Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Atsushi Kumaki

Shigefumi Odaohhara

Masaki Kobayashi

John Weldon Nicholson

Tetsuji Nakamura

Robert Bowser

Toshitsugu Mito

Mizuho Tadokoro

Takeshi Matsumoto

Takaaki Aoki

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Shigefumi Odeohhara

For verbal command processing, a phoneme module selects recognition phonemes from a phoneme input stream. A user recognition module selects a user profile for a user recognized based on the recognition phonemes. The command module processes a command concurrently identified from the phoneme input stream based on the user profile.

Verbal command processing based on speaker recognition

A computer provided with an intelligent batteryfor charging/discharging, the intelligent batterysupplying power to a main system unit, wherein the intelligent batteryincludes: a voltage measuring circuitfor measuring a battery voltage of the intelligent batterya current measuring circuitfor measuring a charging/discharging current of the intelligent batterya temperature measuring circuitfor measuring a temperature of the intelligent batteryand a CPUfor periodically reading the battery voltage measured by the voltage measuring circuitthe charging/discharging current measured by the current measuring circuitand the temperature measured by the temperature measuring circuitso as to manage a capacity deterioration of the battery due to a storage deterioration and a cycle deterioration, and wherein the main system unit includes an embedded controllerfor receiving information about the capacity deterioration from the CPUof the battery.

Electric device with intelligent battery system therein

A network system in which an electrical apparatus having a battery which performs charges and discharges to supply electric power to the electrical apparatus and a managing server are connected by the network and perform a diagnosis of the battery provided for the electrical apparatus. The electrical apparatus accesses a Web page provided by the managing server through the network and then transmits an information file about the battery to the managing server. The managing server reads the information file to analyze the information about the battery and then transmits the analytical results to the electrical apparatus.

Network system, managing server, electrical apparatus, battery status managing method, battery diagnosis method, and program thereof

A charge control method by which batteries can be efficiently charged, even if the charging is aborted, as well as a computer which employs such a charge control method is provided. The charge to the main battery is started and then the charge to the,main battery is stopped when the amount of electric energy in the main battery reaches a predetermined value (steps to ). Next, the charge to the second battery is started and then the charge to the second battery is stopped when the amount of electric energy in the second battery reaches a predetermined value (steps to ). Next, the charge to the main battery is restarted and then the charge to the main battery is stopped when the amount of electric energy in the main battery reaches 100%. Thereafter, the charge to the second battery is restarted and then the charge to the battery is stopped when the amount of electric energy in the second battery reaches 100% (steps to ).

Charge control method and computer

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Yokohama, Japan

Atsushi Kumaki