Universal remote controller of home network

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the home network control equipment field and domestic electrical appliance, is through a home network control appliance and digital equipment infrared remote control device.

Background Art

Digitized family home network, intelligent main bearing network, including Ethernet (Ethernet), power line, wireless network (WiFi) and igrs. Through the home network can realize triple broadcast and digitalization and intellectualization of the family, the main is equipped with an intelligent way of the management platform, such as PC or home gateway or set-top box. Existing solutions usually adopt the home gateway or set-top box or media center apparatus and external broadband network connection implementing a home network is connected with the digital household appliances, remote controlled household electrical appliance user, shared family digital content and information. If digital home is implemented through a home network the communication and the connection of the equipment and household electric appliances, usually also needs to be added in the equipment and household electrical appliances network plug-and-play control module.

The residential home network laid, complex laying of the network, at the same time user's existing to the family household electrical appliances, technically very difficult to add to existing equipment plug-and-play control module.

Content of the invention

The invention provides a home network the infrared remote controller (  homenetwork Universal   of   remote   controller), the above-mentioned technical problem can be overcome, the deployment of a home network of the existing household electrical appliances or home digital equipment, through the home gateway or set-top box or PC connection and data exchange, to realize an infrared remote controller to the household electrical appliances or home digital control and monitoring. Home network of the present invention is an infrared remote controller is on the base of the hand-held infrared remote controller device, consists of a base and two parts of a hand-held infrared remote controller. The base can be connected with various home network, including Ethernet, power line, wireless network or flash, networking, and which can be automatically identified. Hand-held infrared remote controller can be positioned on the base, can also be left to work independently of the base. Hand-held infrared remote controller is connected to the home network through the base, and through the home gateway, the set-top box or PC family digital device electrical home appliances or the mutual connection and data exchange, and with plug-and-play and the automatic identification function, and the household appliance or household digital device to control and monitoring.

The base of this invention built-in of the infrared remote controller interface, such as Ethernet RJ45 seat interface, the interface of the transmit antenna WiFi, power line interface, etc., through the interface to realize the connection of the home network to; the base is configured on a hand-held infrared remote controller a of the supporting frame, hand-held infrared remote controller can be placed steadily on the base, the direction of the support frame can be adjusted, is convenient for remote control household electrical appliances or home digital apparatus for adjusting the direction of the alignment. Hand-held infrared remote controller is connected with the base through the interface, leaving the hand-held infrared remote controller after the base, independent use of the hand-held remote control with learning function, through infrared and household appliances and household digital equipment for mutual connection and data exchange, through the home gateway, a set-top box or PC home digital household electrical appliances or to realize the control and monitoring equipment.

Infrared remote controller of the present invention comprises running embedded software of the CPU, used for realizing the data communication, data processing, equipment control, function; a group of infrared transmitting/receiving unit, is used for the household electrical appliances or external monitoring module to realize data communication; a memory for storing data and instructions; a group of home network interface, may support Ethernet, wireless network, power line or igrs; a group of input keyboard used to input data and the control command.

The invention also includes an independent can be embedded into the household electrical appliances or family in the digital device external monitoring module, the infrared function through the module the infrared remote control function does not have all the electrical home appliances and family digital equipment to realize remote control and monitoring. External monitoring module comprises a plurality of embedded software operation of the CPU, used for realizing the data communication, data processing, equipment control, function; an infrared transmitting and receiving unit, used for realizing data communication with the infrared remote controller; a memory for storing data and software; a monitoring and control port, used to control household electric appliance and collection data; an optional network interface, to support Ethernet, WiFi, power line, is used for the external monitoring module is connected to the home network, it is also equipped with external monitoring module directly connected to the household electric appliance on the home network.

Infrared remote controller of the present invention in accordance with the functional areas of the keyboard, the keyboard is divided into different functional areas, so that the user's operation. For example: the basic accordingly, digital input area, the keyboard direction, and play area digital equipment such as electrical home appliances controlled.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is an infrared remote controller of the present invention in home network map application principle;

Fig. 2 is an infrared remote controller according to the present invention control the base are separated using pattern schematic diagram;

Fig. 3 is an infrared remote controller according to the present invention with the external monitoring module using the picture;

Figure 4 according to the present invention is an electrical schematic diagram of the infrared remote controller;

Fig. 5 is an infrared remote controller according to the present invention is the structure schematic diagram of the software;

Figure 6 according to the present invention is an external monitoring module schematic diagram;

Fig. 7 is an infrared remote controller according to the present invention is a keyboard layout;

Mode of execution

In the home network of the present invention an intelligent management platform framework implementing infrared remote controller and household electrical appliances or a digital device, the interconnection between the, in the home network through the infrared remote control device to the existing household electrical appliances or home digital equipment for control and monitoring, according to the principle of this invention to construct such as Figure 1 indicated by the: framework in the home network management platform of an intelligent 1, is usually the home gateway or as equipment such as a set-top box or PC, it is the task of the home network 2 with the external of the broadband network are connected, provide connection and management function, so that the infrared remote controller 3 and the plug-and-play automatically identifying, at the same time in the home network to one or a plurality of household and family digital devices and interoperate resource sharing; infrared remote controller in the home network 3 to the appliance 4 and digital device 5 controlling and monitoring tasks. Figure 1 schematic only through infrared remote controller of the present invention control a household electrical appliance and a digital device, in the practical application can be controlled in the household electric appliance and of the number of family digital device is not limited to a table.

