KR20080061631A - Intelligent home network system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a home device control system including an integrated user interface manufacturing program for easily using complex and diverse services such as sensors and sensor networks connected to home networks, various intelligent home appliances, and control and home automation. How to create a unified interface in the same environment as a real home, how to automatically connect to a home gateway for home device control when a home device is connected to a home network system, and monitor the status of a home device connected to a home network. A method, a method for grouping and individually controlling home devices using an integrated interface, and generating command-response packets for controlling between a home gateway and a home device and a home gateway and an integrated interface in operation of the methods. It is characterized by providing one standard protocol.

Description

Intelligent home network system {Intelligence form Home network system}

1 is a block diagram of the prior art

2 is a block diagram of another prior art.

3 is a flow chart for another prior art

4 is an overall block diagram of an intelligent home network system of the present invention.

5 is an operation conceptual diagram for the intelligent home network system of the present invention

Figure 6 is a block diagram of the user interface manufacturing step of the present invention

7 is a block diagram of an individual control method of the system of the present invention.

8 is a block diagram of a group control method for a system of the present invention.

※ Explanation of code for main part of drawing

110. 3D integrated user interface creation software

120. 3D integrated user interface control software

130. Database 140. Home Gateway

150. Home Device Control Program 160. Home Device

200. 3D Integrated User Interface (IHSI)

210. Data Production IHSI 220. House Structure DB

230. Architectural symbol DB 240. Myhome.ihsi

250. Controlled IHSI 260. Home Device DB

The present invention provides a home device control system including an integrated user interface production program and its integrated interface for conveniently using complex and diverse services such as sensors and sensor networks connected to home networks, various intelligent home appliances, and control and home automation. It is about.

The prior art has a patent application No. 10-2003-0004642 as shown in Figure 1, the configuration is a remote controller for a home network, connected to at least one or more devices constituting the home network via a wired or wireless set-top box and a WLAN A WLAN interface unit for performing communication, a storage unit for storing device information necessary for remotely controlling each device, a command input unit for receiving a command for controlling any device among the devices, and provided screen information Reads the device information stored in the storage unit and generates screen information so that each device is arranged in a tree form by dividing the room information of each room located in the home, and providing the command input unit. Control the corresponding device connected to the set top box via wired or wireless according to the command input through The control signal of the corresponding device is transmitted to the set top box through the WLAN interface unit, and the control result signal of the corresponding device is received from the set top box to determine whether to execute the command inputted through the command unit. There was a bidirectional integrated remote controller including a control unit for displaying the display unit.

Another conventional technology is a patent registration No. 10-0453968 as shown in FIG. 2, a predetermined home network controller connected to a plurality of home network devices through a home network using UPNP middleware to control a plurality of home network devices, respectively. A method of providing a user interface for providing a user with a set of information, the method comprising: a first step of receiving, by a home network controller, a description file of an attribute tag format defined in UPNP middleware from a plurality of home network devices; Extracting a series of user setting items respectively set to control the operation of the home network device from the description files received in the first step according to a predetermined algorithm suitably preset to extract data from the attribute tag type structure. A second step of doing; A third step of forming a predetermined user interface (UI) table by combining user setting items extracted for each home network device in accordance with a data structure conversion rule preset for the attribute tag type in the second step; And a fourth step of displaying the user setting items recorded in the user interface (UI) table formed in the third step on the operation panel hierarchically through key manipulation. .

Another prior art is Patent Registration No. 10-0513851 as shown in Figure 3, each interface for performing data exchange with various devices designed to respond to a remote control command received over the network; A storage unit for storing a remote control service list indicating functions responsive to a remote controller of each of the devices connected to the network; And collecting the remote control service list information from the respective devices, storing the remote control service list information in the storage unit, and storing the remote control service list information through a list type remote control service selection item based on the remote control service list information to a specific device connected through the network. There is a remote control service processing apparatus in a home network environment comprising a; control unit for providing a remote control service to perform a remote control for the.

However, the related arts must follow the basic home network structure, focus on the control method or the integrated remote control, and also have a method of controlling a specific home device (fridge, television, etc.) The control was provided by providing the interface or 2D-based tree structured interface, and all the interfaces were not user modifiable and had to use the ones made by the developer.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, to express the intelligent home user integration interface in the same 3D VR (Virtual Reality) as the user's home, and to allow the user to freely create and modify the interface represented in 3D The State provides an intelligent home user interface creation engine, provides a home structure template and a database of home appliance objects for ease of use, leaves a logo that the user's control patterns can analyze, and uses Living-network Control Protocol (LnCP). Based on this, a new control protocol (HDGCP) is provided to standardize all control commands in the system based on this, and an intelligent home user interface based on GUI can be used to replace the integrated remote control for home devices connected to the home network. IHSI) provides services to enable remote control An object of the present invention is to provide home appliance control through an integrated interface in a home network environment.

The present invention is to achieve the above object, a more detailed description will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Figure 1]: The overall system structure of the present invention is shown.

[Figure 2]: Data flow chart of the present invention is shown.

