TWI573973B - Smart refrigerator and its refrigerated display method - Google Patents

Description

Smart refrigerator and its refrigerator display method

The present invention relates to the technical field of a refrigerator, and more particularly to a smart refrigerator having a accommodating and refrigerating function and a display method thereof.

Generally, refrigerators only have the function of freezing or keeping fresh fruits and vegetables. With the rise of information appliances, refrigerators can further form information appliances in addition to traditional functions. In the case of a smart refrigerator, it can be equipped with a display on the surface of the refrigerator and a suitable network interface to allow the refrigerator to be connected to the Internet.

Since neither the traditional refrigerator nor the smart refrigerator can display the state and contents of the refrigerator on the screen, the contents of the refrigerator cannot be known before the refrigerator is opened, and the user needs to find the impression by rummaging. Items in the middle. This way of rummaging through items will lengthen the time it takes to open the refrigerator, which will obviously result in increased power consumption and wasted time. In addition, if the item to be found is no longer in the refrigerator, for example, it has been eaten or used up by the family, it is a waste of time for rummaging.

Taiwan Patent No. I265263 discloses a smart refrigerator and a monitoring and identification method therefor, which use an infrared radiation receiver, a water pressure communication tube and a micro switch to sense the stock status of fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs and beverages. The image recognition and image comparison are used to count the increase and decrease of objects. The patent application does not disclose how to display the position of the object in the refrigerator. Therefore, the patent application does not solve the problem of inconvenience and power consumption of the user to find the object.

Taiwan Patent No. 201217731 discloses a combination of a handheld electronic device A smart refrigerator and a control method thereof are capable of fitting a hand-held device to a refrigerator. Further, the object disposed in the sensor can be placed in the refrigerator, and each sensor can be detected by the reader and the contents of each sensor can be displayed. Secondly, an image unit can be used to capture the internal image of the refrigerator. Although the patent predecessor has the function of capturing the internal image of the refrigerator, it does not disclose how to identify the objects in the image. In particular, the objects in the refrigerator often overlap and stack, and the general two-dimensional image may cause the object to be Misjudged or missing objects.

China's CNI01202935 patent case discloses a remote operation and monitoring A method of a refrigerator and a smart refrigerator implementing the method. The method mainly comprises setting, on a refrigerator, a communication device capable of communicating with a personal communication terminal; collecting various physical parameters of the refrigerator and transmitting to the personal communication terminal through the communication device; and transmitting a signal to the communication device through the personal communication terminal The refrigerator is controlled. Taiwan Patent No. M408027 discloses a smart refrigerator in which a reader is disposed in a refrigerator for detecting a sensor disposed on a food. The above patent case does not teach how to display the spatial position of the object in the refrigerator, so the problem of inconvenience and power consumption of the user to find the object is not solved.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a smart refrigerator having the ability to display ice The state and content of the box, so that users can quickly and accurately find the required items, saving time and energy saving.

An object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator display method of a smart refrigerator, which The utility model can automatically display the arrangement situation and the contents of the interior of the refrigerator after the refrigerator is turned on, in particular, can be displayed in a stereoscopic manner, thereby reducing the misjudgment and loss of the object.

In order to achieve the above objects and effects, the refrigerator structure disclosed in the present invention comprises a The main body, the plurality of readers disposed inside the body, and a processing system are disposed on the body and electrically connected to the readers. Further, the processing system has a positioning mechanism. The plurality of RF sensors respectively combine the refrigerators, and each of the RF sensors can generate an induction function with each of the readers; and the signals of the RF sensors and the readers are calculated and analyzed by the positioning mechanism. The position and content of each of the RF sensors are displayed on a display.

Further corresponding to the refrigerator of the present invention, the refrigerator display method comprises a placing step, a sensing step, a position processing step, and a displaying step, wherein the position processing step is used to locate a spatial position of each of the RF sensors, and the displaying step is for displaying the position and content of each of the RF sensors; in particular It can be combined with the image in the refrigerator to form a superimposed image, and finally displayed as a stereo image.

