Air conditioner control system and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016306532-A1
Application number	US-201514821131-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 7, 2015
Priority date	Apr 14, 2015
Publication date	Oct 20, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An air conditioner control method includes as follows. Control a vehicle to switch to an air conditioning mode in response to input operations applied on a touch input unit of a vehicle. Recognize a gesture in response to input signals generated by a touch input unit of the vehicle in response to input operations applied thereon. Compare the gesture with a plurality of predefined gestures stored in a storage unit of the vehicle to determine whether the gesture is same as one of the plurality of predefined gestures. Obtain a control order corresponding to the one of the plurality of predefined gestures when the gesture is same as the one of the plurality of predefined gestures. Control a temperature of an air conditioner of the vehicle to rise or go down according to the control order.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An air conditioner control system, mounted within a vehicle, the air conditioner control system comprising:
at least one processing unit; a touch input unit coupled to the at least one processing unit; and a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the at least one processing unit and configured to store instructions for execution by the at least one processing unit, the instructions causing the at least one processing unit to:
control the vehicle to switch to an air conditioning mode in response to input operations applied on a touch input unit of the vehicle;
recognize a gesture in response to input signals, wherein the input signals are generated by the touch input unit in response to input operations applied thereon;
compare the gesture with a plurality of predefined gestures stored in a storage unit of the vehicle;
determine whether the gesture is same as one of the plurality of predefined gestures;
obtain a control order corresponding to the one of the plurality of predefined gestures when the gesture matches the one of the plurality of predefined gestures, wherein when the gesture is recognized to be a touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards a first direction, the control order generated is to control a temperature of an air conditioner of the vehicle to increase and when the gesture is recognized to be a touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards a second direction opposite to the first direction, the control order generated is to control the temperature of the air conditioner of the vehicle to decrease; and
control the temperature of the air conditioner of the vehicle to increase or decrease according to the control order.

2 . The air conditioner control system of claim 1 , wherein the instruction causes the at least one processing unit to control the temperature of the audio player of the vehicle to increase following the siding gesture which applied on the touch input unit and sliding towards the first direction, and decrease following the siding gesture which applied on the touch input unit and sliding towards the second direction, and further stop to increase or decrease when the slide gesture is stopped.

3 . The air conditioner control system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the vehicle to switch to an audio playing mode in response to input operations applied on the touch input unit of the vehicle;
wherein when the gesture is recognized to be the touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards the first direction, the control order generated is to control a volume of an audio player of the vehicle to increase; and wherein when the gesture is recognized to be the touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards the second direction, the control order generated is to control the volume of the audio player of the vehicle to decrease.

4 . The air conditioner control system of claim 3 , wherein when the gesture is recognized to be a slide gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards a third direction, the control order generated is to control the audio player to play next song, when the gesture is recognized to be a slide gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards a fourth direction opposite to the third direction, the control order generated is to control the audio player to play previous song, and the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the audio player of the vehicle to play the next song or the previous song according to the control order.

5 . The air conditioner control system of claim 3 , wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the volume of the audio player of the vehicle to increase following the siding gesture which is applied on the touch input unit and sliding towards the first direction, and decrease n following the siding gesture which is applied on the touch input unit and sliding towards the second direction, and further stop to increase or decrease when the slide gesture is stopped.

6 . The air conditioner control system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the vehicle to switch to a window adjusting mode in response to the input operations applied on a touch input unit of the vehicle;
wherein when the vehicle is in the window adjusting mode, and the gesture is recognized to be the touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards the first direction, the control order generated is to control one or more vehicle windows of the vehicle to rise; wherein when the vehicle is in the window adjusting mode, and the gesture is recognized to be the touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards the second direction, the control order generated is to control the one or more vehicle windows of the vehicle to go down; and wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the one or more vehicle windows of the vehicle to rise or go down according to the control order.

7 . The air conditioner control system of claim 6 , wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the one or more vehicle windows of the vehicle to rise following the siding gesture which is applied on the touch input unit and sliding towards the first direction, and go down following the siding gesture which is applied on the touch input unit and sliding towards the second direction, and further stop to rise or go down when the slide gesture is stopped.

8 . The air conditioner control system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to control the vehicle to switch to a navigation mode in response to input operations applied on the touch input unit of the vehicle;
wherein the instructions cause the at least one processing unit to obtain characters corresponding to the one of the plurality of predefined gestures when the gesture matches the one of the plurality of predefined gestures, and regard the characters as a destination and control a navigation system to navigate according to the characters.

9 . An air conditioner control method comprising:
controlling a vehicle to switch to an air conditioning mode in response to input operations applied on a touch input unit of a vehicle; recognizing a gesture in response to input signals, wherein the input signals are generated by the touch input unit of the vehicle in response to input operations applied thereon; comparing the gesture with a plurality of predefined gestures stored in a storage unit of the vehicle; determining whether the gesture is same as one of the plurality of predefined gestures; obtaining a control order corresponding to the one of the plurality of predefined gestures when the gesture matches the one of the plurality of predefined gestures, wherein when the gesture is recognized to be a touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards a first direction, the control order generated is to control a temperature of an air conditioner of the vehicle to increase, when the gesture is recognized to be a touch gesture sliding in the touch input unit towards a second direction opposite to the first direction, the control order generated is to control the temperature of the air conditioner of the vehicle to decrease; and controlling the temperature of the air conditioner of the vehicle to increase or decrease according to the control order.

10 . The air conditioner control method of claim 9 , wherein after controlling the temperature of the air conditioner of the vehicle to increase or decrease according to the control order, the air conditioner control method further comprises:
the temperature of the air c

Assignees

• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ko Chung-Nan
• Cheng Chia-Chieh

Classifications

• G06F3/04847 Primary

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• B60H1/00985

  Control systems or circuits characterised by display or indicating devices, e.g. voice simulators (characterised by the input of sound using a voice synthesizer B60H1/00757; B60H1/00978 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/165

  Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F2203/04808

  Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen · CPC title