Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Kotaro Sakata

Shigenori Maeda

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Kenji Kondo

Masayoshi Tojima

Kimio Minami

Tomoaki Maruyama

Tomohiro Konuma

Maki Yamada

Kazuya Nomura

Masaki Yamauchi

Tetsuji Fuchikami

Shohji Ohtsubo

Takashi Matsuyama

Ryo Yonetani

Hiroaki Kawashima

Takatsugu Hirayama

Yasushi Sugiyama

Koji Nakanishi

Ryuji Inoue

Norihiro Matsui

Takuya Matsumoto

Rinako Kamei

Tomonari Takahashi

Hiromi Iida

Nozomu Tooyama

Hiroyasu Imoto

Toshiya Naka

Tomoko Taihei

Nobue Narita

Yoshinori Hijikata

A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing (S) appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing (S) the appliance use information stored in the storing (S) to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing (S) the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing (S).

User management method for providing a notice to prompt usage of a function of an appliance

When a self-driving vehicle that transfers an object to a predetermined location is left at the predetermined location without the object in the vehicle, a vehicle control apparatus determines a moving destination among a plurality of standby places, based on the current location of the vehicle, the locations of the plurality of standby places, and vehicle-demand prediction information, and instructs the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.

Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method

When a vehicle that can travel autonomously is dropped off, a vehicle control apparatus causes the vehicle to move to a standby place by traveling autonomously. Specifically, when the vehicle is dropped off, the vehicle control apparatus determines a moving destination among standby places, based on the current location of the vehicle, and the locations of the standby places, and vehicle-demand prediction information, and instructs the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.

An information provision apparatus whereby information regarding a malfunction or problem that occurred during the use of a prescribed model of home appliance can be shared with users using the same model of home appliance. A device () has the following: a presentation-information reception unit () that receives presentation information generated by a server () and stores the presentation information in a prescribed storage unit; and a presentation unit () that presents the presentation information to the user of the device (), the presentation information having been read out from the aforementioned storage unit. The presentation information indicates malfunctions or problems that occurred in devices that are the same model as the abovementioned device () and were being used by other users.

Information provision apparatus, server apparatus, information provision method, and information provision program

A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing the appliance use information stored in the storing to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing.

User management method, server device, and user management system

Provided is a server device whereby more customers are gathered at a store, and the spending per customer is increased. In a server device (): a storage unit () stores charging parameters corresponding to purchase costs; a wired communication unit () receives information of the purchase cost which is inputted into a cash register; and a generating unit () retrieves, from the charging parameters which are stored in the storage unit (), the charging parameter corresponding to the purchase cost which is received by the wired communication unit (), and, on the basis of the charging parameter, generates charging information which indicates either the charging time or the charging quantity at which a power outlet carries out charging.

Server device, information device, power outlet, charging information generating method, and charging information generating program

An information provision apparatus whereby information regarding a malfunction or problem that occurred during the use of a prescribed model of a home appliance can be shared with users using the same model of the home appliance. A device () has the following: a presentation-information reception unit () that receives presentation information generated by a server () and stores the presentation information in a prescribed storage unit; and a presentation unit () that presents the presentation information to the user of the device (), the presentation information having been read out from the aforementioned storage unit. The presentation information indicates malfunctions or problems that occurred in devices that are the same model as the above-mentioned device () and were being used by other users.

Information providing system, server, and method for providing information regarding the operating state of a selected device

An information presenting method of providing presentation information to a terminal apparatus includes acquiring user schedule information in which at least one event is registered by a user for each date and time; searching for a free time after a current time, in which no event is registered, on the basis of the user schedule information; and generating the presentation information including information indicating a benefit which the user is capable of receiving in the free time in a facility that provides a service and transmitting the presentation information to the terminal apparatus at a timing when the free time starts.

Information presenting method

Provided is a server device capable of increasing the availability of a device by urging a user who uses the device to perform actions related to maintenance service. In this server device, an information transceiver receives operation information about a device. A remaining life determination unit determines the remaining life of the device or a component of the device based on the operation information. When the determined remaining life reaches a predetermined remaining life or becomes shorter than the predetermined remaining life, a transmission destination setting unit sets a device that is possessed by a person having a predetermined relationship with the user of the device as a transmission destination for the transmission of maintenance service information based on relationship information indicating the relationship between the user of the device and another person who is not the user. The information transceiver transmits the maintenance service information to the transmission destination.

Server device, terminal device, maintenance service information transmission method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A control method of the present disclosure is a control method of an information processing apparatus which includes a storage unit that stores predetermined resource information related to a resource required for a living activity of a user, the method including: an acquiring step of acquiring device information; an estimating step of estimating a living activity of the user; a competition extracting step of extracting a living activity group including living activities for which the resources are likely to compete among the living activities, based on the resource information; a resource judging step of judging whether a required resource has been secured for each of the living activities, based on the device information and the resource information; and an inhibition extracting step of extracting, as an inhibited living activity, a living activity for which it has been judged that the required resource has not been secured.

Control method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

A terminal apparatus includes an information receiver that receives, from a server apparatus, first webpage information, which enables a first user to specify an image to be posted on a first website, a storage that stores the received first webpage information, and an information processor that reads the first webpage information from the storage and that displays the first webpage information on a screen. In the screen, among a plurality of images, which are candidates for the image to be posted on the first website, an image selected on the basis of an image used in a second website is displayed at a position closer to the center of the screen than positions of other images are or displayed in a mode different from a mode in which the other images are displayed.

Apparatus and method for supporting selection of an image to be posted on a website

There is a need to effectively determine which users should be given priority for using a public service. A way of improving the public service can be to acquire information on congestion degree in use of the public service, to determine whether the congestion degree is higher than a specified level or not, and to transmit information that urges cease of the use of the public service being used to users who have higher utilization of the public service than other users among a plurality of users if the congestion degree is higher than the specified level.

Public service management method, public service management apparatus, and public service management programs for properly providing public services

An interest degree estimating device, which estimates a degree of interest of a user in a video displayed on a screen, includes: an eye gaze detecting unit for detecting an eye gaze direction of the user; a saliency information obtaining unit for obtaining saliency information on a saliency area having salient attractiveness in the video; and a user response analyzing unit for calculating a correlation between the saliency area specified from the obtained saliency information and the detected eye gaze direction, and estimate the degree of interest of the user in the video, the degree of interest being higher as the calculated correlation is higher.

Degree of interest estimating device and degree of interest estimating method

On the basis of stored recognition result information and current recipe information, there is generated presentation information that includes information indicating a second user who is executing in real-time the same cooking step of the same recipe as a cooking step of a recipe that a first user is actively executing. The generated presentation information is displayed on a display of a terminal device used by the first user via a network.

Cooking information providing method, control method, program, and terminal device

A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played.

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Hyogo, Japan

Kotaro Sakata