Camera-based 3D climate control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8929592-B2
Application number	US-201213418678-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2012
Priority date	Mar 13, 2012
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A climate control unit is controlled by constructing background and foreground models of an environment from images acquired of the environment by a camera. The background model represents the environment when unoccupied, and there is one foreground model for each person in the environment. A 2D location of each person in the environment is determined using the background and foreground models. A 3D location of each person is determined using the 2D locations and inferences made from the images. The controlling of the climate control unit is according to the 3D locations.

First claim

We claim:

1. A system for controlling a climate control unit, comprising:
a 2D monocular camera;
a processor, connected to an output of the camera, wherein the processor is configured to construct a background model and foreground models of an environment from images acquired of the environment by the camera, wherein the background model represents the environment when unoccupied, and there is one foreground model for each person in the environment, and a 2D location of each per…

Assignees

• Marks Tim K
• Jones Michael J
• Mitsubishi Electric Res Lab

Inventors

• Marks Tim K
• Jones Michael J

Classifications

• F24F11/63 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F2120/12

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F2120/10

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F11/30 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic