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Method for controlling information apparatus

  • US 10,387,022 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2016
  • Issued: 08/20/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for controlling an information apparatus, the information apparatus having a touch panel display and being connected to a network, an electric shutter device being controlled over the network, the electric shutter device being capable of opening and closing a shutter through a remote operation, the method causing a processor of the information apparatus to:

  • display an operation icon on a display screen of the information apparatus, the operation icon causing an operation screen for the electric shutter device to be displayed when selection of the operation icon is sensed;

    display the operation screen for the electric shutter device when selection of the operation icon is sensed, the operation screen including a shutter image representing the shutter of the electric shutter device;

    output to the network a movement control command for moving the shutter of the electric shutter device in a swipe direction of a swipe operation on the operation screen when the swipe operation is sensed on the operation screen;

    receive positional information indicating the actual end position in a vertical direction of the shutter of the electric shutter device via the network;

    display on the operation screen the actual position of the shutter representing the actual end position of an end portion of the shutter of the electric shutter device in a region of the operation screen corresponding to the shutter image in accordance with the received positional information; and

    display, when the actual movement of the shutter is slower than the actual movement of the shutter image, a difference between the actual end position of the end portion of the shutter and the shutter image.

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