WO2023108870A1

WO2023108870A1 - Language setting method for electric appliance, internet of things server, electric appliance, and computer-readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: WO2023108870A1
Application number: PCT/CN2022/075727
Authority: WO
Inventors: 樊其锋; 刘莹
Original assignee: 广东美的制冷设备有限公司; 美的集团股份有限公司
Priority date: 2021-12-17
Filing date: 2022-02-09
Publication date: 2023-06-22
Also published as: CN116266125A

Abstract

Disclosed in the present application is a language setting method for an electric appliance. The method comprises: acquiring a first language that is currently used by an application program which is bound with an electric appliance; and adjusting a language setting parameter of the electric appliance according to the first language, so that the electric appliance outputs target information in the first language. Further disclosed in the present application are an Internet of Things server, an electric appliance and a computer-readable storage medium. The present application aims to improve the degree of matching between a language used by an electric appliance to output information and an actual requirement of a user, so as to improve the user experience.

Description

Language setting method of electric appliance, server of internet of things, electric appliance and computer-readable storage medium

This application claims the priority of the Chinese patent application with application number 202111554736.X filed on December 17, 2021.

technical field

The present application relates to the technical field of electrical appliances, and in particular to a language setting method of an electrical appliance, an Internet of Things server, an electrical appliance, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background technique

With the development of economy and technology, electrical appliances are widely used in daily life. At present, information output is generally involved in the operation of electrical appliances. At present, the language used for information output in electrical appliances is generally the default setting of the system, which cannot match user needs and affects user experience.

technical solution

The main purpose of this application is to provide a language setting method for an electrical appliance, an electrical appliance, and a computer-readable storage medium, aiming at improving the matching degree between the language used by the electrical appliance to output information and the actual needs of users, and improving user experience.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the application provides a language setting method for electrical appliances, the language setting method for electrical appliances includes the following steps:

Obtain the first language currently used by the application bound to the appliance;

Adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language, so that the electrical appliance outputs target information in the first language.

Optionally, after the step of obtaining the first language currently used by the application program corresponding to the electrical appliance, the method further includes:

Query several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance;

It is determined that there is a language resource of the first language among the plurality of preset language resources, and performing the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language.

Optionally, after the step of querying several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance, it further includes:

determining that there is no language resource of the first language among the plurality of preset language resources, and sending a data request instruction to the terminal where the application program is installed, so that the terminal returns the language resource of the first language;

saving the language resource of the first language to the electrical appliance, and executing the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language.

Optionally, the language setting parameters include the first language setting parameters of the display screen of the electrical appliance and/or the second language setting parameters of the voice broadcast module of the electrical appliance, and the adjusting the The steps for setting the language parameters of the appliance include:

adjusting the first language setting parameters to the first language, and/or adjusting the second language setting parameters to the first language;

The target information includes display information on the display screen and/or voice information broadcast by the voice broadcast module.

Optionally, the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language includes:

Sending a language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the first language.

It is determined that the first language is inconsistent with the second language, and performing the step of sending a language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the language setting instruction;

Wherein, the second language is the language used by the application acquired at a first moment before the current moment, and the first moment is separated from the current moment by a preset period of time.

Optionally, the step of obtaining the first language currently used by the application program corresponding to the electrical appliance includes:

Receiving a language setting instruction; the language setting instruction is sent by the Internet of Things server after obtaining the first language;

The first language is determined according to the language setting instruction.

In addition, in order to achieve the above purpose, the present application also proposes an Internet of Things server, which includes: a memory, a processor, and a language setting program of an electrical appliance stored in the memory and operable on the processor When the language setting program of the electrical appliance is executed by the processor, the steps of the language setting method of the electrical appliance described in any one of the above items are realized.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the present application also proposes an electrical appliance, which includes: a memory, a processor, and a language setting program of the electrical appliance stored in the memory and operable on the processor, the electrical appliance When the language setting program is executed by the processor, the steps of the language setting method for electrical appliances as described in any one of the above items are realized.

In addition, in order to achieve the above purpose, the present application also proposes a computer-readable storage medium, on which a language setting program of an electrical appliance is stored, and when the language setting program of an electrical appliance is executed by a processor, the above-mentioned The steps of the language setting method of an electric appliance described in one item.

