Patent ID: 11906179
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G | IPC F  G

Claim 0:
1. An air conditioning control apparatus comprising:
a voice acquirer configured to acquire an audio signal for controlling a plurality of air conditioners from a mobile terminal;
a central processing unit configured to
specify the plurality of air conditioners to be controlled based on the acquired audio signal;
store, for each of two or more refrigerant groups, an air conditioner management table in which pieces of identification information on a single outdoor unit and one or more indoor units are registered in association with each other, the one outdoor unit and the one or more indoor units belonging to the refrigerant group;
store an air conditioner specification table that identifies a plurality of people and correlates one of the plurality of indoor units with each of the respective plurality of people;
generate control commands for executing, based on the acquired audio signal, control of the plurality of air conditioners specified by the central processing unit; and
transmit, to the plurality of air conditioners specified by the central processing unit, the control commands generated by the central processing unit,

wherein the plurality of air conditioners to be controlled are selected from a group of indoor units and outdoor units arranged into the two or more refrigerant groups such that each of the two or more refrigerant groups includes a single outdoor unit selected from the group of indoor units and outdoor units and at least one of the indoor units selected from the group of indoor units and outdoor units,
wherein the two or more refrigerant groups are identified by one or more keywords, respectively, such that each of the two or more refrigerant groups is uniquely identified by one of the one or more keywords,
wherein the central processing unit specifies, as the plurality of air conditioners to be controlled, the one or more indoor units associated with a selected refrigerant group from the two or more refrigerant groups identified by a selected keyword contained in the acquired audio signal and the single outdoor unit belonging to the selected refrigerant group,
wherein the central processing unit
identifies a person who is a source of the acquired audio signal,
identifies an indoor unit correlated with the identified person based on the stored air conditioner specification table,
identifies an outdoor unit belonging to an identical refrigerant group to the identified indoor unit based on the air conditioner management table, and
specifies the identified indoor unit and outdoor unit as one of the plurality of air conditioners to be controlled, and

wherein the air conditioner specification table identifies a plurality of people and uniquely correlates one of the plurality of indoor units with each of the respective plurality of people.