Patent ID: 9721208
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G05B,G05F,G06N,G06Q,G08B

Claim:
1. A living activity inference device, comprising: an obtainer configured to obtain an energy consumption of an electric appliance; an appliance operation detector configured to identify an operational state of the electric appliance based on the energy consumption obtained by the obtainer; and an activity inferrer configured to perform an inference process of determining which one of a plurality of living activities predetermined a current living activity corresponds to, based on existing information including the operational state of the electric appliance identified by the appliance operation detector and a past living activity, the activity inferrer being configured to store a plurality of rules individually corresponding to the plurality of living activities, the inference process including a selection process and a determination process, the activity inferrer being configured to, in the selection process, select from the plurality of rules a rule to be used in the determination process, depending on the past living activity, and the activity inferrer being configured to, in the determination process, determine which one of the plurality of living activities the current living activity corresponds to, based on the rule selected through the selection process and the existing information.