Information terminal control method and program
Abstract
A room addition button (903) corresponding to a hierarchy of a house is provided in a room arrangement setting screen (900). If a room addition screen (1110) where a room candidate was listed when a room addition button (903) was chosen is displayed and one of rooms is chosen from room candidates, a room icon (401) of a selected room will be added to a room arrangement setting screen (900). The above is repeated and a room icon (401) is arranged on a room arrangement setting screen (900).

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26 claims: 8 independent, 18 dependent
- 1一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末の制御方法であって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の第1間取り図を含む第1表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第1間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示す第1フロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第1部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記第1部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された第1部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、 前記第1間取り図に含まれる前記第1部屋アイコンを設定する第2表示画面の選択を検知すると前記第2表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第2表示画面は前記第1間取り図に対応する第2間取り図を表し、前記第2間取り図は前記建物に含まれる各フロアを示す第2フロア表示、前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第2部屋アイコン及び前記第2フロア表示で示された各フロアに前記第2部屋アイコンを追加する第1指示ボタンを含み、 前記第2表示画面において前記第2フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記第1指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記選択された一のフロアに追加される部屋候補を配列した第3表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、 前記部屋候補の中のいずれか一の選択を検知し、前記選択された部屋候補を、追加された第1部屋アイコンとして前記第1間取り図に表示させる、 制御方法。
- 2前記選択された部屋候補は、追加された第2部屋アイコンとして前記第2間取り図に表示される、 請求項1記載の制御方法。
- 3前記第1表示画面における前記第1部屋アイコンには前記第1部屋アイコンの名称を示す第1名称表示が含まれ、前記第2表示画面における前記第2部屋アイコンには前記第2部屋アイコンの名称を示す第2名称表示が含まれ、前記第2名称表示は前記第1名称表示に対応し、 前記第2表示画面において、前記第2部屋アイコンの中のいずれか一の選択を検知すると、前記選択された第2部屋アイコンの名称を変更する第2指示ボタンを含む第4表示画面を表示させる、 請求項1から請求項2のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 4前記第4表示画面には、前記選択された第2部屋アイコンを削除する第3指示ボタンが含まれる、 請求項3記載の制御方法。
- 5前記第2指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記選択された前記第2部屋アイコンの名称候補を配列した第5表示画面を表示させる、 請求項3から請求項4のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 6前記第5表示画面に含まれる第2部屋候補の中のいずれか一の名称候補の選択を検知すると、前記選択された前記第2部屋アイコンを、前記選択された名称候補が示す第2名称表示を含む第2部屋アイコンに変更させ、前記変更された第2名称表示に対応する第1名称表示を含む第1部屋アイコンを前記第1表示画面に表示させる、 請求項5記載の制御方法。
- 7前記第5表示画面に含まれる名称候補を表す表示の大きさ及び形状は、前記第3表示画面に含まれる前記部屋候補を表す表示の大きさ及び形状と同一であり、 前記第5表示画面に含まれる前記名称候補の配列は、前記第3表示画面に含まれる前記部屋候補の配列と同一である、 請求項5から請求項6のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 8前記第3表示画面には、前記選択された前記部屋候補を前記第1表示画面の前記第1部屋アイコンとして追加する第4指示ボタンが含まれ、 前記第5表示画面には、前記選択された前記名称候補を前記第1表示画面の前記第1部屋アイコンに含まれる前記第1名称表示へ変更する第5指示ボタンが含まれ、 前記第5表示画面における前記第5指示ボタンの大きさ及び形状は、前記第3表示画面における前記第4指示ボタンの大きさ及び形状と同一であり、 前記第5表示画面における前記第5指示ボタンの配置位置は、前記第3表示画面における前記第4指示ボタンの配置位置と同一である、 請求項7記載の制御方法。
- 9前記第1表示画面における前記第1部屋アイコンには前記第1部屋アイコンの名称を示す第1名称表示が含まれ、前記第2表示画面における前記第2部屋アイコンには前記第2部屋アイコンの名称を示す第2名称表示が含まれ、前記第2名称表示は前記第1名称表示に対応し、 前記第2表示画面において、前記第2部屋アイコンの中のいずれか一の選択を検知すると、前記選択された前記第2部屋アイコンの名称候補を配列した第6表示画面を表示させる、 請求項1から請求項2のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 10前記第6表示画面に含まれる名称候補の中のいずれか一の名称候補の選択を検知すると、前記選択された前記第2部屋アイコンを、前記選択された名称候補が示す第2名称表示を含む第2部屋アイコンに変更させ、前記変更された第2名称表示に対応する第1名称表示を含む第1部屋アイコンを前記第1表示画面に表示させる、 請求項9記載の制御方法。
- 11前記第6表示画面に含まれる前記名称候補を表す表示の大きさ及び形状は、前記第3表示画面に含まれる前記部屋候補を表す表示の大きさ及び形状と同一であり、 前記第6表示画面に含まれる前記名称候補の配列は、前記第3表示画面に含まれる前記部屋候補の配列と同一である、 請求項9から請求項10のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 12前記第3表示画面には、前記選択された前記部屋候補を前記第1表示画面の前記第1部屋アイコンとして追加する第4指示ボタンが含まれ、 前記第6表示画面には、前記選択された前記名称候補を前記第1表示画面の前記第1部屋アイコンに含まれる前記第1名称表示へ変更する第6指示ボタンが含まれ、 前記第6表示画面における前記第6指示ボタンの大きさ及び形状は、前記第3表示画面における前記第4指示ボタンの大きさ及び形状と同一であり、 前記第6表示画面における前記第6指示ボタンの配置位置は、前記第3表示画面における前記第4指示ボタンの配置位置と同一である、 請求項11記載の制御方法。
- 13前記第2表示画面に含まれる前記第2間取り図において前記第2部屋アイコンの中のいずれか一以上を選択して削除の指示がなされると、前記選択されたいずれか一以上の第2部屋アイコンを削除する、 請求項1から請求項2のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 14前記第2間取り図に含まれる前記第2フロア表示及び前記第2部屋アイコンの配置は、前記第1間取り図に含まれる前記第1フロア表示及び前記第1部屋アイコンの配置と同一である、 請求項1から請求項13のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 15前記第1間取り図に含まれる前記第1部屋アイコンは複数あり、 前記複数の第1部屋アイコンの大きさ及び形状は同一である、 請求項1から請求項14のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 16前記第2間取り図に含まれる前記第2部屋アイコンは複数あり、 前記複数の第2部屋アイコンの大きさ及び形状は同一である、 請求項15記載の制御方法。
- 17前記第1間取り図におけるいずれか一のフロアに対応する行に配列可能な前記第1部屋アイコンの最大数を超えて、前記一のフロアに対応させて前記第1部屋アイコンを追加させる場合、前記一のフロアに対応する行数を増加させる、 請求項1から請求項16のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 18前記第1間取り図におけるいずれか一のフロアに対応する行に配列可能な前記第1部屋アイコンの最大数を超えて、前記一のフロアに対応させて前記第1部屋アイコンを追加させる場合において、前記一のフロアに対応する行数を増加させた場合に前記第1間取り図に含まれる行数が表示可能な行数の最大値を超えなければ、前記一のフロアに対応する行数を増加させる、 請求項1から請求項16のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 19前記操作画面による操作が検知された場合、前記操作に応じて前記操作に対応する対象機器を制御する制御コマンドを前記ネットワークに出力させる、 請求項1から請求項18のいずれか一に記載の制御方法。
- 20一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末の制御方法であって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の間取り図を含む表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示すフロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、 前記フロア表示で示された各フロアに対応させて前記部屋アイコンの数を増減させることで、前記間取り図に含まれる各フロアに対応する前記部屋アイコンを編集させ、 前記編集された部屋アイコンを前記間取り図に表示させる、 制御方法。
- 21一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末の制御方法であって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の第1間取り図を含む第1表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第1間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示す第1フロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第1部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記第1部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された第1部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、 前記第1間取り図に含まれる前記第1部屋アイコンを設定する第2表示画面の選択を検知すると前記第2表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第2表示画面は前記第1間取り図に対応する第2間取り図を表し、前記第2間取り図は前記建物に含まれる各フロアを示す第2フロア表示、前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第2部屋アイコン及び前記第2フロア表示で示された各フロアに前記第2部屋アイコンを追加する第1指示ボタンを含み、 前記第2表示画面において前記第2フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記第1指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記第2フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記第2部屋アイコンを追加させ、前記追加された第2部屋アイコンに対応する前記第1部屋アイコンを反映させた前記第1間取り図を表示させる、 制御方法。
- 22一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末の制御方法であって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の間取り図を含む第1表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示すフロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、前記第1表示画面は前記フロア表示で示された各フロアに前記部屋アイコンを追加する指示ボタンを含み、 前記第1表示画面において前記フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記選択された一のフロアに追加される部屋候補を配列した第2表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、 前記部屋候補の中のいずれか一の選択を検知し、前記選択された部屋候補を、追加された部屋アイコンとして前記間取り図に表示させる、 制御方法。
- 23一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末において実行されるプログラムであって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の第1間取り図を含む第1表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第1間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示す第1フロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第1部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記第1部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された第1部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、 前記第1間取り図に含まれる前記第1部屋アイコンを設定する第2表示画面の選択を検知すると前記第2表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第2表示画面は前記第1間取り図に対応する第2間取り図を表し、前記第2間取り図は前記建物に含まれる各フロアを示す第2フロア表示、前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第2部屋アイコン及び前記第2フロア表示で示された各フロアに前記第2部屋アイコンを追加する第1指示ボタンを含み、 前記第2表示画面において前記第2フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記第1指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記選択された一のフロアに追加される部屋候補を配列した第3表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、 前記部屋候補の中のいずれか一の選択を検知し、前記選択された部屋候補を、追加された第1部屋アイコンとして前記第1間取り図に表示させる、 プログラム。
- 24一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末において実行されるプログラムであって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の間取り図を含む表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示すフロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、 前記フロア表示で示された各フロアに対応させて前記部屋アイコンの数を増減させることで、前記間取り図に含まれる各フロアに対応する前記部屋アイコンを編集させ、 前記編集された部屋アイコンを前記間取り図に表示させる、 プログラム。
- 25一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末において実行されるプログラムであって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の第1間取り図を含む第1表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第1間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示す第1フロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第1部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記第1部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された第1部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、 前記第1間取り図に含まれる前記第1部屋アイコンを設定する第2表示画面の選択を検知すると前記第2表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記第2表示画面は前記第1間取り図に対応する第2間取り図を表し、前記第2間取り図は前記建物に含まれる各フロアを示す第2フロア表示、前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す第2部屋アイコン及び前記第2フロア表示で示された各フロアに前記第2部屋アイコンを追加する第1指示ボタンを含み、 前記第2表示画面において前記第2フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記第1指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記第2フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記第2部屋アイコンを増加させ、前記増加された第2部屋アイコンに対応する前記第1部屋アイコンを反映させた前記第1間取り図を表示させる、 プログラム。
- 26一以上の対象機器を制御するネットワークに接続し、ディスプレイを有する情報端末において実行されるプログラムであって、 前記情報端末のコンピュータに対して、 建物の間取り図を含む第1表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、前記間取り図は前記建物の各フロアを示すフロア表示を含み且つ前記各フロアに含まれる部屋を表す部屋アイコンを前記各フロアに対応させて配列し、前記部屋アイコンの選択により前記選択された部屋アイコンに対応する部屋に配置された対象機器の操作画面が表示され、前記第1表示画面は前記フロア表示で示された各フロアに前記部屋アイコンを追加する指示ボタンを含み、 前記第1表示画面において前記フロア表示で示された一のフロアに対応させて前記指示ボタンの選択を検知すると、前記選択された一のフロアに追加される部屋候補を配列した第2表示画面を前記ディスプレイに表示させ、 前記部屋候補の中のいずれか一の選択を検知し、前記選択された部屋候補を、追加された部屋アイコンとして前記間取り図に表示させる、 プログラム。
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A control method and a program of an information terminal
0001This indication is related with a control method of an information terminal.
0002Remote surveillance or art which carries out remote control is proposed in one or more object apparatus using one remote controller.
0003Patent documents 1 indicate art which operates one or more object apparatus by remote control from a monitor of television. Specifically, an icon of one or more object apparatus is displayed on right-hand side of monitor display, Out of it, a floor plan is displayed that arbitrary icons are selected on left-hand side of (i) and monitor display, and it is (ii), If a pointer is moved to a setting position of object apparatus in this floor plan to operate, (iv) art which displays an operation screen of object apparatus chosen as (iii) and monitor display by pointer movement will be indicated ([0140] from a paragraph [0138], Drawing 25 (a), Drawing 25 (b)).
0004However, the further improvement was needed in the above-mentioned patent documents 1.
<p num="0005"><patcit num="1"><text>JP, 2007-104567, A</text></patcit></p>
0006In order to solve the above-mentioned subject, it is one mode of the present invention, It connects with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and it is the control method of an information terminal of having a display, and receives a computer of the information terminal, A room icon showing a room which a display screen containing a floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, and the floor plan includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor is made to correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and is arranged, It is an operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to a room icon selected [the] by selection of the room icon being displayed, making it correspond to each floor shown by the floor display, and making the number of the room icons fluctuate, The room icon corresponding to each floor contained in the floor plan is made to edit, and a room icon edited [the] is displayed on the floor plan.
0007<figref num="1">It is the whole home control system lineblock diagram to which a home controller in this embodiment was applied.</figref><figref num="2">It is a figure showing main apparatus which a home controller controls.</figref><figref num="3">It is a block diagram showing an example of calibration of a home controller and apparatus.</figref><figref num="4">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement screen which a home controller displays.</figref><figref num="5">it is a figure showing an example of an apparatus screen which a home controller boils and it displays.</figref><figref num="6">It is a figure showing an example of a room screen which a home controller displays.</figref><figref num="7">It is a figure showing an example [screen / a room arrangement screen and / appliance control] of screen changes.</figref><figref num="8">It is a figure showing an example [screen / a room arrangement screen and / room] of screen changes.</figref><figref num="9">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen.</figref><figref num="10">It is a figure showing an example [screen / a floor plan screen and / room arrangement setting] of screen changes.</figref><figref num="11">It is a figure showing the 1st example of screen changes of a screen about a room arrangement setup.</figref><figref num="12">It is a figure showing the 2nd example of screen changes of a screen about a room arrangement setup.</figref><figref num="13">It is a figure showing the 3rd example of screen changes of a screen about a room arrangement setup.</figref><figref num="14">It is a figure showing an example of an initial-setting start screen.</figref><figref num="15">It is a figure showing an example of a number-of-stories setting screen.</figref><figref num="16">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen in an initial state.</figref><figref num="17">It is a figure showing an example of a room addition screen.</figref><figref num="18">It is a figure showing an example of a room addition screen.</figref><figref num="19">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen.</figref><figref num="20">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen after operation of adding a room was repeated.</figref><figref num="21">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes in initial setting.</figref><figref num="22">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes which Drawing 21 follows.</figref><figref num="23">It is a figure showing an example of the 1st variation of a floor plan.</figref><figref num="24">It is a figure showing other examples of the 1st variation of a floor plan.</figref><figref num="25">It is a figure showing an example of the 2nd variation of a floor plan.</figref><figref num="26">It is a figure showing the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen.</figref><figref num="27">It is a figure showing the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen.</figref><figref num="28">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes of a room arrangement setting screen of Drawing 25 - Drawing 27.</figref><figref num="29">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen just before a room icon is newly added.</figref><figref num="30">It is a figure showing an example of a room addition screen.</figref><figref num="31">It is a figure showing an example of a room name input screen.</figref><figref num="32">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen immediately after adding a room icon.</figref><figref num="33">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes in case a room is added on a floor plan in inputting a room name.</figref><figref num="34">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen just before a room name is changed.</figref><figref num="35">It is a figure showing an example of a room edit display.</figref><figref num="36">It is a figure showing an example of a room change-of-appellation screen in the state where a room name is not chosen by user.</figref><figref num="37">It is a figure showing an example of a room change-of-appellation screen where a room name was chosen.</figref><figref num="38">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen after change of a room name.</figref><figref num="39">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes at the time of change of a room name.</figref><figref num="40">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen just before a room name is changed.</figref><figref num="41">It is a figure showing an example of a room edit display.</figref><figref num="42">It is a figure showing an example of a room change-of-appellation screen in the state where a room name is not chosen by user.</figref><figref num="43">It is a figure showing an example of a room name input screen.</figref><figref num="44">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen where change of a room name was reflected.</figref><figref num="45">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes at the time of change of a room name using a room name input screen.</figref><figref num="46">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes of a continuation of Drawing 45.</figref><figref num="47">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen before deletion of a room icon.</figref><figref num="48">It is a figure showing an example of a room edit display.</figref><figref num="49">It is a figure showing an example of a room elimination confirmation screen.</figref><figref num="50">It is a figure showing an example of a room arrangement setting screen.</figref><figref num="51">It is a figure showing an example of screen changes at the time of deleting a room icon.</figref><figref num="52">It is a figure showing an example of data composition of room arrangement setting information.</figref><figref num="53">It is a figure showing an example of data composition of system convention value information.</figref><figref num="54">It is a figure showing an example of data composition of room information.</figref><figref num="55">It is a figure showing an example of data composition of an equipment list.</figref><figref num="56">It is a flow chart which shows an example of overall processing of a home controller at the time of a room arrangement setup.</figref><figref num="57">It is a flow chart which shows an example of room arrangement setting processing shown in Drawing [S5607] 56.</figref><figref num="58">It is a flow chart which shows an example of a room addition shown in Drawing [S5706] 57.</figref><figref num="59">It is a flow chart which shows an example of processing which displays an added room which is shown in Drawing [S5811] 58 on a room arrangement setting screen.</figref><figref num="60">It is a flow chart which shows an example of room edit processing shown in Drawing [S5707] 57.</figref><figref num="61">It is a flow chart which shows an example of room change-of-appellation processing shown in Drawing [S6006] 60.</figref><figref num="62">It is a flow chart which shows an example of room elimination processing shown in Drawing [S6008] 60.</figref><figref num="63">It is a flow chart which shows an example of processing which makes undisplayed an eliminated room shown in Drawing [S6009] 60 from a room arrangement setting screen.</figref>
0008(Circumstances which came to invent one mode concerning this indication) First, a focus of one mode concerning this indication is explained.