4 is an overall block diagram of an intelligent home network system of the present invention, FIG. 5 is an operation conceptual diagram of an intelligent home network system of the present invention, FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a user interface manufacturing step of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an individual control method of the system of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a group control method of the system of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the present invention provides a 3D integrated user interface (IHSI) that provides a user with a visual and integrated control service interface 120 for various and complex devices, and visually provides a real home device 160. ) Provides a form of interface that monitors and operates the status by enabling the location of the home device to be used in a realistic pattern.

The interface is defined as IHSI (IHSI), and the IHSI function is summarized to build and manage a database of house structures and devices necessary for producing an interface for intelligent home service. 130, the data of the house structure and the device may be a 3D (or 2D) CAD type of data to provide a visually easy interface to the user, and the database 130 for the house structure and the device It is possible to edit the interface according to the individual intelligent home and control 120 for each service purpose, and the user can search the home structure DB to select and modify the most similar to the home structure currently inhabited to modify the basic interface. And the home devices are arranged to fabricate 110 IHSI for basic control.

Provided is a 3D integrated user interface (IHSI) 200 for controlling the home device 160 using the home device control program 150 and the home gateway 140 connected to the control interface 120.

The user can remotely control the real home device 160 by selecting the home device 160 object on the IHSI. The IHSI has the ability to create 110 of the user's house structure 3D data 130 and Two types of functions of the integrated interface 200 that control the devices 120 are shown in the table below.

Classification Contents Remarks      Database Building (130)  Managing house template database (131)-Convert and modify floor plan to know house structure-Build database for objects such as walls and windows that make up house structure-In case of new apartment, pay attention to tenant Possible to restructure-Possible to change internal height of existing and new homes (e.g. visual processing such as expansion of veranda of apartment)   Administrator user  Home device information database management (132)-Design and production of icons and description information of various home devices-Users can drag-in and place them directly on the GUI-Modify the user's direct information about the home device  Administrator user  Control Interface (120)  Group control service for home devices-Services grouped by household appliances, lighting, and specific room units  user  Group-level control services for individual home appliances and service purposes-Control of individual appliances and unit-specific service groups  user

The function of the table is shown in the operation conceptual diagram of the present invention as shown in Figure 5, the data production IHSI 210 is the user's house structure 3D using the house structure DB 220 and the building symbol DB 230 Create the data Myhome.ihsi 240 and control IHSI 250 controls the home devices 160 after placing the home network devices in the home device DB 260 on the 3D house structure of Myhome.ihsi 240. It acts as an interface to do.

IHSI data production function provides design function that anyone can easily do house structure design-furniture-finish material simulation of the house in which users live in 3D, and the designed screen can be stored and managed in the database. Figure 3 shows a screen for editing a house structure, which reads basic house structure data and supports changing the house structure to the same one that the user lives in.

[Figure 3]

As shown in Figure 6 is a block diagram of the user interface manufacturing step of the present invention, starting with the step (S 100) of executing the interface production program 110, read the data from the database (DB) 130 If the data is read in the coming step (S 510), the step of reading the data from the house structure template DB (131) (S 520), and set the attributes of the data read from the house structure template DB (131) to the group in the home After the setting step (S 530), after setting the property of the data and set as a group in the home, if the control program 150 is executed in the step (S 540) of executing the home device control program, the home device When the device arrangement and group are set in the placement and group setting step (S 550), the device is connected to the home gateway 140 (S 560), where the data is read from the database (130) (S 510). Sleeping on If is not read, go through the step (S 570) of producing a home-structured VR, and if not stored in the step (S 580) of storing the produced home-structured VR in the database (DB) 130 (S 580) Set to and set as a group in the home (S 530), and if stored in the database (DB) 130 to store in step (S 580) is stored in the house structure template DB (131) (S 590) The configuration is passed to step (S 530) of setting the property of the data and setting the group within the home.

IHSI control provides IHSI with the ability to control (monitor, remote control) home devices located inside the home.

[Figure 4] shows the structure DB and home device DB used in IHSI's work space. After confirming the user's home structure, the list of home device information DB and home network discovered (right side of work space) Among them, the home device is selected and placed in the called house structure space to visually process. The home device can search and modify the description information.

[Figure 4]

[Figure 5] is a screen that provides control services by group for each service purpose so that users can conveniently use each home device arranged in user's edited house structure according to the purpose. Control screens are grouped by purpose into complex ones to enhance convenience, and support to group and control things that need to be controlled in groups such as lights at once.

[Figure 5]

Control can be controlled by group or individual unit. In case of group unit, it is possible to control the types of operation such as On / Off, Open / Close, and individual control can control the detailed operation of each home device. Figure 6 shows an example of the individual control standard design and the individual control screen of the washing machine.

[Figure 6]

The purpose of the HOME DEVICE GLOBAL CONTROL PROTOCOL (HDGCP) is to express the AHAM-based home device model based on the external control part of LnCP, a commercially available standard that can be controlled and monitored through networking. It is assumed that a communication interface module for connecting home devices to a home system network is installed, and a user interface and a relay device (home gateway) that can control a home device through a home network at a remote location.

