayed in the window 505-1 in the interface 505, that is, other devices that may send the "file of B remote controller for air conditioner" in Huawei Share (Huawei Share) manner. If the device name of the handset is Huawei Mate30, the one or more near field devices searched by the handset may include Mate40, mateBook, guest handsets, etc.

The user can select the receiving end equipment from the searched one or more near field equipment according to the requirement of the user, and the generated file of the B air conditioner remote controller is sent to the receiving end equipment. Illustratively, the user performs an operation as shown in fig. 5 (e), clicks an icon of the guest handset, and the handset may transmit the "file of B ac remote controller" (e.g., B ac. Ykq) to the guest handset in response to the user's operation.

Optionally, the smart remote control application of the mobile phone can encrypt a newly-built file of the 'B air conditioner remote controller' (for example, B air conditioner. Ykq), and then send the encrypted file to the mobile phone of the visitor, so as to improve the safety of the home device in the using process.

For example, the encryption key of the new file may be a key related to the smart remote control application, and after the guest mobile phone at the receiving end receives the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" (e.g., B air conditioner. Ykq), the guest mobile phone at the receiving end may determine that the file corresponds to the smart remote control application according to the application identifier of the file, and further call and run the smart remote control application of the guest mobile phone, and the smart remote control application may decrypt and obtain and run the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller", which is not described herein again.

In another possible implementation manner, a user may select some or all of the controls on a detail interface of a virtual remote control of a certain device to trigger a sharing process of the virtual remote control of the device.

Illustratively, fig. 6 (a) shows a main interface 601 of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone, and the device icon and name corresponding to the virtual remote controller that has been added, such as the icon and name of the a television and the icon and name of the B air conditioner, are displayed on the interface 601. When a user desires to share the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B with a receiving end device, the operation shown in fig. 6 (a) may be performed, an icon of the air conditioner B is clicked, or a display area of the name of the "air conditioner B" is clicked, and in response to the click operation of the user, the mobile phone may display a detail interface 602 of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B shown in fig. 6 (B), where the interface 602 displays the current operating parameters of the air conditioner B, such as the current wind speed, the current wind direction, the current wind sweeping, the cooling mode, and the target temperature, and all operable controls included in the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B, such as the warming control 21, the switch control 22, the cooling control 23, the operating mode control 24, the wind speed control 25, the wind direction control 26, and the wind sweeping control 27.

Optionally, the user may perform a selected and long-pressed operation on any one of all operable controls included on the detail interface 602 of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner, and trigger a sharing process of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner in response to the long-pressed operation of the user.

For example, the user may perform the operation illustrated in (b) of fig. 6, select and long-press the "cooling control 23", and when the mobile phone detects that the current operation of the user is a long-press operation, the mobile phone may display the interface 603 illustrated in (c) of fig. 6 in response to the long-press operation of the user. On the interface 603, each icon of each control may correspond to a selection box, and the selection box of each control is in an "unselected state", that is, the selection box is in a blank state. The user can click on the selection boxes corresponding to part of the controls according to the current requirements, and the mobile phone can determine the control clicked by the user as the target control.

As shown in fig. 6 (c), it is assumed that the user clicks the selection box of the temperature increase control 21 and the selection box of the temperature decrease control 23, and the effective time duration of the virtual remote controller (or "target control") to be shared available on the receiving end device is set to be 02 minutes and 00 seconds. The user then executes the operation shown in fig. 6 (c), clicks the "sharing" control, and in response to the operation of the user, the smart remote control application of the mobile phone may determine the temperature increasing control 21 and the temperature decreasing control 23 as "target controls", and obtain and generate a "file of the air conditioner remote controller B" or a "file to be shared" according to the information of the "temperature increasing control 21" and the information of the "temperature decreasing control 23" listed in table 3.

It should be understood that, for possible implementation processes such as display of a selection box corresponding to each control, display and setting of an effective duration, and information and content that the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" may include, and operations performed by a user, please refer to related description in fig. 5, and for simplicity, details are not repeated here.

After the smart remote control application of the mobile phone generates a "file of B air conditioner remote controller", the mobile phone may display an interface 604 as shown in (d) of fig. 6, and automatically pop up a sharing window 604-1 on the interface 604. Continuing, assuming that the user performs the operations as shown in fig. 6 (d), and clicks on the "Huawei Share (Huawei Share)" option in the sharing window 604-1, the handset may further display an interface 605 as shown in fig. 6 (e), and one or more near-field devices searched by the handset, such as Mate40, mateBook, guest handset, etc., are displayed in the window 605-1 of the interface 605. The user can click the icon of the visitor mobile phone according to the own requirement, and the mobile phone can send the 'B air conditioner remote controller file' to the visitor mobile phone in response to the operation of the user.

In the above embodiment, with reference to the processes shown in fig. 5 and fig. 6, the mobile phone of the user owner is used as the sending end device, the guest mobile phone is used as the receiving end device, and the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" including information of part of or all of the controls is shared with the guest mobile phone. Accordingly, a receiving window can be popped up on the display screen of the visitor mobile phone, and the receiving window can be used for a user to select whether to receive the 'B air conditioner remote controller file' sent by the mobile phone.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a remote control shared by a receiving end device in a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Assume that the user selects "guest handset" as the "receiving device" in the operation shown in the diagram (e) in fig. 5 or the diagram (e) in fig. 6, and the guest handset is also installed with the same type of smart remote control application as the transmitting device (handset 100).

For example, when the user performs the operation shown in fig. 5 (e) or fig. 6 (e), selects the guest handset, and in response to the operation with the user, the sending end device (handset 100) may start to call the bluetooth module of the sending end device based on hua weni Share mode, and send "B files of the remote controller of the air conditioner" to the receiving end device through the bluetooth channel.

In a possible implementation manner, after the receiving end device receives the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" sent by the sending end device, the receiving end device may prompt the user whether to select receiving in an automatic popup manner. And/or, a prompt icon, a text prompt message and the like can be displayed on a status bar at the top end of the display screen, and a user can check the prompt and select whether to receive the prompt through a pull-down operation. And/or the receiving end device may issue a preset prompt tone, such as "ticker 8230," to prompt the user whether to select to receive the "B air conditioner remote control file" sent by the sending end device.

For example, after the receiving end device receives "B air conditioner remote controller file" sent by the sending end device, an interface 701 as shown in fig. 7 (a) may be displayed, a prompt window 701-1 pops up automatically on the display interface of the current display screen, and the prompt window 701-1 may include prompt information: huawei Mate30 wants you to share with the remote control of the B air conditioner, whether or not to receive. It should be understood that the display interface 701 of the current display screen of the receiving end device is not limited to the main interface of the receiving end device or the running interface of any application, and the like, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

As shown in fig. 7 (a), the user may click the "receive" control, and in response to the receiving operation confirmed by the user, the receiving end device may trigger to run the intelligent remote control application according to the received "file of the B air conditioner remote controller", for example, according to information such as a file type of the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" or an application package name corresponding to the file, and obtain content included in the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" through the intelligent remote control application.

In another possible implementation manner, in combination with the related description above, the "file of B air conditioner remote controller" includes contents in many possible cases. The receiving end equipment can determine a display interface which is possibly presented by the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B on a display screen of the receiving end equipment according to different contents included in the 'file of the air conditioner remote controller B'.

Optionally, when the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" includes information of an ID of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner, part of or all of information such as a control ID, a control symbol, a control code value, and a control protocol respectively corresponding to the "temperature increase control 21" and the "temperature decrease control 23" selected by the user, and current operation parameter information of the B air conditioner, the receiving end device may determine that the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner may display an interface 702 shown in fig. 7 (B) according to the content included in the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" obtained.

Specifically, as shown in (B) of fig. 7, the interface 702 is a detailed interface of a virtual remote controller of a B air conditioner transmitted by the transmitting-end device, and thus the title name of the interface 702 may be displayed as "B air conditioner of Huawei Mate 30". Secondly, according to the current operation parameter information of the air conditioner B included in the acquired file of the air conditioner remote controller B, parameters related to the current operation of the air conditioner B, such as wind speed, wind direction, wind sweeping, refrigeration mode and target temperature (24 ℃), can be displayed on the interface 702. In addition, the interface 702 also displays a "temperature increasing control 21" and a "temperature decreasing control 23" that can receive user operations, that is, the user owner will control the authority of the B air conditioner to open the B air conditioner to the receiving end device.

When the user performs the operation shown in fig. 7 (b), clicks the "return" control, and in response to the return operation of the user, the sink device returns to display the smart remote control application home interface 703 shown in fig. 7 (c). Assuming that no virtual remote controller of any device is added before the intelligent remote control application of the receiving end device, after receiving the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" sent by the sending end device, the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner may be added on the intelligent remote control application main interface 703, and an icon and a name of the remote controller of the B air conditioner are displayed.

In another possible implementation manner, for each electronic device, names of virtual remote controllers displayed on the intelligent remote control application host interface 703 may be different according to different sources or different addition manners of the virtual remote controllers displayed on the intelligent remote control application host interface 703 of the electronic device.

