CN116406629A

CN116406629A - Identification type feeding control method, terminal equipment, control device and medium for pets

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Publication number: CN116406629A
Application number: CN202111650744.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王晓卫; 江运海; 李君伟; 孟毅
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-30
Filing date: 2021-12-30
Publication date: 2023-07-11

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of pet feeding, and aims to solve the technical problem that the feeding is invalid due to mismatching of a pet and pet food because of inaccurate identification when the pet is fed automatically by a pet feeder. To this end, the present invention provides a method for controlling identification type feeding of pets, a terminal device, a control device, a computer readable storage medium, wherein the method for controlling identification type feeding comprises: under the condition that the current time is the target time, identifying the pet to be fed currently through sound information; based on the reference feeding information corresponding to the pet, the pet feeder feeds the pet to the pet; wherein the target time and the pet have a preset mapping relation. With this configuration, accurate feeding of the pet can be achieved.

Description

Identification type feeding control method, terminal equipment, control device and medium for pets

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of pet feeding, and particularly provides an identification type pet feeding control method, terminal equipment, a control device and a computer readable storage medium.

Background

With the urban social structure, the household structures of solitary people (such as unmarried/unmarried people, empty nest old people and the like), couples, solitary children and the like occupy more and more proportion, and more families select to keep pets, such as dogs, cats and the like, in order to meet the mental purposes of accompanying life. As an owner, a necessary "service" to be configured when a pet is kept is the feeding of the pet's food.

Considering the objective problem that it cannot be guaranteed that the pet owners can timely feed the pets (such as working hours), the pet owners usually choose to feed in advance, such as putting 2-3 squat pet foods in advance in the feeding tray. The freshness of the pet food is affected to a certain extent by feeding in advance, and the problems of excessive consumption and the like can also exist if the pet does not have self-made ability, so that the automatic feeding of the pet food to the pet through the pet feeder becomes an optional means.

There is a relatively common case: in a household, a plurality of pets, such as dogs at the same time as cats, or a plurality of cats, are kept, wherein the varieties and ages of the cats are different. The pet foods are often different among different pets on the premise that the varieties of the pet foods tend to be diversified and the owner of the pets tends to refine. At this time, if the pet food feeder feeds the pet food for a fixed period of time, there is a phenomenon that the feeding is disordered. In view of this, one current treatment is: the pet feeder is provided with a Bluetooth module and an RFID tag, and the Bluetooth module, the RFID reader-writer and the like are correspondingly arranged on the pet feeder, so that the identity of the pet is identified in a mode of identifying Bluetooth signals and RFID signals, and targeted feeding is performed on the basis. However, the targeted feeding scheme needs to bi-directionally configure components related to identification for the pet and the pet feeder, and the components configured for the pet are easy to damage and lose due to certain uncertainty of the outgoing behavior of the pet. Yet another processing mode is: the identity of the pet is identified through the image data, and targeted feeding is carried out on the basis. The targeted feeding scheme has the following problems: an error rate is identified that there is a need to be of interest. The reasons for error rate generation are: such as those with significantly different profiles (e.g., cats and dogs, large dogs and small dogs, striped cats and gray cats) can be distinguished by means of image recognition, but for more similar species, colors, reminders, etc., the distinction is more subtle (e.g., only the owner of the pet is more familiar), and in this case, there may be a significant error rate by means of image recognition. Thus, if the identification is inaccurate, the present feeding is equivalent to an ineffective feeding and may even affect the health of the pet.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a new solution to the above-mentioned problems.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical problem

The present invention has been made to solve at least some of the above-mentioned problems, or to solve at least some of the above-mentioned problems.

Technical proposal

In view of the foregoing, a first aspect of the present invention provides a pet identification type feeding control method, the control method comprising: under the condition that the current time is the target time, identifying the pet to be fed currently through sound information; based on the reference feeding information corresponding to the pet, the pet feeder feeds the pet to the pet; wherein the target time and the pet have a preset mapping relation.

With this configuration, accurate feeding of the pet can be achieved.

It will be appreciated that one skilled in the art can determine the specific manner of association between the target time and the pet based on the actual situation. The target time may be: according to the individual attributes of the pets, such as historical work and rest modes, likes and dislikes, and the like, the owners of the pets automatically set the time most suitable for feeding the pets; the time which is more authoritative and scientific and is most suitable for feeding the pet is given according to the identity information such as the variety, the age and the like of the pet; etc.

