Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hajime Maekawa

Kunio Gobara

Kenichi Matsumoto

Takumi Ikeda

Hideaki Takechi

Masao Ikezaki

Masanobu Koyama

Koji Iwamoto

Koichi Matsumura

Tomoaki Watahiki

Masaki Saga

A device controls a movement direction of an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted thereon an imaging device that captures an image. The device includes one or more memories and a processor which, in operation, recognizes, as a plurality of markers, a plurality of objects from the image captured by the imaging device, each of the plurality of markers attached to one of the plurality of objects. The processor further calculates an area of a polygon formed by the plurality of markers, and controls the movement direction of the unmanned aerial vehicle such that the area of the polygon is maximized.

Device that controls flight altitude of unmanned aerial vehicle

An autonomous mobile apparatus includes one or more memories and circuitry which, in operation, performs operations including determining a first control method or a second control method as a control method for controlling the autonomous mobile apparatus on the basis of information regarding another autonomous mobile apparatus, the first control method being a method for controlling the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus such that the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus autonomously moves in a certain area using a first control algorithm and the second control method being a method for controlling the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus such that the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus autonomously moves in the certain area using a second control algorithm, and autonomously moving the autonomous mobile apparatus using the determined control method.

Autonomous mobile apparatus, autonomous mobile method, and autonomous mobile system

A device that controls the flight altitude of an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted thereon an imaging device that captures an image of the ground, the device being provided with: one or more memories; and circuitry which, in operation, recognizes, as a plurality of markers, a plurality of objects located on the ground from the image captured by the imaging device, calculates the area of a polygon formed by the plurality of markers, and controls the flight altitude of the unmanned aerial vehicle in such a way that the area of the polygon is maximized.

A flight control method of an unmanned flying object includes acquiring first positional information indicating a position of the unmanned flying object using a position sensor, receiving a position reset command and second positional information that indicates a position of an operation device from the operation device used to operate the unmanned flying object, determining a rotation angle needed to orient a movement direction of the unmanned flying object in a predetermined direction in accordance with the first positional information and the second positional information, and performing control to orient the movement direction of the unmanned flying object in the predetermined direction in accordance with the rotation angle.

Unmanned flying object and flight control method thereof

A connection server () has a receiving part () for receiving request information regarding a request for load sharing, which is sent from a first information processing apparatus () to a load sharing port of the connection server (), a load sharing part () for allocating the first information processing apparatus () that is a source of the request information to any processing server, a sending part () for sending port position information indicating the position of the connection port corresponding to the allocated processing server to the first information processing apparatus (), and a connection part () for establishing a connection between the connection port and the processing server corresponding to the connection port. The first information processing apparatus () sends the received port position information to a second information processing apparatus (). With this configuration, in a communication system for load sharing, two or more information processing apparatuses have access to one processing server.

Communication system, information processing system, connection server, processing server, information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

An information processor () comprises: a history packet transmitter () for transmitting via a plurality of ports of a communication processor () a plurality of history packets; a request packet transmitter () for transmitting a request packet requesting transmission of a return packet; a packet transmission controller () for controlling transmission of a request packet; a return packet receiver () for receiving a return packet transmitted from a server (); and a port keeping time detector () for detecting the port keeping time of the communication processor () based on reception of a return packet by the return packet receiver (). The server () includes: a request packet receiver () for receiving the request packet; and a return packet transmitter () for transmitting the return packet to the history port of the communication processor () where a history packet passed when a request packet receiver () received a request packet. This configuration provides an information processing system for detecting the port keeping time of the communication processor.

Information processing system, information processor, server, information processing method and program

A server includes a request information receiving section which receives request information, a correspondence information storage section which stores correspondence information indicating the correspondence of a plurality of content holding devices with content information including fragment content information held by each of the plurality of content holding devices, a specifying section which specifies two or more content holding devices and a plurality of fragment content information elements included in the content information held by the two or more content holding devices, using the correspondence information, so that a series of content information elements requested in the request information can be configured by the plurality of fragment content information elements, and an instruction information transmitting section which transmits instruction information, instructing that specified fragment content information be transmitted to the content receiving device, to a specified content holding device.

Information communication system, server, content holding device, content receiving device, information processing method, and program

An information processing system includes an electronic apparatus, a server, and an external apparatus. The electronic apparatus acquires operation information for the electronic apparatus from the server, and directs the electronic apparatus to operate according to the operation information. The server receives an external apparatus identifier, electronic apparatus identifier, and operation information, from the external apparatus, and accumulates the information. The external apparatus accepts input of the electronic apparatus identifier and the operation information, and transmits the external apparatus identifier and the operation information to the server. Such an information processing system enables operation information for an electronic apparatus to be set and acquired, without directly accessing an electronic apparatus from an external apparatus, improving security.

