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US 12,215,880 B2Granted
Operating system, information processing device, control system, and infrared output device
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorsMakoto Ikeda, Kousuke Tsuboi, Takao Sonoda
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Abstract
An infrared output device is installed in a fixed apparatus whose position is fixed in a predetermined space. An input receiving device is configured to receive, through voice input, a control command to a first-type apparatus controllable by infrared ray. Upon the input receiving device receiving the control command, the infrared output device is configured to output infrared ray to the first-type apparatus.
Claims6
An infrared output device comprising:
- the infrared output device installed in a fixed apparatus whose position is fixed in a predetermined space, the fixed apparatus being an air conditioner, a television or a luminaire, the fixed apparatus being fixedly mounted on a ceiling or a wall of a room and configured to, upon an input receiving device, which is different from the fixed apparatus and which is configured to receive, through voice input, a control command to a first-type apparatus controllable by infrared ray, having received the control command, output infrared ray according to a control content indicated by the control command to the first-type apparatus to operate the first-type apparatus, the first-type apparatus being an apparatus to be controlled by the infrared output device and being different from the fixed apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.