WO2015188658A1

WO2015188658A1 - Household appliance and control method and device therefor

Info

Publication number: WO2015188658A1
Application number: PCT/CN2015/076678
Authority: WO
Inventors: 王子; 陈佳良; 梁博; 毛跃辉
Original assignee: 珠海格力电器股份有限公司
Priority date: 2014-06-10
Filing date: 2015-04-15
Publication date: 2015-12-17
Also published as: CN104009898A; CN104009898B

Abstract

Disclosed are a household appliance and a control method and device therefor. The control method for the household appliance comprises the steps of: acquiring the current state of a household appliance (S102); judging whether a target terminal is connected to a target local area network (S104); if the current state is a standby state, according to the state of the target terminal, judging whether the household appliance satisfies an operating condition (S105); if the current state is an operating state, according to the state of the target terminal, judging whether the household appliance satisfies a standby condition (S106); if the household appliance satisfies the operating condition, controlling the household appliance to switch from the standby state to the operating state (S107); and if the household appliance satisfies the standby condition, controlling the household appliance to switch from the operating state to the standby state (S108). By means of the present invention, the problem in the prior art that the accuracy of controlling the household appliance to automatically power on and power off is relatively low is solved, thereby achieving the effect of improving the control accuracy of the household appliance.

Description

Household appliance and control method and device thereof

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of household appliances, and in particular to a household appliance and a control method and apparatus therefor.

Background technique

At present, the automatic opening and closing operation methods of household appliances are as follows:

1. The internal or external timer of the appliance is turned on regularly (shutdown);

2. The infrared sensor of the home appliance is automatically turned on (off) when detecting someone (no one) for a certain period of time;

3. When the camera sensor of the home appliance is configured to detect someone (no one) for a certain period of time, it will automatically turn on (shutdown).

In the above scheme for controlling the automatic opening and closing of the household appliances, the scheme of automatically opening and shutting down by the timer often causes the household appliance to be turned off when the user is at home, and the household appliance is turned on when the user is not at home, thereby causing energy waste; and the infrared sensor or the camera sensor The scheme of automatic opening and closing, although the energy waste is reduced to a certain extent, but it is easy to judge other objects as human, resulting in malfunction of the control; and the detection range of these sensors has limitations, generally the effective angle of the sensor is effective. There is no object blocking between the person and the sensor. The existence of these limitations makes the accuracy of the automatic opening and closing of the household appliance low.

In view of the low accuracy of controlling the automatic opening and closing of household appliances in the related art, an effective solution has not been proposed yet.

Summary of the invention

A main object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a home appliance and a control method and apparatus thereof, which solve the problem of low accuracy in controlling automatic opening and closing of a home appliance in the prior art.

According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a method of controlling a home appliance is provided.

The control method of the home appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: acquiring a current state of the home appliance; determining whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, wherein the target local area network is a local area network connected to the home appliance; if the current status In a standby state, if it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determining, according to the state of the target terminal, whether the household appliance meets a working condition; if the current state is a working state, determining In the case that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, according to the Determining whether the home appliance satisfies a standby condition according to a state of the target terminal; and controlling the home appliance to change from a standby state to a working state in a case where it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the working condition according to a state of the target terminal And controlling, in a case where the home appliance satisfies the standby condition according to a state of the target terminal, controlling the home appliance to change from a working state to a standby state.

Optionally, if it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determining whether the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal comprises: calculating between the first time and the second time a first time interval, where the first time is a time when the target terminal is currently connected to the target local area network, and the second time is the last time that the target terminal is disconnected from the target local area network And determining whether the first time interval is greater than a first preset duration, wherein T1=T0±ΔT, T1 is the first preset duration, and T0 and ΔT are preset reference durations, wherein When it is determined that the first time interval is greater than the first preset time length, determining that the home appliance meets the working condition.

Optionally, if it is determined that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, determining whether the home appliance meets a standby condition according to a state of the target terminal includes: acquiring a second time interval, where The second time interval indicates a duration of the target terminal not connected to the target local area network; and determining whether the second time interval is greater than a second preset duration, where T2=T0'±ΔT, and T2 is the The two preset durations, T0' and ΔT are preset reference durations, wherein, in a case where it is determined that the second time interval is greater than the second preset duration, it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition.

Optionally, the second preset duration is determined by: acquiring a standby duration of each day of the home appliance; calculating an average value Ti of the standby duration of the corresponding Wi, where Wi represents the week i, i takes 1 in sequence And determining that the average value Ti is the second preset duration corresponding to the week i.

Optionally, controlling the household appliance to change from the working state to the standby state includes: determining whether the home appliance starts the first preset action, wherein the first preset action indicates that the home appliance sends out the first before the standby a prompt message, the first prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the standby condition; and when it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action, sending the first prompt information to a server; Determining whether a first feedback instruction from the server responding to the first prompt information is received; and in a case of determining that the home appliance does not turn on the first preset action, directly controlling the household appliance from The working state is changed to the standby state, or in the case where it is determined that the first feedback command is received, the household appliance is controlled to change from the working state to the standby state.

