JPH05207572A - Remote control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To apply remote control to an electric equipment simply and by intuition by providing a power glove as a detection discrimination means, a system main body as a generating transmission means and a main body control signal reception section as a reception means to the system. CONSTITUTION:Serial data in 8-bits on a data bus sent from a power glove main body 2 of a data signal generating section 11 are fetched by a shift register synchronously with a clock signal sequentially in a data signal analysis section 5a of the system main body 5, the data arranged by 8 bits are converted into parallel data, a combination circuit analyzes the parallel data to judge what kind of operation is made by a hand, a finger or an arm of the user and which operation the user desires for a video main body 6 and generates a control signal corresponding to the video control instruction by the motion of the finger, hand or arm. The data signal analysis section 5a sends the control signal to a main body control signal reception section 6a of the video main body 6 as an infrared ray signal through a main body control signal transmission section 5b.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote control system, and more particularly to a remote control system that allows intuitive and easy remote control.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional remote control system, a button on the operation board of a commander is pressed to remotely operate an electric device to be operated. Had to find a button that was irrelevant and press it.

[0003]

However, in the above-described remote control system, when it is desired to cause an electric device to perform a certain operation, a button that is set irrespective of the sense of the user must be found and pressed. , The operability is poor. Also, if the functions of electrical equipment increase and you try to operate them all remotely, the number of commander buttons will increase,
The operability of the remote control is significantly reduced.

An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control system which allows intuitive and easy remote control.

[0005]

A remote control system of the present invention comprises a power glove 1 as a detection / discrimination means, a system main body 5 as a generation / transmission means, and a main body control signal reception section 6a as a reception means. It is characterized by being provided.

[0006]

In the remote control system having the above structure, the power glove 1 converts the movement of the finger or arm into an electric signal (data signal), and the electric signal is supplied to the system body 5. The system body 5 analyzes the electric signal,
An infrared signal corresponding to the result is transmitted to an electric device as an operation target, here, a main body control signal receiving unit 6a of the video main body 6.

As a result, the video main body 6 can be operated intuitively and sensuously, and even if the number of functions desired to be remotely controlled increases, there are countless combinations of finger and arm movements. It can be dealt with without making significant improvements.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. 2 is an external configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a remote control system according to the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a remote control system according to the present invention.

In these figures, 1 is a power glove, and this power glove 1 is composed of a power glove main body 2, a sound wave sensor device 3 and a connector 4. The power glove body 2 is connected to the coupler 4 via the cord 7. The sound wave sensor device 3 is connected to the coupler 4 via the cord 8. Therefore, the sound wave sensor device 3
Are connected to the power glove body 2 via the coupler 4.

Here, the power glove 1 is for converting movements such as a user putting the power glove main body 2 to move a hand up and down, left and right, bending a finger or an arm into an electric signal (data signal). .. The power glove main body 2 is a glove-shaped controller dedicated to the family computer that covers from the finger part to the upper arm part of the right hand. As shown in FIG. 5, a strain gage 51 is formed on all fingers of the power glove body 2.
Is incorporated, and a signal corresponding to the movement of the finger is generated. There is a controller device in which a plurality of buttons are arranged on the upper arm of the power glove body 2, and this controller device controls the signal of the power glove. Also,
This controller device has a built-in microcomputer, and the system main body 5 (composed of a family computer) to which a corresponding signal is connected by a connector 9 only when a predetermined hand or finger movement is performed. .)
Send to. The correspondence between the movement of the hand or finger and the generated signal can be changed by operating the program button of the controller device.

Further, the sound wave sensor device 3 senses a sound wave emitted from a sound wave emitting portion mounted on the back of the power glove body 2, detects movements of the hand in the up / down direction, the left / right direction, and the front / rear direction. Is transmitted as a signal to the power glove body 2 via the coupler 4.

