CN1206479A

CN1206479A - Control system with macro creation based on recording responses

Info

Publication number: CN1206479A
Application number: CN97191504A
Authority: CN
Inventors: P·钱伯斯; S·斯里瓦斯塔瓦
Original assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV
Current assignee: Pendragon Wireless LLC
Priority date: 1996-10-29
Filing date: 1997-10-23
Publication date: 1999-01-27
Anticipated expiration: 2017-10-23
Also published as: EP0870230B1; DE69722584D1; KR100514705B1; DE69722584T2; US6067478A; WO1998019233A1; KR19990076843A; CN1160623C; JP2000503440A; EP0870230A1

Abstract

A macro is created for a system that controls multiple electronic devices. Stimuli are supplied to the electronic devices to trigger the desired responses. The responses are recorded. The macro contains a sequence of instructions. Each particular instruction requests the device involved to re-establish its particular state that caused it to provide a particular response.

Description

Produce the control system of macro instruction according to recording responses

Invention field

Invention relates to a kind of control system, and relates to a kind of method of controlling at least one electronic equipment.

Background technology

Consider to have the electronic system of the one or more electronic equipments of control.System responds to driving source by correspondingly changing himself state.The control device of system sends instruction or the order of each equipment of a series of appointments by the predetermined way action.This system that is provided with user interface make the user can be in system input command so that system is controlled by control device.In this case, macro instruction is meant a series of specific exciting (instruction, order) that request automatically performs when proposing.This respect can referring in the relevant compilation about the explanation of macro instruction, " composition of structuring computing machine " book of writing of Andrew S.Tanenbaum (nineteen ninety learn a skill the international version in the Room, the third edition) 412-417 page or leaf for example.As another example, can see version " WordPerfect 6.0 users' guidebooks " the 524th page in 1994 referring to for example word processing of WordPerfect 6.0.For formulating macro instruction, the order of record keystroke or producing, rather than keystroke itself with the mouse selection.For example, not to write down all and change the relevant keystroke process of text page layout command, but record order itself.The process of imperative macro is the process that each order is write down in repetition.

Goal of the invention

The inventor realizes, and the mode that generally produces macro instruction has many shortcomings.Formulate macro instruction, user or control device need be understood the form of instruction.For example, must make the user learning relevant technologies in conjunction with the entertainment system of family of sound equipment and television equipment, this is to obstacle of user Lai Shuoshi.In addition, there is its own proprietary order and instruction in each system.Therefore, the famous brand difference of equipment, the process of formulating macro instruction is just different.So, the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of system that supports a certain generation macro instruction method, wherein said method is original, reaches compatible in advance with all various devices.The invention brief introduction

For achieving the above object, control system provided by the invention comprises at least one electronic equipment and a control device, and control device is coupled on the described electronic equipment, forms the corresponding driving source of excitation electron equipment respective response.Control device has a storer and a feedback assembly, and specific some respond in each response of storer record, and feedback assembly provides to electronic equipment and recovers the instruction that electronic equipment impels the state that specific response is provided self.

Control device is regarded own response of being write down as " envelope that is sealing ", and requires electronic equipment to cover some function of row need not control device to assist management by these " envelopes that sealing " to understand content in the envelope.Not having this assistance is impossible produce the high performance compatible macroinstruction system of reaching in advance.Like this, formulate macro instruction, control device or user need not understand concrete response or relevant driving source, as long as the instruction electronic equipment is by desired just enough by selected described each state of the determined order recovery of a series of specific responses of noting.Therefore, when producing macro instruction in system of the present invention, the form of each response need only be got final product by original electronic equipment understanding, and control device need not be understood.In this sense, the system of the present invention method that produces macro instruction has prior compatibility.It for example is a parameter that the specific instruction that control device sends is regarded the specific response of originally receiving as.

Brief description

With way of example the present invention is described referring to accompanying drawing below.In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is the block scheme of system of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the process flow diagram that produces macro instruction.

In institute's drawings attached, same numbering is represented similar or corresponding element.

The specific embodiment block scheme

Fig. 1 is the block scheme of system 100 of the present invention.System comprises electronic equipment 102,104 and 106 and control device 108.For example, system 100 is an entertainment system of family, and wherein equipment 10 comprises VCR (video cassette recorder), and equipment 104 comprises TV (televisor), and equipment 106 comprises one group of lighting device.Control device 108 can be controlled the operation of each equipment 102-106 directly or indirectly by the software content of equipment 102-106 and user interface separately thereof.Under latter event, the software content of being carried out by control device 108 is the relevant characteristic of one of equipment 102-106 under cover.Software content express software have more senior more unified interconnected, similar with device driver in the operating system.Be compressed in the software content by complex contents, can simplify task on demand or make task complicated, thereby make the ability universalness of producing macro instruction the job change impermanence.In view of interconnected level is that software content generally can both adapt to, thereby many application programs all can be used to handle the equipment 102-106 that complicacy may differ widely by same mode.

