Device Control Apparatus and Device Control System

Abstract

Provided is a device control apparatus and a device control system capable of learning a range or area that needs to be taken as a relationship between a state of a control object and a state of a user, and suitably changing a control mode when the relationship is different from a normal one. A device control apparatus 10 includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires first information on a user, second information on a control object 106, and third information on a surrounding environment of the user or the control object 106; a relationship determination unit 104 that acquires a range or area that needs to be acquired as a relationship between the first information and the second information and a range or area that needs to be acquired as a relationship between the first information and the third information in a first state defined from states of the user and the control object 106; and a control mode change unit 105 that changes a control mode of the control object when at least one of the range or area that needs to be acquired as the relationship between the first information and the second information and the range or area that needs to be acquired as the relationship between the first information and the third information is different from the first state.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.