Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masaki Hashiura

Takayuki Nagamatsu

Chie Hideishi

Toru Ueda

Kazuyuki Nako

Masahiro Chiba

Kazuhiro Miki

Yoshie Komatsu

Kazunori Yasuda

Provided herein is a network system () that includes: an electric apparatus (); and a server () that computes a predicted absence time period by using prediction data concerning a user of the electric apparatus (), and that detects an absence time in which nobody is detected, the server () causing the electric apparatus () to perform an absence-time operation upon detecting a first absence time in a period outside of the predicted absence time period, and causing the electric apparatus () to perform the absence-time operation upon detecting a second absence time, shorter than the first absence time, in a period within the predicted absence time period.

Network system, server, and information processing method

In the present invention, a household appliance is controlled in accordance with a state of a user. An agent server () in accordance with the present invention includes a setting management section () which identifies a mode corresponding to a state of the user and a process executing section () which executes a process in accordance with the mode identified by the setting management section ().

Control device, storage medium, control method for control device, control system, terminal device, and controlled device

A network system includes a plurality of terminals including at least a first terminal and a second terminal, one or more devices including at least a first device, and a server adapted to refer to group information. The server refers to the group information and determines whether to accept a request for the first device from the second terminal, when in a state of accepting a request for the first device from the first terminal.

Network system, server, terminal, and information processing method

In a remote control system that causes a controlled appliance to perform a function specified with use of a terminal device, a function managing device manages functions including a first function and a second function associated with the first function.

Function managing device, remote control system, method for controlling function managing device, and recording medium storing control program therein

An agent server determines a posting timing of a message on a family message board on the basis of urgency associated with situation information based on which a message is generated and a posting state, which is obtained by the posting state obtaining section, on the family message board.

Message notification device, control method, and recording medium storing control program

A smartphone includes: an image display section for displaying images in such a manner as to be selectable by a user, each of the images being associated with (i) specifying information for specifying a cleaning robot and (ii) instruction information for instructing the cleaning robot to execute a predetermined process; and a process instruction section for transmitting, in a case where the user selects at least one of the images thus displayed, image information (2) indicative of said at least one of the images to a server, so as to cause the cleaning robot specified by specifying information associated with said at least one of the images to execute a predetermined process that is instructed by instruction information associated with said at least one of the images.

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Osaka, Japan

Masaki Hashiura