Voice Controlled Home Automation Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current home automation systems require multiple interfaces for different devices, leading to complexity and inefficiency in controlling diverse systems like security, lighting, temperature, and entertainment, with no seamless integration for voice command functionality.
Innovation Solution
A home automation system with a portable user interface that uses word recognition and tone processors to allow voice commands for controlling security, lighting, temperature, and entertainment systems, enabling hands-free operation and integration across various devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate interfaces are used for different home automation devices, then each device can be controlled independently, but the system complexity increases and user operation becomes less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal remote control device that can control multiple different home automation systems (security, lighting, temperature, entertainment) through a single interface. The portable user interface integrates functions that previously required separate devices, allowing one device to perform multiple control roles across different subsystems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple separate control interfaces into a single integrated portable device. By merging the control capabilities for security systems, lighting, temperature control, and entertainment systems into one unified interface, the system reduces the number of separate devices users must handle while maintaining comprehensive control functionality.
2Ease of operation
If traditional control interfaces are used for home automation systems, then device control is possible, but hands-free operation and seamless integration are not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical control interfaces (buttons, switches, physical devices) with voice-based acoustic control. The tone processor captures and analyzes vocal inputs, enabling users to control home automation systems through speech rather than physical interaction with control devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable user interface acts as an intermediary between the user and the home automation systems. It captures voice commands, processes them through word recognition and tone analysis, and translates them into appropriate control signals for various subsystems, enabling seamless hands-free operation.
3Productivity
If music search is performed through traditional methods, then music can be found, but the process is time-consuming and not integrated with other home systems
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary organization of music files by genre and creates structured databases beforehand. When a user provides a voice command or hums a tune, the pre-organized data structure enables rapid matching and retrieval, significantly reducing search time compared to browsing through unorganized music libraries.
Solution Approach 2:
The tone processor serves as an intermediary that captures musical input from the user, analyzes the melody or genre characteristics, and efficiently queries the music database. This intermediary processing layer enables rapid music retrieval by translating user input into targeted database searches rather than brute-force scanning.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus including a home automation system, a memory device of the home automation system containing a plurality of musical performances, a processor that recognizes a command from a user to play one of a plurality of musical performances and a processor that receives a verbal input at least partially mimicking a portion of one or more of the plurality of musical performances from the user, matches the verbal input with one or more of the plurality of musical performances and plays a matching musical performance.