Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Komatsu Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kazuo Okamura

Junichi Hirai

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Naoya Takao

Tatsuya Shimoji

Takashi Kakiuchi

Masayuki Kozuka

Masahiro Oashi

Yoshihiro Mimura

Yuki Kusumi

Ikuo Minakata

Toshiya Mori

Taketo Yoshii

Takuya Sekiguchi

Kouichi Yasutake

Takemori Takayama

Shinji Inoue

Hidekazu Tanigawa

Tetsuo Ohnishi

Kiyokazu Yamanaka

Yoshikiyo Tanaka

Toshihiro Hishida

Masaki Mukai

Hidetaka Ohto

Toshihisa Nakano

Yoshinori Matsui

Hideki Kagemoto

Shigeaki Watanabe

Ryoichi Shimatani

Nobuyoshi Kanzaki

Yasuyuki Sonoda

Chihiro Kawahara

Hiromu Kunugihara

Kazutoshi Sumiya

Motoji Ohmori

Masahiro Ito

Masayoshi Tojima

Keisei Yamamuro

Takako Hirose

Tohru Wakabayashi

Tadanori Hishida

Sukeichi Miki

Kimio Minami

Masanori Okabayashi

Tsuyoshi Sakata

Hidekazu Shimizu

Takashi Sakao

Katsunori Matsuda

Yasunori Tanaka

Naomi Kurihara

Kouichi Kojima

Hiroshi Ono

Katsuyoshi Saito

Yoshitaka Ohyama

Masato Miyake

Seita Takahashi

Shinji Nabeshima

Fumio Kudo

Tetsuo Sonoda

Satoru Kitamura

Yuko Yamamoto

Chihiro Imagawa

Yasushi Nishimura

Toshihide Takeda

Yoshihito Yoshimura

Takeshi Matsukawa

Hidekaau Tanigawa

Provided is a server device () including: a transmitting/receiving section () for receiving, from a household electric appliance (), an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance () and an operation status of the household electric appliance (); an updating section () for estimating a consumption status of a consumer good using the received operation status so as to update the consumption status of the consumer good stored in a utilization information accumulating section () based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good; and a determination section () for deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used with the household electric appliance, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good.

Information obtaining method, information obtaining system, and information appliance

A route display method for display on a terminal apparatus comprises: acquiring starting point information indicating a starting point and destination information indicating a destination; generating route information indicating a route from the starting point to the destination, wherein the route information includes a plurality of passing points; extracting captured images corresponding to the plurality of the passing points from a database which stores the captured images in relation to corresponding image capturing locations respectively, wherein each of the image capturing locations is within a range from the each of the plurality of the passing points; and displaying the extracted captured images in association with a map image sequentially in an order from a first captured image corresponding to a first passing point closest to the starting point to a second captured image corresponding to a second passing point closest to the destination.

Route display method, route display apparatus, and database generation method

A recording/reproduction device is provided wherein service content having interactivity can be restored even when recorded. In recording mode, a transport stream from a receiving deviceis received and a conversion deviceconverts this to a packet-multiplexed stream in a condition suitable for recording, which is then output as a converted stream. The conversion deviceselects packets relating to a desired service from the transport stream and, of these packets, selects only packets needed for reproduction and uses these to generate a converted stream. A recording devicerecords this converted stream on a recording medium. In reproduction mode, the converted stream from recording mediumis read by means of a reading deviceand supplied to a restoration device. Restoration device, in accordance with the content of this converted stream, restores and outputs a service content signal (for example a composite signal such as NTSC). A video/image output devicereceives this service content signal and outputs video/images. These are recorded, still in packetized condition. Consequently, since recording can be achieved including the control data, recording/reproduction can be formed without impairing the functionality of the satellite broadcast provided by the control data.

Recording/reproduction device and method for digital broadcasting

The present invention provides a device and a method for displaying appropriately on the display area for each processing unit such as an application according to the applied equipment. The CPUprocesses display area acquisition requests from a plurality of processing units R-Rn according to a display management program. The display management program decides whether use of the display area is allowed to each processing unit, considering the relationship of the plurality of display areas requested from each processing unit R-Rn. Each processing unit R-Rn executes display processing for the display area for which use is allowed. In this way, whether use is allowed is notified from the display management program to each processing unit R-Rn after each processing unit R-Rn sends the display area acquisition request. As a consequence, display in a plurality of areas by each processing unit R-Rn can be controlled appropriately.

