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US 9,807,983 B2Granted
Device control method for estimating a state of an animal and for determining a control detail for an electronic device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsYasuhiro Yuki, Kazuki Funase, Mitsuhiro Aso, Mina Shimizu
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Abstract
An electronic device including: a living thing state estimator that determines whether or not at least an animal other than a human is present in a space based on information on the space in which the electronic device is disposed, and estimates a state of the animal that is determined to be present; and a control detail determiner that determines a control detail for the electronic device, according to a result of the determination or the estimated state of the animal.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- a living thing state estimator that determines whether or not at least an animal other than a human is present in a space in which the electronic device is disposed, based on information on the space, and estimates a state of the animal that is determined to be present, the information being detected by a detector;
- a control detail determiner that determines a control detail for the electronic device, according to a result determined by the living thing state estimator or the estimated state of the animal;
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- an outputter that performs a predetermined operation,
- wherein, as long as the state of the animal is estimated to be an awake state by the living thing state estimator or when a change in the state of the animal from a sleeping state to the awake state is estimated by the living thing state estimator,
- the control detail determiner causes the outputter to perform an operation, as the predetermined operation, which is indicated by the control detail corresponding to the awake state.
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An electronic device system comprising:
- an information transmitter and receiver that transmits and receives information via a network to and from a first electronic device and a second electronic device installed in a predetermined space;
- a living thing state estimator that determines whether or not at least an animal other than a human is present based on the information on the predetermined space, and estimates a state of the animal that is determined to be present, the information on the predetermined space being detected by a detector included in the first electronic device and being received by the information transmitter and receiver;
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- a control detail determiner that determines a control detail for the second electronic device, according to a result determined by the living thing state estimator or the estimated state of the animal,
- wherein the information transmitter and receiver transmits, to the second electronic device via the network, the information for performing an operation indicated by the determined control detail,
- the second electronic device comprises a first illumination device installed in the predetermined space, and
- an operation indicated by a control detail according to a state in which the animal is sleeping specifies an instruction to cause the first illumination device to reduce an illumination intensity of the first illumination device or to increase an illumination intensity stepwise during a time period in which the animal is scheduled to be woken up.
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A device control method for a server that is connected to one or more electronic devices in a house via a network and that controls the one or more electronic devices,
- the device control method comprising:
- receiving information on a predetermined space from a first electronic device that is disposed in the predetermined space, the information on the predetermined space being detected by the first electronic device;
- determining whether or not at least an animal other than a human is present in the predetermined space when the information on the predetermined space is received;
- estimating a state of the animal that is determined to be present;
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- determining a control detail for a second electronic device disposed in the predetermined space, according to a result of the determining whether or not at least an animal is present or the estimated state of the animal,
- wherein the information on the predetermined space comprises an image or sensor data of the predetermined space obtained by the first electronic device,
- in the receiving, a plurality of images or pieces of sensor data, which are obtained by the first electronic device at different times, are received from the first electronic device, and
- in the estimating, the state of the animal is estimated by analyzing the received plurality of images or pieces of sensor data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.