Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Hideaki Nakaoka

Kakuya Yamamoto

Keiji Sugiyama

Tomohiro Koganei

Rikiya Masuda

Tatsuto Horibe

A conditioning system includes a prediction unit and a stimulus applying unit. The prediction unit is configured to predict, based on a state related to a user, an occurrence of an event to be caused by the state related to the user. The stimulus applying unit is configured to apply, when the prediction unit predicts that the event occurs in future, a stimulus associated with the event to the user in advance of the event.

Conditioning system, stimulus applying system, conditioning method, stimulus applying method, non-transitory storage medium, and mobile object

A voice search apparatus includes a web page display controller, a voice recognizer, a matching unit, and a URL creator. The web page display controller controls a web page which is to be displayed on a display. The voice recognizer recognizes a voice that is input, converts the voice into character string information, and outputs the character string information. The matching unit refers to a URL list in which a character string representing part of a URL is registered for each search category, performs matching processing between a URL of the web page displayed on the display and the character string in the URL list, and specifies the character string in the URL list corresponding to the URL. The URL creator creates a URL based on the character string specified by the matching unit and the character string information.

Speech retrieval device, speech retrieval method, and display device

A display control device including: an input control unit which receives a scrolling start indication and a scrolling stop indication from a user; a scrolling control unit which, if the scrolling stop indication is received, decelerates a scroll rate by a predetermined function and pre-calculates a location of a displayed area when the scrolling of the displayed area stops; and a focus control unit which superimposes a focus on an object closest to a predetermined position within the displayed area at any time from when the location of the displayed area when the scrolling stops is determined to when the scrolling stops, the focus representing that the object is being selected.

Display control device and method including superimposing a focus on a specific object that is to be closest to a predetermined position when scrolling stops and scrolling the focus and a displayed area simultaneously

A content information reproducing apparatus, a content information reproducing system, a content information reproducing method, a content information reproducing program, a recording medium storing the program, and an information processing apparatus facilitate introductory comment creators creating introductory information while creating introductory information reflecting the intent of the content distributor. A content information reproducing apparatus has a reception unit that receives an introductory information template set containing various introductory information templates that are configured for particular scenes according to different biometric information levels, an introductory information production unit that determines a biometric information level from the biometric information of the user viewing the content, extracts an introductory information template corresponding to the biometric information level from the introductory information template set, correlates the biometric information level and the extracted introductory information template, and creates introductory information, and a transmission unit that outputs the introductory information when content reproduction ends.

Contents information reproducing apparatus, contents information reproducing system, contents information reproducing method, contents information reproducing program, recording medium and information processing apparatus

An information presentation device includes a status information obtaining unit which obtains status information regarding a status of the user; an observed line of sight predicting unit which predicts, based on the status information, an observed line of sight of the user who observes the outside world; and a presented information obtaining unit which obtains the information to be presented to the user. Additionally, a recognized line of sight predicting unit predicts a recognized line of sight of the user who recognizes the presented information; a presentation method determining unit determines a presentation method of the presented information based on the observed line of sight and the recognized line of sight; and an information presenting unit presents the presented information in the method determined in the presentation method determining unit.

Information presentation device and information presentation method

A content reception/recording device for selectively receiving and accumulating transmitted contents. The content reception/recording device comprises: a receiving unit; an accumulation medium; a storage unit storing therein free time slot information that indicates a free time slot in which a predetermined operation specified by a user is not performed; an obtaining unit operable to obtain transmission timing information that indicates timings at which contents are transmitted respectively; a determining unit operable to, when a plurality of accumulation target contents are transmitted in the free time slot, determine priorities of the contents for being accumulated in the free time slot, in accordance with the transmission timing information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a control unit operable to control the receiving unit to receive the accumulation target contents in accordance with the determined priorities and to accumulate the received contents in the accumulation medium.

Content reception/recording device, method, program, and recording medium

The present invention provides a display apparatus which enables high-accuracy, hands-free operation, while adopting a low-cost configuration. The display apparatus according to the present invention includes: an obtainment unit that obtains a display element which is information to be displayed to the user; a determining unit that determines a display position of the obtained display element, at which a portion of the obtained display element can not be seen by the user; a display unit that displays the display element at the determined display position; a detection unit that detects a direction of change when an orientation of the user's head is changed; a selection unit that selects the display element to be displayed in the detected direction of change; and an execution unit that executes a predetermined process related to the selected display element.

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Osaka, Japan

Hideaki Nakaoka