Sony Corporation

Junko Saito

Ryoki Honjo

Kayoko Tanaka

Hiroshi Kawashima

Hideki Noma

Taro Tadano

Kei Yamashita

Masaya Kimura

Takashi Sato

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Keigo Ihara

Takahiko Sueyoshi

Itaru Kawakami

Shinichiro Gomi

Takeo Inagaki

Tetsuhiro Sakamoto

Hidenori Yamaji

Tomoyuki Ono

Yukiyoshi Hirose

Kimu Higashimoto

Masahiko Suzuki

Jin Pan

Akira Iguchi

Disclosed herein is a power management apparatus including: a power-demand forecasting section configured to forecast a power demand made by an electric-power demander at a future time; a power measurement section configured to acquire a power consumption of the electric-power demander for the time; a demand control section configured to determine a demand for urging the electric-power demander to adjust the amount of electric power consumed by the electric-power demander on the basis of the power demand forecasted by the power-demand forecasting section and the power consumption acquired by the power measurement section; and a demand issuance section configured to issue the demand determined by the demand control section to the electric-power demander.

Power management apparatus, power management method and demand notification apparatus

There is provided an information processing device including an input unit to which words are input, an analysis unit configured to analyze meanings of the respective words, an image generation unit configured to generate single images corresponding to the respective words, and a display control unit configured to control the images generated by the image generation unit to be displayed on a display unit.

Information processing device, storage medium, and method

A power management device includes a power demand predicting section, demand control section, demand issuing section, and acceptance receiving section. The power demand predicting section calculates a first predicted amount of power demand, representing a result of prediction of power demand of a power consumer on a date and time in a future, and a second predicted amount of power demand, being calculated after the first predicted amount of power demand, and represents a result of prediction of power demand of the consumer on the date and time in the future. The demand control section determines a demand for prompting the consumer to adjust the amount of power demand based on the first and the second predicted amounts of power demand. The demand issuing section issues the demand determined by the demand control section to the consumer. The acceptance receiving section receives acceptance of the issued demand by the consumer.

Power management device, power management method, and demand notifying device

There is provided a charging apparatus including a connection unit to which a device is to be connected, a charging unit for charging the device connected to the connection unit, a history acquisition unit for acquiring a history of content use stored in the device, a timing prediction unit for predicting a timing of use of the device based on the history of content use acquired by the history acquisition unit, and a charge control unit for controlling the charging unit such that the device connected to the connection unit becomes fully charged at a timing suitable for the timing predicted by the timing prediction unit.

Charging apparatus, and charge control method

There is provided a power system including a power transmitting apparatus and a power receiving apparatus. The power transmitting apparatus includes: a power generating unit generating power using renewable energy; a first power measuring unit measuring a power amount generated in a specified period; and a power transmitting unit transmitting the generated power in the specified period and information on the measured power amount to the power receiving apparatus. The power receiving apparatus includes: a power receiving unit receiving the power and the information on the power amount from the power transmitting apparatus; a second power measuring unit measuring a power amount received in the specified period; a determining unit comparing the received power amount and the measured power amount and determining whether such amounts match; and a power reception control unit operable when the amounts do not match, to stop reception of the power and the information.

Power system, power receiving apparatus, and power transmission control method

The information processing apparatus allows, based on an image obtained by photographing a user by the CCD camera, to recognize the movement direction of the user and when generating a command corresponding to the recognized movement direction, to create the gesture recognition screenin a search state indicating that the apparatus is searching for the user's movement and display it on a liquid crystal displayso as to certainly notify the user that the user's movement is recognizable and it is in a standby state. Further, the information processing apparatus allows, before recognizing the movement direction of the user's action based on the image obtained by photographing the user by the CCD camera, to generate a gesture recognition screenin advance for making the user visualize a recognizable movement direction and display a target divisionarranged in a horizontal line on the gesture recognition screenso as to notify the user in advance that right-and-left movement is recognizable, using the target division. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus allows, based on the image obtained by photographing the user's hand with the CCD camera, to recognize the movement direction of the hand in the image and generate a visual feedback screen representing the trail of the movement of the recognized hand and display it on the liquid crystal displayso as to make the user learn on how the movement of the hand was recognized, by feedback.

Information processing apparatus, method of displaying movement recognizable standby state, method of showing recognizable movement, method of displaying movement recognizing process, and program storage medium

An information processing unit is adapted to connect a USB device provided on a board to a USB host controller only when it is actually used. Based on a signal regarding an n-th pin received from a USB MEMORYSTICK slot provided in a board, a monitoring program detects whether a MEMORYSTICK has been inserted. The monitoring program causes a hardware bus switch to turn ON if the presence of the MEMORYSTICK is detected, or causes the hardware bus switch to turn OFF if the absence of the MEMORYSTICK is detected. If the hardware bus switch is turned ON, the USB host controller is electrically connected to a USB MEMORYSTICK slot through a USB bus; therefore, the USB host controller detects the USB MEMORYSTICK slot. If the hardware bus switch is turned OFF, the USB host controller is electrically disconnected from the USB MEMORYSTICK slot, so that it does not detect the USB MEMORYSTICK slot.

Information processing unit having a slot, information processing method for an information processing unit, and program that controls an information processing unit

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Kanagawa, Japan

Junko Saito