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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
May. 28, 2009
Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Koji Kimura, Kawasaki, JP;
Toshimitsu Kumazawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Koji Kimura, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An appliance control apparatus acquires, at intervals of predetermined time, a state data including values of operation states of respective appliances, stores the state data as one record in a memory, to store time-series records, classifies the records in the memory into a plurality of living situation groups by clustering the records, and calculates, for each living situation group, a barycenter of each operation state, determines, for a target state data, one of the living situation groups to which the target state data belongs, determines one of the operation states whose value in the target state data is larger than corresponding barycenter in the one of the living situation groups, and determines the barycenter as a recommended value, and controls the one of operation state to the recommended value when obtaining an acceptance instruction for the recommended value.