TWI567648B - Method of controlling and managing electronic device and control system using same - Google Patents

Description

Method of controlling electronic device and control system applying the same

The present invention relates to a control method relating to a method of controlling an electronic device through a workspace and a control system to which the method is applied.

With the rapid development of capital technology, creating a smart life of informationization, digitalization, humanization and convenience has become an inevitable trend in the future, and home appliances that are closely related to daily life have naturally become the vision of implementing digital homes and creating a smart life. The key, therefore, the intelligentization of home appliances is an important development direction of the industry in the future.

The so-called smart home appliances generally refer to consumer electronic products and household appliances with network functions. The above-mentioned network connection can be a wide-area service network or a narrow-area home network. Its main purpose is to integrate. It connects with various home appliances to realize the functions of home digitalization, intelligence and system integration.

In order to integrate and link various home appliances, most developers in the industry tend to communicate through different communication protocols between different brands, different products or different functions of home appliances, such as Qualcomm's opening based on AllJoyn. The software architecture of the communication chip is used by various home appliance manufacturers, and the digital living network alliance (DLNA, Digital Living Network Alliance) established by Microsoft, Philips, Sony and other companies has also established a set of applications. To provide communication protocols for various home appliances to be interconnected to work together, and Taiwan Industrial Research The Institute of Energy has also proposed the SAANet Control Agreement for use by various appliance manufacturers; that is, any home user can control all networked and common communication protocols using a single control device (such as a mobile phone) and obtain the Information about some home appliances, and each home appliance can interact with each other because of a common communication protocol; however, home appliance manufacturers of different brands inevitably have a competitive relationship, so it is very likely that they are unwilling to be different from commercial interests. The manufacturer of the brand uses common communication protocols or communication chips.

Furthermore, if any home user can control through a single control machine (such as a mobile phone) Manage all home appliances that have network access and have common communication protocols or obtain home appliance information. Any home user can set appropriate control rules or control interfaces on the control machine according to living habits or actual application requirements; however, such control The law or control interface will only exist on a single control machine, that is, if the home user is convenient or regional (such as the phone used to control the home appliance is placed in the room to charge, but the home user is in the living room) If you want to use a remote control device (such as a tablet) to control the appliance, you must set the control rule or control interface on the other control machine repeatedly, which is obviously inconvenient; In terms of the family, the number of members is usually more than one person. Therefore, each family user must spend time and effort to set the control rules or control interface suitable for family life habits on their own control machines. Demand.

In addition, there is currently no operating environment for users to purchase new channels. The new appliances of the agreement can be configured in a freely combined way to configure the unified communication tool (that is, the unified driver) corresponding to the new communication protocol, or for the user to discard any When the appliance is damaged, the unified tool (that is, the unified driver) corresponding to the communication protocol of the damaged appliance can be removed from the control machine by freely combining.

Therefore, the current method of controlling electronic devices (such as household appliances) has room for improvement.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method of controlling an electronic device and a control system using the same, such that a plurality of the same communication protocol and/or different communication protocols are developed The electronic device can be driven by the same control device, and through a simple setting, the plurality of control devices can also have a common control law and/or control interface for a single user and/or multiple users to operate. The electronic devices are controlled to further facilitate people's living needs.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method for controlling an electronic device for at least one user to control and manage at least one electronic device through at least one control device. The method for controlling the electronic device includes: And a at least one control device for supporting a at least one electronic device and corresponding to the at least one electronic device and driving the at least one electronic device At least one unified tool is added thereto; and the projectionable spatial entity is interpreted by a projection means such that a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace is established on the at least one control machine and operates; The at least one unified tool drives the at least one electronic device to perform at least one task because at least one user operates the at least one control device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool includes a person formed by being unified by at least one driver.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool includes a plurality of drivers that are respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices, and are formed by being unified; The plurality of drivers are unified in the mapped workspace to be compatible with each other.

In a preferred embodiment, the method of controlling the electronic device is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system, or a transportation system.

In a preferred embodiment, the method for controlling the electronic device further includes: loading the projectable spatial entity to the at least one control machine via a path connection information (URI).

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one control device comprises at least one of a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device, and a wearable electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices. And at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are The at least two of the plurality of electronic devices manufactured by different manufacturers, or the plurality of electronic devices, provide different functions, or the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers and provide different functions.

