| US 7,541,965 B2 | ||
| Appliance control apparatus | ||
| Kazushige Ouchi, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Takuji Suzuki, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Akihisa Moriya, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabuhsiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on May 12, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/432,489. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-143051 (JP), filed on May 16, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0262001 A1, Nov. 23, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G08C 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 341—176 [340/825.19; 74/471 XY] | 13 Claims |
| 1. An appliance control apparatus comprising:
an acceleration sensor which senses an acceleration resulting from a user motion;
a storage unit which stores a common control attribute set for a plurality of apparatuses, with the common control attribute
set for a plurality of apparatuses corresponding to the sensed acceleration from a user motion;
a recognition unit which recognizes a control-object apparatus and the common control attribute set to the control-object
apparatus from the acceleration sensed by the sensor with reference to the storage unit;
said recognition unit includes a control-object recognition unit which recognizes the control-object apparatus from the acceleration
sensed by the acceleration sensor and previously-set acceleration information of the control-object apparatus according to
the user motion;
wherein the acceleration information includes a recognition number distribution of the acceleration according to the control-object
apparatuses, and
wherein the control-object recognition unit recognizes a control-object apparatus having a high recognition number distribution;
a control command generator which generates a control command according to the control-object apparatus and the control attribute
recognized by the recognition unit; and
a transmitter which transmits the control command generated by the control command generator to the control-object apparatus
recognized by the recognition unit.
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