Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Koji Arimura

Hiroshi Arakawa

Hideyuki Ohgose

Kiyofumi Abe

Kazuhito Kimura

Kazuma Sakakibara

Tatsuro Juri

Kei Tasaka

Yuki Maruyama

Katsuo Saigo

Takashi Masuno

Naoki Yoshimatsu

Hideo Morita

Yuuki Maruyama

Takahiro Nishi

Keiji Tanaka

Yutaka Mori

Shinji Kitamura

Kenjiro Tsuda

Eiji Kawamoto

Yasuharu Tanaka

Yoshimitsu Sasaki

Katsuki Urano

Takashi Ooyama

Shimpei Hamaguchi

A charging control method includes setting at least a first threshold value and a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value as threshold values with respect to a remaining capacity of a storage battery unit included in each of a plurality of work devices. The method includes outputting, in a first state where the remaining capacity of the storage battery unit included in a work device designated as a target of control is equal to or greater than the first threshold value but less than the second threshold value, a charging start instruction to the work device when a predetermined decision condition is satisfied. The method further includes outputting, in a second state where the remaining capacity of the storage battery unit is less than the first threshold value, the charging start instruction to the work device, no matter whether the condition is satisfied or not.

Charging control method, program, and charging control system

A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.

Video decoding device and video decoding method

An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.

Encoding device and encoding method

A mover control system according to an embodiment includes a controller, a node generator, and a path generator. The controller controls a mover traveling within a predetermined area. The node generator generates a pair of specified nodes at respective arbitrary locations on a map corresponding to the predetermined area. The pair of specified nodes are nodes where the mover is controllable. The path generator generates a path between the pair of specified nodes. The controller makes the mover travel along a traveling route corresponding to the path within the predetermined area.

Mover control system, mover system, mover control method, and non-transitory storage medium

Encoding device and encoding method for encoding a picture with a syntax structure which does not change based on video format

A video coding apparatus is a video coding apparatus which codes a coding target video based on a coding standard, and includes: a dividing unit which divides an image included in the coding target video into a plurality of control blocks; and a prediction image generating unit which divides each of the control blocks into a plurality of prediction blocks, and generates, for each of the prediction blocks, a prediction image using one of inter prediction and intra prediction, wherein the coding standard allows each of the control blocks to be divided into the prediction blocks such that the prediction blocks have different sizes, and the prediction image generating unit divides each of the control blocks into the prediction blocks such that the prediction blocks all have an identical size, rather than dividing each of the control blocks into the prediction blocks such that the prediction blocks have different sizes.

Video coding apparatus and video coding method

A video coding apparatus including a dividing part that outputs the coding target picture divided for each coding unit (basic CU); a prediction processor that generates a prediction image by performing one of intra prediction and inter-screen prediction; a difference calculator that generates a difference image by calculating a difference between the generated prediction image and an image corresponding to the prediction image in the coding target picture; a residual coder that generates a residual coefficient by performing transform processing and quantization processing on the generated difference image; an integration unit that integrates a plurality of basic CUs included in an N&#xd7;N-pixel region into one new CU, and a code string generator that generates a code string corresponding to the post-integration new CU by performing variable-length coding and arithmetic coding on coding information and the residual coefficient.

A moving image coding apparatus is a moving image coding apparatus which codes a moving image, and includes a storage unit in which a plurality of reference pictures is stored; and a coding unit which codes a plurality of coding target pictures. The coding unit codes as a B picture a specific coding target picture among the plurality of coding target pictures by using a first reference picture list and a second reference picture list. The first reference picture list includes only one long-term reference picture ahead of the specific coding target picture among the plurality of reference pictures in a display order. The second reference picture list includes only one short-term reference picture ahead of the specific coding target picture among the plurality of reference pictures in the display order.

Moving image coding apparatus and moving image coding method

An image encoding method includes: selecting, for each processing block, one of intra prediction modes specified by a coding standard, and performing intra prediction according to the intra prediction mode, wherein the intra prediction modes include a lower-left reference mode in which a processing block located at lower left of a current processing block is referred to, the processing blocks include a first processing block and a second processing block located at upper right of the first processing block, the second processing block being equal in size to the first processing block, the coding standard defines that information on the second processing block is written into a bitstream after information on the first processing block.

Image encoding method and image encoding apparatus

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Koji Arimura