In a preferred embodiment, the projectable spatial real system is an object (object), an extensibility markup language (XML) or an instance generated by a structured language or a structured protocol.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention also provides a control system comprising: at least one electronic device; and at least one control machine, each of the control machines being configured to model a workable space of a workable space Loading a space entity into which the at least one unified tool corresponding to the at least one electronic device and driving the at least one electronic device is added; wherein each of the control devices utilizes a projection Deriving a projectable spatial entity such that a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace is built on the control machine and operating, and the at least one unified tool is responsive to at least one user operation The control machine drives the at least one electronic device to perform at least one task.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool includes a person formed by being unified by at least one driver.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool includes a plurality of drivers that are respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices, and are formed by being unified; The plurality of drivers are unified in the mapped workspace to be compatible with each other.

In a preferred embodiment, the control system is applied to at least one smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system, or a transportation system.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one control device loads the projectable spatial entity therein through a path link information (URI).

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one control device comprises at least one of a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device, and a wearable electronic device.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one electronic device includes a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices.

In a preferred embodiment, each of the control machines includes the projection means, or the projection means is loaded into each of the control machines.

In a preferred embodiment, the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensibility markup language (XML), or a structured language or a structured protocol. An entity generated.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the implementation concept of the unified method in one embodiment.

Figure 2: A diagram showing a better concept of a unified script as an intermediate language for implementing a personal workspace.

Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a preferred configuration of the personal workspace shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a schematic diagram showing the initial state of a method of projecting a workspace in a preferred embodiment.

FIG. 5A is a schematic diagram showing the operation of the method of projecting the workspace shown in FIG. 4. FIG.

FIG. 5B is a schematic diagram showing the operation of the method of projecting the workspace shown in FIG. 4. FIG.

Figure 6 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in Figure 4 and the projected workspace shown in Figure 5.

7 is a flow chart of a preferred method of the method of controlling an electronic device of the present invention.

Figure 8 is a schematic diagram showing the initial state of the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention and the use of the control system of the method in a preferred embodiment.

9A is a diagram showing the method of controlling the electronic device shown in FIG. 7 applied to FIG. A schematic diagram showing the operation of the user's notebook computer.

9B is a diagram showing the method of controlling the electronic device shown in FIG. 7 applied to FIG. A schematic diagram showing the operation concept of the user's mobile phone.

9C is a diagram showing the method of controlling the electronic device shown in FIG. 7 applied to FIG. A schematic diagram showing the operation concept of the wearable device of the user.

Figure 10A is a viewable space entity shown in Figure 8 and cast as shown in Figure 9A A schematic diagram of the relative relationship of the shadow workspace to a preferred embodiment.

FIG. 10B is a viewable space entity shown in FIG. 8 and cast as shown in FIG. 9B. A schematic diagram of the relative relationship of the shadow workspace to a preferred embodiment.

Figure 10C is a viewable space entity shown in Figure 8 and cast as shown in Figure 9C A schematic diagram of the relative relationship of the shadow workspace to a preferred embodiment.

Figure 11: The workspace and the projected space in the notebook computer shown in Figure 9. An interactive concept diagram of an electronic device and a second electronic device.

The present invention is described by the following description, including the following glossary of terms and conclusive facts For example, and more fully understand. For the sake of brevity, the publications cited in this specification, including the disclosure of patents, are hereby incorporated by reference.

The following examples of the invention are non-limiting and represent only the various aspects of the invention Species and characteristics. In the most limited technical sense, the term "information source" as used herein refers to a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as useful information, and such useful information is used to organize and tag data; wherein the source of information may include : Websites (such as Internet services), internal networks, online communities, software, e-books, databases, and other informational media (such as storage media available for non-transitory computers, mobile device storage media). Moreover, the "original information" described herein may include files, web pages, databases, policies, rules, or any data accessible to related machines and servers, and the "original tools" described herein may include utilities. An interface tool set, a smart agent tool, an application, a service tool, or any executable element that can access related machines and servers. However, the source of information, original information and original tools are not limited to the above.

Also, "original information" and "original tools" are the originals described in this article. An embodiment of the "starting element", and in the implementation of the present invention, a plurality of "original elements" from the same or different "information sources" can be modeled into a plurality of "unified elements" by a unified method. To enable multiple "unified elements" in the same work environment to be compatible with each other to coordinate specific tasks; among them, "unified tools" and "unified information units" are "unified elements" An implementation aspect. Moreover, the "Matterizer" described herein is a component, device or code for unifying the "original elements".

In an embodiment, the unified method may be: based on a unified data node Constructing and reconstructing original information obtained from at least one information source of the plurality of information sources, thereby modeling the original information as a unified information unit, and/or reconstructing the self-complex information according to another unified data structure The original tool obtained by at least one information source of the source, thereby modeling the original tool into a unified tool; wherein the unified data structure and the another unified data structure may be the same or different, and the unified method may be borrowed This is done by an element converter (Matterizer).

