Patent ID: 9142242
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G11B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing, by a processor, a communication channel with an appliance controller of a premises; requesting a list of appliances controlled by the appliance controller; receiving, by the processor, the list of appliances from the appliance controller; sending a control request to the appliance controller, wherein the request includes a code for the controller to generate specific lighting patterns for each of the listed appliances; collecting, with a video camera coupled to the processor, a series of images of the lighting patterns of appliances in a field of view of the camera in communication with the processor; sampling a portion of each image of the series of images to identify a specific light pattern from the collected series of images as being emitted by an appliance, the portion comprising no more than a number of pixels selected based on a total number of appliances of the list of appliances; correlating the specific light pattern to a specific appliance from the list of appliances; in response to the correlation of the light pattern to a specific appliance in the list of appliances, presenting an indication in a user interface for each of the specific appliances that the specific appliance was successfully correlated; upon selection of a presented indication for the specific appliance, presenting in the user interface a list of control parameters for controlling the operation of the selected appliance.