It will be appreciated that one skilled in the art may determine the particular form of the reference feeding information based on the actual situation, e.g., the reference feeding information may include, but is not limited to, time/number of daily feeds, type/weight/order of pet food, etc.

In one possible implementation manner of the above pet identification type feeding control method, the pet feeder is configured with a sound module, and the method for obtaining the sound information includes: in the case that the current time is the target time, the sound module is put into an operating state so as to: and collecting the sound information of the pet through the sound module.

With this configuration, the sound of the pet associated with the current feeding can be reliably collected.

Specifically, assuming that the sounds made by the pet at the time of feeding (target time) and the time of non-feeding are substantially similar, the behavior of the pet is recognized to be irrelevant to the feeding behavior based on the sounds during the time of non-feeding. Therefore, the sound module may be put into operation only at the target time.

It is understood that identity through voice recognition belongs to a well-established known technique (voiceprint recognition technique). The process of implementing identity through voiceprint recognition technology generally comprises the steps of collecting voice data, extracting voice features in the voice data, matching models, determining identity information and the like. During the non-feeding time, the sound module may be guaranteed to be in a non-operational state by aborting any one or several steps.

In one possible implementation manner of the above pet identification type feeding control method, the pet feeder is configured with a first guiding component, and the obtaining manner of the sound information includes: in the case where the current time is in a proximity section corresponding to the target time, the first guide member is put in an operating state so as to: guiding a pet to approach the pet food dispensing device; thereby: in the case that the current time is at the target time, the sound module is put into an operating state so as to: and collecting the sound information of the pet close to the pet feeder through the sound module.

With this configuration, the feasibility of feeding at this time can be ensured.

It will be appreciated that the specific form of the first guide member to effect the guiding action thereof may be determined by those skilled in the art based on the actual circumstances, and may include, but is not limited to, guiding the pet from a location closer to the pet food device by way of sound and/or light, the first guide member being, for example, a music player.

It will be appreciated that the person skilled in the art may determine the specific range of the approach interval according to the actual situation, e.g. it may be a certain value within 3-5 min.

In one possible implementation manner of the above pet identification type feeding control method, the pet is configured with a second guiding component, and the sound information is obtained in the following manner: determining current location information of the pet in a case that the current time is in a proximity section corresponding to the target time; determining whether the second guiding component needs to be started according to the current position information; if yes, the second guiding component is started so as to: guiding a pet to approach the pet food dispensing device; thereby: in the case that the current time is at the target time, the sound module is put into an operating state so as to: and collecting the sound information of the pet close to the pet feeder through the sound module.

It will be appreciated that the specific form of the second guiding means for performing its guiding function may be determined by those skilled in the art according to the actual situation, and may include, but is not limited to, guiding the pet to the pet feeder from a position further away from the pet (e.g., in the case of self-egress) by means of voice (the owner calls the voice of the pet), music (the voice selected according to the preference of the pet), etc., the second guiding means being, for example, a voice player.

For the above-mentioned pet identification type feeding control method, in one possible implementation manner, the control method includes, at the same time, before or after "activating the second guiding component": and sending out reminding information.

With such a constitution, it is possible to make a prompt notice of the situation in a case where feeding is not possible,

it can be understood that, a person skilled in the art can determine a specific form of the reminding information and an informing object of the reminding information according to actual situations, for example, the reminding information can be in a form of voice information, text information, buzzing and the like. The informed object may be a person around the pet food feeder or a designated person (e.g., the owner of the pet), etc.

In one possible implementation manner of the above-mentioned pet identification type feeding control method, in a case where the pets include a plurality of pets, the target times corresponding to different pets are the same or different.

With this configuration, the pet can be fed more accurately.

For example, assuming that the pet includes A, B, C, the following settings may be made, but are not limited to:

1) Pets A, B, C are grouped together and only one target time is established. Under the condition that the current time is the target time, reliable feeding can be realized by only identifying the sound of the pet A, and the condition is that the centralized feeding of individuals is not distinguished.

