IP Library Granted Patent US 12670617
Granted Patent B2
US 12670617 · App. 18/296,175 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Method and system for intelligently controlling children's usage of screen terminal

Inventor: Shuicai Huang (Hangzhou City, CN)
Assignees: ZHEJIANG LINGCHUANG NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.; DONGSHENG SHENZHOU TOURISM MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
G06T7/74G06T7/593G06V40/165G06V40/178G06T2207/10012G06T2207/10028G06T2207/30201
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Patent No.
US 12670617
App. No.
18/296,175
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and a system for intelligently controlling children's usage of a screen terminal are provided in this disclosure, which relate to the technical field of intelligent home terminals. When children use the screen terminal, children's age can be automatically and intelligently identified, real-time intelligent supervision on children's sitting posture, distance and other aspects can be conducted according to different children's ages, so as to intelligently control on and off duration of the screen terminal, so as to guide the children to use the screen terminal device healthily. Compared with prior art schemes, in the disclosure, management of the screen terminal device can be realized without manual operation, reducing trouble from manual equipment management, further realizing specific control of children's usage of the screen terminal by age, increasing intelligence degree, and with advantage of being used in multiple scenes.

Claims (55)

1 . A method for intelligently controlling children's usage of a screen terminal, comprising: collecting an image of a target area to obtain a target image by one or more cameras; performing face detection on the target image by a processor connected with the one or more cameras; performing, by the processor, feature value extraction on a face with a preset facial feature model when the face is detected; matching, by the processor, an extracted feature value with a pre-trained face data set, and when the feature value is matched with a first face data set and a second face data set in the pre-trained face data set, obtaining, by the processor, human bone position information in the target image; performing, by the processor, stereo rectification on the human bone position information so as to obtain human bone relation information and human body distance information; determining, by the processor, whether a sitting posture condition and/or a distance condition are abnormal according to the human bone relation information and the human body distance information, and generating, by the processor, a reminder message when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal; and outputting, by the processor, a corresponding control signal to control a screen terminal device when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal and exceeds a set threshold, so as to realize intelligent control of children's use of the screen terminal,

wherein corresponding control of the screen terminal device by the processor when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal and exceeds the set threshold specifically comprises: reducing volume of the screen terminal when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a first set threshold; turning off the screen terminal by infrared when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a second set threshold; and cutting off power of the screen terminal when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a third set threshold.

2 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 1 , further comprising: obtaining, by the processor, an age interval for a face template matched with the first face dataset data, and controlling the screen terminal to keep in an off mode when the face template is located in a first age interval; controlling the screen terminal to turn on for a first set time interval in a case that a child is detected to be in a first sitting posture and first distance condition, when the face template is in a second age interval; and controlling the screen terminal to turn on for a second set time interval in a case that the child is detected to be in a second sitting posture and second distance condition, when the face template is located in a third age interval.

3 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 1 , further comprising: keeping the screen terminal in an off state for a first set time interval for every second set time interval in an on state when a date is a non-examination day.

4 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the performing, by the processor, stereo rectification on the human bone position information so as to obtain the human bone relation information and human body distance information specifically comprises: obtaining world coordinate information of key parts of a human body; obtaining parallax information according to the world coordinate information; acquiring the human body distance information by binocular ranging; obtaining the human bone relation information according to the parallax information and the human body distance information.

5 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 4 , wherein the obtaining the human bone relation information according to the parallax information and the human body distance information comprises: |ordinate of right shoulder−ordinate of left shoulder|*(actual human body distance−standard measured human body distance)*(proportional rectification coefficient).

6 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 1 , wherein first human bone relation information is obtained by the processor with left and right-eye world coordinates of a nose tip, and when the first human bone relation information is greater than a first parallax set threshold, the child is reminded to carry out horizontal correction on a human body.

7 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the first face data set is a face data set for 4 to 16 years old, and the second face data set is a face data set for over 16 years old.

8 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 1 , wherein an infrared control device is configured to receive the corresponding control signal, and to reduce volume, turn off the screen terminal by infrared or directly cut off the power, so as to realize intelligent control of children's usage of the screen terminal according to the corresponding control signal.