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a conceptual diagram of the implementation of the above unified method in an embodiment. intention. 1 illustrates an element converter 992 reforming an attribute and an associated link of the original element 991 in accordance with the unified material structure 993 to model the original element 991 as a unified element 994, such that the basic attributes of the unified element 994 include The type of the original element and the link that indicates where the original element is located.

In this embodiment, the original element 991 includes at least original information (not shown) or The original tool (not shown), but not limited to this. Secondly, in the above unified method, when the attributes obtainable from the original information correspond to the attributes to be unified in the unified information unit, the unified information unit can be directly generated via the element converter 992; When the attributes obtained by the original information cannot correspond to the attributes that are to be unified in the unified information unit, the original information must be redefined by logically reorganizing the attributes and related links of the original information, so that the original information is converted into The new original information corresponding to the attributes that are to be unified in the unified information unit, thereby indirectly generating a unified information unit.

Also, when the original tool is compatible with the working environment of the workspace, The unified tool can be directly generated by the element converter 992; and when the original tool is incompatible with the working environment of the workspace, the software of an adapter and/or the original tool is required. The development kit (SDK) drives the original tool to indirectly generate the unified tool; wherein the adapter is used to provide a workspace-compatible interface implementation.

Regarding the "specific implementation method of the unified method" and "system" described in this embodiment The specific method of obtaining the element and the specific mode of operation of the elemental converter can be found in US Patent Application No. 14/324,069, entitled "A METHOD OF UNIFYING INFORMATION AND TOOL FROM A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION SOURCES", and a reference to the claim. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 14/324,069, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety, the entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire contents "Device", so it will not be repeated here.

In particular, the above unified method is only the unified method adopted in this case. In one embodiment of the method, the method of unifying a plurality of original elements from different information sources is not limited to the above, and those skilled in the art can perform any equal change design according to actual application requirements.

The following is an example of a unified method different from the above description. First unification The method is applied to the information unification method in Garmin satellite navigation. The Point of Interest (POI) function of Garmin satellite navigation is to unify the original landmark information (original information) input through the information unification method. The program is unified to obtain the unified unified landmark information (unified information unit); the second method is the tool unified method applied to Android (Android) system, Android (Android) system is a Linux-based open source The code mobile device operating system, but the applications (original tools) in the Android system are mostly written by Java, so the application (original tool) written by Java can be modeled as a unified method by the tool. A unified application (unified tool) that is compatible with Android, and can be executed in Android.

Furthermore, the "workspace" described in this article refers to the conversion of at least one element. And/or at least one tool and/or at least one piece of information interacting to perform a specific task workspace, and at least one piece of information and/or at least one tool can be input into the workspace by at least one element converter, but The way to enter information and/or tools into the workspace is not limited to this; secondly, the information importer described below (such as the information importer 9881 in Figure 2) 9882, 9883, etc.) are all aspects of an element converter. Furthermore, the "unified script" described herein refers to an intermediate language that can be used as a workspace, and at least one element converter and/or at least one information and/or at least one tool can be made through a "unified script". Is provided (such as built-in or plug-in) to the workspace.

In one embodiment, the at least one information is obtained from at least one information source. At least one original information is formed by at least one unified information unit formed by being unified, and the at least one tool is at least one unified device formed by at least one original tool obtained from at least one information source The tool, in which the user can add the required unified information unit and/or the unified tool from the corresponding information source (such as built-in or plug-in) to the personal workspace according to different tasks, so "work Space can be a user-oriented "personal workspace."

Further, please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, and FIG. 2 is a unified script. A schematic diagram of a preferred concept of the intermediate language of the personal workspace, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a preferred configuration of the personal workspace shown in FIG. 2. 2 and FIG. 3 illustrate the unified information unit 985' corresponding to the original information 985 in the Dropbox 982, corresponding to the compatible original tool 986 in the cloud hard disk 983 according to the requirements of the task. The first unified tool 986' and the second unified tool 987' corresponding to the incompatible original tool 987 in the server 984 are combined into the personal workspace 981; in detail, the user can edit one for the first time. As a unified script 980 for realizing the intermediate language of the personal workspace 981, the information input device 9881 of the Dropbox 982, the information input device 9882 of the cloud hard disk 983, and the information of the server 984 are configured by the unified script 980. The input device 9883; wherein the information input device 9881 can unify the original information 985 in the Dropbox 982 into the unified information unit 985' and input to the personal workspace 981.

