Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Kazunori Kurimoto

Masaru Yamaoka

Michihiro Matsumoto

Yasuo Yoshimura

Kenichi Kamon

Masao Nonaka

Yoichi Ikeda

Naofumi Nakatani

Toshiaki Tanaka

Mariko Nakaso

Gantetsu Matsui

Mahbub Rashid

Yuko Omura

Yoshiki Ohashi

Satoru Matsunaga

Nozomu Tooyama

Takashi Kawamura

Masayuki Misaki

Tomotaka Yagi

Shigeru Morimoto

Yasuhiro Umekage

Toshiaki Ohnishi

Tetsuya Kouda

Toshihiko Date

Tadashi Miki

Osamu Eguchi

Eiichi Sadayuki

Hiromi Toyota

Hiroki Urabe

Hiroaki Kurihara

Masafumi Torikai

Ryo Nishimura

Shinsuke Kawaguchi

Toshiko Mineno

Masami Fukumoto

Haruyo Ohkubo

Meiko Masaki

Sara Asai

A voice control method according to the present disclosure includes: judging, for each of a plurality of utterance objects capable of outputting voice, whether the utterance object is outputting voice; and based on a result of the judging, causing one or more of the plurality of utterance objects to output voice at one of a timing of immediately outputting voice and a timing of outputting voice after an end of outputting voice by an utterance object which is outputting voice among the plurality of utterance objects.

Voice control method, server apparatus, and utterance object

A notification management device includes: an operation log obtainer that obtains an operation log indicating a state of an information source appliance operated by a user, from the information source appliance; an operation log storage that stores the operation log obtained by the operation log obtainer; a setting content information storage that stores setting content information indicating setting content of a voice notification of an utterance appliance set by the user; a voice notification log storage that stores a voice notification log indicating a history of the voice notification output by the utterance appliance based on the setting content; an estimator that estimates the user's interest based on at least one of the operation log, the setting content information, or the voice notification log; and a push notification transmitter that transmits, to a terminal device, a push notification for notifying the user of notification content related to the estimated interest.

Notification management device, notification system, control method of notification management device, and recording medium

A voice speech device includes: a display; a selector that causes the display to display one or more candidates for a name to be provided to a target appliance (appliance), and accepts selection of one name among the one or more candidates; a receiver for receiving first state information that is sent from the target appliance and indicates a state of the target appliance; a speech sentence creator that creates a speech sentence for notifying the state of the target appliance, based on the first state information received by the receiver, the speech sentence containing the one name accepted by the selector; and a voice outputter that outputs the speech sentence by voice.

Voice speech device, voice speech system, and voice speech method to create name of a target appliance based on its operation history

A voice notification system is a system that causes a talking device to provide a voice notification of information about a notification target that is an information source device about which information is notified by the talking device or an information source service about which information is notified by the talking device. The system includes: a change detector that detects a change regarding notification details or a change regarding a notification method; and a notifier that causes the talking device to provide a voice notification of information about the change regarding the notification details or the change regarding the notification method when the change regarding the notification details or the change regarding the notification method is detected.

Voice notification system, voice notification method, and recording medium

A portable terminal device transmits a read request specifying a specific address that is an address shared among a plurality of electric appliances and acquires fixed data from a fixed data storage unit disposed at a specific address of an electric appliance. The fixed data includes setting address information that indicates an address of a setting storage area in which is stored object data that is data to be transmitted to a server device. The portable terminal device acquires setting address information included in the fixed data, and by specifying a read address on the basis of the setting address information and issuing a read request with respect to a variable data storage unit, the portable terminal causes the electric appliance to transmit the object data as read data, acquires the object data from the transmitted read data, and transmits the object data to a server.

Communication system, electric appliance, and portable terminal device

A cooking recipe supply method includes a first acquiring step of acquiring identification information for identifying a cooking appliance and type information representing a type of the cooking appliance, and a second acquiring step of acquiring cooking recipe information related to the identification information. When the cooking recipe information includes the cooking recipe information related to the identification information, the cooking recipe information related to the identification information is supplied. Further, the method includes a supply step of, when the cooking recipe information related to the identification information is not present, supplying the cooking recipe information based on the type information. As a result, the user can easily view a suitable cooking recipe according to the cooking appliance owned by the user.

Cooking recipe supply method and control program

A control method of a washing machine including a wireless communicator communicating with an electronic device, includes: causing the washing machine to operate a washing tub of the washing machine as a preliminary operation, including a rotational operation of the washing tub; acquiring motion information regarding a motion of the electronic device during the preliminary operation; determining whether or not the electronic device is inside the washing tub based on the acquired motion information and information indicating the preliminary operation; and giving the washing machine a notification indicating that the electronic device is inside the washing tub if the determining determines that the electronic device is inside the washing tub. It is determined whether or not the electronic device is inside the washing tub, based on a comparison between characteristic operation information determined in advance with regard to the preliminary operation and the motion information acquired by a sensor.

