Patent ID: 9442553
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N,H05B,Y02B

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus communicatively connected to an image sensor that is installed at the ceiling of a building, captures images of surroundings of a control target device which is to be a target of controlling and detects any one of presence/absence, a density and an amount of activity of people, comprising: an attribute information generation unit that generates, by using the images captured by the image sensor, attribute information of the control target device which is under jurisdiction of at least one of the image sensor; a management unit that manages the attribute information of the control target device generated by the attribute information generation unit in association with the control target device and the image sensor having jurisdiction over the control target device; and a demand control unit that controls the control target device based on any one of the presence/absence, density and amount of activity of people detected by the image sensor; wherein the attribute information generation unit detects an image in which a change occurs in accordance with powering on of the control target device from the images captured by the image sensor, and generates attribute information in which at least one of the image sensor that captured the image is associated with the powered-on control target device; wherein the attribute information generation unit specifies a relative positional relationship of the powered-on control target device with respect to the image sensor from a state of the change in the detected image, and generates information representing the positional relationship as the attribute information; wherein the attribute information generation unit divides an imaging range of the image sensor based on the specified relative positional relationship, and generates attribute information in which each of divided detection areas is associated with the control target device which belongs to the each of detection areas.