Furthermore, Figures 2 and 3 also illustrate the original tools stored in the cloud hard disk 983. Compatible original tool 986 (ie, the compatible original tool 986 can be compatible with the component architecture for the unified tool in the personal workspace 981), and through the unified script 980 (using the information therein) The input unit 9882) can provide the first unified tool 986' corresponding to the compatible original tool 986 directly to the personal workspace 981.

Moreover, FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 also illustrate that the original tool stored in the server 984 is not Compatible original tool 987 (that is, the incompatible original tool 987 with personal workspace The component architecture used in the 981 for the harmonization tool is incompatible, and it is necessary to use the unified script 980 (using the compatible converter 989 and the information input device 9883) to correspond to the incompatible original. A second unified tool 987' of the tool 987 is provided to the personal workspace 981.

In addition, Figure 3 also shows the user's configuration according to the actual application needs (such as A grouping or placing unified information unit 985', a first unified tool 986', and a second unified tool 987' are in a specific area of the personal workspace 981; finally, the user can respond to the unified The tools and the operational relationships between the unified information units (such as click actions or drag actions between the two) perform the required tasks by accessing or controlling the corresponding unified information units using the unified tools.

Regarding the "unified scripting as a personal work space" described in this embodiment "The specific implementation of the intermediate language", "users according to the actual application needs, the required unified information unit and / or the required unified tools are freely combined from the corresponding information source into the personal workspace to perform For a specific implementation of the task, reference is made to U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 14/325,466, entitled "METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK ON UNIFIED INFORMATION UNITS IN A PERSONAL WORKSPACE", and U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 14/324,069, filed on The Chinese Patent Application No. 201410796528.4, which is based on the International Priority Fundamental Case, is entitled "Method of Combining Unified Elements in a Personal Workspace and Computer Program Products and Systems Using the Method", so it will not be repeated here. .

In particular, the above personal work space is only one implementation of the workspace. For example, the workspace used in this case is not limited to the above; for example, a unified script that implements the intermediate language of the workspace can be edited in advance to make the workspace a built-in preset element converter and/or pre- The working space of information and/or preset tools is not limited to individual operations, and multiple users can operate simultaneously or separately according to actual application requirements.

Furthermore, the "workspace" described in this article can be accessed through a "projection workspace". The method is projected onto any computing device, so that any user can operate the "projected workspace" on any computing device.

In an embodiment, the method for projecting a workspace includes: first, via one way A path-linking information (URI) obtains a projectable space instance that is instantiated by a unified script; wherein the unified script is defined to configure at least one of an element converter, information, and tools To create a workspace (as previously explained), and the projectable spatial entity is used to create a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace to provide at least one of operating element converters, information, and tools An interface for performing a task; then, using a projection to interpret the projectable spatial entity and establishing a working environment in which at least one of the element converter, the information, and the tool are disposed in the projectable spatial entity And thereby executing the projected workspace, whereby at least one user interacts with the projected workspace.

Wherein, the projection means can be from a remote data station, a projectable space entity or a preload Obtained in the application and loaded into an engine for providing a compatible environment to perform projection, and the engine may include a Javascript engine, a window application, or a Linux application, but not the above Furthermore, the unified script can be defined by a file type (DTD), an XML schema, a structured language, or a structured protocol. Declared, but not limited to the above; and the space entity that can be projected can be an object, an extensible markup language (XML) file, or a structured language or a structure. An entity generated by a structured protocol, etc., but not limited to the above.

Further, please refer to FIG. 4, FIG. 5A to FIG. 5B and FIG. 6, and FIG. FIG. 5A and FIG. 5B are schematic diagrams showing the operation of the method for projecting the workspace shown in FIG. 4, and FIG. 6 is a viewable space entity and graph shown in FIG. A schematic diagram of the relative relationship of the projected workspaces shown in Fig. 8B. In the initial state shown in FIG. 4, there are a first machine 971 and a second machine 972 that are connectable to each other (eg, connected through a network), and the first machine 971 stores a projectable space entity 973. A projection means 974 is built into the second machine 972.

Moreover, the unified script 9731 is declared by a file type definition (DTD). And configured to configure at least one information input device (which is an embodiment of the element converter) and/or at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool to build a model Workspace, and the projectable object 973 is generated by an Extensible Markup Language (XML). The body, as shown in Figure 6, is used to build a projected workspace 976 corresponding to the workspace and is allowed to join the information importer and/or unified information unit and/or unification tool. Among them or removed from it.

