Tele-control system and control method thereof
Technical field
The invention relates to tele-control system, particularly relevant to being connected tele-control system and the control method thereof that household electrical appliance in the home network and information equipment can Long-distance Control.
Background technology
It is to adopt telepilot that common control household electrical appliance or information equipment carry out Long-distance Control.This telepilot is for televisor, video recorder, and functions such as air conditioner can be carried out long-range adjustment, with wired or wireless mode output signal, without the switch in the guidance panel of each equipment of direct control, and can operate long-range.
This telepilot is because of the facility in user's use, and current nearly all household electronic products all adopts this function and uses, and uses more that the telepilot of convenient wireless mode uses compared with wired mode.
And this telepilot can be used with in portioned product.That is, there are common sparing in TV remote controller and video recorder telepilot.
But the telepilot of operated from a distance electronic equipment does not notice that its life-span is very short during because of use, therefore, it is more to buy the situation that new telepilot uses, and the life cycle (life cycle) of current domestic electric appliance is very short, is difficult to have bought and just in use the identical product of telepilot.
And, because the signal scheme difference of the telepilot separately of the manufacturing company of manufacturing electronic product, therefore can not operate the product of a plurality of companies with a telepilot, different separately a plurality of household electronic products are arranged in average family, each equipment has the telepilot of oneself, therefore can not operate the household electrical appliance of a plurality of kinds with a telepilot.
Therefore, along with the quantity of the increase telepilot of home appliance increases simultaneously, make user in use confusion reigned and inconvenience.
Summary of the invention
Tele-control system and the control method thereof of the present invention in order to address the above problem proposition, its purpose are can control the various application apparatuss that connect in the home network with minimum telepilot.
Another purpose is the increase and the change situation of real time monitoring application apparatus in the home network server, and according to user's request, can make in the Long-distance Control machine and append Control-Menu.
Tele-control system of the present invention in order to achieve the above object, comprise the control information that receives in a plurality of home appliances from be connected home network separately, and reconstitute the Long-distance Control machine that control command is controlled respective electric home and transmitted with this information; Above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine comprises following structure: the control information acceptance division of receiving control information from above-mentioned a plurality of home appliances; The display part that shows control command and application apparatus choice menus; If select to want the application apparatus selected by above-mentioned display part, then from selecteed application apparatus, by above-mentioned control information acceptance division receiving control information, and reprogramming be can Long-distance Control respective application equipment control command, and the control part of representing by above-mentioned display part; In the control command that shows with the control signal of above-mentioned control part the control command of being selected by the user is exported to the control command efferent of respective application equipment.
Above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine also comprises the storage part of the control information that at least more than one application apparatus of storage receives.
The control information that receives in the above-mentioned application apparatus has: product code, numbering, fabricator, build date information, function control routine, products characteristics information, name of product information, the value of checking.
Above-mentioned display part is made of liquid crystal indicator, the liquid crystal indicator touch-screen.
The above-mentioned non-movable menu window that demonstrates by display screen, the user can select application apparatus, the function that the Control-Menu of the application apparatus of choosing in the non-movable menu that can select to provide by movable menu window will be carried out.
Tele-control system of the present invention in order to achieve the above object comprises: be connected the home network server that each application apparatus and overall network system are controlled with a plurality of application apparatuss; For with the communication line of above-mentioned each application apparatus and home network server communication; Control the control information of each application apparatus by above-mentioned home network server, receive and store, according to customer requirements change according to application apparatus increase or application apparatus when respective application equipment is exported control command, upgrade the Long-distance Control machine that corresponding control command is exported.
Above-mentioned home network server is when application apparatus increases, set with update system from the real-time receiving control information of above-mentioned communication line, if having when request that the control information of the application apparatus that increases is sent to above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine by above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine user.
Above-mentioned communication line adopts IIC, RF, a kind of in the IEEE1394 communication protocol.
Above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine application apparatus in above-mentioned home network server increases or asks the application apparatus that increases in the above-mentioned home network server when change is arranged or the control information of the application apparatus of change is after above-mentioned home network server receives, the control information reformulation that receives and be updated to Control-Menu.
Above-mentioned Control-Menu in application apparatus is classified by exporting identical control command.
Above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine upgrades the control command of application apparatus according to the control information that receives from above-mentioned home network server, and the user then exports respective application equipment to reference to the control command of this one or two selected application apparatus and is its characteristics.
Long-range control method is made of following step: the step of selecting Control-Menu according to the application apparatus that will control; Control-Menu selecting is sent to the step in the respective application equipment.
Long-range control method comprises the steps: that also having judged whether to select other application apparatus and application apparatus is the step that increases; If application apparatus has increase, then receive the step of the control information and the storage of application apparatus.
Tele-control system of the present invention and control method thereof have following effect:
The first, unifying control linkage each application apparatus in home network, therefore, provide more convenience with a Long-distance Control machine (telepilot) to the user.
Second, application apparatus quantity increases or home network server can monitor when asking if any the user in real time when changing, with Long-distance Control machine communicating control information,, needn't increase the application apparatus that the Long-distance Control machine also can be controlled increase along with appending formation.
The 3rd, along with the Control-Menu of the application apparatus of wanting to explicit user, the Control-Menu selected is wanted in the selection that the user can be more prone to.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is the block diagram of tele-control system of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is that Long-distance Control of the present invention mechanism becomes block diagram.
Fig. 3 is a display part picture displayed presentation graphs among Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is the control method process flow diagram of tele-control system of the present invention.Explanation to major part symbol among the figure:
10: home network server (TV); 20: application apparatus; 30: Long-distance Control machine (telepilot); 31: the control information acceptance division; 32: control part; 33: key input part; 34: power supply unit; 35: storer; 36: display part; 37: the control command efferent.
