Patent ID: 11953220
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G | IPC F

Claim 8:
9. An environment-control command device configured to analyze comfort of each of a plurality of users, give a command to one or more environment-control devices based on an analysis result obtained by a comfort-analyzing device, the one or more environment-control devices being configured to control environment,
the comfort-analyzing device being configured to
for each of the users, accept a plurality of inputs from the user, at each of a plurality of different time points, of input of a current comfort level of the user, and separately sensory information representing sensation of the user associated with the input current comfort level of the user and an environmental factor that caused the input of the current comfort level of the user as input by the user,
for each of the users, construct a cognitive-structure model of the user regarding comfort by extracting the input current comfort level, the sensory information, and the information representing the environmental factor, which are input as the inputs for the user, and
for each of the users, analyze a property of the user relevant to the comfort of the user based on the cognitive-structure model,

the constructed cognitive model being configured such that the input current comfort level is placed at an upper level, the sensory information is placed at a middle level, and the information representing the environmental factor is placed at a lower level,
the environment-control command device comprising:
a first communication circuitry configured to acquire an analysis result representing the property of each of the users from the comfort-analyzing device;
a condition-calculating circuitry configured to calculate an environmental condition for each of the users based on the analysis result acquired by the first communication circuitry;
a second communication circuitry configured to communicate with the one or more environment-control devices; and
a second control circuitry configured to cause the second communication circuitry to transmit, to the one or more environment-control devices, a command to cause the one or more environment-control devices to perform a process based on the environmental condition calculated by the condition-calculating circuitry,

wherein the comfort-analyzing device is configured to accept as one of the inputs from each of the users a reply, inputted after the input of the current comfort level, the sensory information, and the information representing the environmental factor, to link the environmental factor with the input current comfort level of the user.