10‧‧‧ Ontology

12‧‧‧ display

14‧‧‧Processing system

16‧‧‧Reader

18‧‧‧Developing device

20‧‧‧ Positioning mechanism

22‧‧•Image overlay mechanism

24‧‧‧Wireless transceiver

26, 26a‧‧‧RF sensor

28‧‧‧Handheld devices

30‧‧‧Placement steps

32‧‧‧ Sensing steps

34‧‧‧Location processing steps

36‧‧‧Image capture steps

38‧‧•Image overlay step

40‧‧‧ Display steps

50‧‧‧Refrigerated goods

Fig. 1 is an external view of the refrigerator of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic view of the interior of the refrigerator of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view showing the electrical connection structure between the members of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of signal reception of each reader and radio frequency sensor of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the spatial position and display of each RF sensor detected by the present invention.

Figure 6 is a schematic view of the image capturing device of the present invention for capturing images of the interior of the refrigerator.

Figure 7 is a schematic diagram of the image overlay mechanism of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram showing the steps of the refrigerator display method of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the refrigerator of the present invention has a body 10 , and the body 10 There is space for objects to be accommodated inside. A display 12 is disposed on the surface of the body 10, and a processing system 14 is mounted at an appropriate location on the body 10. Referring to FIG. 2, a plurality of readers 16 are mounted inside the body 10, and at least one image capturing device 18 is mounted in the body 10.

Referring to FIG. 3, the processing system 14 is electrically connected to the display 12, each of which is The reader 16 and the image capturing device 18. The processing system 14 can be configured by a processor, a storage device, and an electronic circuit. The processing system 14 can collect images obtained by the image capturing device 18 and collect the readers. 16 signal and information.

Further, the processing system 14 includes an appropriate response in addition to the hard body formed. The mechanism is used to integrate, calculate, and analyze the image acquired by the image capturing device 18 and the signals and information of each of the readers 16, thereby providing a message and displaying it on the display 12. In addition, a wireless transceiver 24 can be electrically coupled to the processing system 14.

The processing system 14 can include a positioning mechanism 20 and an image overlay mechanism 22 The positioning mechanism 20 can calculate the spatial coordinates of the detected object by using the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and the triangulation method. The image overlay mechanism 22 can overlap two images but not completely cover them, for example, one image is superimposed on another image in the form of a watermark, so that the feature points or feature positions in one image can Appearing in another image; or directly indicating the position coordinate determined by the positioning mechanism 20 in the image acquired by the image capturing device 18.

Referring to Figure 4, the use of the present invention will be configured with RF sensors 26 and 26a. The refrigerator 50 is placed in the body 10 of the refrigerator. At this time, each of the readers 16 can detect each of the RF sensors 26 and 26a, and record the received signal strength indicators of the readers 16 and the RF sensors 26 and 26a. The radio frequency sensors 26 and 26a described above may be coupled to the outer package of the refrigerated item 50 by tying, fitting or otherwise.

Referring to FIG. 5, each of the readers 16 is connected to each of the RF sensors 26 and 26a. After the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is concentrated, the positioning mechanism 20 can calculate and analyze, thereby determining the spatial position (coordinates) of the RF sensors 26 and 26a and displaying them on the display 12 in the form of a stereogram, or not displaying only For the record. It should be noted that the contents of the RF sensors 26 and 26a may be input in advance, or the RF sensors 26 and 26a may be input when they are displayed on the display 12.

Referring to FIG. 6, the image capturing device 18 can be started after the refrigerator is turned off. Capture and record images inside the refrigerator. In response to the darkness of the interior of the refrigerator, the illumination in the refrigerator may be delayed, or another illumination device may be provided to assist the image capture device 18 in acquiring images; and the image capture device 18 may be provided with wide-angle imaging. Function, or more than one image capturing device 18 can be configured. The plurality of image capturing devices 18 can achieve the effect of capturing images in multiple directions inside the refrigerator, and then combine multiple images into one image of the interior of the refrigerator by image combination. At this time, the internal image of the refrigerator can be selectively displayed on the display 12 or not displayed.

Please refer to FIG. 7 for the spatial position of each of the RF sensors 26 and 26a and the inside of the refrigerator. The image of the portion can be superimposed by the image folding mechanism 22, so that the image and content of the spatial position of each of the RF sensors 26 and 26a appear in the internal image of the refrigerator and appear in a stereogram. The selection is displayed in the form of a perspective view, which is intended to prevent the refrigerator from being accurately displayed on the missing of the planar image due to stacking upside down or stacking back and forth, but does not indicate that the present invention can only be displayed in a solid figure.

