CN116165906A - Household appliance linkage control method and system - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a linkage control method and a system for household appliances, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the first household electrical appliance determines that a task to be reminded exists and sends an instruction to a second household electrical appliance in communication connection with the first household electrical appliance; and the second household appliance searches the target user based on the instruction and sends a task to be reminded to the target user. According to the method and the device for reminding the user of the intelligent household appliance, when the intelligent household appliance is provided with the task to be reminded, the other intelligent household appliance can search the target user according to the instruction by sending the instruction to the other intelligent household appliance, so that the target user is reminded in a short distance to process the task to be reminded, the user is prevented from missing the relevant task reminder, and the intelligent degree and the user experience degree of the household appliance can be improved.

Description

Household appliance linkage control method and system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a linkage control method and system for household appliances.

Background

Along with the development of science and technology, the intelligent home technology is increasingly applied to daily life of people, and can bring much convenience to the life of people.

At present, some intelligent home devices belong to home devices for completing tasks in a sectional manner, and reminding tasks are generated when tasks are completed, for example, after clothes treatment is completed, a user is reminded to take out clothes by clothes treatment equipment. However, sometimes the user forgets to process the reminding task because of being busy with other matters, or the user and the intelligent home equipment are not in the same space, so that the reminding cannot be found in time.

Therefore, although the intelligent home equipment in the prior art is more and more popular, the intelligent degree is not high enough, so that the user experience is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a home appliance linkage control method and system aiming at the defects of the prior art, and the aim is achieved through the following technical scheme.

The first aspect of the present invention provides a linkage control method for a home appliance, which includes:

the first household electrical appliance determines that a task to be reminded exists and sends an instruction to a second household electrical appliance in communication connection with the first household electrical appliance;

and the second household appliance searches a target user based on the instruction and sends the task to be reminded to the target user.

In some embodiments of the present application, the method further comprises:

and if the duration that the processed objects in the first household appliance cavity are not taken out meets the preset time, generating the task to be reminded.

In some embodiments of the present application, the determining that the processed item within the first home device cavity is not removed includes:

determining that the processed article is not taken out according to the fact that the door lock of the first household appliance is not opened; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

and acquiring the weight of the treated article in the cavity, and determining that the treated article is not taken out according to the fact that the weight of the treated article exceeds the preset weight.

In some embodiments of the present application, the second home device is a cleaning device; the second home device searches for a target user based on the instruction, including:

determining a user position according to the current system time of the second household appliance; searching the target user according to the user position.

In some embodiments of the present application, the searching the target user according to the user location includes:

controlling the second home device to move to the user position; acquiring images around the user position by using an image acquisition device; determining that face information exists in the image, and matching the face information with pre-stored face information; searching the target user according to the matching result.

In some embodiments of the present application, the determining the user location according to the current system time of the second home device includes:

and determining the user position corresponding to the time period where the current system time is located according to the corresponding relation between the preset time period and the user position.

In some embodiments of the present application, the determining the user location according to the current system time of the second home device includes:

transmitting a position request containing the current system time to a server, so that the server determines a user position according to user behavior data uploaded by third household electrical appliance at the time closest to the current system time; and receiving the user position sent by the server.

In some embodiments of the present application, the method further comprises:

and if the matching result is determined to be failed, the task to be reminded is sent to the mobile terminal in a short message mode.

In some embodiments of the present application, the method further comprises:

and the second household appliance makes a preset action instruction so as to guide the target user to the position of the first household appliance to process the task to be reminded.

The second aspect of the invention provides a home appliance linkage control system, which comprises a first home appliance and a second home appliance which are in communication connection;

the first household electrical appliance is used for sending an instruction to the second household electrical appliance when determining that a task to be reminded exists;

and the second household appliance is used for searching a target user based on the instruction and sending the task to be reminded to the target user.

