Information providing system
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorYoshinao Inaba
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Abstract
An information providing system provides information relating to dirt in a drain pan of an air conditioner. The information providing system is provided with a computer which is connected to a camera and a user terminal. The computer acquires image data of a target object imaged by the camera, identifies a dirty region in the image data, creates dirt-related information in which the dirty region is highlighted in the image data, and outputs the dirt-related information to the user terminal.
Claims11
An information providing system that provides information related to contamination of a drain pan of an air conditioner, the information providing system comprising:
- a computer connected to a camera and a user terminal,
- wherein the computer is configured to:
- obtain image data of the drain pan captured by the camera;
- convert the image data to image data from which a type of contamination is easily recognized, the type of contamination including collected contaminants or turbid water;
- find a contaminated region in the image data in accordance with the type of contamination based on a hue value of every pixel in the image data that is converted;
- generate contamination-related information in which the contaminated region is highlighted in accordance with the type of contamination so that the type of contamination can be identified in the image data;
- form a contamination chart indicating a change in a contaminant amount with respect to elapsed time based on image data of the drain pan captured at different times;
- generate the contamination-related information including the contamination chart and a threshold value of the contaminant amount indicating when to perform cleaning;
- highlight a time point at which the contaminant amount reaches the threshold value of the contamination in the contamination chart;
- and
- output the contamination-related information to the user terminal.
An information providing system that provides information related to contamination of a drain pan of an air conditioner, the information providing system comprising:
- a computer connected to a camera and a user terminal,
- wherein the computer is configured to:
- obtain image data of the drain pan captured by the camera;
- find a contaminated region in the image data in accordance with a type of contamination, the type of contamination including collected contaminants or turbid water;
- generate contamination-related information in which the contaminated region is highlighted in the image data;
- calculate a failure probability in a predetermined future period based on the image data of the drain pan;
- generate the contamination-related information including the failure probability and in which the failure probability is highlighted when the failure probability is greater than a predetermined probability;
- form a contamination chart indicating a change in a contaminant amount with respect to elapsed time based on image data of the drain pan captured at different times;
- generate the contamination-related information including the contamination chart and a threshold value of the contaminant amount indicating when to perform cleaning;
- highlight a time point at which the contaminant amount reaches the threshold value of the contamination in the contamination chart;
- and
- output the contamination-related information to the user terminal.
An information providing system that provides information related to contamination of a drain pan of an air conditioner, the information providing system comprising:
- a computer connected to a camera and a user terminal,
- wherein the computer is configured to:
- obtain image data of the drain pan captured by the camera;
- find a contaminated region in the image data in accordance with a type of contamination, the type of contamination including collected contaminants or turbid water;
- generate contamination-related information in which the contaminated region is highlighted in the image data;
- calculate an air pollution level in a predetermined future period based on the image data of the drain pan;
- generate the contamination-related information including the air pollution level and in which the air pollution level is highlighted when the air pollution level is greater than an upper limit value;
- form a contamination chart indicating a change in a contaminant amount with respect to elapsed time based on image data of the drain pan captured at different times;
- generate the contamination-related information including the contamination chart and a threshold value of the contaminant amount indicating when to perform cleaning;
- highlight a time point at which the contaminant amount reaches the threshold value of the contamination in the contamination chart;
- and
- output the contamination-related information to the user terminal.
An information providing system that provides information related to contamination of a drain pan of an air conditioner, the information providing system comprising:
- a computer connected to a camera and a user terminal,
- wherein the computer is configured to:
- obtain image data of the drain pan captured by the camera;
- convert the image data to image data of HSV format;
- find a contaminated region in the image data in accordance with a type of contamination based on a hue value of every pixel in the image data that is converted, the type of contamination including collected contaminants or turbid water;
- generate contamination-related information in which the contaminated region is highlighted in accordance with the type of contamination so that the type of contamination can be identified in the image data;
- form a contamination chart indicating a change in a contaminant amount with respect to elapsed time based on image data of the drain pan captured at different times;
- generate the contamination-related information including the contamination chart and a threshold value of the contaminant amount indicating when to perform cleaning;
- highlight a time point at which the contaminant amount reaches the threshold value of the contamination in the contamination chart;
- and
- output the contamination-related information to the user terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.