Optionally, if it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action, controlling the home appliance to change from the working state to the standby state further includes repeatedly performing the following steps until the number of repetitions reaches a preset number of times: Determining whether the target local area network is connected to the server; and determining that the target local area network is not connected to In the case of the server, requesting to connect the target local area network to the server, wherein, when it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, and the number of repetitions reaches the preset number of times, Directly controlling the home appliance to change from a working state to a standby state, or sending the first prompt information to the server if it is determined that the target local area network is connected to the server.

Optionally, controlling the household appliance to change from the standby state to the working state includes: determining whether the home appliance starts a second preset action, wherein the second preset action indicates that the home appliance sends a first The second prompt information, the second prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the working condition; and when it is determined that the home appliance starts the second preset action, sending the second prompt information to the server; Determining whether a second feedback instruction from the server responding to the second prompt information is received; and in a case of determining that the second preset action is not turned on by the home appliance, directly controlling the home appliance from The standby state is changed to the working state, or when it is determined that the second feedback command is received, the household appliance is controlled to change from the standby state to the working state.

According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a control device for a home appliance is provided.

The control device of the home appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a first acquiring unit, configured to acquire a current state of the home appliance; and a first determining unit, configured to determine whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, where the target local area network is a local area network to which the home appliance is connected; a second determining unit, configured to: when the current state is a standby state, and in a case of determining that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determining according to a state of the target terminal Whether the home appliance meets the working condition; the third determining unit is configured to be in the working state when the current state is, and in the case that it is determined that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, according to the target terminal a state of determining whether the home appliance meets a standby condition; and a first control unit, configured to control the home appliance to switch from a standby state in a case where it is determined that the home appliance meets the working condition according to a state of the target terminal a working state; a second control unit, configured to determine according to a state of the target terminal A case where the home appliance satisfies the standby condition, controlling the home appliance from the standby state into the operating state.

Optionally, the second determining unit includes: a calculating module, configured to calculate a first time interval between the first time and the second time, where the first time is currently determined that the target terminal is connected to a moment of the target local area network, where the second time is a time when the target terminal is disconnected from the target local area network; and a first determining module is configured to determine whether the first time interval is greater than the first preset The time length, where T1=T0±ΔT, T1 is the first preset duration, and T0 and ΔT are preset reference durations, wherein it is determined that the first time interval is greater than the first preset duration In the case, it is determined that the household appliance satisfies the working condition.

Optionally, the third determining unit includes: an acquiring module, configured to acquire a second time interval, where the second time interval indicates a duration of time that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network; and a second a determining module, configured to determine whether the second time interval is greater than a second preset duration, where T2=T0'±ΔT, T2 is the second preset duration, and T0' and ΔT are preset reference durations, Wherein, in a case that it is determined that the second time interval is greater than the second preset time length, it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition.

Optionally, the control device further includes: a second acquiring unit, configured to acquire a standby duration of each day of the home appliance; and a calculating unit, configured to calculate an average value Ti of the standby duration of the corresponding Wi, where Wi represents The week i, i takes 1 to 7 in sequence; and a determining unit for determining that the average value Ti is the second preset duration corresponding to the week i.

Optionally, the first control unit includes: a third determining module, configured to determine whether the home appliance starts a first preset action, where the first preset action indicates that the home appliance sends out before standby a first prompting information, the first prompting information indicating that the home appliance meets the standby condition; and a first sending module, configured to send a station if it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action Determining the first prompt information to the server; the fourth determining module, configured to determine whether a first feedback instruction from the server responding to the first prompt information is received; and a first control module, configured to determine the If the home appliance does not turn on the first preset action, directly controlling the home appliance to change from the working state to the standby state, or in the case of determining that the first feedback instruction is received, controlling the home appliance From work to standby.

Optionally, the first control unit further includes a repetition module, configured to repeatedly perform the following steps until the number of repetitions reaches a preset number of times: determining whether the target local area network is connected to the server; and determining the target local area network If the server is not connected to the server, requesting to connect the target local area network to the server, wherein, determining that the target local area network is not connected to the server, and the number of repetitions reaches the preset number of times In the case that the first control module directly controls the home appliance to change from the working state to the standby state, or in the case that it is determined that the target local area network is connected to the server, the first sending module sends the first A prompt message to the server.

Optionally, the second control unit includes: a fifth determining module, configured to determine whether the home appliance starts a second preset action, where the second preset action indicates that the home appliance is sent before starting a second prompting information, where the second prompting information indicates that the home appliance meets the working condition; and the second sending module is configured to send the location if it is determined that the household appliance starts the second preset action a second prompting information to the server; a sixth determining module, configured to determine whether a second feedback instruction from the server responding to the second prompt information is received; and a second control module, configured to determine the When the household appliance does not turn on the second preset action, directly controlling the home appliance to change from the standby state to the working state, or in the case of determining that the second feedback instruction is received, controlling the household appliance Switch from standby to active.

