KR20110071792A - Method and apparatus for intelligent remote control interface - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An intelligent remote controller interface device and a method thereof are provided to offer a remote controller interface which can use through an instinctive and simple operation without a manual, thereby eliminating the inconvenience about the remote controller operation. CONSTITUTION: A user profile manager(20) certifies a remote controller user. An interface provider(30) offers a remote controller interface for channel selection based on a profile of the certified user. A controller(40) offers the remote controller interface to the user with a touch type. A controller controls an external instrument in order to offer the channel selected through the remote controller interface to the user.

Description

Intelligent remote control interface device and method {Method and Apparatus for intelligent remote control interface}

The present invention relates to an intelligent remote control interface device and method, which will be described in more detail using a touch-based hand-held device device in the conventional button-type interface provides an intuitive and simplified interface and personal authentication The present invention relates to an intelligent remote control interface device and method that can register a user's favorite content through a procedure to provide a personalized service and control a device.

The conventional remote control interface mainly uses a method of controlling by using a button, but as the functions of the multimedia devices become more complicated, the number of buttons of the remote control for adjusting them is increasing. The user using the remote control mainly uses only frequently used buttons in a plurality of button states, and rarely use a button having a complicated function among the buttons of the remote control. For example, most users use only a limited function of selecting a channel button for their favorite content or using a direction key to control a channel, a volume, and the like.

Recently, in conjunction with the spread of IPTV, a simplified remote control has been released while maintaining the existing button-type interface. However, from the viewpoint of providing various contents services in both directions due to the nature of IPTV, more control functions should be put in the remote controller. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce an additional button interface method for fine adjustment or control.

In addition, with the advent of IPTV, it became possible to provide various contents that can be watched (Doing on watching) rather than the simple watching function provided by the conventional TV. In other words, as the interactive service is enabled, various contents such as games, banking, shopping, interactive advertisements, interactive educational contents, and polls can be used. Due to the change in the environment that enables interactive services, an intelligent interface device that can utilize and control various contents is required.

In addition, the existing remote control was to be used in the same way by using a universal interface for the purpose of controlling a simple device.

However, the types of services to be provided vary depending on the age group, gender and mood of the user. For example, children prefer content services of genres such as cartoons and games, but men want content services such as news, sports, and movies, and women want content services related to shopping or drama. The types of services to be provided in this way can be classified into various categories according to individual preferences.

Therefore, if you do not deviate from the button interface method for the existing remote control, there is a limit of the interface because there are still buttons that are not used and there are hidden functions that can be used only after reading the manual.

In addition, users want to be provided with personalized service, but there is a limitation of personalized service with the existing remote control method, and the interface becomes more complicated to add a function to provide personalized service to the existing button type remote control. Will be generated.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an intelligent remote control interface device and method that can be intuitively used without a manual and simplified by overcoming a conventional remote button type remote control to solve the above problems.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an intelligent remote control interface and a method for providing a personalized service by recommending, registering, and managing a preferred service through an individual authentication procedure.

Intelligent remote control interface device according to the present invention for achieving the above object comprises a user profile management unit for performing authentication of the remote control user; An interface provider configured to provide a remote controller interface for selecting a channel of the corresponding user based on a preset profile of the authenticated user; And a controller configured to control a remote controller interface to be provided to a user in a touch manner and to control an external device to provide a selected channel to the user through the remote controller interface.

According to the configuration of the present invention, by providing a remote control interface device and a control method that the user can use through the intuitive and simple operation without a manual in the conventional button-type complex remote control interface, eliminating the inconvenience of complicated remote control operation and personal authentication Through this, the user can be provided with a preferred content service.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following description and the annexed drawings are provided to aid the overall understanding of the present invention, and detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a view schematically illustrating the configuration of an intelligent remote control interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the intelligent remote control interface device to which the intelligent remote control interface providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied, the remote control interface controller 10, the user profile manager 20, the user profile DB 30, the interface provider ( 40), the touch device 50 is configured. In the present invention, the intelligent remote control interface device targets a touch-capable handheld device and can use a device in the form of a conventional touch-based mobile device. In addition, each configuration is illustrated for the description of the present invention is not limited to this, and additional configuration for performing the function of the present invention is to use a known technique and description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, the present invention includes a process and a control interface method for providing a user preference service through a user authentication procedure.

The touch device 50 displays the interface screen according to the present invention, and processes the touch input by the user as a corresponding signal to provide to the remote controller interface controller 10. In the present invention, the touch device 50 preferably employs a touch screen, but any method may be used as long as the touch device supports input / output of a touch method.

