JP2002162107A - Display device for bath room - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device for a bath room formed that the operation state and the control state of a hot water supply apparatus are easily confirmed by a user taking bath in a bathtub and easy operation by the user is practicable. SOLUTION: A display device for a bath room is provided with a control part 7 to effect remote control of the hot water supply apparatus and a remote control 6 situated at a bathtub or in the vicinity thereof, and a projector 8 to project and display the operation state of the hot water supply apparatus and a control state by the remote control 6 in an enlarged or a reduced state on wall surfaces 3 and 4 of the bath room 1 or a ceiling 2 based on a signal from the remote control 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bathroom display device for displaying an operation state of a water heater.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an operating state of a water heater for supplying hot water to a bathtub is remotely controlled by a remote controller in a bathroom. This bathroom remote control is usually fixedly installed on the wall surface of the bathroom, and includes an operation unit for remotely controlling the water heater and a display unit for displaying an operation state of the water heater and an operation state by the remote controller. I have. The user operates the remote control while viewing the remote control display while checking the operation status of the water heater such as turning on / off the operation of the water heater, setting the temperature of hot water and bath, and the operation status of the remote control. Was. Further, as another example of the remote control, there has been a wireless remote control having a portable remote control having an operation unit and a display unit.

[0003]

However, in the case of a conventional remote controller fixedly installed on the wall of a bathroom,
In order to operate the remote controller while taking a bath, there is a disadvantage that the user must approach the remote controller installed on the wall.
Also, the size of the display is limited to the dimensions of the remote control,
Since there is a limit to the size of characters and the like to be displayed, a person with myopia who removes glasses when taking a bath has a disadvantage that it is difficult to confirm the display contents unless his eyes are brought close to the display unit of the remote controller.

[0004] In the case of a wireless remote controller, it is possible to place the remote controller near or in the hands of a bather and operate the operation unit while looking at the display unit. But,
Since the size of the remote control is more limited than that of the type mounted on a wall for convenience of carrying, the size of the display unit integrated with the remote control is further reduced. Therefore, there is a disadvantage that it is difficult for a presbyopic person or the like to check the display content of the display unit even if the remote controller is placed at hand.

An object of the present invention is to provide a display device for a bathroom in which the inconvenience is solved and a bather in a bathtub can easily check the operating state and operating state of the water heater and can easily operate it. With the goal.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a bathroom display device of the present invention includes an operation section for remotely controlling a water heater, and a remote control arranged in or near a bathtub. And a projector for projecting and displaying the operating state of the water heater and the operating state of the remote controller on a wall surface or a ceiling of the bathroom in a scalable manner based on a signal from the remote controller. ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the bather in a bathtub can operate the operation part of the remote control arrange | positioned at the bathtub or its vicinity easily at hand, and the operation state of the water heater displayed on the size which is easy to see by a projector. It is possible to remotely control the water heater while easily checking the operation state by the remote controller.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a bathroom display device provided in a bathroom for recognizing voice for operating a water heater, and a water heater based on a signal from the voice recognition device. And a projector for projecting and displaying the driving state and the operation state recognized by the voice recognition device on a wall surface or a ceiling of the bathroom in a scaleable manner.
In this case, the bather operates the water heater only by voice without being restricted by the posture or position of the bather, while checking the operation state and operation state of the water heater displayed in a size that is easy to see by the projector. be able to.

[0008] In the present invention, the projector is a means for inputting an image stored in a storage device or an image from an external device, such as a television broadcast image, a video, a DVD, an image stored on a hard disk, or an Internet image. Preferably, in addition to the operating state of the water heater, at least one of the images can be projected and displayed. Thereby, a bather can display and view an image such as a television broadcast on a wall surface or a ceiling of the bathroom in an easily viewable size.

[0009]

Next, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a bathroom provided with a bathroom display device according to one embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
(A), (b), and (c) are schematic illustrations of an operation unit of a remote controller and a projection plane by a projector. Referring to FIG.
1 is a bathroom configured as a system bath, 2 is a ceiling of the bathroom 1, 3 and 4 are wall surfaces of the bathroom 1, and 5 is a bathtub.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a bathroom remote control for remotely controlling a water heater (not shown). The remote control 6 is installed at the upper edge of the bathtub 5 so that a bather in the bathtub 5 can easily operate the remote control at hand. The position where the remote controller 6 is installed is not limited to this, and the bather in the bathtub 5 can easily and easily hold the remote controller 6 at hand.
May be arranged in the bathtub 5 and a place near the bathtub 5 so that the user can operate. Further, as a wireless remote controller that can carry the remote controller 6 to a desired place, a receiver for receiving a signal from the wireless remote controller may be provided in the projector 8 described later.

