Electronic atomizer use environment control method, electronic atomizer and storage medium
By integrating sound recognition technology in electronic atomizers, identifying biometric or password characteristics in the environment and controlling their output, the aerosol pollution problem caused by the use of electronic atomizers in public places is solved and the air quality in public places is ensured. and use of specifications.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202410064454.9
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Patents(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-01-16
- Publication Date
- 2024-12-13
- Estimated Expiration
- 2044-01-16
AI Technical Summary
In public places such as supermarkets, hospitals, schools, etc., there is a lack of effective technical means to prevent the use of electronic atomizers, which leads to aerosol pollution and the problem of minors using electronic atomizers.
By integrating sound capture and processing units in the electronic atomizer, identifying biometric or password characteristics in the ambient sound, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter standby or operating mode to prevent aerosol output.
Effectively prevent electronic atomizer from being used near women and children, avoid aerosol pollution, standardize the use of electronic atomizers, and ensure the air quality in public places.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of electronic atomizers, and in particular to a method for controlling an environment for using an electronic atomizer, an electronic atomizer and a storage medium. Background Art
[0002] In recent years, the usage rate of electronic vaporizers has been increasing around the world, so more and more people are using electronic vaporizers in various occasions. In some public places such as supermarkets, hospitals, schools, restaurants, playgrounds, etc., there will be a large number of women and children. In these places, except for the users' self-consciousness, there is currently no simple and effective technical means to prevent users from using electronic vaporizers, which leads to the air in these places being filled with aerosols produced by electronic vaporizers, and even causes others to try to use electronic vaporizers out of curiosity. Summary of the invention
[0003] The main purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic atomizer use environment control method, an electronic atomizer and a storage medium, which can identify the environmental sound of the electronic atomizer user and prevent the user from using the electronic atomizer near women and children.
[0004] To achieve the above objectives, the present application provides a method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer, comprising:
[0005] Monitor the ambient sound of the electronic atomizer user;
[0006] Extracting a characteristic sound from the environmental sound, and identifying the characteristic sound to obtain any one of a biological feature or a password feature corresponding to the characteristic sound, wherein the biological feature includes at least one of gender and age;
[0007] In response to the biometric feature or the password feature, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter either a standby mode or an operating mode, wherein the standby mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to stop outputting aerosol, and the operating mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to output aerosol.
[0008] In some embodiments, when the biometric characteristic is determined to be female or a minor, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter a standby mode.
[0009] In some embodiments, in response to the biometric feature, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter a standby mode, the duration of the standby mode is t, and t is greater than 1s.
[0010] In some embodiments, after the standby mode duration ends, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter either the standby mode or the working mode in response to the biometric feature or the password feature.
[0011] In some embodiments, in the standby mode, the ambient sound of the electronic atomizer user is monitored in response to the password feature, characteristic sounds are extracted, the characteristic sounds are identified, a biometric feature corresponding to the characteristic sound is obtained, and in response to the biometric feature, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter the working mode.
[0012] In some embodiments, the password features include a prohibition password and a request password. The electronic atomizer enters the standby mode in response to the prohibition password. The electronic atomizer monitors the ambient sounds of the electronic atomizer user in response to the request password, extracts characteristic sounds, identifies the characteristic sounds, obtains biometric features corresponding to the characteristic sounds, and controls the electronic atomizer to enter the working mode in response to the biometric features.
[0013] The present application also provides an electronic atomizer, which includes:
[0014] A sound capture unit, used to capture environmental sounds;
[0015] A sound processing unit, connected to the sound capturing unit, configured to identify characteristic sounds in the environmental sounds and obtain biological features or password features corresponding to the characteristic sounds;
[0016] The control unit controls the electronic atomizer to enter either a standby mode or an operating mode in response to the biometric feature or the password feature. The standby mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to stop outputting aerosol, and the operating mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to output aerosol.
[0017] In some embodiments, the electronic atomizer further includes a timing unit, which is connected to the control unit and is used to record the duration of the standby mode.
