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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2011
Hirotatsu Shinomiya, Osaka, JP;
Hirotatsu Shinomiya, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An operation terminalis configured so as to transmit, as a control command, an individual control command transmitted individually to a specific control deviceof control devices, or a collective control command broadcasted collectively to two or more control devicesof control devices. Control terminalcomprises: a command determination unitdetermining whether received control command is individual control command or collective control command; and an information processing unitwhich, if received control command is individual control command, responds by collectively broadcasting to a plurality of operation terminals a state change notification corresponding to execution of individual control command, and, if received control command is collective control command, responds by collectively broadcasting to operation terminals, with a timing different from the other control terminals, a state change notification corresponding to execution of collective control command.