The system body 5 includes a connector 9 and a cord 1.
It is connected to the coupler 4 via 0. Therefore, the system body 5 is connected to the power glove body 2 via the connector 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the system main body 5 includes a data signal analysis unit 5a (composed of a family computer), a main body control signal transmission unit 5b, and a timing control unit 5c.

The data signal analysis unit 5a takes in the 8-bit serial data sent from the power globe body 2 bit by bit in accordance with the clock signal, and when 8 bits are complete, converts the data into parallel data. It is composed of a combination circuit which analyzes data and outputs a corresponding control signal (decode output corresponding to a corresponding operation instruction) to the main body control signal transmitting unit 5b. In addition,
The shift register receives the data sent from the power globe main body 1 bit by bit in synchronization with the clock, and outputs the parallel data after 8 bits are aligned.

Based on the control signal obtained from the data signal analyzing section 5a, the main body control signal transmitting section 5b transmits an infrared signal for causing the video main body 6 to perform the operation instructed by the control signal to the video main body 6 side.

The timing control unit 5c has a strobe generating circuit for generating and generating a strobe signal and a clock generating circuit for generating and generating a clock signal. The strobe generating circuit and the clock generating circuit are both a three-stage oscillator circuit and a monostable circuit. It consists of a multivibrator. Timing control unit 5
c supplies the clock signal to the power globe 1 as the data signal analysis unit 5a and the data signal generation unit 11, and supplies the strobe signal to the power globe 1.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a video main body to be operated. The video main body 6 is provided with a main body control signal receiving section 6a for receiving an infrared signal from the main body control signal transmitting section 5b of the system main body 5. .. The video main body 6 generates a control signal necessary for performing the corresponding operation from the infrared signal received by the main body control signal receiving section 6a.

The system body 5 has a power supply unit, and the output of the power supply unit is supplied to the data signal analysis unit 5a, the timing control unit 5c, and the data signal generation unit 11.

Next, the operation will be described. The user wears the power glove body 2 and moves his / her hand up / down, left / right, front / back direction, bends a finger or arm, and so on.
The operation corresponding to the operation command is performed to operate. The sound wave sensor device 3 detects a sound wave transmitted from a sound wave transmitter mounted on the back of the power glove main body 2, detects movements of the hand in the up / down, left / right, and front / rear directions, and uses the movement as a signal to generate power. Transmitted to the glove body 2 via the coupler 4, the power glove body 2 converts this signal into a data signal. Also, movements such as bending of a finger or arm are converted into corresponding data signals. These data are taken into the shift register in the power globe main body 2 (controller device) in synchronization with the strobe signal sent from the timing control section 5c of the system main body 6, and are sequentially set to 1 from the upper bit in accordance with the clock signal. The data is serially transferred bit by bit to the data signal analysis unit 5a of the system body 5.
In this 8-bit serial data, a certain bit is active (low level) according to the movement of the hand or arm.

For example, when the thumb is bent and the hand is raised right above, the signal waveforms output from the power glove body 2 are as shown in FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b).

In the data signal analysis unit 5a of the system body 5, 8-bit serial data on the data bus transmitted from the power globe body 2 of the data signal generation unit 11 is sequentially stored in the shift register in synchronization with the clock signal. Take it in, convert it into parallel data when 8 bits are complete, analyze the parallel data with the combination circuit, let the user perform what kind of operation with hands, fingers, arms, and what kind of operation the video main body 6 performs Is determined and a control signal corresponding to the video operation command by the movement of the hand, finger or arm is generated. The data signal analysis unit 5a transmits this control signal to the main body control signal reception unit 6b of the video main body 6 as an infrared signal via the main body control signal transmission unit 5b.

The main body control signal receiving section 6a in the video main body 6
Converts the infrared signal received by the control signal into a control signal for performing the video operation desired by the user. Then, the video main body 6 operates according to the command based on the control signal.

FIG. 4 shows the correspondence between the user's operation, video operation, and the output waveform of the power glove body 2. In the data waveform of FIG. 4, "H" is a high level, "L" is a low level, and "X" is a don't care. For example, to perform a "cue" operation, the user may hold his hand and move his arm to the right while playing the tape.