The remote controller interface controller 10 performs input / output from the touch interface 30 to perform a remote controller control (for example, channel selection, channel change, content provision, etc.) for the corresponding input.

In addition, the remote control interface controller 10 controls the touch device 50 to provide an intuitively simple and usable interface. In addition, the remote controller interface control unit 10 controls to provide a personalized service to register and manage the user's preferred content through a personal authentication procedure.

In addition, the remote control interface control unit 10 controls to generate a wireless signal for controlling the corresponding device according to a button input from the user. Since the processing method by the remote control interface controller 10 can be easily understood from a known technology, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, the remote control interface controller 10 loads and provides a corresponding interface to a user according to a preset mode in performing the above-described control function. Here, the preset mode includes an authentication mode for processing authentication for a user, a management mode for registering a user and a user profile, and a general mode for an unauthenticated user.

The user profile manager 20 performs user authentication, user registration, user profile management, and the like. In more detail, the user profile manager 20 authenticates a user by using the user profile DB 30 when a user authentication request is made. Such a user authentication method may use a fingerprint recognition, a voice recognition, a face recognition, an iris recognition, and a password input method that are commonly used, but the detailed description of the authentication method is omitted in the present invention.

The interface provider 40 loads and provides interface data preset in the user profile DB. That is, the interface provider 40 loads the corresponding interface data from the user profile DB under the control of the remote controller interface provider 10 and transmits the corresponding interface data to the remote controller interface provider 10.

The intelligent remote control interface device according to the present invention having the above-described configuration can be serviced using a touch-based mobile device. For example, you can register an application for a control device on Apple's iPhone or iPod Touch and use it as a single application. In addition, the present invention can be applied to a touch-based smartphone or a device supporting a wireless interface.

2 is a diagram illustrating an interface screen according to the present invention.

In FIG. 2, an interface screen 100 according to the present invention shows an interface screen showing a user's preferred content. Reference numeral 110 is a main content channel showing a main content classification, and 150 is a multi-mode interface 400. The main content channel 110 is displayed based on profile data of the corresponding user according to user authentication. That is, if it is determined that the remote control interface controller 10 is a registered user through the user authentication process, the user profile DB 30 is searched through the interface provider 40 and the main content channel 110 that the user prefers is loaded. Display on the touch device 50. The main content channel 110 may be added or deleted according to the user's preference.

In addition, the multi-mode interface 150 displays an interface mode that performs three main functions. First, when the intelligent remote control interface device according to the present invention is powered on, the multi-mode interface 150 is a screen mode showing the authentication mode. Secondly, after the authentication process is completed, the mode changes to a mode that provides an interface showing the preferred content selected by the main content channel 110. When the user registration fails in the authentication process and the mode is passed to the normal mode, the main content channel and the multi-mode interface 150 show the pre-registered content channel and the pre-registered content in the multi-mode interface. Third, it provides a selection interface mode through touch.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a preferred content screen of the multi-mode interface shown in FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 3, a method of navigating each content when the screen is switched to the preferred content screen of the multi-mode interface 150 shown in FIG. 2 will be described. First, the registered content may be switched by touching the left direction 151 or the right direction 152 among the screens displayed on the multi-mode interface 150. When the user selects a sport in the main content channel 110, the icon or name related to golf appears in the multi-mode interface 150. When the user touches the left direction 151, the icon 153 is switched to the baseball among the registered preferred contents. In addition, when touched in the right direction 152, a football icon 154 appears. When the selection of the content is made in the multi-mode interface 150, the content is executed.

4 is a diagram illustrating an initial screen of a remote control interface of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the initial screen of the remote control interface 100 shows the authentication mode screen 100. When the authentication of the user is completed, the classification of the main content channel 110 based on the user preference is shown.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen showing preferred content selected in a main content channel of FIG. 4.

Reference numeral 130 is a preferred content of the remote control interface, 140 is a management mode screen. If the user does not select the preferred content 130, the item of related content is displayed using the preference information of the user profile. Through the management mode screen 140, a user may be registered or contents may be registered and deleted.

Hereinafter, the operation of the intelligent remote control interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

6 is a diagram illustrating an operation sequence of an intelligent remote control interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 6, the remote controller interface controller 10 receives corresponding interface data from the user profile DB 30 through the interface provider 40 and displays the interface data on the touch device 50.

At this time, the remote control interface control unit 10 displays the authentication mode together when the user touches the start button on the initial screen of the remote control interface or when the power is turned on (S10). The remote control interface controller 10 receives the user's authentication information through the touch device 50 and transmits the authentication information to the user profile manager 20. Then, the user profile manager 20 performs user authentication by searching or matching the authentication information of the corresponding user using the user profile DB 30.

