INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM

• US 20150066232A1
• Filed: 02/06/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Odakura, Satoshi, Hirayama, Noriyuki, Ishikawa, Hiroko, Yoshida, Mayuko, Takama, Toshiaki
• Application Number:
  US14/174,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066232A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/297
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23129 Animated display, changes as function of parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23133 Animated, rotating fan indicates speed, flashing bulb for intensity
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2615 Audio, video, tv, consumer electronics device
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• 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: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00001 characterised by the display of information or by user interaction, e.g. supervisory control and data acquisition systems [SCADA] or graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00004 characterised by the power network being locally controlled
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00026 involving a local wireless network, e.g. Wi-Fi, ZigBee or Bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/14 The load or loads being home appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/00 Management or operation of end-user stationary applications or the last stages of power distribution; Controlling, monitoring or operating thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 End-user application control systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/242 Home appliances
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/126 : using wireless data transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 : Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

According to at least one embodiment, an information display device includes a receiver and a display. The receiver is configured to receive, from one or more devices, information indicating power consumption of one or more spaces in which electronic devices can be installed and/or one or more electronic devices. The display controller is configured to display animations corresponding to the power consumption of the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices, such that differences in the power consumption among the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices are displayed as differences in animation speeds.

Claims

1. An information display device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from one or more devices, information indicating power consumption of one or more spaces in which electronic devices can be installed and/or one or more electronic devices; and

a display controller configured to display animations corresponding to the power consumption of the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices, such that differences in the power consumption among the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices are displayed as differences in animation speeds.

2. The information display device of claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to display the differences in the power consumption as differences in rotating speeds.

3. The information display device of claim 1, wherein the receiver is configured to receive, from the one or more devices, information indicating power consumption of one or more branched breakers of a distribution board, the one or more branched breakers corresponding to one or more partitioned spaces of an inner space of a building and/or one or more outlets each connected to an electronic device.

4. The information display device of claim 1, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the information through a communication network.

5. The information display device of claim 1, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the information from a measuring instrument through a communication network, and the one or more animations correspond to the power consumption of one or more branched breakers corresponding to one or more partitioned spaces of an inner space of a building and/or one or more outlets each connected to an electronic device.

6. The information display device of claim 5, wherein the one or more branched breakers correspond to the one or more partitioned spaces of the inner space of the building, and wherein power consumption as a reference of an animation speed differs between animation(s) indicating the power consumption of the one or more electronic devices and the animation(s) indicating the power consumption of one or more branched breakers.

7. The information display device of claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to display the one or more animations together with a numerical value corresponding to the respective power consumption, and to only display animation and not to display a numerical value for at least one of the one or more electronic devices.

8. The information display device of claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to make an initial position of the animation(s) constant.

9. The information display device of claim 1, wherein differences in the power consumption among the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices are displayed as differences in color.

10. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium including programmed instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform:

receiving, from one or more devices, information indicating power consumption of one or more spaces in which electronic devices can be installed and/or one or more electronic devices; and

displaying animations corresponding to the power consumption of the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices, such that differences in the power consumption among the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices are displayed as differences in an animation speed.

11. A display system comprising:

a measuring device configured to measure power consumption of one or more of a plurality of electronic devices or one or more of a plurality of spaces; and

an information display device configured to communicate with the electronic devices or the measuring device, wherein

the information display device comprises

a receiver configured to receive information indicating the power consumption of the one or more of the electronic devices or to receive information indicating the power consumption of the one or more of the spaces from the measuring device; and

a display controller configured to display animation indicating the power consumption of the one or more of the spaces or the one or more of the electronic devices, and to display a difference in the power consumption as a difference in an animation speed.

12. The display system of claim 11, wherein the display controller is configured to display the difference in the power consumption as a difference in a rotating speed of display information to be animated.