LT6664B - Sanitary ware with bluetooth-communication function - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a sanitary ware with bluetooth-communication function,comprising a ,,Bluetooth" communication interface disposed on the housing of a water tank of a toilet to receive a ,,Bluetooth" control command transmitted by a toilet user via the ,,Bluetooth" unit of a handheld mobile terminal; a flush handle disposed on the housing of the water tank of the toilet; an angle valve for importing water flow to the water tank via a water inlet tube; a rubber sealing pad disposed above the water inlet tube to stop the inflow of water by sealing the water@inlet tube when a float ball floats up; and a rubber sealing ring disposed in the water tank. By the present invention, the controllability of toilet can be improved.

Description

State of the art

Patent CN 201610567558.7 relates to a smart pedestal toilet for health monitoring. Using a mobile phone on a pedestal toilet, it is possible to perform processes for washing the human body: automatic washing of the hips, drying and massaging with water after emptying and so on. Routine urine examination, physique determination and body weight measurement may also be performed; the data may be retrieved and uploaded to the server health management software on a network at any time for the purpose of sending, sharing, storing and transmitting data; thus, chronic disease monitoring, physician-patient interaction, and remote diagnostics and treatment are performed.

The patent CN 201720187398.3 relates to an electronic toilet with Bluetooth communication music and includes a seat, a slot formed on the seat, wherein the electronic toilet also includes a control module, a Bluetooth communication module, a cover module, and a power amplifier module, which are arranged on the apertures and connected electronically to each other sequentially, wherein the control module is electronically coupled to the power amplifier module, the Bluetooth communication module is used to receive the audio signal and transmit it to the conversion module for further processing, then sent to the power amplifier module for to amplify, the control module is used to control the power amplifier module according to the operating state of the Bluetooth communication module. Therefore, the use of an electronic toilet according to the patent can reduce the power consumption of the power amplifier module, power consumption and effectively reduce the power consumption of the electronic toilet. However, both of the above-mentioned technical features do not disclose any technical features of the present invention.

Detailed Description of the Invention

The communication between the existing toilet and the users is not smooth and it is impossible for a difficult user, such as a patient, to perform all toilet operations manually, or worse, the patient will not perform on time and get exacerbated by hypertension, heart disease and so on. To overcome the above problem, the present invention provides plumbing with a Bluetooth connectivity feature that can provide a voice communication mechanism and more importantly implement appropriate control over the toilet by detecting and specifying the user's current body shape and posture.

According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a sanitary ware with a Bluetooth connection comprising:

A Bluetooth interface in the toilet bowl housing for receiving the Bluetooth control command transmitted by the toilet user via a Bluetooth mobile handheld device;

a flush handle in the toilet tank housing;

an angle valve for importing water flow into the tank via a water inlet pipe;

a rubber seal placed above the inlet pipe, which stops the flow of water by sealing the inlet pipe when the float ball floats upwards; and a rubber sealing ring in the tank.

Optionally in the plumbing system with Bluetooth connectivity, the platform additionally includes: a plurality of drain holes in the lower circular wall of the toilet base for draining water to the toilet bowl.

Optionally in the plumbing system with Bluetooth connectivity, the platform includes:

a water drain handle used to pull the rubber seal ring to allow water to flow into the drain holes.

Optionally in the plumbing system with Bluetooth connectivity, the platform additionally includes: a steering wheel in front of the toilet so that the user can control the front of the toilet. Specifically, the plumbing platform with Bluetooth connectivity additionally includes: the drive wheels on the underside of the toilet base, which provide the toilet power.

Optional Bluetooth plumbing platform additionally includes:

a voice input device for receiving a voice control signal provided by the toilet user;

a voice conversion device coupled to the voice input device for receiving a voice command signal and converting the voice command signal into a voice command;

an embedded control unit coupled to a voice conversion device for implementing appropriate toilet control based on a voice command in voice control mode;

a model determining device for determining the human torso model based on the human skeleton model and the human joint model, distinguishing the N main points of the human torso model and adjusting the reference positions of the N main points accordingly; between the N reference points, each reference point is the relative position of the corresponding reference to the brain tip of the human torso model;

an imaging device for receiving high definition image data of the toilet user to obtain high definition user image, the high definition user image resolution varies with the ambient brightness, the lower the environmental brightness, the higher the high definition user image resolution;