This application proposes a language setting method for an electrical appliance. The method adjusts the language setting parameters of the appliance according to the language used by the application program bound to the appliance, so that the appliance uses the same language as the application program bound to it to output target information. Based on this, the language of the electrical appliance information output is no longer fixed, and can be set according to the language of the application program for the user to control the air conditioner, and the electrical appliance can automatically adjust the language used for its information output to meet the actual use needs of the user, thereby Improve the matching degree between the language used by electrical appliances to output information and the actual needs of users, and improve user experience.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the hardware structure of the language setting device involved in the operation of an embodiment of the Internet of Things server or electrical appliances of the present application;

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of an embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application;

Fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of another embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application;

Fig. 4 is a schematic flow chart of another embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application;

Fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart of another embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application.

The realization, functional features and advantages of the present application will be further described in conjunction with the embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiments of the present invention

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described here are only used to explain the present application, and are not intended to limit the present application.

The main solution of the embodiment of the present application is: obtain the first language currently used by the application program bound to the electrical appliance; adjust the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language, so that the electrical appliance uses the first language Output target information.

In the prior art, the language used for information output in electrical appliances is generally the default setting of the system, which cannot match user needs and affects user experience.

The present application provides the above-mentioned solution, aiming at improving the matching degree between the language used in the output information of the electrical appliance and the actual needs of the user, and improving the user experience.

The embodiment of the present application proposes a language setting device for an electrical appliance, which can be applied to setting the language output by the electrical appliance. The electrical appliances here are specifically any type of electrical equipment with a network communication function. In this embodiment, the electrical appliance includes an air conditioner. In other embodiments, the electrical appliances can also be any other electrical appliances such as refrigerators, audio systems, televisions, integrated cookers, disinfection cabinets, and rice cookers.

Specifically, the language setting device may be built into the electrical appliance, may also be a server communicatively connected with the electrical appliance, or may be set in a device installed with an application program bound to the electrical appliance, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present application, referring to FIG. 1 , the language setting device of an electrical appliance includes: a processor 1001 (such as a CPU), a memory 1002 and the like. The processor 1001 and the memory 1002 are connected through a communication bus. The memory 1002 may be a high-speed RAM memory, or a stable memory (non-volatile memory), such as a disk memory. Optionally, the memory 1002 may also be a storage device independent of the foregoing processor 1001 .

Those skilled in the art can understand that the device structure shown in FIG. 1 does not constitute a limitation to the device, and may include more or less components than shown in the figure, or combine some components, or arrange different components.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the memory 1002 as a computer-readable storage medium may include a language setting program of the electrical appliance. In the device shown in FIG. 1 , the processor 1001 can be used to call the language setting program of the electrical appliance stored in the memory 1002 and execute the relevant steps of the language setting method of the electrical appliance in the following embodiments.

The embodiment of the present application also provides an Internet of Things server. The Internet of Things server may include the above-mentioned language setting device. The processor 1001 of the Internet of Things server may be used to call the language setting program of the electrical appliance stored in the memory 1002, and perform the following steps: :

Further, the processor 1001 of the Internet of Things server can also be used to call the language setting program of the electrical appliance stored in the memory 1002, and perform the following steps:

Query several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance;

adjusting the first language setting parameters of the display screen of the electrical appliance according to the first language, and the target information includes display information of the display screen;

And/or, adjust the second language setting parameters of the voice broadcast module of the electrical appliance according to the first language, and the target information includes the voice information broadcast by the voice broadcast module.

Sending a language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the language setting instruction.

It is determined that the first language is inconsistent with the third language, and performing the step of sending a language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the language setting instruction;

Wherein, the third language is the language used by the application obtained at a first time before the current time, and the first time is separated from the current time by a preset time period.

The embodiment of the present application also provides an electrical appliance, where the electrical appliance is specifically any type of electrical equipment with a network communication function. In this embodiment, the electrical appliance includes an air conditioner. In other embodiments, the electrical appliances can also be any other electrical appliances such as refrigerators, audio systems, televisions, integrated cookers, disinfection cabinets, and rice cookers. The electrical appliance may include the above-mentioned language setting device, and the processor 1001 of the electrical appliance may be used to call the language setting program of the electrical appliance stored in the memory 1002, and perform the following steps:

Further, the processor 1001 of the electrical appliance can also be used to call the language setting program of the electrical appliance stored in the memory 1002, and perform the following steps:

Query several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance;

The first language is determined according to the language setting instruction.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a method for setting a language of an electrical appliance, which is applied to the above-mentioned language setting device.

