Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Hirofumi Kanai

Yuka Yamada

Toshihide Mori

Hideyuki Maehara

Toshiaki Tanaka

Mitsuru Kawamura

Hiroya Tanaka

Yuko Kida

Kenji Kurosu

An excrement determination device performs: acquiring image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet provided in a toilet room to photograph a bowl of the toilet; acquiring sensing data from a sensor that detects sitting and leaving of a user onto and from the toilet; deciding whether to validate or invalidate the image data on the basis of a change in the sensing data; determining, on the basis of image data decided to be valid, an occurrence of at least one of defecation and urination; and outputting a result of the determination.

Excrement determination method, excrement determination device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

A notification device includes: an image data acquisition part that acquires image data captured by a camera which is provided to photograph buttocks of a user sitting on a toilet seat; a sitting position detection part that detects a sitting position of the user sitting on the toilet seat provided on a toilet by image recognition of the image data; and a guidance information output part that outputs, on the basis of the detected sitting position, guidance information to guide the user to an appropriate sitting position.

Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing information processing program

An excrement determination method includes: acquiring sensing data detected by a first gas sensor; acquiring image data captured by a camera; making a first determination of determining whether a gas concentration indicated by the sensing data is higher than a first reference concentration; making a second determination of executing image processing onto the image data and determining whether the image data contains an image about defecation; making a third determination of determining, based on a determination result of the first determination and a determination result of the second determination, that at least one of the defecation and flatulating occurred; and outputting a determination result of the third determination.

An output device performs: acquiring a plurality of images chronologically captured by a camera located to photograph an inside of a bowl of a toilet; extracting, from the acquired images, an excrement image showing excrement; extracting, from the acquired images, a blood image showing a blood spot; determining, based on time information about the excrement image, an excretion start time; determining, based on time information about the blood image, a blood appearance start time, and determining, based on the blood image, a blood size indicating a size of the blood spot; generating, as excretion information, information including the excretion start time, the blood appearance start time, and the blood size; and outputting the generated excretion information.

Output device, method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

An image capturing device which captures an image of excrement is provided at a toilet having a bowl and includes a sensor unit including an image capturing sensor. A view angle and an attachment position of the sensor unit are set so that a detection area presumed to receive dropping excrement in the bowl falls within a view field of the sensor unit.

Imaging device

A controller acquires image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet to capture an image of a bowl of the toilet, determines whether an unacceptable matter being an object having a possibility of clogging the toilet is in the bowl by performing image recognition based on the image data, and sends, to a flush water controller, a flow prohibition signal of prohibiting flush water from flowing when it is determined that the unacceptable matter is in the bowl.

Flush water control method, control device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

An information processing method performed by a computer includes determining a plurality of first support contents corresponding to a care recipient or assistance recipient from a plurality of support contents based on basic information on the care recipient or assistance recipient, outputting first presentation information for presenting the plurality of first support contents and assessment items respectively associated with the plurality of first support contents to a user, determining a second support content from the plurality of first support contents based on assessment results input by the user for the assessment items, and outputting second presentation information for presenting the second support content to the user.

Information processing method, information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing information processing program

Disclosed is a cordless telephone set capable of suppressing power consumption during power failures to lengthen the time for a call. A cordless telephone () receives power supply from a handset () placed on a charging section () of a base unit (), during power failures. In order to suppress current consumption of a secondary battery (BT) of the handset (), the base unit () instructs a base unit radio section () to be switched to a transmission power-saving mode in which transmission power of the base unit radio section () is reduced down to a level at which no communication error occurs, according to radio wave information transmitted from the handset () and indicates the received signal strength of a radio signal from the base unit radio section () of the base unit (), received by a handset radio section () of the handset ().

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Osaka, Japan

Hirofumi Kanai