Server, electronic apparatus, external apparatus, and information processing system using them, and electronic apparatus setting and status acquisition method

A first information processor transmits a bubble packet to a port assigned after assignment of specified port from reference port in a second communication control unit, a server detects the position of the bubble packet transmitting port in a first communication control unit used in transmission of this bubble packet, and a second information processor transmits a reply packet to the detected bubble port transmitting port. In this configuration, the invention presents a communication system capable of establishing more securely communication between plural information processors for communicating by way of communication control unit (NAT). In this configuration, the invention presents a communication system capable of establishing more securely communication between plural information processors for communicating by way of communication control unit (NAT).

Bidirectional connection setup between endpoints behind network address translators (NATs)

A first information processor () transmits a bubble packet to a port assigned after assignment of specified port from reference port in a second communication control unit (), a server () detects the position of the bubble packet transmitting port in a first communication control unit () used in transmission of this bubble packet, and a second information processor () transmits a reply packet to the detected bubble port transmitting port. In this configuration, the invention presents a communication system capable of establishing more securely communication between plural information processors for communicating by way of communication control unit (NAT). In this configuration, the invention presents a communication system capable of establishing more securely communication between plural information processors for communicating by way of communication control unit (NAT).

Bubble packet port identification using detection packets

A first information-processing device at a communication source, is equipped with span of packet life setting part and bubble packet transmitter. The span of packet life setting part sets a span of packet life in a range where a bubble packet transmitted for leaving a transmission history in a NAT at the communication source so that a packet transmitted from the information-processing device at the communication destination, does not reach the information-processing device at the communication destination. Meanwhile, bubble packet transmitter transmits a bubble packet having the span of packet life set by span of packet life setting part through the NAT at the communication source. With such a configuration, the present invention provides an information-processing device that appropriately establishes communications through a NAT with high-level security.

Information processing device, and bubble packet transmission method and program

A first information-processing device for communication source performing tunnel communication with a device at communication destination, equipped with: tunnel communication part performing tunnel communication with communication target data encapsulated; identifier acceptor for accepting a communication destination device identifier for identifying a device for communication destination; identifier storage part for storing a communication source device identifier for identifying first information-processing device; and address determination part for determining an address used for communication target data, according to a communication destination device identifier and a communication source device identifier. Such a makeup provides an information-processing device capable of determining an address used for communication target data encapsulated in tunnel communication.

Information processing device, server, communication system, address decision method, address modification method, and program

Provided are an information processing system, a tunnel communication device, a tunnel communication method, and a program that can make a communication between plural information processing devices belonging to different LANs without a user's making a complex setup. In the information processing system, a first tunnel communication unit encapsulates a packet from a first information processing device, transmits the encapsulated packet through a path of a P2P communication, and decapsulates the packet transmitted from a second tunnel communication device through the path of the P2P communication. A second tunnel communication unit encapsulates the packet transmitted from the second information processing device, transmits the encapsulated packet through the path of the P2P communication, and decapsulates the packet transmitted from the first tunnel communication device through the path of the P2P communication.

Information processing system, tunnel communication device, tunnel communication method, and program

Transmission fragment content information transmitted by a content holding device is made redundant. A content holding device comprises a content information storage section () for storing hold content information including at least fragment content information obtained by fragmenting a set of content information, an instruction information receiving section () for receiving instruction information to instruct the transmission of the fragment content information, a content information constructing section () for constructing the transmission fragment content information including the instruction fragment content information which is the fragment content information included in the hold content information and the fragment content information whose transmission is instructed by the instruction information and additional fragment content information which is the fragment content information included in the same hold content information as the instruction fragment content information and fragment content information different from the instruction fragment content information, and a content information transmitting section () for transmitting the transmission content information.

Content holder unit, information processing method, and program

A first information processing equipment transmits, to a mediating server, the first transmission information which is the information containing the relay server identification information for identifying the relay server employed in the data relay between information processing equipments, and executes the data relay with the second information processing equipment through the relay server identified by the relay server identification information. The mediating server receives the first transmission information and transmits, to a second information processing equipment, the second transmission information which is the information containing the relay server identification information contained in the first transmission information. The second information processing equipment receives the second transmission information and executes the data relay with the first information processing equipment through the relay server identified by the relay server identification information contained in the second transmission information.

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Osaka, Japan

Hajime Maekawa