Based on the method and the system for controlling the linkage of the household electrical appliance in the first aspect to the second aspect, the technical scheme of the invention has the following beneficial effects or benefits:

according to the method and the device for reminding the user of the intelligent household appliance, when the intelligent household appliance is provided with the task to be reminded, the other intelligent household appliance can search the target user according to the instruction by sending the instruction to the other intelligent household appliance, so that the target user is reminded in a short distance to process the task to be reminded, the user is prevented from missing the relevant task reminder, and the intelligent degree and the user experience degree of the household appliance can be improved.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to the structures shown in these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for controlling linkage of a home appliance according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an application scenario diagram of a home device coordinated control according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a searching process of a target user according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating another application scenario for home device coordinated control according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a specific implementation of a home device coordinated control according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a coordinated control system of a home appliance according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The achievement of the objects, functional features and advantages of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in conjunction with the embodiments.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are only some, but not all embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

It should be noted that all directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiments of the present invention are merely used to explain the relative positional relationship, movement, etc. between the components in a particular posture (as shown in the drawings), and if the particular posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.

Furthermore, descriptions such as those referred to as "first," "second," and the like, are provided for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implying an order of magnitude of the indicated technical features in the present disclosure. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, the meaning of "plurality" means at least two, for example, two, three, etc., unless specifically defined otherwise.

In the present invention, unless specifically stated and limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "affixed," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "affixed" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral body; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly, through intermediaries, or both, may be in communication with each other or in interaction with each other, unless expressly defined otherwise. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.

In addition, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention may be combined with each other, but it is necessary to be based on the fact that those skilled in the art can implement the technical solutions, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be implemented, the combination of the technical solutions should be considered as not existing, and not falling within the scope of protection claimed by the present invention.

In order to solve the technical problems of low intelligent degree and poor user experience of intelligent household equipment in the prior art, the invention provides a household equipment linkage control method, namely when a first household equipment determines that a task to be reminded exists, the first household equipment sends an instruction to a second household equipment in communication connection with the first household equipment, the second household equipment searches a target user based on the instruction, and sends the task to be reminded to the target user.

According to the method and the device for reminding the user of the intelligent household appliance, when the intelligent household appliance is provided with the task to be reminded, the other intelligent household appliance can search the target user according to the instruction by sending the instruction to the other intelligent household appliance, so that the target user is reminded in a short distance to process the task to be reminded, the user is prevented from missing the relevant task reminder, and the intelligent degree and the user experience degree of the household appliance can be improved.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to better understand the present application, the following description will make clear and complete descriptions of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application.

Among the first home appliance and the second home appliance related to the home appliance linkage control provided by the invention, the first home appliance belongs to a reminding task generating side, and the second home appliance belongs to a reminding task notifying side. In practical application, the first household electrical appliance belongs to intelligent household equipment for completing tasks in a sectional manner, namely, after completing tasks, a user needs to take out processed articles in the equipment cavity, and the intelligent household electrical appliance can comprise intelligent household such as clothes treatment equipment and dish washing machines. The second home appliance belongs to an intelligent home appliance capable of notifying a user in a short distance, and may include a mobile cleaning device, an acousto-optic type home appliance (such as a sound box and an intelligent lighting lamp), and the like, which is not particularly limited in the present invention.

Fig. 1 is a flow chart of a home appliance linkage control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, where the first home appliance and the second home appliance are in communication connection, as shown in fig. 1, and the home appliance linkage control method includes the following steps:

step 101: the first household appliance determines that a task to be reminded exists and sends an instruction to a second household appliance in communication connection with the first household appliance.

In the embodiment of the application, the task to be reminded can be any task which the intelligent household appliance expects a user to manually process. For example, after the clothes treatment device finishes the clothes treatment, the user is required to take out the underwear in the cavity, the dish washer is required to take out bowls and chopsticks after finishing the dish washing function, and the like, and the type of the task to be reminded is not particularly limited in the embodiment.

The task to be reminded is actively generated by the first household appliance. In one possible implementation manner, if it is determined that the duration of time that the processed object in the first home appliance cavity is not taken out meets the preset time, a task to be reminded is generated. Such as: when the first household appliance is the clothes treatment equipment, after the clothes treatment equipment finishes the clothes treatment task for a preset time, detecting whether the treated clothes are taken out, and if the treated clothes are not taken out, determining to generate a task to be reminded.

In specific implementation, when the clothes treatment device completes a clothes treatment task, a local existing prompting device sends out a prompting sound to remind a user of taking out clothes in a cavity, after a preset time (for example, 5 minutes), whether the treated clothes are taken out is detected, if the fact that the treated clothes are not taken out yet is detected, the fact that the user forgets to take out the treated clothes because the user is busy with other matters is indicated, or the user cannot find the prompt in time because the user and the clothes treatment device are not in the same space is determined, the task to be reminded is generated, and other intelligent household appliances need to be further controlled in a linkage mode to inform the user in a short distance.