Reference numeral 7 denotes an operation unit provided on the remote controller 6 for remotely operating the water heater. The operation unit 7 is made up of operation buttons having a large shape and a small number so that it is easy to see and operate even for people with myopia or presbyopia. Also use large letters and symbols. In the present embodiment, the operation unit 7 includes three operation buttons 7 as shown in FIG.
a, 7b and 7c. Operation buttons 7a, 7
b, 7c are for turning on / off the operation of the water heater, switching between the hot water temperature and the bath temperature by a combination of pressing operations of the respective buttons,
The operating state of the water heater is operated by performing various functions such as setting of a hot water temperature and a bath temperature, and a signal corresponding to the operating state and the operating state of the water heater is transmitted from the remote controller 6 to a projector 8 described later.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a projector provided on the ceiling 2 of the bathroom 1. The projector 8 enlarges or reduces the operation state of the water heater (not shown) or the operation state of the operation unit 7 of the remote controller 6 on the wall surface 3 of the bathroom 1 based on a signal input from the remote controller 6 in response to the operation of the operation unit 7. Projected and displayed as possible. Reference numeral 9 denotes a projection surface projected and displayed on the wall surface 3 by the projector 8, and the size of the projection surface 9 is enlarged or reduced by operating the operation unit 7 of the remote controller 6 so that the projection surface 9 can be easily seen by a bather. it can.

The projector 8 can change the projection direction and angle in addition to the size of the projection surface to be projected, so that the position of the projection surface can be changed arbitrarily. May be projected and displayed on the ceiling 2 or the wall surface 4 of the bathroom 1.
For example, you may make it project on the projection surface 10 of the wall surface 4. Further, a movable projection plate 11 may be provided to project and display the operating state of the water heater on the projection plate 11 placed at a desired place in the bathroom 1.

Further, a part of the display contents by the projector 8 may be selected so that only the selected part can be enlarged or reduced to an arbitrary size and displayed. May be arbitrarily selectable.

Since steam easily enters the bathroom, when a projector 8 is provided in the bathroom 1, air is blown toward the lens to prevent dew condensation on a lens (not shown) that emits projection light of the projector 8. It is preferable that a blower (not shown) be provided integrally with or separately from the projector 8. Further, a transparent member such as glass (not shown) may be provided on the ceiling or the wall surface of the bathroom 1, and a projector may be provided behind the transparent member to project the light into the bathroom 1 through the transparent member. In this case, it is preferable to provide a blower for blowing air to the transparent member in order to prevent dew condensation on the transparent member.

The projector 8 of the present embodiment displays the operation state of the water heater as described above, and also displays images of a television broadcast, images stored in a storage device such as a video, a DVD, a hard disk, and the Internet. Each input terminal (not shown) for inputting an image stored in a storage device (not shown) or an image from an external device, such as an image, is provided. Is displayed in a size that can be easily viewed. This allows
Bathers can watch TV broadcasts in a size that is easy to see. Further, the projector 8 is provided with an input terminal (not shown) for inputting sound from an external device or the like, and is provided with audio equipment such as a speaker for emitting the sound. Thereby, the bather can view both the image and the sound such as the television broadcast, and can also enjoy only the sound such as the radio broadcast and the CD. Note that the projector 8 may simultaneously display the hot water supply temperature, the current time, and the like while projecting and displaying the above-described screen of a television broadcast or the like. The display of an image such as a television broadcast by the projector 8 can be performed by a combination of predetermined pressing operations of the operation buttons 7a, 7b, 7c of the operation unit 7 of the remote controller 6. Note that the projector 8
May display only the operation state of the water heater according to cost and necessity, and may omit the function of displaying an image of a television broadcast.

Next, a method of operating the bathroom display device of the present embodiment will be described. The projector 8 normally does not display anything on the ceiling 2 and the wall surfaces 3 and 4 of the bathroom 1. Thereby, bathroom 1
By eliminating the remote control display sections of the ceiling 2 and the wall surfaces 3 and 4 and not displaying anything when unnecessary, it is possible to provide a bathroom with an improved aesthetic appearance.

When operating the bathroom display, FIG.
Referring to (a), when the operation button 7a of the remote controller 6 is first pressed once, the projector 8 displays the projection surface 9a on the wall surface 3 of the bathroom 1. On the projection surface 9a, "water heater",
Characters such as "TV" and "video" are displayed, and one of them flashes. The switching of the blinking character is performed by pressing the operation button 7b to move the blinking character to the upper character, and pressing the operation button 7c to move the blinking character to the lower character. The content to be displayed by the projector 8 is determined by pressing the operation button 7a. For example, when the operation button 7a is pressed while the character "Hot water heater" is blinking, the content to be displayed by the projector 8 is the operation of the water heater. The state is determined and the projection plane 9
Switching from a to the projection plane 9b as shown in FIG. 2 (b).

