JPH07178256A - Electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To move a machine driving part or to change it without performing the mechanical control such as key input in the electronic equipment with the mechanical driving part such as playing machines and home electric products. CONSTITUTION:Two transmission and reception parts 10A and 10B which send and accept an infrared-ray light emitting signal are provided on the right and left shoulders on the main body of a robbot. The hand of the user is; placed above the right and left shoulders and the infrared ray light emitting signal sent from the corresponding transmission and reception parts 10A and 10B is reflected and accepted by the parts 10A and 10B. Then, a right-arm driving motor (A) 17a and a left-hand driving motor (B) 17b are started and controlled according to the combination of the presence or absence of the reception of the infra-red ray reflection light in the parts 10A and 10B. The right arm and the left arm are selectively moved clockwise or counterclockwise.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to electronic equipment having a mechanical drive unit such as toys and home electric appliances.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a toy such as a robot or a home electric appliance such as an air conditioner which is remotely controlled by using a remote controller or the like, it is usually required to move or change its mechanical drive unit to a desired state. This is done by operating the keys provided for each role on the remote control.

That is, for example, when it is desired to move the robot to the left or right, the robot can be moved in each direction by selectively operating the direction changing key.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional electronic equipment such as remote-controlled toys and home electric appliances, a key input operation is required to move or change the mechanical drive portion to a desired state. Therefore, for example, even when the robot is rotated or stopped, a command is issued by a mechanical operation of key input.

Therefore, there is a problem that a mechanical mechanism such as a toy or a home electric appliance cannot be moved or changed by a command of a realistic sense by a user, and an operating device such as a remote controller is always required. is there.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems,
An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device capable of moving or changing a mechanical drive unit with a realistic sensation such as gesturing and gesturing without performing a mechanical operation of key input.

[0007]

That is, the first electronic apparatus according to the present invention is a drive means for driving a mechanical mechanism,
A non-contact switch means that is switched by a user without touching the device body, and a drive control means that controls a drive state of a mechanical mechanism by the drive means according to a switch operation of the non-contact switch means. It was done.

A second electronic device according to the present invention is
Drive means for driving the mechanical mechanism, a plurality of non-contact switch means that are switched without the user touching the apparatus main body, and the drive means according to the combination of the switch operations of the plurality of non-contact switch means. And a drive control means for controlling the drive state of the mechanical mechanism.

[0009]

That is, in the first electronic device, for example, infrared light emitted by the light emitting element is reflected on the user's hand,
By the non-contact switch means for receiving the reflected light by the light receiving element and performing the switch operation, the switch state according to the movement of the user's hand is obtained, and the drive state of the mechanical mechanism is controlled according to the change of the switch state. Will be.

Further, in the second electronic apparatus, for example, a plurality of non-contact switch means for reflecting infrared light emitted by the light emitting element on the user's hand and receiving the reflected light by the light receiving element for switch operation. By providing the switch states, a switch state according to the movement of the user's hand can be obtained in detail by the combination of the switch operations, and the drive state of the mechanical mechanism can be controlled more finely in response to the change in the switch state.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic circuit of a robot equipped with the electronic equipment of the present invention.

This robot has a CPU (central processing unit)
11 is provided.

The CPU 11 controls the operation of each part of the circuit according to a system program stored in advance in the ROM 13 which is activated in response to a power-on signal from the power switch 12. The CPU 11 includes the power switch 1
2, ROM 13, two transceivers 10A, 10B, and R each having the same transmitter 14 and receiver 15, respectively.
AM16 is connected.

Two drive motors (A) 17a and (B) 17b for rotationally driving the right arm and the left arm of the robot body are connected to the CPU 11 via a drive control section 17.

The transmitter / receiver 10A is provided on the right shoulder of the robot body, and the transmitter / receiver 10B is provided on the left shoulder of the robot body.

The ROM 13 controls each of the drive motors (A) 17a, (B) 17b as a system program for controlling the CPU 11, for example, according to a signal receiving state in the transmitting / receiving sections 10A, 10B, A robot arm control program for rotating the right arm and the left arm of the robot body is stored in advance.

The transmitting section 14 of each of the transmitting / receiving sections 10A and 10B is provided with a transmitting circuit 14a and a light emitting element 14b, and infrared light is emitted and output according to a transmission command signal given from the CPU 11.

