TW202145832A - Intelligent bathroom mirror and use method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An intelligent bathroom mirror and use method thereof, in which the intelligent bathroom mirror mainly comprises a mirror body, a detecting device, and a processing unit. A front surface of the mirror body has at least one translucent region, and the backside of the translucent region has correspondent at least one first light emitting member. The detecting device is connected to the front surface of the mirror body for detecting a signal source of the front surface of the mirror body and controlling the luminance of the light emitting out from the at least one first light emitting member through the at least one translucent region after receiving the at least one signal transmitted from the signal source to produce a light situation which meets user needs and to switch off automatically to save energy.

Description

Smart bathroom mirror and how to use it

The present invention relates to an intelligent bathroom mirror and a method of using the same, in particular to one that can effectively control the brightness of lights in a bathroom space, so as to generate a lighting situation that meets the needs of users.

The large bathroom mirrors used in traditional bathroom spaces generally only have basic functions such as grooming, defogging or aesthetics. However, due to the rise of the concept of digital home life, there are some products with new functions. Among them, as disclosed in the invention In the case of "Interactive Multimedia Bathroom Mirror Display System" in No. TW201227469A, the interactive multimedia human-machine interface display mirror included has functions such as touch display, interaction, monitoring, and multimedia, and automatically records messages through image recognition. , improve real-time gesture and face image tracking and recognition to achieve a good human-machine interface; and implement a new interactive multimedia bathroom mirror display system to provide time query, multimedia audio and video playback, calendar query, Internet weather, news Retrieval, automatic message recognition for image recognition, real-time tracking and recognition of gestures and faces, and warning messages.

However, in addition to the original basic functions, the above bathroom mirror mainly provides another way of using the mirror, that is, the mirror is converted into an interactive multimedia panel for use, but for the lighting situation in the bathroom, it does not produce good results. control effect. In view of this, in order to improve the above-mentioned shortcomings, the inventor has accumulated many years of experience and continuous research and development improvement, and then has the present invention the production.

One of the objectives of the present invention is to provide a smart bathroom mirror, which can solve the problem that the conventional bathroom mirror cannot effectively control the brightness of the light in the bathroom space, so as to generate a lighting situation that meets the needs of users, and allows users to enter the bathroom space from the problem. After being installed, the brightness of the light emitted by at least one first light-emitting element on the bathroom mirror can be adjusted according to the needs of the user, and the switch is automatically turned off when not in use to save energy.

In order to achieve the purpose of the above invention, an intelligent bathroom mirror system provided by the present invention includes a mirror body, a detection device and a processing unit, wherein the front surface of the mirror body has at least one light-transmitting area, at least one light-transmitting area. The rear end surface has at least one first light-emitting element for emitting bright light from the at least one light-transmitting area; the detection device is connected to the front end surface of the mirror body for detecting a signal source or receiving signal on the front end surface of the mirror body at least one signal from the source; and the processing unit is electrically connected to the detection device and the at least one first light-emitting element for controlling the brightness emitted by the at least one first light-emitting element.

In practice, the processing unit is an intelligent identification single-chip system that does not need to be connected to the Internet.

A method of using a smart bathroom mirror provided by the present invention includes the following steps: a. Positioning the mirror body on a wall of a bathroom space; b. At a distance, through the control of the detection and processing unit of the detection device, at least one first light-emitting element generates bright light; and c. When the user is at the front end of the mirror body and forms a second distance from the mirror body, through the A signal input by the user is controlled by the detection and processing unit of the detection device to adjust the luminous intensity of the at least one first light-emitting element;

When implemented, the present invention further includes a step, when the user leaves the detection device After a predetermined time in the detection range, at least one first light-emitting element is turned off through the control of the processing unit.

During implementation, the present invention further includes a step of turning off at least one first light-emitting element through the control of the detection and processing unit of the detection device after the user inputs a signal.

During implementation, the present invention further includes at least one second light-emitting element, the at least one second light-emitting element is connected to at least one side of the rear surface of the mirror body, and the at least one second light-emitting element is electrically connected to the processing unit for receiving the signal emitted by the signal source. The signal is used to control the at least one second light-emitting element to emit light.

Another method of using the above-mentioned smart bathroom mirror provided by the present invention includes the following steps: a. Positioning the mirror body on a wall of a bathroom space; b. When the user enters the bathroom space to form with the mirror body At a first distance, through the control of the detection and processing unit of the detection device, at least one second light-emitting element generates bright light; c. When the user is at the front end of the mirror body and forms a second distance from the mirror body, Through the control of the detection and processing unit of the detection device, at least one first light-emitting element generates light; and through a user's signal input to adjust the light-emitting intensity of the at least one first light-emitting element; and d. when the user After leaving the detection range of the detection device, at least one second light-emitting element is turned off through the control of the processing unit.

For the convenience of having a more in-depth understanding of the present invention, it is described in detail below:

1: Smart bathroom mirror

2: Mirror body

21: Translucent glass

22: coating layer

23,23': light transmission area

24: Embedded hole

3,3': The first light-emitting element

4: Detection device

5: Processing unit

6: The second light-emitting element

9: Bathroom space

W1: first distance

W2: Second distance

FIG. 1 is a perspective external view of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of the first embodiment of the present invention when it is installed on a wall.