a zoom normalization device coupled to the imaging device for obtaining a high resolution user image and performing a high resolution user image zoom normalization process to obtain a normalized image;

a noise complexity detecting device coupled to a scaling normalization device for obtaining a normalized image and performing a noise complexity determination to detect and derive the image noise complexity;

an image segmentation device coupled to a noise complexity detecting device to obtain a video noise complexity and to normalize the image and segment the normalized image into blocks according to the video noise complexity to obtain a plurality of video blocks; where the greater the complexity of the image noise, the more image blocks the image blocks are obtained by segmenting the normalized image into blocks;

a combined filter unit coupled to the image segmentation unit for obtaining a plurality of video blocks and processing each of the video blocks as follows: analyzing the noise type of each video block to obtain the basic noise type; determining the appropriate type of filter according to the main noise type and processing the filtering of the video unit to obtain the filtered unit; the combined filter unit also combines all the filtered blocks to obtain and output the combined filter image;

a base point positioning device coupled to the combined filter device c to obtain the combined filter image and determine the current position of the N main points in the combined filter image according to the N reference point shapes, respectively; between the current positions of the N main points, the current position of each main point is the relative position of the corresponding main point with respect to the current position of the vertex; The N reference points are a reference image of the N torso points of the human torso; N major points, including the apex of the brain;

a positioning device coupled to a base point positioning device and a pattern positioning device, respectively, to define a deflection vector from the current position of each base point to the corresponding position of the reference point to obtain the N deflection vectors and determine the current body shape and position according to N offset vector;

wherein the embedded control unit is also coupled to the posture adjusting device to accept the current body shape and posture and to implement appropriate toilet control according to the existing body shape and posture.

Optional Bluetooth plumbing platform additionally includes: mode control button for switching between body control mode and voice control mode by the toilet user.

Optional plumbing with Bluetooth connectivity includes a voice input device, a voice conversion device and an embedded control unit housed in a toilet tank housing.

According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of controlling a Bluetooth-based toilet comprising: said plumbing with a Bluetooth communication feature for implementing a Bluetooth connection between a user and a toilet.

Description of the drawing

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. is a block diagram of a sanitary ware with Bluetooth connectivity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Digit reference: 1. Bluetooth interface; 2. drainage handle; 3. Angle valve; 4. rubber seal; 5. rubber sealing ring.

Embodiments of the invention

A toilet is a covered pot that a person urinates or defecates on. The toilet is considered a great invention because it provides a solution for the person to urinate and defecate. It was later developed into a flush toilet, which uses the principle of siphon, spiral siphon and the latest jet, tornado and other siphons. Some people think that flushing a toilet will cause a lot of problems because it consumes a lot of water. There are different types of toilets, such as multiple pieces and one piece. As technology advances, many new types of toilets have emerged.

It can also be divided into regular toilets and smart toilets, depending on the type of accessories. The smart toilet can be further subdivided into smart toilets, which automatically replace disposable seat covers, and toilets without automatic cover change function, and the former includes different types, such as automatic change of cover with flush, automatic change of cover with flush and dry, etc.

Embodiments of the present invention for sanitary ware with Bluetooth connectivity will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing.

Currently, users are unable to perform various toilet control operations in an abnormal state. For example, patients will not be able to manually operate the toilets if they are disabled or have an exacerbation. To overcome the above disadvantages, the present invention provides a platform for plumbing with Bluetooth connectivity.

Fig. a schematic diagram of a sanitary ware with Bluetooth connectivity platform according to an embodiment of the present invention, the platform comprising:

A Bluetooth interface in the toilet bowl housing for receiving the Bluetooth control command transmitted by the toilet user via a Bluetooth mobile handheld device;

a flush handle in the toilet tank housing;

an angle valve for importing water flow into the tank via a water inlet pipe;

a rubber seal above the water inlet pipe which stops the flow of water by sealing the water inlet pipe when the float ball floats upwards; and a rubber sealing ring in the tank.

The specific design of the Bluetooth plumbing platform of the present invention will be described in more detail below.

The plumbing platform with Bluetooth connectivity additionally includes: a plurality of drain holes in the lower circular wall of the toilet base to drain water to the toilet pot;

In the plumbing system with Bluetooth connectivity, the water drain handle is used to pull the rubber seal ring to drain water into the drain holes.

