Smart Terminal Control via Position Detection and Automatic Parameter Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing smart home remote control devices are cumbersome due to numerous keys, leading to user confusion and potential misoperations, making it difficult to manage and control smart terminals effectively.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that determine the position of a smart terminal relative to a local terminal, allowing for the sending of parameter control instructions based on predetermined settings, including current time and environment information, to control smart appliances automatically and efficiently.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a remote control device integrates many functions to control all smart terminals in a smart home, then the controlling capability is improved, but the device complexity increases due to numerous keys and circuits

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrolling capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables smart terminals to automatically identify their own control keys based on their identity information, eliminating the need for users to manually search through numerous keys. The terminal autonomously determines which key corresponds to it, reducing operational complexity while maintaining comprehensive control capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The control device pre-establishes a correspondence relationship between control keys and smart terminals before operation. When a terminal needs control, it proactively queries and identifies its corresponding key in advance, rather than requiring users to search through multiple keys during operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If each key on the remote control corresponds to a specific smart terminal under a specific scenario, then the controlling precision is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to user confusion and misoperations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrolling precisionVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the smart terminal actively queries the control device to identify its corresponding control key. This feedback loop ensures that the terminal receives accurate identification information, maintaining precise control while eliminating user confusion about which key to press.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The control device acts as an intermediary that manages the complex correspondence between multiple keys and multiple terminals. Instead of requiring users to directly map keys to terminals, the intermediary system handles the matching process, preserving control precision while simplifying user interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If numerous control keys are added to the remote control device, then the adaptability to control different smart terminals is improved, but the difficulty of managing and modifying controlling strategy increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidmanagement complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control device implements a universal correspondence relationship mechanism that can accommodate multiple smart terminals and control keys through a unified management system. This universal approach allows the system to maintain high adaptability while simplifying the management of control strategies, as the same correspondence framework applies to all terminals regardless of their specific functions.

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

Data Source

PatentEP2930705B1Method and apparatus for controlling smart terminal
Publication Date: 2017.08.30 XIAOMI INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for controlling a smart terminal. The method includes: a smart terminal currently around a local terminal is determined; when the smart terminal is located in a predetermined safe region, a parameter control instruction is sent to the smart terminal or a predetermined smart terminal or an own parameter setting is changed according to a predetermined parameter setting.