Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Eiichi Naito

Takamitsu Sasaki

Jun Ozawa

Hiroshi Kutsumi

Takenobu Aoshima

Toru Tanigawa

Katsuyoshi Yamagami

Takahiro Kudoh

Hideyuki Yoshida

Shunsuke Kuhara

Kohsuke Yoshioka

Takashi Tsuzuki

Takeo Azuma

Kenya Uomori

Mikiya Nakata

Satoshi Matsuura

Shoichi Araki

Mototaka Yoshioka

Susumu Maruno

Yumi Wakita

Noboru Wakami

Takahiro Kudo

Jeffry Fernando

Hiroyoshi Nomura

Shouichi Araki

Takashi Tajima

Isao Hayashi

Tomoyasu Hiratsuka

Hirokazu Kawamoto

Masaki Kiyono

Yuumi Jitousho

When a management device receives battery exchange demand information from a first vehicle, the management device specifies at least one exchange partner candidate which is a vehicle providing a battery exchange with the first vehicle, transmits battery exchange request information to the exchange partner candidate, specifies, when receiving a battery exchange acceptance signal from a second vehicle, a battery exchange place based on location information about each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle, creates exchange instruction information including position information about the battery exchange place, and transmits the exchange instruction information to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.

Management method and management device for shared electric vehicle, and computer-readable recording medium

An information processing device includes: a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information representing a state of a battery mounted on an electric device driven by the battery; an association information acquisition unit that acquires association information representing an association between the state of the battery and a deterioration rate of the battery; a deterioration information deriving unit that derives deterioration information related to the deterioration rate of the battery, based on the state information and the association information; and an output unit that outputs the deterioration information.

Information processing device, computer-readable recording medium recording a program, and information processing method

A use management device includes: a traveling information acquisition part which acquires subsequent prospective traveling information about an electrically driven cart; a remaining amount information acquisition part which acquires remaining amount information about a battery; a determination section which determines, based on the prospective traveling information and the remaining amount information, whether charging of the battery is necessary; and a control section which executes a permission control of permitting a traveling motor to drive when the determination section determines that the charging of the battery is unnecessary, and executes a forbidding control of forbidding the traveling motor from driving when the determination section determines that the charging of the battery is necessary.

Electric cart use management device, use management system, computer-readable recording medium, and electric cart use management method

A device includes a processor and memory storing a computer program that causes the processor to perform operations including (A) acquiring an address indicating a delivery destination of a package, and first attribute information indicating an attribute of a stopping position where an autonomous vehicle delivering the package stops at the delivery destination, (B) determining a side from which the package is to be unloaded at the delivery destination, out of a plurality of sides of the autonomous vehicle, based on the address and the first attribute information, and (C) outputting management information in which identification information for identifying the package is associated with the determined side.

Device for determining position to unload parcel from autonomous vehicle for delivery, method, autonomous vehicle, and system

A computer-implemented information processing method includes: obtaining a plan including at least locations to which moving object is expected to travel and stay at; setting, on the basis of the locations included in the plan, a candidate charging location at which the battery of the moving object is chargeable; obtaining the reservation status of a charging station associated with the candidate charging location; and arranging reservation details according to the reservation status of the charging station.

Information processing method and information processing system

An information processing device in a first vehicle: detects a head-on approach of a second vehicle relative to the first vehicle; determines whether a meeting point is in a first section; calculates a first distance between the first section and the meeting point; when the meeting point is not in the first section, transmits the first distance to the second vehicle, and receives, from the second vehicle, a second distance between the meeting point and a second section; generates travel control information for the first vehicle according to the result of comparison between the first distance and the second distance; and outputs the travel control information to a travel controller of the first vehicle.

Information processing device and recording medium

A control method causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan including one or more rooms; using at least one memory that associates first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing one or more target devices with second information indicating an attribute of each of the one or more rooms, display each of the one or more device icons in a room that corresponds to each of the one or more device icons in accordance with the type of each of the one or more device icons; and when it is determined that one device icon of the one or more device icons is a second type, the one device icon is displayed in a same room as a room in which the device icon of a first type is displayed.