The household appliance or household digital equipment for local control and monitoring is performed by an infrared remote controller and intelligent management platform, such as a home gateway or set-top box implementation. Mode of execution is: use of infrared remote controller has a learning function, to replace the existing household electrical appliances or home digital equipment remote control function, the existing electrical home appliances and home digital equipment to control. An infrared remote controller learning function implementing process is: input through the keyboard of the remote controller learning status instruction, the instruction is served and CPU, CPU operation instruction program, an infrared transmitting/receiving unit for receiving the home digital household electrical appliances or replaced the infrared signal emitted by the equipment controller, and the signal on the CPU, CPU through the comparative analysis of the signal, to be replaced is the same as the infrared signal of the remote controller, so that the infrared remote control has the corresponding function.

The infrared remote controller of the present invention remote control device can also realize the home digital household electrical appliances or equipment, Mode of execution is:in household intelligent management platform, or set-top box such as family gateway end WEB artificial keyboard of the built-in end, so that the remote access and simulate infrared keyboard of the remote controller of the present invention, by the remote network access, can be directly operated to finish all artificial keyboard WEB control, as infrared of this invention direct operation as the keyboard of the remote controller. Specific operation steps are to: first of all the electrical home appliances or to control the family digital device for learning control function, the remote control of household electrical appliances or home digital equipment specific workflow is, access or other means through the Internet home network of the home gateway or set-top box, out of the built-in keyboard for operation of simulation WEB, through the home gateway data instruction of operation and a home network interface, to the memory, a program corresponding to the operation of the CPU, the instruction control operation is completed, and through the infrared ray emitting and receiving unit finally through the infrared ray emitting and receiving unit, and the control of the household electrical appliances or home digital device, remote control operation is completed.

In the household electrical appliance or family digital devices of the present invention implanted in the external monitoring module, can also be realized through WEB artificial keyboard of the household appliance or household digital equipment is connected to the local control or remote control. As Figure 3 shows, the specific implementation of the method with the above-mentioned infrared remote controller of the present invention realize the local control and remote control is similar to the method. External monitoring module has two operating modes: the first is through this invention infrared remote controller controlling home appliance or household digital equipment, this mode requires the monitoring module of the present invention implanted in household electrical appliances or family digital devices, such as Figure 6 will be shown in the data of the external monitor module monitoring interface 21 and the monitoring of the household electrical appliances or home digital equipment is connected with the detection point, remote control command and a home network through the home gateway transmitted to the infrared remote controller, an infrared remote controller through its home network interface to obtain remote control instruction, after processing by the CPU through an infrared emission of the infrared transmitting and receiving unit control instruction served on the end of the control of the household electric appliance and digital device, external monitoring module to realize the control of the equipment; at the same time data and instruction can also be through the external monitoring module's own transmitted to the infrared emitting unit of the infrared remote controller, and home gateway service through a home network, the mutual transmission of data and instructions.

The second is directly through a home network control external monitoring module, remote control command and a home network through the home gateway directly control external monitoring module, the monitoring module by an external home network interface on the data and the control instruction of the CPU, processed by the data monitoring interface after direct control of household electric appliances and digital device.

Infrared remote controller of the present invention circuit structure schematic diagram such as Figure 4 indicated by the: CPU   9 as a control center, with the household network interface through a bus 10 is connected. Home network interface can be according to the requirements for many kinds of interface, such as WiFi, igrs, Ethernet and power line, and the like; the memory bus and the memory through the CPU 11 is connected with the, memory used to store data and the operation program; with the keyboard CPU 12 is connected with the, accept keyboard input data and control command; CPU and the infrared receiving and transmitting unit 13 is connected, through the infrared receiving and transmitting unit to the control device for transmitting control data, or from an external monitoring module obtains the monitoring data.

The invention an infrared remote controller and the external monitoring module adopts a universal ARM or MIPS embedded processor, the embedded software running on the CPU, and adopts a layered software structure and modular structure, such as Figure 5 indicated by the: hardware layer 14, of this invention includes an infrared emitting and receiving unit interface, home network interface, the keyboard of the remote controller, the data acquisition and control interface and the like; the hardware driver layer 15 includes all of the hardware driver software; Limux operating system layer 16 ; an application layer 17 including WEB artificial keyboard, the system configuration, such as infrared learning and plug-and-play. Because the hierarchical modular software structure, the invention can be increased according to the needs of the new hardware interface and application. For example, when the infrared is changed to the Bluetooth, only need to change the corresponding hardware, hardware can be driven.

External monitoring module of the present invention in principle such as the circuit of Figure 6 is shown. Including: a CPU   18, as the core processor external monitoring module; a group of infrared transmitting/receiving unit a group of infrared transceiver unit (or Bluetooth) 19, the present invention is responsible for achieving the infrared remote controller data communication; a set of memory 20, is used to store data and program; a group of data monitoring interface 21, responsible for the acquisition and control home appliance; a WiFi or other home network interface (optional) 22, of the present invention can be the external monitoring module access home network.

Using the keyboard of the remote controller of the present invention shown in Figure 7 the partition structure is shown, comprising: basic control area 23, play area digital equipment 24, keyboard and confirm the direction 25, the digital input area 26, household appliances control zone 27. Basic control regions comprises learning the setting key, power source switch key, menu, such as commonly used household appliances control; the play area digital equipment is required for a digital device, the play of the play, pause, fast forward, and draws back the key quickly ; digital input area comprises 0-9 numeric keys; a household appliances control of the control the household appliance equipment, such as the temperature setting, alarm, position adjustment and the like.

Those skilled in the field will appreciate that, although here described in order to illustrate the similarity of the particular embodiment of the system, but without deviating from the spirit and scope of the present invention under the condition of various changes can be made. Therefore, in addition to the additional rights requirements, does not make the restriction to this invention.