Control method for air-conditioning equipment, program, and mobile information terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9791208-B2
Application number	US-201414509248-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2014
Priority date	Oct 15, 2013
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

An air-conditioning setting screen has a coordinate space defined by a Y-axis along which temperature items are indicated in increments of one degree and an X-axis along which time-point items are indicated in increments of one hour. Operation points PT corresponding to the time-point items are arranged in the coordinate space. The air-conditioning setting screen displays time-series changes in a previous day's body-movement values such that the density of a background color is higher for times at which the body-movement value is larger and the density of a background color is lower for times at which the body-movement value is smaller.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control method for a mobile information terminal having a display to control air-conditioning equipment connected through a network, the method causing the mobile information terminal to:
display, on the display, a temperature setting screen on which set temperatures of the air-conditioning equipment are settable for respective time slots;
output pieces of set temperature information for the respective time slots set on the temperature setting screen to the network at a predetermined timing as the set temperatures of the air-conditioning equipment;
measure body-movement values of a user for the respective time slots, by using an acceleration sensor; and
change a view of the temperature setting screen, based on the body-movement values of the user for the time slots, and display the view on the display.

2. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein background color of the temperature setting screen is changed based on the body-movement values of the user for the respective time slots, and resulting background color is displayed on the display.

3. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the temperature setting screen includes images indicating temperature setting portions for the respective time slots,
the images indicating the temperature setting portions for the respective time slots are changed based on the body-movement values of the user for the respective time slots, and
the resulting images are displayed on the display.

4. The control method according to claim 3 , wherein colors of the images indicating the temperature setting portions for the respective time slots are changed based on the body-movement values of the user for the respective time slots, and the resulting images are displayed on the display.

5. The control method according to claim 3 , wherein sizes of the images indicating the temperature setting portions for the respective time slots are changed based on the body-movement values of the user for the respective time slots, and the resulting images are displayed on the display.

6. The control method according to claim 2 , wherein, on the temperature setting screen, a background color for the time slot in which the body-movement value of the user exceeds a predetermined threshold is displayed on the display, the background color being different from a background color for another time slot.

7. The control method according to claim 4 , wherein, on the temperature setting screen, the color of the image indicating the temperature setting portion for the time slot in which the body-movement value of the user exceeds a predetermined threshold is displayed on the display by using a color different from the color of the image indicating the temperature setting portion for another time slot.

8. The control method according to claim 5 , wherein, on the temperature setting screen, the image indicating the temperature setting portion for the time slot in which the body-movement value of the user exceeds a predetermined threshold is displayed on the display with a larger size than the size of the image indicating the temperature setting portion for another time slot.

9. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein a graph indicating the body-movement values of the user in a time series is displayed superimposed on the temperature setting screen on the display.

10. The control method according to claim 9 , wherein, on the temperature setting screen, luminance of an area inside the graph indicating the body-movement values in a time series is displayed such that an area where the body-movement value is larger is displayed with a higher luminance.

11. The control method according to claim 1 , wherein
the temperature setting screen includes a control start button for outputting, when the user starts to sleep, the pieces of set temperature information for the respective time slots to the network, the pieces of set temperature information being set on the temperature setting screen; and
the predetermined timing is timing at which an operation for selecting the control start button is input.

12. The control method according to claim 11 , wherein
the set temperature information comprises information for time slots during sleep of the user; and
the view of the temperature setting screen is changed based on past body-movement values of the user in respective time slots during sleep.

13. A program for causing a mobile information terminal having a display to control an air-conditioning equipment connected through a network, the program being recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and causing the mobile information terminal to execute:
processing for displaying, on the display, a temperature setting screen on which set temperatures of the air-conditioning equipment are settable for respective time slots;
processing for outputting pieces of set temperature information for the respective time slots set on the temperature setting screen to the network at a predetermined timing as the set temperatures of the air-conditioning equipment;
processing for measuring body-movement values of a user for the respective time slots, by using an acceleration sensor; and
processing for changing a view of the temperature setting screen, based on the body-movement values of the user for the time slots, and displaying the view on the display.

14. A mobile information terminal that executes the program according to claim 13 .

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Corp America

Inventors

• Sasaki Taiji
• Nishida Yoichi
• Fuchikami Tetsuji
• Harada Shunji
• Sugiyama Masashi

Classifications

• F24F11/57

  using telephone networks · CPC title

• F24F11/58

  using Internet communication · CPC title

• F24F11/523

  for displaying temperature data · CPC title

• G05D23/1904 Primary

  variable in time · CPC title

• F24F2120/14

  Activity of occupants · CPC title