For example, in comparison with the interface 501 shown in fig. 5 (a) or the interface 601 shown in fig. 6 (a), the "virtual remote controller for a television a" and the "virtual remote controller for a B air conditioner" on the interface 501 or the interface 601 are added and paired on the sending-end device (the mobile phone 100) by the user, and the virtual remote controller displayed on the interface 703 shown in fig. 7 (c) is derived from the sharing of the sending-end device (the mobile phone 100), so that, for the virtual remote controller derived from other sending-end devices, the name may include the source of the virtual remote controller: the home device that can be controlled by the virtual remote controller, which is the Huawei Mate30 (sender device), is the "B air conditioner", that is, the interface 703 is displayed as the "B air conditioner of the Huawei Mate 30", which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In yet another possible implementation manner, the "file of the B remote air conditioner controller" received by the receiving end device may further include an effective duration set by the user. Correspondingly, when the receiving end equipment receives the 'file of the B air conditioner remote controller', the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner can be normally used in a time period corresponding to the effective time length by taking the receiving time as the starting time.

Optionally, the receiving end device may display the available effective duration of the virtual remote control of the air conditioner B on the interface 702 shown in fig. 7 (B) and/or the interface 703 shown in fig. 7 (c), for example, remind the user of the remaining time of the effective duration in a countdown manner, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

For example, if the effective time period set by the user is 2 hours, on the interface 703 shown in (c) of fig. 7, the name display area of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner may further display: countdown of the effective time period, for example [ 01.

In another possible implementation manner, when the time when the receiving end device receives the "file of the B air conditioner remote controller" is the starting time and is longer than the valid duration or exceeds the time period range corresponding to the valid duration, the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner in the intelligent remote control application of the receiving end device is in the failure state.

Optionally, when the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner is in a failure state, on the smart remote control application main interface 703 of the receiving end device, the icon and the name of the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner may be in a gray unavailable state, for example, the user cannot click or does not respond to the click operation of the user.

Or, when the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B is in a failure state, the icon and the name of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B are automatically deleted on the intelligent remote control application host interface 703, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In summary, the method for sharing a remote controller among devices provided by the present application can share information of an added device remote controller in an intelligent remote control application of a sending-end device to a receiving-end device in multiple possible ways; the receiving end equipment can automatically add the equipment remote controller in the intelligent remote control application according to the received information of the equipment remote controller. For a scene that a plurality of users expect to control the same equipment, when the number of the entity remote controllers is limited or the entity remote controllers cannot be found, the method can respectively send the equipment remote controllers added to electronic equipment such as a mobile phone of a certain user to the electronic equipment of different users, so that the dependence of the process of controlling the equipment by the users on the entity remote controllers is eliminated, and convenience is provided for the plurality of users to control the same equipment; meanwhile, the complicated process that each user needs to add the equipment remote controller to the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone and learn the control is avoided, the process that different users use the electronic equipment such as the mobile phone to control the equipment is optimized, the control requirements of a plurality of users on the equipment are met, and the use experience of the users is improved.

In addition, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, the method provided by the application can support a user to manually select the target control to be shared in the equipment remote controller on the sending end equipment. For example, a user may only share some of the controls included in the device remote controller to the receiving end device according to the use requirement; correspondingly, when the device remote controller automatically added by the receiving end device is received, only part of the control elements of the device remote controller are added. In other words, the user may only open the control authority (operation authority) corresponding to part of the controls to the receiving end device. The method can limit the control authority of different people to the equipment, and avoid the potential safety hazard caused by too many people owning the operation authority to the equipment.

In particular, for the home scenario shown in fig. 1, which may include multiple home devices such as a television, an air conditioner, a set-top box, a camera, a network box, a DVD, and a projector, a user may add a virtual remote controller of the multiple home devices to a smart remote control application of a mobile phone, so that the control of the multiple home devices may be implemented by only one mobile phone. When other family members or multiple persons such as different visitors have use requirements on the family equipment such as the television and the air conditioner, the method provided by the application enables the householder user to share the virtual remote controllers of the family equipment such as the television and the air conditioner added in the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone to different persons according to different requirements of the different persons, and can share the controls with different numbers and functions included by the virtual remote controllers for the different persons, namely, different operation permissions on the family equipment such as the television and the air conditioner are opened for the different persons. The method simplifies the operation process, avoids the situation that a plurality of people control a plurality of household devices by using the mobile phone of the user owner, and meets the control requirements of the plurality of people on the plurality of household devices; meanwhile, the user owner can limit the control authority of different people to the plurality of household devices, the safety of the household devices in the using process is improved, and the use experience of the user is improved.

For the application scenario shown in fig. 1, with reference to fig. 2 to fig. 7, the foregoing embodiment introduces a possible implementation process and implementation manner of sharing a remote controller between devices from a user interaction level, and introduces a bottom implementation process corresponding to the method for sharing a remote controller between devices provided in the embodiment of the present application from a bottom implementation policy level.

It should be understood that the process of sharing a remote controller provided in the embodiment of the present application may occur between two different electronic devices, that is, the process of sharing a remote controller may occur between a sending end device and a receiving end device. Therefore, the hardware structure and the software structure of the sending end device and the receiving end device can support the process of sharing the remote controller.

Before describing the underlying implementation process, a hardware structure and a software structure that may be provided by the sending end device and the receiving end device according to the embodiment of the present application are described below.

Optionally, the sending end device and the receiving end device may be any electronic device, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device, an in-vehicle device, an Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) device, a notebook computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the specific types of the sending end device and the receiving end device are not limited in this application.

Optionally, the sending end device and the receiving end device in the embodiment of the present application may be the same type of electronic device, or may be different types of electronic devices.

It should be understood that the sending-end device of the embodiment of the present application may include a part of the structure or the entire structure of the electronic device 100 shown in fig. 8, or may further include more structures not shown; the receiving end device may also include a part of or all of the structure of the electronic device 100 shown in fig. 8, or further include more other structures not shown, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 8, the electronic device 100 may include a processor 110, an external memory interface 120, an internal memory 121, an infrared module 122, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface 130, a charging management module 140, a power management module 141, a battery 142, an antenna 1, an antenna 2, a mobile communication module 150, a wireless communication module 160, an audio module 170, a speaker 170A, a microphone 170B, a microphone 170C, an earphone interface 170D, a sensor module 180, keys 190, a motor 191, an indicator 192, a camera 193, a display screen 194, a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card interface 195, and the like. The sensor module 180 may include a pressure sensor 180A, a gyroscope sensor 180B, an air pressure sensor 180C, a magnetic sensor 180D, an acceleration sensor 180E, a distance sensor 180F, a proximity light sensor 180G, a fingerprint sensor 180H, a temperature sensor 180J, a touch sensor 180K, an ambient light sensor 180L, a bone conduction sensor 180M, and the like.

It is to be understood that the illustrated structure of the embodiment of the present application does not specifically limit the electronic device 100. In other embodiments of the present application, electronic device 100 may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, some components may be split, or a different arrangement of components. The illustrated components may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of software and hardware.

Processor 110 may include one or more processing units, such as: the processor 110 may include an Application Processor (AP), a modem processor, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), an Image Signal Processor (ISP), a controller, a memory, a video codec, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a baseband processor, and/or a neural-Network Processing Unit (NPU), etc. The different processing units may be separate devices or may be integrated into one or more processors.

Wherein the controller may be a neural center and a command center of the electronic device 100. The controller can generate an operation control signal according to the instruction operation code and the timing signal to complete the control of instruction fetching and instruction execution.

A memory may also be provided in processor 110 for storing instructions and data. In some embodiments, the memory in the processor 110 is a cache memory. The memory may hold instructions or data that have just been used or recycled by the processor 110. If the processor 110 needs to reuse the instruction or data, it can be called directly from the memory. Avoiding repeated accesses reduces the latency of the processor 110, thereby increasing the efficiency of the system.

In this embodiment, the electronic device 100 may serve as a sending end device and a receiving end device. The processor 110 of the electronic device 100 stores a computer program or instructions corresponding to a method for sharing a remote controller among the devices.

For example, for a sending-end device, when a user runs an intelligent remote control application, the method for sharing a remote controller among the devices, which is stored in the processor 110, may be called through an application interface, so as to support the user to share a virtual remote controller of a certain device added in the intelligent remote control application to other devices, and to support the user to manually select a part of controls or all of controls in the virtual remote controller of the device, and the intelligent remote control application generates a remote controller file to be shared according to contents such as information of the part of controls or all of controls selected by the user, and effective duration information set by the user. The processor 110 may also invoke device search and discovery capabilities of the electronic device 100 to search for one or more near field devices that may receive the "remote control file" and then invoke a communication module, such as a bluetooth module, to send the "remote control file" to a near field device selected by the user.

For the receiving end device, when the receiving end device receives the "remote controller file" sent by the sending end device and the user confirms to receive the "remote controller file", the processor 110 may detect the received "remote controller file", for example, according to the file type of the "remote controller file" or information such as an application package name corresponding to the file, trigger to call and run the intelligent remote control application, acquire the content included in the "remote controller file" through the intelligent remote control application, and control the display screen 194 to display a corresponding interface according to the content. The following embodiments will specifically describe the process of sharing the remote controller between the sending end device and the receiving end device, and details are not described here.

