State display apparatus, state display system, and radio transmission apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10547396-B2
Application number	US-201815904667-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2018
Priority date	Apr 25, 2017
Publication date	Jan 28, 2020
Grant date	Jan 28, 2020

Abstract

A state display apparatus includes a plurality of state display LEDs and a plurality of margin display LEDs, and when receiving a radio signal indicating that a state of a management object has changed, performs light on/off control of a state display LED associated with the management object, and controls a margin display LED arranged above the state display LED so that whether or not a reception strength of the received radio signal is equal to or higher than a prescribed threshold is indicated by a lighted state/a turned-off state of the margin display LED on/off.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A state display apparatus, comprising:
a receiving unit which receives a radio signal from among radio signals transmitted by one or more radio transmission apparatuses, the radio signal indicating that a change has occurred in a state of a management object associated with a respective radio transmission apparatus of the one or more radio transmission apparatuses that is a transmission source of the radio signal;
an accepting unit which accepts a designation of a management object to be a display object of a margin of communication by the radio signal;
a display unit which displays a current state of each management object associated with the one or more radio transmission apparatuses and which, for each management object, displays the margin of communication by the radio signal between the state display apparatus and the respective management object designated as a display object of the margin of communication; and
a control unit which, based on a respective radio signal of the radio signals received by the receiving unit, specifies a respective management object for which a change in a state thereof is notified by the radio signal and the state of the specified respective management object after the change, which causes the display unit to display the specified state after the change as a current state of the specified respective management object and, when the specified respective management object is designated as the display object of the margin of communication, further obtains the margin of communication by the respective radio signal from a reception strength of the respective radio signal received by the receiving unit and causes the display unit to display the obtained margin of communication, wherein
the respective radio signal received by the receiving unit includes a device ID of the respective radio transmission apparatus of the one or more radio transmission apparatuses having transmitted the respective radio signal, and
the control unit:
holds correspondence relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between each management object and the device ID of the respective radio transmission apparatus of the one or more radio transmission apparatuses transmitting the radio signal indicating that the state of the respective management object has changed;
stores, each time the radio signal is received by the receiving unit, the margin of communication obtained from the reception strength of the received radio signal in association with the device ID included in the radio signal, in a storage apparatus; and
when the management object of which the state is notified to have changed by the radio signal received by the receiving unit is designated as the display object of the margin of communication, specifies, based on the correspondence relationship information, the device ID of each radio transmission apparatus which transmits the radio signal indicating that the state of the management object has changed and which is not a transmission source of the radio signal, and causes the display unit to display the margin of communication stored in the storage apparatus in association with each specified device ID and the margin of communication obtained from the reception strength of the radio signal.

2. The state display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the display unit includes a segment display, and
the control unit causes a numerical value indicating the margin of communication by the radio signal to be displayed on the segment display of the display unit when the specified management object is designated as a display object of the margin of communication.

3. The state display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the display unit includes a light emitting element, and
the control unit causes the light emitting element of the display unit to blink in a pattern in accordance with the margin of communication by the radio signal when the specified management object is designated as the display object of the margin of communication.

4. The state display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the display unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements which display the margin of communication by the radio signal, and
the control unit changes the number of light emitting elements to be lighted among the plurality of light emitting elements of the display unit in accordance with the margin of communication by the radio signal when the specified management object is designated as the display object of the margin of communication.

5. A state display system, comprising:
the state display apparatus according to claim 1 ; and
a plurality of radio transmission apparatuses which respectively generate power from an operating force of a user and transmit the radio signal using generated power.

6. A state display system, comprising:
the state display apparatus according to claim 1 , further including a transmitting unit which transmits a second radio signal which indicates the margin of communication obtained from the reception strength of the radio signal received by the receiving unit and which is addressed to the respective radio transmission apparatus of the one or more radio transmission apparatuses that is the transmission source of the radio signal; and
a plurality of radio transmission apparatuses each capable of transmitting the radio signal, and including a radio transmission apparatus-side receiving unit which receives the second radio signal addressed to the respective radio transmission apparatus from the state display apparatus, a display unit which displays the margin of communication, and a control unit which causes the display unit to display the margin of communication based on the second radio signal which is addressed to the respective radio transmission apparatus and which is received by the radio transmission apparatus-side receiving unit.

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

• Ohmae Soji
• Umeki Hajime
• Obata Junji
• Kawashima Yasushi
• Okabe Hiroshi

Classifications

• H04W16/20

  for indoor coverage or short range network deployment · CPC title

• H04W24/04 Primary

  Arrangements for maintaining operational condition · CPC title

• H04W24/08

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• H04B17/26

  using historical data, averaging values or statistics · CPC title

• H04Q2209/10

  using a centralized architecture · CPC title