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Room information inferring apparatus, room information inferring method, and air conditioning apparatus

A room information and room technology, applied in the field of estimating information related to the room, can solve the problem that the shape of the room cannot be obtained

Active Publication Date: 2016-01-27
OMRON CORP
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However, in the method of Patent Document 3, since the shape of the room cannot be obtained, air conditioning control corresponding to the shape of the room cannot be performed.

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[0052] (Structure of air conditioner)

[0053] refer to figure 1 And Fig. 2 illustrates the overall configuration of an air conditioner (hereinafter, referred to as an air conditioner) according to an embodiment of the present invention. figure 1 It is a figure which shows the functional block of an air conditioner, and FIG. 2 is a figure which shows the appearance of an air conditioner. This air conditioner 1 includes a room information estimating device 2 using a human body detection function, and performs air-conditioning control based on room-related information estimated by the room information estimating device 2 . In addition, in the present embodiment, the shape of the room and the furniture installation area are estimated as room information, and air-conditioning control is performed based on these room information.

[0054] The air conditioner 1 includes a room information estimation device 2 , a room information storage unit 3 , an air conditioning control unit 4 ...

no. 2 approach

[0097] In addition to the structure of the first embodiment, the air conditioner of this embodiment estimates the life cycle of the life scene based on the human body detection result, and performs appropriate air conditioning control in consideration of the life scene according to the shape of the room.

[0098] A life scene is a typical action pattern generated at a place of life. For example, action patterns such as cooking, eating, gathering, and studying can be cited as examples of life scenes. What kind of life scene life cycle is the cycle in which life scene appears in which time period. Since the appropriate air-conditioning control method differs depending on the life scene, if the life cycle of such a life scene is known, it can be used to realize appropriate air-conditioning control.

[0099] Figure 13 It is a functional block diagram of the air conditioner 1 of this embodiment. Compared with the first embodiment, the room information estimating device 2 includ...

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Abstract

The present invention provides a room information inferring apparatus, a room information inferring method, and an air conditioning apparatus. The information regarding a room, such as the shape of the room, is inferred simply and precisely. A room information inferring apparatus for inferring information regarding a room includes: an imaging unit that captures an image of a room that is to be subjected to inferring; a person detection unit that detects a person in an image captured by the imaging unit, and acquires the position of the person in the room; a presence map generation unit that generates a presence map indicating the distribution of detection points corresponding to persons detected in images captured at different times; and an inferring unit that infers information regarding the room based on the presence map. The person detection unit can detect the face, head, or upper body of the person in the image, and acquire the position of the person in the room based on the position and size of the face, head, or upper body in the image. The inferring unit can infer that a polygon circumscribed around the distribution of detection points in the presence map is the shape of the room.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to techniques for estimating information about rooms. Background technique [0002] It may be preferable to control household electrical appliances used indoors according to the shape of the room in which they are installed. For example, if the air-conditioning apparatus does not perform air-conditioning control according to the shape of the room, air may not circulate and heat may accumulate. [0003] Among air conditioners in recent years, there is also an air conditioner that allows a user to input a room shape and performs air conditioning control based on the input room shape (Patent Document 1, etc.). However, it is necessary to input whether the shape of the room is vertical / horizontal / square, which one is the shape of the room, which one is the center / right / left of the air conditioner, and the distance to the wall is far / standard / It takes time for user to wait for which one of the information. Also, since the u...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): F24F11/00
CPCF24F2120/12F24F11/30F24F2120/10F24F11/62F24F11/79F24F2120/14F24F11/46F24F11/63F24F11/74G06T7/20G06T7/60G06T11/20G05B13/0205G06T2207/30201G06V30/422G06V40/10G06V40/168
Inventor 真锅诚一仲市淳
Owner OMRON CORP
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