Control method for information apparatus and computer-readable recording medium
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsTakamitsu SASAKI, Kohei TAHARA
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Abstract
When selection of a device icon representing one target device among one or more target devices is sensed, a control screen for operating, or confirming a state of, the one target device corresponding to the sensed device icon is displayed on a display as overlapped on a display screen representing a floor plan, and device icons representing the one or more target devices are moved out of a display region of the control screen.
Claims25
A control method for an information apparatus having a display and being connected to a network, one or more target devices being controlled over the network,
- the control method causing a computer of the information apparatus to:
- display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building on the display, and display device icons representing the one or more target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the device icons being movable;
- when selection of a device icon representing one target device among the one or more target devices is sensed, display a control screen for operating, or confirming a state of, the one target device corresponding to the sensed device icon on the display, and move the device icons representing the one or more target devices out of a display region of the control screen;
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- output a control command to the network on the basis of an operation on the control screen, the control command allowing at least operation or the state confirmation of the target device corresponding to the one target device.
A computer-readable recording medium which stores a program to be executed by a n information apparatus having a display and being connected to a network, one or more target devices are being controlled over the network,
- the program causing a computer of the information apparatus to:
- display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building on the display, and display device icons representing the one or more target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the device icons being movable;
- when selection of a device icon representing one target device among the one or more target devices is sensed, display a control screen for operating, or confirming a state of, the one target device corresponding to the sensed device icon on the display, and move the device icons representing the one or more target devices out of a display region of the control screen;
- and
- output a control command to the network on the basis of an operation on the control screen, the control command allowing at least operation or the state confirmation of the target device corresponding to the one target device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.