Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Shinohara

Takayuki Suzuki

Yuko Arai

Kenichi Fujita

Koji Aoto

Koichiro Yamaguchi

Takeshi Nagao

Aki Nakagawa

Ken-ichi Shibata

Hiromitsu Ebisu

Masashi Takemura

Toshiya Zaitsu

Kenichiro Shibasaki

Tetsuya Sato

Yasuhiro Nakamura

Mitsuko Fujita

Kuniaki Ikui

Toru Kawaguchi

Yoshihiko Ishida

Hiroyuki Nishi

Yoshimasa Goto

Tomoyuki Karibe

Hiroyuki Hikita

To identify a battery device that may have an abnormality in the future and promptly recall such a battery device, a battery management system includes a management server connected to a plurality of battery exchangers via a network and configured to manage exchanging states of battery packs at the battery exchangers, and a user terminal carried by each user and connected to the management server via the network, wherein the management server is configured to identify a user using a battery pack to be recalled, and to transmit an exchange reminder to the user terminal of the identified user, and the user terminal is configured to perform a notification operation that prompts the identified user to exchange the battery pack upon receiving the exchange reminder.

Battery management system and battery management method

The user can readily determine a battery station where a battery exchange can be performed without fail. A management server searches a battery station that suits a battery configuration of an electric vehicle operated by each user according to management information on the battery configuration thereof, and to transmit a guidance screen for guiding the user to the searched battery station to the terminal device carried by the user. In particular, the user is guided to a station where the number of fully charged battery devices in a battery exchanger is equal to or greater than the number of battery devices used by the electric vehicle.

Battery managing system, battery managing method, and terminal device

The present application allows all battery stations located in different locations to be efficiently monitored, and management and maintenance operations to be performed in a timely fashion to keep the state of the battery stations in proper order. A server device collects state information on a state of a battery exchange device in each battery station, and on a state of each battery device received in the corresponding battery exchange device, and to generate a monitoring screen showing the state information of each battery station on an area map displayed on a management or maintenance terminal. In particular, a plurality of display sections displayed on the monitoring screen are arranged so as to correspond to the urgency or detail level of the state information. The state information is displayed in different colors according to different emergency levels.

Battery station management system including server for generating monitoring screen showing state information of battery exchange devices and battery devices in each battery station and battery station management method

An advertisement translation device is a device for translating an advertisement text displayed in a display area of a predetermined size in advertisement content, and displaying the translated advertisement text in the display area. The advertisement translation device includes: an advertisement text obtainment unit which obtains the advertisement text; a linguistic information obtainment unit which obtains linguistic information indicating a target language into which the advertisement text is to be translated; a translation unit which create translated text candidates by translating the advertisement text into the target language indicated by the linguistic information; and a selection unit which selects and outputs as a translated text, at least one of the translated text candidates a full text of which is displayable in a predetermined character size in the display area.

Advertisement translation device, advertisement display device, and method for translating an advertisement

An information recommendation device includes: a first evaluation unit which calculates, for each of a plurality of content items being broadcasted, a first evaluation value which is defined depending on a user; a second evaluation unit which calculates, for each of the content items, a second evaluation value which is defined based on a current reaction of public toward the content item; and a recommended program determination unit which determines a recommended content item based on the first evaluation value calculated by the first evaluation unit and the second evaluation value calculated by the second evaluation unit, the recommended content item being a content item recommended to the user for viewing.

Information recommendation device, information recommendation system, and information recommendation method

A content distribution system inhibits execution of processing which is unnecessary for streams having specific structures. The content distribution system includes a distribution server and a playback apparatus. The distribution server transmits a program stream and a program state flag associated with the program stream that indicates whether or not program content corresponding to the program stream is constituted of only 3D video. The playback apparatus determines, prior to decoding the program stream, whether or not the program state flag indicates that the program content is constituted of only 3D video, and when determining that the program content is constituted of only 3D video, decodes the program stream and performs control so as to play back the program stream as 3D video without determining whether or not each frame included in the program stream is a 3D video frame.

Content distribution system, playback device, distribution server, playback method, and distribution method

General electronic program information described on a general level and individual electronic program information described on an individual level are prepared according to electronic program information of a channel service of a broadcast service provider for each channel service according to electronic program information degree of detail setting information. The electronic program information degree of detail setting information indicates a degree of detail for the contents of the individual electronic program information described on an individual level and a degree of detail for contents of the general electronic program information described on a general level. The general level corresponds to a low degree of detail, and the individual level corresponds to a high degree of detail. One piece of individual electronic program information of a particular channel service and pieces of general electronic program information of channel services, other than the particular channel service, are multiplexed and transmitted to each viewer. Accordingly, the general electronic program information and the individual electronic program information can be transmitted while effectively using a data transmission band.

Method and apparatus for preparing and transmitting electronic program information and apparatus for producing electronic program guide from the electronic program information

A program information producing apparatus broadcasts program information of a next program belonging to the same program group as a subjective program in addition to the program information of the subjective program. A broadcast receiving apparatus displays the program information of the next program based on the received program information of the subjective program, thereby allowing a viewer to make a reservation of the next program after checking its content during the user viewing each event of a series of programs.

Method and apparatus for producing program information and receiving apparatus for processing the information in a broadcast system

A broadcast transmitting apparatus stores and manages the material for composing a broadcast program as AV data, creates storing control information showing a process control method when storing this AV data in a broadcast receiving apparatus, and storing management information showing management information during storing, and registers them as reference information and stores and manages, and transmits according to schedule information managing the schedule of the broadcast program. On the other hand, the broadcast receiving apparatus executes an storing control command according to the storing control information, and stores and manages the AV data according to the storing management information. Further, the broadcast transmitting apparatus creates application information from the reference information being stored and managed, and transmits it together with service application for executing broadcast program service. Receiving them, the broadcast receiving apparatus extracts the corresponding AV data from the stored and managed AV data according to the application information, and executes the service application. By such processing, the transmitting apparatus can control the AV data to be stored in the receiving apparatus, and the broadcast program service using it.

Broadcast transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and broadcast transmitting method, receiving method

A guide of a broadcasting program with a computer software product, in which a transmission start time, a name of the broadcasting program, a name of the computer software product, a version number of the computer software product and a terminal type required of a terminal are listed, is transmitted from a center station to each terminal. Also, files of the computer software product are transmitted from the center station to each terminal with video-audio data of the broadcasting program at the transmission start time. In each terminal, a particular terminal type of the terminal and a particular version number of the computer software product downloaded in the terminal are managed. In cases where the particular terminal type of the terminal agrees with the terminal type listed in the guide and the particular version number of the computer software product is higher than the version number listed in the guide, the downloading of the computer software product is judged, and the computer software product is downloaded to the terminal at the transmission start time. Accordingly, the computer software product can be downloaded to user's terminal without requiring a special frequency band used only for the computer software product. Also, because the computer software product received in the terminal is updated, the user can always execute the updated computer software product.

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