CONTROL TERMINAL DEVICE AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20120206492A1
• Filed: 04/24/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: FUKUI, Takayuki
• Application Number:
  US13/454,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20120206492A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/33 Remote control using macros, scripts

Abstract

Provided are: a receiving unit receiving a first operation script from a media server; a determination unit selecting a display size of an object as a component of an operation screen defined by the first operation script when the object is displayed in a wireless terminal device; and a script conversion unit changing the received first operation script to a second operation script in accordance with results of the selection by the determination unit and then executing the operation script. The determination unit selects a second display size which permits the wireless terminal device to display the object within predetermined update time and is smaller than a first display size defined by the first operation script, and the script conversion unit changes the display size of the object from the first display size to the second display size to thereby change the first operation script to the second operation script.

Claims

1. A control terminal device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an operation script defining an operation screen;

a script conversion unit configured to reduce a display size of an object as a component of the operation screen defined by the operation script, and

a determination unit configured to read from the operation script the display size of the object and update time of the operation screen, and determine whether or not display of the object in the display size can be completed within the update time,

wherein said script conversion unit is configured to reduce the display size of the object the display of which in the display size is determined not to be completed within the update time.

2. The control terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein said determination unit is further configured to determine whether or not a degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than a threshold value, and

said script conversion unit is further configured to reduce the display size of the object whose degree of significance is determined to be equal to or lower than the threshold value.

3. The control terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein said determination unit is configured to, for each of the object or for each extension of a file indicating the object, read the predefined degree of significance from a memory and compare the read degree of significance with the threshold value to determine whether or not the degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than the threshold value.

4. The control terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein said determination unit is configured to, for each of the object or for each extension of a file indicating the object, receive the predefined degree of significance together with the operation script and compare the received degree of significance with the threshold value to determine whether or not the degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than the threshold value.

5. The control terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein said determination unit is configured to, for each of the object or for each extension of a file indicating the object, read from a memory the degree of significance defined by inputting by a user and compare the read degree of significance with the threshold value to determine whether or not the degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than the threshold value.

7. The control terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein for the object, a degree of significance is defined for each condition to which the object applies,

said determination unit is further configured to, when the degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than a threshold value, determine to reduce the display size of the object, and select, as the display size of the object, a second display size smaller than a first display size defined by the operation script, and

said script conversion unit is configured to change the display size of the object in the operation script to the second display size.

8. The control terminal device according to claim 7,

wherein said determination unit is configured to determine a kind of the object defined by the operation script, and when the object is a picture file, determine that the degree of significance of the object is lower than the threshold value.

9. The control terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein said determination unit is configured to, based on the operation script currently executed, when a plurality of the object are displayed as a plurality of options and one of the plurality of the object is highlighted for display indicating a selected state, determine that the object located closer to the object highlighted for display has a higher degree of significance and determine that the object located more distantly from the object has a lower degree of significance, and

said script conversion unit is configured to change the display size of the object in the operation script so that the object with the lower degree of significance has a smaller display size.

12. The control terminal device according to claim 7,

wherein said determination unit is configured to, when the object defined by the operation script is a picture decoded by software, determine that the degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than the threshold value.

13. The control terminal device according to claim 7,

wherein said determination unit is configured to determine that the degree of significance of the object displayed behind the different object is equal to or lower than the threshold value.

6. A control terminal device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an operation script defining an operation screen;

a script conversion unit configured to reduce a display size of an object as a component of the operation screen defined by the operation script,

a memory configured to store, for each kind of the object, processing speed information indicating correspondence between the display size of the object and processing time required for displaying the object; and

a determination unit configured to, by referring to the processing speed information, determine whether or not display of the object in the display size defined by the operation script can be completed within update time defined by the operation script,

wherein said script conversion unit is configured to reduce the display size of the object the display of which in the display size is determined not to be completed within the update time.

10. A control terminal device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an operation script defining an operation screen;

a script conversion unit configured to reduce a display size of an object as a component of the operation screen defined by the operation script, and

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a degree of significance of the object is equal to or lower than a threshold value, also read, from the operation script, update time of the object defined by the operation script, and select a second display size in which the display of the object is completed within the read update time,

wherein said script conversion unit is configured to reduce the display size of the object whose degree of significance is determined to be equal to or lower than the threshold value by changing the operation script so that the display size of the object whose degree of significance is determined to be equal to or lower than the threshold value agrees with the second display size.

11. A control terminal device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an operation script defining an operation screen;

a script conversion unit configured to reduce a display size of an object as a component of the operation screen defined by the operation script, and

a determination unit configured to, when the operation screen is divided into a plurality of small regions and update time is individually defined for each of the small regions in the operation script, select a second display size in which display of the object included in each of the small regions can be completed within the update time defined for the corresponding small region,

wherein said script conversion unit is configured to change the operation script so that the display size of the object agrees with the second display size.

14. A remote control system in which a controlled device and a control terminal device are connected,

wherein the controlled device includes:

a script storage unit configured to store an operation script defining an operation screen of the controlled device; and

a script transmission unit configured to, upon reception of a script transmission request requesting for transmission of the operation script from the control terminal device, read the operation script from the script storage unit and transmit the read operation script to the control terminal device,

the control terminal device includes;

a receiving unit configured to receive the operation script from the controlled device;

a script conversion unit configured to reduce a display size of an object as a component of the operation screen defined by the operation script; and

a determination unit configured to read from the operation script the display size of the object and update time of the operation screen and determine whether or not display of the object in the display size can be completed within the update time, and

the script conversion unit is configured to reduce the display size of the object display of which in the display size is determined not to be completed within the update time.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium with a recorded program causing a computer to act as a control terminal device including:

a receiving unit which receives from a controlled device an operation script defining an operation screen;

a script conversion unit configured to reduce a display size of an object as a component of the operation screen defined by the operation script; and

a determination unit configured to read from the operation script the display size of the object and update time of the operation screen and determine whether or not display of the object in the display size can be completed within the update time, wherein said script conversion unit is configured to reduce the display size of the object the display of which in the display size is determined not to be completed within the update time.