2) The pets A, B are classified into one group, the pets C are classified into another group, and target times (marked as a first target time and a second target time) are respectively set for the two groups, for example, the two target times are staggered from each other by 10-15min. Thus, when the current time is the first target time, the pet A, B can be reliably fed by recognizing only the sound of the pet a (one selected from the pets A, B), and when the current time is the second target time, the pet C can be reliably fed by recognizing the sound of the pet C. Such situations are suitably differentiated feeding situations, as may include, but are not limited to, the following examples:

in one example: pet A, B is cat, pet C is dog, and the two groups of pets are different in feeding. At this time, if the pet food feeder is provided with two storage boxes corresponding to different kinds of pet foods, feeding which is appropriately distinguished can be accomplished by switching the feeding states of the different storage boxes.

In another example: if the pets A, B, C are all cats, the three cats are the same pet food but have different times in eating habits, as in the previous example, the time difference between the two target times in this example is 30-60 minutes. At this time, the pet feeder can complete properly differentiated feeding only by configuring one storage box.

3) Three target times (referred to as a first target time, a second target time, and a third target time) are respectively set for the pet A, B, C, for example, the three target times are staggered from each other by about 10 minutes. In this way, under the condition that the current time is the first target time, reliable feeding of the pet A is realized by identifying the sound of the pet A; under the condition that the current time is the second target time, reliable feeding of the pet B is realized by identifying the sound of the pet B; in the case where the current time is the third target time, reliable feeding of the pet C is achieved by recognizing the sound of the pet C. This is a strict distinction between feeding, as the pet A, B, C is an adult cat, a kitten, and a small canine, respectively, and the pet foods between the three are significantly different. At this time, if the pet food feeder should be provided with three storage boxes corresponding to different kinds of pet foods, the different feeding can be accomplished by switching the feeding states of the different storage boxes.

The second aspect of the invention provides a terminal device, which is used for receiving reminding information sent by the identification type feeding control method of the pet.

It can be understood that the terminal device has all the technical effects of the method for controlling the identification type feeding of the pet described in any one of the foregoing, and will not be described herein. For example, the terminal device may be a device associated with a pet, such as a pet feeder, and/or a device associated with the owner of the pet, such as a mobile terminal.

A third aspect of the invention provides a computer readable storage medium adapted to store a plurality of program codes adapted to be loaded and executed by a processor to perform the method of identified feeding control of a pet as described in any of the preceding claims.

It can be appreciated that the computer readable storage medium has all the technical effects of the method for controlling the identification type feeding of the pet described in any one of the foregoing, and will not be described herein.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be implemented in whole or in part in a method for identifying a pet feeding control, by means of a computer program, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the various method embodiments described above. Wherein the computer program comprises computer program code, it is understood that the program code includes, but is not limited to, program code for performing the above identified feeding control method for pets. For convenience of explanation, only parts relevant to the present invention are shown. The computer program code may be in the form of source code, object code, executable files, or in some intermediate form. The computer readable storage medium may include: any entity or device, medium, usb disk, removable hard disk, magnetic disk, optical disk, computer memory, read-only memory, random access memory, electrical carrier wave signals, telecommunications signals, software distribution media, and the like capable of carrying the computer program code. It should be noted that the computer readable storage medium may include content that is subject to appropriate increases and decreases as required by jurisdictions and by jurisdictions in which such computer readable storage medium does not include electrical carrier signals and telecommunications signals.

A fourth aspect of the invention provides a control device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory being adapted to store a plurality of program codes adapted to be loaded and run by the processor to perform the method of identification feeding control of a pet as defined in any preceding claim.

It can be appreciated that the control device has all the technical effects of the method for controlling the identification type feeding of the pet described in any one of the foregoing, and will not be described herein. The control device may be a control device formed of various electronic devices.

A fifth aspect of the invention provides a control device comprising a control module configured to perform the method of identification feeding control of a pet as described in any of the preceding claims.

It can be appreciated that the control device has all the technical effects of the method for controlling the identification type feeding of the pet described in any one of the foregoing, and will not be described herein.

