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US 12,103,356 B2Granted
Vehicle air conditioning controller, storage medium and air conditioning control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTeiko Inoue, Mitsuyoshi Ohno
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Abstract
Provided is a vehicle air conditioning controller including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor determines whether or not an occupant in a cabin of a vehicle is applying makeup to herself/himself and, in a case in which it has been determined that the occupant is applying makeup, changes at least one of an air direction or an air volume of conditioned air that is generated by an air conditioning system installed at the vehicle and is supplied to the occupant from an air outlet provided in the cabin.
Claims17
A vehicle air conditioning controller, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory, wherein
- the processor
- determines whether or not an occupant in a cabin of a vehicle is applying makeup and,
- in a case in which it has been determined that the occupant is applying makeup, changes at least one of an air direction or an air volume of conditioned air that is generated by an air conditioning system installed at the vehicle and is supplied to the occupant from an air outlet provided in the cabin,
- the processor acquires information relating to an area to which the occupant is applying makeup and changes, with reference to the acquired information, at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air in accordance with the area to which the occupant is applying makeup, and
- the processor
- references the information acquired in relation to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup and,
- in a case in which the area to which the occupant is applying makeup is a predetermined area other than around eyes, changes at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air to thereby change an air conditioning state in the cabin to a first air conditioning state and,
- in a case in which the area to which the occupant is applying makeup is around the eyes, changes at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air to thereby change the cabin to a second air conditioning state in which, compared to the first air conditioning state, the conditioned air supplied to the occupant is restricted.
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A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing, when executed by a processor, the processor to execute:
- determining whether or not an occupant in a cabin of a vehicle is applying makeup, and
- in response to determining that the occupant is applying makeup, changing at least one of an air direction or an air volume of conditioned air that is generated by an air conditioning system installed at the vehicle and is supplied to the occupant from an air outlet provided in the cabin, wherein
- the program causes the processor to further execute:
- acquiring information relating to an area to which the occupant is applying makeup, and
- changing, with reference to the acquired information, said at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air in accordance with the area to which the occupant is applying makeup, and
- the program causes the processor to further execute:
- referencing the acquired information relating to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup and,
- in response to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup being a predetermined area other than around eyes, changing said at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air to thereby change an air conditioning state in the cabin to a first air conditioning state, and
- in response to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup being around the eyes, changing said at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air to thereby change the cabin to a second air conditioning state in which, compared to the first air conditioning state, the conditioned air supplied to the occupant is restricted.
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An air conditioning control method, comprising:
- determining whether or not an occupant in a cabin of a vehicle is applying makeup;
- and
- in response to determining that the occupant is applying makeup, changing at least one of an air direction or an air volume of conditioned air that is generated by an air conditioning system installed at the vehicle and is supplied to the occupant from an air outlet provided in the cabin, wherein
- the method further comprises:
- acquiring information relating to an area to which the occupant is applying makeup, and
- changing, with reference to the acquired information, said at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air in accordance with the area to which the occupant is applying makeup, and
- the method further comprises:
- referencing the acquired information relating to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup and,
- in response to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup being a predetermined area other than around eyes, changing said at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air to thereby change an air conditioning state in the cabin to a first air conditioning state, and
- in response to the area to which the occupant is applying makeup being around the eyes, changing said at least one of the air direction or the air volume of the conditioned air to thereby change the cabin to a second air conditioning state in which, compared to the first air conditioning state, the conditioned air supplied to the occupant is restricted.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.