Expanding appliance for image identifying modules and expanding method for expanding appliance

An expanding appliance for image identifying modules, for expanding controlling function of an image input device, comprising:

• a connect port, connected with the image input device which is configured to capture an image data;
• an image register;
• an image capturing module, connected with the connect port and the image register, configured to sample the image data captured by the image input device for producing samples and to quantize the samples as at least one computation data, and configured to store the computation data to the image register;
• an image transmitting module, connected with the image register and at least one function module, wherein the function module has an independent computing unit and is configured to execute a unique image identification procedure;
• an intelligent control module, connected with the image capturing module and the image transmitting module, configured to generate at least one demanding command corresponding to the at least one function module connected to the image transmitting module, and configured to control the image capturing module to obtain the image data satisfying at least an image requirement of the at least one function module according to the at least one demanding command;
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• a device control module, connected with the intelligent control module and at least one electronic device;
• wherein the image transmitting module is configured to receive an identified result generated by the function module via executing the image identification procedure according to the computation data, and configured to convey the identified result to the intelligent control module, and the intelligent control module is configured to generate a control command according to the identified result and uses the control command to trigger the device control module correspondingly controlling the electronic device;
• wherein the image capturing module is configured to sample the image data according to the at least one demanding command and to perform an image pre-process on the image data for quantizing the samples as the at least one computation data required by the at least one function module, wherein the at least one computation data is able to be directly identified by the image identification procedure of the at least one function module.

An expanding method of an expanding appliance, wherein the expanding appliance comprises a connect port connected with an image input device, and an image capturing module connected with the connect port, and an image register, an image transmitting module, an intelligent control module, and a result displaying module, the expanding method comprising following steps:

• a) connecting at least one function module through the image transmitting module;
• b) generating at least one demanding command corresponding to the at least one function module by the intelligent control module connected to the image transmitting module, wherein the at least one function module executes a unique image identification procedure by an independent computing unit;
• c) controlling the image input device by the image capturing module to obtain an image data satisfying at least an image requirement of the at least one function module according to the at least one demanding command;
• d) sampling the image data for producing samples according to the at least one demanding command and performing an image pre-process on the image data for quantizing the samples as at least one computation data required by the at least one function module, and storing the computation data to the image register by the image capturing module;
• e) obtaining the computation data from the image register and transmitting the computation data to the function module by the image transmitting module, wherein the at least one computation data is able to be directly identified by the image identification procedure of the at least one function module;
• f) receiving an identified result generated by the at least one function module via executing the image identification procedure according to the computation data by the image transmitting module;
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• g) receiving the identified result from the image transmitting module at the intelligent control module, and triggering the result displaying module according to the identified result for the result displaying module to display the identified result.