CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

A remote control, upon determining that a power-saving flag is on, or in other words, upon determining that the remote control is conducting power-saving operating behavior, decides on a monochrome image stored in a reduced image memory as image information to be read by a renderer. The monochrome image has ⅛ the amount of information compared to a color image stored in a normal image memory. Consequently, in the case of power-saving operating behavior by the remote control, the renderer is able to read a monochrome image stored in the reduced image memory with less power compared to the case of reading a color image stored in the normal image memory. Consequently, power consumed in the remote control may be restricted in the case of power-saving operating behavior by the remote control.

主权项

1. A control device that receives a control operation for controlling equipment to be controlled, and transmits control information according to the received control operation to the equipment to be controlled, comprising:
a display that displays a control screen; an information memory that stores first image information, being image information of image pixels that form a control screen displayed on the display; a reduced information memory that stores second image information, being image information of the image pixels and having an amount of information that is less than that of image information stored in the information memory; an operating mode setter that sets an operating mode of the control device to one of a first operating mode that operates with designated power consumption, and a second operating mode with lower power consumption than the first operating mode; and a screen generator that, when the operating mode setter has set the first operating mode, reads first image information stored in the information memory and generates a control screen made up of a plurality of image pixels, and when the operating mode setter has set the second operating mode, reads second image information stored in the reduced information memory and generates a control screen made up of a plurality of image pixels and displays the generated control screen on the display.