Alternatively, the laundry treating apparatus may be a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a washing and drying integrated machine, or the like, so that the corresponding laundry treating task may include a washing task, a drying laundry task, or the like.

For the process of detecting whether the treated item is taken out, in a possible embodiment, it may be detected first whether the door lock of the first home appliance is opened, if the door lock is opened, which indicates that the treated item is likely to be taken out by the user, it is necessary to further acquire the weight of the treated item in the cavity, and determine whether the weight of the treated item exceeds the preset weight, if the preset weight is exceeded, which indicates that the treated item is not taken out or that the treated item is missing, it may be determined that the treated item is not taken out, and if the door lock is not opened, it may be determined that the treated item is not taken out directly. Wherein the preset weight is set according to practical experience, for example, set to 0.

Taking the first home appliance as an example of the laundry treatment apparatus, it may be detected whether the door lock of the laundry treatment apparatus is opened, if the door lock is opened, indicating that the laundry may be taken out by the user, it is necessary to further acquire the weight of the laundry in the cavity, and determine whether the weight of the laundry exceeds a preset weight, if the weight exceeds the preset weight, indicating that the laundry is not taken out or that the laundry is missing, it may be determined that the laundry is not taken out, and if the door lock is not opened, it may be determined that the laundry is not taken out directly. Wherein the preset weight is set according to practical experience, for example, set to 0.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the process of acquiring the weight of the processed articles within the chamber may be accomplished using related techniques, which are not specifically limited in this application.

In another possible implementation, when the first home appliance is a dishwasher, after the dishwasher completes the bowl and chopstick processing task for a preset time, detecting whether the bowl and chopstick is taken out, and if the bowl and chopstick is not taken out, generating a task to be reminded.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the manner in which the first home device generates the task to be reminded is the same, and will not be described in detail here.

And when the first household appliance determines that the task to be reminded exists, sending an instruction to a second household appliance which establishes communication connection. The instruction is used for indicating the second household appliance to search for the target user so as to remind the user to process the task to be reminded of the first household appliance in a short distance.

In the embodiment of the present application, the communication connection between the first home device and the second home device may use the following two manners:

the first mode is an online mode, namely, the first household electrical appliance and the second household electrical appliance are both connected to a WIFI network, and the two devices are in communication interaction through the WIFI connection;

the second mode is an off-line mode, that is, the first home device and the second home device are in communication connection through any one of the following modes: bluetooth connection mode, zigBee connection mode, infrared connection mode, this application does not limit this.

Step 102: and the second household appliance searches the target user based on the instruction and sends the task to be reminded to the target user.

When the second household electrical appliance receives the instruction of the first household electrical appliance, the second household electrical appliance is required to find the target user, and the target user is closely reminded to go to the position of the first household electrical appliance to process the reminding task to be completed.

As shown in the application scenario diagram of fig. 2, the first home appliance is a laundry treatment apparatus, such as a washing machine, a drying machine, or a washing and drying integrated machine; the second home appliance is a cleaning device, such as a floor sweeping robot, a floor mopping machine, etc., which can move the location at will, thus enabling a search user function.

In a specific application example, after the clothes treatment device completes the clothes treatment task for a preset time, if the clothes in the cavity are detected to be not taken out, the task to be reminded is determined to exist, an instruction is sent to the cleaning device, the cleaning device is controlled to move to search for the target user when receiving the instruction, and the target user is reminded to take clothes from the clothes treatment device when searching for the target user.

In one possible implementation, the process of searching for the target user for the second home device determines the user location according to the current system time of the second home device, and searches for the target user according to the user location.

When the second home device is the cleaning device shown in fig. 2, as shown in fig. 3, the process for searching for the target user according to the user location includes the following steps:

step 1021: the cleaning device is controlled to move to the user position.

In an alternative implementation, the cleaning device calculates the shortest path according to the current position and the user position, plans the moving path according to the shortest path, and then controls the cleaning device to move according to the planned moving path until the cleaning device moves to the user position, and the cleaning device finishes the movement.

