Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Chuo University

Hiroyuki Kubotani

Yasuhiro Yuki

Yuki Shinomoto

Mitsuhiro Aso

Sotaro Tsukizawa

Makoto Mochizuki

Kazuhiko Iwai

Koji Arata

Sugiri Pranata

ZhiHeng Niu

Kazuki Funase

Hirofumi Nishimura

Nobuhiro Fukuda

Wataru Nakai

Rinako Kamei

Hisashi Kurokawa

Takeshi Toi

Toshihiro Sota

Hiroki Kitajima

Masayuki Satomi

Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.

Control method, storage medium, and information providing method

First information including related information relating to a cooking action to be carried out by a cook is acquired, a presentation device is made to present the related information, it is determined whether or not an action of the cook that is specified based on second information is the cooking action, an index indicating a degree of attention of the cook recommended for the cooking action is acquired, and the information amount of the related information presented is altered in accordance with the degree of attention indicated by the acquired index.

Information processing method, information processing system, and terminal

A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a first image; an obtaining unit that obtains a recognition result of recognizing a foodstuff serving as a cooking target on the basis of a photographed image obtained from a camera; a determination unit that determines whether a recognized foodstuff indicated by the recognition result is present in a superposable area where the first image can be superposed on the foodstuff; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to: (i) superpose the first image on the foodstuff when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is present in the superposable area; and (ii) superpose the first image on a second image when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is not present in the superposable area.

Display apparatus, display method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

A method for distributing information used by an information distribution system includes receiving, from a cooking appliance, first identification information for identifying a first food, first end time information indicating a first end time, at which a first cooking operation performed by the cooking appliance on the first food ends, and first log information indicating an operation output and an operation time of the first cooking operation, obtaining, on the basis of the received first identification information and first log information, first questionnaire information indicating a questionnaire relating to the first food from a memory, and distributing the first questionnaire information or second questionnaire information, which is generated using the first questionnaire information, to the display device if first additional cooking information indicating that the cooking appliance has performed an additional cooking operation on the first food has not been received from the cooking appliance in a first reception period.

Method for distributing information, server apparatus, and network system

A control method for controlling a terminal device includes using a memory that manages cooking appliance logs each including at least a cooking time of a food and first information indicating an age-related deterioration level of one of the cooking appliances to acquire, from among candidates of a recommended cooking time calculated based on the first information and the cooking time and stored in a server apparatus, third information indicating a recommended cooking time corresponding to second information indicating an age-related deterioration level of the first cooking appliance, displaying, on a display, a user interface that allows a user to select one of the candidates including at least the recommended cooking time for the first cooking appliance using the third information, and outputting a setting command for setting the selected cooking time to the first cooking appliance upon detecting selection of one of the cooking times through the user interface.

Control method, recording medium, and information providing method for terminal device and information providing system

An information processing apparatus includes a first-information acquirer, a second-information acquirer, a judger, and a presentation controller. The first-information acquirer acquires first information indicating a type of an ingredient provided for preparation and an amount of the ingredient. The second-information acquirer acquires second information indicating an amount that is needed for an ingredient of the type in a recipe. The judger judges a magnitude relationship between the amount indicated by the first information and the amount indicated by the second information. The presentation controller causes a presenter to present third information indicating, in accordance with the judged magnitude relationship, the amount indicated by the second information versus the amount indicated by the first information.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Control method of controlling a terminal apparatus connected to a cooking device

A cooking assistance method includes: receiving, from a first food, first food information indicating the first food; receiving appliance identification information for identifying the cooking apparatus for cooking the first food; obtaining first setting details regarding cooking to be performed by the cooking apparatus, based on the received first food information and the received appliance identification information, the first setting details being associated with the first food and the cooking apparatus; and transmitting first setting information indicating the obtained first setting details to the cooking apparatus.

Cooking assistance method and cooking apparatus

A measurement-target-selecting device that is capable of estimating a face shape with high precision and at low computational time. In this device, a face texture assessment value calculating part () calculates a face texture assessment value representing a degree of match between an input face image and the texture of a face shape candidate, a facial-expression-change-likelihood-calculating part () calculates a first likelihood between a face shape constituting a reference and a face shape candidate, a correlation assessment part (); calculates a first correlation assessment value representing the strength of a correlation between the face texture assessment value and the first likelihood, and a selection part () selects from among the plurality of face shape candidates as a measurement target a face shape candidate having a first correlation assessment value that is lower than a first threshold.