Control method for washing machine, washing machine

A display control unit switches a display screen to a detergent name list screen based on detergent name list screen information received by a second communication unit, an operation unit accepts a selection of an arbitrary detergent name by a user from a plurality of detergent names displayed as a list on the detergent name list screen, the second communication unit transmits, to a server, detergent name specifying information for specifying the arbitrary detergent name accepted by the operation unit and washing machine specifying information and receives, from the server, detergent information related to a detergent specified based on the detergent name specifying information and the washing machine specifying information, and a first communication unit transmits the detergent information received by the second communication unit to a washing machine.

Laundry system, communication device, communication method, communication program and washing machine

A state updating unit updates first information stored in a storage unit whenever the state of a control unit transitions from an idle state to an active state or from the active state to the idle state. A second power supply unit induces electric power from radio waves received by the antenna unit. An information acquiring unit operates after receiving the supply of electric power from the second power supply unit, acquires second information indicating whether electric power is supplied from the first power supply unit, acquires the first information from the storage unit, and transmits the acquired first and second information to the control device. A diagnosing unit diagnoses faults in the terminal device based on the first and second information transmitted from the information acquiring unit of the terminal device.

Terminal device, control device, fault diagnosis system, and fault diagnosis method

An information terminal includes a first radio communication unit that performs communication with a server, a condition input unit through which a condition for retrieving a specific cooking recipe information group from cooking recipe information groups stored in the server is input, and a display unit that displays the specific cooking recipe information group specified based on the condition input through the condition input unit. Further, the display unit displays list screen () that displays as a list the specific cooking recipe information group so that first cooking recipe information that is associated with operation control information is differentiated from second cooking recipe information that is not associated with the operation control information, and a cooking method screen that displays a cooking method relating to specific cooking recipe information in the specific cooking recipe information group displayed on the list screen.

Information terminal, information terminal control method, and information terminal control program

When an appliance communication portion of a home electric appliance receives a set operation data piece transmission request from a mobile terminal, the appliance communication portion transmits a stored set operation data piece. When the appliance communication portion receives the set operation data piece from the mobile terminal, the appliance communication portion sets an operation, defined by the received set operation data piece, as an operation of the home electric appliance to be executed. When a data piece processing portion of the mobile terminal receives a set operation data piece acquisition command from an input portion and receives the set operation data piece from the home electric appliance, the data piece processing portion causes a data piece storage portion to store the received set operation data piece. When the data piece processing portion receives an operation setting command from the input portion, the data piece processing portion causes a first terminal communication portion to transmit the set operation data piece.

Communication method, program storage medium, mobile terminal, home electric appliance, and home electric appliance operation setting system

A control method for a washing machine including a wireless communication unit for communicating with an electronic device includes: causing the washing machine to operate a washing tub of the washing machine as a preliminary operation; acquiring motion information regarding a motion of the electronic device during the preliminary operation; determining whether or not the electronic device is inside the washing tub based on the acquired motion information and information indicating the preliminary operation; and giving the washing machine a notification indicating that the electronic device is inside the washing tub if the determining step determines that the electronic device is inside the washing tub.

A first communication unit transmits, to an electrical home appliance, request information that requests electrical home appliance specifying information for specifying the electrical home appliance after an approach instructing screen is displayed on a display unit, and receives response information including at least the electrical home appliance specifying information from the electrical home appliance after the first communication unit and the electrical home appliance have approached each other within a communicable range, and a display control unit switches a display screen to a menu screen that is unique to the electrical home appliance on the basis of the response information received by the first communication unit.

Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method, communication program and electric device

In a case where an identification information item determination section () determines that a first identification information item indicates a non-replacement part, a first backup section () backs up the first identification information item in a backup memory (). In a case where a confirmation section () determines that the first identification information item is not backed up in the backup memory (), a second backup section () backs up the first identification information item in the backup memory (). In a case where the confirmation section () determines that the first identification information item is backed up in the backup memory (), a storage process section () updates the first identification information item stored in a communication section-side memory () with a second identification information item stored in the backup memory ().

Communication device and management method for identification information item using communication device

A radio frequency identification (RFID) device includes: a contact interface for wired communication with a host; a contactless interface for contactless communication with a reader/writer; a command processing unit that obtains a command from the reader/writer in the contactless communication and process the command, the command instructing a data access; and a memory that holds data. The command processing unit determines a communication mode, and (i) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the memory, when the communication mode is determined as a first communication mode, and (ii) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the host, when the communication mode is determined as a second communication mode.

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Kazuhiro Kuroyama