According to another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a home appliance is provided.

A home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a control device of any of the home appliances provided by the above-described contents of the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the current state of the home appliance is obtained; determining whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, wherein the target local area network is a local area network connected to the home appliance; if the current state is a standby state, determining If the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determining whether the home appliance meets a working condition according to a state of the target terminal; if the current state is an active state, determining that the target terminal is not connected In the case of the target local area network, determining whether the home appliance satisfies a standby condition according to the state of the target terminal; and controlling, in the case that the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal, controlling The home appliance is switched from the standby state to the working state; and when it is determined that the home appliance meets the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal, the home appliance is controlled to change from the working state to the standby state. By judging the intervention of the target terminal in the same local area network where the household appliance is located, the change of the operating state of the household appliance is triggered, thereby realizing that the human body detection is not required to directly perform the opening and closing control of the household appliance, thereby avoiding the object blocking. The malfunction has solved the problem of low precision in controlling the automatic opening and closing of the household appliances in the prior art, thereby achieving the effect of improving the control precision of the household appliances. Moreover, the control method of the household appliance provided by the embodiment of the present invention performs the opening and closing control by the access of the target terminal, and the effect of reducing the cost of the household appliance is achieved without additional sensors.

DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in the claims In the drawing:

1 is a flow chart of a method of controlling a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flow chart of controlling a home appliance to be automatically turned on according to a control method of a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flow chart of a method for controlling a home appliance to control automatic shutdown of a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic diagram of a control device for a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a system topology diagram of controlling a home appliance provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a flow chart of automatic opening and closing control of a household appliance provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is an embodiment of the invention, but not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts shall fall within the scope of the present invention.

It is to be understood that the terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present invention are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a particular order or order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate, so that the embodiments of the invention described herein can be implemented in a sequence other than those illustrated or described herein. In addition, the terms "comprises" and "comprises" and "the" and "the" are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, for example, a process, method, system, product, or device that comprises a series of steps or units is not necessarily limited to Those steps or units may include other steps or units not explicitly listed or inherent to such processes, methods, products or devices.

The embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments.

Example 1

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an embodiment of a method that can be used to implement an embodiment of the apparatus of the present application can be provided. It should be noted that the steps illustrated in the flowchart of the accompanying drawings can be in a The execution is performed in a computer system, and although the logical order is shown in the flowcharts, in some cases the steps shown or described may be performed in a different order than the ones described herein.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for controlling a home appliance is provided. The following describes the control method of the home appliance provided by the embodiment of the present invention:

1 is a flowchart of a method for controlling a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the control method mainly includes the following steps S102 to S108:

S102: Acquire a current state of the home appliance, wherein the home appliance has a wifi module, and can connect to the Internet by accessing a local area network of the home router, thereby maintaining communication with the server.

S104: determining whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, wherein the target local area network is a local area network connected to the home appliance, in the embodiment of the present invention, that is, the local area network of the home router, specifically, the target terminal may be the user's smart phone, and also has Wifi module, able to access the home router, and the target terminal has home The mobile phone number or OTT account bound with the appliance. It is determined whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network by detecting whether the wifi module of the target terminal is connected to the target local area network. If the wifi module of the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, and vice versa, not connected to the target local area network. .

S105: If the current state of the home appliance acquired in step S102 is the standby state, if it is determined in step S104 that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determine whether the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal, that is, determine Whether the household appliance is switched from the standby state to the normal working state.

S106: If the current state of the home appliance acquired in step S102 is an active state, if it is determined in step S104 that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, determine whether the home appliance satisfies the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal, ie, It is judged whether the household appliance is switched from the normal working state to the standby state.

S107: In step S105, if it is determined that the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal, the home appliance is controlled to change from the standby state to the working state.

S108: In the case where it is determined in step S106 that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal, the home appliance is controlled to change from the working state to the standby state.

The control method of the household appliance provided by the embodiment of the present invention triggers the change of the operating state of the household appliance by determining the intervention of the target terminal in the same local area network where the household appliance is located, thereby realizing the need for direct human body detection to the household appliance The opening and closing control is performed, thereby avoiding the malfunction caused by the object occlusion, and solving the problem of lower precision of controlling the automatic opening and closing of the household appliance in the prior art, thereby achieving the effect of improving the control precision of the household appliance. . Moreover, the control method of the household appliance provided by the present invention controls the opening and closing of the target terminal through the access of the target terminal, and does not need to add additional sensors, thereby achieving the effect of reducing the cost of the household appliance.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, it is determined whether the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal, mainly determining whether the user returns to the home from the outdoors, specifically by the following step S21 And step S22 determines:

S21: Calculating a first time interval between the first time and the second time, wherein the first time is a time when the target terminal is currently connected to the target local area network, and the second time is the last time that the target terminal and the target local area network are disconnected. The moment of opening, that is, the time interval from the last disconnection from the target local area network to the connection to the target local area network.