0009In order to control one or more object apparatus arranged in a building using a remote controller via a network, art on which a display of the remote controller is made to display a display screen showing a floor plan of the building is examined like the above-mentioned patent documents 1, for example.
0010A display screen showing a floor plan of the building classifies one or more object apparatus arranged in the building in a unit of a room included in a floor plan of the building. Therefore, since arrangement of each set elephant apparatus classified per room in the display screen is in agreement with everyday life feeling which uses each set elephant apparatus in a user, it is expected that it is easy to use a display screen showing a floor plan of the building for a user.
0011For example, in the above-mentioned patent documents 1, if an icon for which it asks out of an icon of one or more object apparatus currently displayed on a right corner of monitor display is selected, a floor plan will be displayed on left-hand side of the same monitor display, and a setting position of object apparatus will be displayed on the floor plan.
0012However, floor plans of each building differ in each of each buildings. Therefore, the display screen showing a floor plan of each building cannot use a common floor plan in a plurality of users, but needs to manufacture a thing individual about each building. Therefore, a display screen showing a floor plan of the building serves as exclusive elegance individually カイタマイズ (ed) by each every user. Therefore, a floor plan of each building has not spread, although it becomes a cost overrun and the usefulness is expected as a result, since it cannot be considered as a common floor plan in a plurality of users.
0013Even if it is the same user for example, when you will move to a new house and it will reside in a building of another new floor plan, it is required to order a new floor plan. That is, even if it is the same user, it may be unable to be considered as a common floor plan. In this case, in order for the same user to move out and for after to continue and use the remote controller, a display screen showing a floor plan which カイタマイズ (ed) according to a new new house will be needed, and additional cost will be required of the same user. This point is also considered to have become a factor which bars the spread of display screens showing the floor plan.
0014A display screen to which these artificers expressed a floor plan of the building based on the above consideration, Although it could not be used in common in a plurality of users, a control method of an information terminal which can generate a display screen which expressed very simply a floor plan of a building which can カイタマイズ individually to each every user is considered, and it came to think out an invention of each mode concerning these following indications.
0015A mode of 1 concerning this indication, It is the control method of an information terminal of connecting with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and having a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, The 1st display screen containing the 1st floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, The 1st floor plan makes the part I store icon showing a room which includes the 1st floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and arranges it, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] by selection of the part I store icon is displayed, If selection of the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan is detected, the 2nd display screen will be displayed on the display, The 2nd display screen expresses the 2nd floor plan corresponding to the 1st floor plan, The 2nd floor plan contains the 1st directions button which adds the part II store icon to each floor shown by the part II store icon showing the 2nd floor display which shows each floor contained in the building, and a room included in each above-mentioned floor, and the 2nd floor display, If it is made to correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display in the 2nd display screen and selection of the 1st directions button is detected, the 3rd display screen that arranged a room candidate added to a floor of 1 chosen [the] will be displayed on the display, Selection of any one in the room candidate is detected, and a room candidate chosen [the] is displayed on the 1st floor plan as an added part I store icon, It is a thing.
0016According to the above-mentioned mode, the 1st floor plan made the part I store icon showing a room which includes the 1st floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and has arranged it. That is, in this mode, it is not concerned with difference of the size or shape, but let each part store be the part I store icon. And the part I store icon is arranged on each floor. Therefore, the number of rooms included in each floor of the building in each every user's building, Or since each part store is displayed on the 1st display screen as the part I store icon even if a size or shape of each part store is different, a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building can be communalized. In this mode, the part I store icon is made to correspond to each floor, and is arranged. It becomes unnecessary thereby, to take into consideration an actual locating position of each part store in each floor. It becomes unnecessary for example, to take into consideration that a bedroom is next to on the south [of a living room] etc. Therefore, since what is necessary is to take into consideration only the number of rooms included in each floor, it can respond by fluctuating the number of the part I store icons contained in each floor.
0017As a result, a floor plan of each building is even if it is a different thing in each every user, A size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building is communalized, and a floor plan of each building which is different in each every user by only fluctuating the number of the part I store icons contained in each floor can be generated very simply.
0018This mode is preparing the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan. That is, when an addition of the part II store icon to any 1 floor contained in the 2nd display screen is chosen, The 3rd display screen that arranged a room candidate added to a floor of above 1 is displayed, and a room candidate chosen [the] by selection of any one in the room candidate is displayed on the 1st floor plan as an added part I store icon. Thereby, a floor plan corresponding to each user's building can be generated very simply only by operation of adding the part I store icon to the 1st floor plan.
0019As a result, this mode solves a subject of a floor plan of a building of differing in each of each buildings, and it classifies one or more object apparatus arranged in the building in a unit of a room included in a floor plan of the building, A display screen showing a floor plan of each building which has an advantage coincided with everyday life feeling which uses each set elephant apparatus [in / for arrangement of each set elephant apparatus classified per room in the display screen / a user] can be extremely spread through low cost.
0020in the above-mentioned mode -- for example A room candidate chosen [the] may be displayed on the 2nd floor plan as an added part II store icon.
0021Although the part I store candidate chosen [the] makes it display on the 1st floor plan as an added part I store icon, he may make it display on the 2nd floor plan as an added part II store icon in the middle process eventually. In this case, before displaying the 1st floor plan, in the 2nd floor plan, it can continue on the same floor as a floor by which the part II store icon added [the] is arranged, or another floor, and can perform operation of adding the part II store icon with the another part II store icon added [the] on it.
0022in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The 1st name display which shows a name of the part I store icon is included in the part I store icon in the 1st display screen, the 2nd name display which shows a name of the part II store icon is included in the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen, and the 2nd name display is equivalent to the 1st name display, In the 2nd display screen, if selection of any one in the part II store icon is detected, the 4th display screen containing the 2nd directions button which changes a name of the part II store icon selected [the] may be displayed.
0023Each part store included in the 1st display screen is displayed as the part I store icon. Each part store included in the 2nd display screen is displayed as the part II store icon. Therefore, each corresponds to which room or it may be unclear only at the part I store icon or the part II store icon.
0024He is trying for the part II store icon to include the 2nd name display which shows a name of the part II store icon according to this mode, including the 1st name display for which the part I store icon shows a name of the part I store icon. Even if it is a case where each part store which displays by this each part store included in the 1st display screen as the part I store icon, and is included in the 2nd display screen is displayed as the part II store icon, It becomes easy to distinguish whether each of the part I store icon or the part II store icon corresponds to which room.
0025In this mode, the 2nd name display is equivalent to the 1st name display. Therefore, the user can treat the 1st display screen used for operation of one or more [above] object apparatus, and the 2nd display screen that sets up similarly the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan.
0026In this mode, in the 2nd display screen, if selection of any one in the part II store icon is detected, the 4th display screen containing the 2nd directions button which changes a name of the part II store icon selected [the] will be displayed. That is, if the part I store icon is selected in the 1st display screen, an operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] will be displayed. On the other hand, if the part II store icon is selected in the 2nd display screen, the 4th display screen containing the 2nd directions button which changes a name of the part II store icon selected [the] will be displayed. Thus, operation which selects the part I store icon by the 1st display screen and operation which selects the part II store icon by the 2nd display screen, Although it is similar operation, the following display screens (an operation screen of the object apparatus, the 4th display screen) displayed by the each result of operation differ.
0027Therefore, this mode does not make several different functions of control of the object apparatus, and edit of the 1st display screen bear in one display screen called the 1st display screen. Rather, this mode is preparing separately from the 1st display screen the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan, In each of the 1st display screen or the 2nd display screen, control of the object apparatus or each of edit of the 1st display screen is carried out by similar operation of selection of the part I store icon or the part II store icon. That is, if the 1st display screen and the 2nd display screen are changed, even if a user uses similar operation of selection of the part I store icon or the part II store icon, he can do respectively different operation of control of the object apparatus, or edit of the 1st display screen. As a result, since semantic contents of the operator guidance differ by changing the 1st display screen or the 2nd display screen, commoditizing operator guidance and simplifying each display screen of the 1st display screen or the 2nd display screen, an operation mistake can be prevented.
0028in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The 3rd directions button which deletes the part II store icon selected [the] may be contained in the 4th display screen.
0029in the above-mentioned mode -- for example If selection of the 2nd directions button is detected, the 5th display screen that arranged a name candidate of the part II store icon selected [the] may be displayed.
0030In order to change a name of the part II store icon, there is a method which a user changes by an one-character Kazufumi character and care power using a keyboard. However, generally a name of a room is standardizing a リヒング room, a bedroom, a child's room, a bathroom, or a kitchen, for example.
0031So, in this mode, the 5th display screen that arranged a name candidate of the part II store icon selected [the] is displayed. Thereby, a change of appellation of the part II store icon can be simplified.
0032in the above-mentioned mode -- for example If selection of a name candidate of any 1 in the part II store candidate contained in the 5th display screen is detected, It may be made to change into the part II store icon including the 2nd name display in which a name candidate chosen [the] shows the part II store icon selected [the], and the part I store icon including the 1st name display corresponding to the 2nd name display changed [the] may be displayed on the 1st display screen.
0033If the 2nd name display which is included in the part II store icon using the 5th display screen according to this mode is changed, the 1st name display included in the part I store icon will also interlock, and it the 2nd name display only included in the part II store icon is not only changed, but will be changed. Since a change result is reflected also in the 1st display screen if it checks that the 2nd name display included in the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen has been changed by this, Operation of changing the 2nd name display included in the other part II store icons can be performed continuously, without checking by the 1st display screen namely, in the 2nd display screen.
0034in the above-mentioned mode -- for example A size and shape of a display of expressing a name candidate contained in the 5th display screen are the same as a size of a display and shape of expressing the room candidate contained in the 3rd display screen, The name candidate's arrangement included in the 5th display screen may be the same as that of the room candidate's arrangement included in the 3rd display screen.
0035According to this mode, the 3rd display screen for adding the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen and the 5th display screen for changing a name of the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen can be made into same display screen. Thereby, the 3rd display screen and the 5th display screen cannot be made into a separate different display screen, but it can be considered as a simple structure by using a common screen as a base of the 3rd display screen and the 5th display screen.
0036in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The 4th directions button to which the room candidate chosen [the] is added as the part I store icon of the 1st display screen is contained in the 3rd display screen, The 5th directions button which changes the name candidate chosen [the] into the 1st name display included in the part I store icon of the 1st display screen is contained in the 5th display screen, A size and shape of the 5th directions button in the 5th display screen are the same as a size of the 4th directions button and shape in the 3rd display screen, A locating position of the 5th directions button in the 5th display screen may be the same as a locating position of the 4th directions button in the 3rd display screen.
0037The 4th directions button which is contained in the 3rd display screen according to this mode, The part I store icon is added to the 1st display screen, the 5th directions button contained in the 5th display screen changes a name of the part I store icon, and a function differs between the 4th directions button and the 5th directions button. However, a size and shape of the 5th directions button are the same as a size of the 4th directions button, and shape, and a locating position of the 5th directions button in the 5th display screen of them is the same as a locating position of the 4th directions button in the 3rd display screen. The part and a common portion of the 3rd display screen and the 5th display screen can be increased. As a result, although the 4th directions button in which functions differ in the 3rd display screen and the 5th display screen, and the 5th directions button are provided, a base of the 3rd display screen and the 5th display screen can be communalized, and it can be considered as a simple structure.
0038in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The 1st name display which shows a name of the part I store icon is included in the part I store icon in the 1st display screen, the 2nd name display which shows a name of the part II store icon is included in the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen, and the 2nd name display is equivalent to the 1st name display, In the 2nd display screen, if selection of any one in the part II store icon is detected, the 6th display screen that arranged a name candidate of the part II store icon selected [the] may be displayed.
0039Each part store included in the 1st display screen is displayed as the part I store icon. Each part store included in the 2nd display screen is displayed as the part II store icon. Therefore, each corresponds to which room or it may be unclear only at the part I store icon or the part II store icon.
0040He is trying for the part II store icon to include the 2nd name display which shows a name of the part II store icon according to this mode, including the 1st name display for which the part I store icon shows a name of the part I store icon. Even if it is a case where each part store which displays by this each part store included in the 1st display screen as the part I store icon, and is included in the 2nd display screen is displayed as the part II store icon, It becomes easy to distinguish whether each of the part I store icon or the part II store icon corresponds to which room.
0041In this mode, the 2nd name display is equivalent to the 1st name display. Therefore, the user can treat the 1st display screen used for operation of one or more [above] object apparatus, and the 2nd display screen that sets up similarly the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan.
0042In this mode, in the 2nd display screen, if selection of any one in the part II store icon is detected, the 6th display screen that arranged a name candidate of the part II store icon selected [the] will be displayed. That is, if the part I store icon is selected in the 1st display screen, an operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] will be displayed. On the other hand, if the part II store icon is selected in the 2nd display screen, the 6th display screen that arranged a name candidate of the part II store icon selected [the] will be displayed. Thus, operation which selects the part I store icon by the 1st display screen and operation which selects the part II store icon by the 2nd display screen, Although it is similar operation, the following display screens (an operation screen of the object apparatus, the 6th display screen) displayed by the each result of operation differ.
0043Therefore, this mode does not make several different functions of control of the object apparatus, and edit of the 1st display screen bear in one display screen called the 1st display screen. Rather, this mode is preparing separately from the 1st display screen the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan, In each of the 1st display screen or the 2nd display screen, control of the object apparatus or each of edit of the 1st display screen is carried out by similar operation of selection of the part I store icon or the part II store icon. That is, if the 1st display screen and the 2nd display screen are changed, even if a user uses similar operation of selection of the part I store icon or the part II store icon, he can do respectively different operation of control of the object apparatus, or edit of the 1st display screen. As a result, since semantic contents of the operator guidance differ by changing the 1st display screen or the 2nd display screen, commoditizing operator guidance and simplifying each display screen of the 1st display screen or the 2nd display screen, an operation mistake can be prevented.
0044In order to change a name of the part II store icon, there is a method which a user changes by an one-character Kazufumi character and care power using a keyboard. However, generally a name of a room is standardizing a リヒング room, a bedroom, a child's room, a bathroom, or a kitchen, for example. So, in this mode, the 6th display screen that arranged a name candidate of the part II store icon selected [the] is displayed. Thereby, a change of appellation of the part II store icon can be simplified.
0045in the above-mentioned mode -- for example If selection of a name candidate of any 1 in a name candidate contained in the 6th display screen is detected, It may be made to change into the part II store icon including the 2nd name display in which a name candidate chosen [the] shows the part II store icon selected [the], and the part I store icon including the 1st name display corresponding to the 2nd name display changed [the] may be displayed on the 1st display screen.
0046If the 2nd name display which is included in the part II store icon using the 6th display screen according to this mode is changed, the 1st name display included in the part I store icon will also interlock, and it the 2nd name display only included in the part II store icon is not only changed, but will be changed. Since a change result is reflected also in the 1st display screen if it checks that the 2nd name display included in the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen has been changed by this, Operation of changing the 2nd name display included in the other part II store icons can be performed continuously, without checking by the 1st display screen namely, in the 2nd display screen.
0047in the above-mentioned mode -- for example A size and shape of a display of expressing the name candidate contained in the 6th display screen are the same as a size of a display and shape of expressing the room candidate contained in the 3rd display screen, The name candidate's arrangement included in the 6th display screen may be the same as that of the room candidate's arrangement included in the 3rd display screen.
0048According to this mode, the 3rd display screen for adding the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen and the 6th display screen for changing a name of the part II store icon in the 2nd display screen can be made into same display screen. Thereby, the 3rd display screen and the 6th display screen cannot be made into a separate different display screen, but it can be considered as a simple structure by using a common screen as a base of the 3rd display screen and the 6th display screen.
0049in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The 4th directions button to which the room candidate chosen [the] is added as the part I store icon of the 1st display screen is contained in the 3rd display screen, The 6th directions button which changes the name candidate chosen [the] into the 1st name display included in the part I store icon of the 1st display screen is contained in the 6th display screen, A size and shape of the 6th directions button in the 6th display screen are the same as a size of the 4th directions button and shape in the 3rd display screen, A locating position of the 6th directions button in the 6th display screen may be the same as a locating position of the 4th directions button in the 3rd display screen.
0050The 4th directions button which is contained in the 3rd display screen according to this mode, The part I store icon is added to the 1st display screen, the 6th directions button contained in the 6th display screen changes a name of the part I store icon, and a function differs between the 4th directions button and the 6th directions button. However, a size and shape of the 6th directions button are the same as a size of the 4th directions button, and shape, and a locating position of the 6th directions button in the 6th display screen of them is the same as a locating position of the 4th directions button in the 3rd display screen. The part and a common portion of the 3rd display screen and the 6th display screen can be increased. As a result, although the 4th directions button in which functions differ in the 3rd display screen and the 6th display screen, and the 6th directions button are provided, a base of the 3rd display screen and the 6th display screen can be communalized, and it can be considered as a simple structure.
0051in the above-mentioned mode -- for example If any one or more [in the part II store icon] is chosen as the 2nd display screen in the 2nd floor plan of the 含まる above and directions of deletion are made, it may be made to delete any one or more part II store icons selected [the].
0052in the above-mentioned mode -- for example Arrangement of the 2nd floor display included in the 2nd floor plan and the part II store icon may be the same as that of arrangement of the 1st floor display included in the 1st floor plan, and the part I store icon.
0053In this mode, the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan is selected using the 1st floor plan contained in the 1st display screen. An operation screen of object apparatus arranged by this selection in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] is displayed. On the other hand, the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan is prepared separately from the 1st display screen.
0054In addition, in this mode, arrangement of the 2nd floor display included in the 2nd floor plan and the part II store icon is made the same as that of arrangement of the 1st floor display included in the 1st floor plan, and the part I store icon. Even if it is a case where this edits the 1st floor plan using the 2nd floor plan that is different in the 1st floor plan, editorial contents in the 2nd floor plan are reflected in the 1st floor plan in the state of a display as it is. Therefore, it is not necessary to carry out comparison collation of the 1st floor plan and the 2nd floor plan by comparison, and can simplify extremely a check of editorial contents in the 2nd floor plan being reflected in the 1st floor plan.
0055in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The part I store icons contained in the 1st floor plan are those with two or more, A plurality of above-mentioned sizes and shape of the part I store icon may be the same.
0056According to the above-mentioned mode, it is not concerned with difference of the size or shape, but a size and shape make each part store the same part I store icon. Therefore, in each every user's building, since each part store is displayed on the 1st display screen as the part I store icon even if a size or shape of each part store included in each floor of the building is different, a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building can be communalized.
0057As a result, even if floor plans of each building differ in each every user, they are communalizing a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building, and can generate very simply a floor plan of each different building in each every user.
0058in the above-mentioned mode -- for example The part II store icons contained in the 2nd floor plan are those with two or more, A plurality of above-mentioned sizes and shape of the part II store icon may be the same.
0059According to the above-mentioned mode, also in the 2nd floor plan, it is not concerned with difference of the size or shape, but a size and shape make each part store the same part II store icon. Therefore, in each every user's building, since each part store is displayed on the 2nd display screen as the part II store icon even if a size or shape of each part store included in each floor of the building is different, a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building can be communalized.
0060in the above-mentioned mode -- for example When making it correspond to a floor of above 1 and making the part I store icon add exceeding the maximum number of the part I store icon which can be arranged in a line corresponding to any 1 floor in the 1st floor plan, the number of lines corresponding to a floor of above 1 may be made to increase.
0061Since the number of lines used for the floor concerned is made to increase when there are many the part I store icons arranged by the same floor according to the above-mentioned mode, the part I store icon will be displayed in the same page of the 1st display screen displayed now. That is, when making it correspond to the floor concerned and making the part I store icon add exceeding the maximum of the part I store icon which can be arranged in a line corresponding to the same floor, a folio number of the 第表示画面 is not made to only increase. First of all, the part I store icon added is stored in the same page of the 1st display screen displayed now. Thus, since flexibility of the composition of the 1st floor plan is raised and operation using the 1st floor plan is stored as much as possible in the same screen, operativity can be prevented from decreasing, even if it is applicable to various floor plans of a form and the part I store icon increases.
0062in the above-mentioned mode -- for example In a case where make it correspond to a floor of above 1, and it makes the part I store icon add exceeding the maximum number of the part I store icon which can be arranged in a line corresponding to any 1 floor in the 1st floor plan, If the maximum of the number of lines which can display the number of lines contained in the 1st floor plan is not exceeded when the number of lines corresponding to a floor of above 1 is made to increase, it may be made to make the number of lines corresponding to a floor of above 1 increase.
0063If the maximum of the number of lines which can display the number of lines contained in the 1st floor plan is not exceeded when there are many the part I store icons arranged by the same floor according to the above-mentioned mode, the number of lines used for the floor concerned is made to increase. Therefore, if it is not over the maximum of the number of lines which can display the number of lines contained in the 1st floor plan, the part I store icon will be displayed in the same page of the 1st display screen displayed now.
0064That is, when making it correspond to the floor concerned and making the part I store icon add exceeding the maximum of the part I store icon which can be arranged in a line corresponding to the same floor, a folio number of the 1st display screen is not made to only increase. First of all, the part I store icon added is stored in the same page of the 1st display screen displayed now. Thus, since flexibility of the composition of the 1st floor plan is raised and operation using the 1st floor plan is stored as much as possible in the same screen, operativity can be prevented from decreasing, even if it is applicable to various floor plans of a form and the part I store icon increases.
0065The maximum of the part I store icon which can be arranged in a line corresponding to the same floor is exceeded, When making it correspond to the floor concerned and making the part I store icon add, as long as it is over the maximum of the number of lines which can display the number of lines contained in the 1st floor plan, the following page may be added to the 1st display screen in that case.
0066In the 1st floor plan, when the following page is already added for another floor, in the already added following page, the part I store icon added to the floor concerned may be added.
0067in the above-mentioned mode -- for example When operation by the operation screen is detected, it may be made to make control commands which control object apparatus corresponding to the operation according to the operation output to the network.
0068Other modes concerning this indication, It is the control method of an information terminal of connecting with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and having a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, A room icon showing a room which a display screen containing a floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, and the floor plan includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor is made to correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and is arranged, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to a room icon selected [the] by selection of the room icon is displayed, The room icon corresponding to each floor contained in the floor plan is made to edit by making it correspond to each floor shown by the floor display, and making the number of the room icons fluctuate. A room icon edited [the] is displayed on the floor plan.
0069According to the above-mentioned mode, the floor plan made a room icon showing a room which includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and has arranged it. That is, in this mode, it is not concerned with difference of the size or shape, but let each part store be a room icon. And the room icon is arranged on each floor. Therefore, the number of rooms included in each floor of the building in each every user's building, Or since each part store is displayed on the display screen as the room icon even if a size or shape of each part store is different, a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building can be communalized. In this mode, the room icon is made to correspond to each floor, and is arranged. It becomes unnecessary thereby, to take into consideration an actual locating position of each part store in each floor. It becomes unnecessary for example, to take into consideration that a bedroom is next to on the south [of a living room] etc. Therefore, since what is necessary is to take into consideration only the number of rooms included in each floor, it can respond by fluctuating the number of the room icons contained in each floor.
0070As a result, a floor plan of each building is even if it is a different thing in each every user, A size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building is communalized, and a floor plan of each building which is different in each every user by only fluctuating the number of the room icons contained in each floor can be generated very simply.
0071Other modes concerning this indication, It is the control method of an information terminal of connecting with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and having a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, The 1st display screen containing the 1st floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, The 1st floor plan makes the part I store icon showing a room which includes the 1st floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and arranges it, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] by selection of the part I store icon is displayed, If selection of the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan is detected, the 2nd display screen will be displayed on the display, The 2nd display screen expresses the 2nd floor plan corresponding to the 1st floor plan, The 2nd floor plan contains the 1st directions button which adds the part II store icon to each floor shown by the part II store icon showing the 2nd floor display which shows each floor contained in the building, and a room included in each above-mentioned floor, and the 2nd floor display, If it is made to correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display in the 2nd display screen and selection of the 1st directions button is detected, Make it correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display, the part II store icon is made to add, and the 1st floor plan on which the part I store icon corresponding to the part II store icon added [the] was reflected is displayed.
0072According to the above-mentioned mode, the 1st floor plan made the part I store icon showing a room which includes the 1st floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and has arranged it. That is, in this mode, it is not concerned with difference of the size or shape, but let each part store be the part I store icon. And the part I store icon is arranged on each floor. Therefore, the number of rooms included in each floor of the building in each every user's building, Or since each part store is displayed on the 1st display screen as the part I store icon even if a size or shape of each part store is different, a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building can be communalized. In this mode, the part I store icon is made to correspond to each floor, and is arranged. It becomes unnecessary thereby, to take into consideration an actual locating position of each part store in each floor. It becomes unnecessary for example, to take into consideration that a bedroom is next to on the south [of a living room] etc. Therefore, since what is necessary is to take into consideration only the number of rooms included in each floor, it can respond by fluctuating the number of the part I store icons contained in each floor.
0073As a result, a floor plan of each building is even if it is a different thing in each every user, A size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building is communalized, and a floor plan of each building which is different in each every user by only fluctuating the number of the part I store icons contained in each floor can be generated very simply.
0074This mode is preparing the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan. That is, when an addition of the part II store icon to one of floors of 1 contained in the 2nd display screen is chosen, Make it correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display, the part II store icon is made to add, and the 1st floor plan on which the part I store icon corresponding to the part II store icon added [the] was reflected is displayed. Thereby, a floor plan corresponding to each user's building can be generated very simply only by operation of adding the part I store icon to the 1st floor plan.
0075As a result, this mode solves a subject of a floor plan of a building of differing in each of each buildings, and it classifies one or more object apparatus arranged in the building in a unit of a room included in a floor plan of the building, A display screen showing a floor plan of each building which has an advantage coincided with everyday life feeling which uses each set elephant apparatus [in / for arrangement of each set elephant apparatus classified per room in the display screen / a user] can be extremely spread through low cost.
0076Other modes concerning this indication, It is the control method of an information terminal of connecting with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and having a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, The 1st display screen containing a floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, The floor plan makes a room icon showing a room which includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and arranges it, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to a room icon selected [the] by selection of the room icon is displayed, and the 1st display screen contains a directions button which adds the room icon to each floor shown by the floor display, If it is made to correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the floor display in the 1st display screen and selection of the directions button is detected, the 2nd display screen that arranged a room candidate added to a floor of 1 chosen [the] will be displayed on the display, Selection of any one in the room candidate is detected, and a room candidate chosen [the] is displayed on the floor plan as an added room icon.
0077According to the above-mentioned mode, the floor plan made a room icon showing a room which includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and has arranged it. That is, in this mode, it is not concerned with difference of the size or shape, but let each part store be the room icon. And the room icon is arranged on each floor. Therefore, the number of rooms included in each floor of the building in each every user's building, Or since each part store is displayed on the 1st display screen as the room icon even if a size or shape of each part store is different, a size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building can be communalized. In this mode, the part I store icon is made to correspond to each floor, and is arranged. It becomes unnecessary thereby, to take into consideration an actual locating position of each part store in each floor. It becomes unnecessary for example, to take into consideration that a bedroom is next to on the south [of a living room] etc. Therefore, since what is necessary is to take into consideration only the number of rooms included in each floor, it can respond by fluctuating the number of the room icons contained in each floor.
0078As a result, a floor plan of each building is even if it is a different thing in each every user, A size or shape of a room included in each floor of the building is communalized, and a floor plan of each building which is different in each every user by only fluctuating the number of the room icons contained in each floor can be generated very simply.
0079This mode contains a directions button which adds the room icon to each floor the 1st display screen was indicated to be by the floor display. That is, if the directions button contained in the 1st display screen is chosen, the 2nd display screen that arranged a room candidate added to a floor of above 1 is displayed, and it is selection of any one in the room candidate, A room candidate chosen [the] is displayed on the floor plan as an added room icon. Thereby, a floor plan corresponding to each user's building can be generated very simply only by operation of adding the room icon to the floor plan.
0080As a result, this mode solves a subject of a floor plan of a building of differing in each of each buildings, and it classifies one or more object apparatus arranged in the building in a unit of a room included in a floor plan of the building, A display screen showing a floor plan of each building which has an advantage coincided with everyday life feeling which uses each set elephant apparatus [in / for arrangement of each set elephant apparatus classified per room in the display screen / a user] can be extremely spread through low cost.
0081Other modes concerning this indication, It is a program run in an information terminal which connects with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and has a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, The 1st display screen containing the 1st floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, The 1st floor plan makes the part I store icon showing a room which includes the 1st floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and arranges it, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] by selection of the part I store icon is displayed, If selection of the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan is detected, the 2nd display screen will be displayed on the display, The 2nd display screen expresses the 2nd floor plan corresponding to the 1st floor plan, The 2nd floor plan contains the 1st directions button which adds the part II store icon to each floor shown by the part II store icon showing the 2nd floor display which shows each floor contained in the building, and a room included in each above-mentioned floor, and the 2nd floor display, If it is made to correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display in the 2nd display screen and selection of the 1st directions button is detected, the 3rd display screen that arranged a room candidate added to a floor of 1 chosen [the] will be displayed on the display, Selection of any one in the room candidate is detected, and a room candidate chosen [the] is displayed on the 1st floor plan as an added part I store icon.
0082Other modes concerning this indication, It is a program run in an information terminal which connects with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and has a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, A room icon showing a room which a display screen containing a floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, and the floor plan includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor is made to correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and is arranged, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to a room icon selected [the] by selection of the room icon is displayed, The room icon corresponding to each floor contained in the floor plan is made to edit by making it correspond to each floor shown by the floor display, and making the number of the room icons fluctuate. A room icon edited [the] is displayed on the floor plan.
0083Other modes concerning this indication, It is a program run in an information terminal which connects with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and has a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, The 1st display screen containing the 1st floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, The 1st floor plan makes the part I store icon showing a room which includes the 1st floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and arranges it, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to the part I store icon selected [the] by selection of the part I store icon is displayed, If selection of the 2nd display screen that sets up the part I store icon contained in the 1st floor plan is detected, the 2nd display screen will be displayed on the display, The 2nd display screen expresses the 2nd floor plan corresponding to the 1st floor plan, The 2nd floor plan contains the 1st directions button which adds the part II store icon to each floor shown by the part II store icon showing the 2nd floor display which shows each floor contained in the building, and a room included in each above-mentioned floor, and the 2nd floor display, If it is made to correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display in the 2nd display screen and selection of the 1st directions button is detected, Make it correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the 2nd floor display, the part II store icon is made to add, and the 1st floor plan on which the part I store icon corresponding to the part II store icon added [the] was reflected is displayed.
0084Other modes concerning this indication, It is a program run in an information terminal which connects with a network which controls one or more object apparatus, and has a display, As opposed to a computer of the information terminal, The 1st display screen containing a floor plan of a building is displayed on the display, The floor plan makes a room icon showing a room which includes a floor display which shows each floor of the building, and is included in each above-mentioned floor correspond to each above-mentioned floor, and arranges it, An operation screen of object apparatus arranged in a room corresponding to a room icon selected [the] by selection of the room icon is displayed, and the 1st display screen contains a directions button which adds the room icon to each floor shown by the floor display, If it is made to correspond to a floor of 1 shown by the floor display in the 1st display screen and selection of the directions button is detected, the 2nd display screen that arranged a room candidate added to a floor of 1 chosen [the] will be displayed on the display, Selection of any one in the room candidate is detected, and a room candidate chosen [the] is displayed on the floor plan as an added room icon.
0085(Embodiment) A 1 embodiment of the present invention is described below, referring to drawings. In each drawing, explanation is omitted using the same numerals about the same component.
0086This embodiment explains a home controller which can control one or more apparatus by one set.
0087Drawing 1 is the whole home control system lineblock diagram to which a home controller in this embodiment was applied. As shown in Drawing 1, a home control system is provided with home controller 100 and apparatus 200 (an example of object apparatus).
0088In a house, home controller 100 and one or more apparatus 200 (for example, apparatus A200, apparatus B200) are arranged. Home controller 100 and apparatus 200 communicate mutually via a network where a network of a network of a cable or radio or a cable, and radio is intermingled. As a network of a cable, cable LAN of IEEE802.3 series is adopted and wireless LAN of IEE802.11 series is adopted as a network of radio, for example.
0089Home controller 100 does not necessarily need to be arranged in a house, and may be arranged outside a house. In this case, the user can control one or more apparatus 200 from a place where one has gone etc.
0090As home controller 100, Personal Digital Assistants, such as a smart phone and a tablet terminal, are adopted. However, this is an example and a button-type Personal Digital Assistant, such as a mobile phone, may be adopted as home controller 100. Or as home controller 100, a personal computer and a non-portable personal computer of a note type may be adopted.
0091Drawing 2 is a figure showing main apparatus 200 which home controller 100 controls. Home controller 100 controls apparatus 200 of air harmony machine (it is hereafter called an "air-conditioner".) 201, lighting apparatus 202 and 203, bath 204, refrigerator 205, washing machine 206, toilet 207, and an electric curtain device 208 grade. Two or more sets of apparatus 200 of the same kind may be in apparatus 200 which home controller 100 controls like lighting apparatus 202 and lighting apparatus 203.
