Patent ID: 9606551
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: F24F,G05B,G05D

Claim:
1. A control method for an information apparatus having a touch-panel display screen and being connected to a network, over which a plurality of target devices is controlled, the control method causing a computer of the information apparatus to: display, on the touch-panel display screen, a floor plan simultaneously depicting multiple rooms; display device icons representing each of the target devices as overlapped on the touch-panel display screen representing the floor plan, the multiple rooms in the floor plan having different device icons corresponding to different target devices; when a selection of a device icon representing an air conditioner among the target devices is sensed in a region corresponding to one room of the multiple rooms depicted on the floor plan, display an operation screen for operating the air conditioner corresponding to the selected device icon, on the touch-panel display screen, the operation screen including an image representing an air flow direction of air output from the air conditioner; and when a contact to the touch-panel display screen moves in a region corresponding to the image representing the air flow direction of the air, output to the network a first control command for changing the air flow direction of the air conditioner along a direction in which the contact moves.