Smart Home Linkage Interface Using Visual Connection Tracks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart home interaction methods for setting device linkages are cumbersome, inefficient, and time-consuming, with non-intuitive displays and excessive page jumps, making it difficult for users to distinguish between similar products and set linkage relationships effectively.
Innovation Solution
An interaction method that displays a schematic diagram of network-configured electrical devices, allowing users to form connection tracks and set triggering sequences and operating parameters intuitively, reducing the need for multiple page jumps and improving user experience by visually representing smart products and allowing multiple devices to be added to a single linkage scene quickly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If smart products are displayed in text form on smart home APPs or control terminals, then device selection is possible, but identifiability is low and display is not intuitive enough
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual icons and graphical representations to copy the physical appearance or function of smart products, replacing text-based displays. This allows users to intuitively identify devices through visual cues rather than text descriptions, directly improving product identifiability while maintaining a simple display interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs different colors to represent different device states, categories, or selection statuses. By using color coding, the system enhances the intuitiveness of the display without increasing interface complexity, allowing users to quickly distinguish between different products and their current states.
2Ease of operation
If users set linkage relationships and linkage conditions of products one by one, then complete linkage configuration is achieved, but the setting process is cumbersome with excessive page jumps, inefficient, and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple setting operations into a single unified interface. Instead of requiring separate page jumps for selecting devices, setting conditions, and configuring parameters, the system merges these functions into one continuous workflow, dramatically reducing the number of operations needed and eliminating excessive page transitions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary configuration by pre-selecting devices and pre-configuring default parameters before the user actually creates the linkage. This preliminary action reduces the subsequent setting steps, allowing users to quickly review and confirm rather than configure everything from scratch, thereby reducing setting time while ensuring complete configuration.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple smart home products are used in a family, then more application scenarios are implemented, but the amount of information displayed when selecting smart products increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display of multiple smart products by organizing them into categories, rooms, or functional groups. Instead of displaying all products in a single overwhelming list, the system divides them into manageable sections, allowing users to navigate through segmented views based on their specific needs, thus handling multiple products without increasing overall display complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces additional organizational dimensions such as spatial layout (floor plans), functional categories, or hierarchical groupings to display multiple products. By adding these dimensional organizational structures, the system can accommodate a growing number of smart home products while maintaining a clean, non-overwhelming display interface that scales with the number of devices.
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AI summary
An interaction method for establishing a device linkage scene includes: in a displayed schematic diagram of a network configuration scene including electrical devices configured in a same network, selecting electrical devices in turn through a connecting line to form a connection track; setting a triggering sequence of linking the electrical devices in a linkage scene represented by the connection track according to a connection sequence; selecting an electrical device on the connection track and setting an operating parameter of the electrical device in the linkage scene; and finally saving relevant information of the linkage scene. In this way, objectives of an intuitive display, simply and quickly setting a linkage scene, and improving user experience are achieved, linkage operation steps are reduced, and a user may conveniently and quickly set a smart home linkage.