[0018] The present application also provides a storage medium having a computer-readable program stored thereon, and when the computer-readable program is executed, the following steps are implemented:
[0019] Monitor the ambient sound of the electronic atomizer user;
[0020] Extracting a characteristic sound from the environmental sound, and identifying the characteristic sound to obtain any one of a biological feature or a password feature corresponding to the characteristic sound, wherein the biological feature includes at least one of gender and age;
[0021] In response to the biometric feature or the password feature, the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter either a standby mode or an operating mode, wherein the standby mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to stop outputting aerosol, and the operating mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to output aerosol.
[0022] Compared with the related technologies, the beneficial effect of the technical solution of the present application is that it is possible to judge from the ambient sound whether there are women or children around the user of the electronic atomizer. If so, the electronic atomizer is stopped from outputting aerosols, thereby preventing the aerosols from affecting the normal activities of the crowd and regulating the use of electronic atomizers. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0023] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the process of the method for controlling the use environment of the electronic atomizer in the embodiment of the present application;
[0024] Figure 2 This is a schematic flow chart of a first embodiment of a method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer in an embodiment of the present application;
[0025] Figure 3 This is a schematic flow chart of a second embodiment of the method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer in an embodiment of the present application;
[0026] Figure 4 This is a schematic diagram of an environmental use control module of an electronic atomizer in an embodiment of the present application;
[0027] Figure 5 Schematic diagram of the use environment of the electronic atomizer in the embodiment of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0028] In order to make the above-mentioned purpose, features and advantages of the present application more obvious and easy to understand, the specific implementation mode of the present application is described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. In the following description, many specific details are set forth to facilitate a full understanding of the present application. However, the present application can be implemented in many other ways different from those described herein, and those skilled in the art can make similar improvements without violating the connotation of the present application, so the present application is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below. Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as those commonly understood by those skilled in the art of the present application. The terms used herein in the specification of the present application are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments and are not intended to limit the present application. The term "and / or" used herein includes any and all combinations of one or more related listed items.
[0029] The electronic atomizer uses a configured power supply to power the atomizer component, which can heat the liquid, paste, or solid matrix to produce aerosol after obtaining electrical energy. The electronic atomizer can choose to output aerosol or stop outputting aerosol according to user operation or external event triggering.
[0030] See also Figure 1 The present invention provides a method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer, which comprises:
[0031] S01 monitors the ambient sound of the electronic atomizer user;
[0032] Specifically, when someone uses an electronic atomizer, the microphone can capture the sound in the user's environment. It should be noted that the normal speaking sound range is 40-60 decibels. In the case of low ambient noise, the sound collection device (microphone) can capture normal speaking sounds within 4-7 meters. This distance is also an important range for users to spread aerosols through electronic atomizers.
[0033] S02 extracts a characteristic sound from the environmental sound, and identifies the characteristic sound to obtain any one of a biological feature or a password feature corresponding to the characteristic sound, wherein the biological feature includes at least one of gender and age;
[0034] Characteristic sounds are identified from environmental sounds. These characteristic sounds can be the sounds of conversations between people, such as male and female voices, or voices of people of different ages. In addition, characteristic sounds can also be agreed command features, such as agreed words containing special words such as "No smoking", "Smoking is strictly prohibited", "No smoking", "No e-cigarettes", "Strictly no e-cigarettes", and "No e-cigarettes". By analyzing the characteristic sounds, it is determined whether there are female voices, children's voices, and command features in the characteristic sounds.
[0035] It is worth noting that everyone's voice has certain characteristics. The voice is mainly determined by the size of the vocal cavity and the way the organs are manipulated. The physiological structure of men and women and the development of the body at different ages are different. In most cases, the gender and age of the speaker can be identified by the characteristics of the voice such as the tone, timbre or voiceprint. For example, men's vocal cords are longer and thicker, while women's vocal cords are shorter and thinner, and children's vocal cords are short and thin. When pronouncing, the timbre of the sound produced is also significantly different due to different genders and ages. Most men's voices are usually rougher and thicker, while women's voices are clearer and softer. Children's voices have a higher pitch and are pleasant and crisp. In addition, some people of the same gender and similar age generally have similar physiological characteristics, that is, the voices of people of the same gender and age group will have similar characteristics. Therefore, the age group corresponding to the characteristic sound can also be obtained by performing voiceprint feature recognition on the characteristic sound.
