METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150261427A1
• Filed: 03/31/2015
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• 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
• Application Number:
  US14/674,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20150261427A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

A method of the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on the display a display screen including one or more device type icons, each of the one or more device type icons representing each of the one or more target devices for each of device types; and when selection of any one of the one or more device type icons is sensed on the display screen, display a device screen for one or more target devices included in one device type corresponding to the selected one device type icon. The device screen includes one or more first operation screens and a second operation screen, each of the one or more first operation screens being used for operating respective one of the one or more target devices, the second operation screen being used for turning off powers of all of the one or more target devices.

Claims

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

the method causing a computer of the information apparatus to:

display on the display a display screen including one or more device type icons, each of the one or more device type icons representing each of the one or more target devices for each of device types;

when selection of any one of the one or more device type icons is sensed on the display screen, display a device screen for one or more target devices included in one device type corresponding to the selected one device type icon, the device screen including one or more first operation screens and a second operation screen, each of the one or more first operation screens being used for operating respective one of the one or more target devices, the second operation screen being used for turning off powers of all of the one or more target devices;

output a first control command to the network when a first operation is sensed using any one of the one or more first operation screens, the first control command controlling one target device corresponding to the one of the one or more first operation screens among the one or more target devices based on the first operation; and

output a second control command to the network when a second operation is sensed using the second operation screen, the second control command turning off powers of all of the one or more target devices based on the second operation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the second control command is output to the network for turning off the powers of all of the target devices, an OFF control command for turning off a power is output to each of the one or more target devices as the second control command.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the second control command is output to the network for turning off the powers of all of the one or more target devices, a collective OFF control command for turning off the powers of all of the one or more target devices is output to the network as the second control command.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second operation screen is used to collectively turn on the powers of the one or more target devices included in the one device type corresponding to the selected one device type icon.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the one or more first operation screens is used to turn off the power of respective one of the one or more target devices.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein

each of the one or more first operation screens is used to turn the power of respective one of the one or more target devices on or off,

each of the one or more first operation screens includes an operation button for displaying an extended operation screen, the extended operation screen being for operating an instruction other than an instruction operable by each of the one or more first operation screens, and

the extended operation screen is displayed on the display when it is judged that selection of the operation button is sensed.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in a case where one target device is included in the one device type corresponding to the selected one device type icon, the device screen includes one first operation screen as the one or more first operation screens, and the device screen includes the second operation screen.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in a case where one target device is included in the one device type corresponding to the selected one device type icon, the device screen includes one first operation screen as the one or more first operation screens, and the device screen does not include the second operation screen.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more target devices include an air conditioner.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more target devices include an illumination device.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the one or more target devices include an electronic lock,

an operation for turning off a power of the electronic lock includes an operation for unlocking the electronic lock, and

an operation for turning on the power of the electronic lock includes an operation for locking the electronic lock.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more target devices include a surveillance camera.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium which stores a program for controlling an information apparatus, the information apparatus having a display and being connected to a network, one or more target devices being controlled over the network,

the program causing a computer of the information apparatus to:

display on the display a display screen including one or more device type icons, each of the one or more device type icons representing each of the one or more target devices for each of device types;

when selection of any one of the one or more device type icons is sensed on the display screen, display a device screen for one or more target devices included in one device type corresponding to the selected one device type icon, the device screen including one or more first operation screens and a second operation screen, each of the one or more first operation screens being used for operating respective one of the one or more target devices, the second operation screen being used for turning off powers of all of the one or more target devices;

output a first control command to the network when a first operation is sensed using any one of the one or more first operation screens, the first control command controlling one target device corresponding to the one of the one or more first operation screens among the one or more target devices based on the first operation; and

output a second control command to the network when a second operation is sensed using the second operation screen, the second control command turning off powers of all of the one or more target devices based on the second operation.