The receiving section 15 in each of the transmitting / receiving sections 10A and 10B is provided with a receiving circuit 15a and a light receiving element 15b for receiving and receiving an infrared light emission signal from the outside. The light receiving state is the receiving circuit 15a
Is notified to the CPU 11 via.

The RAM 16 is provided with, for example, a work register necessary for executing the robot arm control program, and one of them is an infrared ray in the receiving section 15 of the transmitting / receiving section 10B provided on the left shoulder of the robot body. A left light receiving flag register B which is set to "1" when a light emitting signal is received and received is provided.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing the main body structure of the robot with a part cut away.

The transmitter / receiver 10A is provided on the right shoulder of the robot body 20, and the transmitter / receiver 1 is provided on the left shoulder.
0B is provided.

The right arm 21a is provided with each reduction gear 22a.
Is rotated by a drive motor (A) 17a.

Further, the left arm 21b is rotationally driven by the drive motor (B) 17b via each reduction gear 22b.

Next, the operation of the robot having the above structure will be described.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the arm control processing of the robot.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operating state of the robot arm accompanying the arm control processing of the robot.

That is, when the power switch 12 is turned on, the robot arm control program stored in advance in the ROM 13 is started. At this time, first, two transmitting / receiving sections 10A provided on both shoulders of the robot main body 20, 1
In each transmission unit 14 of 0B, the light emitting element 14b is driven by the transmission circuit 14a, and the infrared light emission signal is transmitted upward.

Here, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, when the user's hand H is held over the right shoulder of the robot body 20, the infrared light emission signal transmitted from the transmitter 14 in the transmitter / receiver 10A becomes The infrared reflected light reflected by the user's hand H is received and received by the receiver 15 in the transmitter / receiver 10A (step S1).

In this way, when the transmitting / receiving section 10A provided on the right shoulder of the robot body 20 receives the infrared reflected light,
It is judged whether or not "1" is set in the left light receiving flag register B in the RAM 16, and in this case, the left light receiving flag register B is set in "0". Transmitter / receiver 1 provided on the left shoulder of 20
Even in 0B, it is determined whether or not the infrared reflected light is received (steps S2 → S3).

In this case, since the infrared reflected light is received by the non-contact operation of the user's lever H only at the transmitter / receiver 10A provided on the right shoulder of the robot body 20, "NO" at the step S3. Is determined (step S3).

Then, the drive motor (A) 17a is activated and controlled by the CPU 11 via the drive control unit 17, and the right arm 21a of the robot body 20 moves clockwise as indicated by the arrow X (steps S3 → S4). ).

That is, the user's hand H is moved to the robot body 2
When it extends over the right shoulder of 0, the right arm 21a is controlled to rotate clockwise.

On the other hand, by moving the hand H extending above the right shoulder of the robot body 20 further above the left shoulder, the infrared reflected light is also received by the transmitter / receiver 10B provided on the left shoulder. Then, since "YES" is determined in step S3, the drive motors (A) 17a and (B) 17b are transmitted from the CPU 11 via the drive control unit 17.
Are controlled so that the right arm 21a moves clockwise and the left arm 21b rotates counterclockwise (step S3).
→ S5).

That is, the user's hand H is moved to the robot body 2
When moving from above the right shoulder of 0 to above the left shoulder, the right arm 21a is controlled to rotate clockwise and the left arm 21b is controlled to rotate counterclockwise.

On the other hand, when the user's hand H is first held over the left shoulder of the robot main body 20 after the power switch 12 is turned on, the infrared reflected light is received by the transmitter / receiver 10B, so that the left light received in the RAM 16 is received. The register B is set to "1", and the CPU 11 controls the drive motor (B) 17b to start up via the drive control unit 17, and the robot main body 2
The left arm 21b of 0 moves counterclockwise (steps S6 → S7, S8).

That is, the user's hand H is moved to the robot body 2
When it is held over the left shoulder of 0, the left arm 21b is driven and controlled counterclockwise.