Step 1022: an image of the surroundings of the user's location is acquired with an image acquisition device.

Optionally, the cleaning device controls the image acquisition device arranged on the cleaning device to acquire the surrounding image when the cleaning device moves to the position of the user.

It should be noted that, in order to acquire an image including a human face, the cleaning apparatus may control the image acquisition device to rotate so as to rotate the image acquisition device to an angular position suitable for capturing the human face, and acquire a plurality of images around a 360-degree rotation range.

Step 1023: and determining that the face information exists in the detected image, and matching the face information with the pre-stored face information.

Based on the description of step 1022, whether there is a face in the image can be detected for each image, and the face in the image can be matched with the pre-stored face information whenever the face in the image is detected.

The pre-stored face information is a face diagram of the target user.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the face detection algorithm provided in the related art may be used to detect whether a face exists in an image, and the application is not limited to a specific face detection algorithm.

Step 1024: searching the target user according to the matching result.

If the matching result is successful, the target user is determined to be searched, and the target user refers to the user with the capability of processing the task to be reminded.

For example, in a home unit, a target user refers to a male or female owner in the home, but not other users in the home that do not have processing power, such as pets, children, and the like.

It should be noted that, if the matching result is failure, the task to be reminded may also be sent to the mobile terminal in a short message manner, so as to remind the user to process the task to be reminded, so as to ensure notification to the user as much as possible.

Based on the above description, when the cleaning device moves to the user position, the image is collected to perform face detection and face matching so as to search for an accurate target user, thereby ensuring searching accuracy and improving the effective rate of processing tasks.

For the process that the second home device determines the user position according to the current system time of the second home device, in a possible implementation manner, considering the limitation of the computing capability of the home device, the user position corresponding to the time period where the current system time is located may be determined according to the corresponding relationship between the preset time period and the user position. In this way, it is ensured that the second home device spends little computing power, and that the most likely location of the user is obtained based on the current system time.

The corresponding relation between the time period and the user position can be obtained by a server with relatively strong computing capacity through pre-analysis according to some collected historical user behavior data, and the obtained historical user behavior data is sent to the second household appliance.

In one possible implementation manner, a user appearance position is determined for each piece of collected user behavior data, a time range belonging to user activities in 24 hours a day is divided into a plurality of time periods, each piece of historical user behavior data is labeled with a time period label, then the user appearance position and the time period label corresponding to each piece of historical user behavior data are used as training samples, a pre-established neural network model is trained, after the model converges, each time period is respectively input into the trained neural network model, so that the most likely user appearance position is output by the neural network model, and therefore the user position corresponding to each time period is obtained.

For example, the time range of the user activity is divided into 6-9 a, 9-12 a.m., 12-1 a.m., 1-6 a.m., 6-10 a.m., the user position corresponding to the 6-9 a.m. time period is a kitchen, the user position corresponding to the 9-12 a.m. time period is a living room or balcony, the user position corresponding to the 12-1 a.m. time period is a bedroom, the user position corresponding to the 1-6 a.m. time period is a gym, and the user position corresponding to the 6-10 a.m. time period is a living room or bedroom.

As shown in the application scenario diagram of fig. 4, the laundry treatment device and the cleaning device are both connected to the server through the wireless network, the server can receive data uploaded by other home appliances besides relevant status data uploaded by the laundry treatment device and the cleaning device, the data can include user behavior data, for example, when a user turns on an air conditioning device in a living room, the air conditioning device uploads a starting status to the server, and the server generates and stores user behavior data of the air conditioning device in the living room.

Based on this, in another possible embodiment, for the process of determining the user location according to the current system time of the second home device, by transmitting a location request including the current system time to the server, the server determines the user location according to the user behavior data uploaded by the third home device (i.e., the other home devices except the second home device) at the closest time to the current system time based on the location request, so that the second home device can receive the user location transmitted by the server. Therefore, the server judges the possible positions according to the latest behavior data of the user, and the accuracy is higher.

Aiming at the process that the second household appliance guides the target user to the first household appliance to process the task to be reminded, in one possible implementation manner, the second household appliance guides the target user to the first household appliance to process the task to be reminded by making a preset action indication.

In one example, when the second home device is a sweeper, assuming that the preset action is indicated as in-situ rotation, in-situ rotation may be performed when the sweeper moves to the front of the target user, so as to inform the target user that the task to be reminded needs to be processed.