Information apparatus control method, computer-readable recording medium, and information providing method to control devices connected to network via device icons displayed on floor plan

A system includes a controller and base stations each including first and second transmitters and a detector. The controller, when a first base station is not connected with any mobile body, causes the first transmitter of the first base station to transmit a first signal and the second transmitter of the first base station to transmit a second signal, thereby guiding a mobile body around the first base station toward the first base station. The controller, when the first base station is connected with a mobile body and a second base station closest to the first base station is not connected with any mobile body, causes the first transmitter of the first base station to transmit the second signal and/or the second transmitter of the first base station to transmit the first signal, thereby guiding the mobile body around the first base station toward the second base station.

System including base stations connectable with mobile bodies, base station in system, and control method for controlling base station in system

A control method of the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display an operation icon on a display screen of the information apparatus, the operation icon causing an operation screen for an electric curtain device to be displayed; display the operation screen for the electric curtain device when selection of the operation icon is sensed, the operation screen including a curtain image representing a curtain of the electric curtain device; and when a pinch-out operation is sensed on the operation screen, output to a network a first open control command for opening the curtain of the electric curtain device.

Information apparatus having an interface for a remote control

An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display, a display screen representing at least a floor plan including one or more rooms; and when it is sensed that movement of a device icon that is movable within a region corresponding to a predetermined room associated with a type of the device icon, judge whether or not the device icon is moved out of the region corresponding to the predetermined room, and in the case where it is judged that the device icon is moved out of the region corresponding to the predetermined room, return the device icon to the region corresponding to the predetermined room.

Method for controlling information apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and method for providing information

An unmanned flying object that flies in the air includes a capturer, including at least one of a net, a sucking device, a stick, a rope or a spear, that captures an object other than the unmanned flying object in the air, a sensor that detects that the capturer has captured the object, and a processor that performs operations including: receiving an operation signal via wireless communication; performing a manual flight control that controls the unmanned flying object on the basis of the operation signal; switching from the manual flight control to an autonomous flight control that controls the unmanned flying object to not be dependent on the operation signal received via the wireless communication, when the sensor detects the capture of the object while the manual flight control is being performed.

Unmanned flying object, control method, and non-transitory recording medium storing program that switch flight state upon capturing an object in the air

A control method of the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a touch panel display, a display screen representing a floor plan; display device icons on the display screen, the device icons representing one or more target devices respectively, the device icons including an icon representing an electric shutter device that is capable of opening or closing a shutter; display an operation screen on the display screen, when selection of the icon representing the electric shutter device is sensed, the operation screen including a shutter image representing the shutter; and output a movement control command to a network when a swipe operation is sensed on the shutter image, the movement control command being for moving the shutter of the electric shutter device in a swipe direction of the swipe operation, the electric shutter device corresponding to the selected icon.

Information apparatus having an interface for performing a remote operation

A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan including one or more rooms; and using at least one memory that associates first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing one or more target devices with second information indicating an attribute of each of the one or more rooms, display a device icon having a room that corresponds to a type of a device icon among the one or more device icons in a region on the display screen corresponding to a room that corresponds to the device icon and display a device icon not having a room that corresponds to the type of the device icon among the one or more device icons in a prescribed region on the display screen.

A method is provided for controlling a networked information apparatus that includes a touch panel display. An electric shutter device is controlled over the network to open and close a shutter remotely. A processor of the information apparatus causes display of an operation icon on a display screen of the information apparatus, and the operation icon causes an operation screen for the electric shutter device to be displayed. When a swipe operation is sensed on the operation screen, a movement control command is output for moving the shutter in a swipe direction of the swipe operation, in which positional information indicating an end position in a vertical direction of the shutter of the electric shutter device is received. State information representing the end position of an end portion of the shutter is displayed in a region corresponding to the shutter image in accordance with the received positional information.

Method for controlling information apparatus

A cleaning robot which performs a predetermined task while autonomously moving includes: a driver which makes the cleaning robot move; an image capturer which detects a movement state indicating whether a different cleaning robot existing in front of the cleaning robot is moving along an obstacle, a direction in which the different cleaning robot exists relative to the cleaning robot, and a distance between the cleaning robot and the different cleaning robot; and a following run controller which controls the driver in order for the cleaning robot to move following the different cleaning robot while keeping a position diagonally behind the different cleaning robot at an opposite side of the different cleaning robot from the obstacle, if the movement state indicates that the different cleaning robot is moving along the obstacle.

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Eiichi Naito