Furthermore, the projection means 974 of the second machine 972 will be established on the second machine 972. A working environment 975 for the projected workspace 976 to operate, and a micro core 977 (see FIG. 6) is provided to the operating environment 975 to equip at least one information input device to be added to the projected workspace 976 and / or at least one unified information unit and / or at least one unified tool; wherein, when the second machine 972 obtains the projectable space entity 973 in the first machine 971 through a path connection information, the second machine 972 The projection means 974 begins to interpret the projectable spatial entity 973 as shown in FIG. 5A; again, when the projectable spatial entity 973 is interpreted by the projection means 974, the projected workspace 976 is based on The content interpreted by the projected spatial entity 973 is established on the work environment 975, as shown in FIG. 5B, such that the user of the second machine 972 can interact with the projected workspace 976 via the second machine 972. Then perform related tasks.

The above unified script is further explained below using the usage scenario shown in FIG. 6. The correlation of the 9731, the projectable spatial entity 973 and the projected workspace 976. The usage scenario shown in FIG. 6 is: creating a workspace that can be projected and can read the jpg image files and gif image files stored in the specified network space for the user to view, and in the context of the use, unified The script 9731 is declared with a file type definition (DTD), and the projectable space entity 973 is generated in an extensibility markup language (XML).

Also, a projectionable space entity 973 is added to an information input device and a unified tool, and the information input device is configured to input at least one unified information unit corresponding to the at least one original information into the projected workspace 976; in the use scenario, the information input device is a Dropbox input (ie, the dotted line box 9761 is shown), and the original information is the jpg picture file 9791, 9792 and the gif picture file 9793 in the Dropbox 979 information source, and the unified information unit is the unified jpg picture file 9791 described later. ', 9792' and unified gif picture file 9793', and the unified tool is a picture reader (ie, dashed box 9762 shown) for reading the picture file input into the projected workspace 976.

Moreover, the projected workspace 976 is created after the projectable spatial entity 973 is interpreted by the projection means 974 in the second machine 972 such that the projected workspace 976 is rendered. There is a Dropbox input device 9761' (corresponding to the dotted line box 9761 shown) and a picture reader 9762' (corresponding to the dotted line box 9762 shown in the figure), and the Dropbox input device 9761' will be in the Dropbox 979 information source. The jpg image file 9791, 9792 and the gif image file 9793 are unified and input into the projected workspace 6, so that the unified jpg image file 9791' corresponding to the jpg image file 9791, 9792 and the gif image file 9793, respectively. 9792' and unified gif image file 9793' are presented on the projected workspace 976; then, when the user of the second machine 972 is unified to the jpg image file 9791', 9792' and the unified gif via a specific operation mode When any of the image files 9793' is operated (such as clicking on the unified jpg image file 9791', 9792' and the unified gif image file 9793', or the unified jpg image file 9791', The 9792' and the unified gif image file 9793' are dragged to the picture reader 9762'), and the picture reader 9762' will read the unified jpg picture files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif picture file. Any of 9793' Yung and it presents the user to watch out for. Further, the above-described Dropbox input device 9761' and picture reader 9762' are equivated by the micro core 977.

Specifically, the path connection information of the projectable space entity 973 can be The Hyper File Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information or the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) path link information, and if the first machine 971 and the second machine 972 are a common device, the path connection information of the projectable space entity 973 may also be Link information to the local file, but the type of path link information is not limited to the above.

The specific winner of the method for projecting the workspace described in this embodiment "U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 14/577,772, entitled "METHOD OF PROJECTING A WORKSPACE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME", and U.S. Patent Application Nos. 14/324,069, 14/325,466, and 14/577,772, the priority of which is incorporated herein by reference. The Chinese Patent Application No. 201410814138.5 of the Basic Basis Case is entitled "Method of Projecting a Workspace and System for Applying the Method of Projecting the Workspace", and therefore will not be further described herein.

In particular, the above method of projecting the workspace is only empty in this case. A projection method for projecting to any electronic device having computing power, but the projection method for projecting the workspace to any electronic device having computing power is not limited to the above, and any person skilled in the art can perform any according to actual application requirements. Equal change design.

Next, a group control method of the electronic device of the present invention will be described. First explained Yes, the group control method of the electronic device of the present invention is mainly for the user to control the same type and different types of electronic devices by operating any of the network control devices, and the number of control machines that can be connected regardless of the network. A single, simple configuration allows multiple networked control machines to enjoy common control rules or control interface settings. Among them, different types of electronic devices generally refer to electronic devices that are manufactured by different manufacturers but provide the same functions, or electronic devices that provide different functions but are manufactured by the same manufacturer, or that are manufactured by different manufacturers and provide different functions. Device.

