Electric device and electric device control method

摘要

An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.

主权项

1. An electric device comprising:
an operation unit, to which an operation instruction is inputted; a working unit for working in accordance with a first energy-saving pattern, based on the operation instruction inputted to the operation unit; a number-of-times detecting unit for detecting, from the operation instruction, an instruction being against energy savings and for counting a number of times of the instruction being against the energy savings; a time measuring unit for measuring time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts counting; and a controller for generating a signal inducing a modification of the first energy-saving pattern, based on both the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit and the time measured by the time measuring unit, wherein the controller generates the signal requesting the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a third energy-saving pattern severer than the first energy-saving pattern when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit does not reach the predetermined value even after the time exceeds a second predetermined period longer than the first predetermined period, the time being from when the time measuring unit starts measuring, and wherein, when the time is within a first predetermined period, the time being from when the time measuring unit starts measuring to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined count value, the controller generates the signal requesting the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a second energy-saving pattern more lenient than the first energy-saving pattern.