In some embodiments, processor 110 may include one or more interfaces. The interface may include an integrated circuit (I2C) interface, an integrated circuit built-in audio (I2S) interface, a Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) interface, a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) interface, a mobile industry processor interface (mobile industry processor interface, MIPI), a general-purpose-input/output (GPIO) interface, a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) interface, and/or a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, etc.

The I2C interface is a bidirectional synchronous serial bus comprising a serial data line (SDA) and a Serial Clock Line (SCL). In some embodiments, processor 110 may include multiple sets of I2C buses. The processor 110 may be coupled to the touch sensor 180K, a charger, a flash, a camera 193, etc. through different I2C bus interfaces, respectively. For example: the processor 110 may be coupled to the touch sensor 180K through an I2C interface, so that the processor 110 and the touch sensor 180K communicate through an I2C bus interface to implement a touch function of the electronic device 100.

The I2S interface may be used for audio communication. In some embodiments, processor 110 may include multiple sets of I2S buses. The processor 110 may be coupled to the audio module 170 through an I2S bus, enabling communication between the processor 110 and the audio module 170. In some embodiments, the audio module 170 may transmit an audio signal to the wireless communication module 160 through the I2S interface, so as to implement a function of answering a call through a bluetooth headset.

The PCM interface may also be used for audio communication, sampling, quantizing and encoding analog signals. In some embodiments, the audio module 170 and the wireless communication module 160 may be coupled by a PCM bus interface. In some embodiments, the audio module 170 may also transmit audio signals to the wireless communication module 160 through the PCM interface, so as to implement a function of answering a call through a bluetooth headset. Both the I2S interface and the PCM interface may be used for audio communication.

The UART interface is a universal serial data bus used for asynchronous communications. The bus may be a bidirectional communication bus. It converts the data to be transmitted between serial communication and parallel communication. In some embodiments, a UART interface is generally used to connect the processor 110 with the wireless communication module 160. For example: the processor 110 communicates with a bluetooth module in the wireless communication module 160 through a UART interface to implement a bluetooth function. In some embodiments, the audio module 170 may transmit the audio signal to the wireless communication module 160 through a UART interface, so as to realize the function of playing music through a bluetooth headset.

The MIPI interface may be used to connect the processor 110 with peripheral devices such as the display screen 194, the camera 193, and the like. The MIPI interface includes a Camera Serial Interface (CSI), a Display Serial Interface (DSI), and the like. In some embodiments, processor 110 and camera 193 communicate through a CSI interface to implement the capture functionality of electronic device 100. Processor 110 and display screen 194 communicate via a DSI interface to implement display functions of electronic device 100.

The GPIO interface may be configured by software. The GPIO interface may be configured as a control signal and may also be configured as a data signal. In some embodiments, a GPIO interface may be used to connect the processor 110 with the camera 193, the display 194, the wireless communication module 160, the audio module 170, the sensor module 180, and the like. The GPIO interface may also be configured as an I2C interface, I2S interface, UART interface, MIPI interface, and the like.

The USB interface 130 is an interface conforming to the USB standard specification, and may be a Mini USB interface, a Micro USB interface, a USB Type C interface, or the like. The USB interface 130 may be used to connect a charger to charge the electronic device 100, and may also be used to transmit data between the electronic device 100 and a peripheral device. And the earphone can also be used for connecting an earphone and playing audio through the earphone. The interface may also be used to connect other electronic devices, such as AR devices and the like.

It should be understood that the interface connection relationship between the modules illustrated in the embodiments of the present application is only an illustration, and does not limit the structure of the electronic device 100. In other embodiments of the present application, the electronic device 100 may also adopt different interface connection manners or a combination of multiple interface connection manners in the above embodiments.

The charging management module 140 is configured to receive a charging input from a charger. The charger may be a wireless charger or a wired charger. In some wired charging embodiments, the charging management module 140 may receive charging input from a wired charger via the USB interface 130. In some wireless charging embodiments, the charging management module 140 may receive a wireless charging input through a wireless charging coil of the electronic device 100. The charging management module 140 may also supply power to the electronic device through the power management module 141 while charging the battery 142.

The power management module 141 is used to connect the battery 142, the charging management module 140 and the processor 110. The power management module 141 receives input from the battery 142 and/or the charge management module 140 and provides power to the processor 110, the internal memory 121, the external memory, the display 194, the camera 193, the wireless communication module 160, and the like. The power management module 141 may also be used to monitor parameters such as battery capacity, battery cycle count, battery state of health (leakage, impedance), etc. In other embodiments, the power management module 141 may be disposed in the processor 110. In other embodiments, the power management module 141 and the charging management module 140 may be disposed in the same device.

The wireless communication function of the electronic device 100 may be implemented by the antenna 1, the antenna 2, the mobile communication module 150, the wireless communication module 160, a modem processor, a baseband processor, and the like.

The

antennas

1 and 2 are used for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals. Each antenna in the electronic device 100 may be used to cover a single or multiple communication bands. Different antennas can also be multiplexed to improve the utilization of the antennas. For example: the antenna 1 may be multiplexed as a diversity antenna of a wireless local area network. In other embodiments, the antenna may be used in conjunction with a tuning switch.

The mobile communication module 150 may provide a solution including wireless communication of 2G/3G/4G/5G/6G, etc. applied to the electronic device 100. The mobile communication module 150 may include at least one filter, a switch, a power amplifier, a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and the like. The mobile communication module 150 may receive the electromagnetic wave from the antenna 1, filter, amplify, etc. the received electromagnetic wave, and transmit the electromagnetic wave to the modem processor for demodulation. The mobile communication module 150 may also amplify the signal modulated by the modem processor, and convert the signal into electromagnetic wave through the antenna 1 to radiate the electromagnetic wave. In some embodiments, at least some of the functional modules of the mobile communication module 150 may be disposed in the processor 110. In some embodiments, at least some of the functional modules of the mobile communication module 150 may be disposed in the same device as at least some of the modules of the processor 110.

The modem processor may include a modulator and a demodulator. The modulator is used for modulating a low-frequency baseband signal to be transmitted into a medium-high frequency signal. The demodulator is used for demodulating the received electromagnetic wave signal into a low-frequency baseband signal. The demodulator then passes the demodulated low frequency baseband signal to a baseband processor for processing. The low frequency baseband signal is processed by the baseband processor and then transferred to the application processor. The application processor outputs a sound signal through an audio device (not limited to the speaker 170A, the receiver 170B, etc.) or displays an image or video through the display screen 194. In some embodiments, the modem processor may be a stand-alone device. In other embodiments, the modem processor may be provided in the same device as the mobile communication module 150 or other functional modules, independent of the processor 110.

The wireless communication module 160 may provide a solution for wireless communication applied to the electronic device 100, including Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) (e.g., wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) networks), bluetooth (bluetooth, BT), global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), frequency Modulation (FM), near Field Communication (NFC), infrared (IR), and the like. The wireless communication module 160 may be one or more devices integrating at least one communication processing module. The wireless communication module 160 receives electromagnetic waves via the antenna 2, performs frequency modulation and filtering on electromagnetic wave signals, and transmits the processed signals to the processor 110. The wireless communication module 160 may also receive a signal to be transmitted from the processor 110, perform frequency modulation and amplification on the signal, and convert the signal into electromagnetic waves through the antenna 2 to radiate the electromagnetic waves.

In the embodiment of the present application, the transmitting end device and the receiving end device, as two different electronic devices, both include the wireless communication module 160.

Optionally, the sending end device and the receiving end device may be devices connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and the two devices may communicate with each other based on a Wi-Fi link; or, a bluetooth connection can be established between the two devices, and the two devices can communicate based on a bluetooth channel; or, the two devices can establish connection based on the NFC technology such as collision-collision technology; or, a connection may be established between the two devices based on Infrared (IR) technology, 2G/3G/4G/5G/6G, and other wireless communication methods, and accordingly, the two devices may communicate with each other in a corresponding manner.

It should be understood that, in this embodiment of the application, when a user clicks a "share" control on a sending-end device to trigger a process of entering a share remote controller, any one of the possible connection manners listed above may be used to search one or more near-field devices when the sending-end device performs a search operation, and the user may select a receiving-end device that wants to share the remote controller from the one or more near-field devices.

In some embodiments, antenna 1 of electronic device 100 is coupled to mobile communication module 150 and antenna 2 is coupled to wireless communication module 160 so that electronic device 100 can communicate with networks and other devices through wireless communication techniques.

The electronic device 100 implements display functions via the GPU, the display screen 194, and the application processor. The GPU is a microprocessor for image processing, and is connected to the display screen 194 and an application processor. The GPU is used to perform mathematical and geometric calculations for graphics rendering. The processor 110 may include one or more GPUs that execute program instructions to generate or alter display information.

The display screen 194 is used to display images, video, and the like. The display screen 194 includes a display panel. In some embodiments, the electronic device 100 may include 1 or N display screens 194, N being a positive integer greater than 1.

In this embodiment, both the sender device and the receiver device may include a display screen 194, and the display screen 194 may display different interface contents and may receive a touch operation of a user.