Please refer to FIG. 7, which is a flow chart of a preferred method of the method for controlling an electronic device of the present invention. The method for controlling the electronic device includes: step P1, loading a projectable spatial entity for modeling a working space to at least one control machine, and the projectable spatial real system is corresponding to at least one And the at least one unified tool for driving the at least one electronic device is added thereto; and in step P2, the projectable spatial entity is interpreted by a projection means to make a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace And operating on the at least one control machine; wherein the at least one unified tool drives the at least one electronic device to perform at least one task according to at least one user operating the at least one control machine.

Wherein, the projectable space entity is configured according to a control rule or a control interface desired by the user (further described by way of example), and at least one control machine may be a computer, a home appliance, or a handheld electronic device. Or a networkable device such as a wearable electronic device, and the group control method of the electronic device shown in FIG. 7 will be further explained by the following embodiments.

Please refer to FIG. 8 to FIG. 10C . FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an initial state of a method for controlling an electronic device according to the present invention and a control system using the method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9A is a control electronic device of FIG. 7 . The method of the device is applied to the operation concept diagram of the notebook computer of the user shown in FIG. 8, and FIG. 9B is a schematic diagram of the operation concept of the method for controlling the electronic device shown in FIG. FIG. 10A is a schematic diagram of the operation of the wearable device shown in FIG. 8 , and FIG. 10A is a viewable space entity shown in FIG. 8 and the projected workspace shown in FIG. 9A . FIG. 10B is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in FIG. 8 and the projected workspace shown in FIG. 9B in a preferred embodiment, and FIG. 10C is a schematic diagram of FIG. Space entity with projection Figure 9C is a schematic illustration of the relative relationship of the projected workspace in a preferred embodiment.

In the use scenario shown in FIG. 8, the first electronic device is present in the control system 2. 21 . The second electronic device 22 , the configuration device 23 , and the plurality of control devices 24 connected to the first electronic device 21 , the second electronic device 22 , and the configuration device 23 , and connected to the first electronic device 21 . A first communication chip 211 developed based on the first communication protocol is provided, and a second communication chip 221 developed based on the second communication protocol is disposed in the second electronic device 22; in the preferred embodiment, the first communication The agreement is different from the second communication protocol, and the first communication chip 211 and the second device are communication chips developed based on Qualcomm's AllJoyn open software architecture and a digital living network alliance (DLNA)-based communication protocol. The communication chip is developed, and the control device 24 includes a notebook computer 241, a mobile phone 242, and a wearable device 243 owned by the first user 81, the second user 82, and the third user 83, respectively.

Furthermore, the usage scenario exemplified in the preferred embodiment is “any user 81, 82, 83 can operate their own control machine 24 to have their own control machine 24 drive the first electronic device 21 and / or the second electronic device 22 to perform the task"; further, the configuration machine 23 (such as a computer) has a A space entity 31 that can be projected, and the projectable space entity 31 is created and compiled according to the actual needs of the users 81, 82, 83, that is, in the preferred embodiment, the authorized user A plurality of unified tools 41 corresponding to the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 may be appropriately added to the projectable space entity 31 and may be appropriate for at least one of the users 81, 82, 83 Compilation is performed, so when the projectable space entity 31 is loaded into the notebook computer 241, the mobile phone 242, and the wearable device 243 (such as the way of connecting information through the transmission path) and interpreted to make the projected workspace 32A When 32B and 32C are respectively established on the notebook computer 241, the mobile phone 242, and the wearable device 243, any user 81, 82, 83 can control the first electronic device by operating his own control device 24. 21 and / or second electricity The sub-device 22 performs the task.

In detail, the notebook computer 241, the mobile phone 242, and the wearable device 243 are all There is a projection means 244 for establishing a working environment 2441 for operating the projected working spaces 32A, 32B, 32C on the notebook computer 241, the mobile phone 242 and the wearable device 243, respectively, and providing a work space corresponding to the workspace. The micro-core 2412 is equipping and launching a plurality of unified tools 41 that are compiled into the projectable spatial entity 31, and is in the notebook computer 241, When the handset 242 and the wearable device 243 respectively load the projectable spatial entity 31 therein, the projection means 244 begins to interpret the projectable spatial entity 31, and when the projectable spatial entity 31 is resolved by the projection means 244 After translation, the projected workspaces 32A, 32B, and 32C are respectively established on the work environment 2441 according to the content interpreted by the projection means 244, so that any user 81, 82, 83 can be operated by The own control machine 24 controls the first electronic device 21 and/or the second electronic device 22 to perform tasks. It should be noted that the projection means 244 is not limited to being built into the control device 24, but may also be loaded from other network-capable storage devices (not shown).