Embodiment
Below, further describe as follows with reference to accompanying drawing to tele-control system according to the present invention:
Fig. 1 is the block diagram of tele-control system of the present invention.Fig. 2 is that Long-distance Control of the present invention mechanism becomes block diagram.Fig. 3 is a display part picture displayed presentation graphs among Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is the control method process flow diagram of tele-control system of the present invention.
According to tele-control system of the present invention as shown in Figure 1, be connected the home network server 10 that each application apparatus 20 and overall network system are controlled with a plurality of application apparatuss 20; Control information by above-mentioned home network server 10 each application apparatus 20 of control, receive and store, according to customer requirements change according to application apparatus increase or application apparatus when respective application equipment is exported control command, upgrade the Long-distance Control machine 30 that corresponding control command is exported.
Above-mentioned application apparatus 20 is made up of the home appliance that air conditioner, washing machine, refrigerator, electromagnetic oven (21-24) etc. use in the family, and home network server 10 can be a televisor, also can be PC.
And above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30 is to be made of following structure: from the control information acceptance division 31 of above-mentioned home network server 10 receiving control informations; The display part 36 that shows control command and application apparatus choice menus; If select to want the application apparatus selected by above-mentioned display part 36, then from selecteed application apparatus, by above-mentioned control information acceptance division 31 receiving control informations, and reformulate can Long-distance Control respective application equipment control command, and the control part 32 by above-mentioned display part 36 expressions; In the control command that shows by the control signal of control part 32 control command of being selected by the user is exported to the control command efferent 37 of respective application equipment; Key input part 33 to home network server 10 electric power on/offs; Power supply unit 34 for above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30 power supplies.
Above-mentioned home network server 10 by with the communicating by letter of a plurality of application apparatuss (21-24), reception can be controlled the control information and the code analysis storage afterwards of each application apparatus, when the user sends request by above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30, control information stored is outputed to above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30 maybe can directly transmit by real-time communication.
The form of control information is head (Header), and product IDs, numbering, function control routine, product performance information, name of product, the value of checking etc. transmit continuously.
If above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30 users select to want the application apparatus selected by input part 33,32 of above-mentioned control parts are sent to control command efferent 37 to it, and in order to control respective application equipment, 10 output of above-mentioned home network server corresponding control signal, like this, 10 of above-mentioned home network servers are by above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30, the control command that has been transmitted is sent in the respective application equipment, and the respective application equipment that receives control command is then controlled according to control command.
That is, the display part 36 of above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30 constitutes as shown in Figure 3 and is: the inactive window 36a that shows in order to select application apparatus; If select to be presented at the application apparatus of above-mentioned inactive window 36a, then show the active window 36b that can control the application apparatus menu; The key input part 33 of the above-mentioned home network server 10 of energy opening/closing.
Open order if import above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30 power supplys, then above-mentioned home network server 10 is opened, and the Control-Menu that can control above-mentioned home network server 10 is presented among the above-mentioned active window 36b.
And, if the user wants to select the application apparatus that shows among the inactive window 36a, then control part 32 its identification after, the Control-Menu that has stored in the output storage 35 also shows by active window 36b.
The user is with reference to the application apparatus Control-Menu that shows among the above-mentioned active window 36b, selects to want the control command selected therein, and then above-mentioned control part 32 is sent in the respective application equipment control command by above-mentioned control command efferent 37 controls.
Also have, above-mentioned home network server 10 real time monitorings are that application apparatus is increasing, whether application apparatus changes, and when the user utilizes the control information of the application apparatus that 30 requests of above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine increase or changed, transmits corresponding control information with Long-distance Control machine 30.
Like this, increase order if the user imports, 30 in above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine receives from above-mentioned home network server 10 to be increased or the control informations of change, reconstitutes the Control-Menu that the user can select and is stored in the above-mentioned storer 35.
The present invention carries out real-time communication with a plurality of application apparatuss 20 that are connected in the home network server 10, the product that increases new application apparatus or same application equipment in above-mentioned a plurality of application apparatuss 20 monitors when change is arranged and according to the customer requirements of pointing out out by above-mentioned Long-distance Control machine 30, controls together with 30 each application apparatuss that is connected home network server 10 of minimal Long-distance Control machine.
The control method of tele-control system of the present invention is described as follows with reference to Fig. 4: at first, the user imports the opening power order and then opens home network server (S101-S102).
Also have, select to want the application apparatus of controlling (S103).
The Control-Menu (S104) that like this, then shows above-mentioned selecteed application apparatus.
Then judge and in the Control-Menu that shows, whether selected to want the Control-Menu (S105) selected.
If the user has selected to want the Control-Menu selected, then be sent to (S106) in the respective application equipment.
And judge whether the user has selected other application apparatus (S107).
Then, above-mentioned judged result (S107) if the user has selected other application apparatus, then reverts to above-mentioned steps (S104), if the user does not select other application apparatus, judges then whether application apparatus increases (S108).
Above-mentioned judged result (S108) if application apparatus has increase, then receives the control information and the storage (S109) of application apparatus.
And, if the user has imported the power-off order then has finished, as powered-down not then step (S107) continue control application apparatus (S110).
As mentioned above, according to tele-control system of the present invention and control method thereof is after the application apparatus that is connected home network is checked in real time, for the Control-Menu of controlling each application apparatus is presented in the Long-distance Control machine 30, want the application apparatus selected so that can select and control the user.
And, when the user asks the increase application apparatus by Long-distance Control is confidential, according to from home network server, receive increasing or formation is appended in the control information of the application apparatus of change, can and show that the control of the application apparatus that is connected home network that can Long-distance Control becomes possibility with a Long-distance Control machine transplanting of rice head.