S22: determining whether the first time interval is greater than the first preset time length, wherein, in the case that determining that the first time interval is greater than the preset time length, determining that the home appliance meets the working condition, wherein T1=T0±ΔT, T1 is the first For a preset duration, T0 and ΔT are preset reference durations.

For the home appliance to be in a standby state, and the user and its target terminal are always at home, this case indicates that the home appliance is considered to be set to the standby state. If the target terminal is temporarily shut down, when the power is turned on again, the target terminal will be detected to be connected to the target local area network connection. At this time, if the home appliance is immediately controlled to change from the standby state to the working state, it is obviously destroying the user's considered setting. , causing malfunctions in household appliances. And determining whether the household appliance meets the working condition by determining whether the time interval between the first time and the second time reaches the first preset time length, only when the time interval at which the target terminal is connected to the target local area network is sufficiently long. Only when the household appliance is switched from the standby state to the working state, the accurate return of the user to the home from the outdoor, the control of the operating state change of the household appliance is achieved, and the effect of further improving the control precision is achieved.

If it is determined that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, it is determined whether the home appliance meets the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal, mainly determining whether the disconnection duration of the target terminal and the target local area network reaches the second preset duration, specifically The following steps S31 and S32 determine:

S31: Acquire a second time interval, where the second time interval indicates a duration of time that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network.

S32: determining whether the second time interval is greater than a second preset time length, wherein T2=T0'±ΔT, T2 is a second preset time length, and T0' and ΔT are preset reference time lengths, and determining a second time interval If it is greater than the preset duration, it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition.

For the second preset duration in step S32, the setting may be performed according to actual needs, or may be calculated in the following manner:

First, the standby time of the household appliance corresponding to each day is obtained for a period of time, that is, the shutdown time of each day during the period of time after the appliance is used for a period of time.

Next, the average value Ti of the standby duration corresponding to Wi is calculated, where Wi represents week i, i takes 1 to 7 in order, that is, 7 time values corresponding to the number of days of worship are calculated, as shown in Table 1:

Table 1

时间time	星期一Monday	星期二Tuesday	星期三Wednesday	星期四Thursday	星期五Friday	星期六on Saturday	星期日on Sunday
时间time	星期一Monday	星期二Tuesday	星期三Wednesday	星期四Thursday	星期五Friday	星期六on Saturday	星期日on Sunday	T值T value	T1T1	T2T2	T3T3	T4T4	T5T5	T6T6	T7T7

Then, it is determined that the average value Ti is the second preset duration corresponding to the week i.

By calculating the corresponding average value Ti according to the standby duration in the usage time of the household appliance, the preset duration of the corresponding week i is achieved, realizing the real-time adjustment of the preset duration according to the user's living habits, thereby realizing different user settings. Different preset durations achieve the effect of further improving control accuracy.

Preferably, in step S107, the home appliance can be controlled to change from the working state to the standby state by the following steps S41 to S44:

S41: determining whether the home appliance starts the first preset action, wherein the first preset action indicates that the home appliance sends the first prompt information before the standby, and the first prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the standby condition, that is, whether the home appliance is turned on. Shutdown reminder function.

S42: Send the first prompt information to the server when it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action.

S43: Determine whether a first feedback instruction from the server responding to the first prompt information is received, wherein after receiving the first prompt information, the server sends a shutdown prompt to the mobile terminal number of the furniture useful appliance or the target terminal of the OTT account. The information is provided to provide the prompt information to the user, and then receives the first feedback instruction of the user to the shutdown prompt information, and sends the first feedback instruction to the home appliance.

S44: Directly controlling the household appliance to change from the working state to the standby state when determining that the home appliance does not turn on the first preset action, or controlling the home appliance to work from the working state when determining that the first feedback instruction is received Go to standby.

In the case that it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action, controlling the home appliance to change from the working state to the standby state further includes repeatedly performing the following steps until the number of repetitions reaches a preset number of times:

Determine if the target LAN is connected to the server;

When it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, request to connect the target local area network to the server,

Wherein, when it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, and the number of repetitions reaches a preset number of times, the home appliance is directly controlled to change from the working state to the standby state, or when it is determined that the target local area network is connected to the server, the first A prompt message to the server.

By determining whether the target local area network is connected to the server, and if the target local area network is not connected, requesting the target local area network to connect with the server, the router in the environment where the household appliance is located cannot connect to the Internet, and after trying for several times in a certain period of time, In the unsuccessful case, the household appliance is directly controlled to change from the working state to the standby state.

In step S107, the home appliance can be controlled to change from the standby state to the working state by the following steps S51 to S54:

S51: determining whether the home appliance starts the second preset action, wherein the second preset action indicates that the home appliance sends the second prompt information before the power on, and the second prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the working condition, that is, whether the home appliance is turned on. Power-on reminder function.