Furthermore, in the preferred embodiment, the plurality of unified tools 41 are included The first driving program of the first electronic device 21 is formed by the unified 411 and the second driving device belonging to the second electronic device 22 via the unified 412. An object instantiated by an Extensible Markup Language (XML); wherein Figures 10A-10C respectively illustrate the compiled content of the projectable spatial entity 31 and its associated workspaces 32A-32C The correspondence between the unified first driver 411 and/or the unified second driver 412 is as shown by the two corresponding ends of the dotted line in any of FIGS. 10A to 10C. In addition, in the preferred embodiment, the first driver and the second driver are respectively developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22. It is formed and placed in a specific storage device with networking function, but not limited to the above.

Please refer to FIG. 11 , which is a projected workspace in the notebook computer shown in FIG. 9 . Schematic diagram of the interaction with the first electronic device and the second electronic device. In the process of the projection workspace 32A being built in the notebook computer 241, the unified first driver 411 and the unified second driver 412 are all unifying programs. The first driver 411 that is disposed in the projected workspace 32A and that is unified can communicate with the first communication chip 211 of the first electronic device 21 through the first communication protocol, and is unified. The second driver 412 can communicate with the second communication chip 221 of the second electronic device 22 through the second communication protocol; wherein the unified first driver 411 and the unified second driver 412 are both The unified driver program is disposed in the projected workspace 32A, so that the unified first driver 411 and the unified second driver 412 can be compatible with each other and can communicate with each other. First, the first communication of the first electronic device 21 The wafer 211 and the second communication chip 221 of the second electronic device 22 are capable of interacting and performing tasks together. In addition, the projected working space 32B and the projected working space 32C can also interact with the first electronic device 21 and/or the second electronic device 22 as described above, and will not be further described herein.

In particular, authorized users can also respond to actual application needs. The control authority of each user 81, 82, 83 is set by compiling the projectable space entity 31; the compiled contents 301 and 302 of the projectable space entity 31 shown in FIGS. 10A to 10C can be known. In a preferred embodiment, the expandable spatial entity 31 is compiled with identity authentication information. The accounts of each user 81, 82, 83 are David, Mary, and John, respectively, and the passwords corresponding to the accounts David, Mary, and John. ABC, 123, xyz, respectively, and three users 81, 82, 83 have the control authority of the first electronic device 21, that is, the projected workspaces 32A, 32B, 32C are respectively set in the notebook type. During the process of the computer 241, the mobile phone 242, and the wearable device 243, the unified first driver 411 is disposed in the projected workspaces 32A, 32B, 32C, so each user 81, 82, 83 The first electronic device 21 can be controlled to perform tasks by operating its own control machine 24 via its own account number and/or password.

Also, within the compilation of the projectable spatial entity 31 shown in Figures 10A-10C It is also known that, in the preferred embodiment, the control authority of the second electronic device is only set to be owned by the two users 81, 82, that is, in the projected workspaces 32A, 32B, 32C. In the process of being built in the notebook computer 241, the mobile phone 242, and the wearable device 243, respectively, the unified second driver 412 is only disposed in the projected workspaces 32A, 32B, so only the user 81, 82 can operate his own control device 24 (notebook 241, mobile phone 242) to control the second electronic device 22 to perform tasks through his own account and/or password, and the second driver 412 is not configured because it is unified. In the projected work space 32C, the user 83 cannot control the second electronic device 22 to perform the task by operating his own control device 24 (worn device 243).

Next, the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention will be described by way of example in life. law. In the present description, the first electronic device 21 and the second electronic device 22 are two household appliances, such as a television and an air conditioner, and the users 81, 82, and 83 are all family members, and authorized settings in the family members. The projectable space entity 31 can be compiled according to the needs of each family member, and the first driver 411 corresponding to the first electronic device 21 and unified A second driver 412 corresponding to the second electronic device 22 and unified is added to the projectable spatial entity 31; and via one-time compilation as described above, any family member only has to be a projectable spatial entity 31 By loading into its own control machine 24, it is possible to control the first electronic device 21 and/or the second electronic device 22 by operating its own control device without having to spend time and effort separately to control the law or control. The interface is set on its own control machine 24.

Of course, each family member owns and supplies a space entity that can be projected. The control machine can not only stop at one, but the control machines can be placed in different areas of the home (such as a tablet placed in the living room, a mobile phone placed in the bedroom), which will help to facilitate family life; For example, a family member who is originally in the living room and wants to remotely control the TV will not need to move to the bedroom to take the mobile phone before the living room is placed without the control machine.

