Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Kazutaka Furuta

Toshihisa Nakano

Yasunori Ishii

Tsutomu Muraji

Teruyuki Takizawa

Taro Imagawa

Hiroya Kusaka

Yuka Ozawa

A navigation device () estimates a time when a user utilizing the navigation device () comes home, and transmits the estimated expected arrival time to a control device () in association with the user identifier of the user. In response to receiving the expected arrival times from a plurality of the navigation devices (), the control device () transmits, to an air conditioner (), a reservation instruction for setting the room temperature at the home to a predetermined target temperature by the estimated arrival time of the earliest user who is supposed to come home earliest. The air conditioner () is turned on in accordance with the transmitted reservation instruction among the users.

Control method for air conditioner, air conditioning control system, navigation device, and control device

A destination setting unit () receives setting of a destination by the user when a route from a present position to the destination is guided. A user specifying unit () judges whether the user who sets the destination is the user who performs program recording reservation. When the user is judged to be the user who performs program recording reservation, a keyword extracting unit () extracts a keyword for use in performing program recording reservation based on the destination. A keyword display unit () presents the user with the extracted keyword. A keyword selecting unit () receives selection, by the user, of the presented keyword. A program selecting unit () selects a program associated with the keyword. A program reservation unit () reserves recording of the selected program.

Program recording method, program recording device, destination setting method, and destination setting device

A zoom magnification calculation device associates a plurality of delay times with a plurality of zoom magnifications. The zoom magnification calculation device inputs, from the image-capturing device, i) an instruction for capturing the image of the object with one of the plurality of zoom magnifications, ii) a first relative distance from the object to the transportation vehicle at a time, iii) a moving speed of the transportation vehicle. The zoom magnification calculation device calculates, based on the inputting of the instruction using i) one of the plurality of the delay times associated with the one of the plurality of the zoom magnifications, ii) the first relative distance, and iii) the moving speed, a second relative distance in which the transportation vehicle becomes closer to the object than the first relative distance, and calculates an adjusted zoom magnification corresponding to the second relative distance.

Image-capturing device for moving body

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Osaka, Japan

Kazutaka Furuta