Electric device and electric device control method

A method of controlling an electric device including:

• an operation unit, an operation instruction being inputted to the unit;
• a working unit for working in accordance with a first energy-saving pattern, based on the instruction inputted to the operation unit;
• a number-of-times detecting unit for detecting, from the operation instruction, an instruction being against energy savings and for counting a number of times of the instruction being against the energy savings;
• a time measuring unit for measuring time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting;
• and a controller for generating a signal inducing a modification of the first energy-saving pattern, based on both the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit and the time measured by the time measuring unit,
• the method comprising the steps of generating, performed by the controller, a signal requesting a modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a second energy-saving pattern more lenient than the first energy-saving pattern when the time is within a first predetermined period, the time being from when time measuring unit starts measuring to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.