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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Takamitsu Sasaki, Osaka, JP;
Kohei Tahara, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A control method of the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display a display screen representing a floor plan including at least two or more rooms; display each device icon representing each of one or more target devices on the display screen, the one or more target devices including a specific target device that stores a set content when power has been previously turned off, the device icon representing the specific target device being used in common in one or more rooms; and when selection of the device icon representing the specific target device is sensed and selection of any region in a first room is sensed after the selection of the device icon representing the specific target device is sensed, output a first on-off control command for controlling an on-off state of power of the specific target device corresponding to the first room.