Measurement-target-selecting device, face-shape-estimating device, method for selecting measurement target, and method for estimating face shape

A drowsiness-estimating device capable of improving the precision of drowsiness estimation by eliminating the effect of individual differences. In the device, a recurrence required time-calculating part () calculates the recurrence required time, which is the time needed, after a detection time when an action is detected, for a drowsiness estimation parameter value acquired after the detection time to return to the value of the drowsiness estimation parameter acquired before the detection time. A drowsiness-estimating part () estimates the level of drowsiness of the drowsiness-estimation subject on the basis of the calculated recurrence required time. To be specific, the drowsiness-estimating part () maintains a drowsiness level-estimating table in which each of multiple time ranges is correlated with a possible drowsiness level, and specifies a possible drowsiness level that corresponds to the time range, among the multiple time ranges, with which the recurrence required time is associated.

Drowsiness-estimating device and drowsiness-estimating method

A detection device capable of reliably detecting an object to be detected. An intersection region pattern setting unit () sets a configuration pattern of a first intersection region pattern group in sequence for each unit image pair. Each intersection region pattern is defined by set image information which denotes locations and sizes of regions (where n is a natural number greater than 1) within respective unit images (e.g., unit image plane coordinates), as well as whether each region is set within either or both of a first unit image and a second unit image. A detection unit () detects the object to be detected, based on a total feature value relating to each configuration pattern of the first intersection region pattern group, computed by a feature value computation unit (), and a strong identification apparatus configured from a plurality of weak identification apparatuses and stored in an identification apparatus storage unit ().

Detection device and detection method

A wakefulness-maintaining device capable of maintaining a driver's wakefulness by making the driver aware of changes in sound characteristics. A wakefulness-maintaining device (), which maintains a person's wakefulness, wherein: a switching time control part () analyzes the characteristics of perceived sounds acquired by a microphone provided inside the vehicle, the perceived sounds comprising control sounds played back by the wakefulness-maintaining device () and environmental sounds around the person when no control sounds are being played back; an in-car sound-accumulating part () accumulates the perceived sounds; an acoustic pressure change-setting part () sets the control method to be used on the environmental sounds on the basis of the characteristics of the perceived sounds accumulated by the in-car sound-accumulating part (); and a control sound-generating part () applies the control method, set by the acoustic pressure change-setting part (), on the environmental sounds and generates control sounds.

Wakefulness-maintaining device and wakefulness-maintaining method

An object of the invention is to provide a safety driving support apparatus capable of detecting a dangerous moving object with high accuracy at quick timing. A safety driving support apparatusof the invention includes a traffic obstacle detection sectionfor detecting a traffic obstacle of the periphery of a vehicle, a speed change induced event detection sectionfor detecting an event of inducing a sudden change in behavior of a pedestrian from a traffic obstacle detected by the traffic obstacle detection section, a speed change detection sectionfor detecting a sudden change in behavior of a pedestrian from a traffic obstacle detected by the traffic obstacle detection section, and a dangerous pedestrian detection sectionfor deciding that the pedestrian is a dangerous pedestrian when the speed change detection sectiondetects a change in behavior of a pedestrian within a certain time from a point in time when a speed change induced event of a pedestrian detected by the speed change induced event detection sectionoccurs.

Safety driving support apparatus

A traveling information providing device is provided in which a surrounding information corrector acquires surrounding information on the condition surrounding a vehicle equipped with the device. An object extractor extracts a safety confirmation object the safety of which must be confirmed by a driver from the surrounding information acquired by the surrounding information collector. A line-of-sight detector detects a line-of-sight direction of the driver. A visibility calculator receives the extracted safety confirmation object and the line-of-sight direction of the driver and calculates visibility in consideration of the driver's peripheral vision with respect to the safety confirmation object according to the distance or the angle from the driver's line-of-sight direction to the object. An information presenter presents safety confirmation to the driver depending on the calculated visibility.

Travel information providing device

A dangerous drive predicting apparatus is provided which is capable of rapidly recognizing a future situation of the own vehicle by other vehicles. The dangerous drive predicting apparatus is equipped with: drive information detecting sectionfor detecting drive information containing at least one of a drive action and vehicle information; traffic environment detecting sectionfor detecting a traffic environment around a first vehicle; driving characteristic producing/storing sectionfor producing and storing a driving characteristic every traffic environment based upon the drive information and the traffic environment; and a driving characteristic transmitting section for transmitting the driving characteristic to a second vehicle.

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Hyogo, Japan

Hiroyuki Kubotani