Sony patents car AC system that adjusts based on where you were before
Sony has filed a patent for a system that controls a vehicle's air conditioning by looking at where the driver or passenger was just before getting in. The device calculates the right temperature settings using information about the user's previous location, such as a hot building or a cold outdoor area.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an air-conditioning control device, an air-conditioning control method, and a program for enabling appropriate control of air conditioning in a case where a user has moved from a place where the user stayed into a space where air-conditioning is controlled, such as an interior of a vehicle. The air-conditioning control device according to the present technology includes a parameter calculation unit that calculates an air-conditioning control parameter associated with control of an air-conditioning system, on the basis of stay information that includes a place of stay of a user before the user moves to a space where the air-conditioning system is provided. For example, the present technology is applicable to an air-conditioning control device which controls an air-conditioning system for a vehicle.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An air-conditioning control device comprising: a parameter calculation unit that calculates an air-conditioning control parameter associated with control of an air-conditioning system, on a basis of stay information that includes a place of stay of a user before the user moves to a space where the air-conditioning system is provided.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL DEVICE, AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260307455A1
- Application number
- 18880580
- Filed
- Jul 10, 2023
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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