Distributed Remote Control via User Presence Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in remotely controlling devices that share real-time content streams across different spaces and synchronizing remote control operations in various locations, particularly in family settings where multiple devices are connected through a television-based cloud system.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows a mobile terminal to send remote control requests to a television, which responds with signals indicating user presence, enabling time-domain synchronization and permitting remote control of devices providing real-time content, using a network connection, infrared transmission, and user detection through image processing and face identification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the television shares real-time content streams with multiple devices across different spaces, then the adaptability and accessibility of the system is improved, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring user presence and synchronizing remote control operations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising the television set with camera and processor that mediates between multiple user devices and the content source. The television detects user presence through its camera and processes this information to determine which device should receive remote control signals, thereby simplifying the complexity that would otherwise exist in directly coordinating all devices with each other.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring user presence through the television's camera and using this information to dynamically control which device can send remote control commands. The television provides feedback signals to connected devices based on detected user presence, enabling automatic synchronization without requiring complex peer-to-peer communication between all devices.
2Ease of operation
If remote control operations are allowed from any device in any space, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability of synchronized control decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by allowing any connected device to potentially control the content source, but the television automatically manages control rights based on user presence detection. Devices can send control requests freely, and the television autonomously determines whether to permit them based on camera detection, eliminating the need for users to manually negotiate control rights while maintaining reliable synchronization.
Solution Approach 2:
The television performs preliminary detection of user presence before allowing remote control operations from distant devices. By detecting whether someone is present in front of the television beforehand, the system can pre-determine which device should have control rights, ensuring synchronized operation before control commands are executed.
3Reliability
If the system monitors user presence continuously to enable accurate remote control authorization, then the reliability of control synchronization is improved, but the use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic user presence detection rather than continuous monitoring. The television's camera and processor periodically check for users in front of the device and update control authorization based on these periodic checks. This approach maintains reliable synchronization by detecting user presence at appropriate intervals while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous monitoring.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables seamless remote control of devices providing real-time content across different spaces by ensuring synchronization with user presence checks, allowing free remote control when no users are detected and permitting control when users are present, facilitating unified operation of devices like set-top boxes and game machines.
Implementation Method 1
user presence checks, allowing free remote control when no users are detected
Implementation Method 2
using a network connection, infrared transmission
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method for realizing distributed remote control, including: a television sending real-time content signals to the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal receiving the real-time content signals sent from the television to obtain a real-time video program from the television, and sending a remote control request signal to the television; the television receiving the remote control request signal sent from the mobile terminal and sending a corresponding responding signal according to a user response from the mobile terminal and according to whether there is any user in front of the television, wherein the responding signal comprises a refuse signal, a free signal, and a busy signal; and the mobile terminal receiving the responding signal from the television and performing a corresponding following step according to the type of the responding signal. The method of the present disclosure can realize the time domain synchronization of the remote control in space and thus realizes the remote control to the device providing real-time contents from the user sharing the real-time contents of the television in different spaces when the user. The present disclosure further provides a device for realizing distributed remote control and a television and a mobile terminal thereof.