S52: Send the second prompt information to the server when it is determined that the home appliance starts the second preset action.

S53: determining whether a second feedback instruction is received from the server in response to the second prompt information, wherein after receiving the second prompt information, the server sends a power-on prompt to the target terminal of the mobile phone number or the OTT account bound by the furniture useful appliance. The information is provided to provide the prompt information to the user, and then receives a second feedback instruction of the user to the boot prompt information, and sends the second feedback instruction to the home appliance.

S54: Directly controlling the home appliance to change from the standby state to the working state when determining that the second preset action is not turned on by the home appliance, or controlling the home appliance from the standby state when determining that the second feedback instruction is received Switch to work status.

The first preset action and the second preset action are determined by the home appliance, and when it is determined that the corresponding action is started, the corresponding prompt information is sent to the user through the server, and then the home appliance is turned off or turned on. It realizes reminding the user before controlling the home appliance to be turned off or turned on.

The control method for automatically starting and automatically shutting down the home appliance by using the control method of the embodiment of the present invention is specifically described below. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of controlling the automatic startup of the home appliance according to the control method of the home appliance according to the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2 . The control for automatic startup of household appliances is as follows:

When the home appliance is in the standby state, the wifi module in the home appliance periodically scans the device information in the target local area network; and when detecting that the target terminal accesses the local area network, further determines whether the home appliance meets the booting according to the state of the target terminal. The condition, that is, whether the user enters the home from the outdoors, the specific judgment manner is the same as the above, and is not described here again. If the judgment result is yes, the control household appliance performs the related action, as follows:

If the home appliance does not turn on the power-on prompt function, that is, the automatic power-on of the home appliance is set to be directly turned on, then the home appliance is controlled to enter the normal running state directly from the standby state, because the function does not involve the server, so the router is not connected to the Internet. Can also be used below;

If the home appliance has the power-on prompt function, that is, the automatic power-on of the home appliance is set to prompt the power-on, the home appliance is controlled to send a power-on prompt message to the server, and the server sends a prompt to the bound mobile phone number or the target terminal of the OTT account. The information is judged by the user whether it is turned on, receives the control command fed back by the user, and then sends the control command to the home appliance for execution. This function requires the router to connect to the Internet for use.

3 is a flow chart of controlling a home appliance to be automatically shut down according to a control method of a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the automatic shutdown control of the home appliance is as follows:

When the home appliance is in a normal running state, the device information in the local area network is periodically scanned by the wifi module in the home appliance; and when the target terminal is detected to leave the local area network, it is further determined whether the home appliance meets the shutdown according to the state of the target terminal. The condition, that is, whether the user has left the home, the specific judgment manner is the same as the above, and will not be described here. If the judgment result is yes, the control household appliance will perform related actions, as follows:

If the household appliance does not turn on the shutdown prompt function, that is, the automatic shutdown of the household appliance is set to directly shut down, the control household appliance directly enters the standby state from the normal running state, because the function does not involve the server, so the router is not connected to the Internet. It can also be used below.

If the household appliance turns on the shutdown prompt function, that is, the automatic shutdown of the household appliance is set to prompt shutdown, the control household appliance sends a shutdown prompt message to the server, and the server sends a prompt shutdown information to the bound mobile phone number or the target terminal of the OTT account. After the user judges whether to shut down, receives the control command fed back by the user, and then sends the control command to the home appliance for execution. This function requires the router to connect to the Internet for use. If the router is unable to connect to the Internet during the execution of the program and fails to try several times within a certain period of time, the home appliance is controlled to perform a "direct shutdown" procedure.

It should be noted that, for the foregoing method embodiments, for the sake of simple description, they are all expressed as a series of action combinations, but those skilled in the art should understand that the present invention is not limited by the described action sequence. Because certain steps may be performed in other sequences or concurrently in accordance with the present invention. In addition, those skilled in the art should also understand that the embodiments described in the specification are all preferred embodiments, and the actions and modules involved are not necessarily required by the present invention.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiment can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, by hardware, but in many cases, the former is A better implementation. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention, which is essential or contributes to the prior art, may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, disk, The optical disc includes a number of instructions for causing a terminal device (which may be a cell phone, a computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention.

Example 2

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a control device for a home appliance for implementing the above-described control method of a home appliance, the control device being mainly used for performing the control method provided by the above content of the embodiment of the present invention, and the following is implemented on the present invention. The control device of the household appliance provided by the example is specifically introduced:

4 is a schematic diagram of a control device for a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the control device mainly includes a first acquiring unit 10, a first determining unit 20, a second determining unit 30, and a third determining unit. 40. A first control unit 50 and a second control unit 60, wherein:

The first obtaining unit 10 is configured to acquire a current state of the home appliance, wherein the home appliance has a wifi module capable of connecting to the Internet by accessing a local area network of the home router, thereby maintaining communication with the server.

