EP1058219A1 - Zwei-Stufen-Verfahren zur Programmierung von Fernsteuereinrichtung - Google Patents

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EP1058219A1
EP1058219A1 EP00201938A EP00201938A EP1058219A1 EP 1058219 A1 EP1058219 A1 EP 1058219A1 EP 00201938 A EP00201938 A EP 00201938A EP 00201938 A EP00201938 A EP 00201938A EP 1058219 A1 EP1058219 A1 EP 1058219A1
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Harm Jakob Kip
Hendrikus Bernardus Maria Steentjes
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G08SIGNALLING
    • G08CTRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS
    • G08C19/00Electric signal transmission systems
    • G08C19/16Electric signal transmission systems in which transmission is by pulses
    • G08C19/28Electric signal transmission systems in which transmission is by pulses using pulse code
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05BELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B47/00Circuit arrangements for operating light sources in general, i.e. where the type of light source is not relevant
    • H05B47/10Controlling the light source
    • H05B47/175Controlling the light source by remote control
    • H05B47/19Controlling the light source by remote control via wireless transmission
    • H05B47/195Controlling the light source by remote control via wireless transmission the transmission using visible or infrared light

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  • the invention relates to a method for selectively binding at least one appliance of a plurality of appliances of a system to at least one remote control of the system, wherein the at least one remote control comprises a transmitter and the appliances comprise a receiver.
  • Binding is a procedure providing that the bound appliance or the bound appliances can exclusively be controlled by the remote control in a known manner. Non-bound appliances cannot be controlled by the remote control.
  • the remote control transmits an identification code to the relevant appliance.
  • the appliance Upon reception, the appliance transmits a light signal, whereupon a user energizes the remote control for terminating the binding procedure for the relevant appliance. After binding, the relevant appliance can be controlled in a known manner with the remote control.
  • remote controls are known. Particularly the appliances based on infrared communication are widely used. Virtually all TV appliances are equipped herewith. The binding between the appliance to be controlled and the remote control (the hand-held) is often not explicitly present; the beam form, and also the range of the transmitter provide the possibility of selective control. Through the use of different codes, several types of appliances can be controlled with the same hand-held.
  • the use of remote control for luminaires entails another problem, the usual infrared communication requires sight contact between the luminaire and the hand-held. This means that an infrared receiver should be provided on a visual location on the luminaire. Two objections can be raised to this.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a solution to the above-outlined problems.
  • each of the appliances of the system comprises a transceiver and an identification code and that the at least one remote control comprises a transceiver, the method comprising at least the following steps:
  • the first step initiates, by means of the remote control, at least one of the appliances transmitting an identification code to the remote control, it can be indicated in an individualized manner in the second step that the relevant appliance whose identification code has been received is or is not bound to the remote control.
  • the identification code that is received by the remote control and subsequently transmitted is also received by other appliances does not influence the binding procedure. Indeed, only the appliance which comprises the relevant identification code will generate said signal, after which it can be decided whether the appliance generating the relevant signal can be recorded in the system as being a bound appliance.
  • initiating by means of the remote control cannot only be performed with infrared, but also with high-frequent communication signals. After all, when more appliances are initiated by means of the remote control, these appliances will transmit different identification codes to the remote control. Each identification code received can then, in step 2, be processed on an individual basis as explained hereinabove.
  • step 1 the following substeps are performed: by the at least one remote control, at least one call signal is transmitted to the appliances of the system; and in response to the reception of the at least one call signal, at least one appliance of the system transmits at least one identification code to the at least one remote control.
  • the at least one remote control can call, after reception of the relevant identification code, in step 2, an appliance via HF-communication, on the basis of its identification code without it being problematic that the relevant identification code is also received by other appliances having other identification codes.
  • the remote control in the remote control according to the invention, use can be made of HF-communication, preferably utilizing equipment meeting the SRD standards intended therefor.
  • the selectivity problems are solved by following the relevant binding procedure prior to use. During this binding, the coupling between appliance, for instance luminaire, and the at least one remote control (the at least one hand-held) is made, whereupon the bound luminaire, after binding, exclusively responds to codes from the hand-held.
  • the appliances 2.1 and 2.2 are shown. These appliances can, for instance, consist of a television, audio equipment or a luminaire.
  • the system further comprises at least one remote control 4 for operating the appliances 2.1 and 2.2.
  • the appliances 2.1 are each provided with a receiver 4 connected to a control unit 6 of the appliance.
  • the remote control 4 transmits commands by means of infrared radiation, designated in the drawing by reference numeral 8.
  • the receiver 4 of the appliance 2.1 has a clear view of the remote control 4 and can control the appliance 2.1 via the control unit 6.
  • the second appliance 2.2 is not radiated by the infrared beam 8. Thus, this beam determines the selectivity.
  • the remote control 4 By directing the remote control 4 to the appliance 2.i, which is desired to be controlled by means of the remote control, exclusively the relevant appliance 2.1 is controlled and not the other appliance 2.2.
  • Fig. 2 shows a second embodiment of a system comprising a plurality of appliances and at least one remote control.
  • the remote control 4 does not generate infrared radiation for transmitting commands, but instead, high-frequency electromagnetic signals are applied.
  • the beam 10 is much wider than the infrared beam 8 of Fig. 1.
  • the receivers 4 of the appliances 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 are suitable for receiving HF-electromagnetic signals transmitted by the remote control 4.
  • the appliance 2.1 is disposed behind a wall 12.
  • the receiver 4 proves to be disposed behind the control unit 6 of the appliances. However, this has no adverse effect on the reception of the radio signals transmitted by the remote control 4.