In the description of the present invention, a "control module" may include hardware, software, or a combination of both. A module may comprise hardware circuitry, various suitable sensors, communication ports, memory, or software components, such as program code, or a combination of software and hardware. The processor may be a central processor, a microprocessor, an image processor, a digital signal processor, or any other suitable processor. The processor has data and/or signal processing functions. The processor may be implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of both. Non-transitory computer readable storage media include any suitable medium that can store program code, such as magnetic disks, hard disks, optical disks, flash memory, read-only memory, random access memory, and the like.

Further, it should be understood that, since the setting of the control module is merely for illustrating the functional units in the system corresponding to the pet identification feeding control method of the present invention, the physical device corresponding to the control module may be the processor itself, or a part of the software, a part of the hardware, or a part of the combination of the software and the hardware in the processor. Thus, the number of control modules is merely illustrative. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the control module may be adaptively split according to the actual situation. The specific splitting form of the control module does not cause the technical scheme to deviate from the principle of the invention, so that the technical scheme after splitting falls into the protection scope of the invention.

Drawings

The identification type feeding control method for pets of the present invention is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the accompanying drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a pet identification type feeding control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are merely for explaining the technical principles of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. For example, while the present embodiment is described in connection with two pets of different varieties, this is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and one skilled in the art may make modifications thereto, such as for multiple pets and varieties of multiple pets may be the same or different, without departing from the principles of the invention.

It should be noted that in the description of the present invention, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. The singular forms "a", "an" and "the" include plural referents.

Furthermore, in the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without some of these specific details. In some instances, the principles of operation of a pet feeder, a smart wearable device worn by a pet, as known to those skilled in the art, are not described in detail in order to highlight the gist of the present invention.

Currently, pets often wear necessary intelligent wearing equipment such as intelligent pet collars, intelligent pet nameplates and the like. As in the present embodiment, the pet is wearing a pet collar having a function of collecting position data, image data of the pet. The collected position data and image data can be uploaded to a server, for example, the position data and the image data can be uploaded in real time, or the data can be uploaded periodically or aperiodically, for example, the data can be uploaded to the server at regular intervals. Of course, the server may also actively initiate a request to obtain the pet's location data. In this embodiment, the pet collar uploads the collected location data to the server at least in real time. In this embodiment, the voice player as the second guide member is embedded in the pet collar. For example, when a pet needs to be fed, the pet owner often sends out a "bean, eat-! "sound information. Thus, when the pet hears the prerecorded sound message, it returns to the vicinity of the pet food dispenser.

In one possible embodiment, the pet food dispensing device is configured with a sound module, for example, the sound module includes microphones for collecting sound data, and those skilled in the art can determine the number of microphones, the placement orientation of the microphones on the pet food dispensing device, etc. according to the actual situation. On the basis, the reference feeding information can be set by associating the relevant terminal equipment with the pet feeder, for example, the terminal equipment can be mobile equipment, a computer or vehicle-mounted equipment arranged in a floating car, or any combination of the mobile equipment, the computer or the vehicle-mounted equipment. In this embodiment, the terminal device is a mobile phone of the owner of the pet. If a pet owner can open the APP on the mobile phone and set the following basic feeding information on the interactive interface corresponding to the APP: the number of feeds, time of feeds, amount of feeds, and illustratively, the pet comprises a cat and a dog, wherein the cat is of the species Yingsu and the dog is of the species silver fox. The pet feeder comprises two feeding trays, wherein one feeding tray corresponds to a cat (such as cat food stored in a corresponding storage box), and one feeding tray corresponds to a dog (such as dog food stored in a corresponding storage box). The reference feeding information of the cats is: feeding is carried out once at 07:00, 12:00 and 18:00 respectively, and 50g of the feed is fed each time. The reference feeding information of the dogs is: feeding the powder at the ratio of 10:00 to 21:00, wherein the feeding amount is 250g each time.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a method for controlling identification type feeding of pets according to an embodiment of the invention. As shown in fig. 1, the control method mainly includes the following steps:

s101, acquiring the current position information of the pet in the case that the current time is in a close interval corresponding to the target time of the corresponding pet (the short time or the silver fox).

In one possible embodiment, the current time is a time approaching 10:00. Illustratively, assuming that only 10 minutes remains for the current time distance of 10:00, the pet feeder enters a feeding ready state, specifically, a storage bin corresponding to a silver fox enters an open ready state.

