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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Iijima, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An air conditioner includes an outdoor device and an indoor device. The indoor device includes a control unit, a storage unit, and an infrared sensor unit that detects a human by detecting infrared rays. The infrared sensor unit includes thermal-image acquisition elements that detect infrared rays to acquire thermal image data and a sensor control unit that controls the thermal-image acquisition elements. When receiving the thermal image data from the infrared sensor unit, the control unit determines whether a communication error has occurred in each of the thermal-image acquisition elements. The control unit sets a thermal-image acquisition element that has a number of error determinations equal to or larger than a certain number as a communication-error established element. The control unit does not acquire thermal image data from the communication-error established element.