In another example, the second home device is an intelligent lighting system, and if the intelligent lighting system searches that the target user is in a living room or a bedroom, the intelligent lighting system can control the intelligent lights in the living room and the bedroom to emit light in a blinking manner so as to inform the target user that the task to be reminded needs to be processed.

Thus, the linkage control flow shown in the figure 1 is completed, when the intelligent household appliance equipment has a task to be reminded, the intelligent household appliance equipment can search a target user according to the instruction by sending the instruction to the other intelligent household appliance equipment, so that the target user is reminded in a short distance to process the task to be reminded, the user is prevented from missing the related task reminder, and the intelligent degree and the user experience degree of the household appliance can be improved.

Based on the embodiments shown in fig. 1 to fig. 4, the technical solution of the present application is introduced in the actual application scenario, in which the first home appliance is a washing machine, and the second home appliance is a sweeper, as shown in fig. 5, a specific implementation flow of the home appliance linkage control includes the following steps:

step 201: the washing machine is connected with the sweeper in a pairing way.

In the embodiment of the application, the pairing connection between the washing machine and the sweeper can be implemented in the following two ways:

the first mode is an online mode, namely, the washing machine and the sweeping machine are both connected to a WIFI network, and the two devices are in communication interaction through the WIFI connection;

the second mode is an off-line mode, namely the washing machine and the sweeper are connected in a pairing way through any one of the following modes: bluetooth connection mode, zigBee connection mode, infrared connection mode, etc., this application is not limited thereto.

Step 202: the washing machine executes a washing task and sends out a prompt tone after finishing the washing task so as to prompt a user to take out clothes in the cavity.

Optionally, after the washing machine finishes the washing task, a prompt tone can be sent out through a locally existing prompt device to remind a user of taking out clothes in the cavity.

It should be noted that, when the washing machine is connected to the server through the WIFI network, the washing machine may also upload the completion status of the washing task to the server.

Step 203: after the washing machine finishes the washing task for a preset time, detecting whether the underwear in the cavity is taken out.

In one possible embodiment, it may be detected whether the door lock of the washing machine is opened, if the door lock is opened, indicating that the laundry is likely to be taken out by the user, it is necessary to further acquire the laundry weight in the cavity, and determine whether the laundry weight exceeds the preset weight, if the preset weight is exceeded, indicating that the laundry is not taken out or that the laundry is missing, it may be determined that the laundry is not taken out, and if the door lock is not opened, it may be determined that the laundry is not taken out directly.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the process of obtaining the weight of the clothing in the cavity may be implemented by using related techniques, which are not specifically limited in this application.

Step 204: the washing machine detects that the clothes are not taken out, and sends an instruction to the sweeper through the connection so as to control the sweeper to seek people.

In step 204, if it is detected that the clothes are not yet taken out, it is indicated that the user may forget to take out the clothes because the user is busy with other matters, or the user cannot find the reminder in time because the user is not in the same space with the washing machine, and further an instruction needs to be sent to the sweeper to control the sweeper to search for people in close range to notify the user.

Step 205: and the sweeper determines the position of the user according to the current system time.

In one possible implementation manner, considering the limitation of the computing capability of the sweeper, the user position corresponding to the time period in which the current system time is located can be determined according to the corresponding relationship between the preset time period and the user position. In this way, it is ensured that the second home device spends little computing power, and that the most likely location of the user is obtained based on the current system time.

The corresponding relation between the time period and the user position can be obtained by a server with relatively strong computing capacity through pre-analysis according to some collected historical user behavior data and sent to the sweeper.

In another possible implementation manner, the server may also determine the user position according to the user behavior data uploaded by other home devices of the sweeper at the time closest to the current system time based on the position request by sending the position request including the current system time to the server, so that the sweeper can receive the user position sent by the server. Therefore, the server judges the possible positions according to the latest behavior data of the user, and the accuracy is higher.

Step 206: the sweeper searches for a target user according to the user position.

In one possible implementation manner, the sweeper is controlled to move to the position of the user, then an image acquisition device is utilized to acquire images around the position of the user, the images are determined to be detected to have faces, the faces in the images are matched with pre-stored face information, if the matching is successful, the target user is determined to be searched, and if the matching is failed, the target user is determined not to be searched.