S103, judging whether the pet is in the vicinity of the pet feeder (for example, in the range of 20m square with the pet feeder (which is regarded as a particle) as the center) according to the current position information. If yes, go to S105; if not, the process proceeds to S107.

S105, starting the voice player as the second guiding component, and sending out' beans, eating-! "voice message, and send the text reminding of" bean is not at home "to the pet owner.

S107, under the condition that the current time is at the target time, the sound module is started, and the pets which need to be fed currently are identified by collecting the sound emitted by the pets.

S109, according to the reference feeding information of the pets, the pet feeders are enabled to send quantitative pet foods into feeding trays corresponding to the currently fed pets so as to complete feeding.

S111, after the feeding is completed, feedback information such as 'the feeding is completed' is sent to the pet owner.

It can be seen that in the inventive pet identification type feeding control method, on the premise that the reference feeding information is available, the sound emitted by the pet is collected in the target time corresponding to the reference feeding information, so that the reliability of feeding is ensured. In addition, by introducing the second guide member, even when the pet is not in the vicinity of the pet food feeder, the present feeding can be achieved.

It should be noted that, although the foregoing embodiments describe the steps in a specific sequential order, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that, in order to achieve the effects of the present invention, the steps are not necessarily performed in such an order, and may be performed simultaneously or in other orders, and some steps may be added, replaced, or omitted, for example, a first guiding component (such as a music player) may be added to the pet food feeder and such a control scheme may be configured for the pet food feeder: before the sound module starts to collect the sound of the pet, the first guiding component is in a working state to guide the pet to the vicinity of the pet feeder.

It should be noted that although the method of controlling the identification type feeding of the pet configured in the above-described specific manner is described as an example, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention should not be limited thereto. In fact, the user can flexibly adjust the relevant steps and parameters in the steps according to the situations such as actual application scenes, etc., for example, the second guiding component can be replaced by other forms, the first guiding component is added, the first/second guiding component is not arranged, etc.

Thus far, the technical solution of the present invention has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, but it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited to these specific embodiments. Equivalent modifications and substitutions for related technical features may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the present invention, and such modifications and substitutions will fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for controlling the identification type feeding of pets, the method comprising the steps of:

under the condition that the current time is the target time, identifying the pet to be fed currently through sound information;

based on the reference feeding information corresponding to the pet, the pet feeder feeds the pet to the pet;

wherein the target time and the pet have a preset mapping relation.

2. The identification type feeding control method according to claim 1, wherein the pet feeder is provided with a sound module, and the sound information is obtained by the steps of:

in the case that the current time is the target time, the sound module is put into an operating state so as to:

and collecting the sound information of the pet through the sound module.

3. The identification type feeding control method according to claim 2, wherein the pet feeder is provided with a first guide member, and the sound information is obtained by:

in the case where the current time is in a proximity section corresponding to the target time, the first guide member is put in an operating state so as to:

guiding a pet to approach the pet food dispensing device; thereby:

in the case that the current time is at the target time, the sound module is put into an operating state so as to:

and collecting the sound information of the pet close to the pet feeder through the sound module.

4. A method of controlling a recognized feeding according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the pet is provided with a second guiding means, and the sound information is obtained by:

determining current location information of the pet in a case that the current time is in a proximity section corresponding to the target time;

determining whether the second guiding component needs to be started according to the current position information;

if yes, the second guiding component is started so as to:

guiding a pet to approach the pet food dispensing device; thereby:

5. The identification type feeding control method according to claim 4, wherein the control method includes, at the same time, before or after "starting the second guide member":

and sending out reminding information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein in the case where the pet includes a plurality of pets, target times corresponding to different pets are the same or different.

7. A terminal device for receiving a reminder message sent by the feeding control method of the pet feeder of claim 5.

8. A computer readable storage medium comprising a memory adapted to store a plurality of program codes, wherein the program codes are adapted to be loaded and executed by a processor to perform the method of identified feeding control of a pet as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6.

9. A control device comprising a memory and a processor, the memory being adapted to store a plurality of program codes, characterized in that the program codes are adapted to be loaded and executed by the processor to perform the method of identification feeding control of pets according to any of claims 1 to 6.

10. A control device, characterized in that it comprises a control module configured to be able to perform the method of identification feeding control of pets according to any of claims 1 to 6.