Figures 3 and 4 are schematic diagrams of the use state of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective external view of the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side sectional view of the second embodiment of the present invention when it is installed on a wall.

The smart bathroom mirror of the present invention mainly includes a mirror body, the front end face of the mirror body has at least one light-transmitting area, at least one first light-emitting element emits bright light forward through the at least one light-transmitting area; a detection device is connected before the mirror body The end face is used to detect a signal source on the front face of the mirror body or receive at least one signal sent by the signal source; and the processing unit is electrically connected to the detection device and the at least one first light-emitting element, so as to control the at least one first light-emitting element. The brightness emitted by a light-emitting element.

Please refer to Figures 1 and 2, which are the first embodiment of the smart bathroom mirror 1 of the present invention, which includes a mirror body 2, two first light-emitting elements (3, 3'), and a detection device 4 and a processing unit 5 . In this embodiment, an end of the mirror body 2 close to the user is defined as a front end, and an end away from the user is defined as a rear end.

The mirror body 2 is mainly composed of a transparent glass 21 and a coating layer 22 coated on the rear surface of the transparent glass 21 to produce a mirror effect. The coating layer 22 is not completely coated on the rear end surface of the transparent glass 21, but two long vertical and parallel gaps are formed on the rear end surface of the transparent glass 21, and the mirror body is formed through the two gaps. The front end face of 2 forms two light-transmitting regions (23, 23'); the lower half of the front end face of the mirror body 2 has an insertion hole 24.

There are two first light-emitting elements (3, 3'), and the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3') are light-emitting diodes correspondingly connected and fixed on the rear surfaces of the two light-transmitting regions (23, 23') respectively. (LED) light bar. During implementation, the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3') can also be composed of two lamp tubes, so that after the power is turned on, the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3') have two light-transmitting regions respectively. (23,23') shines outwards.

The detection device 4 is embedded in the insertion hole 24 on the front surface of the mirror body 2; and the detection device 4 and the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3') are electrically connected to the processing unit 5 respectively. In this embodiment, the processing unit 5 is an intelligent identification single-chip system that does not need to be connected to the Internet. The single-chip system is primarily combined with low Power-efficient black and white image sensor, image preprocessor, motion detector, scaling array, image grabber, and microprocessor to form a single-chip system architecture. The image recognition process of the single-chip system starts from the image sensor, and its recognition is only used for black and white (gray scale) access, and then the obtained image is output to the image preprocessor for cleaning and expansion. It is then sent to the motion detector to perform motion detection, temporary memory and target localization, grid the image, and compare it with the previous image, if the difference from the previous image exceeds a programmable threshold, The action can be assumed to exist in a particular grid. Motion detectors specify motion in grid or rectangular coordinates that can be used for local exposure control, a feedback loop for local contrast/brightness from image sensor to motion detector, readable by microprocessor Controls can be programmed, or take advantage of the image sensor's auto-exposure feature, which helps optimize the sensor's exposure to dynamic objects. The aforementioned preprocessor simultaneously transmits the image to the image scaling array, which reduces the different regions of interest (AOI) to a smaller size, which is then sent to the Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature extractor to capture images to obtain feature vectors that can be used for image recognition. The aforementioned image recognition method is performed by the microprocessor using various existing techniques, such as the nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm or the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm for the database. When the system is shut down, the database is stored for in external non-volatile memory. It can not only identify the preset image, but also store it in the non-volatile memory and set it through the feature vector in the HOG. In this way, through the monitoring of the internal microprocessor, the obtained classification and identification results can be directly used to perform tasks specific to certain applications.

As a result, as shown in Figures 3 and 4, when the mirror body 2 is positioned on a wall of a bathroom space 9, and the user who is the signal source opens the door and enters the bathroom space 9, it forms a space with the mirror body 2. At the first distance W1, since the first distance W1 has entered the detection range of the detection device 4, Through the detection of the detection device 4 and the control of the processing unit 5, the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3') can be made conductive to generate bright light, and the brightness at this time is controlled at 30% of the full brightness state.

When the user is located at the front end of the mirror body 2 and forms a second distance W2 with the mirror body 2, the second distance W2 has entered another dynamic detection range of the detection device 4, and the user's gesture swings to the right, The brightness of the two first light-emitting elements (3,3') can be increased to full brightness. The way of increasing the brightness is generated in stages from 30%, 70% to 100%, and can also be adjusted gradually by 30% to 100%. When the user's gesture swings to the left, the luminous intensity of the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3') can be gradually reduced to 30%. During implementation, the user can also input the signal of the voice command and control the detection and processing unit 5 of the detection device 4 to adjust the luminous intensity of the two first light-emitting elements (3, 3'). When the user inputs a gesture or sound signal to turn off the lights, or after the user leaves the detection range of the detection device 4 for a predetermined time, the two first light-emitting elements ( 3,3') off to save energy.