Control device 108 has a storer 110.When producing macro instruction, storer under user's the control by control device 108 with the response record of equipment 102-106 to offering on they self the driving source.For example, the user has just started a specific televisor (for example TV104) in its TV group when having inserted tape among the VCR102, and chooses the corresponding channel that is connected of televisor and VCR102.Then, the user is reduced to certain level with the brightness of illumination.But equipment 102-106 is put in order by corresponding identification item purpose by storer 110 to the response of user command and notes in turn.

Control device 108 also has an instruction issue machine 112 to be coupled on the storer 110.Under the mode of operation of imperative macro, issue machine 112 sends instruction according to being stored in the storer 110 ordering order to equipment 102-106.Specific each instruction of sending all contains and recovers this particular device and send the order of relevant responsive state in advance to impel it in equipment 102-106.For reaching this purpose, instruction is for example discerned relevant response with parameter by the receptible mode of particular device institute.All devices 102-106 or its corresponding software content all need this order.Therefore, when issue machine 112 by instruction sequences recover relevant device off status is arranged the time, cascade of each response just takes place.In above-mentioned example, when inserting tape among the VCR102, TV104 is start just, chooses the VCR channel automatically, and brightness is simultaneously pressed predeterminated level and descended.

For making macro instruction keep compact, each response preferably has a sign that shows whether self can be write down.Some response, for example response of those expression external action (for example slotting drive of user done), indication is not later on the reproducible state variation of order.

In addition, control device 108 may send back to equipment with the adjacency response from same equipment of originally writing down, and makes the redundance in its elimination program of having an opportunity.For example, if the user pushes " channel is heightened " button three times, three kinds of situations will be noted (" channel is increased to 7 ", " channel is increased to 8 ", " channel is increased to 9 "), by equipment these three kinds of situations are compressed into a kind of situation (" channel improves 3 to 9 ").This example is hinting another aspect of recording responses: " user view is indeterminate ".In the process of record macro instruction, push " channel is heightened " button and whether mean that the user wants to make macro instruction to make channel increase by 3 for three times when carrying out, or the original channel that directly forwards the user action generation to is when changing the state of certain equipment component with relative and absolute method, always produces this indefinite situation.By add enough information (being the relative and absolute change of state) in response, as carrying out in the example, the user just can make one's options by between when edit macro later.If quantity of information contained in the situation is not enough, the software engineer just makes decision for the user.This decision may be wrong (promptly not conforming with user's requirement), though some extremely meets in time.

The record macro instruction also can not be to carry out under user's requirement.For example, can in known system 100, write down multinomial macro instruction simultaneously.As the example of using this function, imagine an application program of wanting to provide some automatic function, but this program may become complicated and relevant with user's system, thereby allow needs that the user presses oneself to a certain extent with its any change to the user.With its with automatic function " hard coded " in application program and fulfil the additional function of user interface so that with its customization, it would be better to macroinstruction system notes it and gives the macro instruction edit routine that the user interface shortcut of directiveness is provided, allow the user that it is customized, do more convenient more harmonious again like this.

Macro instruction can directly be carried out under user's requirement, perhaps connects indirect execution with a certain state of system 100 or with the time.Under the former situation, user interface can be increased in the function that excites the user interface element of macro instruction under user's the control at diverse location.In the latter case, can CCE 108 when particular state occurring or at the fixed time or the date imperative macro.This function offers the user by application program, but the equipment 102-108 in the system 100 also can utilize this function.This is compared with the practice of " hard wire " performance being incorporated into application program, or the worse more worth recommendation of the practice of incorporating above-mentioned software content into, makes the user can utilize this function because do like this, and if this function also can revise when not conforming to user's regard it.Process flow diagram

Flow process Figure 200 of Fig. 2 has illustrated the process of system's 100 generation macro instructions.In step 202, the user is transferred to control device 108 mode of operation that produces macro instruction.In step 204, the user inserts tape among the VCR102.In step 206, the user starts VCR102.In step 208, the user starts TV104.In step 210, the user selects suitable channel, and sound equipment and television-quality are transferred to desired level.In step 212, the user is transferred to desired level with ambient lighting.In step 214, the user finishes the formulation of macro instruction, thus when macro instruction is asked automatically by may named order fulfiling step 206-212 after set order or the user.

Claims

1. control system comprises:

At least one electronic equipment; With

A control device is coupled on the described electronic equipment, and with the corresponding driving source of formation electronic equipment, thereby order excitation electron equipment responds accordingly;

Wherein:

Described control device comprises:

A storer is for some specific responses in a plurality of responses of record;

A feedback assembly is in order to provide a specific instruction, to recover the particular state that specific response is provided self that makes of electronic equipment to electronic equipment;

Described electronic equipment reacts to specific instruction by recovering particular state.

2. the system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described control device sends the specific instruction that specific response is discerned as a parameter.

3. equipment that is used for the described specific instruction of response of the described system of claim 1.

4. the control system that has at least one electronic equipment produces a kind of method of macro instruction, comprises the following steps:

Provide a series of driving sources to electronic equipment;

A respective response for each corresponding driving source recorded electronic equipment;

Produce a series of instructions, each specific instruction specifies electronic equipment to return to the particular state of self, so that specific response is provided self.

5. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, the process of described generation instruction comprises the parameter that the identification specific response is provided to specific instruction.