JP2013211769A - Information notification device for connection to information appliance - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information communication device, enabling insertion/extraction to/from an information appliance product, and capable of effectively working a function of transmitting the working state of the information appliance product to a cooperative information management system by a variable message.SOLUTION: From an information appliance product 4 connected through a contact-type connection unit 6, a code 16 representing the working state and a code 17 representing the operating date/time are acquired as a control signal. The date/time data is added to a file having an image and a text recorded in a variable record area 7. A controller 8 is provided to transmit from a radio communication unit 10 to an external server 9. Execution is made by power supplied from the information appliance product 4.

Description

    The present invention relates to information home appliances, healthcare devices, and home appliances in the home (hereinafter, information home appliances and home appliances are collectively referred to as information home appliances; The term “device” is also the same).

    In recent years, research and development of an information home appliance linkage system that notifies information to an Internet service via an information communication network as messaging of an information home appliance has been actively performed (see Patent Document 1).

    In a conventional information home appliance linkage system, in order to link information home appliances, whether the functions provided by each other are determined in advance by the standards of a private organization (see Non-Patent Document 1) or by mutual cooperation of devices The setting of what can be done is incorporated in the device in advance, and maintenance and operation information is transmitted from the information home appliance to the Internet service or the like by wireless or wired communication.

    FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram for illustrating a conventional method of implementing information home appliances, in which 1 is a controller for notifying a message, 2 is a recording area for storing message data, and 3 is a communication for notifying information to an Internet service. Represents a part.

  In order for the information home appliance to notify the Internet service of a message, it is necessary for one computing device to acquire message data in two recording areas and to communicate from the three communication units to the Internet service.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-209892

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  However, in order to obtain a message from an information home appliance in the conventional technology as described above, the user must set the same settings for a computer or other computing device to notify the Internet service of the message from the device side. It has to be changed after setting it in the communication network, and there is a drawback that the setting is not easy.

  The notification message uses language data registered in the second recording area, and even if the user can select a language suitable for himself from the language data, the message data in the second recording area. There was a drawback that it was not easy to change. Specifically, there were problems such as notifying unnecessary messages, and messages that are technical and difficult to change for children and the elderly, making it difficult to convey the importance of messages.

  This means, for example, that a message to be notified in advance is reserved in response to a request to notify an easy-to-understand message when a child operates a device by mistake.

  This invention is made | formed in view of these, The place made into the objective exists in the information notification apparatus which can be inserted / extracted in information household appliances. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for illustrating an implementation method of the information notification apparatus according to this method. 4 is an information home appliance apparatus, 5 is an information notification apparatus, 6 is a contact type communication unit for performing communication and power supply, and 7 is a message. A recording area for storing standard data, 8 is a controller for converting data from the contact type communication unit into a message, 9 is a server for managing messages, and 10 is a wireless communication unit for transmitting messages to 9 servers. 6 contact-type communication units, 7 recording areas, 8 controllers, and 10 wireless communication units are mounted in 5 information notification devices. Reference numeral 11 denotes a controller that is provided in the information home appliance 4 and includes a signal transmission unit in the information notification device 5 through the contact communication unit 6.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an implementation in which the message data sent from the information notification device 5 to the server 9 is rewritten with data in the recording area 7, and 13 represents a computing device such as a personal computer.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for illustrating an implementation form of the server 9, wherein 14 represents a computing device such as a smartphone, a personal computer, or a remote controller, and a user receives a message from the information home appliance via the information communication network 12. Can be obtained by 14 computing devices.

    In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the first aspect of the present invention, the operation, maintenance status, and date / time indicating four information home appliances are set as the first parameter, and the first parameter is set as a control signal by the eleven controllers. The information home appliance is provided with a sending means in the contact type communication unit.

    In the second aspect of the present invention, a message sent to 9 servers via the information communication network 12 is used as a second parameter, 5 information notification devices are connected to 4 information home appliances, and 6 contact communication. There is provided an information notification device further comprising eight controllers that generate the second parameter by the control signal and power supply sent to the unit.

  In the third aspect of the present invention, 5 information notification devices are connected in advance to 13 computing devices via 6 contact-type communication units, and a user generates a file having text data and image data in 7 recording areas. The step of deleting, changing, and connecting the information notification device of 5 to the information home appliance of 4 through the contact communication unit of 6, and the controller of 8 generates or generates the second parameter from the control signal There is provided an information device management method characterized by having a step of changing the text or image of the second parameter or not.

