Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner
- Patent Title (中): 冷气机
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Application No.: US13327445Application Date: 2011-12-15
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Publication No.: US08392026B2Publication Date: 2013-03-05
- Inventor: Takashi Matsumoto , Shintaro Watanabe , Hiroshi Kage , Yoshikuni Kataoka , Hiroshi Hirosaki
- Applicant: Takashi Matsumoto , Shintaro Watanabe , Hiroshi Kage , Yoshikuni Kataoka , Hiroshi Hirosaki
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2008-231799 20080910; JP2009-135186 20090604
- Main IPC: G06F19/00
- IPC: G06F19/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is an air conditioner with functions for deciding room shape by determining, based on a temperature difference, information between the room's floor and walls occurring during operation, a human body detection position log, and a capacity zone of the air conditioner. In an embodiment, an infrared sensor detects a temperature of an area of the room by scanning the area and a control unit acquires thermal image data of the area scanned by the sensor and then controls the air conditioner based on the thermal image data. The control unit sets a boundary line between a wall and floor of the room at a position on the thermal image data, calculates a temperature difference between vertically adjacent pixels located above and below the boundary, corrects a position of the boundary based on temperature difference, and determines that areas parted by the boundary correspond to the wall and floor, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120123593A1 AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2012-05-17
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