Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yoshie Komatsu

Masaki Hashiura

Kazunori Yasuda

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 selection candidate display method, a selection candidate display device, and an input/output device are provided. When a number of receivable broadcasting stations is not '4' or less, a controller allocates the receivable broadcasting stations to three segmented logical areas among four segmented logical areas, allocates a scroll area to the remaining one logical area, and displays the channel numbers of the allocated receivable broadcasting stations and information indicating the scroll area, for example, 'S' in the respective logical areas of a circle pad. When the logical area to which the scroll area is allocated is operated, the controller moves the scroll area to the adjacent logical area and allocates the next receivable broadcasting station after the broadcasting station allocated to the remaining logical area among the logical areas adjacent to the scroll area, to the logical area which was the scroll area.

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Sakai, Japan

Yoshie Komatsu