Referring to FIG. 2B, when the projector 8 displays the projection surface 9b on the wall surface 3 of the bathroom 1, if the operation of the water heater was previously set to "ON", "ON" Flashes, and if set to “off”, “off” flashes.
Switching of blinking from “off” to “on” is performed by the operation button 7b.
Is pressed, and switching of blinking from "on" to "off" is performed by pressing the operation button 7c. "Off"
When the operation button 7a is pressed in the blinking state, "OFF" is determined, the operation of the water heater is stopped, and the display of the projector 8 disappears. On the other hand, when the operation button 7a is
When is pressed, the projection surface 9b of the projector 8 is switched to the projection surface 9c in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2C, the current hot water supply temperature and bath temperature are displayed on projection surface 9c, the number indicating the "hot water supply" temperature flashes, and the hot water supply temperature can be set.
Here, every time the operation button 7a is pressed, the flashing of the number indicating the “hot water” temperature and the flashing of the number indicating the “furo” temperature are switched, and the setting of the hot water supply temperature and the setting of the bath temperature are switched. Can be. Then, for example, as shown in FIG. 2 (c), when the number indicating the temperature of "hot water supply" is blinking, pressing the operation button 7b once increases the blinking number by one, and when the button is kept pressed, the number continuously increases. And the set temperature of hot water supply rises. When lowering the set temperature of hot water supply,
A similar pressing operation is performed by the operation button 7c. The setting of the bath temperature is similarly performed using the operation buttons 7b and 7c.

2 (a), 2 (b) and 2 (c), when the operation buttons 7a and 7b are simultaneously pressed, the sizes of the projection surfaces 9a, 9b and 9c are enlarged, respectively. When the buttons 7a and 7c are pressed simultaneously, the projection surface 9
The size of a, 9b, 9c is reduced. Thereby, the bather sets the size of the projection surface displayed by the projector 8 to a size that is easy to see, and easily checks the operation state of the water heater, the operation state of the remote controller 6, or the screen of the television broadcast. , The remote controller 6 can be operated.

In the above operation, after a predetermined time period during which no operation is performed on the operation section 7 of the remote controller 6, the projector 8 turns off the display. In addition, for operations other than the operation of the water heater, such as the television broadcasting and the video, the operation buttons 7 of the remote controller 6 determined as necessary.
The operation is performed while a necessary projection surface is displayed by the projector 8 by a combination of the pressing operations a, 7b, and 7c.

In the bathroom display device of the above embodiment of the present invention, the water heater and the projector 8 were operated using the remote controller 6. The bathroom display device according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a voice recognition device that recognizes voice for operating the water heater and the projector 8 without the remote control 6 or in addition to the remote control 6. The voice recognition device is the projector 8
The water heater and the projector 8 are operated by recognizing a voice command of a bather in the bathroom 1. The bather operates the water heater and the projector 8 while viewing the display contents projected on the wall surface 3 and the like by the projector 8. This eliminates the need for the bather to operate the remote controller or the like with his / her hand, so that the bather and the projector 8 can be operated without being restricted by the posture or position of the bather.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a bathroom provided with a bathroom display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C are schematic explanatory diagrams of an operation unit of a remote controller and a projection surface of a projector.

[Explanation of symbols]

1. Bathroom, 2. Ceiling, 3, 4, Wall, 5.
・ Bathtub, 6 ・ ・ Remote control, 7 ・ Operation unit, 7a,
7b, 7c ... operation buttons, 8 ... projector,
9, 10 Projection plane, 11 Projection plate

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Tetsuya Higuchi 2-26, Fukuzumi-cho, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture Inside Rinnai Corporation (72) Inventor Katsunori 2-26, Fukuzumi-cho, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Inside Linnai Corporation (72) Inventor Hiroaki Higashijima 2-26, Fukuzumicho, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture Inside Linnai Corporation (72) Inventor Hitomi Ishiomaru 2-26, Fukuzumicho, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture F-term in Nnai Corporation (reference) 3L024 CC06 EE02 FF01 FF02 FF11

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An operation unit for remotely controlling a water heater, a remote controller arranged in or near a bathtub, and an operation state of the water heater and an operation state of the remote controller based on a signal from the remote controller. And a projector for projecting and displaying the image on a wall surface or a ceiling of the bathroom so as to be scaleable. 2. A voice recognition device provided in a bathroom for recognizing voice for operating a water heater, and an operation state of the water heater and a voice recognition device based on a signal from the voice recognition device. A bathroom display device, comprising: a projector that projects the recognized operation state onto a wall surface or a ceiling of the bathroom so as to be scaled up and down, and displays the projector. 3. The projector further comprises means for inputting an image stored in a storage device or an image from an external device, and at least one of the images in addition to the operation state of the water heater. The display device for a bathroom according to claim 1, wherein the display device is capable of projecting and displaying one of them.