The plumbing platform with Bluetooth connectivity additionally includes a steering wheel in front of the toilet so that the user can control the toilet's forward direction.

The plumbing platform with Bluetooth connectivity additionally includes drive wheels mounted on the underside of the toilet base to provide power to the toilet.

The Bluetooth plumbing platform includes:

a voice input device for receiving a voice control signal provided by the toilet user;

a voice conversion device coupled to the voice input device for receiving a voice command signal and converting the voice command signal into a voice command command;

an embedded control unit coupled to a voice conversion device for implementing appropriate toilet control based on a voice command in voice control mode;

a model determining device for determining the human torso model based on the human skeleton model and the human joint model, distinguishing the N main points of the human limb model and adjusting the reference positions of the N main points accordingly; between the N reference points, each reference point is the relative position of the corresponding reference to the brain tip of the human torso model;

an imaging device for receiving high definition image data of the toilet user to obtain high definition user image, the high definition user image resolution varies with the ambient brightness, the lower the environmental brightness, the higher the high definition user image resolution;

a zoom normalization device coupled to the imaging device for obtaining a high-resolution user image and performing a high-resolution user image zoom normalization process to obtain a normalized image;

a noise complexity detecting device coupled to a scaling normalization device for obtaining a normalized image and performing noise complexity determination to detect and output video noise complexity;

an image segmentation device coupled with a noise complexity detecting device to obtain a video noise complexity and a normalized image and to segment the normalized image j blocks according to the video noise complexity to obtain a plurality of video blocks; where the greater the complexity of the image noise, the more image blocks the image blocks are obtained by segmenting the normalized image into blocks;

a combined filter unit coupled to the image segmentation unit to obtain a plurality of image blocks and perform each of the following processing of each image block: analyzing the noise type of each video block to obtain a basic noise type; determining an appropriate type of filter based on the basic noise type and processing of the video unit filtering to obtain the filtered unit; the combined filter unit also combines all the filtered blocks to obtain and output the combined filter image;

a base point positioning device coupled to the combined filter device c to obtain a combined filter image and determine the current position of the N main points in the combined filter image according to the N reference point shapes, respectively; between the current positions of the N main points, the current position of each main point is the relative position of the corresponding main point with respect to the current position of the vertex; The N reference points are a reference image of the N torso points of the human torso; N major points, including the apex of the brain;

a positioner coupled to the base point positioner and the model positioner, respectively, to define a deflection vector from the current position of each base point to the corresponding position of the reference point to obtain the N deflection vectors and determine the current body shape and position according to N offset vector;

wherein the embedded control unit is also coupled to the posture adjusting device to accept the current body shape and posture and to implement appropriate toilet control according to the existing body shape and posture.

The plumbing platform with Bluetooth connectivity also includes: a mode control button for switching between body control mode and voice control mode by the toilet user.

In the sanitary ware with Bluetooth connectivity platform, the voice input device, voice conversion device and embedded control unit are housed in a toilet tank housing.

Meanwhile, to overcome the aforementioned disadvantages, the present invention also provides a method of controlling a Bluetooth-based toilet to use the aforementioned Bluetooth plumbing plumbing platform for implementing a Bluetooth communication between a user and a toilet.

Optionally, a ZIGBEE connection can be used instead of Bluetooth. ZIGBEE is a low-power LAN protocol based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard. According to the international standard, ZigBee technology is a wireless technology with short distance and low power consumption. The name (also called "ZiFeng Protocol") comes from the word "bees" (BEE), which inform their companions of pollen by dancing "8" and wiggling their wings (ZIG). In other words, this is how they build their communication network.

ZIGBEE connectivity features include short distance, low complexity, self-organization, low power consumption and low data rates. It is mainly applied in the field of automatic control and remote control and can be embedded in various devices. In short, ZigBee is a low-cost, low-power, and short-range wireless networking technology. ZigBee is a wireless network protocol for low-speed, short-range transmission. From the bottom up, the ZigBee protocol consists of a physical layer (PHY), a media access control (MAC) layer, a transmission layer (TL), a network layer (NWK), an application layer (APL) and more. Where the physical layer and the media access control layer meet the requirements of IEEE802.15.4.

