Flush water control method, control device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
AssigneePanasonic Holdings Corporation
InventorsHirofumi Kanai, Toshihide Mori, Yuka Yamada
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Abstract
A controller acquires image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet to capture an image of a bowl of the toilet, determines whether an unacceptable matter being an object having a possibility of clogging the toilet is in the bowl by performing image recognition based on the image data, and sends, to a flush water controller, a flow prohibition signal of prohibiting flush water from flowing when it is determined that the unacceptable matter is in the bowl.
Claims8
A flush water control method for a controller communicably connected to a flush water controller that controls a flow of flush water into a toilet of a flush type, the flush water control method comprising:
- acquiring image data captured by a camera which is located at the toilet to capture an image of a bowl of the toilet;
- determining whether an unacceptable matter being an object having a possibility of clogging the toilet is in the bowl by performing image recognition based on the image data;
- and
- sending, to the flush water controller, a flow prohibition signal of prohibiting the flush water from flowing when it is determined that the unacceptable matter is in the bowl.
A controller communicably connected to a flush water controller that controls a flow of flush water into a toilet of a flush type, the controller comprising:
- an image data acquisition part that acquires image data captured by a camera which is located at the toilet to capture an image of a bowl of the toilet;
- an unacceptable matter determination part that determines whether an unacceptable matter being an object having a possibility of clogging the toilet is in the bowl by performing image recognition based on the image data;
- and
- a communication control part that sends, to the flush water controller, a flow prohibition signal of prohibiting the flush water from flowing when the unacceptable matter determination part determines that an unacceptable matter is in the bowl.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing A flush water control program for causing a computer to serve as a controller communicably connected to a flush water controller that controls a flow of flush water into a toilet of a flush type, the flush water control program causing the computer to:
- acquire image data captured by a camera which is located at the toilet to capture an image of a bowl of the toilet;
- determine whether an unacceptable matter being an object having a possibility of clogging the toilet is in the bowl by performing image recognition based on the image data;
- and
- send, to the flush water controller, a flow prohibition signal of prohibiting the flush water from flowing when it is determined that the unacceptable matter is in the bowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.