AIR CONDITIONER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a comfortable air conditioning taking into consideration a human sensible temperature.SOLUTION: An air conditioner A comprises: an imaging section 121 which images a room interior at a wavelength in a visible light band range; an image recognition section 131 which recognizes distal portions of a human body such as a head, hands and feet on the basis of image information taken by the imaging section 121; a thermopile 122 which performs noncontact acquisition of a temperature distribution in the room interior as a thermal image; an object temperature detection section 132 which performs noncontact detection of temperatures at respective portions of the human body recognized by the image recognition section 131 on the basis of the thermal image acquired by the thermopile 122; and an air-conditioning control section 136 which increases a set temperature when a detection result of the object temperature detection section 132 shows that the temperature of the head becomes higher than the temperatures of the other distal portions of the human by two degrees or more during cooling operation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】人の体感温度を反映した快適な空調を実現する。【解決手段】空気調和機Ａは、可視光帯域で室内を撮像する撮像部１２１と、撮像部１２１が撮像した画像情報に基づき人の頭部、および、手または足である末端部を認識する画像認識部１３１と、室内の温度分布を非接触で熱画像として取得するサーモパイル１２２と、サーモパイル１２２が取得した熱画像から、画像認識部１３１が認識した各部位の温度を非接触で検知する物体温度検知部１３２と、冷房運転中に物体温度検知部１３２から得られた人の頭部の温度よりも末端部の温度が２度以上下がると、設定温度を高める空調制御部１３６とを備える。【選択図】図３