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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2015
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Rikiya Masuda, Osaka, JP;
Kiyotaka Takehara, Nara, JP;
Yoshihisa Homma, Osaka, JP;
Shinpei Hibiya, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Furuta, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus control device includes a first communicator which communicates with a mobile terminal, a second communicator which communicates with a plurality of electrical apparatuses, a setter which sets correspondence information in which identification information of the mobile terminal is associated with identification information of an electrical apparatus controllable by the mobile terminal, and a controller which controls, when the first communicator receives a control request to control a target electrical apparatus from the mobile terminal, communication of the second communicator such that the second communicator transmits a control command to the target electrical apparatus if the identification information of the mobile terminal is associated with identification information of the target electrical apparatus, and such that the second communicator does not transmit the control command to the target electrical apparatus if the identification information of the mobile terminal is not associated with the identification information of the target electrical apparatus.