Here, if the user is an authenticated user as a result of authentication (S20; Yes), the remote control interface controller 10 searches for the user profile through the interface provider S40 (S21) and displays the main content channel in the remote control interface (S22). ).

That is, when it is determined that the user is a registered user through the authentication mode (S20; Yes), the remote control interface controller 10 searches the profile information of the user and analyzes the preference information to show the interface screen for the mapped main content channel.

Accordingly, the remote controller interface control unit 10 provides an interface screen for loading and showing sub-contents preferred by the user (S24). Here, the main content channel is an interface screen showing the genre of the provided content classified into major categories such as sports, news, drama, games, cartoons, movies, music, and health. The main content channel can be divided into new categories and added or deleted.

Next, when the user selects the user's favorite content channel with the touch device 50 (S50), the remote control interface controller 10 reads the corresponding contents set in the user profile DB 30 through the interface controller 40. Indentation is executed (S60). For example, if a drama is selected as the main content channel, the user may show a drama content channel that the user prefers among the currently aired dramas. Finally, the remote control interface control unit 10 sends a control command to the television control apparatus (not shown) and executes the content selected by the user.

If, in step S20, the remote control interface controller 10 determines that the user is not authenticated through the authentication mode described above, it is determined that the user is not a registered user (S20; No). Accordingly, the remote control interface control unit 10 goes to the management mode (S30). In the management mode, user profile registration and deletion, content channel registration and deletion, and preference management are performed.

At this time, if the user wants to use the management mode (S30; Yes), the remote control interface control unit 10 provides a remote control interface to perform user registration for a user who has not been authenticated. Accordingly, the remote controller interface control unit 10 receives the user profile through the user profile registration process (S34) to register the user for the corresponding user.

Here, the user profile includes user's preferred content information, age group, gender, preferred content use time, and mood information according to the situation. During the user profile registration process, the user may select and register favorite content.

In this case, the user profile manager 20 retrieves and uses the user profile information through the main content channel user profile search process when the user is registered through the authentication mode. Meanwhile, in the management mode, the user profile manager 20 may recommend the main content channel and the preferred content channel, which are highly related in comparison with the user profile information and the meta information of the content.

 In the present invention, authentication database information is separately managed according to a user authentication method. In other words, if it is determined that the user authentication method that is frequently used can be used, it should be applied. For example, in the case of fingerprint recognition, there is a separate DB that manages fingerprint recognition data, and when authentication is performed through voice recognition, a voice recognition database exists separately and is managed by a voice recognition related module.

Next, in step S34, when the user profile registration is completed, the process returns to the authentication mode process (S10) again.

If, in step S30, the remote controller interface control unit 10 does not want the user to register, the remote controller interface control unit 10 proceeds to the normal mode (S40). The remote controller interface control unit 10 provides a basic interface for viewing all contents not including the user's preference when entering the general mode. Therefore, when used by an outsider other than the family, the user can select the normal mode and execute the content channel without going through the user authentication mode.

As described above, the present invention provides a remote control interface device and a control method that a user can use through an intuitive and simple operation without a manual in the conventional complex remote control interface of the button method, eliminating the inconvenience of the complicated remote control operation and personalized Through authentication, the user can be provided with a preferred content service.

That is, the present invention provides a simple interface that can be intuitively used by using a touch-based handheld device device in a conventional button-type interface, and registers and manages user's preferred contents through a personal authentication procedure. To provide personalized services and control devices.

In addition, the present invention provides a simple control interface based on the existing complex button method through the touch-based remote control device, and through the authentication process to register and manage user profile information, based on this to provide and control the preferred content Will be effective.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, and the present invention may be commonly used in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the claims. Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and these modifications should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or the scope of the present invention.

1 is a view schematically showing the configuration of an intelligent remote control interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 illustrates an interface screen according to the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a preferred content screen of the multi-mode interface shown in FIG.

4 is a diagram illustrating an initial screen of a remote control interface of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen showing preferred content selected in a main content channel of FIG. 4. FIG.

6 is a view showing the operation sequence of the intelligent remote control interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10: remote control interface control unit 20: user profile management unit

30: user profile DB 40: interface provider

50: touch device

Claims (1)

As a remote control interface device, A user profile manager which performs authentication of a remote controller user; An interface provider configured to provide a remote controller interface for channel selection based on a predetermined profile of the authenticated user; And And a controller configured to control the remote controller interface to be provided to the user by a touch method and to control an external device to provide a selected channel to the user through the remote controller interface.

Images