公开(公告)号：US20170268793A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15073813

申请日：2016-03-18

Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

Inventor： CARLOS HENRIQUE CARDONHA ,  ANDREA BRITTO MATTOS LIMA ,  STEFANY MAZON

IPC: F24F11/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G05B13/02

CPC classification number: G06K9/00711 ,  F24F11/30 ,  F24F11/62 ,  F24F2110/10 ,  F24F2110/20 ,  F24F2120/10 ,  G06K9/00369 ,  G06T7/11

Abstract: A method for temperature control includes acquiring image data, and analyzing the image data to identify one or more individuals within the image data. A level of thermal comfort is estimated for each of the identified individuals based on the image data. The determined level of thermal comfort indicates whether each individual appears to be feeling too hot, appears to be feeling too cold or appears to be feeling satisfied with an ambient temperature. An air-conditioning unit or a heating unit is controlled based on the estimation of the level of thermal comfort for each of the identified individuals.