Method for controlling communications terminal and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9516726-B2
Application number	US-201414470732-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2014
Priority date	Sep 10, 2013
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A method for controlling a communications terminal is provided. The method includes causing a computer included in the communications terminal to store first illumination setting information and second illumination setting information in the memory; causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, at a certain illumination start time at which the illumination device is to be turned on, a first control signal corresponding to the first illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the first illumination state; and causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the sensor senses a motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time has passed, a second control signal corresponding to the second illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the second illumination state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a communications terminal that remotely controls an illumination device via a network, the method comprising:
causing a computer of the communications terminal to store first illumination setting information and second illumination setting information in a memory provided in the communications terminal, the first illumination setting information being used to light the illumination device with a first illumination state, the second illumination setting information being used to light the illumination device with a second illumination state different from the first illumination state;
causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, at a certain illumination start time at which the illumination device is to be turned on, a first control signal corresponding to the first illumination setting information to the illumination device via the network in order to light the illumination device with the first illumination state; and
causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where a sensor provided in the communications terminal senses a motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time, a second control signal corresponding to the second illumination setting information to the illumination device via the network in order to light the illumination device with the second illumination state,
wherein the certain illumination start time is within a predetermined time from an expected wake-up time of a user of the communications terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the sensor senses the motion of the communications terminal before the certain illumination start time, the second control signal to the illumination device via the network.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the second control signal that is transmitted in the case where the sensor senses the motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time is identical to the second control signal that is transmitted in the case where the sensor senses the motion of the communications terminal before the certain illumination start time.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the second control signal that is transmitted in the case where the sensor senses the motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time is different from the second control signal that is transmitted in the case where the sensor senses the motion of the communications terminal before the certain illumination start time.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first illumination setting information and the second illumination setting information each represent an illuminance of light emitted by the illumination device, and a second illuminance represented by the second illumination state is higher than a first illuminance represented by the first illumination state.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first illumination setting information and the second illumination setting information each represent a color of light emitted by the illumination device, and a first color represented by the first illumination state is different from a second color represented by the second illumination state.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first illumination setting information and the second illumination setting information each represent a lighting pattern of light emitted by the illumination device, and a first lighting pattern represented by the first illumination state is different from a second lighting pattern represented by the second illumination state.

8. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the communications terminal senses receipt of something before the certain illumination start time, the second control signal to the illumination device via the network in order to light the illumination device with the second illuminance.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein
the communications terminal includes a message application or a telephone application installed therein, and
the receipt of something is receipt of a message using the message application or receipt of a call using the telephone application.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to store alarm setting information representing a time at which an alarm is to be output in the memory;
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine, in a case where the communications terminal receives meteorological information, the alarm setting information on the basis of the received meteorological information; and
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine the illumination start time on the basis of the alarm setting information.

11. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to store alarm setting information representing a time at which an alarm is to be output in the memory; and
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine, in a case where the communications terminal receives schedule information representing a schedule of a user of the communications terminal, the alarm setting information on the basis of the received schedule information.

12. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine, in a case where the communications terminal receives power usage information representing power usage in a certain area in which the illumination device is provided or electricity fee information representing electricity fees in individual certain time slots in the certain area, a range of the second illuminance settable in the communications terminal, on the basis of the received power usage information or electricity fee information.

13. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine, in a case where the communications terminal receives power usage information representing power usage in a certain area in which the illumination device is provided or electricity fee information representing electricity fees in individual certain time slots in the certain area, a range of a wavelength corresponding to the second color and settable in the communications terminal, on the basis of the received power usage information or electricity fee information.

14. The method according to claim 5 ,
the communications terminal including a measurement device that measures an illuminance of light emitted by the illumination device,
the method further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine a range of the second illuminance settable in the communications terminal, on the basis of the illuminance measured by the measurement device.

15. The method according to claim 6 ,
the communications terminal including a measurement device that measures an illuminance of light emitted by the illumination device,
the method further comprising:
causing the computer of the communications terminal to determine a range of a wavelength corresponding to the second color and settable in the communications terminal, on the basis of the illuminance measured by the measurement device.

16. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
causing the computer of the co

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Corp America

Inventors

• Ogawa Kento
• Tanigawa Toru

Classifications

• G04C19/02 Primary

  by electric lamps · CPC title

• H05B47/16

  by timing means · CPC title

• G04G11/00

  Producing optical signals at preselected times · CPC title

• H05B47/198

  Grouping of control procedures or address assignation to light sources · CPC title

• H05B47/1965

  using handheld communication devices · CPC title