[0036] S03 The electronic atomizer can enter either a standby mode or an operating mode in response to the control of the biometric feature or the password feature. The standby mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to stop outputting aerosol, and the operating mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to output aerosol.
[0037] Specifically, see Figure 5, the user of the electronic atomizer actively enters an environment where women and children are active, and the microphone captures the sounds in the environment, among which the sound of human speech can be marked as a characteristic sound, and then the female voice, child voice and age are identified through the pitch, timbre or voiceprint of the characteristic sound, so that the electronic atomizer responds to the female voice and child voice to stop providing aerosol inhalation services to the user. Among them, if the age in the speaking voice is determined to be a minor, the electronic atomizer can also stop outputting aerosol to the user. Of course, there may be some female and children whose voices cannot be identified by gender and age, and even some adults, such as men, will object to the electronic atomizer user inhaling aerosols near them. Then these people can shout out the agreed words through the command feature, such as shouting "No smoking", "Smoking is strictly prohibited", "No smoking", etc., to trigger the electronic atomizer and stop providing aerosol inhalation services to the user.
[0038] See also Figure 2 The present application provides a first embodiment of a method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer, and the control method is as follows:
[0039] S11 turns on the electronic atomizer;
[0040] S12 monitors the sound near the user of the electronic atomizer through a microphone on the electronic atomizer or a smart terminal communicating with the electronic atomizer;
[0041] It is worth noting that the smart terminal can be a smart wearable device, such as a smart watch with network communication, Bluetooth communication and sound collection functions, or a mobile communication device, such as a tablet or a mobile phone, without specific limitation here.
[0042] S13 recognizes a human voice from the collected environmental sound, and then recognizes a corresponding biological feature from the human voice;
[0043] It is worth mentioning that the biometric feature can be the gender or age of the speaker. For example, by analyzing the tone, voice color or voiceprint of the voice, the gender and age corresponding to the voice can be analyzed. To be more specific, the voice can be matched to male, female, child or adult.
[0044] S14 determines whether there are women or minors around the electronic vaporizer user based on biometrics;
[0045] For different types of electronic vaporizers, the laws and regulations of each country will have restrictions on the use environment. For example, for electronic cigarettes, the laws and regulations of various countries generally stipulate that traditional cigarettes and electronic cigarettes cannot be smoked in public places (schools, hospitals, parks, supermarkets, cinemas, restaurants, hotels, Internet cafes, airplanes, trains, etc.). However, some electronic vaporizer users do not care, and most users will use them on the road, which will not only cause aerosols to spread in the air, but also allow more minors to come into contact with electronic vaporizers.
[0046] It is understandable that by presetting control instructions for the electronic atomizer or smart terminal, when it is determined based on biometrics that there are no women or children around the user, the electronic atomizer or smart terminal receives the control instruction to control the electronic atomizer to enter the working mode in step S15, and the electronic atomizer can provide aerosol inhalation services to the user in the working mode; correspondingly, if it is determined based on biometrics that there are women or children around the user, the electronic atomizer or smart terminal receives the control instruction to control the electronic atomizer to enter the standby mode in step S16, and the electronic atomizer cannot provide aerosol inhalation services to the user in the standby mode.
[0047] See also Figure 3 The present application provides a second embodiment of a method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer, and the control method is as follows:
[0048] S21 turns on the electronic atomizer;
[0049] S22 monitors the sound near the user of the electronic atomizer through the microphone of the electronic atomizer or the smart terminal communicating with the electronic atomizer;
[0050] It is worth noting that the intelligent terminal is as described in the above embodiment and will not be described in detail here.
[0051] The S23 electronic atomizer or intelligent terminal recognizes the human voice from the collected environmental sound, and then recognizes the corresponding password features from the human voice;
[0052] It is worth noting that the password features can be agreed words, such as "No smoking", "Smoking is strictly prohibited", etc., which are used to prohibit or prevent electronic vaporizer users from continuing to inhale aerosols, without limiting the gender or age of the speaker.
[0053] S24 determines whether there is a password prohibiting the output of aerosol around the user of the electronic atomizer according to the password characteristics;
[0054] It is understandable that the gender and age of some individuals' voices cannot be identified, and the electronic vaporizer or smart terminal can be operated by passwords using agreed words, thereby controlling the output of aerosols by the electronic vaporizer, so as to stop users from continuously inhaling the electronic vaporizer in front of women, minors, or in public places.
