US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 1 for "Air-conditioning operation terminal, computer-readable medium and air-conditioning system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,430, issued on July 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air-conditioning operation terminal, computer-readable medium and air-conditioning system" was invented by Keita Saito (Tokyo), Shinichiro Otani (Tokyo), Tomooki Ukiana (Tokyo) and Masanori Nakata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition unit (211) acquires a photographed image obtained by photographing an air-conditioning indoor unit including a plurality of air outlets. An image collation unit (212) collates a template image wherein an air-conditioning indoor unit of a same type as the air-conditioning indoor unit is shown with the photograp...