The first determining unit 20 is configured to determine whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, where the target local area network is a local area network to which the home appliance is connected. In the embodiment of the present invention, the local area network of the home router, specifically, the target terminal may be a user's The smart phone also has a wifi module, which can access the home router, and the target terminal has a mobile phone number or an OTT account bound to the home appliance. It is determined whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network by detecting whether the wifi module of the target terminal is connected to the target local area network. If the wifi module of the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, and vice versa, not connected to the target local area network. .

The second determining unit 30 is configured to determine whether the home appliance is satisfied according to the state of the target terminal if the current state acquired by the first acquiring unit 10 is the standby state, and the first determining unit 20 determines that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network. The working condition, that is, whether the household appliance is changed from the standby state to the normal operating state.

The third determining unit 40 is configured to determine whether the home appliance is in the working state when the current state acquired by the first acquiring unit 10 is the working state, and the first determining unit 20 determines that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network. The standby condition is satisfied, that is, whether the home appliance is changed from the normal operating state to the standby state.

The first control unit 50 is configured to control the home appliance to change from the standby state to the working state in a case where it is determined that the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal.

The second control unit 60 is configured to control the home appliance to change from the working state to the standby state in a case where it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal.

The control device for the home appliance provided by the embodiment of the present invention triggers the change of the operating state of the home appliance by determining the intervention of the target terminal in the same local area network as the home appliance, thereby realizing the need for direct human body detection to the household appliance Open and shut down control, thus avoiding the malfunction caused by object occlusion, solution The problem of lower precision of controlling the automatic opening and closing of the household appliances in the prior art is determined, thereby achieving the effect of improving the control precision of the household appliances. Moreover, the control method of the household appliance provided by the present invention controls the opening and closing of the target terminal through the access of the target terminal, and does not need to add additional sensors, thereby achieving the effect of reducing the cost of the household appliance.

The second determining unit 30 mainly includes a calculating module and a first determining module, where the calculating module is configured to calculate a first time interval between the first time and the second time, where the first time is currently determined that the target terminal is connected to At the moment of the target local area network, the second time is the time when the target terminal is disconnected from the target local area network, that is, the time interval from the last disconnection from the target local area network to the connection to the target local area network. The first determining module is configured to determine whether the first time interval is greater than the first preset time length, wherein, in the case that determining that the first time interval is greater than the first preset time length, determining that the home appliance meets the working condition, where T1=T0 ±ΔT, T1 is the first preset duration, and T0 and ΔT are preset reference durations.

The third determining unit 40 mainly includes an obtaining module and a second determining module, where the acquiring module is configured to acquire a second time interval, wherein the second time interval indicates a duration of time that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network. The second determining module is configured to determine whether the second time interval is greater than the second preset time length, wherein, in the case that determining that the second time interval is greater than the second preset time length, determining that the home appliance meets the standby condition, T2=T0'± ΔT, T2 is the second preset duration, and T0' and ΔT are preset reference durations.

Further, the control device for the home appliance of the embodiment of the present invention further includes a second acquiring unit, a calculating unit, and a determining unit, wherein:

The second obtaining unit is configured to acquire a standby duration of the household appliance corresponding to each day for a period of time.

The calculation unit is configured to calculate an average Ti of the standby duration of the corresponding Wi, wherein Wi represents the week i, i takes 1 to 7 in order, that is, 7 time values corresponding to the number of days of worship are calculated, as shown in Table 1.

The determining unit is configured to determine the average value Ti as the second preset duration corresponding to the week i.

Preferably, the first control unit 50 mainly includes a third determining module, a first sending module, a fourth determining module, and a first control module, and the second control unit 60 mainly includes a fifth determining module, a second sending module, and a sixth determining The module and the second control module, specifically:

The third determining module is configured to determine whether the home appliance starts the first preset action, where the first preset action indicates that the home appliance sends the first prompt information before the standby, and the first prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the standby condition, that is, the determining Whether the household appliance turns on the shutdown reminder function.

The first sending module is configured to send the first prompt information to the server when it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action.

The fourth determining module is configured to determine whether a first feedback instruction is received from the server in response to the first prompt information, where the server, after receiving the first prompt information, targets the mobile phone number or the OTT account bound by the furniture useful appliance The terminal sends the shutdown prompt information to provide the prompt information to the user, and then receives the first feedback instruction of the user to the shutdown prompt information, and sends the first feedback instruction to the home appliance.

The first control module is configured to directly control the household appliance to change from the working state to the standby state when the first preset action of the home appliance is not turned on, or control the home when it is determined that the first feedback instruction is received The appliance changes from working state to standby state.

The fifth determining module is configured to determine whether the home appliance starts the second preset action, wherein the second preset action indicates that the home appliance sends the second prompt information before starting the power, and the second prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the working condition, that is, the determining Whether the home appliance turns on the power-on reminder function.

The second sending module is configured to send the second prompt information to the server if it is determined that the home appliance starts the second preset action.

