SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING IMAGE DATA IN CONNECTION WITH CONFIGURING A UNIVERSAL CONTROLLING DEVICE

摘要

Data indicative of an object of interest is received at a recognition system having an associated database in which is stored data for a plurality of reference objects each of which is cross-referenced to configuration information for a universal controlling device. The reference system uses the received data and the data for the plurality of reference objects to discern one or more reference objects as being a match for the object of interest. At least a subset of the configuration information that has been cross-referenced to the one or more reference objects discerned by the recognition system as being a match for the object of interest is then used to configure the universal controlling device to enable the universal controlling device to communicate commands to one or more target appliances.

主权项

1. A system device, comprising:
a portable device having a memory device, a plurality of user input elements, a display device, a transmission device, and a processing device in communication with each of the memory device, the plurality of user input elements, the display device, and the transmission device; and a server device in communication with the portable device via a network, the server device having an associated data repository in which a plurality of images are each cross-referenced to one or more of a plurality of command code sets for use in connection with one or more controllable appliances; wherein the memory device of the portable device has instructions, executable by the processing device, for causing the portable device to display in the display device an image representative of an intended target device, for causing the image displayed in the display device to be provided to the server device, for receiving from the server device data indicative of a one or more of the plurality of command code sets which have been cross-referenced within the data repository to an image discerned to be a match for the image caused to be provided to the server device, and for using the data indicative of the one or more of the plurality of command code sets to provide for the portable device to be provisioned with at least one of the one or more of the plurality of command code sets whereupon a user interaction with a one or more of the plurality of user input elements will cause the portable device to issue one or more commands using the provisioned at least one of the one or more of the command code sets via the transmission device to control one or more functional operations of the intended target controllable device.