Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corportion of America

Kumi Harada

Masaki Yamauchi

Yoshihiro Kojima

Yoichi Ikeda

Tomonari Takahashi

Hayashi Ito

Tomoaki Ohira

Akiko Takamiya

Kahoru Iai

Keiichi Tanaka

Kazunori Yamada

Kozo Ezawa

Hideyuki Yoshida

Fumiaki Suzuki

Shingo Miyamoto

Keiji Sakaguchi

Kazue Fusakawa

Noriyo Hara

Makoto Hiroki

Norikazu Tagaki

A pickup request system includes: a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of a package in a delivery box provided on a site of a building and whether or not a user is present in a first predetermined range including the building; and a control unit configured to request pickup of the package when it is determined that the user has moved from within the first predetermined range to out of the first predetermined range while the package is present in the delivery box.

Pickup request system and pickup request method

An information device has a display and is connected to a distribution board system including multiple branch circuits including a first branch circuit to which devices are correlated, and manages electric power consumption by branch circuits. A control method thereof includes: acquiring state information indicating electric power consumption of each branch circuit; displaying multiple display objects corresponding to multiple devices correlated with the first branch circuit, overlapped, and displaying an electric power display indicating electric power consumption of the first branch circuit over the overlapped multiple display objects; if the overlapped multiple display objects are tapped on, displaying these separated, and displaying device displays representing each device at each separated multiple display object; and if any one of the separated multiple display objects on the display is tapped on, displaying the separated display objects overlapped, and erasing the device displays representing the devices from the overlapped multiple display objects.

Control method of information device for managing electric power consumption of devices in increments of branch circuits

An information device has a display and is connected to an information management system that manages, by rooms, electric power consumption of devices in a building having rooms including a first room. A control method thereof includes: acquiring state information indicating electric power consumption of each room; displaying multiple display objects corresponding to multiple devices correlated with the first room, overlapped, and displaying an electric power display indicating electric power consumption of the first room over the overlapped multiple display objects; if the overlapped multiple display objects is tapped on, displaying the overlapped multiple display objects, separated, and displaying device displays representing each device at each of the separated multiple display objects; and if any one of the separated multiple display objects on the display is tapped on, displaying the separated multiple display objects, overlapped, and erasing the device displays representing the devices from each of the multiple display objects.

Control method of information device for managing electric power consumption of devices in multiple rooms

A server apparatus includes a storage unit that stores information indicating activity patterns of an applicant and information indicating activity patterns of residents of properties neighboring a candidate property, which is a candidate for a property to which the applicant moves, and a determination unit that determines the desirability of a combination of the applicant and the candidate property on the basis of the information indicating the activity patterns of the applicant and the information indicating the activity patterns of the residents of the neighboring properties.

Combination desirability determination apparatus, method for determining desirability of combination, and recording medium storing program

Power usage of each of one or more devices belonging to a group is collected at prescribed intervals, and an authentication request including group identification information for identification of the group to be authenticated is received from a terminal. Upon receipt of the authentication request, a device as a manipulation target in the group and details of a manipulation on the device are determined, and notification is provided to the terminal. Whether the device designated by the notification is manipulated is judged on the basis of a change in the power usage of each of the devices belonging to the group. If the device designated by the notification is judged to be manipulated, authentication information is transmitted to the terminal.

Authentication method for authenticating a terminal when a designated device is determined to be manipulated

A presence and absence prediction method includes: acquiring electric power data of a predetermined building at a first point in time; acquiring learning data obtained by learning, for each predetermined time period, a correspondence relationship between electric power data of the building at a point in time preceding the first point in time and information indicating whether the person was actually present in the building; predicting, on the basis of the electric power data of the building at the first point in time and the learning data, whether the person is present in the building; and generating presence and absence information that indicates a result of the prediction and outputting the presence and absence information to a predetermined terminal.