[0055] Exemplarily, in the environment where the user of the electronic atomizer is located, no one objects to the use of the electronic atomizer, that is, no one issues a password, and the electronic atomizer or smart terminal controls the electronic atomizer to enter the working mode described in step S25, and the electronic atomizer outputs aerosol for the user. Correspondingly, the gender and age of some individuals cannot be identified by their voices, and these individuals can say passwords to the user of the electronic atomizer. The password features may include a prohibition password and a request password. The electronic atomizer or smart terminal can respond to the prohibition password to enter the standby mode of step S26, and the electronic atomizer or smart terminal can also respond to the request password to enter step S22. Specifically, the prohibition password is contained in a certain sentence, such as "No smoking here, no electronic cigarettes", and this sentence is captured by the electronic atomizer or smart terminal, and the word "no smoking" or the password feature of the combination of "no" and "electronic cigarettes" is analyzed from this sentence, and then the electronic atomizer is controlled to enter the standby mode described in step S26 according to the password feature, and the electronic atomizer stops outputting aerosol.
[0056] After leaving the restricted use environment, the user of the electronic atomizer can restore control of the electronic atomizer through some means to enable the electronic atomizer to output aerosol. For example, the electronic atomizer or smart terminal can monitor and judge the current environment again after entering the standby mode for a certain period of time. Specifically, in some embodiments, the electronic atomizer responds to the biometric control to enter the standby mode, and the standby time of the preset standby mode is t, which can be 10 seconds, 60 seconds, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or even longer, so that the user of the electronic atomizer can get the opportunity to re-inhale the aerosol after a certain period of time.
[0057] Further, after the standby time of the standby mode of step S16 or step S26 ends, step S01 or step S12 or step S22 in the above embodiment can be executed, and the surrounding environment of the electronic atomizer user can be monitored again, and the electronic atomizer can be controlled to enter any one of the standby mode or working mode according to the biometric features or password features in the surrounding environment sound. After the standby mode time ends, the working mode can be entered, or the standby mode can be entered again according to the biometric features or password features in the surrounding environment. For example, after the standby mode duration ends, the user sends a password feature to the electronic atomizer or smart terminal, for example, including but not limited to saying a predetermined word for the electronic atomizer to provide an aerosol suction function, such as "request", "restore", "return", "end", etc. Any one of the predetermined words, these words can be monitored by the electronic atomizer or smart terminal, so that the electronic atomizer or smart terminal executes step S01 or step S12 or step S22 in the above embodiment, and monitors and judges the current environment until the user ends the use of the electronic atomizer.
[0058] In some embodiments, in the standby mode of step S16 or step S26, the electronic atomizer or the smart terminal can actively respond to the command features, which include but are not limited to saying predetermined words used to request to restore the aerosol inhalation function provided by the electronic atomizer, such as any one of the predetermined words such as "request", "restore", "return", "end", etc. These words are monitored by the electronic atomizer or the smart terminal, so that the electronic atomizer or the smart terminal enters step S01 or step S12 or step S22, monitors the ambient sounds around the user of the electronic atomizer, extracts characteristic sounds from the ambient sounds, and then identifies the characteristic sounds, thereby obtaining biometric features corresponding to the characteristic sounds, and controlling the electronic atomizer to enter the working mode in response to the biometric features.
[0059] See also Figure 4 The present application also provides an electronic atomizer, which includes:
[0060] A sound capture unit, used to capture environmental sounds;
[0061] A sound processing unit, connected to the sound capturing unit, for identifying characteristic sounds in environmental sounds and obtaining biological features or password features corresponding to the characteristic sounds;
[0062] The control unit controls the electronic atomizer to enter either a standby mode or an operating mode in response to a biometric feature or a password feature, wherein the standby mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to stop outputting aerosol, and the operating mode includes controlling the electronic atomizer to output aerosol.
[0063] Specifically, the sound capture unit can be a sensor for collecting sound, which can be installed on the electronic atomizer or smart terminal. The sound capture unit can be a stationary, piezoelectric, capacitive, silicon microphone, digital microphone or pickup. For example, when someone is talking around the user of the electronic atomizer or smart terminal, the tone, timbre, voiceprint, etc. of the speaking voice, as well as the text content of the speaking voice can be collected through the sound capture unit. These sound features and text content can be formed into electrical signals and processed by the sound processing unit.