0092Apparatus 200 of an air-conditioner 201 grade shown in Drawing 2 is only an example, and a television set (it is hereafter called "television".), a blue lei recorder, audio equipment, etc. may be adopted as apparatus 200. That is, as long as it is an electric appliance which has a function which can communicate with home controller 100 as apparatus 200, what kind of apparatus may be adopted. Although Drawing 2 showed an electric appliance used in an ordinary home as apparatus 200, this indication is not limited to this but may adopt office apparatus used in an office etc. As office apparatus, a printer, a personal computer, a scanner, a copy machine, etc. are mentioned, for example. Although a house is adopted as an example of a building in this indication, it may not be limited to this but a building, a school building of a school, etc. may be adopted.
0093Drawing 3 is a block diagram showing an example of calibration of home controller 100 and apparatus 200. As shown in Drawing 3, home controller 100 is provided with display 101, touch-panel control part 102, display control part 103, accumulating part 104, equipment management department 105, appliance control part 106, communication control part 107, and room arrangement set part 108.
0094Display 101 is constituted by touch panel display and displays a user interface for a user to operate home controller 100 etc., for example. The user can input various operations into home controller 100 by touching on display 101.
0095If operation to a user's display 101 is recognized, touch-panel control part 102 will interpret the contents of the operation, and will notify the contents of operation to other components. For example, touch-panel control part 102 will judge with the object having been chosen by user, if an object is displayed on a position on display 101 in which a user did the tap. As an object, various GUI section articles which receive operation of users, such as a button, are adopted. In this indication, touch-panel control part 102 will notify the contents of operation to room arrangement set part 108, if recognized operation is related with a setup of room arrangement.
0096Display control part 103 generates GUI (Graphical User Interface) of home controller 100, and it makes it display it on display 101. Especially in this indication, a screen about a setup of room arrangement is displayed according to drawing directions outputted from room arrangement set part 108.
0097Accumulating part 104 is constituted by memory storage of fixity, and accumulates information required for operation of home controllers 100, such as an equipment list (refer to Drawing 55) which equipment management department 105 manages, for example.
0098Room arrangement set part 108 manages processing to a setup of room arrangement based on a user's operation. In this indication, a floor plan as which each part store of a house was expressed in simple using a figure of a letter of a block of a room icon is adopted. Therefore, as an example of processing of room arrangement set part 108, According to a user's operation, processing which sets up a name at a room icon according to processing which adds a room icon, and a user's operation on a floor plan to suit actual room arrangement, processing which deletes an unnecessary room icon from on a floor plan according to a user's operation, etc. are mentioned. Room arrangement set part 108 is that operation about a setup of room arrangement is notified from touch-panel control part 102, and detects operation by a user about a setup of room arrangement. Room arrangement set part 108 notifies drawing directions for displaying an applicable screen on display 101 according to operation about a setup of detected room arrangement to touch-panel control part 102.
0099Equipment management department 105 manages apparatus 200 of a controlled object using an equipment list accumulated in accumulating part 104. Equipment management department 105 will detect the apparatus 200, if apparatus 200 is connected on a network in a house.
0100Appliance control part 106 publishes control commands to apparatus 200. Communication control part 107 controls communication between home controller 100 and apparatus 200. Communication control part 107 accepts a transmitting request of various data from other blocks, transmits to apparatus 200, and receives data transmitted from apparatus 200, and passes it to an applicable block.
0101As for display 101, not a touch panel display but the usual display may be adopted. In this case, a user moves a pointer displayed on display 101 using external input devices, such as a mouse which is not illustrated, clicks a desired object, and should just input selection directions of an object. That is, in this indication, a series of operations performed because a user touches display 101 can be transposed to operation moved a pointer or clicked using external input devices, such as a mouse.
0102Apparatus 200 is provided with control execution part 211, state Management Department 212, communication control part 213, and accumulating part 214 as shown in Drawing 3. From home controller 100, control execution part 211 receives control commands, and controls apparatus 200 according to received control commands. The contents of control of apparatus 200 by control execution part 211 differ according to a kind of apparatus 200. For example, if apparatus 200 is lighting apparatus, control execution part 211 will make lighting apparatus turn on and turn off. Control execution part 211 transmits an executed result of control commands, and a state of apparatus 200 to home controller 100.
0103State Management Department 212 manages a state of apparatus 200. The contents of management of apparatus 200 by state Management Department 212 differ according to a kind of apparatus 200. For example, if apparatus 200 is lighting apparatus, state Management Department 212 will manage whether lighting apparatus is in a present and ON state, or it is in an OFF state. Accumulating part 214 accumulates information about a state of apparatus 200 which state Management Department 212 manages.
0104Communication control part 213 controls communication between apparatus 200 and home controller 100. Communication control part 213 accepts a transmitting request of various data from other blocks, transmits to home controller 100, and receives data transmitted from home controller 100, and passes it to an applicable block.
0105Drawing 4 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement screen 400 which home controller 100 displays. Room arrangement screen 400 (an example of the 1st display screen) is a basic screen of home controller 100 including floor plan 410. Floor plan 410 is a figure showing in simple arrangement of one or more rooms which constitute each floor of a house. An outside of floor plan 410 is denoted by a figure which expressed a house abstractly. Floor plan 410 is roughly divided into two display fields 411 and 412. Display field 411 is a trapezoid display field which was provided in a portion above floor plan 410, and expressed a portion of a roof of a house in simple. Display field 412 is a display field of square shape where it was provided below display field 411 and a portion of a main part of a house was expressed in simple.
0106In display field 412, one or more room icons 401 (an example of the part I store icon) showing each of one or more rooms of a house are arranged in the shape of a matrix. Room icon 401 is the picture which showed my wife's each part store in simple using a square block, for example. In Drawing 4, although room icon 401 is denoted by square block, this is only an example and may be denoted by block of a polygon more than circular, a triangle, a lozenge, and a pentagon. If it is generally called a room, in a building, it will be spatially divided with a wall and a field which a person passes beyond a definite period of time will be pointed out, but room icon 401 also expresses stairs, a passage, and a field of houses other than a room like an entrance hall with this indication. As long as it is a dwelling unit of a single house, a part of a house outside a house like a yard or a garage may also be expressed by room icon 401.
0107As shown in Drawing 4, room icon 401 is denoted by block of the same size, for example. In room icon 401, a name (an example of the 1st name display) of a room is indicated. Thereby, a user can make it understand which room of a house each part store icon 401 expresses at a glance. A floor number which shows a hierarchy of a house to a lengthwise direction is displayed at a left end of display field 412. And room icon 401 showing a room arranged at the same hierarchy is arranged by a horizontal line in a display stage corresponding to a floor to which self belongs. That is, room icon 401 which expresses with floor plan 410 a room included in each floor of a house makes it correspond to each floor, and is arranged.
0108In an example of Drawing 4, since a house is constituted by two floors, the first floor and the second floor, room icon 401 which expresses with a display stage of the 1st line from a top a room which constitutes the second floor is arranged, and room icon 401 which expresses with a display stage of the 2nd line a room which constitutes the second floor is arranged. In display field 412, floor display column 404 is provided in a left end of each line. A floor number (an example of the 1st floor display) is shown in floor display column 404 like "1F" and "2F. "
0109Generally, if it is called a floor plan, a figure which looked at one floor of a house in bird's-eye view from the upper part will be pointed out in many cases. Although concrete shape of each part store which constitutes a house, concrete arrangement, etc. are known at a glance in such a bird's-eye view floor plan, In order to take into home controller 100 as electronic data, work of ordering CAD data of a floor plan from a construction company of a house, or carrying out the capture of the floor plan of a paper medium created by construction company of a house with a scanner is needed. Work which makes home controller 100 recognize information to which room of an actual house a room expressed by CAD data corresponds is also needed. Therefore, it is not easy for an end user to do these work.
0110So, in this indication, floor plan 410 to which each part store was expressed with room icon 401 of a letter of a block in simple is adopted. Therefore, it can be made to be able to respond to each hierarchy and floor plan 410 which suits actual room arrangement of each house can be created only by doing work which adds room icon 401 or it deletes. Even if a user will move and it will reside in a house of another room arrangement, a floor plan which suits a house of a new address can be created only by adding some change to a floor plan which was being used before moving out.
0111Each part store icon 401 has same size respectively. Therefore, it becomes unnecessary to make home controller 100 recognize information on shape of each part store, a locating position in a hierarchy, etc., as shown in a bird's-eye view floor plan. Therefore, floor plan 410 of this indication can respond easily to room arrangement of any houses.
0112Although Drawing 4 showed a case where the number of houses was two, when the number of houses is three, in a left end of floor plan 410, in an order from a top, a floor number of 3F, 2F, and 1F may be displayed, and room icon 401 which shows a room of each hierarchy may be arranged in a corresponding display stage of a hierarchy at one row wide. This is also the same as when a house is more than 4F. In Drawing 4, although a story was displayed for more nearly upper floor on the upper part, contrary to this, as for a floor number, a story may be displayed for a more nearly lower floor on the upper part. A floor number may be displayed on a transverse direction and room icon 401 may be arranged in a lengthwise direction.
0113Two nonpiped-mode-operation icons 402 displayed "to go out" and "to return" are displayed on left-hand side of display field 411. Three apparatus classification icons 403 displayed as an "air-conditioner", "lighting", and a "storage battery" are displayed on right-hand side of display field 411. Nonpiped-mode-operation icon 402 of "going out" is apparatus 200 arranged at my wife, and is an icon for turning off collectively all the apparatus 200 other than apparatus 200 by which a power supply is always turned on like a refrigerator. When a user goes out, even if he does not turn off and turn around each one apparatus 200 of every, he bundles up apparatus 200 applicable by operation of one-touch which selects nonpiped-mode-operation icon 402 of "going out", and can turn OFF.
0114Nonpiped-mode-operation icon 402 displayed "To return" is apparatus 200 arranged at my wife, and is an icon for turning on collectively all the apparatus 200 other than apparatus 200 by which a power supply is always turned on. When a user goes home in a house, even if he does not turn on and turn around each one apparatus 200 of every, he bundles up apparatus 200 applicable by operation of one-touch which selects nonpiped-mode-operation icon 402 of "returning", and can turn ON.
0115Apparatus classification icon 403 is an icon for displaying apparatus screen 530 for operating all the apparatus 200 of an applicable classification arranged at my wife. If apparatus classification icon 403 is selected by user, display control part 103 will display on display 101 apparatus screen 530 shown in Drawing 5. Operation which carries out a tap is mentioned in contact things (a finger, a touch pen, etc.) on an icon which a user selects here as operation which selects a desired icon, for example.
0116It is although three apparatus classification icons, an air-conditioner, lighting, and a storage battery, 403 are arranged in display field 411 in an example of Drawing 4, This is an example, and if apparatus 200 of other classification is installed in a house, naturally apparatus classification icon 403 of apparatus 200 of other classification will be displayed on display field 411. In an example of Drawing 4, since display field 411 is small, a limitation is among apparatus classification icons 403 which can be displayed at once. Then, a mode which displays on display field 411 other apparatus classification icons 403 of display field 411 which provide a skip button in a right end and exist undisplayed is also employable. In this case, display control part 103 should just display undisplayed apparatus classification icon 403 on display field 411, after making undisplayed apparatus classification icon 403 currently displayed.
0117Drawing 5 is a figure showing an example of apparatus screen 530 which home controller 100 displays. This apparatus screen 530 shows apparatus screen 530 of an "air-conditioner. "Apparatus screen 530 of an "air-conditioner" is displayed by apparatus classification icon 403 of an "air-conditioner" being selected as a user in room arrangement screen 400 of Drawing 4. In room arrangement screen 400 of Drawing 4, selection of apparatus classification icon 403 of "lighting" of those other than an "air-conditioner" or a "storage battery" will display apparatus screen 530 of "lighting" or a "storage battery. "
0118Above apparatus screen 530, display column 601 which displays total value of amount of used electricity of apparatus 200 of an applicable classification installed by my wife is provided. This total value is computed in, for example, equipment management department 105 totaling amount of used electricity 1708 of apparatus 200 of an applicable classification with reference to equipment list 1700 (Drawing 55).
0119A classification name (here air-conditioner) of apparatus 200 of an applicable classification is displayed on left-hand side of display column 601. Returning button 507 is displayed on left-hand side of a classification name. Returning button 507 is a button for changing a display to room arrangement screen 400 (Drawing 4).
0120Below display column 601, one operation screen 534 and three operation screens 531 are displayed in an order from the left. Operation screen 534 is an operation screen for operating apparatus 200 of an applicable classification collectively. Therefore, to the up side in operation screen 534, it is indicated as "all air-conditioner (package control) ", and it is specified that it is an operation screen which carries out nonpiped mode operation of the apparatus 200 (here air-conditioner) of classification in which this operation screen 534 corresponds.
0121Three operation screens 531 arranged on the right-hand side of operation screen 534 are operation screens for operating individually "air-conditioner 1", "air-conditioner 2", and "air-conditioner 3", respectively. Therefore, apparatus icon 501 of an air-conditioner which expressed an air-conditioner as a name of air-conditioners, such as "air-conditioner 1", "air-conditioner 2", and "air-conditioner 3", in simple is displayed on these three operation screens 531, respectively.
0122In an example of Drawing 5, operation screen 531 is set as size which can display only three at once. When four or more air-conditioners are installed by my wife, it becomes impossible therefore, to display operation screen 531 of an air-conditioner after the 4th on display 101.
0123So, triangle-like skip button 506 is provided in apparatus screen 530 at a right-hand side central portion, for example. If skip button 506 is chosen by user, display control part 103 will make left-hand side scroll operation screens 531 and 534, and will display operation screen 531 of an air-conditioner after the 4th on display 101. In this case, display control part 103 should just make turn carry out the frame-out of the operation screens 531 and 534 displayed now out of a display field of display 101 from left-hand side so that operation screen 531 of an air-conditioner after the 4th may be preferentially displayed on display 101. or -- if operation screen 534 and operation screen 531 of air-conditioners 1-3 are assigned to the 1st page and operation screen 531 of the 4th air-conditioner 4 is assigned to the 2nd pageIf skip button 506 is chosen by user, display control part 103 changes a display from the 1st page to the 2nd page, and it may make it display only operation screen 531 of air-conditioner 4 on display 101.
0124In operation screen 534 for carrying out nonpiped mode operation, package control button 532 for controlling all the air-conditioners collectively and detailed setting button 533 for displaying a detailed control screen (figure abbreviation) of a model are contained. Two buttons of package on-button 532a displayed as "All ON" and package off-button 532b displayed as "All OFF" are one of package control buttons 532. Package off-button 532b is a button for turning off all the air-conditioners of my wife collectively. Package on-button 532a is a button for turning on all the air-conditioners of my wife collectively. Operation of setting up temperature other than ON/OFF of a power supply (for example, all the air-conditioners) collectively, or setting up a wind of all the air-conditioners collectively is performed using a detailed control screen (figure abbreviation) displayed by choosing detailed setting button 533.
0125In operation screen 531 for operating an air-conditioner individually, simple control button 503 and detailed setting button 504 are contained, respectively. Two buttons of on-button 503a displayed as "ON" and off-button 503b displayed as "OFF" are one of simple control buttons 503. On-button 503a is a button for turning on an applicable air-conditioner, and off-button 503b is a button for turning off an applicable air-conditioner. Detailed setting button 504 is a button for displaying a detailed control screen (figure abbreviation) of an applicable air-conditioner. Operation of setting up temperature other than ON/OFF of a power supply (for example, an applicable air-conditioner), or setting up a wind of an applicable air-conditioner is performed using a detailed control screen (figure abbreviation) displayed by choosing detailed setting button 504.
0126Drawing 6 is a figure showing an example of room screen 520 which home controller 100 displays. In room arrangement screen 400 (Drawing 4), this room screen 520 is displayed, when room icon 401 is selected by user. Room screen 520 of living is displayed in an example of Drawing 6. This is because a user selected room icon 401 of living in room arrangement screen 400 (Drawing 4).
0127Above room screen 520, display column 600 which displays total value of amount of used electricity of an applicable room is provided. This total value is computed in equipment management department 105 specifying apparatus 200 arranged in a room applicable from arrangement 1704, and, for example, totaling amount of used electricity 1708 of a pinpointed room with reference to equipment list 1700 (Drawing 55).
0128A name (here living) of an applicable room is displayed on left-hand side of display column 600. Returning button 507 is displayed on left-hand side of a name of a room. Returning button 507 is a button for changing a display to room arrangement screen 400 (Drawing 4).
0129Below display column 600, one operation screen 523 and three operation screens 521 are displayed in an order from the left. Operation screen 523 is an operation screen for operating apparatus 200 of an applicable room (here living) collectively. Therefore, it is indicated to the up side in operation screen 523 as "all apparatus (package control) ", and it is shown in it that it is an operation screen which carries out nonpiped mode operation of the apparatus 200 of a room where this operation screen 523 corresponds.
