CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130123943A1
• Filed: 07/27/2011
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Igarashi, Tatsuya
• Application Number:
  US13/811,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20130123943A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

A control device includes an acquisition part acquiring a control module selected from a plurality of candidates for the control module in which processing procedures regarding control of a controlled apparatus are described, and a controller controlling operation of the controlled apparatus according to the processing procedures in the control module acquired by the acquisition part.

Claims

1. A control apparatus comprising:

an acquisition part acquiring a control module selected from a plurality of candidates for the control module in which processing procedures regarding control of a controlled apparatus are described; and

a controller controlling operation of the controlled apparatus according to the processing procedures in the control module acquired by the acquisition part.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a selection part selecting the control module used for control of the controlled apparatus from the plurality of candidates for the control module.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the selection part acquires a list in which information indicating an acquisition source of a candidate for the control module is described from the controlled apparatus, and selects the control module used for control of the controlled apparatus based on the list.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the selection part selects the control module used for control of the controlled apparatus from the control module described in an application program in which processing procedures of the acquisition part and the selection part are described and a control module indicated in the list.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the list includes the plurality of control modules defining control functions with abstraction degree different from one another.

6. The control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the list includes information indicating priority of each control module, and

the selection part selects the control module used for control of the controlled apparatus based on the priority.

7. The control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the selection part selects the control module used for control of the controlled apparatus based on the abstraction degree.

8. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control module is a program for defining a function regarding operation of the controlled apparatus, and generating a message for performing the function in a form that the controlled apparatus is capable of interpreting the message.

9. The control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the application program allows, by being executed on a browser, the control apparatus to function as the acquisition part and the selection part.

10. A control system comprising:

a controlled apparatus operating according to control from an external device; and

a control apparatus including

an acquisition part acquiring a control module selected from a plurality of candidates for the control module in which processing procedures regarding control of the controlled apparatus are described, and

a controller controlling operation of the controlled apparatus according to the control module acquired by the acquisition part.

11. The control system according to claim 10, wherein the controlled apparatus includes a storage storing a list including candidate information of the control module.

12. A control method realized by performance of predetermined processing procedures by a processing part of a control apparatus controlling operation of a controlled apparatus, the processing procedures comprising:

acquiring a control module selected from a plurality of candidates for the control module in which processing procedures regarding control of the controlled apparatus are described; and

controlling operation of the controlled apparatus according to the control module acquired in the acquisition step.