The sixth judging module is configured to determine whether a second feedback instruction for responding to the second prompt information from the server is received, wherein after receiving the second prompt information, the server applies the mobile phone number or the target of the OTT account bound to the furniture useful appliance. The terminal sends the boot prompt information to provide the prompt information to the user, and then receives the second feedback instruction of the user to the boot prompt information, and sends the second feedback command to the home appliance.

The second control module is configured to directly control the home appliance to change from the standby state to the working state when the second preset action of the home appliance is not turned on, or control the home when it is determined that the second feedback instruction is received The appliance changes from standby to working state.

The first control unit 50 further includes a repeating module. When it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action, the repeating module is configured to repeatedly perform the following steps until the number of repetitions reaches a preset number of times:

Determine if the target LAN is connected to the server;

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a household appliance, which may be a household appliance that adopts the control method of any household appliance provided by the foregoing content of the embodiment of the present invention, or may include the foregoing content of the embodiment of the present invention. A household appliance of any of the control devices of the home appliance provided.

FIG. 5 is a system topology diagram of controlling a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, both the home appliance and the target terminal are connected to the server. Specifically, the two can be connected to the Internet through a router. The server, the target terminal can also connect to the Internet through a mobile network. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the automatic opening and closing control of the home appliance provided by the embodiment of the present invention. The control method is the same as the control method of the home appliance provided by the foregoing content in the embodiment of the present invention, and details are not described herein again.

From the above description, it can be seen that the present invention achieves the effect of improving the control accuracy of the home appliance without directly performing human body detection to control the opening and closing of the home appliance. Moreover, the control mode of the household appliance provided by the present invention is controlled by opening or closing of the target terminal, and the sensor is not required to be added, thereby achieving the effect of reducing the cost of the household appliance.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various modules or steps of the present invention described above can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device that can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device, such that they may be stored in a storage device by a computing device, or they may be fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or Multiple modules or steps are made into a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

A method of controlling a household appliance, comprising:

Obtaining the current status of the household appliance;

Determining whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, where the target local area network is a local area network connected to the home appliance;

If the current state is the standby state, if it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determine, according to the state of the target terminal, whether the household appliance meets a working condition;

If the current state is an active state, if it is determined that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, determine, according to the state of the target terminal, whether the home appliance meets a standby condition;

Controlling, in the case that the home appliance meets the working condition according to the state of the target terminal, controlling the home appliance to change from a standby state to a working state;

When it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal, the home appliance is controlled to transition from the working state to the standby state.
The control method according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where it is determined that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determining whether the home appliance meets a working condition according to a state of the target terminal comprises:

Calculating a first time interval between the first time and the second time, wherein the first time is a time when the target terminal is currently connected to the target local area network, and the second time is determined last time a moment when the target terminal is disconnected from the target local area network;

Determining whether the first time interval is greater than a first preset duration, where T1=T0±ΔT, T1 is the first preset duration, and T0 and ΔT are preset reference durations,

Wherein, in a case that it is determined that the first time interval is greater than the first preset time length, it is determined that the home appliance meets the working condition.
The control method according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where it is determined that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, determining whether the home appliance satisfies a standby condition according to a state of the target terminal comprises:

Obtaining a second time interval, wherein the second time interval indicates a duration of time that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network;

Determining whether the second time interval is greater than a second preset duration, where T2=T0'±ΔT, T2 is the second preset duration, and T0' and ΔT are preset reference durations,

Wherein, in a case that it is determined that the second time interval is greater than the second preset time length, it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition.
The control method according to claim 3, wherein the second preset duration is determined by:

Obtaining the standby time of each day of the household appliance;

Calculating an average Ti of the standby duration corresponding to Wi, where Wi represents week i, i takes 1 to 7 in sequence;

The average value Ti is determined to be the second preset duration corresponding to the week i.
The control method according to claim 1, wherein controlling the home appliance to change from a working state to a standby state comprises:

Determining whether the home appliance starts the first preset action, wherein the first preset action indicates that the home appliance sends the first prompt information before the standby, the first prompt information indicating that the home appliance meets the Standby condition

When it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action, sending the first prompt information to a server;

Determining whether a first feedback instruction from the server in response to the first prompt information is received;

When it is determined that the home appliance does not turn on the first preset action, directly controlling the home appliance to change from a working state to a standby state, or in a case of determining that the first feedback instruction is received, The household appliance is controlled to change from a working state to a standby state.
The control method according to claim 5, wherein, in the case that it is determined that the home appliance turns on the first preset action, controlling the home appliance to change from the working state to the standby state further comprises repeatedly performing the following steps, Until the number of repetitions reaches the preset number:

Determining whether the target local area network is connected to the server;

When it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, requesting to connect the target local area network to the server,