As can be seen from the above description, the power glove 1 can be used to operate the video main body 6 intuitively and intuitively and easily, and the number of functions for remote operation of the video main body 6 is increased. Since there are innumerable combinations of finger, hand, and arm movements, it is possible to deal with them without making major improvements to the device.

In the present embodiment, the correspondence between the user's motion and the video operation is set as shown in FIG. 4, for example, but this is due to the restriction of the power glove 1. Therefore, when a device other than the power glove 1 is used as the data signal generator 11, any operation that can be recognized by the device can be used as a command operation. Further, the correspondence between the command operation and the video operation can be changed to any correspondence at any time using the memory and the microprocessor.

Further, in the present embodiment, the power glove main body 2, the sound wave sensor device 3 and the system main body 5 are separately provided as shown in FIG. 1, but the present invention is not limited to this. As shown in FIG. 5, the functions similar to those of the power glove 1 and the system main body 5 of FIG. 1 can be integrated into one glove remote controller 52 to downsize the entire remote controller system. Here, in the glove remote controller 52 as the remote control system of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 5, one strain gage 51 is built in each finger of the glove 53, and the data signal analysis unit 54 is provided in the arm of the glove 53. A main body control signal transmission unit 55 and a moving direction detection unit 56 are provided on the back of the glove 53. The moving direction detection unit 56 replaces the sound wave sensor device 3 of FIG. 1, and as shown in FIG. 6, each acceleration sensor 57 to 59 in the x, y, and z axis directions and the angular velocity sensor in the x, y, and z axis directions. It consists of 60-62.

Here, the strain gage 51, the moving direction detecting section 55 and the data signal analyzing section 54 constitute the detecting / determining means of the present invention. Further, the data signal analysis section 54 and the main body control signal transmission section 55 constitute the generation / transmission means of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the globe remote controller shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, the data signal analysis unit 54 including a microcomputer includes a globe 53.
The output from the strain gage 51 built in each finger of the, the outputs of the acceleration sensors 57 to 59, and the outputs of the angular velocity sensors 60 to 62 are supplied. Based on these outputs, the data signal analysis unit 54 detects the movement of the finger, the movement of the hand or the arm, and outputs the control signal of the video operation corresponding to the movement of the hand, the finger or the arm to the main body control signal transmission unit 55. To the main unit control signal receiving unit of the electric device (for example, video device) 63 via the.

The present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and various applications and modifications are conceivable without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0029]

As described above, according to the remote control system of the present invention, it is possible to intuitively and sensibly operate an electric device as an operation target by moving a finger, a hand or an arm. However, even if the number of functions for remote control of electric devices is increased, there are countless combinations of movements of fingers, hands, and arms, so that it is possible to cope with the device without making a great improvement.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a remote control system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a remote control system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a signal waveform output from the power glove body 2 of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a correspondence relationship between a user operation, a video operation, and an output waveform of the power glove body 2.

FIG. 5 is a layout diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the glove remote controller shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Power Glove 2 Power Glove Main Body 3 Sound Wave Sensor Device 5 System Main Body 5a Data Signal Analysis Section 6 Video Main Body 6a Main Body Control Signal Reception Section 11 Data Signal Generation Section 51 Strain Gage 54 Data Signal Analysis Section 55 Main Body Control Signal Transmission Section 56 Moving Direction Detection unit 57 to 59 Acceleration sensor 60 to 62 Angular velocity sensor 63 Electric device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A detection / determination unit that can be attached to a hand or an arm, detects various movements of a finger, a hand or an arm, determines corresponding information, and sends the information, and a detection / determination unit that sends the information. Generating / transmitting means for generating and transmitting a signal required to cause an electric device as an operation target to perform an operation desired by a user by analyzing the received information, and a generating / transmitting unit provided in the electric device. A remote control system comprising: a receiving unit that receives a signal from the transmitting unit.