Control method

• US 6,353,764 B1
• Filed: 11/25/1998
• Issued: 03/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kamei, Michiyo, Imagawa, Taro, Mekata, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hartman, Jr., Ronald D
• Application Number:
  US09/199,371
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: 345/158, 345/358, 382/288, 382/168, 700/28, 700/1, 700/83, 700/90, 700/275, 700/302-306
• US Class Current: 700/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883

Abstract

A control method is to monitor a person'"'"'s attributes and based on the results, in predetermined content of the control, to control equipment to be controlled, further, to monitor said person'"'"'s peripheral environment and also by using these results to execute said control.

Claims

1. A control method of controlling a predetermined control object comprising the steps of:

(a) monitoring attributes of a plurality of persons,

(b) detecting a predetermined attribute of a predetermined person from the attributes of the plurality of persons being monitored, and

(c) controlling the predetermined control object using the detected predetermined attribute of the predetermined person.

2. A control method according to claim 1, in which a control object is selected on the basis of the detection of a predetermined attribute of a predetermined person.

3. A control method according to claim 2, in which a set of control contents is selected on the basis of the detection of a predetermined attribute of a predetermined person.

4. A control method according to claim 1 including the steps of:

monitoring a peripheral environment of persons, and

controlling the predetermined control object on the basis of detection of both a predetermined attribute of a predetermined person and a predetermined peripheral environment.

5. A control method according to claim 4, in which physical environment in the periphery of persons is used as said peripheral environment of persons.

6. A control method according to claim 4 or 5, in which said peripheral environment of persons is at least one selected from the group consisting of temperature, humidity, illuminance, sound level, state of air flow, concentration of a specific gas within air, and time.