Figures 5 and 6 are the second embodiment of the smart bathroom mirror 1 of the present invention, which is different from the first embodiment in that a light emitting diode (LED) light bar is connected to the rear surface of the mirror body 2 On the lower side, the light-emitting diode (LED) light bar is used as the second light-emitting element 6. In the implementation, the second light-emitting element 6 can also be a lamp tube, and the second light-emitting element 6 can also be set to two, and they are respectively It is located on the upper and lower sides or the left and right sides of the rear end surface of the mirror body 2 . The at least one second light-emitting element 6 is electrically connected to the processing unit 5, so as to control the at least one second light-emitting element 6 to emit bright light after the signal source is detected.

The method for using the above-mentioned smart bathroom mirror 1 includes the following steps:

a. Position the mirror body 2 on a wall of a bathroom space 9;

b. When the user enters the bathroom space 9 to form a first distance W1 with the mirror body 2, through the control of the detection device 4 and the processing unit 5, at least one second light-emitting element 6 generates bright light;

c. When the user is located at the front end of the mirror body 2 and forms a second distance from the mirror body 2, through the control of the detection and processing unit 5 of the detection device 4, at least one first light-emitting element (3, 3' ) to generate bright light; and to adjust the luminous intensity of at least one first light-emitting element (3, 3') through a signal input from the user; and

d. After the user leaves the detection range of the detection device 4 , at least one second light-emitting element 6 is turned off through the control of the processing unit 5 .

To sum up, according to the content disclosed above, the present invention can clearly achieve the intended purpose, and provide a bathroom mirror that not only integrates various light-emitting elements, detection devices and processing units on a bathroom mirror, allowing users to enter the bathroom space When the user enters the bathroom space, the brightness of the light emitted by the light-emitting element on the bathroom mirror can be adjusted according to the needs of the user, so as to generate different ambient lighting; and when not in use The smart bathroom mirror that automatically turns off the switch to save energy and its use method are of great industrial value, and an invention patent application is filed in accordance with the law.

Although the present invention discloses preferred specific embodiments to achieve the above-mentioned purpose, it is not intended to limit the structural features of the present invention. Any person skilled in the art should know that under the technical spirit of the present invention, any Variations or modifications thereof are possible, and are all covered by the scope of the patent application of the present invention.

1: Smart bathroom mirror

2: Mirror body

21: Translucent glass

22: coating layer

23,23': light transmission area

24: Embedded hole

3,3': The first light-emitting element

4: Detection device

5: Processing unit

Claims (7)

An intelligent bathroom mirror, one end close to the user is defined as the front end, and one end away from the user is defined as the rear end, the intelligent bathroom mirror includes: a mirror-surface body, the front end surface of which has at least one light-transmitting area, and the rear end surface of the at least one light-transmitting area has at least one first light-emitting element for emitting bright light from the at least one light-transmitting area; a detection device connected to the front end surface of the mirror body for detecting a signal source on the front end surface of the mirror body or receiving at least one signal from the signal source; and A processing unit is electrically connected to the detection device and the at least one first light-emitting element for controlling the brightness emitted by the at least one first light-emitting element. The smart bathroom mirror described in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is an intelligent identification single-chip system that does not need to be connected to the Internet. A method of using the smart bathroom mirror as described in the first or second item of the scope of the patent application includes the following steps: a. The mirror body is positioned on a wall of a bathroom space; b. When the user enters the bathroom space to form a first distance from the mirror body, the at least one first light-emitting element generates bright light through the detection of the detection device and the control of the processing unit; and c. When the user is located at the front end of the mirror body and forms a second distance from the mirror body, input a signal from the user, and through the detection of the detection device and the control of the processing unit, to adjust The luminous intensity of the at least one first light-emitting element. The method for using the smart bathroom mirror as described in the third item of the scope of the patent application further includes a step of shutting down the mirror through the control of the processing unit after the user leaves the detection range of the detection device for a predetermined time. the at least one first light-emitting element. The method for using the smart bathroom mirror as described in the third item of the scope of the patent application further includes a step of shutting down the mirror through the detection of the detection device and the control of the processing unit after the user inputs a signal. At least one first light-emitting element. The smart bathroom mirror described in claim 1 or 2 of the claimed scope further comprises at least one second light-emitting element, the at least one second light-emitting element is connected to at least one side of the rear surface of the mirror body, and the at least one second light-emitting element is A second light-emitting element is electrically connected to the processing unit for receiving a signal from the signal source to control the at least one second light-emitting element to emit light. A method of using the smart bathroom mirror as described in item 6 of the scope of the application includes the following steps: a. The mirror body is positioned on a wall of a bathroom space; b. When the user enters the bathroom space to form a first distance from the mirror body, through the detection of the detection device and the control of the processing unit, the at least one second light-emitting element generates bright light; c. When the user is located at the front end of the mirror body and forms a second distance from the mirror body, through the detection of the detection device and the control of the processing unit, the at least one first light-emitting element generates bright light; and A signal input from the user is used to adjust the luminous intensity of the at least one first light-emitting element; and d. After the user leaves the detection range of the detection device, the at least one second light-emitting element is turned off through the control of the processing unit.

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