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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Chikara Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazushige Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Kenji Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaki Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Yuri Nishikawa, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Kozuka, Osaka, JP;
Toshihisa Nakano, Osaka, JP;
Tsutomu Sekibe, Osaka, JP;
Motoji Ohmori, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Takemura, Osaka, JP;
Jun Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Hosaka, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A control method used in a remote control system according to the present disclosure includes: a step of displaying candidates for a target apparatus to be controlled among apparatuses on a user interface region of a display unit of an information terminal; a step of obtaining, via a network, control indexes used to determine a display mode for the user interface region; a step of displaying, on the user interface region, one or more control menus in a display mode determined based on a selected target apparatus and the control indexes; a step of generating a control signal for causing the target apparatus to perform an operation according to control corresponding to a control menu, when the control menu is selected from the one or more displayed control menus; and a step of transmitting the control signal to the target apparatus via the network.