Patent Document ID: 7962441
Application ID: 11901946
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An air conditioner for a vehicle comprising: an air-conditioning unit for supplying conditioned air into a vehicle; an information acquiring unit for acquiring state information indicating a state of the vehicle; a control information modifying unit having at least one probabilistic model for calculating a probability that a passenger will perform a predetermined setting operation, calculating said probability by inputting the state information into the at least one probabilistic model, and modifying the setting information or the control information related to the setting operation of the passenger according to the calculated probability so that the predetermined setting operation is performed; an air-conditioning control unit for controlling the air-conditioning unit according to the modified setting information or control information; an operating unit for performing a setting operation of the air conditioner; a storage unit for storing the state information acquired by the information acquiring unit and relating the state information to the predetermined setting operation, each time when the predetermined setting operation is performed via the operating unit; and a learning unit for building a first probabilistic model for calculating said probability of performing the predetermined setting operation using the state information which is stored in the storage unit and related to the predetermined setting operation; wherein the learning unit builds temporary probabilistic models by deciding a graph structure of each temporary probability model and a conditional probability relating to each node included in the graph structure using the state information which is stored in the storage unit and related to the predetermined setting operation, and selects the most appropriate temporary probabilistic model from the temporary probabilistic models according to a predetermined criterion as the first probabilistic model.