Illustratively, when the display screen 194 of the sending-end device displays an interface of an intelligent remote control application, if it is detected that a user presses an icon of a remote controller of a certain device and clicks operations such as a "share" control, the touch operation may be transmitted to the processor 110, and a process of sharing the remote controller is entered according to an instruction of the processor 110, and meanwhile, a corresponding interface in the process of sharing the remote controller, for example, a control selection interface, a sharing mode selection interface, and the like of the remote controller of the device, may be displayed on the display screen 194 of the sending-end device.

Accordingly, after the receiving end device receives the remote controller file transmitted by the transmitting end device, a prompt window 701-1 shown in (a) in fig. 7 may be displayed on the display screen 194, and an operation performed by the user in the prompt window 701-1 may be detected. When the user selects to receive the remote control file, the receiving end device may call and run the intelligent remote control application according to the remote control file, and display a possible interface, such as a detailed interface of the remote control of the device, on the display screen 194, which is not described herein again.

The electronic device 100 may implement a shooting function through the ISP, the camera 193, the video codec, the GPU, the display 194, the application processor, and the like.

The ISP is used to process the data fed back by the camera 193. For example, when a photo is taken, the shutter is opened, light is transmitted to the camera photosensitive element through the lens, the optical signal is converted into an electrical signal, and the camera photosensitive element transmits the electrical signal to the ISP for processing and converting into an image visible to naked eyes. The ISP can also carry out algorithm optimization on the noise, brightness and skin color of the image. The ISP can also optimize parameters such as exposure, color temperature and the like of a shooting scene. In some embodiments, the ISP may be provided in camera 193.

The camera 193 is used to capture still images or video. The object generates an optical image through the lens and projects the optical image to the photosensitive element. The light sensing element converts the optical signal into an electrical signal, which is then passed to the ISP where it is converted into a digital image signal. And the ISP outputs the digital image signal to the DSP for processing. The DSP converts the digital image signal into an image signal in a standard RGB, YUV and other formats. In some embodiments, electronic device 100 may include 1 or N cameras 193, N being a positive integer greater than 1.

The digital signal processor is used for processing digital signals, and can process digital image signals and other digital signals. For example, when the electronic device 100 selects a frequency bin, the digital signal processor is used to perform fourier transform or the like on the frequency bin energy.

Video codecs are used to compress or decompress digital video. The electronic device 100 may support one or more video codecs. In this way, the electronic device 100 may play or record video in a variety of encoding formats, such as: moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) 1, MPEG2, MPEG3, MPEG4, and the like.

The NPU is a neural-network (NN) computing processor that processes input information quickly by using a biological neural network structure, for example, by using a transfer mode between neurons of a human brain, and can also learn by itself continuously. Applications such as intelligent recognition of the electronic device 100 can be realized through the NPU, for example: image recognition, face recognition, speech recognition, text understanding, and the like.

The external memory interface 120 may be used to connect an external memory card, such as a Micro SD card, to extend the memory capability of the electronic device 100. The external memory card communicates with the processor 110 through the external memory interface 120 to implement a data storage function. For example, files such as music, video, etc. are saved in the external memory card.

The internal memory 121 may be used to store computer-executable program code, which includes instructions. The processor 110 executes various functional applications of the electronic device 100 and data processing by executing instructions stored in the internal memory 121. The internal memory 121 may include a program storage area and a data storage area. The storage program area may store an operating system, an application program (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required by at least one function, and the like. The storage data area may store data (such as audio data, phone book, etc.) created during use of the electronic device 100, and the like. In addition, the internal memory 121 may include a high speed random access memory, and may also include a non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory device, a Universal Flash Storage (UFS), and the like.

In the embodiment of the present application, whether the sending end device or the receiving end device may include the infrared module 122.

Specifically, the infrared module 122 may include an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver. Wherein, the infrared emitter may be an infrared light emitting diode 122A, and the infrared receiver may be an infrared integrated receiving head 122B.

Illustratively, when a user adds a virtual remote control of a television to the electronic device 100, the virtual remote control of the television includes controls that need to learn the key functions of a physical infrared remote control. For the learning process of any one control, the electronic device 100 may send an infrared signal to the entity remote controller through the infrared light emitting diode 122A, and may also receive an infrared response signal returned by the entity remote controller through the infrared integrated receiving head 122B, so as to obtain information such as key values and functions of keys of the entity remote controller.

For example, a virtual remote controller of an air conditioner has been added to the intelligent remote control application of the electronic device 100, and on a display interface of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner on the display screen 194 of the electronic device 100, a user clicks each control to operate, and the electronic device 100 may generate binary coded information according to a control code value corresponding to the control. And then, an infrared signal (pulse signal) including the binary coded information is transmitted to the air conditioner through the infrared light emitting diode 122A, and the air conditioner can receive the infrared signal, analyze and acquire an operation instruction corresponding to the binary coded information included in the infrared signal, and then respond according to the operation instruction.

The electronic device 100 may implement audio functions via the audio module 170, the speaker 170A, the receiver 170B, the microphone 170C, the headphone interface 170D, and the application processor. The audio module 170 is used to convert digital audio information into analog audio signals for output, and also used to convert analog audio inputs into digital audio signals. The audio module 170 may also be used to encode and decode audio signals. In some embodiments, the audio module 170 may be disposed in the processor 110, or some functional modules of the audio module 170 may be disposed in the processor 110.

The speaker 170A, also called a "horn", is used to convert the audio electrical signal into a sound signal. The electronic apparatus 100 can listen to music through the speaker 170A or listen to a handsfree call.

The receiver 170B, also called "earpiece", is used to convert the electrical audio signal into an acoustic signal. When the electronic apparatus 100 receives a call or voice information, it can receive voice by placing the receiver 170B close to the ear of the person.

The microphone 170C, also referred to as a "microphone," is used to convert sound signals into electrical signals. The earphone interface 170D is used to connect a wired earphone.

The pressure sensor 180A is used for sensing a pressure signal, and can convert the pressure signal into an electrical signal.

The gyro sensor 180B may be used to determine the motion attitude of the electronic device 100. In some embodiments, the angular velocity of electronic device 100 about three axes (i.e., x, y, and z axes) may be determined by gyroscope sensor 180B.

The air pressure sensor 180C is used to measure air pressure.

The magnetic sensor 180D includes a hall sensor.

The acceleration sensor 180E may detect the magnitude of acceleration of the electronic device 100 in various directions (typically three axes).

A distance sensor 180F for measuring a distance.

The fingerprint sensor 180H is used to collect a fingerprint. The electronic device 100 can utilize the collected fingerprint characteristics to unlock the fingerprint, access the application lock, photograph the fingerprint, answer an incoming call with the fingerprint, and so on.

The temperature sensor 180J is used to detect temperature. In some embodiments, electronic device 100 implements a temperature processing strategy using the temperature detected by temperature sensor 180J.

The touch sensor 180K is also referred to as a "touch panel". The touch sensor 180K may be disposed on the display screen 194, and the touch sensor 180K and the display screen 194 form a touch screen, which is also called a "touch screen". The touch sensor 180K is used to detect a touch operation applied thereto or nearby. The touch sensor may communicate the detected touch operation to the application processor to determine the touch event type. Visual output associated with the touch operation may be provided via the display screen 194. In other embodiments, the touch sensor 180K may be disposed on a surface of the electronic device 100, different from the position of the display screen 194.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the touch sensor 180K may detect an operation such as a touch operation and a click operation of a user, generate an operation event, transmit the operation event to the processor 110, determine, by the processor 110, that the operation event includes a coordinate of a touch point, a touch state, and the like, and respond according to the operation event.

The bone conduction sensor 180M can acquire a vibration signal. The keys 190 include a power-on key, a volume key, and the like. The keys 190 may be mechanical keys. Or may be touch keys. The electronic apparatus 100 may receive a key input, and generate a key signal input related to user setting and function control of the electronic apparatus 100. The motor 191 may generate a vibration cue. Indicator 192 may be an indicator light that may be used to indicate a state of charge, a change in charge, or a message, missed call, notification, etc.

The SIM card interface 195 is used to connect a SIM card.

The software system of the electronic device 100 may employ a hierarchical architecture, an event-driven architecture, a micro-core architecture, a micro-service architecture, or a cloud architecture. The embodiment of the application adopts a layered architecture

The system is an example illustrating a software structure of the electronic device 100.

Optionally, the sending end device and the receiving end device in the embodiment of the present application may beAre all as

The system has a layered architecture as shown in the diagram (a) in fig. 9, and the layered architecture can comprise a plurality of layers, each layer has a clear role and division work, and the layers communicate with each other through a software interface.

Illustratively, as shown in (a) of fig. 9, the

The system is divided into four layers, namely an application program layer, an application program framework layer and an android runtime from top to bottom (

runtime) and system libraries, and the kernel layer.

The application layer may include a series of application packages. For example, as shown in fig. 9 (a), the application layer may include an application package corresponding to an application program such as a camera, smart life, smart remote control, bluetooth, and settings, which is not limited in this embodiment.

The application framework layer may provide an Application Programming Interface (API) and a programming framework for an application of the application layer. The application framework layer includes a number of predefined functions.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 9 (a), the application framework layer may include a window manager, a content provider, a view system, a notification manager, an explorer, and the like.