When it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, and the number of repetitions reaches the preset number of times, directly controlling the household appliance to change from a working state to a standby state, Or sending the first prompt information to the server if it is determined that the target local area network is connected to the server.
The control method according to claim 1, wherein controlling the home appliance to change from a standby state to an active state comprises:

Determining whether the home appliance starts a second preset action, wherein the second preset action indicates that the home appliance sends second prompt information before powering on, and the second prompt information indicates that the home appliance meets the Working conditions;

After determining that the home appliance starts the second preset action, sending the second prompt information to the server;

Determining whether a second feedback instruction from the server in response to the second prompt information is received;

When it is determined that the second preset action is not turned on by the home appliance, directly controlling the home appliance to change from a standby state to an active state, or in a case where it is determined that the second feedback instruction is received, The home appliance is controlled to change from a standby state to a working state.
A control device for a household appliance, comprising:

a first acquiring unit, configured to acquire a current state of the home appliance;

a first determining unit, configured to determine whether the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, where the target local area network is a local area network connected to the home appliance;

a second determining unit, configured to determine, in the standby state, that the current state is a standby state, and in a case that the target terminal is connected to the target local area network, determine, according to a state of the target terminal, whether the household appliance meets a working condition ;

a third determining unit, configured to determine, in the current state that the current state is an active state, and in a case that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network, determine whether the household appliance is satisfied according to a state of the target terminal condition;

a first control unit, configured to control the household appliance to change from a standby state to a working state, if it is determined that the home appliance meets the working condition according to a state of the target terminal;

The second control unit is configured to control the household appliance to change from the working state to the standby state in a case where it is determined that the home appliance meets the standby condition according to the state of the target terminal.
The control device according to claim 8, wherein the second determining unit comprises:

a calculation module, configured to calculate a first time interval between the first time and the second time, where the first time is a time when the target terminal is currently connected to the target local area network, and the second time is Determining a time when the target terminal is disconnected from the target local area network;

a first determining module, configured to determine whether the first time interval is greater than a first preset duration, where T1=T0±ΔT, T1 is the first preset duration, and T0 and ΔT are preset reference durations,

Wherein, in a case that it is determined that the first time interval is greater than the first preset time length, it is determined that the home appliance meets the working condition.
The control device according to claim 8, wherein the third determining unit comprises:

An acquiring module, configured to acquire a second time interval, where the second time interval indicates a duration of time that the target terminal is not connected to the target local area network;

a second determining module, configured to determine whether the second time interval is greater than a second preset duration, where T2=T0'±ΔT, T2 is the second preset duration, and T0' and ΔT are preset references. duration,

Wherein, in a case that it is determined that the second time interval is greater than the second preset time length, it is determined that the home appliance satisfies the standby condition.
The control device according to claim 10, wherein the control device further comprises:

a second obtaining unit, configured to acquire a standby time of each day of the household appliance;

a calculating unit, configured to calculate an average value Ti of the standby duration of the corresponding Wi, wherein Wi represents week i, i takes 1 to 7 in sequence;

a determining unit, configured to determine the average value Ti as the second preset duration corresponding to the week i.
The control device according to claim 8, wherein said first control unit comprises:

a third determining module, configured to determine whether the home appliance starts the first preset action, where the first preset action indicates that the home appliance sends the first prompt information before the standby, the first prompt information indicates The household appliance satisfies the standby condition;

a first sending module, configured to send the first prompt information to a server if it is determined that the home appliance starts the first preset action;

a fourth determining module, configured to determine whether a first feedback instruction from the server responding to the first prompt information is received;

a first control module, configured to directly control the household appliance to change from a working state to a standby state when it is determined that the home appliance does not open the first preset action, or determine that the first In the case of a feedback command, the household appliance is controlled to change from the working state to the standby state.
The control device according to claim 12, wherein the first control unit further comprises a repeating module for repeatedly performing the following steps until the number of repetitions reaches a preset number of times:

Determining whether the target local area network is connected to the server;

When it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, requesting to connect the target local area network to the server,

In the case that it is determined that the target local area network is not connected to the server, and the number of repetitions reaches the preset number of times, the first control module directly controls the household appliance to change from a working state to a standby state. Or, in a case that it is determined that the target local area network is connected to the server, the first sending module sends the first prompt information to the server.
The control device according to claim 8, wherein said second control unit comprises:

a fifth determining module, configured to determine whether the home appliance starts a second preset action, where the second preset action indicates that the home appliance sends a second prompt message before starting the power, and the second prompt information indicates The household appliance satisfies the working condition;

a second sending module, configured to send the second prompt information to the server if it is determined that the home appliance starts the second preset action;

a sixth determining module, configured to determine whether a second feedback instruction from the server responding to the second prompt information is received;

a second control module, configured to directly control the household appliance to change from a standby state to a working state, or determine that the first device is received, if it is determined that the second preset action is not turned on by the home appliance In the case of the two feedback commands, the home appliance is controlled to change from the standby state to the active state.
A home appliance comprising the control device of the home appliance of any one of claims 8 to 14.