Presence and absence prediction method and presence and absence prediction apparatus

An appliance control method is for controlling a target appliance located in a building to disguise the number of people in the building. The method includes: obtaining an operation history of the target appliance (S); determining a change in the number of people in the building (S); creating, based on the operation history and the change in the number of people in the building, control patterns each of which is for controlling the target appliance and corresponds to a different one of the numbers of people including the number of people (S); selecting, from among the created control patterns each of which corresponds to a different one of the numbers of the people, a control pattern which corresponds to the predetermined virtual number of people (S); and controlling the target appliance according to the selected control pattern (S).

Appliance control method and apparatus for controlling a target appliance in a building to disguise the number of people in the building

An information input apparatus includes: a touch pad; a touch information detecting unit which detects touch information that is information resulting from an operator contacting the touch sensor with a finger; a touch operation start position detecting unit which detects, using the touch information, a touch operation start position that is a start position of a touch operation performed by the operator; a touch operation recognition condition storage unit which stores a plurality of touch operation recognition conditions each for recognizing one of types of touch operation, in association with each of touch operation start positions; and a touch recognizing unit, which recognizes the touch operation, using the touch operation recognition conditions stored in association with the touch operation start position detected by the touch operation start position detecting unit, to determine a type of the touch operation.

Information input apparatus, information input method, and program

To switch a coordinate mode by automatically recognizing a coordinate mode more usable for a user performing a natural operation, a coordinate determination apparatus () according to the present invention includes: an obtain and store unit () which obtains coordinate information from a coordinate input device () and stores the coordinate information onto a recording medium; a time correlation specifying unit () which specifies a correlation between times of input indicated by first and second coordinate information; a coordinate correlation specifying unit () which specifies input coordinates indicated by the second and third coordinate information; a coordinate mode selection unit () which selects the coordinate mode based on a coordinate correlation value and a time correlation value; and a coordinate transform unit () which transforms the input coordinates indicated by the second coordinate information into coordinates selected according to the coordinate mode.

Coordinate determination apparatus, coordinate determination method, and coordinate determination program

In order to provide an information input device that solves the misclick caused by a clickable touch sensor without using information corresponding to pressure of the user's finger, the information input device includes: a touch information detecting unit that detects a touch information item obtained when a finger of the user is in contact with the touch sensor; a touch information sequence storage unit configured to store the touch information item for a predetermined period; and a pressing start position estimating unit configured to estimate a pressing start position at which the user started to press the touch sensor with the finger, based on touch information items stored in the touch information sequence storage unit, when the switch was pressed down, the touch information items including the touch information item.

Information input device, information input method, and program

A content playback apparatus () includes: a viewing target content obtaining unit () obtaining the viewing target content; a viewer detecting unit () detecting a first viewer who views the viewing target content played back by the content playback apparatus; a viewer content selecting unit () selecting, from among viewer contents, a viewer content having a matching degree higher than a predetermined threshold, the matching degree indicating an amount of common points between the first viewer detected by the viewer detecting unit and a second viewer who views a same content as the viewing target content under temporally or spatially a different condition, and each of the viewer contents including information of video or sound of the second viewer; and a content playback unit () playing back the viewing target content obtained by the viewing target content obtaining unit and the viewer content selected by the viewer content selecting unit.

Content playback apparatus, content playback method, program, and integrated circuit

An operating apparatus () which includes: an operation information obtaining unit () which obtains, from an input apparatus (), operation information indicating operations inputted by a user to first and second input units (and); an operation amount calculation unit () which calculates amounts of the operations by the user to the first and second input units (and), using the operation information obtained by the operation information obtaining unit (); and an operation region change unit () which changes sizes of first and second operation regions (and) so that areas of the first and second operation regions (and) corresponding to the first and second input units (and) increase as the amounts of the operations to the first and second input units (and) calculated by the operation amount calculation unit are greater.

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Osaka, Japan

Kumi Harada