  In the fourth aspect of the present invention, the text and image data in the second parameter sent from the 10 wireless communication units of the 5 information notification devices to the 9 servers are sent to the 14 computing devices. An information device management method is provided.

    In the first aspect of the present invention, since the information home appliance can send a message notification by a control signal, it is easy to reduce product development and the number of parts, so that there is an advantage that it is easy for a product manufacturer to mount.

    In the second aspect of the present invention, since the information notification device of the present invention has the contact-type communication unit, it can be inserted into and removed from the information home appliance, so that the user can use different information home appliances for sending messages. There is.

    In the third aspect of the present invention, since the information notification device of the present invention can be recognized as an external recording area when connected to a computing device such as a personal computer, the data in the information notification device can be changed. There is an advantage that the message from is easy to customize.

    In the fourth aspect of the present invention, since the information notification device of the present invention can send data including an image and text, the server that receives the data via the information communication network uses the image and text as information home appliances. Message can be displayed on the computing device used by the user, so that the user can easily understand the content of the message.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations by a conventional information home appliance. FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations by the information home appliance and the information notification device according to the first and second embodiments of the present invention. Example 1 FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations by the information notification apparatus and the calculation apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention. (Example 2) FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a series of operations by the information notification apparatus and the server according to the third embodiment of the present invention. (Example 3)

    The purpose of sending messages from information home appliances was realized with the minimum number of parts of information home appliances with the least number of control signals.

    FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the first and second embodiments of the apparatus of the present invention, and 15 represents an example of a control signal sent from 11 controllers of 4 information home appliances to 6 contact type communication units. . The control signal 15 is composed of a code 16 indicating the operation state of the information home appliance 4 and a code 17 indicating the operation date and time.

  The information communication device 5 separates the code 16 and the code 17 from the control signal received from the contact communication unit 6 by the controller 8, duplicates the file corresponding to the code 16 in the recording area 7, and generates text data The image file in which the operation date / time data of the code 17 is embedded is sent from the 10 wireless communication units to the 9 server via the information communication network 12.

    FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the third embodiment of the device of the present invention, in which 5 information notification devices are connected to 13 computing devices via 6 contact type communication units, and text data in 7 recording areas is shown. The file 18-1, the file 18-2, and the file 18-N having the image data are generated, deleted, and changed by the user.

    The user obtains file 18-1, file 18-2, and file 18-N distributed by the manufacturer of 4 information home appliances on the Internet, stores them in 7 recording areas, and stores 5 information communication devices in 4 information. By connecting to the home appliance, the image and text included in the file 18-1, the file 18-2, and the file 18-N are sent to the server 9 according to the state of the four information home appliances. If the user deletes the file 18-1 from the recording area 7, the file 18-1 is not sent to the server 9. Further, when the user changes the image and text of the file 18-2 in the recording area 7, the image and text changed for the file 18-2 are sent to the server 9.

    FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the fourth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention, in which the user sends a message from the information home appliance via the information communication network 12, from 14 servers to 14 computing devices or other servers. To send.

    Since the subject of the present invention is the information communication apparatus mounting method, the description of the implementation of 9 servers and 14 computing apparatuses is omitted.

    Using an information distribution device attached to an information home appliance, it is possible to easily send a message to an Internet service or a home information management system via an information communication network. It can also be applied to applications.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Controller of existing information home appliance 2 Recording area for storing existing message data 3 Existing communication unit for notifying information to Internet service 4 Information home appliance 5 Information notification device 6 Contact communication in 5 information notification device Recording area 85 for storing the message regular data in the information notification device in section 75 5 Controller in the information notification device in 85 9 Server for managing messages 10 Wireless communication section 11 4 in the information notification device in 5 Controller provided in information home appliance and provided with signal transmission means 12 Information communication network 135 Computation device connected to information notification device of 5 14 Computation device for acquiring message from server 9 15 Example of control signal 16 Operation of information home appliance Code indicating status 17 Code indicating operation date 18-1, 18-2, 18-N

Claims (1)

  The code indicating the operating state and the code indicating the operation date / time are acquired as control signals from the information home appliance connected via the contact type connection unit, and the date / time data is stored in a file having an image and text recorded in the variable recording area. And a controller that transmits to an external server by a wireless communication unit, and is implemented by power supply from an information home appliance.

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