Control method for mobile device

• US 9,872,368 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2014
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2014
• 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: Ogawa, Kento
• Primary Examiner(s): SENFI, BEHROOZ M
• Application Number:
  US14/578,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20150201480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,122 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/195 the transmission using visible or infrared light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/1965 using handheld communication devices

Abstract

A control method for a mobile device that controls one or more illumination devices, the mobile device including a display, a computer, and a memory, the control method causing the computer of the mobile device to execute acquiring a piece of mobile-device location information indicating a location where the mobile device is present, sorting one or more setting screens corresponding to the respective one or more illumination devices using information stored in the memory, the information indicating correspondences between the one or more illumination devices and one or more pieces of illumination-device location information indicating locations where the respective one or more illumination devices are present, displaying the sorted one or more setting screens on the display, and transmitting a control signal in accordance with setting information indicating an illumination state set through the setting screens, to the one or more illumination devices.

Claims

1. A control method for a mobile device that controls one or more illumination devices, the mobile device including a display, a computer, and a memory, the control method causing the computer of the mobile device to perform operations comprising:

acquiring a piece of mobile-device location information indicating a location where the mobile device is present;

sorting one or more setting screens corresponding to the respective one or more illumination devices using information stored in the memory, the information indicating correspondences between the one or more illumination devices and one or more pieces of illumination-device location information indicating one or more locations where the respective one or more illumination devices are present;

displaying the sorted one or more setting screens on the display; and

transmitting a control signal for controlling the one or more illumination devices in accordance with setting information indicating an illumination state set through an input operation performed through the setting screens, to the one or more illumination devices,

wherein the one or more setting screens includes a slider to adjust brightness of corresponding illumination devices,

wherein a piece of mobile-device location information identifies information specifying a room or an area where the mobile device is present,

wherein each of the illumination-device location information identifies information specifying a room or an area where a corresponding one of the one or more illumination devices is present,

wherein, in the displaying the one or more setting screens, the one or more setting screens are sorted according to a priority, based on location, from the illumination-device location information and displayed in a row,

wherein one or more first illumination device setting screens corresponding to one or more first illumination-devices of the one or more illumination devices that corresponds to a first illumination device location information that matches the room or the area identified by the mobile-device location information is displayed on a first area of the row, and

wherein the first area begins at a left portion of the row and sequentially occupies parts of the row.

2. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a scene selection screen including one or more scene icons and a scene setting button on the display, the one or more scene icons corresponding to one or more scenes indicating one or more illumination states created by the one or more illumination devices;

transmitting, to the one or more illumination devices, the control signal for controlling the one or more illumination devices so as to provide illumination, in a case where a scene icon has been selected among the one or more scene icons, in an illumination state indicated by a scene corresponding to the selected scene icon;

sorting the one or more setting screens in a case where the scene setting button has been selected;

displaying the sorted one or more setting screens together with a setting complete button on the display; and

storing the setting information obtained when the setting complete button is selected, as setting information on a new scene, in the memory.

3. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a location input button on the display; and

displaying, in a case where the location input button has been selected, a first input screen on the display for causing a user to input the piece of mobile-device location information.

4. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a second input screen on the display for causing a user to input the one or more pieces of illumination-device location information.

5. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile-device location information is information specifying a latitude, a longitude, and a floor number of the location where the mobile device is present, and

each of the illumination-device location information is information specifying a latitude, a longitude, and a floor number of a location where a corresponding one of the one or more illumination devices is present.

6. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 5, wherein

one or more setting screens corresponding to the one or more pieces of illumination-device location information are sorted in ascending order of one or more distances from the mobile device to one or more positions determined by one or more latitudes, longitudes, and floor numbers specified by the one or more pieces of illumination-device location information, and the sorted one or more setting screens are displayed on the display.

7. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile device is capable of communicating with a wireless LAN device, and

the piece of mobile-device location information is acquired by specifying the location where the mobile device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to the wireless LAN device and included in wireless signal information transmitted by the wireless LAN device.

8. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile device is capable of communicating with a BLUETOOTH communication device, and

the piece of mobile-device location information is acquired by specifying the location where the mobile device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to the BLUETOOTH communication device and included in wireless signal information transmitted by the BLUETOOTH communication device.

9. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile device further includes a sensor that receives a visible-frequency electromagnetic wave, and

the piece of mobile-device location information is acquired by specifying the location where the mobile device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to a visible light communication device that transmits a visible-frequency electromagnetic wave and included in a visible-frequency electromagnetic wave received by the sensor.

10. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile device further includes a microphone that receives an ultrasonic wave, and

the piece of mobile-device location information is acquired by specifying the location where the mobile device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to a speaker that transmits an ultrasonic wave and included in an ultrasonic wave received by the microphone.

11. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile device further includes an indoor messaging system receiver, and

the piece of mobile-device location information is acquired by specifying the location where the mobile device is present in accordance with information indicating a latitude, a longitude, and a floor number included in wireless signal information received by the indoor messaging system receiver, the wireless signal information being transmitted by an indoor messaging system transmitter that communicates with the mobile device.

12. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 1, wherein

the control signal is transmitted via one or more communication devices,

each of the one or more illumination devices belongs to any one of the one or more communication devices, and

the one or more pieces of illumination-device location information are one or more pieces of communication-device location information indicating one or more locations where respective one or more communication devices are present to which the one or more illumination devices corresponding to the one or more pieces of illumination-device location information belong.

13. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 12, wherein

each of the one or more pieces of communication-device location information is a piece of information acquired by a communication device corresponding to the piece of communication-device location information.

14. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 13, wherein

each of the one or more communication devices is capable of communicating with a wireless LAN device corresponding to the communication device, and

the communication device acquires the piece of communication-device location information by specifying a location where the communication device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to the wireless LAN device and included in wireless signal information transmitted by the wireless LAN device.

15. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 13, wherein

each of the one or more communication devices is capable of communicating with a BLUETOOTH communication device corresponding to the communication device, and

the communication device acquires the piece of communication-device location information by specifying a location where the communication device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to the BLUETOOTH communication device and included in wireless signal information transmitted by the BLUETOOTH communication device.

16. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 13, wherein

each of the one or more communication devices includes a sensor that receives a visible-frequency electromagnetic wave transmitted from a visible light communication device corresponding to the communication device, and

the communication device acquires the piece of communication-device location information by specifying a location where the communication device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to the visible light communication device and included in an electromagnetic wave received by the sensor.

17. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 13, wherein

each of the one or more communication devices includes a microphone that receives an ultrasonic wave transmitted from a speaker corresponding to the communication device, and

the communication device acquires the piece of communication-device location information by specifying a location where the communication device is present in accordance with an identifier unique to the speaker and included in an ultrasonic wave received by the microphone.

18. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 13, wherein

each of the one or more communication devices includes an indoor messaging system receiver, and

the communication device acquires the piece of communication-device location information by specifying a location where the communication device is present in accordance with information indicating a latitude, a longitude, and a floor number included in wireless signal information received by the indoor messaging system receiver, the wireless signal information being transmitted by an indoor messaging system transmitter that communicates with the communication device.

19. The control method for a mobile device according to claim 12, further comprising:

displaying a third input screen on the display for causing a user to input the one or more pieces of communication-device location information.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a control program for a mobile device that controls one or more illumination devices, the mobile device including a display, a computer, and a memory, the control program causing the computer to execute operations, the operations comprising:

acquiring a piece of mobile-device location information indicating a location where the mobile device is present;

sorting one or more setting screens corresponding to the respective one or more illumination devices using information stored in the memory, the information indicating correspondences between the one or more illumination devices and one or more pieces of illumination-device location information indicating one or more locations where the respective one or more illumination devices are present;

displaying the sorted setting screens on the display; and

transmitting a control signal for controlling the one or more illumination devices in accordance with setting information indicating an illumination state set through an input operation performed through the setting screens, to the one or more illumination devices,

wherein the one or more setting screens includes a slider to adjust brightness of corresponding illumination devices,

wherein a piece of mobile-device location information identifies information specifying a room or an area where the mobile device is present,

wherein each of the illumination-device location information identifies information specifying a room or an area where a corresponding one of the one or more illumination devices is present,

wherein, in the displaying the one or more setting screens, the one or more setting screens are sorted according to a priority, based on location, from the illumination-device location information and displayed in a row,

wherein one or more first illumination device setting screens corresponding to one or more first illumination-devices of the one or more illumination devices that corresponds to a first illumination device location information that matches the room or the area identified by the mobile-device location information is displayed on a first area of the row, and

wherein the first area begins at a left portion of the row and sequentially occupies parts of the row.