According to the above description, the method for controlling the electronic device of the present invention makes a plurality of Electronic devices developed by the same communication protocol and/or different communication protocols can be driven by the same control device, and through simple settings, multiple control devices can enjoy common control rules and/or control interfaces for The single user and/or the plurality of users operate to control the electronic devices, thereby further facilitating people's living needs; however, the above are only examples, and those skilled in the art can perform any equalization according to actual application requirements. Changing the design; for example, the design can be changed to configure the machine to be a common machine with any of the control machines; for example, although the above-mentioned life example is to apply the method of controlling the electronic device of the present invention to the smart The appliance integration control system, but it can also be applied to the technical field of the Internet of Things such as medical equipment integration control system, intelligent security control system, fire security control system or transportation system.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the patent application of the present invention. Therefore, any equivalent changes or modifications made without departing from the spirit of the present invention should be included in the present case. Within the scope of the patent application.

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A method for controlling an electronic device, wherein at least one user controls and manages at least one electronic device through at least one control device, the method for controlling the electronic device includes: loading to build a working space a projectable space entity to the at least one control machine, and the projectable space real system is added to at least one unified tool corresponding to the at least one electronic device and used to drive the at least one electronic device; An engine of at least one control machine utilizes a projection means to interpret the projectable spatial entity and establish a working environment to perform a workspace corresponding to one of the workspaces to be projected The projected workspace is built on the at least one control machine and operates; wherein the engine provides a compatible environment to perform the projection, and the projection means provides a microkernel to the workspace Establishing the working environment to equip the at least one unified tool into the projected workspace, and The less unified device is configured to drive the at least one electronic device to perform at least one task because at least one user operates the at least one control device; wherein the projection means and the created working environment, the projected workspace And the micro-core is executed in the same compatible environment provided by the engine. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one unified tool comprises a person formed by being unified by at least one driver. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device. The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 2, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool comprises a plurality of drivers respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices The program is formed by being unified; wherein the plurality of drivers are unified and configured in the projected workspace to be compatible with each other. The method for controlling the electronic device according to claim 1 is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system or a transportation. system. The method of controlling the electronic device of claim 1, further comprising: loading the projectable spatial entity to the at least one control machine via a path connection information (URI). The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one control device comprises at least one of a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device, and a wearable electronic device. The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices. The method of controlling an electronic device of claim 8, wherein the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, or the at least two of the plurality of electronic devices provide different The utility, or at least two of the plurality of electronic devices, are manufactured by different manufacturers and provide different functions. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensibility markup language (XML) or a structured language (structured language) Or an instance of a structured protocol generated by an organized protocol. A control system comprising: at least one electronic device; a control machine for loading a projectable space entity for constructing a workspace, wherein the projectable space entity is adapted to correspond to the at least one electronic device and used to drive the At least one unified tool of at least one electronic device is added; wherein the control machine includes an engine, and the engine provides a compatible environment to perform a projection means, and the control machine utilizes The projector interprets the projectable spatial entity and establishes a working environment to execute a workspace corresponding to one of the workspaces, such that the projected workspace is established Controlling the machine and operating; wherein the projection means provides a microkernel to the working environment established thereby to equip the at least one unified tool into the projected workspace, and The at least one unified tool drives the at least one electronic device to perform at least one task in response to at least one user operating the control device; wherein The projection means and the operating environment it establishes, the projected workspace, and the micro-core are all executed in the same compatible environment provided by the engine. The control system of claim 11, wherein the at least one unified tool comprises a person formed by being unified by at least one driver. The control system of claim 12, wherein the at least one driver is developed by a software development kit (SDK) corresponding to the at least one electronic device. The control system of claim 12, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and the at least one unified tool comprises a plurality of drivers respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices. Formed after the avatar; wherein the plurality of drivers are unified and configured in the projected workspace to be compatible with each other. The control system according to claim 11 is applied to at least a smart home appliance integrated control system, a medical device integrated control system, a smart security control system, a fire security control system or a transportation system. The control system of claim 11, wherein the at least one control machine loads the projectable spatial entity therein via a path link information (URI). The control system of claim 11, wherein the at least one control machine comprises at least one of a computer, a household appliance, a handheld electronic device, and a wearable electronic device. The control system of claim 11, wherein the at least one electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices, and at least two of the plurality of electronic devices are different types of electronic devices. The control system of claim 11, wherein each of the control machines includes the projection means, or the projection means is loaded into each of the control machines. The control system of claim 11, wherein the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensibility markup language (XML), or a structured language or a structure. An entity generated by a structured protocol.