Wherein, the window manager is used for managing the window program. The window manager can acquire the size of the display screen, judge whether the screen has a status bar or participate in executing operations such as screen locking, screen capturing and the like. The content provider is used to store and retrieve data and make it accessible to applications. The stored data may include video data, image data, audio data, and the like, and may also include data of call records of dialing and answering, browsing history of the user, bookmarks, and the like, which are not described herein again. The view system includes visual controls such as controls to display text, controls to display pictures, and the like. The view system may be used to build applications. The display interface may be composed of one or more views. For example, the display interface including the short message notification icon may include a view for displaying text and a view for displaying pictures.

The resource manager provides various resources for the application, such as localized strings, icons, pictures, layout files, video files, and so forth. The notification manager enables the application to display notification information in the status bar of the screen, which can be used to convey a message to the user, and the notification information can disappear automatically after the status bar stays for a short time without the user performing an interactive process such as a closing operation. Such as a message that the notification manager may inform the user that the download is complete. The notification manager may also be a notification that appears in the form of a chart or scrollbar text at the top status bar of the system, such as a notification of a running application in the background; alternatively, the notification manager may also be a notification that appears on the screen in the form of a dialog window, such as prompting a text message in a status bar; or, the notification manager may also control the electronic device to emit a warning sound, a vibration of the electronic device, a flashing of an indicator light of the electronic device, and the like, which is not described herein again.

runtime includes a core library and a virtual machine.

runtime is responsible for scheduling and management of the android system.

The core library comprises two parts: one part is a function which needs to be called by java language, and the other part is a core library of android.

The application layer and the application framework layer run in a virtual machine. The virtual machine executes java files of the application layer and the application framework layer as binary files. Virtual machines are used to perform the functions of lifecycle management, stack management, thread management, security and exception management, and garbage collection of objects.

The system library may include a plurality of functional modules. For example: surface managers (surface managers), media libraries (media libraries), three-dimensional (3D) graphics processing libraries (e.g., openGL ES), two-dimensional (2D) graphics engines, and the like.

The surface manager is used to manage the display subsystem of the electronic device and provides a fusion of 2D and 3D layers for multiple applications.

The media library supports a variety of commonly used audio, video format playback and recording, and still image files, among others. The media library may support a variety of audio-video encoding formats, such as MPEG4, h.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, and the like.

The three-dimensional graphic processing library is used for realizing three-dimensional graphic drawing, image rendering, synthesis, layer processing and the like.

The two-dimensional graphics engine is a two-dimensional drawing engine.

The kernel layer is a layer between hardware and software. The inner core layer at least comprises a display driver, a sensor driver, a Bluetooth driver and the like.

In a possible implementation manner, both the sending end device and the receiving end device in this embodiment may have the same structure as that shown in (a) of fig. 9

The system is a layered architecture, and the method for sharing a remote controller among devices provided in the embodiment of the present application may correspond to the implementation process shown in fig. 9 (b). Specifically, the process of sharing the remote controller between the sending end device and the receiving end device may include the following three stages:

the first stage is as follows: process for adding and using target remote controller on sending end equipment

Illustratively, the sending end device (the mobile phone 100) may add a virtual remote controller of a home device such as a television or an air conditioner to the smart remote control application of the sending end device (the mobile phone 100) according to the processes shown in fig. 2 to fig. 4. For the virtual remote controller of the television, the user can further complete the control learning and control function expansion process of the virtual remote controller through the physical remote controller of the television. After the learning of the control of the virtual remote controller is completed, the intelligent remote control application can establish and store a control data set of the virtual remote controller of each device, so that the virtual remote controller of each device can have the function of a corresponding entity remote controller, and a user can control a plurality of home devices through the virtual remote controller in the intelligent remote control of the mobile phone.

As shown by the dotted flow on the left side of the diagram (b) in fig. 9, taking the virtual remote controller of the television as an example, when a user clicks a certain control of the virtual remote controller of the television, the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone can obtain a control code value of the control, and the infrared module is driven to transmit an infrared signal (pulse signal) including binary coded information of the control code value to the television through the sensor drive.

And a second stage: process for sharing target remote controller from sending end equipment to receiving end equipment

For example, in the second stage, as shown by the solid flow in the middle of the diagram (b) in fig. 9, first, a user may trigger a process of entering a virtual remote controller sharing a certain device in an intelligent remote control application of a sending-end device; secondly, the intelligent remote control application generates a remote controller file to be shared according to the information, the effective duration information and other contents of the target control selected by the user; and finally, the sending end equipment sends the generated remote controller file to the receiving end equipment through the Bluetooth module by the Bluetooth drive.

Accordingly, for the receiving end device, first, the bluetooth module receives the "remote controller file"; secondly, triggering, calling and running the intelligent remote control application according to the file type of the remote controller file or information such as the application package name corresponding to the file, and transmitting the remote controller file to the intelligent remote control application; finally, the intelligent remote control application can acquire the content included in the "remote controller file" and add the virtual remote controller of the device.

And a third stage: procedure for using a target remote control at a receiving end device

For example, as shown by the dotted flow on the right side of the diagram (b) in fig. 9, after the virtual remote controller of the device is also added to the smart remote control application of the receiving-end device, the user may control the device through the added control in the virtual remote controller of the device in the smart remote control application of the receiving-end device. It should be understood that the implementation process of the third stage can refer to the description of the first stage, and will not be described herein.

For the implementation processes of the three stages briefly described above, the bottom implementation processes of the three stages corresponding to the method for sharing a remote controller between devices provided in the embodiment of the present application are specifically described below with reference to the application scenario shown in fig. 1 and the implementation process of the user interaction layer described above.

Fig. 10 is a schematic flowchart of an example of a method for sharing a remote controller between devices according to an embodiment of the present application, and assuming that a sending end device and a receiving end device according to an embodiment of the present application have structures shown in fig. 8 and fig. 9, for example, a "cell phone 100 of a user owner" in a home scene shown in fig. 1 is used as the sending end device, and a "guest cell phone" is used as the receiving end device, and three stages of a process for sharing a remote controller between the devices may respectively correspond to different steps.

As shown in fig. 10, the method 1000 may include the steps of:

the first stage is as follows: process for adding and using target remote controller on transmitting terminal equipment by user owner

1001, the intelligent remote control application of the user owner on the sending end device adds the virtual remote controller of the target device.

Alternatively, the target device may be any type of device such as the smart screen 10, the air conditioner 20, the set-top box 30, and the user's camera, web box, DVD, projector, etc. in the home scenario shown in fig. 1.

Illustratively, with the television as the target device, the user owner user may add a virtual remote controller of the a television on the main interface of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone 100 according to the process shown in (a) diagram- (f) in fig. 2.

Or, for example, with an air conditioner as the target device, the user owner may add a virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner to the main interface of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone 100 according to the process shown in (a) diagram- (h) diagram in fig. 4.

It should be appreciated that the smart remote control application may preset different types and/or different styles of virtual remote controls and match different types and/or different styles of virtual remote controls for different devices, i.e., "virtual remote control for target device" or "target remote control".

One possible implementation is when the owner user adds a virtual remote control, the device type may be manually selected, e.g., the user selects television, selects brand a, etc. The smart remote control application may match different types and/or styles of virtual remote controls based on device type.

In another possible implementation manner, after the owner user selects the current target device as the television, and performs the operation in fig. 2 (e), a response signal returned by the television to the mobile phone may be received, where the response signal may carry device information of the television, such as a brand a and a model S. The smart remote control application may match the virtual remote control type and/or style of the target device based on the device information of the television.

For example, taking a television as an example, if a user of a user only uses a volume control, a channel control, and a power control at ordinary times, the user of the user may only add a remote controller including the volume control, the channel control, and the power control to the television through a custom control 203-1 on an interface 203 as shown in (c) of fig. 2, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

And 1002, learning the control through the physical remote controller of the target device.

Specifically, for any control element included in the virtual remote control of the target device added by the user owner, the key information of the control element corresponding to a certain key on the entity remote control is acquired by learning the corresponding key on the entity remote control of the target device.

Alternatively, the "key information" of each key on the physical remote controller of the target device may include key value information, key function information, and the like of each key.

For example, the user owner user may complete the process of step 1002 with reference to the operations shown in (a) diagram- (c) diagram of fig. 3. Taking the learning process of the control 16 where the number "3" is located as an example, the control 16 where the number "3" of the virtual remote controller of the a television is located can acquire key value information, key function information and the like of the number keys 3 of the entity remote controller by learning the number keys 3 of the entity remote controller of the a television, so as to establish a corresponding relationship between the control 16 where the number "3" of the virtual remote controller is located and the number keys 3 of the entity remote controller.

It should be understood that the specific implementation process can refer to the description of the foregoing related embodiments, and is not described herein for simplicity.

1003, the intelligent remote control application generates and stores a control data set of the virtual remote controller of the target device according to the key information of the entity remote controller corresponding to each control in the virtual remote controller of the target device.

According to a possible implementation manner, each control of all controls of a virtual remote controller of target equipment can learn a corresponding key of an entity remote controller, and a control code value of the control is determined according to a key value of the corresponding key. After learning all the controls of the virtual remote controller of the target device, the intelligent remote control application can acquire key values of all the keys of the entity remote controller, namely an infrared code table of the entity remote controller, so as to establish and store a control data set corresponding to all the controls of the virtual remote controller of the target device.

