Air-conditioning apparatus
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsMakoto KURIHARA, Kosuke SATO
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Abstract
An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a communication unit that receives a radio signal from a portable terminal: a sensor that detects detailed information including information indicating presence or absence of a person in a detection target region that is a target region for detection of whether a person is present or not; and a control unit that causes, when the communication unit receives a radio signal having a radio field intensity higher than or equal to a predetermined radio field intensity and a detection process by the sensor to detect the detailed information is in a stopped state, the sensor to start the detection process to detect the detailed information and control an air-conditioning operation based on the detailed information detected by the sensor,
Claims9
An air-conditioning apparatus comprising:
- a communication unit configured to receive a radio signal from a portable terminal;
- a sensor configured to detect detailed information that includes information indicating presence or absence of a person in a detection target region that is a target region for detection of whether a person is present or not;
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- a controller configured to cause, when the communication unit receives a radio signal having a radio field intensity higher than or equal to a predetermined radio field intensity and a detection process by the sensor to detect the detailed information is in a stopped state, the sensor to start the detection process to detect the detailed information and control an air-conditioning operation based on the detailed information detected by the sensor,
- wherein the controller causes the detection process by the sensor to be stopped, when the communication unit does not receive a radio signal having a radio field intensity higher than or equal to the predetermined radio field intensity and the sensor continuously detects no person in the detection target region. after the controller causes the sensor to start the detection process.
An air-conditioning apparatus comprising:
- a communication unit configured to receive a radio signal from a portable terminal;
- a sensor configured to detect detailed information that includes information indicating presence or absence of a person in a detection target region that is a target region for detection of whether a person is present or not;
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- a controller configured to cause, when the communication unit receives a radio signal having a radio field intensity higher than car equal to a predetermined radio field intensity and a detection process by the sensor to detect the detailed information is in a stopped state, the sensor to start the detection process to detect the detailed information and control an air-conditioning operation based on the detailed information detected by the sensor,
- wherein the radio signal includes an identification code that identifies the portable terminal on a transmission side that transmits the radio signal, and
- wherein the controller controls the air-conditioning operation based on information concerning at least one of the number of persons in the detection target region that is derived from one or more identification codes included in one or more radio signals received by the communication unit and the number of persons in the detection target region that is derived from the detailed information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.