Sony Corporation

Other

Nec Corporation

Kokuyo Co., Ltd.

The Japan Research Institute, Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Next-e Solutions Inc.

Evtd Inc.

Eneres Co., Ltd.

Makoto Inoue

Yoichiro Sako

Yasushi Miyajima

Toshiro Terauchi

Motoyuki Takai

Katsuya Shirai

Kenichi Makino

Akiko Inoue

Masahiro Fujita

Hideki Noma

Taku Yokoyama

Masamichi Asukai

Masashi Takeda

Kotaro Sabe

Katsuya Muramatsu

Noritoshi Inoue

Fumiaki Nakao

Naoyasu Hosonuma

Ken Watanabe

Osamu Hanagata

Rika Hasegawa

Naohiro Fukumura

Tsuguharu Nishizaki

Nobuhiko Hasegawa

Katsumi Ueno

Junji Ushironaka

Youichi Matsuura

Masamichi Kine

Jun Benki

Masaru Sashiki

Motohide Ikeda

Emi Kato

Kimio Ariga

Takao Yamaguchi

Kohtaro Sabe

Takayuki Sakamoto

Tsuyoshi Takagi

Kyoko Furumura

Norio Nagatsuka

Tetsuya Konishi

Tsunetaro Matsuoka

Akira Irube

Haruhiko Kubota

Kenichiro Ueki

Tatsunori Kato

Koichiro Abe

Takayuki Nakagawa

Keisuke Kudo

Takeshi Shindo

Kenji Nakanose

Toshiki Ikeda

Provided is a balance correction control apparatus to control a balance correction apparatus designed to correct a balance between voltages of a first electric storage cell and a second electric storage cell connected in series based on a target setting for an SOC of each of the first electric storage cell and the second electric storage cell. The balance correction control apparatus includes a cell characteristic obtaining unit operable to obtain at least one cell characteristic selected from the group consisting of a degree of deterioration, a cell capacity and a temperature of each of the first electric storage cell and the second electric storage cell, and a target setting determining unit operable to determine the target setting for the SOC of each of the first electric storage cell and the second electric storage cell based on the at least one cell characteristic obtained by the cell characteristic obtaining unit.

Balance correction control apparatus, balance correction system and electric storage system

It is preferable to measure a voltage difference between two electric storage cells with a higher precision while suppressing costs of a balance correction circuit. A balance correction apparatus comprises a first balance correction section which equalizes voltages of two electric storage cells among a plurality of electric storage cells connected in series, a second balance correction section which equalizes voltages of two electric storage cells among the plurality of electric storage cells and a control section which controls operations of the first balance correction section and the second balance correction section. The control section generates a first control signal which controls operations of the first balance correction section and a second control signal which controls operations of the second balance correction section based on a measurement result of each voltage of the plurality of electric storage cells.

Balance correction apparatus and electric storage system

A power demand management apparatus comprising a power demand acquiring section acquiring a predicted power demand; a consumer house information holding section that, for each of a plurality of request methods or request conditions, and for each of a plurality of consumer houses, holds a sensitivity indicating a probability that the consumer house will comply with a request; a consumer house selecting section that, when the predicted power demand exceeds a target value, selects a first consumer house whose sensitivity for a first request method or request condition is no less than a first reference value and selects a second consumer house whose sensitivity for a second request method or request condition is no less than a second reference value; and a restriction requesting section that issues requests for power demand restriction to the first and second consumer houses respectively using the first and second request methods or request conditions.

Power demand management apparatus and power demand management system

A bridge circuit of an embodiment includes: a command transfer portion which is configured by wired logic into which a host controller capable of sending a command that corresponds to each of a plurality of devices inputs the command, and which is configured to transfer the inputted command to the plurality of devices; a command analysis portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is configured to analyze the command from the host controller; and a response reply portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is capable of reading out a response based on an analysis result of the command analysis portion from a register that holds a response corresponding to the command and sending the response to the host controller.

Bridge circuit

A power demand management apparatus comprises a schedule holding section that holds a power restriction schedule indicating a device on which a mobile robot is to perform power restriction, in association with a power restriction execution time; a movement instructing section that transmits movement instructions to the robot such that, prior to the power restriction execution time indicated in the power restriction schedule, the robot moves to an area in which is arranged the device on which the power restriction is to be performed at the execution time; and a restriction instructing section that transmits power restriction instructions to the robot, thereby causing the robot to perform the power restriction on the device at the execution time.

Location information obtained from a positioning systemand environmental information such as time, temperature, air pressure and the like measured by an environmental information sensorare associated with the reproduction history of music and are recorded in a history storage RAM, and music reproduced in the past at the same location as the present location is automatically selected and the music suitable for the location is automatically selected and reproduced based on the location information.

