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STATE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD

  • US 20130132744A1
  • Filed: 08/04/2011
  • Published: 05/23/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A state control system comprising:

  • a controlled apparatus that periodically transmits state information that indicates the current state of its own apparatus and that includes information for identifying its own apparatus and, when said state has changed, that transmits state information that indicates the state following this change; and

    a control apparatus that, upon receiving said state information from said controlled apparatus when not requesting a change of state in said controlled apparatus, returns the state information to the controlled apparatus, and when requesting a change of state in said controlled apparatus, changes state parameters that are contained in state information that was already received from said controlled apparatus and that correspond to states that are to be changed to required values and transmits state information that contains the state parameters that follow the change to said controlled apparatus as a control command;

    wherein said controlled apparatus, upon receiving said control command from said control apparatus, transitions to a state that corresponds to the values of the state parameters that were changed and transmits to said control apparatus state information that indicates the state that follows the change.

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