Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Kohsuke Yoshioka

Takeo Azuma

Satoshi Sato

Nobuhiko Wakai

Hiroki Takeuchi

Yoshinao Kawai

Noritaka Shimizu

Takeshi Murai

Takaaki Amada

Yoko Kawai

Junichiro Soeda

Yoji Miyazaki

Eiichi Naito

Hiroki Ueda

Junichi Imoto

Ryuji Sakata

Tsuyoshi Kuninaka

A depth acquisition device includes memory and processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light emitted from a light source and measured by imaging with the infrared light reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating a distance to the subject as a depth for each pixel based on an intensity received by the pixel; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, a substantially same scene with a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same timing as those of imaging the infrared light image; detecting, from the visible light image, an edge region including an edge along a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the visible light image; and correcting, in the depth image, a depth of a target region corresponding to the edge region in the depth image.

Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method

A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs: acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring, from the memory, an infrared light image generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging a substantially same scene as the scene of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint as a viewpoint of imaging the infrared light image at a substantially same time as a time of imaging the infrared light image; detecting a flare region from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the flare region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the flare region.

Imaging device, imaging method, and information processing device

When a management device receives battery exchange demand information from a first vehicle, the management device specifies at least one exchange partner candidate which is a vehicle providing a battery exchange with the first vehicle, transmits battery exchange request information to the exchange partner candidate, specifies, when receiving a battery exchange acceptance signal from a second vehicle, a battery exchange place based on location information about each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle, creates exchange instruction information including position information about the battery exchange place, and transmits the exchange instruction information to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.

Management method and management device for shared electric vehicle, and computer-readable recording medium

Provided is a control method which includes: obtaining battery information which is information regarding a battery; calculating a present residual value of the battery based on the battery information obtained; calculating a first residual value using a first model which has been trained, the first residual value being a residual value of the battery in a case where a user uses the battery with a tendency identical to a tendency of a plurality of other users; and issuing a token to the user according to an evaluation value calculated based on the present residual value and the first residual value calculated.

Control method, server, in-vehicle device, and recording medium

A use management device includes: a traveling information acquisition part which acquires subsequent prospective traveling information about an electrically driven cart; a remaining amount information acquisition part which acquires remaining amount information about a battery; a determination section which determines, based on the prospective traveling information and the remaining amount information, whether charging of the battery is necessary; and a control section which executes a permission control of permitting a traveling motor to drive when the determination section determines that the charging of the battery is unnecessary, and executes a forbidding control of forbidding the traveling motor from driving when the determination section determines that the charging of the battery is necessary.

Electric cart use management device, use management system, computer-readable recording medium, and electric cart use management method

To detect connection between a secondary battery and a charger, determine whether or not a state of the secondary battery is stabilized in a case of detecting the connection, measure a first open circuit voltage that is an open circuit voltage before charging of the secondary battery in a case of determining that a state of the secondary battery is stabilized, instruct the charger to start charging of the secondary battery, detect end of charging of the secondary battery, determine whether or not a state of the secondary battery is stabilized in a case of detecting end of charging of the secondary battery, measure a second open circuit voltage that is an open circuit voltage after charging of the secondary battery in a case of determining that a state of the secondary battery is stabilized, and notify the user of end of charging of the secondary battery.

Open circuit voltage measuring method, open circuit voltage measuring device, and recording medium recording program

A personnel selecting device includes: a personnel extracting unit which obtains information of a requested service from a client device, extracts personnel matched to the information of the requested service by referring to a job skill storage which stores information indicating a correspondence relationship between a service and personnel, and outputs the extracted personnel information to the client device; a personnel arranging unit which obtains, from the client device, information of personnel selected from among the extracted personnel, and requests the requested service of the selected personnel; and an analyzing unit which obtains, from the client device, information indicating evaluation details for the requested service performed in natural language, determines an evaluation for the evaluation details by analyzing a character string indicated by the evaluation details, and updates the information in the job skill storage based on the determined evaluation.

Personnel selecting device, personnel selecting system, personnel selecting method, and recording medium

A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs; acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring an infrared light image stored in the memory, the infrared light image being generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring a visible light image stored in the memory, the visible light image being generated by imaging a substantially same scene as that of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same imaging time of those of the infrared light image; detecting a dust region showing dust from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the dust region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the dust region.

Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method including estimating a depth of a dust region based on a visible light image

A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light measured by imaging with infrared light emitted from a light source and reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating the distance for each pixel based on the intensities; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, the substantially same scene from the substantially same viewpoint at the substantially same timing as those of the infrared light image; detecting a lower reflection region showing an object having a lower reflectivity from the infrared light image in accordance with the infrared light image and the visible light image; correcting a corresponding lower reflection region in the depth image in accordance with the visible light image; and outputting the depth image with the corrected lower reflection region.

Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method for providing a corrected depth image

A connector is configured such that a socket housing () is engaged with a header housing as to cause a socket-side signal terminal () to contact a header-side signal terminal and as to cause a socket-side power source terminal () to contact a header-side power source terminal. The socket-side signal terminal () and the socket-side power source terminal are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the socket housing (). In the socket-side power source terminal and the header-side power source terminal, contact points to contact each other are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the socket housing (). Tongues () are formed in the socket-side power source terminal (). The contact points are provided at the tongues (), respectively.

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Kohsuke Yoshioka