The pre-stored face information is a face diagram of the target user. The target user refers to a user with the capability of processing tasks to be reminded.

For example, in a home unit, a target user refers to a male or female owner in the home, but not other users in the home that do not have processing power, such as pets, children, and the like.

Based on the description, when the sweeper moves to the user position, face detection and face matching are performed by collecting images so as to search for an accurate target user, thereby ensuring searching accuracy and improving the effective rate of processing tasks.

Step 207: and when the sweeper successfully searches the target user, guiding the target user to the washing machine to take out clothes.

In one possible implementation, the sweeper directs a target user to a washing machine location to remove laundry by making a preset action indication.

For example, when the sweeper moves to the front of the target user, the sweeper can rotate in place to inform the target user that the washer has completed a washing task and the clothes need to be taken out for airing.

Step 208: when the sweeper fails to search the target user, a task to be reminded is sent to the mobile terminal in a short message mode so as to remind the user to take out clothes from the position of the washing machine.

Thus, after finishing the linkage control flow shown in the figure 5, if the clothes in the cavity are detected to be not taken out after the washing machine finishes the washing task for a certain time, the invention can send an instruction to the sweeper to control the sweeper to search for the target user so as to guide the target user to the washing machine in a short distance to take out the clothes, thereby avoiding that the user forgets to take out the clothes because of being busy with other matters or can not find reminding in time because the user and the washing machine are not in the same space, and improving the intelligent degree and the user experience degree of the household appliance.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a household appliance linkage control system corresponding to the household appliance linkage control method provided by the embodiment, so as to execute the household appliance linkage control method.

Fig. 6 is a hardware configuration diagram of a home appliance linkage control system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which includes a first home appliance 610 and a second home appliance 620;

the first home device 610 is configured to send an instruction to the second home device 620 when determining that a task to be reminded exists;

the second home device 620 is configured to search for the target user based on the instruction, and send the task to be reminded to the target user.

The home appliance linkage control system and the home appliance linkage control method provided by the embodiment of the application have the same beneficial effects as the method adopted, operated or realized by the same inventive concept.

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This invention is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather to enable any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement or the like to be made within the spirit and principles of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A method for controlling a home appliance in a coordinated manner, the method comprising:

the first household electrical appliance determines that a task to be reminded exists and sends an instruction to a second household electrical appliance in communication connection with the first household electrical appliance;

and the second household appliance searches a target user based on the instruction and reminds the target user of the task to be reminded.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

and if the duration that the processed objects in the first household appliance cavity are not taken out meets the preset time, generating the task to be reminded.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining that the processed item within the first home device cavity has not been removed comprises:

determining that the processed article is not taken out according to the fact that the door lock of the first household appliance is not opened; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

and acquiring the weight of the treated article in the cavity, and determining that the treated article is not taken out according to the fact that the weight of the treated article exceeds the preset weight.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second home device searches for a target user based on the instruction, comprising:

determining a user position according to the current system time of the second household appliance;

searching the target user according to the user position.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein searching for the target user based on the user location comprises:

controlling the second home device to move to the user position;

acquiring images around the user position by using an image acquisition device;

determining that face information exists in the image, and matching the face information with pre-stored face information;

searching the target user according to the matching result.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein said determining the user location based on the current system time of the second home device comprises:

and determining the user position corresponding to the time period where the current system time is located according to the corresponding relation between the preset time period and the user position.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein said determining the user location based on the current system time of the second home device comprises:

transmitting a position request containing the current system time to a server, so that the server determines a user position according to user behavior data uploaded by third household electrical appliance at the time closest to the current system time;

and receiving the user position sent by the server.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

and if the matching result is determined to be failed, the task to be reminded is sent to the mobile terminal in a short message mode.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

and the second household appliance makes a preset action instruction so as to guide the target user to the position of the first household appliance to process the task to be reminded.

10. The household electrical appliance linkage control system is characterized by comprising a first household electrical appliance and a second household electrical appliance which are in communication connection;

the first household electrical appliance is used for sending an instruction to the second household electrical appliance when determining that a task to be reminded exists;

and the second household appliance is used for searching a target user based on the instruction and sending the task to be reminded to the target user.

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