DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR CONTROL INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTROL INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING CONTROL INFORMATION

• US 20160365073A1
• Filed: 08/24/2016
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KOUDA, Tetsuya, TAKAYAMA, Hisashi, WAKI, Yuki, YOSHIMURA, Yasuo, IKEDA, Toshihisa
• Granted Patent: US 10,170,083 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/10 Special adaptations of display systems for operation with variable images
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2203/20 Simulating, e g planning, reliability check, modelling or computer assisted design [CAD]
• 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: 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: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 End-user application control systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security

Abstract

A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.

Claims

1. An information display apparatus comprising:

a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of control plans including one or more control information items regarding one or more appliances;

a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a picture data item showing an image of the one or more appliances;

a memory that stores the picture data item obtained by the second obtaining unit;

a first selecting unit configured to select, based on a specified selection instruction, a control plan from among the control plans obtained by the first obtaining unit;

a processor that executes processing for superimposing the one or more control information items included in the control plan selected by the first selecting unit, for each of the one or more appliances which are included in the picture data item obtained by the second obtaining unit, at a position around the appliance in the picture data item; and

a display unit configured to display the picture data item with the one or more control information items superimposed thereon.

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

a second selecting unit configured to select, based on a specified control mode, a picture data item from among selection candidates including the picture data item stored in the memory,

wherein the processor executes processing for superimposing the one or more control information items for each of the one or more appliances which are included in the picture data item selected by the second selecting unit.

3. The information display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a control unit configured to control the one or more appliances via a communication network,

wherein the control unit controls the one or more appliances according to the control plan selected by the first selecting unit.

4. The information display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control plans include one or more control information items in the case of replacing one or more appliances in a building.

5. The information display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the information display apparatus is one of a mobile phone, a smart phone, and a television receiver.

6. An information display method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of control plans including one or more control information items regarding one or more appliances;

obtaining a picture data item showing an image of the one or more appliances;

storing the obtained picture data item;

selecting, based on a specified selection instruction, a control plan from among the obtained control plans;

executing processing for superimposing the one or more control information items included in the selected control plan, for each of the one or more appliances which are included in the obtained picture data item, at a position around the appliance in the picture data item; and

displaying the picture data item with the one or more control information items superimposed thereon.