Then, by moving the hand H extending above the left shoulder of the robot body 20 further above the right shoulder, the infrared reflected light is also received by the transmitter / receiver 10A provided on the right shoulder. Then, it is determined "YES" in step S1 and the left light receiving flag register B in the RAM 16 is set to "1" in step S7, so "NO" in step S2.
Then, the drive motors (A) 17a and (B) 17b are both activated and controlled by the CPU 11 via the drive control unit 17, so that the right arm 21a operates counterclockwise and the left arm 21b operates clockwise ( Steps S1 → S2 → S9).

That is, the user's hand H is moved to the robot body 2
When moving from above the left shoulder of 0 to above the right shoulder, the right arm 21a is controlled to rotate counterclockwise and the left arm 21b is controlled to rotate clockwise.

In a state where no non-contact operation is performed by the user and the infrared reflected light is not received by any of the transmission / reception units 10A and 10B, the left light reception flag register B in the RAM 16 is set to "0". It is reset (steps S1 → S6 → S10).

Therefore, according to the robot having the above structure, the two transmitting / receiving sections 10A for transmitting / receiving the infrared light emission signal,
10B is provided on each of the right shoulder and the left shoulder of the robot body 20, and the user's hand H is arbitrarily held above the right shoulder or the left shoulder, so that the infrared light emission signals transmitted from the corresponding transmission / reception units 10A and 10B are generated. The transmitter / receiver 10A, 1 that is reflected
0B, the right arm drive motor (A) 17a and the left arm drive motor (B) 17 depending on the combination of the presence or absence of reception of the infrared reflected light in each of the transmission / reception units 10A and 10b.
b is activated and controlled, and the right arm 21a and the left arm 21b are selectively operated clockwise or counterclockwise. For example, the operating device such as a remote controller requiring mechanical key input is not always required, and The mechanical mechanism unit can be moved or changed by a command of a realistic sensation such as a gesture of a user.

In the above embodiment, the two transceivers 1
0A and 10B are provided, and the robot operation is controlled according to the combination of the reception operation of the infrared reflected light in each of the 0A and 10B. However, the transmitting / receiving section may be one. In addition to this, it controls various hand movements such as the number and time of light input, the received light intensity, and the time from the light input until the next light input. By detecting it, various movements such as moving the head and legs of the robot and moving it back and forth can be performed, and the machine such as the robot can be moved with an extremely realistic sensation.

[0042]

As described above, according to the first electronic device of the present invention, for example, the infrared light emitted by the light emitting element is reflected by the user's hand, and the reflected light is received by the light receiving element. By the non-contact switch means for performing the switch operation, the switch state according to the movement of the user's hand is obtained, and the drive state of the mechanical mechanism is controlled according to the change of the switch state.

According to the second electronic device of the present invention,
For example, by providing a plurality of non-contact switch means for reflecting the infrared light emitted by the light emitting element to the user's hand and receiving the reflected light by the light receiving element to perform a switch operation,
With each combination of the switch operations, the switch state according to the details of the user's hand is obtained, and the drive state of the mechanical mechanism is controlled more finely according to the change of the switch state.

Therefore, it becomes possible to move or change the mechanical drive unit with a realistic feeling such as a gesture or a gesture without performing a mechanical operation such as key input.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic circuit of a robot equipped with an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing a main body configuration of the robot with a part cut away.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing arm control processing of the robot.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation state of a robot arm associated with the arm control processing of the robot.

[Explanation of symbols]

10A, 10B ... Transceiver unit, 11 ... CPU (Central Processing Unit), 12 ... Power switch, 13 ... ROM, 14 ... Transmitter unit, 14a ... Transmitter circuit, 14b ... Light emitting element, 15 ... Receive unit, 15a ... Receive circuit, 15b ... Light receiving element, 16 ... RA
M, 17 ... Drive control unit, 17a ... Drive motor (A), 1
7b ... Drive motor (B), 20 ... Robot body, 21a
... right arm, 21b ... left arm, 22a, 22b ... reduction gear, B
... Left light receiving flag register, H ... Hand.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A drive means for driving a mechanical mechanism, a non-contact switch means for switching without a user touching a device body, and a mechanical mechanism by the drive means according to a switch operation of the non-contact switch means. Drive control means for controlling the drive state of the electronic device. 2. A drive means for driving a mechanical mechanism, a plurality of non-contact switch means which are switched without a user touching the apparatus body, and a combination of switch operations of the plurality of non-contact switch means. And drive control means for controlling the drive state of the mechanical mechanism by the drive means.