Terminal Device Image Recognition for Smart Home Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for controlling intelligent devices are inconvenient, often requiring direct interaction with control buttons or units, lacking a streamlined approach for users to identify and manage multiple devices efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize a terminal device to identify the identity image of a controlled device, obtain its control interface, receive user instructions, and establish communication to send control commands, enabling convenient and accurate control through image recognition and network connectivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If direct control buttons or matching control units are used to control intelligent devices, then the control function is realized, but the convenience and ease of operation deteriorate due to the need to directly interact with each device's control interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a terminal device as an intermediary between the user and multiple intelligent devices. The terminal device captures identity images of devices, retrieves corresponding control interfaces, and presents them in a unified interface, eliminating the need for users to directly interact with each device's control unit and simplifying the control process.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal device serves multiple functions: it acts as an image capture device, a database query interface, and a unified control interface presenter. By consolidating these functions in a single device, users can control multiple intelligent devices through one interface rather than needing separate control units for each device.
2Productivity
If multiple intelligent devices are controlled through individual control units, then each device can be controlled independently, but the time and effort required to identify and manage multiple devices increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing and storing identity images of intelligent devices in advance. When a user wants to control a device, the terminal device simply needs to capture the identity image again and retrieve the pre-stored control interface information, significantly reducing the time required to identify and control devices compared to direct interaction with each device's control unit.
3Ease of operation
If a unified control interface is implemented through image recognition, then control convenience is improved, but the technical complexity of the control system increases due to image processing and network communication requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical approach of directly pressing physical buttons or navigating through device-specific control units with an optical system. The terminal device uses image capture to identify intelligent devices and retrieves control interfaces through network communication, substituting physical interaction with optical and digital processes that are managed automatically by the system.
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AI summary
A method for controlling a device by a terminal device and the terminal device thereof are provided. The method includes: identifying an identity image of a controlled device; obtaining a control interface of the controlled device according to the identity image; receiving a control operation instruction triggered by a user through the control interface; and sending the control operation instruction to the controlled device by establishing communication connection with the controlled device. The user may identify respective controlled devices and obtain corresponding control interfaces of the controlled devices conveniently in a manner of identifying identity images of respective controlled devices by the same user terminal, and thus realize convenient control over the controlled devices through the control interfaces, so as to improve the convenience and accuracy of controlling the respective controlled devices.