Inter-device interactive control method, apparatus, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11778086-B2
Application number	US-202117380686-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2021
Priority date	Jan 15, 2021
Publication date	Oct 3, 2023
Grant date	Oct 3, 2023

Abstract

A inter-device interactive control method is applied to a first device, and includes: determining a location of the first device in a pre-established map; acquiring a target operation of the first device; determining a target operating device based on the location and the target operation of the first device; and performing operations on the determined target operating device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An inter-device interactive control method, applied to a first device, the method comprising:
determining a location of the first device in a pre-established map;
acquiring a target operation of the first device;
determining a target operating device that does not have a function of being positioned based on the location and the target operation of the first device; and
performing operations on the determined target operating device,
wherein the pre-established map comprises a smart space semantic map comprising sub-areas for distinguishing multiple different spatial locations; and
the method further comprises: determining a second device in the smart space semantic map,
the second device being a device capable of communicating with the first device and providing a positioning function for the first device; and
determining a location of the first device in the smart space semantic map, based on the communication with the second device;
based on the location of the first device and location relationship between the first device and the second device, determining the target operating device that does not have a function of being positioned.

2. The inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the second device in the smart space semantic map comprises:
in response to the presence of multiple devices capable of communicating with the first device and providing a positioning function for the first device in the smart space semantic map, determining one or more second devices satisfying predetermined conditions among the multiple devices;
wherein the predetermined conditions comprise one or a combination of the following conditions:
the second device is a device with the smallest distance from the first device;
the second device is a device selected by a user;
the second device is a device having the same type of positioning component as the first device; and
the second device is a device located in a designated orientation of the first device.

3. The inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the determining the second device in the smart space semantic map comprises:
determining, in the smart space semantic map, a second device belonging to the same sub-area as the first device.

4. The inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the determining the second device in the smart space semantic map comprises:
determining one or more sub-areas different from the sub-areas to which the first device belongs as one or more sub-areas used to determine the second device; and
determining the second device within the one or more sub-areas.

5. The inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 , wherein the target operation of the first device comprises an operation of the first device pointing to the target operating device; and
the determining a target operating device based on the location and the target operation of the first device comprises:
in response to the operation of the first device pointing to the target operating device, determining an orientation of the first device after the orientation changing relative to the location of the first device in the pre-established map, and determining a location of the second device in the pre-established map; and
determining, a device at a location of the orientation corresponding to the location of the second device in the pre-established map, as the target operating device, and determining a location of the target operating device in the pre-established map.

6. The inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing operations on the determined target operating device comprises:
establishing a connection with the determined target operating device;
displaying an interactive control interface for controlling the target operating device; and
controlling the target operating device, based on the operation performed on the interactive control interface.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, when instructions in the storage medium are executed by a processor of a mobile terminal, enabling the mobile terminal to implement the inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 .

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7 , wherein the determining the second device in the smart space semantic map comprises:
in response to the presence of multiple devices capable of communicating with the first device and providing a positioning function for the first device in the smart space semantic map, determining one or more second devices satisfying predetermined conditions among the multiple devices;
wherein the predetermined conditions comprise one or a combination of the following conditions:
the second device is a device with the smallest distance from the first device;
the second device is a device selected by a user;
the second device is a device having the same type of positioning component as the first device; and
the second device is a device located in a designated orientation of the first device.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7 , wherein
the determining the second device in the smart space semantic map comprises:
determining, in the smart space semantic map, a second device belonging to the same sub-area as the first device.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 7 , wherein the target operation of the first device comprises an operation of the first device pointing to the target operating device; and
the determining a target operating device based on the location and the target operation of the first device comprises:
in response to the operation of the first device pointing to the target operating device, determining an orientation of the first device after the orientation changing relative to the location of the first device in the pre-established map, and determining a location of the second device in the pre-established map; and
determining, a device at a location of the orientation corresponding to the location of the second device in the pre-established map, as the target operating device, and determining a location of the target operating device in the pre-established map.

11. An Internet of Things (IoT) system implementing the inter-device interactive control method according to claim 1 , comprising the first device and the target operating device, wherein the target operating device is determined by:
the location of the first device determined in the pre-established map;
the target operation of the first device; and
a location relationship among different devices in the pre-established map;
thereby realizing a smart interactive control between the first device and the target operating device without user manual operation in realizing interconnections and intercommunications among the different devices.

12. An inter-device interactive control apparatus, applied to a first device, the apparatus comprising:
a memory device configured to store processor-executable instructions;
a processor configured to:
determine a location of the first device in a pre-established map;
acquire a target operation of the first device; and
determine a target operating device that does not have a function of being positioned based on the location and the target operation of the first device, and
perform operations on the determined target operating device,
wherein the pre-established map comprises a smart space semantic map comprising sub-areas for distinguishing multiple different spatial loc

Assignees

• Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd

Inventors

• Qu Jinping
• Zhou Juejia
• Fan Dian

Classifications

• H04M1/72457 Primary

  according to geographic location · CPC title

• H04M1/72454

  according to context-related or environment-related conditions · CPC title

• H04W4/026

  using orientation information, e.g. compass · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• G06F16/29 Primary

  Geographical information databases · CPC title