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

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Takamitsu, Naito, Eiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pillai, Namitha
• Application Number:
  US15/132,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20160231920A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47H 2005/025 controlled by electronic sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A47H 5/02 Devices for opening and closing curtains
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/485 Sectional doors
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/32 Operating, guiding, or securing devices therefor operation of tilting bars E06B9/307
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/30 User interface
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/40 Remote control systems using repeaters, converters, gateways
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/50 Receiving or transmitting feedback, e.g. replies, status updates, acknowledgements, from the controlled devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A method is provided for controlling a networked information apparatus that includes a touch panel display. An electric shutter device is controlled over the network to open and close a shutter remotely. A processor of the information apparatus causes display of an operation icon on a display screen of the information apparatus, and the operation icon causes an operation screen for the electric shutter device to be displayed. When a swipe operation is sensed on the operation screen, a movement control command is output for moving the shutter in a swipe direction of the swipe operation, in which positional information indicating an end position in a vertical direction of the shutter of the electric shutter device is received. State information representing the end position of an end portion of the shutter is displayed in a region corresponding to the shutter image in accordance with the received positional information.

Claims

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.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein an image representing the actual position of the end position of the end portion of the shutter of the electric shutter device is displayed as being overlapped on the shutter image.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein an image representing the actual position of the end position of the end portion of the shutter of the electric shutter device includes a shutter movement representation image representing the end position of the end portion of the shutter of the electric shutter device.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the shutter movement representation image is displayed in a color that is different from a color in which the shutter in the shutter image is displayed.

5. A method for controlling an information apparatus, the information apparatus having a touch panel display and being connected to a network, an electric closer being controlled over the network, the electric closer being capable of opening and closing a closure 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 closer to be displayed when selection of the operation icon is sensed;

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

output to the network a movement control command for moving the closure of the electric closer 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 closure of the electric closer via the network;

display on the operation screen the actual position of the closure representing the actual end position of an end portion of the closure of the electric closer in a region of the operation screen corresponding to the closure 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.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein an image representing the actual position of the end position of the end portion of the closure of the electric closer is displayed as being overlapped on the closure image.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein an image representing the actual position of the end position of the end portion of the closure of the electric closer includes a closure movement representation image representing the end position of the end portion of the closure of the electric closer.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the closure movement representation image is displayed in a color that is different from a color in which the closure in the closure image is displayed.