Referring to FIG. 2 , an embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application is proposed. In this embodiment, the method for setting the language of the electrical appliance includes:

Step S10, obtaining the first language currently used by the application program bound to the electrical appliance;

The application program is specifically a program for controlling the electrical appliance. The electrical appliances may be one or more than one of air conditioners, refrigerators, audio systems, televisions, integrated stoves, disinfection cabinets, and rice cookers.

The language in which the application currently outputs information is the first language here. Specifically, the languages used by the application program to output different information may be the same language or different languages. When the languages used by the application program to output information include different languages, all the languages used by the application program may be obtained as the first language; and the language used to output preset information among the multiple languages used by the application program may be obtained as the first language. The first language used by the application can be set by the user, or it can be the language configured by default for the application.

Both terminals and electrical appliances installed with application programs can communicate with the server. Based on this, in an implementation of this embodiment, the execution subject of the language setting method is the server, and the server can set the duration at intervals (such as one day, one week, ) to send a query command to the terminal installed with the application program to obtain the language configuration parameters of the application program, and the first language here can be obtained by analyzing the language configuration parameters. In addition, the terminal installed with the application program can also communicate with the electrical appliance (such as via Bluetooth, WIFI, etc.). Set the time period (such as one day, one week, etc.) and send a query command to the terminal installed with the application program to obtain the language configuration parameters of the application program. By analyzing the language configuration parameters, the first language here can be obtained.

The first language here can be one of different languages such as Chinese, English, French, Japanese, German, etc. Among them, Chinese can be one of different local dialects such as Cantonese, Northeast dialect, Sichuan dialect, Chongqing dialect, Shanghai dialect, etc. English can be one of different dialects such as American English, British English, Indian English, Australian English, Canadian English, etc.

Step S20, adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language, so that the electrical appliance outputs target information in the first language.

The target information here may be all the information output by the electrical appliance, and may also be a specified part of the information.

When the first language is one, the language corresponding to the target information in the language setting parameter can be set as the first language.

When there are more than one first language, the target information type of the target information can be determined, and the first language whose output information type is consistent with the target information type in more than one first language is determined as the target corresponding to the target information Language, the language corresponding to the target information in the language setting parameter is set as the target language. For example, more than one first language includes language 1 and language 2, language 1 of the application program is set to output display information, and language 2 of the application program is set to output voice information, then the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance corresponding to the display information Set the language to language 1, and set the language corresponding to the voice information in the language setting parameters of the appliance to language 2.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the language setting parameters include the first language setting parameters of the display screen of the electrical appliance and/or the second language setting parameters of the voice broadcast module of the electrical appliance, and the A language The step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance includes: adjusting the first language setting parameters to the first language, and/or, adjusting the second language setting parameters to the first language; The target information includes display information on the display screen and/or voice information broadcast by the voice broadcast module. Based on this, the display screen of the electrical appliance and/or the voice announcement module of the electrical appliance can output information in the same language as the application program. For example, when the first language is Chinese such as Cantonese or Sichuan dialect, the display screen of the electrical appliance can output display information in Chinese, and the voice broadcast module of the electrical appliance can correspondingly output voice information in Cantonese or Sichuan dialect.

The embodiment of the present application proposes a method for setting the language of an electrical appliance. The method adjusts the language setting parameters of the appliance according to the language used by the application program bound to the appliance, so that the appliance uses the same language output target as the application program bound to it. Information, based on this, the language output by the appliance information is no longer fixed, and can be set to suit the language of the application program used by the user to control the air conditioner, and the appliance can automatically adjust the language used for its information output to meet the actual needs of the user. In this way, the degree of matching between the language used by the electrical appliance to output information and the actual needs of the user is improved, and the user experience is improved. In addition, the user can automatically adjust the language used by the appliance automatically without interacting with the air conditioner.