The scope of the HOME DEVICE GLOBAL CONTROL PROTOCOL (HDGCP) is intended for home devices with LnCP (Living-Network Control Protocol), and the operation principle and control of LnCP for home devices that do not reflect LnCP. According to the rules, a virtual model was developed and reflected in the standard. Home devices not written in this standard can be continuously extended based on this standard. Through this standard, the interface, transmission principle and coding of control messages (fields and bits) Know how this is done.

This standard defines the control communication with the home device from the outside.

In addition, the basic format of the communication message packet in HDGCP is shown below.

-Product Code: Composed of Product Name Code and Device Number which are 2 Characters each

-Command: Control command code composed of common area and product area

Arguments Count: Number of Arguments

Arguments: A code containing the various arguments required in the Command field.

The individual control method of [Figure 6] is shown in FIG. 7 and the group control method is shown in FIG.

7 is a block diagram of an individual control method of the system of the present invention, selecting an icon of a home device (S 600), transmitting the selected home device information to the home gateway (S 610), Analyzing the received information and calling the corresponding home device control program (S 620), selecting a home device control command through the called home device control program (S 630), and the control Transmitting the command packet to the home gateway (S 640), interpreting the transmitted control command packet at the home gateway (S 650), and transmitting the interpreted control command to the home device (S). 660), and transmitting the response packet to the home gateway after the home device operates the control command transmitted from the home device (S 670), and home the home server at the home gateway. Individual control is performed by the method of transmitting the response packet to the device control program (S680) and displaying the content of the response packet on the home device control program (S690).

8 is a block diagram of a method for controlling a group of a system of the present invention, selecting a set group (S 700), displaying only home devices of the selected group on an interface (S 710), and Displaying a group control command of the displayed home device group (S 720), selecting a group control command among the displayed commands (S 730), and transmitting the group control command packet to the home gateway ( S 740, interpreting the transmitted group control command packet at the home gateway (S 750), transmitting the interpreted group control command to the corresponding home devices (S 760), and Transmitting the response packet to the home gateway after the operation of the group control command transmitted to the home gateway (S770), and forwarding the response packet transmitted from the home gateway to the integrated interface. It is the method of step (S 780), and a step (S 790) for displaying the control result to the response packet transmitted from the in-phase integrated interface to the group control.

As described above, the present invention has the effect of improving the ease of use by using the interface implemented in 3D-based VR, can modify the integrated interface as desired by the user, the house structure template required for the modification and production of the integrated interface And the home device object is provided as a database, and the first integrated interface communicates with the home gateway to automatically display the list of home devices in the home, thereby reducing the inconvenience of user-specified assignments. This has the effect of controlling all home devices connected to the home server.

Claims (4)

What is claimed is: 1. A home network system in which a home network controller, which is connected to a plurality of home network devices through a home network, provides a user with a set of information for controlling each of the plurality of home network devices. Produce 110 and control 120 a 3D Integrated User Interface (IHSI) 200 using a database 130 comprised of a user's home structure template database 131 and a home device 160 object database 132. Intelligent home network system, characterized in that for controlling the home device (160) for each control purpose using the home device control program (150) and the home gateway (140) connected to the control interface (120). The data production IHSI 210 of the 3D integrated user interface 200 is Myhome.ihsi (the home structure 3D data using the house structure DB 220 and the building symbol DB 230). 240, and control IHSI 250 controls the home device 160 after positioning the home network devices in the home device 160 DB 260 on the 3D house structure of Myhome.ihsi 240. Intelligent home network system. The method of claim 1, wherein the control of the 3D integrated user interface 200 selects an icon of the home device (S 600), and transmits the selected home device information to the home gateway (S 610). And calling the corresponding home device control program by analyzing the received information (S 620), selecting a home device control command through the called home device control program (S 630); Transmitting the control command packet to the home gateway (S 640), interpreting the control command packet transmitted from the home gateway (S 650), and transmitting the control command interpreted above to the home device. Step (S 660), the step of transmitting the response packet to the home gateway after the operation of the control command transmitted from the home device (S 670), and the response packet transmitted in the home gateway And transmitting the response packet to the home device control program (S 680) and displaying the contents of the response packet on the home device control program (S 690). Intelligent home network system. The method of claim 1, wherein the control of the 3D integrated user interface 200 comprises selecting a set group (S 700), displaying only home devices of the selected group on the interface (S 710), and the control group. Displaying a group control command of the displayed home device group (S 720), selecting a group control command among the displayed commands (S 730), and transmitting the group control command packet to the home gateway (S 740), interpreting the transmitted group control command packet in the home gateway (S 750), and transmitting the interpreted group control command to the corresponding home devices (S 760); And transmitting a response packet to the home gateway after the home device operation by the group control command transmitted from the home control device (S770), and transmitting the response packet from the home gateway to the integrated interface. Up step (S 780), and intelligent home network system characterized in that the group control method of the step (S 790) for displaying the control result to the response packet transmitted from the in-phase integration interfaces.

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