Optionally, the control data set may include information such as a virtual remote controller ID, a control symbol, a control code value, and a control protocol corresponding to each of all the controls of the virtual remote controller, and the control data set may be as shown in table 2.

1004, the householder user clicks any one of the controls on the detail interface of the virtual remote control of the target device of the smart remote control application.

And 1005, the intelligent remote control application determines the control ID of the control, determines the control code value of the control by combining the stored control data set, and generates a pulse signal comprising an operation instruction according to the control code value of the control.

Specifically, the sending end device detects the click operation of the user owner on the control, and determines the position coordinate of the control according to the click operation event. The intelligent remote control application can determine a control ID according to the position coordinate of the control, further search a stored control data set shown in table 2, and acquire a control code value of the control corresponding to the control ID.

It should be understood that the virtual remote controller may send the operation instruction to the target device through an infrared signal (pulse signal), and the infrared signal (pulse signal) may include a string of binary coded information, for example, at least an 8-bit address code (user code) and an 8-bit command code (control code value), and the binary coded information is the operation instruction for controlling the target device.

Therefore, the intelligent remote control application acquires the 'control code value' of a certain control in the virtual remote controller, and can generate an infrared signal (pulse signal) comprising a string of binary coded information.

And 1006, the intelligent remote control application calls an infrared module of the sending terminal device, and an infrared transmitter of the infrared module sends a pulse signal to the target device through infrared rays.

1007, the infrared module (infrared receiver) of the target device receives the infrared ray, acquires the operation instruction in the pulse signal, and responds.

Through the above process, after the owner user adds the virtual remote controller of the target device to the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone 100 (the sending-end device), and after the user clicks any one of the controls of the virtual remote controller of the target device, the owner user can press the key of the physical remote controller corresponding to the control to generate the same pulse signal or generate the same operation instruction, thereby implementing the same function. In other words, the virtual remote controller of the target device in the intelligent remote control application may have the same function as the physical remote controller, and the user may control the target device through the virtual remote controller in the intelligent remote control application.

Illustratively, the second stage process may correspond to: the user of the user presses the icon of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B on the main interface of the smart remote control application of the mobile phone 100 for a long time according to the process shown in (a) diagram- (e) diagram in fig. 5, and triggers the process of sharing the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B.

Or, for example, the second stage process may correspond to: the process of the householder user, according to the process shown in fig. 6 (a) and (e), long-pressing a control and selecting some or all of the controls on the interface on the detailed interface of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B of the mobile phone 100, to trigger the process of sharing the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B is referred to the foregoing description, and is not described herein again.

1008, the intelligent remote control application of the user host user at the sending end device triggers the sharing process of the target remote controller.

1009, the user host user manually selects one or more controls from all the controls included in the details interface of the virtual remote control of the target device.

The smart remote control application determines one or more controls manually selected by the user as target controls 1010.

It should be understood that the target control (one or more controls manually selected by the user) is all the controls included in the "virtual remote controller to be shared".

Specifically, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, the method provided by the application can support a user to manually select the target control to be shared in the device remote controller on the sending-end device. For example, a user may only share some controls included in the device remote controller to the receiving end device according to a use requirement; correspondingly, when the equipment remote controller is automatically added by the receiving end equipment, only part of the control elements of the equipment remote controller are also added.

For example, as shown in fig. 5 (c), when a user selects a selection box of each control in all controls on a "virtual remote controller of air conditioner B" interface 407 of a mobile phone smart remote control application, the user may obtain that an ID of a virtual remote controller corresponding to the warming control 21 is 02 and an ID of the control is 001 according to a clicking operation of the user if the user clicks the selection box of the warming control 21; and further searching and determining the control code value of the temperature increasing control 21 to be 00110100 in a stored control data set of the virtual remote controller of the air conditioner B according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID.

In steps 1009-1010 it is introduced that the user can manually select one or more controls as target controls from all the controls comprised in the details interface of the virtual remote control of the target device. Through the implementation mode, the user can only open the control authority (operation authority) corresponding to part of the controls to the receiving terminal equipment. The method can limit the control authority of different people to the equipment, and avoid the potential safety hazard caused by too many people owning the operation authority to the equipment.

Besides, in another possible implementation manner, the target control may be some fixed controls preset in all controls included in a detail interface of a virtual remote controller of the target device.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 5 (b), when the user clicks the "share" option, the mobile phone may display an interface 503 as shown in fig. 5 (c). Optionally, the temperature increasing control 21, the switch control 22, the temperature decreasing control 23, the working mode control 24, the wind speed control 25, the wind direction control 26, and the wind sweeping control 27 on the interface 503 are all in a selected state, that is, all the controls included in the detail interface of the virtual remote controller of the target device are defaulted to be target controls to be shared.

According to the implementation process, a user does not need to execute additional operation, the intelligent remote control application can generate the remote controller file to be shared according to certain preset fixed controls in advance, the operation is simple, and the time consumption of the sharing process can be reduced.

And 1011, responding to the selection operation of the user, acquiring the information of the target control from the stored control data set of the virtual remote controller of the target equipment by the intelligent remote control application, and generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control.

It should be understood that the "target remote control file" includes information for the target control.

Optionally, the information of the target control may include: part of or all of the information in the virtual remote controller ID, the control symbol, the control code value, the control protocol, and the like corresponding to each control of the target control, such as part of or all of the contents listed in table 2 or table 3, is not described herein again.

Illustratively, when the information of the target control includes all information of a virtual remote controller ID, a control symbol, a control code value, and a control protocol corresponding to each control serving as the target control, the receiving end device receives the "target remote controller file", and may generate and store a control data set corresponding to the target device remote controller according to the information of the target control. If the visitor user clicks any one of the target controls on the receiving end equipment, the receiving end equipment can acquire the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID corresponding to the control clicked by the user according to the clicking operation of the user; further searching and determining a control code value of the control in a control data set corresponding to the target equipment remote controller stored by the remote controller according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID; and further generating a pulse signal according to an infrared remote control NEC protocol, and transmitting the pulse signal to the target equipment through an infrared transmitter of the receiving end equipment.

Or, for example, when the information of the target control only includes the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID corresponding to each control serving as the target control, after the receiving end device receives the "target remote controller file", the receiving end device may determine, according to the information of the target control, the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID corresponding to each control of the target control in the target device remote controller added to the receiving end device. If the visitor user clicks any one of the target controls on the receiving end equipment, the receiving end equipment can acquire the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID corresponding to the control clicked by the user according to the clicking operation of the user; further, the receiving end device can automatically query and obtain the control symbol, the control code value and the control protocol corresponding to the control according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control. For example, the receiving end device may return the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control to the sending end device, and the sending end device searches and determines the control code value of the control according to the stored control data set corresponding to the target device remote controller; further returning the control code value of the control to the receiving terminal equipment; the receiving end device may generate a pulse signal according to the infrared remote control NEC protocol, and send the pulse signal to the target device through the infrared transmitter of the receiving end device.

In a possible implementation manner, the "target remote controller file" may further include information of a valid duration and/or information of a valid range set by the user. The information of the valid duration and the information of the valid range can be identified by special fields. Illustratively, on the interface 503 shown in (c) of fig. 5, the user sets the time of display in the timing control 503-3 to 02 minutes 00 seconds, i.e., the effective time of the guest user using the virtual remote control of the target device on his/her own handset is 2 hours.

Through the implementation mode, in the process of sharing the target remote controller, when the user selects the target control to be shared on the sending end device, the available time length of the device remote controller (or the target control) shared to the receiving end device is set, so that the control authority of different people on the device is further limited, and the safety of the device in the using process is improved.

In another possible implementation manner, the "target remote controller file" may further include operation parameter information of the target device.

For example, as shown in (c) of fig. 5, taking B air conditioner as an example, if the B air conditioner is currently in an operating state, the "operating parameter information of the target device" may include parameter information related to the current operation of the B air conditioner, such as the current wind speed, wind direction, sweep wind, cooling mode, and target temperature (24 ℃) of the B air conditioner, displayed in the operating parameter display area 503-1 shown in (c) of fig. 5.

Or, if the B air conditioner is currently in a non-operating state (off state), the "operation parameter information of the target device" may include operation parameter information set for the B air conditioner by the user at the previous time, which is closest to the current time, through the virtual remote controller of the B air conditioner of the receiving end device, for example, parameter information such as a wind speed, a wind direction, a wind sweeping, a cooling mode, and a target temperature set for the B air conditioner at the previous time, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

In yet another possible implementation manner, the "target remote controller file" may also carry an application identifier of the intelligent remote control application of the receiving end device, for example, a file suffix of. Taking B air conditioner as an example, the "target remote controller file" may be automatically named "B air conditioner. The receiving end device may trigger the operation of the intelligent remote control application of the local end according to the filename extension of the file, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

1012, the intelligent remote control application calls a communication module of the sending terminal equipment, and sends the target remote controller file to the receiving terminal equipment through the communication module.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target remote controller file may be sent to the receiving end device in any one of a Huawei Share (Huawei Share) mode, a WLAN direct channel mode, a bluetooth mode, a 2G/3G/4G/5G mobile data sharing mode, and a social software path such as a microblog, a WeChat, a short message, an information, an email, and the like.

