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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2012
Kazuhiro Kuroyama, Osaka, JP;
Kazunori Kurimoto, Hyogo, JP;
Naofumi Nakatani, Shiga, JP;
Yasuo Yoshimura, Shiga, JP;
Kenichi Kamon, Shiga, JP;
Masaru Yamaoka, Osaka, JP;
Toshiaki Ohnishi, Kyoto, JP;
Kazuhiro Kuroyama, Osaka, JP;
Kazunori Kurimoto, Hyogo, JP;
Naofumi Nakatani, Shiga, JP;
Yasuo Yoshimura, Shiga, JP;
Kenichi Kamon, Shiga, JP;
Masaru Yamaoka, Osaka, JP;
Toshiaki Ohnishi, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A first communication unit transmits, to an electrical home appliance, request information that requests electrical home appliance specifying information for specifying the electrical home appliance after an approach instructing screen is displayed on a display unit, and receives response information including at least the electrical home appliance specifying information from the electrical home appliance after the first communication unit and the electrical home appliance have approached each other within a communicable range, and a display control unit switches a display screen to a menu screen that is unique to the electrical home appliance on the basis of the response information received by the first communication unit.