The design of the present invention allows the user to clearly check the refrigerator before opening it. The cold storage inside the refrigerator can accurately know the placement position, so the time for opening the refrigerator to look for the cold storage can be effectively reduced, thereby achieving the energy saving effect. In addition, whether it is taken out of the cold storage Returning to the refrigerator, or moving the refrigerator in the refrigerator, after the refrigerator is turned off, the spatial position of each of the RF sensors 26 and 26a and the internal image of the refrigerator can be automatically updated, in other words, the present invention can maintain the latest display with the user's use. As a result, the situation of misjudgment and loss of the object is further reduced.

Please refer to Figure 8, according to the above description, about the cold storage inside the cold box The method can include a placement step 30, a sensing step 32, a position processing step 34, an image capture step 36, an image overlay step 38, and a display step 40.

The placing step 30 is to put the refrigerator with the RF sensor into an ice. Inside the box (as shown in Figure 4). The sensing step 32 automatically captures the signal strength and content of the RF sensor by a reader disposed in the refrigerator (as shown in FIG. 5). The position processing step 34 determines the spatial position of the RF sensor (as shown in FIG. 5) by using the relationship between the signal intensity and the distance of the RF sensor in the processing system of the refrigerator and the triangulation method.

The image capturing step 36 refers to capturing the inside of the refrigerator by using an image capturing device. Image of the refrigerated object (as shown in Figure 6). Further, the image of the refrigerated object can be transmitted to the processing system to record the image, or to further display the image.

The image superimposing step 38 is used to superimpose the image of the refrigerated object and the shot The spatial position of the frequency sensor; the display step 40 is further displaying the image of the image of the refrigerator and the image of the position of the RF sensor that has been superimposed on the display (as shown in FIG. 7).

In addition, please refer to FIG. 3, and the wireless transceiver 24 can be used to swing the refrigerator. The situation and content are transferred to a handheld device 28. In this way, the user can know the type of the refrigerator in the refrigerator at the far end, and then plan the ingredients to be cooked, thereby avoiding the repeated purchase of the ingredients.

The above is a preferred embodiment and a design of the present invention, but the preferred embodiment is And the design drawings are for illustrative purposes only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the scope of the invention. The scope of the invention is the scope of the applicant's rights.

12‧‧‧ display

14‧‧‧Processing system

16‧‧‧Reader

18‧‧‧Developing device

20‧‧‧ Positioning mechanism

22‧‧•Image overlay mechanism

24‧‧‧Wireless transceiver

28‧‧‧Handheld devices

Claims (4)

A smart refrigerator is used for accommodating a refrigerator, comprising: a body; a plurality of readers disposed inside the body; a plurality of RF sensors respectively combining the refrigerators, and each of the RF sensors can be combined with Each of the readers generates an inductive effect; a processing system is disposed on the body and electrically connected to each of the readers, and is configured to collect signals and information of each of the readers, and the processing system has a positioning mechanism The positioning mechanism includes determining a spatial position of each of the RF sensors by a triangulation method; a display is disposed on the surface of the body and electrically connected to the processing system; wherein each of the RF sensors and the information of the readers Through the calculation and analysis of the positioning mechanism, the position and content of each of the RF sensors can be displayed on the display. The smart refrigerator of claim 1, further comprising an image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device is disposed in the body and electrically connected to the processing system, wherein the image capturing device is configured to capture the image The image in the body is transmitted to the processing system. Further, the image in the body is combined with the position and content of each of the RF sensors and displayed on the display. The smart refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the image in the body and the position of each of the RF sensors are in a stereoscopic form and displayed on the display. A smart refrigerator refrigerating display method, comprising the following steps: a placing step of placing a refrigerator having a radio frequency sensor into a refrigerator; and a sensing step of a reader disposed in the refrigerator Capture the signal strength and content of the RF sensor; A position processing step is to determine a spatial position of the RF sensor by using a relationship between a signal intensity and a distance of the RF sensor in a processing system disposed in the refrigerator; and an image capturing step is utilized by the image capturing step; An image capturing device captures an image of the refrigerated object in the refrigerator, and the image of the refrigerating object is transmitted to the processing system; an image superimposing step is used to superimpose the image of the refrigerating object and a spatial position of the RF sensor; a display step of displaying the image of the refrigerated object obtained by the image capturing step and the superimposed information of the image and the spatial position obtained by the image superimposing step, and displaying the information in the refrigerator A display of the surface.