Information Processor Space Grouping by Use Application

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional space management in facilities like homes is inefficient due to reliance on user sensitivity, leading to complicated and inconvenient space division and integration, which can deteriorate facility convenience.

Innovation Solution

An information processor acquires room layout and installation information to set use applications for spaces, grouping them optimally through integration or division based on these criteria, enabling improved space management by generating second spaces that can be controlled as units, thus enhancing user convenience and accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple spaces are managed individually in units of space, then space identification is clear, but space management convenience deteriorates when multiple spaces serve one use application

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespace management convenienceVSAvoidspace grouping complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple first spaces into second spaces based on use application. The space management device groups spaces that share the same use application (e.g., dining room and kitchen both used for dining) into unified second spaces, enabling convenient collective management while maintaining individual space identification through the grouping structure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If spaces are grouped by use application, then space management convenience improves, but accuracy of space definition may deteriorate without proper criteria

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespace management convenienceVSAvoidspace definition accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses use application as a key parameter for grouping spaces. By changing the grouping criterion from physical space boundaries to functional use application, the system achieves both convenient management and accurate definition. The space management device determines which spaces share the same use application and groups them accordingly, ensuring precise and meaningful space definitions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If too many spaces are grouped together, then management convenience improves, but control interface becomes overwhelming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanagement convenienceVSAvoidcontrol interface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments spaces into hierarchical levels: first spaces (individual physical spaces) and second spaces (grouped spaces by use application). This segmentation allows the control interface to present grouped second spaces at a higher level for convenient management, while still allowing access to individual first spaces when needed, preventing interface overwhelming

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240028791A1Method for generating space, information processor, and computer-readable recording medium recording a program

Publication Date: 2024.01.25 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA

AI summary

An information processor is configured to: acquire room layout information on a building with multiple first spaces; acquire installation information on at least one of an apparatus and a facility that are installed in each first space of the multiple first spaces; set a use application for each of the first spaces based on the room layout information and the installation information; define at least one second space by grouping the multiple first spaces including at least one of integration of two or more first spaces and division of one first space based on the use application; and output a result of the grouping.