Plug-and-Play Controller for Intelligent Device Operation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing intelligent devices require users to have a high level of technical expertise due to the need for intelligent chips, display screens, and complex keys, limiting their usability and hindering widespread adoption.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that utilize a portable, plug-and-play controlling device to acquire parameter information from a controlled device, generate a graphical interaction interface, and receive user input events to send control instructions, allowing for intelligent control without the need for integrated intelligent chips or complex interfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If intelligent devices are equipped with intelligent chips, display screens, and complex keys to enable intelligent control, then the intelligent control capability is improved, but the device complexity and user technical threshold increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintelligent control capabilityVSAvoiddevice structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the intelligent control functions (intelligent chip, display screen, complex keys) from the controlled device and relocates them to a separate portable controlling device. This allows the controlled device to remain simple while still enabling intelligent control through the external controller that interfaces via simple connection interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a portable controlling device as an intermediary between the user and the controlled device. This mediator contains the intelligent control capabilities and communicates with the controlled device through simple interfaces, thereby enabling intelligent control without requiring the controlled device itself to be complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Extent of automation

If intelligent devices integrate intelligent chips, display screens, and complex keys, then intelligent control functionality is enhanced, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to high technical threshold

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintelligent control functionalityVSAvoiduser operation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

By extracting the complex intelligent control interface elements (display screen, complex keys) from the controlled device and placing them in a portable controlling device, the patent makes the controlled device easier to operate while preserving intelligent control functionality in the portable controller.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses a portable controlling device that can be connected to different controlled devices, effectively creating a reusable copy of the intelligent control interface that serves multiple devices, thereby simplifying operation across different devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If devices require integrated intelligent chips and complex interfaces for intelligent control, then control precision is improved, but manufacturing cost and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol precisionVSAvoidmanufacturing simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the expensive intelligent control components from the controlled device and concentrates them in a single portable controlling device. This reduces the manufacturing cost and complexity of individual controlled devices while maintaining control precision through the portable controller's intelligent chip and processing capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The portable controlling device is designed to be universal and can control multiple different types of devices. This multi-functionality amortizes the cost of the intelligent chip and control electronics across multiple devices, reducing the overall system cost while maintaining high control precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP2840455B1Method, apparatus and system for intelligently controlling device, and plug-and-play device
Publication Date: 2018.04.04 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A method, an apparatus, and a system for intelligently controlling a device, and a plug-and-play device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring, by a controlling device, parameter information of a controlled device in a current state, where the parameter information is used for reflecting a current running state of the controlled device; generating a graphical interaction interface including the parameter information, and sending the graphical interaction interface in a form of a data stream to an interaction device for display; receiving an input event sent by the interaction device, where the input event is triggered by a user based on the parameter information displayed on the graphical interaction interface of the interaction device; parsing the input event to obtain a control instruction corresponding to the parameter information included in the graphical interaction interface; and sending the control instruction to the controlled device, so that the controlled device performs, in response to the control instruction, a control operation corresponding to the current running state of the controlled device. Through embodiments of the present invention, intelligent control on the controlled device can be performed simply, conveniently, and fast, which increases actual utilization of the controlled device and benefits promotion and popularization of the controlled device.