| US 7,519,437 B2 | ||
| Control method and apparatus | ||
| Hiroshi Sugiyama, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 29, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/288,432. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-346514 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0122712 A1, Jun. 08, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G05B 15/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 700—19 [700/17; 700/65; 700/83] | 5 Claims |
| 1. A control method of controlling devices existing in an arbitrary place, comprising:
storing, in a first memory, a plurality of device lists, the device lists corresponding to a plurality of places respectively
and each including device information items which indicate devices existing in a corresponding one of the places;
storing, in a second memory, a plurality of control information lists corresponding to the places respectively, each of the
control information lists including control information items which indicate control operations for the devices existing in
a corresponding one of the places;
acquiring device information items indicating the devices;
calculating a degree of concordance between the device information items of each of the device lists and the device information
items acquired, to obtain degrees of concordance with respect to the device lists;
detecting, as an existence place of the devices, one of the places which corresponds to one of the device lists whose degree
of concordance is higher than a preset value and is a maximum of the degrees of concordance;
selecting a control information list corresponding to the existence place of the devices among the control information lists;
and
controlling the devices, based on the control information list corresponding to the existence place of the devices.
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