Further, based on the above-mentioned embodiments, another embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application is proposed. In this embodiment, referring to FIG. 3, after the step S10, it also includes:

Step S101, querying several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance;

When the language setting method is executed by a server, the server can send a resource query command to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance returns language resource information, and determines several preset language resources according to the received language resource information. When the execution subject of the language setting method is an electrical appliance, the electrical appliance can directly query the data stored in its own memory to obtain several preset language resources in this column.

Step S102, determining that there is a language resource of the first language among the plurality of preset language resources, and performing the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language.

When the several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance include the language resource corresponding to the first language, it indicates that the electrical appliance is allowed to use the first language to output information; the several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance do not include the language resource corresponding to the first language , the appliance does not allow output in the first language.

In this embodiment, through the identification of the language resources in the electrical appliance, the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance are adjusted according to the first language when it is determined that there are language resources in the electrical appliance, so as to ensure the effectiveness of the target information output after the language of the electrical appliance is set to the first language. sex.

Further, in this embodiment, after step S101, it also includes: determining that there is no language resource of the first language among the several preset language resources, and sending a data request instruction to the terminal where the application program is installed to make the terminal return the language resource of the first language; save the language resource of the first language to the electrical appliance, and perform the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language . Specifically, when the execution subject of the language setting method is a server, the server can send a resource setting instruction including the language resource of the first language to the electrical appliance after receiving the language resource of the first language, and the electrical appliance can extract the first language after receiving the setting instruction. The language resources of the file are saved to the corresponding location. When the execution subject of the language setting method is an electrical appliance, the electrical appliance can directly save the language resource of the first language to a corresponding location after receiving it. In this embodiment, when the language resource of the first language does not exist in the electrical appliance, the language resource stored in the application program is used to update the language resource of the electrical appliance, thereby ensuring that the electrical appliance can effectively use the same first language output as the application program. Information to further improve the matching degree of the language used by electrical appliances and the needs of users.

In other embodiments, when the language resource of the first language does not exist in the plurality of preset language resources, the control device may maintain its current language to output the target information.

Further, based on any of the above-mentioned embodiments, another embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application is proposed. In this embodiment, the execution body of the language setting method is a server. Referring to FIG. 4, the step S20 includes:

Step S21, sending a language setting command corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the first language.

In this embodiment, based on the management and control of the electrical appliance and the application program by the server, when the server monitors that the application program is currently using the first language, the language setting instruction is sent to adjust the language of the electrical appliance output target information, thereby realizing the application program and the application program. The language linkage setting between appliances ensures that the language of the output information of appliances can accurately match the needs of users.

Further, in this embodiment, after step S10, it also includes: determining that the first language is inconsistent with the second language, and performing the sending of the language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that all The step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electric appliance according to the language setting instruction;

The preset duration can be one week, one month, one quarter, 10 days, etc. The specific time can be a parameter configured by the system by default, or a parameter set by the user.

The server can obtain the language currently used by the application at preset intervals, and compare the languages obtained twice before and after (that is, the first language and the second language). If the first language and the second language are inconsistent, it indicates the language used by the application. If the language of the appliance changes, a language setting command is sent to the electrical appliance at this time, so that when the language used by the application program changes in response to the user's instruction, the language of the appliance output target information can be automatically changed to the same language as the application program, thereby To ensure that the language of electrical appliances output information matches the needs of users to further improve.

Further, based on any of the above embodiments, another embodiment of the language setting method of the electrical appliance of the present application is proposed. In this embodiment, referring to FIG. 5 , the execution subject of the language setting method is an electrical appliance, and the step of acquiring the first language currently used by the application program corresponding to the electrical appliance includes:

Step S11, receiving a language setting instruction; the language setting instruction is sent by the IoT server after acquiring the first language;

Specifically, the IoT server may inquire about the first language currently used by the application program, and after determining the first language, send the corresponding language setting instruction to the electrical appliance.

Specifically, the server can obtain the language currently used by the application program at an interval of a preset period of time, and compare the languages obtained twice before and after (that is, the first language and the second language). If the first language and the second language are inconsistent, it indicates that the application The language used by the program changes, and a language setting command is sent to the appliance at this time.

Step S12, determining the first language according to the language setting instruction.