Display control device and method

A sintered sliding member comprises a back metal () and a ferrous sintered sliding body () which is sintering-bonded to the back metal (). The ferrous sintered sliding body () has martensite phase having a solid soluble carbon concentration of 0.15 to 0.5 wt % and contains carbide in a content of 5 to 50% by volume. The sintered sliding member is excellent in abrasion resistance, seizing resistance and heat crack resistance.

Sintered sliding member and connecting device

When a program transmission apparatus divides a program into a plurality of partial programs before transmission, a program reception execution apparatus executes a partial program when the partial program has already been received, and, when the execution needs to proceed to from a present partial program to a next partial program, executes the other partial program when the next partial program has been received.

Program reception/execution apparatus that can commence execution of a machine program having only received the program in part, and a program transmission apparatus that enables such execution

A display control device for controlling a display of a display device responding to display processing from a plurality of processing units. A display controlling program controls the display device in response to at least one processing unit. The display controlling program receives a request from one processing unit to acquire one of predefined display areas, and determines whether to provide an authorization to acquire one of a plurality of predefined display areas in response to an acquisition request from the one processing unit. When a plurality of requests to acquire the same one of predefined display areas from a plurality of processing units are received, authorization is provided to a single processing unit that made one of the requests to acquire the same one of predefined display areas. The display device is instructed by a processor, based on the display controlling program. A memory, connected to the processor, stores the display controlling program. When an acquisition request for the same one of predefined display areas is received, the processor instructs the display device based on the display controlling program.

To provide a thermal spray membrane contact material, contact member and contact part and an apparatus to which they are applied, showing excellent seizure resistance and wear resistance even under high surface pressure/low speed sliding, high speed/high temperature sliding, or high surface pressure/high speed sliding. In a bucket connecting apparatus connecting an arm and a bucket by a work implement connecting pin, the above-mentioned work implement connecting pin comprises a base material made of steel having an axis function and a contact surface formed of a thermal spray membrane contact material film-formed on the base material, said contact surface being placed at least on a supported surface site of the work implement connecting pin relative to a bracket and on a slipping contact surface with a work implement bushing, further, said thermal spray membrane contact material being composed of a Mo metal phase, or 10 vol % or more of a Mo metal phase and a metal phase and/or alloy phase containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Fe, Ni, Co, Cr, Cu and Zn.

Thermal spray membrane contact material, contact member and contact part, and apparatuses to which they are applied

A wear-resistant iron-based sintered contact material is provided which is sintered by powder sintering so as to have high density, high seizure resistance and wear resistance. A wear-resistant iron-based sintered composite contact component composed of the wear-resistant iron-based sintered contact material sinter-bonded to a backing metal and its producing method are also provided. To this end, at least CrC-type carbide and/or MC-type carbide which have an average particle diameter of 5 &#x3bc;m or more are precipitately dispersed in an amount of 20 to 50% by volume within an iron-based martensite parent phase which has a hardness of HRC 50 or more even when tempered at up to 600&#xb0; C.

Wear-resistant sintered contact material, wear-resistant sintered composite contact component and method of producing the same

An object is to perform retrial processing according to the allowable volume on communication lines made available at response information receiving equipment. A broadcast unit, when broadcasting video and audio, includes retrial information in that broadcast, according to the allowable volume on the communication lines between the television receivers and the response information receiving equipment. Television receivers effect display based on the received digital data. Response information input by users is sent to the response information receiving equipment. The television receivers make retrial transmissions based on the received retrial information when communications could not be established with the response information receiving equipment. This retrial information is responsive to the allowable volume on the communication lines between the television receivers and the response information receiving equipment, wherefore retrial transmissions are made according to the allowable volume on the communication lines.

Data transceiving system and method therefor

A data conversion apparatus is provided as a data transmitting apparatus in a data communication system which achieves pseudo interactive communications by using one-way communications between the data transmitting apparatus and a plurality of data receiving apparatuses. The data conversion apparatus converts documents stored inside into images to be displayed on the screen, such as a TV screen. In doing so, if the document includes character strings or image information as link destination information which specifies another document as a link destination, the data conversion apparatus adds a supplementary design into the image of the link destination information for the viewer to recognize such information.

Data conversion apparatus for data communication system

A transmitting apparatus for an interactive communication system using a broadcast wave, which includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a transmitting unit. The first storage unit stores a plurality of frames of image data. The second storage unit stores control information which shows links between said plurality of frames of image data stored in the first storage unit, and which indicates a combining of a supplementary design with the image data. These supplementary designs are stored by a receiving apparatus and are combined with the image represented by the image data. The transmitting unit repeatedly transmits a predetermined number of frames of image data together with corresponding control information.

Data communication system, data transmitting apparatus, and data receiving apparatus

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Kazuo Okamura