System and method of controlling sensory devices

A ZigBee coordinator for controlling a plurality of sensory devices using a control command provided thereto, comprising:

• a parser for parsing the control command;
• a device determiner for determining a sensory device to be controlled in response to the parsed control command from the parser;
• a message manager for generating a control message to be transmitted to an end device having the sensory device connected thereto, wherein the message manager allocates an end point ID to the end device, which requests the binding, when receiving a Binding message from the end device and manages the Join message on the allocated end point ID therein through mapping when receiving a Join message from the end device having the allocated end point ID;
• an IR code fixer for instructing the IR control code to be generated from the end device when the end device is fixed;
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• a device mapmaker for fixing the IR control code in response to the instruction of the IR code fixer and for mapping an device ID of the end device, a control type and control method of the sensory device connected to the end device on an end point ID of the ZigBee coordinator.

An end device having a sensory device to be controlled by a control message, comprising:

• a parser for parsing the control message provided to the end device;
• a control type determiner for determining the control type of the sensory device, wherein the control type includes a ZigBee type and ZigBee-IR type;
• an IR code storage unit, if the end device is fixed, for downloading an IR control code of the sensory device to be fixed and storing the IR control code therein;
• a command manager for generation a control command depending on the control type determined by the control type determiner;
• an internal command generator for generating an internal interface command under the control of the command manager when the control type is the ZigBee type;
• an IR code generator for generating an IR control signal under the control of the command manager when the control type is the ZigBee-IR type;
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• a control transmitter transmitting the generated internal interface command and IR control signal to the sensory device.

A system for controlling a plurality of sensory devices based on sensory effect metadata included in a single media, comprising:

• a plurality of end devices having the plurality of sensory devices connected thereto, respectively, each end device generating an IR control signal to execute a sensory devices so as to present sensory effects;
• a multi-device controller for managing IR control codes as profiles, and issuing a device control command to control the sensory device on the basis of the sensory effect metadata;
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• a ZigBee coordinator for parsing the device control command from the multi-device controller, determining the sensory device to be controlled depending on the parsed control command and transmitting a control message corresponding to the parsed control command to the end device having the determined sensory device connected thereto through ZigBee communication.

A method for controlling a plurality of sensory devices, comprising:

• providing a device control command for representing sensory effect based on sensory effect metadata included in a single media to a multi-device controller;
• providing the device control command from the multi-device controller to a ZigBee coordinator;
• generating a ZigBee control message corresponding to the device control command to provide to an end device;
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• controlling the sensory device connected to the end device using a control signal corresponding to the ZigBee control message.