1013, when the guest device detects the target remote controller file sent by the sending end device, a prompt window may be displayed on a display screen of the guest device for the user to select whether to receive the target remote controller file. When the visitor user is detected to execute the operation of allowing the receiving, responding to the operation, the receiving end equipment receives the target remote controller file sent by the sending end equipment.

1014, the intelligent remote control application acquires the content of the target remote controller file, displays the remote controller of the target equipment and the target control, and adds the target equipment remote controller in the intelligent remote control application.

Specifically, when receiving the target remote controller file, the receiving end device may trigger to run the intelligent remote control application according to information such as a file type of the target remote controller file or an application package name corresponding to the file, and the intelligent remote control application may obtain content included in the target remote controller file.

In a possible implementation manner, the intelligent remote control application may only include the target control when the detail interface of the virtual remote control of the target device is displayed on the display screen of the receiving end device according to the information of the target control included in the target remote control file, that is, one or more controls manually selected by the user in step 1009.

In a possible implementation manner, for the air conditioner and other devices, the intelligent remote control application may further display parameters related to the current operation of the air conditioner B, such as a wind speed, a wind direction, a wind sweeping mode, a cooling mode, a target temperature (24 ℃) and the like, on a display screen of the receiving end device according to the current operation parameter information of the target device included in the target remote controller file, as shown in (B) of fig. 7.

And a third stage: process for using target remote controller by intelligent remote control application of receiving end equipment

1015, the guest user clicks a first control on the details interface of the virtual remote control of the target device of the smart remote control application, the first control being any one of the controls included in the aforementioned "target control".

And 1016, the intelligent remote control application determines the control ID of the first control, determines the control code value of the first control by combining the received control information in the target remote controller file, and generates a pulse signal comprising a first operation instruction according to the control code value of the first control.

It should be understood that the receiving end device detects a click operation of the guest user on the first control, and determines the position coordinate of the first control according to the click operation event. The intelligent remote control application can determine a first control ID according to the position coordinate of the first control, and then can automatically search the control information in the target remote controller file to obtain the control code value of the first control, and generate a pulse signal including corresponding binary coding information (namely a first operation instruction) according to the control code value of the first control.

In a possible implementation manner, when the "information of the target control" in the "target remote controller file" received by the receiving end device includes all information of the virtual remote controller ID, the control symbol, the control code value, and the control protocol corresponding to each control serving as the target control, the receiving end device may generate and store the control data set corresponding to the remote controller of the target device according to the information of the target control. Therefore, the process of "automatically searching" and "obtaining the control code value of the first control" of the receiving end device may be to automatically search according to a control data set corresponding to the target device remote controller stored by the receiving end device, so as to obtain the control code value of the first control.

Illustratively, if a visitor user clicks any one of the target controls on the receiving end device, the receiving end device may obtain, according to the clicking operation of the user, a virtual remote controller ID and a control ID corresponding to the control clicked by the user; further searching and determining a control code value of the control in a control data set corresponding to the target equipment remote controller stored by the remote controller according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID; and further generating a pulse signal according to an infrared remote control NEC protocol, and transmitting the pulse signal to the target equipment through an infrared transmitter of the receiving end equipment.

In another possible implementation manner, when the "information of the target control" in the "target remote controller file" received by the receiving end device includes partial information of each control serving as the target control, for example, only the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID corresponding to each control are included, after the receiving end device receives the "target remote controller file", the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID corresponding to each control of the target control in the target remote controller added to the receiving end device may be determined according to the information of the target control. The receiving end equipment determines the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of a certain control clicked by a user, and can return the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control to the sending end equipment. Therefore, the processes of "automatically searching" and "obtaining the control code value of the first control" of the receiving end device may be: and requesting to obtain the control code value of the first control from the sending-end device, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Illustratively, if a visitor user clicks any one of the target controls on the receiving end device, the receiving end device may obtain, according to the clicking operation of the user, a virtual remote controller ID and a control ID corresponding to the control clicked by the user; further, the receiving end device may automatically return the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control to the sending end device according to the virtual remote controller ID and the control ID of the control, and the sending end device searches and determines the control code value of the control according to the stored control data set corresponding to the target device remote controller; the sending terminal equipment returns the control code value of the control to the receiving terminal equipment; the receiving end device may generate a pulse signal according to the infrared remote control NEC protocol, and send the pulse signal to the target device through the infrared transmitter of the receiving end device, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

1017, the intelligent remote control application of the receiving end device calls an infrared module of the receiving end device, and an infrared transmitter of the infrared module transmits a pulse signal including the first operation instruction to the target device through infrared rays.

An infrared module (infrared receiver) of the target device receives the infrared ray, acquires the first operation instruction in the pulse signal, and responds 1018.

According to the method for sharing the remote controllers among the devices, one or more device remote controllers added in the intelligent remote control application of the sending-end device generate a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of any one device remote controller, and the target remote controller file to be shared can be shared to the receiving-end device in multiple possible modes; correspondingly, the visitor user can automatically add the virtual remote controller of the target equipment in the intelligent remote control application of the mobile phone (receiving end equipment) by only executing the operation of allowing the receiving sending end equipment to receive the target remote controller file sent by the target remote controller file, and the automatically added virtual remote controller of the target equipment can support the visitor user to control the target equipment through the virtual remote controller of the mobile phone.

It should be noted that in the description of the embodiments of the present application, "/" indicates an OR meaning unless otherwise stated, for example, A/B may indicate A or B; "and/or" herein is merely an association relationship describing an associated object, and means that there may be three relationships, for example, a and/or B, and may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, in the description of the embodiments of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more than two.

It should be understood that the manner, the case, the category, and the division of the embodiments are only for convenience of description and should not be construed as a particular limitation, and features in various manners, the category, the case, and the embodiments may be combined without contradiction.

It should also be understood that the terms "first," "second," and "third" in the embodiments of the present application are for distinguishing and should not be construed as limiting the present application in any way. For example, "first operation", "second operation", and the like in the embodiments of the present application indicate different operations performed by the user on the touch screen of the electronic device.

It should also be understood that, in the various embodiments of the present application, the sequence numbers of the processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of the processes should be determined by the functions and the inherent logic of the processes, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

It should be further noted that, in this embodiment of the present application, "preset", "fixed value", and the like may be implemented by saving corresponding codes, tables, or other manners that can be used for indicating related information in an electronic device (for example, a sending end device and a receiving end device, and the like) in advance, and this application does not limit a specific implementation manner of the electronic device, for example, "preset remote controller", "preset fixed time length", "preset effective range", and the like in this embodiment of the present application.

It will be appreciated that the electronic device, in order to implement the above-described functions, comprises corresponding hardware and/or software modules for performing the respective functions. The present application is capable of being implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and computer software in conjunction with the exemplary algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein. Whether a function is performed as hardware or computer software drives hardware depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, in conjunction with the embodiments, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

In this embodiment, the electronic device may be divided into functional modules according to the above method example, for example, each functional module may be divided corresponding to each function, or two or more functions may be integrated into one processing module. The integrated module can be implemented in the form of hardware. It should be noted that, the division of the modules in this embodiment is schematic, and is only one logic function division, and another division manner may be available in actual implementation.

In a case of adopting a manner that each function module is divided corresponding to each function, the electronic device according to one possible composition diagram of the above embodiment may include: display element, detecting element and processing unit. Wherein the display unit, the detection unit, and the processing unit cooperate with one another, may be used to support an electronic device to perform the above-described steps, etc., and/or other processes for the techniques described herein.

It should be noted that all relevant contents of each step related to the method embodiment may be referred to the functional description of the corresponding functional module, and are not described herein again.

The electronic device provided by the embodiment is used for executing the method for playing the video, so that the same effect as the implementation method can be achieved.

Where an integrated unit is employed, the electronic device may include a processing module, a memory module, and a communication module. The processing module may be configured to control and manage an action of the electronic device, and for example, may be configured to support the electronic device to perform the steps performed by the display unit, the detection unit, and the processing unit. The memory module can be used to support the electronic device in executing stored program codes and data, etc. The communication module can be used for supporting the communication between the electronic equipment and other equipment.

The processing module may be a processor or a controller, among others. Which may implement or perform the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the disclosure. A processor may also be a combination of computing functions, e.g., a combination comprising one or more microprocessors, digital Signal Processing (DSP) and microprocessors, or the like. The storage module may be a memory. The communication module may specifically be a radio frequency circuit, a bluetooth chip, a Wi-Fi chip, or other devices that interact with other electronic devices.

In an embodiment, when the processing module is a processor and the storage module is a memory, the electronic device according to this embodiment may be a device having a structure shown in fig. 8.

The present embodiment also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where computer instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer instructions are executed on an electronic device, the electronic device is caused to execute the above related method steps to implement the method for sharing a remote controller in the above embodiments.

The embodiment also provides a computer program product, which when running on a computer, causes the computer to execute the above related steps to implement the method for sharing a remote controller in the above embodiment.