0130Three operation screens 521 arranged on the right-hand side of operation screen 523 are operation screens for operating individually "air-conditioner 1", "air-conditioner 2", and "lighting" which were installed in living, respectively. Therefore, an air-conditioner which expressed a name, and an air-conditioner and lighting of air-conditioners, such as "air-conditioner 1", "air-conditioner 2", and "lighting", in simple, and apparatus icon 501 of lighting are displayed on these three operation screens 521, respectively. Skip button 506 is a button for displaying on display 101 operation screen 521 of apparatus 200 after the 4th installed in living, and the details of it are the same as that of skip button 506 of Drawing 5.
0131In operation screen 523, package control button 509 for controlling collectively all the apparatus 200 installed in living and detailed setting button 510 for a detailed setup of all the apparatus 200 installed in living being put in block, and performing it are contained.
0132Two buttons of package on-button 509a displayed as "All ON" and package off-button 509b displayed as "All OFF" are one of package control buttons 509. Package off-button 509b is a button for turning off all the apparatus 200 of living collectively. Package on-button 509a is a button for turning on all the apparatus 200 of living collectively.
0133When package on-button 509a is chosen, appliance control part 106 is, If control commands which turn on collectively all the apparatus 200 installed in living are outputted to applicable apparatus and package off-button 509b is chosen, control commands which turn off collectively all the apparatus 200 installed in living will be outputted to applicable apparatus 200. For example, when on-button 503a of "lighting" is chosen, appliance control part 106 is, If control commands which apparatus 200 of lighting turns on are outputted to apparatus 200 of lighting and off-button 503b of "lighting" is chosen, control commands which turn off apparatus 200 of lighting will be outputted to apparatus 200 of lighting.
0134Operation of setting up collectively temperature of an air-conditioner installed in living other than ON/OFF of a power supply, or setting up collectively a wind of an air-conditioner installed in living is performed using a detailed control screen (figure abbreviation) displayed by choosing detailed setting button 510.
0135Display control part 103 judges ON/OFF of each apparatus 200 installed in living with reference to status 1709 of equipment list 1700 (Drawing 55), and expresses an on-button of simple control button 503, or an off-button as a different color. Since "air-conditioner 1", "air-conditioner 2", and "lighting" are turned on, turned off and turned on in an example of Drawing 6, respectively, "Air-conditioner 1" and on-button 503a of "lighting" are expressed as a different color from a default, and off-button 503b of "air-conditioner 2" is expressed as a different color from a default. Thereby, the user can check easily ON/OFF of each apparatus 200 currently installed in living.
0136Drawing 7 is a figure showing an example [screen / 530 / room arrangement screen 400 and / apparatus] of screen changes. In Drawing 7, the above figure and the following figure are the same as Drawing 4 and Drawing 5 respectively. In floor plan 410, if a user selects apparatus classification icon 403 of an air-conditioner using contact thing X, display control part 103 will change a display of display 101 to apparatus screen 530 (C71).
0137On the other hand, in apparatus screen 530, if a user chooses returning button 507 using contact thing X, display control part 103 will change a display to room arrangement screen 400 (C72).
0138Drawing 8 is a figure showing an example [screen / 520 / room arrangement screen 400 and / room] of screen changes. In Drawing 8, the above figure and the following figure are the same as Drawing 4 and Drawing 6 respectively. In room arrangement screen 400, if a user selects room icon 401 of living using contact thing X, display control part 103 will change a display of display 101 to room screen 520 (C81).
0139On the other hand, in room screen 520, if a user chooses returning button 507 using contact thing X, display control part 103 will change a display to room arrangement screen 400 (C82).
0140Drawing 9 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900. Room arrangement setting screen 900 (an example of the 2nd display screen) is displayed by setting button 405 being chosen by user in room arrangement screen 400.
0141Room arrangement setting screen 900 is a screen for editing floor plan 410 displayed on room arrangement screen 400 including floor plan 410. Here, floor plan 410 displayed on room arrangement setting screen 900 is an example of the 2nd floor plan. Floor plan 410 of room arrangement setting screen 900 corresponds to floor plan 410 of room arrangement screen 400.
0142Wording of it differing in display field 411 of room arrangement screen 400, and "change and elimination of a room name being made if a room is chosen" in display field 411 of room arrangement setting screen 900 is displayed, and it is specified that this screen is not room arrangement screen 400 but room arrangement setting screen 900.
0143In display field 412 of room arrangement setting screen 900, one or more room icons 401 are arranged in the shape of a matrix like display field 412 of room arrangement screen 400. Here, room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900 is an example of the part II store icon. Room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900 corresponds to room icon 401 of room arrangement screen 400, and 1 to 1. Room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900 is denoted by block of the same size, respectively, and room icon 401 of room arrangement screen 400 is the same size. In room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900, the same room name as room icon 401 to which room arrangement screen 400 corresponds is indicated. Here, a room name of room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900 is an example of the 2nd name display. An arrangement order of room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900 is the same as that [arrangement] of room icon 401 of room arrangement screen 400. Floor display column 904 which shows a floor number (an example of the 2nd floor display) of 1F and 2F grade is provided in a left end of display field 412 of room arrangement setting screen 900 like room arrangement screen 400.
0144That is, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if room icon 401 is added or deleted, room arrangement set part 108 will be interlocked with this, and will add or delete the same room icon 401 from room arrangement screen 400. Whenever a user adds one room icon 401, he changes a display of display 101 to room arrangement screen 400, and it becomes unnecessary therefore, to check an addition or deletion of a room on floor plan 410 in room arrangement setting screen 900. Therefore, where room arrangement setting screen 900 is displayed, the user can perform an addition and deletion of room icon 401 continuously, and can perform a setup of room arrangement smoothly.
0145Room arrangement setting screen 900 immediately after changing a display to display 101 from room arrangement screen 400 to room arrangement setting screen 900 is shown by Drawing 9. Therefore, arrangement of room icon 401 of room arrangement setting screen 900 is the same as arrangement of room icon 401 of room arrangement screen 400.
0146Room addition button 903 (an example of the 1st directions button) corresponding to each floor displayed as "+" is arranged in a position where a display position of a floor number adjoins. In an example of Drawing 9, since the number of houses is two, a part is overlapped on a display position of a floor number whose room addition button 903 of the first floor is the first floor, and is arranged in it, and a part is overlapped on a display position of a floor number whose room addition button 903 of the second floor is the second floor, and is arranged in it. Here, room addition button 903 is a button for adding a room to a floor to which room arrangement screen 400 corresponds.
0147Room addition button 903 of the first floor is a button for adding a room to a column of the first floor of room arrangement screen 400. Room addition button 903 of the second floor is a button for adding a room to the second floor of floor plan 410. In an example of Drawing 9, since the number of houses is two, two room addition buttons 903 corresponding to the first floor and the second floor are displayed, but if there are 3 stories of houses, three room addition buttons 903 corresponding to each of the first floor - the third floor will be displayed. This is also the same as when a house is 4 or more stories.
0148Returning button 902 for changing a display screen of display 101 to room arrangement screen 400 is provided in the lower right of room arrangement setting screen 900.
0149Drawing 10 is a figure showing an example [screen / 900 / room arrangement screen 400 and / room arrangement setting] of screen changes. In Drawing 10, the left figure and the right figure are the same as Drawing 4 and Drawing 9 respectively. In room arrangement screen 400, if a user chooses setting button 405 using contact thing X, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900 (C101).
0150On the other hand, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if a user chooses button 902 which returns using contact thing X, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement screen 400 (C102).
0151Drawing 11 is a figure showing the 1st example of screen changes of a screen about a room arrangement setup. In room arrangement setting screen 900, if a tap of room addition button 903 by a user is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room addition screen 1110 (an example of the 3rd display screen) (C111).
0152Room addition screen 1110 is a screen for adding a room to a hierarchy which a user chose in room arrangement setting screen 900. Room addition screen 1110 is shown by Drawing 17. Left-hand side of the upper part of room addition screen 1110 "a room is added to 1F. please carry out a name input, or choose a room name, and push a "addition". " -- wording is displayed and it is specified that it is a screen for room addition screen 1110 to add room icon 401 to the first floor.
0153In room addition screen 1110, room candidate display column 1111 is provided in the central part. If a user chooses a room for which it asks out of a room displayed on room candidate display column 1111 as a room candidate and additional button 1112 is chosen, he will be added to floor plan 410 as a room of a hierarchy where a selected room corresponds.
0154Below room candidate display column 1111, additional button 1112 (an example of the 4th directions button) and Cancel button 1113 are displayed. Additional button 1112 is a button chosen when performing an addition to floor plan 410 of a room which a user chose from rooms listed as a room candidate. Cancel button 1113 is a button chosen when canceling an addition to floor plan 410 of a room which a user chose from rooms listed as a room candidate.
0155Name input button 1114 is displayed on the upper right of room candidate display column 1111. Name input button 1114 is a button chosen when it attaches names other than a room name listed as a room candidate to a room used as an additional object.
0156It returns to Drawing 11, and in room arrangement setting screen 900, if room icon 401 is selected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120 (an example of the 4th display screen). Details of room edit display 1120 are shown in Drawing 35. Room edit display 1120 is a screen displayed when a user edits a room displayed on floor plan 410. Here, since room icon 401 of a passage of the second floor was selected, room edit display 1120 of a passage which is the second floor is displayed. Thus, selection of room icon 401 will express room edit display 1120 as room arrangement setting screen 900. On the other hand, selection of room icon 401 will express room screen 520 (Drawing 6) for operating apparatus 200 installed in an applicable room as room arrangement screen 400. This point is one of the big differences between room arrangement setting screen 900 and room arrangement screen 400.
0157Change-of-appellation button 1121 (an example of the 2nd directions button) and elimination button 1122 (an example of the 3rd directions button) are displayed on room edit display 1120. Change-of-appellation button 1121 is a button chosen when changing a name of a room which a user chose in room arrangement setting screen 900. Elimination button 1122 is a button chosen when eliminating a room which a user chose in room arrangement setting screen 900.
0158It returns to Drawing 11, and in room edit display 1120, if a tap of change-of-appellation button 1121 by a user is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (an example of the 5th display screen) (C112).
0159Room change-of-appellation screen 1130 is a screen displayed when a user changes a name of a selected room in room arrangement setting screen 900. Details of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 are shown in Drawing 36. The upper part of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 "a name is changed. please input a name, or choose a room name and push "change". " -- wording is displayed and it is specified that it is a screen for this screen to change a room name.
0160In room change-of-appellation screen 1130, name candidate display column 1131 is provided in the central part. In room arrangement setting screen 900, a list indication of the name candidate of a room which a user chose is given at name candidate display column 1131. Here, the same name as a name of a room listed as a room candidate is adopted as room candidate display column 1111 as a name candidate. Check box 1135 for choosing a name candidate is displayed on left-hand side of each name candidate's display position. For example, when choosing living from name candidates, a user chooses check box 1135 located in left-hand side of a display position of a name of living.
0161In room change-of-appellation screen 1130, change button 1132 (an example of the 5th directions button) and Cancel button 1133 are displayed below name candidate display column 1131. Change button 1132 is a button chosen when a user permits change of a name of a room which is the room name selected from name candidates, and corresponds. Cancel button 1133 is a button chosen when a user cancels a room name selected from name candidates. Name input button 1134 is displayed on the upper right of name candidate display column 1131. Name input button 1134 is a button chosen when changing a name of an applicable room names other than a name candidate listed by name candidate display column 1131.
0162It returns to Drawing 11, and in room edit display 1120, if a tap of elimination button 1122 is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room elimination confirmation screen 1140 (C113).
0163Room elimination confirmation screen 1140 is a screen for checking with a user whether I may eliminate a room which a user chose from floor plan 410 in room arrangement setting screen 900. Details of room elimination confirmation screen 1140 are shown in Drawing 49. The upper part of room elimination confirmation screen 1140 "May I eliminate this room?It is displayed as 2F washroom", and it is specified that this screen is a screen which checks with a user whether I may eliminate a washroom of 2F from floor plan 410.
0164Elimination button 1141 and Cancel button 1142 are displayed on the lower part of room elimination confirmation screen 1140. Elimination button 1141 is a button chosen when performing elimination from floor plan 410 of applicable room icon 401. Cancel button 1142 is a button chosen when canceling elimination from floor plan 410 of applicable room icon 401.
0165Drawing 12 is a figure showing the 2nd example of screen changes of a screen about a room arrangement setup. In the 2nd example, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if the tap of the room addition button 903 is carried out, a point that room addition screen 1110 is displayed is the same as the 1st example (C121). However, in the 2nd example, it differs from the 1st example in room arrangement setting screen 900 in that room change-of-appellation screen 1150 (an example of the 6th display screen) is displayed direct, without going via room edit display 1120, if the tap of the room icon 401 is carried out. It is the same as the 1st example except it. Here, room change-of-appellation screen 1150 attaches reference mark with this another, in order to distinguish from room change-of-appellation screen 1130 of the 1st example, but it is the same as room change-of-appellation screen 1130. [of the contents]
0166In room change-of-appellation screen 1150, they are name candidate display column 1151 and change button 1152 (an example of the 6th directions button), Cancel button 1153, name input button 1154, and check box 1155 are the same as screen parts of the same name of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 respectively.
0167Drawing 13 is a figure showing the 3rd example of screen changes of a screen about a room arrangement setup. In the 3rd example, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if the tap of the room addition button 903 is carried out, a point that room addition screen 1110 is displayed is the same as the 1st example (C131). However, in the 3rd example, it differs from the 1st example in that room elimination confirmation screen 1140 is displayed direct in room arrangement setting screen 900, without going via room edit display 1120, if the tap of the room icon 401 is carried out (C132). It is the same as the 1st example except it.
0168Next, initial setting of home controller 100 of this indication is explained. Drawing 14 is a figure showing an example of initial-setting start screen 1400. This initial-setting start screen 1400 is displayed on display 101 by room arrangement set part 108, when a user who purchased home controller 100 switched on a power supply for the first time for example, or when an initial-setting button of figure abbreviation is chosen.
0169Thank you ["purchase] for initial-setting start screen 1400. From now on, initial setting will be begun. It is indicated as " and having gone into initial-setting mode is specified. Button 1401 is displayed on the lower part of initial-setting start screen 1400 to the next. If button 1401 is chosen by user to the next, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to number-of-stories setting screen 1500.
0170Drawing 15 is a figure showing an example of number-of-stories setting screen 1500. Number-of-stories setting screen 1500 is a screen for making a user set up a number of stories of a user's house. please choose "number of stories as the upper part of number-of-stories setting screen 1500, and push the "next" on it -- " -- wording is displayed and it is urged to an input of a number of stories at a user. Story indication column 1503 is provided in the center of number-of-stories setting screen 1500. Number-of-stories reduction button 1501 is provided in left-hand of story indication column 1503, and increase button 1502 in a number of stories is provided in right-hand of story indication column 1503.
0171If 1 is subtracted from a number of stories currently displayed on story indication column 1503 if 1501 is pushed once for a number-of-stories reduction button and increase button 1502 in a number of stories is pushed once, as for room arrangement set part 108, room arrangement set part 108 will add 1 to a number of stories currently displayed on story indication column 1503. It is a default and 1F is displayed on story indication column 1503, for example, and by performing operation of pushing number-of-stories reduction button 1501 or increase button 1502 in a number of stories, a user inputs a number of stories displayed on story indication column 1503 so that it may become a number of stories of an own house. In an example of Drawing 15, it is displayed on story indication column 1503 as "2F. "If returning button 1505 which was provided in the lower right of number-of-stories setting screen 1500 is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 will return a display of display 101 to initial-setting start screen 1400 of Drawing 14, for example.
0172If button 1504 is chosen after having been provided in the lower part of number-of-stories setting screen 1500, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900. Drawing 16 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 in an initial state.
0173In an initial state, since room icon 401 is not arranged in room arrangement screen 400, in an example of Drawing 16, room icon 401 is not arranged one in room arrangement setting screen 900.
0174In an example of Drawing 16, in Drawing 15, since "2F" was inputted into story indication column 1503, in floor plan 410, two room addition buttons 903 corresponding to the first floor and the second floor are displayed on a vertical line. When "1F" is inputted into story indication column 1503 in Drawing 15, it is in room arrangement setting screen 900, When one room addition button 903 corresponding to the first floor is displayed and "3F" is inputted into story indication column 1503, three room addition buttons 903 corresponding to each of the first floor - the third floor are displayed on room arrangement setting screen 900 by vertical line. Even if this is a case of the fourth more than floor, it is the same.
0175In room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 16, if room addition button 903 is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room addition screen 1110. Drawing 17 is a figure showing an example of room addition screen 1110. The upper part of room addition screen 1110 "a room is added to 1F. please carry out a name input, or choose a room name, and push a "addition". " -- wording is displayed and it is specified that it is a screen for room addition screen 1110 to add a room to the first floor.
0176A list indication of the room candidate who adds to a hierarchy to which floor plan 410 corresponds as a room is given at room candidate display column 1111. Here, a list indication of the name of living, a Japanese-style room, the door, a dining room, a European-style room, a bathroom, a kitchen, a child's room, a washroom, LDK, a bedroom, and a room candidate of 12 of a passage is given by three lines x four rows as a room candidate at the shape of a matrix. Check box 1115 for choosing a room candidate is displayed on left-hand side of a display position each part store candidate's name.
0177In an example of Drawing 17, since a room is not chosen by user, check mark 1115M displayed in check box 1115 is altogether expressed as a color of a non-アクディブ state. Here, as a color of a non-active state, no painting of black, gray, etc. is employable.