9 . A method for intelligently controlling children's usage of a screen terminal, comprising:

collecting an image of a target area to obtain a target image by one or more cameras;

performing face detection on the target image by a processor connected with the one or more cameras;

performing, by the processor, feature value extraction on a face with a preset facial feature model when the face is detected;

matching, by the processor, an extracted feature value with a pre-trained face data set, and when the feature value is matched with a first face data set and a second face data set in the pre-trained face data set, obtaining, by the processor, human bone position information in the target image;

performing, by the processor, stereo rectification on the human bone position information so as to obtain human bone relation information and human body distance information;

determining, by the processor, whether a sitting posture condition and/or a distance condition are abnormal according to the human bone relation information and the human body distance information, and generating, by the processor, a reminder message when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal;

outputting, by the processor, a corresponding control signal to control a screen terminal device when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal and exceeds a set threshold, so as to realize intelligent control of children's use of the screen terminal;

obtaining, by the processor, an age interval for a face template matched with the first face dataset data, and controlling the screen terminal to keep in an off mode when the face template is located in a first age interval;

controlling the screen terminal to turn on for a first set time interval in a case that a child is detected to be in a first sitting posture and first distance condition, when the face template is in a second age interval; and

controlling the screen terminal to turn on for a second set time interval in a case that the child is detected to be in a second sitting posture and second distance condition, when the face template is located in a third age interval.

10 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 9 , wherein corresponding control of the screen terminal device by the processor when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal and exceeds the set threshold specifically comprises:

reducing volume of the screen terminal when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a first set threshold;

turning off the screen terminal by infrared when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a second set threshold; and

cutting off power of the screen terminal when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a third set threshold.

11 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 9 , further comprising keeping the screen terminal in an off state for a first set time interval for every second set time interval in an on state when a date is a non-examination day.

12 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the performing, by the processor, stereo rectification on the human bone position information so as to obtain the human bone relation information and human body distance information specifically comprises:

obtaining world coordinate information of key parts of a human body;

obtaining parallax information according to the world coordinate information; acquiring the human body distance information by binocular ranging; and

obtaining the human bone relation information according to the parallax information and the human body distance information.

13 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 12 , wherein the obtaining the human bone relation information according to the parallax information and the human body distance information comprises: |ordinate of right shoulder−ordinate of left shoulder|*(actual human body distance−standard measured human body distance)*(proportional rectification coefficient).

14 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 9 , wherein first human bone relation information is obtained by the processor with left and right-eye world coordinates of a nose tip, and when the first human bone relation information is greater than a first parallax set threshold, the child is reminded to carry out horizontal correction on a human body.

15 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the first face data set is a face data set for 4 to 16 years old, and the second face data set is a face data set for over 16 years old.

16 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 9 , wherein an infrared control device is configured to receive the corresponding control signal, and to reduce volume, turn off the screen terminal by infrared or directly cut off the power, so as to realize intelligent control of children's usage of the screen terminal according to the corresponding control signal.

17 . A method for intelligently controlling children's usage of a screen terminal, comprising:

collecting an image of a target area to obtain a target image by one or more cameras;

performing face detection on the target image by a processor connected with the one or more cameras;

performing, by the processor, feature value extraction on a face with a preset facial feature model when the face is detected;

matching, by the processor, an extracted feature value with a pre-trained face data set, and when the feature value is matched with a first face data set in the face data set, obtaining, by the processor, human bone position information in the target image;

performing, by the processor, stereo rectification on the human bone position information so as to obtain human bone relation information and human body distance information;

determining, by the processor, whether a sitting posture condition and/or a distance condition are abnormal according to the human bone relation information and the human body distance information, and generating, by the processor, a reminder message when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal; and

outputting, by the processor, a corresponding control signal to control a screen terminal device when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal and exceeds a set threshold, so as to realize intelligent control of children's use of the screen terminal,

wherein the performing, by the processor, stereo rectification on the human bone position information so as to obtain the human bone relation information and human body distance information specifically comprises:

obtaining world coordinate information of key parts of a human body;

obtaining parallax information according to the world coordinate information; acquiring the human body distance information by binocular ranging; and

obtaining the human bone relation information according to the parallax information and the human body distance information, and

wherein the obtaining the human bone relation information according to the parallax information and the human body distance information comprises: |ordinate of right shoulder−ordinate of left shoulder|*(actual human body distance−standard measured human body distance)*(proportional rectification coefficient).

18 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 17 , wherein corresponding control of the screen terminal device by the processor when the sitting posture condition or the distance condition is abnormal and exceeds the set threshold specifically comprises:

reducing volume of the screen terminal when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a first set threshold;

turning off the screen terminal by infrared when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a second set threshold; and

cutting off power of the screen terminal when abnormal times of the sitting posture condition or the distance condition exceed a third set threshold.

19 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 17 , further comprising:

obtaining, by the processor, an age interval for a face template matched with the first face dataset data, and controlling the screen terminal to keep in an off mode when the face template is located in a first age interval;

controlling the screen terminal to turn on for a first set time interval in a case that a child is detected to be in a first sitting posture and first distance condition, when the face template is in a second age interval; and

controlling the screen terminal to turn on for a second set time interval in a case that the child is detected to be in a second sitting posture and second distance condition, when the face template is located in a third age interval.

20 . The method for intelligently controlling children's usage of the screen terminal according to claim 17 , further comprising keeping the screen terminal in an off state for a first set time interval for every second set time interval in an on state when a date is a non-examination day.