Display apparatus, display system and display method

• US 9,754,393 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2013
• Issued: 09/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kitaji, Mitsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Du, Haixia
• Application Number:
  US14/401,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20150138204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 11/00 Electromechanical arrangements for measuring time integral of electric power or current, e.g. of consumption monitoring electric consumption of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• 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 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/12 Monitoring or controlling equipment for energy generation units, e.g. distributed energy generation [DER] or load-side generation

Abstract

In the present invention, in a coordinate plane that receives an expression according to a first axis indicating a parameter that impacts a basic rate and a second axis indicating a parameter that impacts a metered power rate, a display unit (230) displays an image indicating coordinates indicating the use state of power received from a grid.

Claims

1. A display apparatus which displays a usage status of power supplied from a grid, comprising:

a display, and

a controller configured to control the display to display a first image indicating a coordinate space expressed by a first coordinate axis and a second coordinate axis crossing each other, wherein

the first coordinate axis is a coordinate axis for specifying a magnitude of a first power amount supplied from the grid in a first period,

the second coordinate axis is a coordinate axis for specifying a magnitude of a second power amount supplied from the grid in a second period different from the first period,

the first power amount corresponds to a basic rate for receiving a power supply service,

the second power amount corresponds to a metered rate for receiving the power supply service,

the controller is further configured to display a second image with the first image, the second image indicating the first and second power amount at a current time in the said coordinate space, and

wherein the controller controls power consumption of a load in accordance with the displayed usage status of power supplied from the grid.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a period of the second period is selectable, and the controller controls the display to display the second power amount in the period selected as the second period using the second axis.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display to display an image illustrating a transition of the first power amount and the second bower amount as the second image based on a history of the power supplied from the grid.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display to display the coordinate plane so as to provide different colors for a portion corresponding to a first quadrant and a portion corresponding to a third quadrant on the coordinate plane at the least.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first axis and the second axis cross each other on a coordinate which indicates a first target value of the first power amount and a second target value of the second power amount.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first target value is a value set at each timing of the first period based on the target usage amount of power at the time of expiration of the first period.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second target value is changed at a different rate of change for each time of day, day, month, day of the week or season to which each timing of the second period belongs, and is set based on a history of the power supplied from the grid.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a straight line which indicates a first target value of the first power amount and a straight line which indicates a second target value of the second power amount are further drawn on the coordinate plane.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the basic rate is calculated from a maximum demand value which is a largest demand value selected from demand values summed up for respective first time period.

10. A display system comprising:

a display apparatus that displays a usage status of power supplied from a grid; and

a control apparatus that controls the display apparatus,

wherein the display apparatus comprises;

a display,

a controller configured to control the display to display a first image indicating a coordinate space expressed by a first coordinate axis and a second coordinate axis crossing each other, wherein

the first coordinate axis is a coordinate axis for specifying a magnitude of a first power amount supplied from the grid in a first period,

the second coordinate axis is a coordinate axis for specifying a magnitude of a second power amount supplied from the grid in a second period different from the first period,

the first power amount corresponds to a basic rate for receiving a power supply service,

the second power amount corresponds to a metered rate for receiving the power supply service, and

the controller is further configured to display a second image with the first image, the second image indicating the first and second power amount at a current time in the said coordinate space, and

wherein the control apparatus controls power consumption of a load in accordance with the displayed usage status of power supplied from the grid.

11. The display system according to claim 10, wherein

the basic rate is calculated from a maximum demand value which is a largest demand value selected from demand values summed up for respective first time period.

12. A method comprising:

displaying a first image indicating a coordinate space expressed by a first coordinate axis and a second coordinate axis crossing each other, wherein

the first coordinate axis is a coordinate axis for specifying a magnitude of a first power amount supplied from the grid in a first period,

the second coordinate axis is a coordinate axis for specifying a magnitude of a second power amount supplied from the grid in a second period different from the first period,

the first power amount corresponds to a basic rate for receiving a power supply service,

the second power amount corresponds to a metered rate for receiving the power supply service, and

displaying a second image with the first image, the second image indicating the first and second power amount at a current time in the said coordinate space, and

controlling power consumption of a load in accordance with the displayed usage status of power supplied from the grid.

13. The display method according to claim 12, wherein

the basic rate is calculated from a maximum demand value which is a largest demand value selected from demand values summed up for respective first time period.