METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150148968A1
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Published: 05/28/2015
• 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, NAGATA, Minehisa
• Granted Patent: US 10,345,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/276
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/523 for displaying temperature data
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/56 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/58 using Internet communication
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/62 characterised by the type of control or by internal processing, e.g. using fuzzy logic, adaptive control or estimation of values
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/64 using pre-stored data
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/67 Switching between heating and cooling modes
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/79 for controlling the direction of the supplied air
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1905 associated with tele control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means

Abstract

In the case where selection of an icon representing an air conditioner is sensed in a region corresponding to a certain room on a floor plan, a region corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan is switched to an adjustment region for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner. In the case where it is sensed that a contact made to a touch-panel display moves within the region corresponding to the certain room, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with a distance in which the contact moves is transmitted to the network.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an information apparatus, the information apparatus having a touch-panel display and connected to a network, over which one or more target devices are controlled,

the method causing a computer of the information apparatus to:

display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building on the touch-panel display;

display an icon representing each of the one or more target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the one or more target devices including an air conditioner;

sense selection of an icon representing the air conditioner in a region corresponding to a certain room on the floor plan;

in the case where selection of the icon representing the air conditioner is sensed, switch the region corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan to an adjustment region for changing a set temperature of the air conditioner; and

in the case where it is sensed that a contact to the touch-panel display moves within the region corresponding to the certain room, transmit, to the network, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with a movement amount in which the contact moves.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment region corresponding to the certain room is displayed brighter than other regions included in the floor plan.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in the case where a room of the building corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan is installed with two or more air conditioners,

when it is sensed that a contact to the touch-panel display moves within the region corresponding to the certain room, the control command is transmitted to the network as a control command for changing set-temperatures of the two or more air conditioners in common at the two or more air conditioners, in accordance with the movement amount in which the contact moves.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in the case where a movement starting point of the contact is sensed within the region corresponding to the certain room, and a movement ending point of the contact is sensed beyond the region corresponding to the certain room, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with the movement amount in which the contact moves, including an extra movement amount beyond the region corresponding to the certain room, is transmitted to the network.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in the case where the contact moves beyond the region corresponding to the certain room, the set temperature of the air conditioner is not changed in accordance with an extra movement amount beyond the region corresponding to the certain room.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the set temperature of the air conditioner is changed greater as the movement amount in which the contact moves increases, and the set temperature of the air conditioner is changed smaller as the movement amount in which the contact moves decreases.

7. A method for controlling an information apparatus, the information apparatus having a touch-panel display and connected to a network, over which one or more target devices are controlled,

the method causing a computer of the information apparatus to:

display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building on the touch-panel display;

display an icon representing each of the one or more target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the one or more target devices including an air conditioner;

sense selection of an icon representing the air conditioner in a region corresponding to a certain room on the floor plan;

in the case where selection of the icon representing the air conditioner is sensed, switch the region corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan to an adjustment region for changing a set temperature of the air conditioner; and

in the case where it is sensed that a contact to the touch-panel display moves within the adjustment region, transmit, to the network, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with a movement direction in which the contact moves.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the adjustment region corresponding to the certain room is displayed brighter than other regions included in the floor plan.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein

in the case where a room of the building corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan is installed with two or more air conditioners,

when it is sensed that a contact to the touch-panel display moves within the adjustment region, the control command is transmitted to the network as a control command for changing set temperatures of the two or more air conditioners in common at the two or more air conditioners, in accordance with the movement direction in which the contact moves.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein

in the case where a movement starting point of the contact is sensed within the adjustment region, and a movement ending point of the contact is sensed beyond the region corresponding to the certain room, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with the movement direction in which the contact moves, including an extra movement direction beyond the region corresponding to the certain room, is transmitted to the network.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein

in the case where the contact moves beyond the region corresponding to the certain room, the set temperature of the air conditioner is not changed in accordance with an extra movement direction beyond the region corresponding to the certain room.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein

in the case where it is sensed that the contact moves upward on the display screen, the set temperature of the air conditioner is increased, and

in the case where it is sensed that the contact moves downward on the display screen, the set temperature of the air conditioner is decreased.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium which stores a program that is executed by an information apparatus having a touch-panel display and connected to a network, over which one or more target devices are controlled,

the program causing a computer of the information apparatus to:

display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building on the touch-panel display;

display an icon representing each of the one or more target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the one or more target devices including an air conditioner;

sense selection of an icon representing the air conditioner in a region corresponding to a certain room on the floor plan;

in the case where selection of the icon representing the air conditioner is sensed, switch the region corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan to an adjustment region for changing a set temperature of the air conditioner; and

in the case where it is sensed that a contact to the touch-panel display moves within the region corresponding to the certain room, transmit, to the network, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with a movement amount in which the contact moves.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium which stores a program that is executed by an information apparatus having a touch-panel display and connected to a network, over which one or more target devices are controlled,

the program causing a computer of the information apparatus to:

display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building on the touch-panel display;

display an icon representing each of the one or more target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the one or more target devices including an air conditioner;

sense selection of an icon representing the air conditioner in a region corresponding to a certain room on the floor plan;

in the case where selection of the icon representing the air conditioner is sensed, switch the region corresponding to the certain room on the floor plan to an adjustment region for changing a set temperature of the air conditioner; and

in the case where it is sensed that a contact to the touch-panel display moves within the adjustment region, transmit, to the network, a control command for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner in accordance with a movement direction in which the contact moves.