The electrical appliance can extract the first language from the language setting instruction, and adjust its own language setting parameters after the first language is extracted.

In this embodiment, through the above method, the appliance can realize language synchronization with the application program under the control of the server, so as to ensure that the language of the information output by the appliance meets the actual needs of the user.

In addition, the embodiment of the present application also proposes a computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium stores the language setting program of the electrical appliance, and when the language setting program of the electrical appliance is executed by the processor, the language setting of the electrical appliance as above The relevant steps of any embodiment of the method.

It should be noted that, as used herein, the term "comprises", "comprises" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article or system comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements, It also includes other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent in the process, method, article, or system. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a..." does not preclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article or system comprising that element.

The serial numbers of the above embodiments of the present application are for description only, and do not represent the advantages and disadvantages of the embodiments.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general-purpose hardware platform, and of course also by hardware, but in many cases the former is better implementation. Based on such an understanding, the technical solution of the present application can be embodied in the form of a software product in essence or the part that contributes to the prior art, and the computer software product is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM) as described above. , magnetic disk, optical disk), including several instructions to enable a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, computer, server, electrical appliance, or network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present application.

The above are only optional embodiments of the application, and are not intended to limit the patent scope of the application. Any equivalent structure or equivalent process transformation made by using the specification and drawings of the application, or directly or indirectly used in other related technologies fields, are all included in the scope of patent protection of this application in the same way.

Claims

A language setting method for electrical appliances, comprising the following steps:

Obtain the first language currently used by the application bound to the appliance;

Adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language, so that the electrical appliance outputs target information in the first language.
The method for setting the language of an electrical appliance according to claim 1, wherein, after the step of obtaining the first language currently used by the application program corresponding to the electrical appliance, further comprising:

Query several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance;

It is determined that there is a language resource of the first language among the plurality of preset language resources, and performing the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language.
The language setting method of an electrical appliance according to claim 2, wherein, after the step of querying several preset language resources stored in the electrical appliance, further comprising:

determining that there is no language resource of the first language among the plurality of preset language resources, and sending a data request instruction to the terminal where the application program is installed, so that the terminal returns the language resource of the first language;

saving the language resource of the first language to the electrical appliance, and executing the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language.
The language setting method of an electrical appliance according to claim 1, wherein the language setting parameters include the first language setting parameters of the display screen of the electrical appliance and/or the second language setting parameters of the voice broadcast module of the electrical appliance, The step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language includes:

adjusting the first language setting parameters to the first language, and/or adjusting the second language setting parameters to the first language;

The target information includes display information on the display screen and/or voice information broadcast by the voice broadcast module.
The language setting method of an electrical appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the step of adjusting the language setting parameters of the electrical appliance according to the first language comprises:

Sending a language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the first language.
The method for setting the language of an electrical appliance according to claim 5, wherein, after the step of acquiring the first language currently used by the application program corresponding to the electrical appliance, further comprising:

It is determined that the first language is inconsistent with the second language, and performing the step of sending a language setting instruction corresponding to the first language to the electrical appliance, so that the electrical appliance adjusts language setting parameters according to the language setting instruction;

Wherein, the second language is the language used by the application acquired at a first moment before the current moment, and the first moment is separated from the current moment by a preset period of time.
The method for setting the language of an electrical appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the step of acquiring the first language currently used by the application program corresponding to the electrical appliance comprises:

Receiving a language setting instruction; the language setting instruction is sent by the Internet of Things server after obtaining the first language;

The first language is determined according to the language setting instruction.
An Internet of Things server, the Internet of Things server includes: a memory, a processor, and a language setting program of an electrical appliance stored on the memory and operable on the processor, and the language setting program of the electrical appliance is controlled by the The processor implements the steps of the language setting method for an electrical appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 6 when executed.
An electrical appliance, the electrical appliance comprising: a memory, a processor, and a language setting program of the electrical appliance stored on the memory and operable on the processor, when the language setting program of the electrical appliance is executed by the processor The steps of realizing the language setting method of an electrical appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4 and claim 7.
A computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium stores a language setting program of an electrical appliance, and when the language setting program of an electrical appliance is executed by a processor, the method described in any one of claims 1 to 7 is realized. The steps of the language setting method of the electric appliance.