0178If one of room candidates is chosen among room candidates displayed on room candidate display column 1111, room arrangement set part 108 will express check mark 1115M of check box 1115 corresponding to a selected room candidate as a color of an active state. Here, as a color of an active state, a chromatic color is employable, for example.
0179Supposing a user chooses check box 1115 of living in room candidate display column 1111, room arrangement set part 108 will express check mark 1115M of check box 1115 of living as a color of a アクディブ state, as shown in Drawing 18.
0180And if additional button 1112 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will add room icon 401 of living to the first floor of room arrangement setting screen 900, as shown in Drawing 19. Thereby, living is added to the first floor of floor plan 410.
0181In Drawing 19, if room addition button 903 is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 will display again room addition screen 1110 shown in Drawing 17 on display 101, and will await an input of a room added next it is based on a user. And if one of rooms is chosen from rooms listed by room candidate and additional button 1112 is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 will add a room to room arrangement setting screen 900. In Drawing 19, if returning button 902 is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement screen 400.
0182Thus, in this indication, operation of adding a room shown in Drawing 16 - Drawing 19 is repeated, and a room is added on room arrangement setting screen 900. This addition is interlocked with and the same room is added also to room arrangement screen 400.
0183Drawing 20 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 after operation of adding a room was repeated. In an example of Drawing 20, since operation of adding living, the door, a bathroom, a washroom, and a passage was repeatedly inputted by user to the first floor, room icon 401 of these five rooms is displayed on a column which is the first floor of room arrangement setting screen 900 by a horizontal line. Since operation of adding a Japanese-style room, a European-style room, a child's room, and a bedroom was repeatedly inputted by user to the second floor, room icon 401 of these four rooms is displayed on a column which is the second floor of room arrangement setting screen 900 by a horizontal line.
0184Drawing 21 is a figure showing an example of screen changes in initial setting. In Drawing 21, an upper left figure, an upper right figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 14, Drawing 15, Drawing 16, and Drawing 18 respectively. In initial-setting start screen 1400, if a tap to button 1401 is detected to the next by contact thing X, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to number-of-stories setting screen 1500 (C211).
0185In number-of-stories setting screen 1500, if a number of stories is inputted into story indication column 1503 and a tap of button 1504 is detected to the next by contact thing X, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900 (C212).
0186In room arrangement setting screen 900, if a tap to room addition button 903 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room addition screen 1110 (C213).
0187If living is chosen in room addition screen 1110 from rooms listed by user as a room candidate and a tap of additional button 1112 by contact thing X is detected, Room arrangement set part 108 changes a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900 (C214).
0188Drawing 22 is a figure showing an example of screen changes which Drawing 21 follows. In Drawing 22, an upper left figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 19, Drawing 20, and Drawing 4 respectively. Living is added in room arrangement setting screen 900 at the upper left of Drawing 22. If operation of the tap of the room addition button 903 being carried out, and adding a room succeedingly (C215) is repeated, room arrangement set part 108 will add a room added according to operation of adding a room to room arrangement setting screen 900.
0189If operation of adding a room to room arrangement setting screen 900 is completed (C216) and a tap to returning button 902 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement screen 400 (C217).
0190Floor plan 410 is generated by the above. Thus, in this indication, floor plan 410 to which each part store of a house was expressed by room icon 401 is adopted. Therefore, the user can generate floor plan 410 by repeating operation of adding this room icon 401 to every one floor plan 410. Therefore, floor plan 410 according to room arrangement of a house can be created easily.
0191In room addition screen 1110, room icon 401 can be added to floor plan 410 only by inputting operation which chooses a desired room from a room candidate by whom it was indicated by the list. Therefore, time and effort into which a user is made to input operation of setting up a name of room icon 401 can be saved.
0192As shown in Drawing 11, the screen composition with room addition screen 1110 and same room change-of-appellation screen 1130 is adopted. That is, room candidate display column 1111 displayed on room addition screen 1110 has name candidate display column 1131 displayed on room change-of-appellation screen 1130, a display position and size, and the same shape. A room candidate's arrangement order included in room candidate display column 1111 is the same as that [arrangement] of a name candidate of a room in name candidate display column 1131.
0193Name input button 1114 and Cancel button 1113 which are displayed on room addition screen 1110 have name input button 1134 and Cancel button 1133 which are displayed on room change-of-appellation screen 1130, a display position, size, and a the same size. Although additional button 1112 displayed on room addition screen 1110 differs in a function, its change button 1132, display position, size, and size which are displayed on room change-of-appellation screen 1130 are the same.
0194Therefore, the great portion of screen composition of room addition screen 1110 and screen composition of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 can be commoditized, and composition of both screens can be expressed as a simple structure. As a result, it can become easy for a user to apply an input method in one screen by analogy also to a screen of another side, an operation mistake by a user can be prevented, and the situation where a processing step increases carelessly can be avoided. Also in room addition screen 1110 and room change-of-appellation screen 1150 in Drawing 12, this is the same.
0195Next, the 1st variation of floor plan 410 is explained. The following explanation explains floor plan 410 of the 1st variation using room arrangement screen 400. Drawing 23 is a figure showing an example of the 1st variation of floor plan 410. The 1st variation is characterized by a point on which room icon 401 is displayed by two or more lines, when the number of room icons 401 of one hierarchy increases and it becomes impossible to be unable to display by one line.
0196In Drawing 23, in floor plan 410, size of room icon 401 and floor plan 410 is set up so that a maximum of five room icons 401 can be displayed on one line. On the other hand, what has six or more rooms in one hierarchy depending on a house exists. Then, room arrangement set part 108 displays a room icon in one hierarchy by two lines, when the number of room icon 401 in one hierarchy increases more than the maximum number per hierarchy. Also in floor plan 410 in room arrangement setting screen 900, this is the same.
0197Floor plan 410 of a house which has living, the door, a bathroom, a washroom, a passage, a dining room, a kitchen, and eight rooms of LDK in the first floor is shown by example of Drawing 23. Therefore, these eight room icons 401 cannot be displayed by one line. Then, room arrangement set part 108 displays living, the door, a bathroom, a washroom, and room icon 401 of a passage on a display stage of the lowest line by a horizontal line, and displays the remaining dining rooms, a kitchen, and room icon 401 of LDK on a display stage of the 2nd line by a horizontal line from the bottom.
0198In Drawing 23, turn to which an arrangement order of room icon 401 in one hierarchy carried out operation in which a user added room icon 401, for example is adopted. For example, at an example of Drawing 23, they are living and the door... Since five rooms were added in an order of a passage, five room icons 401 of living - a passage are displayed in an order from the left in a display stage of the lowest line. To this stage, room arrangement set part 108 displays room icon 401 of the first floor in a display stage of one line. And in the first floor, if the number of room icon 401 added will be six or more pieces, room arrangement set part 108 will add a display stage of one line of the first floor on a display stage of the lowest line. Here, since room icon 401 of a dining room was added to the 6th, room icon 401 of a dining room is displayed on the 1st row of an added display stage. And a kitchen and room icon 401 of LDK which were added 7th henceforth are displayed on the 2nd row of an added display stage, and the 3rd row.
0199Thus, even if it is a case where it exists more mostly than the number of a room which the number of a room of one hierarchy which constitutes a house can display in the 1st variation in a display stage whose number is one, a display stage of room icon 401 of an applicable hierarchy is provided two or more lines, and all the rooms can be displayed on floor plan 410.
0200Drawing 24 is a figure showing other examples of the 1st variation of floor plan 410. Floor plan 410 of a house where five or more rooms exist also not only in the first floor but in the second floor is shown by Drawing 24. Therefore, in Drawing 24, a display stage of room icon 401 of the second floor is also provided two lines.
0201Specifically, a Japanese-style room added to the 1st - the 5th in the second floor - five room icons 401 of LDK are displayed on a display stage of the 2nd line from a top. And in the second floor, if a room of the 6th henceforth is added, room arrangement set part 108 will display room icon 401 of a passage and a bedroom which added a display stage of one line of the second floor to the best line, and was added to this display stage 6th henceforth.
0202Thus, even if a hierarchy exceeding the number of a room which can be displayed in a display stage of one line is a house with multiple room arrangement, all the rooms can be expressed as the 1st variation on floor plan 410.
0203In Drawing 23 and Drawing 24, although room arrangement of a house of 2 stories was shown, even if it is a house of 3 or more stories, when room icon 401 of a specific hierarchy cannot be displayed in a display stage of one line, a display stage of a specific hierarchy may be added one line. In a specific hierarchy, when it becomes impossible to be unable to display the number of a room in a display stage of two lines, room arrangement set part 108 should just add a display stage of the 3rd line.
0204In room arrangement 410, the number of a display stage increases and it is assumed that it also becomes impossible to be unable to display no display stages on display 101. In this case, room arrangement set part 108 should just make above or down scroll floor plan 410 so that a scroll button which scrolls floor plan 410 up and down may be displayed for example, and an undisplayed display stage may be displayed on display field 412 according to operation of a scroll button.
0205Next, the 2nd variation of floor plan 410 is explained. The following explanation explains floor plan 410 of the 2nd variation using room arrangement setting screen 900. In floor plan 410 of the 2nd variation, when the number of the maximum rooms which can be displayed in a display stage whose number of rooms of a certain hierarchy of 1 is one line is exceeded, it is characterized by a point of displaying on another page a room which was not able to be displayed.
0206Drawing 25 is a figure showing an example of the 2nd variation of floor plan 410. Floor plan 410 of a house of 4 stories is shown by Drawing 25. In this example, room icon 401 shall be displayed in a display stage of a maximum of four lines per screen, and a maximum of five room icons 401 per display stage of one line shall be displayed.
0207In this state, room addition button 903 is chosen and suppose that room icon 401 of a kitchen was added to 1F. Then, room arrangement set part 108 divides room arrangement setting screen 900 into two or more pages, and displays it. Drawing 26 is a figure showing the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900. Drawing 27 is a figure showing the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900.
0208As shown in Drawing 26, in the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900, the following page display button 2601 for changing a display to the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 to which a rightward arrow mark was given is displayed in the center at the right end of display field 412. Room icon 401 of one copy contained on the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 is translucent in a right end of the page [1st] floor plan 410, and is displayed at it.
0209Here, it is translucent and room icon 401 displayed on the 1st row is adopted as room icon 401 displayed, for example in a display stage in which the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 corresponds.
0210Room icon 401 of a kitchen is expressed to the 1st row of a display stage of the first floor as the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 27. Therefore, in an example of Drawing 26, on the right of room icon 401 of a Japanese-style room displayed on the 5th row of a display stage of the first floor, room icon 401 of a kitchen is translucent and is displayed. On the other hand, room icon 401 is not expressed in each display stage of the second floor - the fourth floor as the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 27. Therefore, in an example of Drawing 26, room icon 401 is translucent in each display stage of the second floor - the fourth floor, and is not displayed on it.
0211Thereby, existence of the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 can be reported to a user who recognized visually the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900.
0212Pre-page display button 2701 for changing a display to the page [that is shown in Drawing 27 / 2nd] room arrangement setting screen [page / 1st] 900 on which it set room arrangement setting screen 900, and a leftward arrow mark was attached in the center at the left end of display field 412 is displayed. Room icon 401 contained on the page [1st] room arrangement screen is translucent in a left end of the page [2nd] floor plan 410, and is displayed at it.
0213Room icon 401 of a Japanese-style room is expressed to the 5th row of a display stage of the first floor as the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 26. Therefore, in an example of Drawing 27, on the left of room icon 401 of a kitchen displayed on the 1st row of a display stage of the first floor, room icon 401 of a Japanese-style room is translucent, and is displayed. Room icon 401 of a toilet is expressed to the 5th row of the second floor as the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 26. Therefore, in an example of Drawing 27, room icon 401 of a toilet is translucent on left-hand of the 1st row of a display stage of the second floor, and is displayed on it.
0214On the other hand, room icon 401 is not expressed to the 5th row of each display stage of the third floor - the fourth floor as the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 26. Therefore, in an example of Drawing 27, room icon 401 is translucent in a display stage of the third floor - the fourth floor, and is not displayed on it.
0215Thereby, existence of the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900 can be reported to a user who recognized visually the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900.
0216Thus, even if it is a case where it exists more mostly than the number of a room which the number of a room of one hierarchy which constitutes a house has displayed in a display stage whose number is one, the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 is provided, and all the rooms can be expressed on room arrangement setting screen 900 as the 2nd variation.
0217It is although Drawing 26 and Drawing 27 showed room arrangement of a house of 4 stories, Even if it is a house of 5 or more stories or 3 stories or less, when room icon 401 of a specific hierarchy cannot be displayed in a display stage of one line, room icon 401 which was not able to be displayed on the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 may be displayed.
0218In the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900, when room icon 401 of a specific hierarchy cannot be displayed in a display stage of one line, room icon 401 which was not able to be displayed on the page [3rd] room arrangement setting screen 900 may be displayed. That is, room arrangement set part 108 should just prepare room arrangement setting screen 900 for a page according to the number of room icon 401 of a specific hierarchy.
0219Drawing 28 is a figure showing an example of screen changes of a room arrangement setting screen of Drawing 25 - Drawing 27. In Drawing 28, an upper left figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 25, Drawing 27, and Drawing 26 respectively. In room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in the upper left of Drawing 28, the tap of the room addition button 903 of the first floor is carried out, and it presupposes that room icon 401 of a kitchen was added. Then, room arrangement set part 108 is translucent on right-hand of the 5th row of the first floor of the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900, and displays room icon 401 of a kitchen on it (C281).
0220In lower left room arrangement setting screen 900, if a tap of the following page display button 2601 is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 (C282).
0221Room icon 401 of a toilet and a Japanese-style room is translucent on left-hand of the 1st row of a display stage of the first floor and the second floor, and is expressed on it as the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900. And in this page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900, if a tap of pre-page display button 2701 is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900 (C283).
0222Next, an addition of room icon 401 and change of a name to the room icon 401 are explained. Drawing 29 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 just before room icon 401 is newly added. Suppose that room addition button 903 of the second floor was chosen by user in Drawing 29. Then, room arrangement set part 108 displays room addition screen 1110 for adding a room to the second floor of room arrangement setting screen 900 on display 101.
0223Drawing 30 is a figure showing an example of room addition screen 1110. If a room of 1 is chosen as room candidate display column 1111 from rooms listed as a room candidate, room arrangement set part 108 will add room icon 401 which shows a selected room to the second floor of room arrangement setting screen 900. Therefore, if a room applicable in a room candidate listed by room candidate display column 1111 exists, a user only chooses a room of 1 from room candidates, and can add a room on floor plan 410. Therefore, room addition screen 1110 has a merit of making work which adds a room to floor plan 410 do simply.
0224However, a room with general room names, such as living and a dining room, is listed by room candidate display column 1111. Therefore, a room with a room name applicable depending on a user's house may not be displayed on room candidate display column 1111. There are also those who request that some users attach not a general name as a room name but original names for example, such as "father's room" and "a grandma's room. "Then, room name input screen 3100 (Drawing 31) is provided, and a user enables it to set up freely a name of a room added on floor plan 410 in this indication.
0225In room addition screen 1110 shown in Drawing 30, if name input button 1114 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will display room name input screen 3100.
0226Drawing 31 is a figure showing an example of room name input screen 3100. Room name input screen 3100 is a screen used when changing a name of a room into a name for which a user asks. Strip-of-paper-like input column 3101 is provided in the upper part of room name input screen 3100.
0227Software keyboard 3102 is displayed below input column 3101. A character of a hiragana is arranged in order by software keyboard 3102, for example. Wording into which a user operated and inputted software keyboard 3102 is displayed on input column 3101. In an example of Drawing 31, since a character of "Balcony" was inputted, it is displayed on input column 3101 as "Balcony. "Below software keyboard 3102, buttons, such as "kana" of a hiragana, "kana" of katakana, "alphanumeric", and a "sign", are arranged by a horizontal line. Selection of a "kana" button of a hiragana will display software keyboard 3102 with which a character of a hiragana shown in Drawing 31 was arranged. Selection of a "kana" button of katakana will display software keyboard 3102 with which a character of katakana was arranged on display 101. Selection of an "alphanumeric" button will display software keyboard 3102 with which a number and the alphabet were arranged. Selection of a "sign" button will display software keyboard 3102 with which signs, such as a pictorial symbol and a Greek character, were arranged.
0228On the right-hand side of software keyboard 3102, conversion button 3104, determination button 3105, elimination button 3106, and end button 3107 of an input are arranged by vertical line. Conversion button 3104 is a button for changing into a Chinese character a character which a user inputted in a hiragana or katakana. Determination button 3105 is a button for deciding a Chinese character of 1 out of a conversion candidate of a Chinese character displayed on display 101, when conversion button 3104 is chosen. A part or all of a character that was displayed on input column 3101 in a hiragana or katakana by this is changed into a fixed Chinese character. Elimination button 3106 is a button for eliminating a character displayed on input column 3101. End button 3107 of an input is a button for terminating an input of a name which used room name input screen 3100.