In addition, embodiments of the present application also provide an apparatus, which may be specifically a chip, a component or a module, and may include a processor and a memory connected to each other; when the device runs, the processor can execute the computer execution instructions stored in the memory, so that the chip can execute the method for sharing the remote controller in the above method embodiments.

The electronic device, the computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product, or the chip provided in this embodiment are all configured to execute the corresponding method provided above, and therefore, the beneficial effects that can be achieved by the electronic device, the computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product, or the chip may refer to the beneficial effects in the corresponding method provided above, and are not described herein again.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art will understand that, for convenience and simplicity of description, only the division of the above functional modules is used as an example, and in practical applications, the above function distribution may be completed by different functional modules as needed, that is, the internal structure of the device may be divided into different functional modules to complete all or part of the above described functions.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, a module or a unit may be divided into only one logic function, and may be implemented in other ways, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another apparatus, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

Units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may be one physical unit or a plurality of physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to a plurality of different places. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application may be essentially or partially contributed to by the prior art, or all or part of the technical solutions may be embodied in the form of a software product, where the software product is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions to enable a device (which may be a single chip, a chip, or the like) or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods of the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a variety of media that can store program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and shall be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method for sharing a remote controller among devices is characterized by being applied to sending end devices comprising display screens, wherein first applications are installed on the sending end devices, and the method comprises the following steps:

displaying a main interface of the first application, wherein the main interface of the first application comprises icons of one or more remote controllers;

detecting a first operation of a user on a main interface of the first application, and displaying a detail interface of a target remote controller in response to the first operation, wherein the target remote controller is any one of the one or more remote controllers, the target remote controller can control the working state of a target device, and the detail interface of the target remote controller comprises one or more controls;

determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller;

acquiring information of the target control to be shared;

generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control;

displaying a sharing interface of the target remote controller file, wherein the sharing interface of the target remote controller file comprises one or more sharing modes;

detecting a second operation of a user on a sharing interface of the target remote controller file, responding to the second operation, determining a target sharing mode of the target remote controller file from the one or more sharing modes, and displaying one or more electronic devices on the sharing interface of the target remote controller file, wherein each electronic device in the one or more electronic devices can receive the target remote controller file sent by the sending end device based on the target sharing mode;

detecting a third operation of a user on a sharing interface of the target remote controller file, and determining receiving end equipment from the one or more electronic equipment in response to the third operation;

and the sending end equipment sends the target remote controller file to the receiving end equipment in the target sharing mode.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the target control is some or all of the one or more controls included in a details interface of the target remote control.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target control is a preset fixed control in the one or more controls included in the detail interface of the target remote controller.

4. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the target control is a control manually selected by a user, and the determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the details interface of the target remote controller comprises:

and detecting the operation of selecting part or all of the controls by the user on a detail interface of the target remote controller, and determining all the controls selected by the user as the target controls to be shared in response to the operation.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first operation comprises a plurality of continuous operations performed by a user, the detecting a first operation by the user on the main interface of the first application, and in response to the first operation, displaying a detail interface of a target remote controller comprises:

detecting a long-press operation of a user on an icon of the target remote controller on a main interface of the first application, and displaying one or more operation options aiming at the target remote controller in response to the long-press operation, wherein the one or more operation options comprise a sharing option;

and when the user clicking the sharing option is detected, displaying a detail interface of the target remote controller, and displaying a unique corresponding selection frame for each control of the one or more controls on the detail interface of the target remote controller.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the details interface of the target remote controller comprises:

detecting the operation that a user clicks the selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls on the detail interface of the target remote controller, and determining the target control by the control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user;

alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

when the detail interface of the target remote controller further comprises a confirmation control, detecting the operation that a user clicks the selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls and continues clicking the confirmation control on the detail interface of the target remote controller, and determining the control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user as the target control in response to the operation that the user clicks the confirmation control.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first operation is a click operation of an icon of the target remote controller by a user.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the determining a target control to be shared from the one or more controls included in the details interface of the target remote controller comprises:

detecting long-press operation of a user on any one of the one or more controls on a detail interface of the target remote controller, and displaying a unique corresponding selection frame for each of the one or more controls on the detail interface of the target remote controller in response to the long-press operation;

detecting an operation of clicking a selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls by a user, and determining a control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user as the target control in response to the operation; or, when the detail interface of the target remote controller further comprises a confirmation control, detecting an operation that a user clicks a selection box of each control in part or all of the one or more controls and continues clicking the confirmation control, and determining the control corresponding to each selection box selected by the user as the target control in response to the operation that the user clicks the confirmation control.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the sending end device stores a control data set corresponding to the target remote controller, the control data set includes information of each of the one or more controls on a detail interface of the target remote controller, and the obtaining information of the target control to be shared includes:

and searching and acquiring the information of the target control from the control data set according to the target control to be shared, wherein the information of the target control comprises one or more of remote controller identification ID, control symbol, control code value or control protocol of each control serving as the target control.

10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein when a unique corresponding selection box is displayed on the detail interface of the target remote controller for each of the one or more controls, the detail interface of the target remote controller further includes a timing control, a valid duration is displayed in the timing control, and the valid duration is used for indicating an available duration of the target control to be shared on the receiving device, and the method further includes:

acquiring the information of the effective duration displayed in the timing control;

and generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

and generating a target remote controller file to be shared according to the information of the target control and the information of the effective duration, wherein the effective duration is preset duration or duration set in the timing control by a user.

11. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the target sharing mode comprises a Huacheng sharing mode, a sharing mode of a WLAN direct channel, a Bluetooth sharing mode, a mobile data sharing mode or any one of a plurality of social software sharing modes.

12. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the target remote control file to be shared may also carry an identification of the first application.

13. The method for sharing the remote controller among the devices is characterized by being applied to receiving end devices comprising display screens, wherein first applications are installed on the receiving end devices, and the method comprises the following steps:

when a target remote controller file sent by sending end equipment is detected, displaying a prompt window on the display screen, wherein the prompt window is used for prompting a user to select whether to receive the target remote controller file;

in the prompt window, when the operation that the user allows receiving the target remote controller file is detected, receiving the target remote controller file;

calling the first application according to the received target remote controller file, analyzing the target remote controller file by the first application, and acquiring information of a target control included in the target remote controller file, wherein the target control can be used for controlling the working state of target equipment, the target control includes one or more controls, the information of the target control includes information of each control in the one or more controls, and the information of each control corresponds to key information of a preset key on an entity remote controller of the target equipment;

and running the first application and displaying a detail interface of a target remote controller according to the information of the target control, wherein the detail interface of the target remote controller comprises the one or more controls of the target control.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

detecting clicking operation of a user on a first control on a detail interface of the target remote controller, wherein the first control is any one of the one or more controls included in the target control;

responding to the click operation, and acquiring a control code value of the first control;

generating a pulse signal comprising a first operation instruction according to the control code value of the first control;

and sending the pulse signal to the target equipment to control the working state of the target equipment.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the obtaining a control code value for the first control in response to the click operation comprises:

responding to the click operation, and acquiring the first control identification ID;

and acquiring a control code value of the first control according to the first control identification ID and the information of the target control included in the target remote controller file.

16. The method according to any one of claims 13 to 15, further comprising:

adding an icon of the target remote controller and the name of the target remote controller on a main interface of the first application according to the received target remote controller file;

detecting a click operation of a user on an icon of the target remote controller or a name of the target remote controller, and responding to the click operation to display a detail interface of the target remote controller; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,

adding an icon of the target remote controller on a main interface of the first application according to the received target remote controller file;

detecting a click operation of a user on an icon of the target remote controller, and responding to the click operation to display a detail interface of the target remote controller; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

adding the name of the target remote controller on the main interface of the first application according to the received target remote controller file;

and detecting the click operation of the user on the name of the target remote controller, and responding to the click operation to display a detail interface of the target remote controller.

17. The method of any of claims 13-16, wherein the information for each of the one or more controls comprises one or more of a remote control Identification (ID), a control symbol, a control code value, or a control protocol.

18. The method according to any one of claims 13 to 17, wherein the target remote control file further comprises information of a valid duration indicating an available duration of the target control on the sink device, the method further comprising:

acquiring the information of the effective duration;

determining a termination time according to the effective duration by taking the time when the receiving end equipment receives the target remote controller file as an initial time;

at any time within a period determined from the starting time to the ending time, the user can control the working state of the target equipment through the target control;

and at any time after the termination time, the target control is in a failure state, or at the termination time, the icon of the target remote controller and/or the name of the target remote controller added on the main interface of the first application are automatically deleted.

19. The method according to any one of claims 13 to 18, wherein the target remote control file may further carry an identifier of the first application, and the invoking the first application according to the received target remote control file comprises:

and determining to call the first application according to the identifier of the first application carried by the target remote controller file, and sending the target remote controller file to the first application.

20. An electronic device, comprising:

a display screen;

an infrared module comprising an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver;

one or more processors;

one or more memories;

a module installed with a plurality of applications;

the memory stores one or more programs that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform the method performed by the sending end device of any of claims 1 to 12, or cause the electronic device to perform the method performed by the receiving end device of any of claims 13 to 19.

21. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when run on an electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform the method of any one of claims 1-19.

22. A computer program product, which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 19.