Patent ID: 9734827
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G10K,G10L

Claim:
1. An electric equipment comprising: a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of other electric equipments in a predetermined space through a network; a sound collection unit configured to collect sound in the predetermined space; a voice recognition unit configured to recognize a voice from the collected sound; and a controller configured to transmit a noise reduction control signal to at least one other electric equipment of the plurality of the other electric equipments when the recognized voice is an operation command, wherein the controller is configured to reduce an operation rate of the at least one other electric equipment until a level of sound around the sound collection unit of the electric equipment is less than a reference sound level, and wherein the controller requests noise levels from the plurality of the other electric equipments, and when the noise levels are received, identify the at least one other electric equipment having a noise level greater than a target noise level among the plurality of the other electric equipments, and transmits the noise reduction control signal to reduce operation rates of the identified at least one other electric equipment.