0229A pair of cursor keys 3108 displayed by left arrow mark and a right arrow mark are displayed on right-hand side of input column 3101. If a cursor currently displayed on input column 3101 if cursor key 3108 of a left arrow mark is chosen once shifts leftward by one character and cursor key 3108 of a right arrow mark is chosen once, this cursor will shift rightward by one character. Returning button 3109 is a button for changing a display of display 101 to room arrangement screen 400.
0230If an input of a room name is completed and end button 3107 of an input is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 to which room icon 401 with an inputted room name was added. Drawing 32 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 immediately after adding room icon 401.
0231As shown in Drawing 32, in the display column of the second floor, it turns out that room icon 401 of "Balcony" as which a room name was inputted beside room icon 401 of a bedroom in Drawing 31 is added.
0232Drawing 33 is a figure showing an example of screen changes in case a room is added on floor plan 410 in inputting a room name. In Drawing 33, an upper left figure, an upper right figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 29, Drawing 30, Drawing 31, and Drawing 32 respectively. In upper left room arrangement setting screen 900, if a tap to room addition button 903 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room addition screen 1110 (C331).
0233In room addition screen 1110, if a tap to name input button 1114 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room name input screen 3100 (S332).
0234In room name input screen 3100, after registration of an input of a room name, if a tap to end button 3107 of an input by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900 (C333). In lower left room arrangement setting screen 900, room icon 401 of a balcony where a room name inputted on lower right room name input screen 3100 was attached is added.
0235Thus, in this indication, change of a room name and an addition of room icon 401 to floor plan 410 can set up by the same phase.
0236Next, change of a room name to room icon 401 added once is explained. First, if setting button 405 is chosen in room arrangement screen 400 by user who thinks will change a room name, room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 34 on display 101. Drawing 34 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 just before a room name is changed. Here, a case where a room name of room icon 401 of a passage of the second floor is changed is mentioned as an example, and is explained.
0237In this room arrangement setting screen 900, if room icon 401 of a passage is selected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120.
0238Drawing 35 is a figure showing an example of room edit display 1120. here, a passage of the second floor was chosen -- a sake -- room edit display 1120 -- "-- please choose operation to this room. It is displayed as 2F passage", and it is specified by user that editing work to room icon 401 of a passage of the second floor is started from now on.
0239If change-of-appellation button 1121 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (Drawing 36). Drawing 36 is a figure showing an example of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 in the state where a room name is not chosen by user.
0240In an example of Drawing 36, since a user has not chosen a room name yet, as for any check box 1135, check mark 1135M is expressed as a color of a non-active state. Suppose that a user chose a washroom in this room change-of-appellation screen 1130. Then, room arrangement set part 108 displays room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (Drawing 37) in the state where a washroom was chosen on display 101.
0241Drawing 37 is a figure showing an example of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 where a room name was chosen. Since a washroom was chosen by user as a room name as shown in Drawing 37, check mark 1135M of check box 1135 of a washroom is expressed as a color of a アクディブ state.
0242In this state, if change button 1132 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will be changed to room arrangement setting screen 900 on which change of a room name was reflected in a display of display 101. Drawing 38 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 after change of a room name. As shown in Drawing 38, a room name of room icon 401 of the 1st row of the second floor has been changed into a washroom from a passage.
0243Drawing 39 is a figure showing an example of screen changes at the time of change of a room name. In Drawing 39, an upper left figure, an upper right figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 34, Drawing 35, Drawing 37, and Drawing 38 respectively.
0244In room arrangement setting screen 900 at the upper left of Drawing 39, if a tap to room icon 401 of a passage of the second floor by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120 (C391). In room edit display 1120, if a tap to change-of-appellation button 1121 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (C392).
0245After a washroom is chosen as a room name after change in room change-of-appellation screen 1130, when a tap to change button 1132 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 is, A display of display 101 is changed to room arrangement setting screen 900 on which change of a room name was reflected (C393).
0246Thus, in this indication, since change of a room name can be performed after adding a room on floor plan 410, even if it is a case where a user adds room icon 401 accidentally, for example, room icon 401 is correctable to the right room name.
0247Next, change of a room name using room name input screen 3100 is explained. First, if setting button 405 is chosen in room arrangement screen 400 by user who thinks will change a room name, room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 40 on display 101. Drawing 40 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 just before a room name is changed. Here, a case where a room name of room icon 401 of a bedroom of 2F is changed is mentioned as an example, and is explained.
0248In this room arrangement setting screen 900, if room icon 401 of a passage of 2F is selected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120 (Drawing 41).
0249Drawing 41 is a figure showing an example of room edit display 1120. here, a bedroom of the second floor was chosen -- a sake -- room edit display 1120 -- "-- please choose operation to this room. It is displayed as 2F bedroom", and it is specified by user that editing work to room icon 401 of a bedroom of the second floor is started from now on.
0250If change-of-appellation button 1121 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (Drawing 42). Drawing 42 is a figure showing an example of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 in the state where a room name is not chosen by user. These details are the same as Drawing 36.
0251In this room change-of-appellation screen 1130, since a room name which a user is going to change does not exist in name candidate display column 1131, a user chooses name input button 1134. Then, room arrangement set part 108 changes a display of display 101 to room name input screen 3100 (Drawing 43). Drawing 43 is a figure showing an example of room name input screen 3100. Since Drawing 31 explained, details of room name input screen 3100 are omitted. In this room name input screen 3100, since a user inputted "a child's bedroom", he is displayed on input column 3101 as "a child's bedroom. "
0252And if end button 3107 of an input is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will be changed to a room arrangement setting screen (Drawing 44) on which change of a room name was reflected in a display of display 101. Drawing 44 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 where change of a room name was reflected. As shown in Drawing 44, a room name of room icon 401 of the 1st row of the second floor has been changed into a child's bedroom from a bedroom.
0253Drawing 45 is a figure showing an example of screen changes at the time of change of a room name which used room name input screen 3100. In Drawing 45, an upper left figure, an upper right figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 40, Drawing 41, Drawing 42, and Drawing 43 respectively. Drawing 46 is a figure showing an example of screen changes of a continuation of Drawing 45.
0254In room arrangement setting screen 900 at the upper left of Drawing 45, if a tap to room icon 401 of a bedroom of the second floor by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120 (C451). In room edit display 1120, if a tap to change-of-appellation button 1121 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (C452).
0255In room change-of-appellation screen 1130, if a tap to name input button 1134 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room name input screen 3100 (C453).
0256In room name input screen 3100, after input registration of a room name, if a tap to end button 3107 of an input by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900 on which change of a room name was reflected (C454). Room icon 401 into which a room name was changed is expressed to a child's bedroom inputted on room name input screen 3100 as room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 46.
0257Thus, in this indication, since a room name can be changed using room name input screen 3100, the user can customize a room name to an own favorite name, for example after an addition of room icon 401. Therefore, to room icon 401, a room name which a family calls can be attached, the situation where a user selects another room icon 401 accidentally is avoided, and an unnecessary processing step can be prevented from occurring every day.
0258Next, deletion of room icon 401 from floor plan 410 is explained. First, if setting button 405 is chosen in room arrangement screen 400 by user who thinks will delete room icon 401, room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 47 on display 101. Drawing 47 is a figure showing an example of room arrangement setting screen 900 before deletion of room icon 401. Here, a case where room icon 401 of a washroom of the second floor is deleted is mentioned as an example, and is explained.
0259In this room arrangement setting screen 900, if room icon 401 of a washroom of the second floor is selected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120 (Drawing 48).
0260Drawing 48 is a figure showing an example of room edit display 1120. here, a washroom of the second floor was chosen -- a sake -- room edit display 1120 -- "-- please choose operation to this room. 2F It is displayed as a washroom" and it is specified by user that editing work to room icon 401 of a washroom of 2F is started from now on.
0261If elimination button 1122 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room elimination confirmation screen 1140 (Drawing 49). Drawing 49 is a figure showing an example of room elimination confirmation screen 1140. This room elimination confirmation screen 1140 "May I eliminate this room?It is displayed as 2F washroom", and it is checked by user whether I may really eliminate room icon 401 of a washroom of 2F.
0262If elimination button 1141 is chosen by user, room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 where elimination of room icon 401 was reflected on display 101. As shown in Drawing 50, it turns out that room icon 401 of a washroom is eliminated from the second floor.
0263Drawing 51 is a figure showing an example of screen changes at the time of deleting room icon 401. In Drawing 51, an upper left figure, an upper right figure, a lower right figure, and a lower left figure are the same as Drawing 47, Drawing 48, Drawing 49, and Drawing 50 respectively.
0264In room arrangement setting screen 900 at the upper left of Drawing 51, if a tap to room icon 401 of a washroom by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room edit display 1120 (C511).
0265In room edit display 1120, if a tap to elimination button 1122 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room elimination confirmation screen 1140 (C512).
0266In room elimination confirmation screen 1140, if a tap to elimination button 1141 by contact thing X is detected, room arrangement set part 108 will change a display of display 101 to room arrangement setting screen 900 on which elimination was reflected. In this room arrangement setting screen 900, it turns out that room icon 401 of a washroom is eliminated from the second floor.
0267Thus, in this indication, since room icon 401 is eliminable, even if it is a case where room icon 401 is accidentally added to floor plan 410, this room icon 401 is eliminable from a floor plan. When a user moves to another house, unnecessary room icon 401 is deleted, and existing floor plan 410 can be customized so that a house of a new address may be suited at room arrangement. Even if it is a case where a plurality of rooms are unified by one room by reformation, room icon 401 which became unnecessary can be simply deleted from floor plan 410.
0268Next, a data structure of data which home controller 100 uses is explained. Drawing 52 is a figure showing an example of data composition of room arrangement setting information 5200 which room arrangement set part 108 manages.
0269Room arrangement setting information 5200 is information about room arrangement set up by user using room arrangement setting screen 900. Room arrangement setting information 5200 is provided with an item of the number of hierarchies, and the number of rooms. The number of hierarchies shows a number of stories of a house. A number of stories inputted into a user in number-of-stories setting screen 1500 which shows this number of hierarchies in Drawing 15 is adopted. In an example of Drawing 52, since a user inputted the second floor as a number of stories in number-of-stories setting screen 1500, room arrangement set part 108 has registered 2 into an item of the number of hierarchies. The number of rooms shows the number of a room of each story. A value according to the number of room icon 401 by which a user added the number of a room of each story to each story in room arrangement setting screen 900 is adopted. In an example of Drawing 52, in room arrangement setting screen 900, since a user added five room icons 401 to the first floor and four room icons 401 were added to the second floor, room arrangement set part 108 registers five or into the first floor, and has registered 4 into the second floor.
0270In room arrangement setting information 5200 shown in Drawing 52, since the number of hierarchies is 2, each number of rooms of the first floor and the second floor is registered, but if it is a house of the third more than floor, the number of rooms of the third more than floor of each story will be registered, and if it is a house only with the first floor, the number of rooms of the first floor will be registered.
0271Drawing 53 is a figure showing an example of data composition of system convention value information 5300. System convention value information 5300 is information which specifies display capability of room icon 401 in floor plan 410. system convention value information 5300 -- the number of the maximum display stages, the number of the minimum display stages, and per page -- the number of the maximum rooms of 1 display stage -- and it has an item of the number of smallest part stores of 1 display stage per page.
0272The number of the maximum display stages is the maximum of a display stage where floor plan 410 can display room icon 401. For example, if the number of the maximum display stages is 4, as shown in Drawing 24, a display stage of a maximum of four lines will be displayed.
0273The number of the minimum display stages is the minimum of a display stage where floor plan 410 can display room icon 401. For example, if it is a house which is less than a display stage whose number of rooms is two lines if the number of the minimum display stages is 1, room arrangement will be displayed in a display stage of one line.
0274The number of the maximum rooms of 1 display stage shows per page the maximum display number of room icon 401 which can be displayed on a display stage of one line. For example, if 5 is registered into this item, as shown in Drawing 24, a maximum of five room icons 401 will be displayed on a display stage of one line.
0275The number of smallest part stores of 1 display stage shows per page the minimum display number of room icon 401 which can be displayed on a display stage of one line. For example, if 0 is registered into this item, a display stage where one is not displayed for room icon 401 is included in floor plan 410.
0276In an example of Drawing 53, since 4 is registered as the number of the maximum display stages and 5 is registered as the number of the maximum rooms of 1 display stage per page, the number of room icon 401 which can be displayed on floor plan 410 which is 1 page serves as a maximum of 20 (=4x5) 個.
0277Drawing 54 is a figure showing an example of data composition of room information 540. Room information 540 is information which shows arrangement of a room in floor plan 410. Room information 540 is provided with an item of room ID541, room name 542, hierarchy 543, and display page 544.
0278Room ID541 is the discernment information on a room set as floor plan 410. Room arrangement set part 108 publishes room ID541 to a room added by user by, for example, operating room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 9. Here, room arrangement set part 108 has determined a number of room ID541 in turn added by user to each part store on floor plan 410. In an example of Drawing 54, since a room was added on floor plan 410 in order of living, the door, and..., room arrangement set part 108 has set up a number of room ID in an order which is said to living as R001 and it says to the door as R002 and...
0279Room name 542 shows a name of each part store on floor plan 410. Here, when a room name of one of the room names listed by room candidate display column 1111 of room addition screen 1110 which a user shows in Drawing 18, for example is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 registers this room name into room information 540. When a room name of a room added on floor plan 410 is changed for example, using a software keyboard, room arrangement set part 108 registers into room information 540 a room name inputted into a software keyboard. When a room name of any 1 of the room names listed by name candidate display column 1131 of room change-of-appellation screen 1130 which a user shows in Drawing 37, for example is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 registers this room name into room information 540.
0280Hierarchy 543 shows to which hierarchy each part store on floor plan 410 belongs. For example, about a room which chose room addition button 903 of the second floor, and was added in room arrangement setting screen 900 which a user shows in Drawing 9, Room arrangement set part 108 registers "2" into room information 540 as a hierarchy of this room, and room arrangement set part 108 registers "1" into room information 540 as a hierarchy of this room about a room which chose room addition button 903 of the first floor, and was added.
0281Display page 544 shows whether a room on floor plan 410 is displayed on a page of a floor plan 410 throat. For example, in Drawing 27, since a kitchen is displayed on the page [2nd] floor plan 410, room arrangement set part 108 registers "2" into room information 540 as a display page about a kitchen. Since each part store shown in Drawing 26 is displayed on the page [1st] floor plan 410, room arrangement set part 108 registers "1" into room information 540 as a display page about these rooms.
0282Drawing 55 is a figure showing an example of data composition of equipment list 1700 which home controller 100 manages. Based on information on this equipment list 1700, home controller 100 arranges apparatus icon 501 on floor plan 410, or controls apparatus 200.
0283Equipment list 1700 is provided with apparatus ID1701, apparatus type 1702, part number 1703, arrangement 1704, capability information 1705, control-commands addressee 1706, IP address 1707, amount of used electricity 1708, and status 1709.
0284Apparatus ID1701 is the discernment information on apparatus 200. Apparatus type 1702 shows a kind of apparatus 200. Part number 1703 shows a part number of apparatus 200. Arrangement 1704 shows a room in which apparatus 200 is installed. Here, matching with a room in which apparatus 200 and its apparatus 200 are installed is performed, for example, when a user registers apparatus 200 into home controller 100 newly. For example, when directions which register a certain apparatus 200 are inputted by user, home controller 100 displays an apparatus setting screen of figure abbreviation on display 101, and should just make a user input a name and room ID of a room in which apparatus 200 is installed through the apparatus setting screen.
0285Capability information 1705 shows the state of being acquirable from the contents and apparatus 200 which can control apparatus 200. For example, in an air-conditioner of A, apparatus ID can control temperature, a wind, and the amount of winds. Control-commands addressee 1706 shows an addressee of control commands which control apparatus 200. In an example of Drawing 55, since "apparatus" is registered as control-commands addressee 1706 of all the apparatus 200, control commands are directly transmitted to apparatus 200 from home controller 100.
0286On the other hand, control commands are transmitted via a server (figure abbreviation) on the Internet for a manufacture maker of the apparatus 200 to provide service for a user to some apparatus 200. To such apparatus 200, a "server" is registered as a control-commands addressee, and home controller 100 transmits control commands via a server to this apparatus 200. Control commands are commands for operating apparatus 200 or checking a state of apparatus 200.
0287IP address 1707 is an IP address given to apparatus 200. Here, home controller 100 should just register into IP address 1707 IP address 1707 which self assigned, if composition which assigns an IP address dynamically to apparatus 200 is adopted. An IP address is assigned for apparatus 200 by an external device, or when apparatus 200 self has an IP address a priori, an IP address may be acquired from an external device or apparatus 200, and it may register with IP address 1707.
0288Amount of used electricity 1708 shows amount of used electricity of apparatus 200. Here, amount of used electricity (kwh) per hour of each apparatus 200 is adopted as amount of used electricity. If this amount of used electricity is managed by a smart distribution board (figure abbreviation) formed in a house, for example, Home controller 100 should just acquire amount of used electricity from a smart distribution board, and if managed by each of apparatus 200, home controller 100 should just acquire amount of used electricity from apparatus 200 directly.
