Patent ID: 9098129
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A hand-held device for communicating with one or more electronic devices via a communicating platform such that, when the hand-held device points to one of the electronic devices in a pre-defined coordinate system, the hand-held device can control the pointed-to electronic device, the hand-held device comprising: one or more orientation devices for detecting a direction information related to the pointed- to electronic device relative to the hand-held device; a location database for storing a position coordinate of the electronic devices relative to one or more reference points in the pre-defined coordinate system, a position coordinate of the hand-held device relative to the one or more reference points in the pre-defined coordinate system, and a location information related to a position of the electronic devices relative to the hand-held device in the pre-defined coordinate system, wherein the one or more reference points comprise a first reference point in a vertical plane straight in front of the user and two other reference points in the vertical plane such that the other two reference points are diagonally opposite to each other, and wherein the position coordinate of the hand-held device is determined by detecting a plurality of reference point direction information related to the position of the hand-held device relative to the reference points, wherein the plurality of reference point direction information comprises horizontal angle information relative to each of the two diagonally opposite reference points, inclination angle information relative to each of the two diagonally opposite reference points and a distance between the two diagonally opposite reference points; a computing module electrically connected to the orientation devices for calculating a pointed-to location information related to a position of the pointed-to electronic device relative to the hand-held device based on the direction information; a comparing module electrically connected to the computing module for comparing the pointed-to location information with the location information stored in the location database to distinguish the pointed-to electronic device; a control unit electrically connected to the comparing module for sending a control command to control the pointed-to electronic device; and a transmitting module electrically connected to the control unit for sending the control command to the pointed-to electronic device via the communicating platform.