  • Each of the receivers 4 of the appliances 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 will receive the commands from the remote control. Even the appliance 2.1 located behind the wall 12 receives the beam 10. As a result, each of the appliances 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 is simultaneously controlled by means of the remote control 4. The user of the remote control does not even notice that the appliance that is located behind the wall 12 is controlled as well.
  • Fig. 3a shows the curve of the field strength of the beam 10 in the far field as function of the distance to the remote control 4.
  • this function stands for the near field.
  • the function is much steeper. Even this steep curve does not provide a reliable solution to the selectivity problem.
  • the remote control 4 now comprises a transceiver unit 14 for transmitting and receiving said high-frequent electromagnetic signals.
  • the appliances 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 are shown.
  • Each of the appliances 2.1 comprises a transceiver 4.
  • each appliance comprises a control unit 6 for controlling the appliance.
  • the beam transmitted by the transceiver 14 of the remote control 4 is again designated by reference numeral 10.
  • each of the appliances 2.i has a unique identification code associated with the relevant appliance. In this example, the identification code is stored in the control unit 6 of the relevant appliance.
  • a first step initiates, by means of the at least one remote control 4, at least one of the appliances 2.i transmitting an identification code to the at least one remote control 4. This concerns the identification code stored in the control unit 6 of the relevant appliance.
  • a second step at least one appliance is called, whose identification code is received by the at least one remote control in step 1, through transmission of the received identification code by the at least one remote control.
  • the following steps are performed in step 1.
  • At least one call signal 16 is transmitted to the appliances of the system by operating the keys 18, 20 of remote control 4.
  • the call signal is transmitted on a high-frequent electromagnetic carrier wave.
  • the call signal is received by the appliances 2.2 and 2.3.
  • Appliance 2.1 does not receive the call signal, for instance because the appliance in question is positioned too far away.
  • the appliances 2.2 and 2.3 each transmit their identification code 22 and 22' respectively to the at least one remote control 4.
  • the appliances 2.2 and 2.3 indicate, by means of the generation of, for instance, an audio signal and/or a visual signal, that the relevant appliance has received the at least one call signal. If the relevant appliance 2.2 is a luminaire, this can for instance be effected in that the control unit 6 causes the luminaire in question to blink. Subsequently, the identification codes 22, 22' received by the at least one remote control 4 are stored in the at least one remote control. This storage is at least temporary for further processing. In Fig. 4, "0 0" designates that no codes are stored in the remote control.
  • each of the stored identification codes 22, 22' (see Fig. 5) are transmitted for calling the relevant appliances, after which, upon reception of the identification codes 22, 22' by each of the relevant appliances 2.2 and 2.3, each of the relevant appliances 2.2 and 2.3 respond by generating the above-mentioned signal.
  • each appliance that responds and should be bound is marked in the system.
  • the identification codes received by the remote control are transmitted one after the other.
  • the identification code of the appliance 2.2 is transmitted.
  • this appliance responds by generating an audio signal or a visual signal.
  • the appliance 2.2 is a luminaire and the visual signal consists in blinking of the appliance 2.2.
  • a user of the remote control 4 then sees which appliance is responding. The user then decides that this appliance should be bound. For this purpose, he presses the keys 18, 20 of the remote control.
  • the appliance 2.2 is marked in the system 1.
  • the marking is stored in the remote control.
  • the marking of the appliance 2.2 can, for instance, be effected by the permanent storage of the relevant identification code in the remote control, for instance in a special memory of a remote control. It is also possible that the marking of an appliance is carried out by adding a marking code to the relevant identification code of the appliance 2.2 which identification code was already stored earlier in the remote control in step 1.
  • the remote control 4 transmits the received identification code of the appliance 2.3.
  • This appliance 2.3 will subsequently generate said signal, in this example blink when it concerns a luminaire.
  • the user sees the appliance blinking and then decides that this appliance should not be bound. He notifies this to the system by actuating the key 20 of the remote control. In that case, the appliance 2.3 is not marked.
  • the binding procedure for the appliances has ended. This for instance appears from the fact that the remote control no longer calls any other appliances.
  • the binding procedure can also be ended by a time-out of the remote control when it is no longer operated.
  • the binding procedure can also be ended through actuation of a key of the remote control. In this example, after the binding procedure, only the appliance 2.2 can be controlled by the remote control.
  • the identification code 22 is first transmitted for selectively binding the appliance 2.2 and that subsequently, the identification code 22' is transmitted for selectively binding the appliance 2.3.
  • the identification code 22' is transmitted for selectively binding the appliance 2.3.
  • only appliance 2.3 will respond and not appliances 2.1 and 2.2.
  • appliances 2.2 and 2.3 will respond approximately simultaneously with the transmission of the identification codes 22 and 22'.
  • this is not necessarily the case.
  • a random generator may be incorporated which generates, at random, a small time delay for transmitting the identification codes 22 and 22' respectively.
  • only one remote control is present. This is not necessarily the case, either.
  • other remote controls may also be selectively bound to one or more of the appliances 2.i.
  • the remote control 4 is used for binding the appliances, after which the information stored in the remote control 4 is transmitted over the bound appliances to the other remote control which will eventually be used for the control of the appliances.
  • the binding of a particular appliance in step 2 is performed at a moment other than the binding of another appliance in step 2.
  • the appliance 2.1 which is bound to the remote control 4 at a later time.
  • the appliances are bound in groups.
  • Each group of appliances is then bound to one remote control as discussed hereinabove.
  • Different groups are bound to different remote controls, as discussed hereinabove.
  • These different remote controls may be accommodated in one housing. Further, corresponding parts of these remote controls may be replaced by one part. Such variants are each understood to fall within the framework of the invention.
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