0289Status 1709 shows the present state of apparatus 200. In an example of Drawing 55, since preset temperature of the present [ID / apparatus / air-conditioner / of A] is 27 degrees, "27 ℃" is registered as status. Here, supposing home controller 100 transmits control commands for changing into a certain state to a certain apparatus 200, it should just update status 1709 in the state where the control commands show then. Or if apparatus 200 has a notice function of a state, home controller 100 asks a state periodically to this apparatus 200, and should just update status 1709 in the state where a response from apparatus 200 shows.
0290Next, a flow of processing of home controller 100 at the time of a room arrangement setup is explained. Drawing 56 is a flow chart which shows an example of overall processing of home controller 100 at the time of a room arrangement setup.
0291First, it is judged whether as for room arrangement set part 108, initial setting has ended that home controller 100 starts (S5601). Here, room arrangement set part 108 sets up an initial-setting flag actively, for example, when initial setting is ended by user. And room arrangement set part 108 should just judge whether initial setting has ended from a state of this initial-setting flag.
0292If initial setting has ended (it is YES at S5602), room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement screen 400 on display 101. On the other hand, if initial setting is not settled (it is NO at S5602), room arrangement set part 108 displays initial-setting start screen 1400 (Drawing 14) on display 101 (S5603).
0293If button 1401 is chosen in initial-setting start screen 1400 to the next, room arrangement set part 108 will display number-of-stories setting screen 1500 (Drawing 15) on display 101 (S5604). Next, room arrangement set part 108 receives an input of a setup of a number of stories from a user in number-of-stories setting screen 1500 (S5605). In number-of-stories setting screen 1500, if button 1504 is chosen to the next, room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 (Drawing 16) of an initial state on display 101 (S5606).
0294Next, room arrangement set part 108 displays room arrangement screen 400 on display 101, after performing room arrangement setting processing (S5607) and completing this processing (S5608).
0295Drawing 57 is a flow chart which shows an example of room arrangement setting processing shown in Drawing [S5607] 56. First, room arrangement set part 108 displays room arrangement setting screen 900 on display 101 (S5701), and an input from a user awaits it (S5702). And if room addition button 903 is depressed by user (it is YES at S5703) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will perform a room addition (S5706). On the other hand, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if room icon 401 is depressed (it is YES at NO and S5704 in S5703) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will perform room edit processing (S5707).
0296On the other hand, in room arrangement setting screen 900, depression (selection) of returning button 902 will end room arrangement setting processing (it is YES at NO and S5705 in S5704). On the other hand, if returning button 902 is not depressed (it is NO at S5705) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S5702, and an input in room arrangement setting screen 900 awaits it, and it maintains a state.
0297Drawing 58 is a flow chart which shows an example of a room addition shown in Drawing [S5706] 57. First, room arrangement set part 108 displays room addition screen 1110 (Drawing 17) of a story corresponding to room addition button 903 with a selected user (S5801), and awaits an input from a user (S5802). For example, if a user chose room addition button 903 of the first floor, room addition screen 1110 of the first floor will be displayed, and if a user chose room addition button 903 of the second floor, room addition screen 1110 of the second floor will be displayed.
0298Among rooms listed as a room candidate in room addition screen 1110, If check box 1115 corresponding to one of rooms is chosen by user (it is YES at S5803), room arrangement set part 108 will give check mark 1115M to check box 1115 corresponding to a selected room (S5806), and will return processing to S5802.
0299On the other hand, in room addition screen 1110, if additional button 1112 is depressed by user (it is YES at NO and S5804 in S5803) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will add a room (S5810). In this case, room arrangement set part 108 newly publishes room ID, adds a new record to room information 540, and registers a room name of a room chosen as this record by user by S5803, and an applicable story. In order that display control part 103 may generate room arrangement screen 400 using room information 540, this addition is immediately reflected also in floor plan 410 of room arrangement screen 400.
0300On the other hand, in room addition screen 1110, if name input button 1114 is depressed (it is YES at NO and S5805 in S5804) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will display room name input screen 3100 (Drawing 31) on display 101 (S5807). On the other hand, if name input button 1114 is not pushed (it is NO at S5805), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S5802, and an input from a user in room addition screen 1110 awaits it, and it maintains a state.
0301Next, room arrangement set part 108 awaits an input of a room name by a user in room name input screen 3100 (S5808). In room name input screen 3100, if end button 3107 of an input is depressed by user after a room name is inputted (it is YES at S5809) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will add a room (S5810). In this case, room arrangement set part 108 newly publishes room ID, adds a new record to room information 540, and registers a room name which used software keyboard 3102 for this record by S5808, and was inputted into it by user, and an applicable story.
0302On the other hand, if end button 3107 of an input is not pushed (it is NO at S5809), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S5808, and maintains a state of waiting for an input of a room name.
0303In S5811, room arrangement set part 108 performs processing which displays an added room on room arrangement setting screen 900 (S5811).
0304Drawing 59 is a flow chart which shows an example of processing which displays an added room which is shown in Drawing [S5811] 58 on room arrangement setting screen 900. First, room arrangement set part 108 tries whether a room which gives an additional indication can be displayed by the 1st page of floor plan 410 (S5901). Next, room arrangement set part 108 judges whether the number of rooms of a display stage of a room which gives an additional indication has reached the maximum per page (S5902). For example, in floor plan 410 showing in Drawing 25, a case where a room is added to 1F is assumed. In this floor plan 410, five rooms are already displayed on a display stage of the first floor. This "5" is equivalent to "5" which is specified using system convention value information 5300 and "which is the number of the maximum rooms of 1 display stage per page. "In this case, it is judged with YES by S5902. On the other hand, if the number of rooms currently displayed on a display stage of the first floor is four or less, it will be judged with NO by S5902.
0305Since a room can be displayed on the page [1st] floor plan 410 by S5902 in NO, room arrangement set part 108 displays room arrangement setting screen 900 which added a room to a specified display stage of a hierarchy on display 101 (S5906).
0306When it judges with YES by S5902, room arrangement set part 108 judges whether the number of hierarchies has reached the maximum (S5903). In an example of Drawing 25, a room is already displayed in a display stage of four lines. This "4" is equivalent to "4" which is the "number of the maximum display stages" specified using system convention value information 5300. In this case, it is judged with YES by S5903. On the other hand, in floor plan 410 of Drawing 25, if a room is displayed in three or less display stages, it will be judged with NO by S5903.
0307When it judges with NO by S5903, room arrangement set part 108 increases the one number of display stages of a hierarchy which adds a room (S5907), and displays room arrangement setting screen 900 which added a room to an added display stage on display 101 (S5908).
0308When it judges with YES by S5903, it is judged whether room arrangement set part 108 has the following page (S5904). For example, in the case of room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 26, since the following page is already created, it is judged with YES S5904. On the other hand, since the following page is not created in the case of room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 25, it is judged with NO by S5904.
0309When it judges with NO by S5904, room arrangement set part 108 adds the following page to room arrangement setting screen 900 (S5909). And room arrangement set part 108 displays room arrangement setting screen 900 where a room was added to a display stage of a hierarchy in which added room arrangement setting screen 900 of a page corresponds on display 101 (S5910). In this case, for example, in room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 25, supposing a kitchen is added to the first floor, as shown in Drawing 27, the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 will be added, and a kitchen will be displayed on this display stage that is the first floor.
0310On the other hand, when it judges with YES by S5904, room arrangement set part 108 tries whether an additional indication of the room is given on the following page (S5905), and returns processing to S5902. Henceforth, processing for displaying an added room on room arrangement setting screen 900 to a room arrangement setting screen of the following page is performed. For example, in room arrangement setting screen 900 which the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 already shows in added Drawing 26, supposing a room is newly added to the second floor, processing which displays a room added to the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 27 will be performed.
0311Drawing 60 is a flow chart which shows an example of room edit processing shown in Drawing [S5707] 57. First, room arrangement set part 108 displays room edit display 1120 (Drawing 35) on display 101 (S6001), and awaits an input from a user (S6002).
0312When change-of-appellation button 1121 is depressed by user in room edit display 1120 (it is YES at S6003) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 is, Room name processing is performed (S6006) and a name of a room changed by this processing is displayed on room arrangement setting screen 900 (S6007).
0313On the other hand, when elimination button 1122 is depressed in room edit display 1120 (it is YES at NO and S6004 in S6003) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 is, Sequential execution of the processing (S6009) which makes undisplayed a room which was room-elimination-processed (S6008) and was deleted from room arrangement setting screen 900 is carried out.
0314On the other hand, in room edit display 1120, if button 1123 which returns by a user is depressed (it is YES at NO and S6005 in S6004) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will display room arrangement setting screen 900 on display 101 (S6010).
0315On the other hand, in room edit display 1120, if button 1123 which returns by a user is not pushed (it is NO at S6005), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S6002, and maintains a display of room edit display 1120.
0316Drawing 61 is a flow chart which shows an example of room change-of-appellation processing shown in Drawing [S6006] 60. First, room arrangement set part 108 displays room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (Drawing 37) on display 101 (S6101), and awaits an input by a user (S6102).
0317If check box 1135 corresponding to one of room names is chosen by user among listed room names in room change-of-appellation screen 1130 (being S6103 YES), Room arrangement set part 108 gives check mark 1135M to check box 1135 corresponding to a selected room name (S6104), and returns processing to S6102.
0318On the other hand, in room change-of-appellation screen 1130, if change button 1132 is depressed by user (it is YES at NO and S6105 in S6103) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will change a name of a room (S6110). In this case, room arrangement set part 108 updates a room name of a record of a room used as a candidate for change in room information 540 by a room name chosen by user by S6103.
0319On the other hand, in room change-of-appellation screen 1130, if name input button 1134 is chosen by user (it is YES at NO and S6106 in S6105), room arrangement set part 108 will display room name input screen 3100 (Drawing 43) on display 101 (S6107). On the other hand, if name input button 1114 is not pushed (it is NO at S6106), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S6102, and an input from a user in room change-of-appellation screen 1130 awaits it, and it maintains a state.
0320Next, room arrangement set part 108 awaits an input of a room name by a user in room name input screen 3100 (S6108). In room name input screen 3100, if end button 3107 of an input is depressed by user after a room name is inputted (it is YES at S6109) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will change a name of a room (S6110). In this case, room arrangement set part 108 is updated in room information 540 by a room name into which a room name of a record for change was inputted by user using software keyboard 3102 by S6108.
0321On the other hand, if end button 3107 of an input is not pushed (it is NO at S6109), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S6108, and maintains a state of waiting for an input of a room name.
0322Drawing 62 is a flow chart which shows an example of room elimination processing shown in Drawing [S6008] 60. First, room arrangement set part 108 displays room elimination confirmation screen 1140 (Drawing 49) on display 101 (S6201), and awaits an input from a user (S6202).
0323In room elimination confirmation screen 1140, if elimination button 1141 is chosen by user (it is YES at S6203), room arrangement set part 108 will delete an applicable room from floor plan 410 (S6204).
0324On the other hand, in room elimination confirmation screen 1140, if Cancel button 1142 is depressed by user (it is YES at NO and S6205 in S6203) (selection), room arrangement set part 108 will end processing. In this case, room arrangement set part 108 may delete a record in which a deleted room is registered in room information 540, and may not delete a record in which a deleted room is registered, but may register a deletion flag which shows that a room was deleted to that record.
0325On the other hand, in room elimination confirmation screen 1140, if Cancel button 1142 is not pushed by user (it is NO at S6205), room arrangement set part 108 returns processing to S6202, and an input from a user awaits it, and it maintains a state.
0326Drawing 63 is a flow chart which shows an example of processing which makes undisplayed an eliminated room shown in Drawing [S6009] 60 from room arrangement setting screen 900. First, room arrangement set part 108 makes an eliminated room undisplayed from room arrangement setting screen 900. Thereby, in room arrangement setting screen 900, room icon 401 of a room for deletion is made undisplayed. Here, as long as room icon 401 is arranged at both sides of eliminated room icon 401, room arrangement set part 108 may pack and display these two room icons 401, and may display them, without putting.
0327Next, room arrangement set part 108 will judge whether the number of rooms in an object display stage in which a room was made undisplayed is 0, if a room made undisplayed is the 1st page of room arrangement setting screen 900 (it is YES at S6302) (S6303). For example, in room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 50, when a bedroom of the second floor is deleted, since the number of rooms in an object display stage is set to 0, it is judged by S6303 to be YES. On the other hand, in room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 47, when a washroom of the second floor is deleted, since the number of rooms in an object display stage is not set to 0, it is judged by S6303 to be NO.
0328If judging it with YES by S6303, room arrangement set part 108 will judge whether the number of display stages of an object number of stories to which a room made undisplayed belongs is two or more (S6304). For example, in room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 47, even if a washroom of the second floor is deleted, since a display stage of the second floor is two or more, it is judged by S6304 to be YES. On the other hand, in room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 50, if a bedroom of the second floor is deleted, since the number of display stages of the second floor is set to 1, it will be judged by S6304 to be NO.
0329If judging it with YES by S6304, room arrangement set part 108 will delete one step of display stage of the hierarchy concerned (S6305). For example, in room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 50, supposing a bedroom of the second floor is deleted, a character of "2F" currently displayed on the highest rung will be eliminated, and room addition button 903 will be moved to a display stage of the 1st line which is the second floor.
0330If judging it with NO by S6302, room arrangement set part 108 will judge whether the number of rooms in a page as which a room made undisplayed was displayed is 0 (S6306). For example, in the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 27, since the number of rooms in the page concerned will be set to 0 supposing a kitchen is deleted, it is judged with YES by S6306. On the other hand, in the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 27, if other rooms are displayed on the page concerned even if a kitchen is deleted, it will be judged with NO by S6306, and processing will be advanced to S6303.
0331If judging it with YES by S6306, room arrangement set part 108 will delete the page concerned (S6307). For example, in the page [2nd] room arrangement setting screen 900 of Drawing 27, if a kitchen is deleted, since the number of rooms displayed on the page concerned is set to 0, the page concerned will be deleted. In this case, since it becomes unnecessary in the page [1st] room arrangement setting screen 900 shown in Drawing 26, room icon 401 and the following page display button 2601 by which it is indicated by translucent are deleted.
0332This indication may adopt the following modes.
0333(1) Although room arrangement setting screen 900 and room arrangement screen 400 were divided and displayed in the above-mentioned explanation, room arrangement screen 400 may be made to bear a function of room arrangement setting screen 900. In this case, in room arrangement screen 400, it is made to correspond to each hierarchy and room addition button 903 is provided. And if room addition button 903 to a certain hierarchy is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 should just display room addition screen 1110 on display 101.
0334When adopting this mode, a room deletion button for deleting room icon 401 may be provided in room arrangement setting screen 900. In this case, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if a user is made to do the tap of the one or more room icons 401 for deletion and the tap of the room deletion button is carried out, room arrangement set part 108 may bundle up room icon 401 by which the tap was carried out, and it may delete it. Or room arrangement set part 108 may delete only added room icon 401, if room addition button 903 is chosen, and a deletion button is chosen immediately after adding room icon 401 to room arrangement setting screen 900.
0335(2) In the above-mentioned explanation, in room arrangement setting screen 900, when room addition button 903 was chosen, room addition screen 1110 was displayed, but it is not limited to this. For example, if room addition button 903 is chosen, room arrangement set part 108 should just add room icon 401 to a display stage of a hierarchy in which room arrangement setting screen 900 corresponds direct, without displaying room addition screen 1110. In this stage, a room name will be given to added room icon 401. Then, when added room icon 401 is selected in room arrangement setting screen 900, room arrangement set part 108 displays room edit display 1120, and should just make a room name set up with a technique mentioned above.
0336When adopting this mode, in addition to room addition button 903, a room deletion button may be provided in room arrangement setting screen 900. And it may enable it to delete room icon 401 using a technique explained by (1).
0337(3) An operation sequence of deletion of room icon 401 in the above-mentioned explanation, First, it was the sequence of having selected room icon 401 for deletion in room arrangement setting screen 900, having chosen elimination button 1122 in room edit display 1120, next choosing elimination button 1141 with elimination button 1141 in room elimination confirmation screen 1140. In this case, only one room icon 401 can be deleted by 1 time of an operation sequence. Then, it may enable it to delete a plurality of room icons 401 by 1 time of an operation sequence in this indication. In this case, in room arrangement setting screen 900, if long aggressiveness [room icon 401], room arrangement set part 108 will indicate all the room icons 401 by oscillating.
0338And if a user does the tap of the room icon 401 which serves as a candidate for deletion by a user, room arrangement set part 108 will give a check mark to room icon 401 by which the tap was carried out, and will display a confirmation message of deletion. And if selection of a purport that it agrees with a confirmation message by a user is inputted, room arrangement set part 108 may bundle up room icon 401 by which the tap was carried out, and it may eliminate it. And according to this elimination, room arrangement set part 108 updates room information 5300, and should just reflect this elimination on floor plan 410.
0339A plurality of room icons 401 may be made to delete collectively using the technique of the above (1) which provides a room deletion button in room arrangement setting screen 900.
0340According to this indication, it is useful for art which controls apparatus which displayed a floor plan of a building on a display and was installed in a building. *
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- A control method and a program of an information terminal
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- PROCÉDÉ ET PROGRAMME DE COMMANDE DE TERMINAL D'INFORMATIONS
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- 情報端末の制御方法及びプログラム
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- A control method and a program of an information terminal
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- CPC, 8
- G06F3/04817
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- IPC, 1
- H04Q9 00
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