[0064] The sound processing unit can identify the biological characteristics of the speaker, such as gender and age, from the sound characteristics such as tone, timbre or voiceprint in the above sound, and can also identify the command characteristics from the text content contained in the sound, such as "no smoking", "strictly no smoking", "no smoking", "no electronic cigarettes", "strictly no electronic cigarettes", "no electronic cigarettes", etc. The biological characteristics and command characteristics can be parsed into specific electrical signals and given to the control unit.
[0065] The control unit can be installed on the electronic atomizer or the smart terminal. After receiving the electrical signal generated according to the above-mentioned biometric characteristics and password characteristics, the control unit controls the electronic atomizer so that the electronic atomizer enters the corresponding standby mode or working mode according to the signal.
[0066] In some embodiments, the electronic atomizer further comprises a timing unit, which is connected to the control unit and is used to record the duration of the standby mode. Further, the control unit can control the electronic atomizer to enter step S01, step S12 or step S22 in the above embodiment after the set duration ends.
[0067] The present invention also provides a storage medium having a computer-readable program stored thereon, and when the computer-readable program is executed, the steps in the above-mentioned method embodiments can be implemented.
[0068] The storage medium can be used to store software programs and modules, and various functional applications and data processing of the smartphone can be executed by running the software programs and modules stored on the storage medium. The storage medium can mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area stores an operating system, an application required for at least one function (such as a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.), etc.; the storage data area can store data created according to the use of the smartphone (such as audio data, a phone book, etc.), etc. In addition, the storage medium can include a high-speed random access memory, and can also include a non-volatile memory, such as at least one disk storage device, a flash memory device, or other volatile solid-state storage devices.
[0069] A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps in the above-mentioned embodiment method can be implemented by instructing the relevant hardware through a computer program. The computer program can be stored in a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium. When the computer program is executed, it can include the steps of the embodiments in the above-mentioned methods.
[0070] The above description is only a partial or preferred embodiment of the present application. Neither the text nor the drawings can limit the scope of protection of the present application. All equivalent structural changes made using the contents of the present application specification and drawings under the overall concept of the present application, or direct / indirect application in other related technical fields are included in the scope of protection of the present application.
Claims
1. A method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer, characterized in that: Monitor the ambient sound around the electronic vaporizer user; Recognize a human voice from the environmental sound, extract a characteristic sound and recognize the characteristic sound to obtain a biological feature or a password feature corresponding to the characteristic sound, wherein the biological feature includes at least one of gender and age, and the password feature includes a prohibition password or a request password; The electronic atomizer enters standby mode or working mode in response to one of the following conditions: When it is determined according to the biometric feature that there are no women or minors around the user, the electronic atomizer enters a working mode and outputs aerosol; When it is determined according to the password feature that there is no prohibited password around the user, the electronic atomizer enters a working mode and outputs aerosol; When it is determined according to the password feature that there is a prohibited password around the user, the electronic atomizer enters a standby mode and stops outputting aerosol; When it is determined according to the biometric feature that there are women or minors around the user, the electronic atomizer enters a standby mode and stops outputting aerosol; When it is determined according to the password feature that there is a request password around the user, the electronic atomizer monitors the ambient sound around the user of the electronic atomizer in response to the request password, extracts the characteristic sound, identifies the characteristic sound, and obtains the biometric feature corresponding to the characteristic sound; Among them, after the standby mode ends, the ambient sound of the electronic atomizer user's surrounding environment is monitored again, and the electronic atomizer enters either the standby mode or the working mode according to the biometric features or command features in the surrounding environmental sounds until the electronic atomizer user ends the use of the electronic atomizer.
2. The method for controlling the use environment of an electronic atomizer according to claim 1, characterized in that: The duration of the standby mode is t, and t is greater than or equal to 10s.
3. A storage medium, characterized in that: The storage medium stores a computer-readable program, and when the computer-readable program is executed, the method for controlling the use environment of the electronic atomizer according to any one of claims 1 to 2 is implemented.