In view of the technical problem of insufficient communication between existing technology and users in special circumstances and in special environments, such as hospital patients, the Bluetooth sanitation platform of the present invention is adapted and supplemented by two auxiliary control modes, e.g. . y. voice control and body control mode, allowing users to complete routine toilet control in a variety of environments.

It will be appreciated that, although it has been disclosed in the preferred embodiments above, the present invention is not limited to previous embodiments. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, various modifications and additions, or equivalent modifications, to the embodiments may be made using the disclosed content without departing from the scope of the technical solution of the present invention. Therefore, any simple modifications, equivalent modifications, and additions made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention will fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (5)

Definition of the Invention 1. A Bluetooth plumbing platform, characterized in that it includes: A Bluetooth communication interface in the toilet bowl housing for receiving the Bluetooth communication control command provided by the toilet user via a hand-held mobile terminal Bluetooth communication device in the toilet bowl housing flushing handle; an angle valve for the flow of water into the tank via a water inlet pipe; a rubber seal above the water inlet pipe, which stops the flow of water by sealing the water inlet pipe when the float ball floats upwards; and a rubber sealing ring in the tank, a Bluetooth-based smart plumbing control platform, according to the platform further comprising: a steering wheel in front of the toilet, allowing the user to control the toilet's forward direction. The Bluetooth plumbing platform of claim 1, wherein the platform further comprises: drive wheels in the lower part of the toilet base, which provide the toilet with driving power. The Bluetooth plumbing platform of claim 2, wherein the platform further comprises: a voice input device for receiving a voice control signal provided by the toilet user; a voice conversion device coupled to a voice input device for receiving a voice control signal and converting a voice control signal into a voice control command; an embedded control unit coupled to a voice conversion unit for implementing appropriate toilet control based on a voice command in voice control mode; a model determining device for determining the human torso model based on the human skeleton model and the human articulation model, distinguishing N main points of the human torso model and adjusting the reference positions of the N main points accordingly; between the N reference points, the reference position of each reference point is the relative position of the corresponding reference point to the brain tip of the human torso model; an imaging device for receiving high definition image data of the toilet user to obtain high definition user image, the high definition user image resolution varies with the ambient brightness, the lower the environmental brightness, the higher the high definition user image resolution; a scaling normalization device coupled to the imaging device for obtaining a high-resolution user image and performing a scaling normalization process for the high-resolution user image to produce a normalized image; a noise complexity detecting device coupled to a scaling normalization device to obtain a normalized image and perform noise complexity determination to detect and output video noise complexity; an image segmentation device coupled with a noise complexity detecting device to obtain a video noise complexity and a normalized image and to segment the normalized image j into blocks of video noise complexity to obtain a plurality of video blocks; where the greater the complexity of the image noise, the more image blocks the image blocks are obtained by segmenting the normalized image into blocks; a combined filter unit coupled to the image segmentation unit for obtaining a plurality of video blocks and processing each of the video blocks as follows: analyzing the noise type of each video block to obtain the basic noise type; determining the appropriate type of filter according to the main noise type and processing the video unit filter to obtain the filter unit; the combined filter unit also combines all filter blocks to obtain and output a combined filter image; a base point positioning device coupled to the combined filter device c to obtain the combined filter image and determine the current position of the N main points in the combined filter image according to the N reference point shapes, respectively; between the current positions of the N main points, the current position of each main point is the relative position of the corresponding main point with respect to the current position of the vertex; The N reference points are a reference image of the N torso points of the human torso; N major points, including the apex of the brain; a positioner coupled to the base point positioner and the model positioner, respectively, to define a deflection vector from the current position of each base point to the corresponding position of the reference point to obtain the N deflection vectors and determine the current body shape and position according to N offset vector; wherein the embedded control unit is also coupled to the posture adjusting device for accepting the current body shape and posture and implementing the appropriate toilet control according to the existing body shape and posture. The Bluetooth plumbing platform of claim 3, wherein the platform further comprises: a mode control button for switching between body control mode and voice control mode by the toilet user. A plumbing device with a Bluetooth communication feature according to claim 4, characterized in that the voice input device, the voice conversion device and the embedded control unit are provided in the body of the toilet tank.