Reproducer and method for controlling reproduction

By providing bio-information and/or environment information between a pair of users, it becomes possible for the users to understand the situation or the feeling of each other more deeply and earlier. A communication system for exchanging the situations and the feelings of both users is provided without performing optional communication operations, such as a telephone call and an e-mail. The condition or the situation on the transmitter side is to be judged and to be notified to the receiver side by inputting bio-information such as breathing, pulse-beats and heartbeats or environment information such as weather, date and hour, ambient temperature, or alternatively, by comparing, synchronizing and/or relating the bio-information and/or the environment information at present with respect to the bio-information and/or the environment information in the past. With respect to the situation of the receiver side, it is also notified similarly to the transmitter side.

Communication apparatus and communication method

There is provided a mobile phone that detects bio-information on the user and makes information communications reflecting the detected bio-information. The mobile phone () includes sensors () that detect bio-information data. The bio-information data detected by the sensors () are sent to a sensor data analyzer () in which psychology corresponding to the detected bio-information data is analyzed based on bio-information data stored in a psychology memory () and psychology of the user. The sensor data analyzer () extracts characteristic signal patterns from the bio-information data detected by the sensors () and analyzes psychology corresponding to the extracted signal patterns. The psychology includes, for example, 'pleased and delightful', 'discouraged', &#x201c;excited&#x201d;, etc. and these states of mind are stored in association with bio-information data in the psychology memory (). When the bio-information data are detected by the sensors (), psychology most matching the bio-information data is selectively read out of the psychology memory ().

Information processing terminal and communication system

A detection section that detects a key-tapping speed and key-tapping intensity is provided to detect a user's impatience level. An input device detects the key-tapping intensity and key-tapping speed. The input device compares the detection value of the key-tapping speed and an average key-tapping speed. When the detection value exceeds a stored normal key-tapping speed, the input device then compares the detection value of the key-tapping intensity and a reference pressure value. When the detection value exceeds a stored normal key-tapping intensity, information to be output for a user is changed over. In this case, displayed characters are enlarged and emphasized to a maximum extent. On the other hand, in the case where a detection value does not exceed the normal key-tapping speed and the detection value exceeds the normal key-tapping intensity, displayed characters are only slightly enlarged.

Input device, input method and electronic equipment

In an image display system that displays the condition of a person under measurement in a visible form, the person carries a PDA (). The PDA () includes a bio-sensor () to detect bio-information on the person and an environmental information sensor () to acquire information on the environment around the person. The PDA () sends the acquired information to an image display device () which is connected to the PDA () via a network (). The image display device () includes a CPU () that judges the condition of the person on the basis of bio-information and environmental information, generates an image representing the condition of the person and displays the image on a display unit ().

Image display system, image display device, image display method

A replay mode control device in which the replay mode in reproducing music or video contents is controlled so as to be suitable for a user. A headphone of a mobile music reproducing device is provided with a vibration sensor for detecting movements of the user in the up-and-down direction. A walking movement detection unit detects the walking interval of the user based on an output of the vibration sensor. A replay mode controller manages control to adjust the replay rate of music contents to the walking interval of the user.

Playback mode control device and playback mode control method

A data reproducing apparatus is disclosed. The data reproducing apparatus comprising reproducing means for reading data from a recording medium, and data varying means for varying the data that is read from the recording medium whenever the data is read therefrom or once every a plurality of times it is read therefrom.

Data reproducing apparatus, data reproducing method, data recording and reproducing apparatus, and data recording and reproducing method

Conditions for starting the playback of the next cut in the middle of the cut of a drama are assumed to be such that, for the first cut, a viewer/listener blinks two times in the detection time zone, and for the second cut, the pupil diameter of the viewer/listener has become 8 mm or more in the detection time zone. The CPU of a playback apparatus determines whether or not the conditions are satisfied when the cut is played back, and when the conditions are satisfied, the playback of the next cut is started even in the middle of the cut. In the case of music, when the rhythm of the respiration of the viewer/listener or the motion of the body is not in tune with the rhythm of the music, the playback of the next music is started even in the middle of the music.

Content playback method, content playback apparatus, content recording method, and content recording medium

Reproducing characteristics of an audio sound are controlled by an audio controllerand reproducing characteristics of a video image are controlled by a video controller. Whether or not a viewpoint of the user is directed to a displayside of a television receiver is detected by a viewpoint detector. On the basis of a detection signal from the viewpoint detector, a discriminating unitdiscriminates which of a normal monitoring state, a 'while watching' state, and the 'concentration' state the present state corresponds to, and generates a control signal to control the reproducing characteristics so as to be adaptive to the state. If it is determined that the present state changes from the &#x201c;while watching&#x201d; state to the &#x201c;concentration&#x201d; state, a sound volume is reduced and the reproducing characteristics are automatically switched so as not to obstruct the concentration.

Reproduction device and reproduction method

The present invention provides a purchase management system which comprises an AS specific dividing controllerfor performing control of dividing the purchase request per administrative standard when the AS specifying unit determines that the administrative standards of the respective items to which the purchase request was made differ; an administration controllerfor receiving the purchase request divided per administrative standard and administratively controlling the purchase request; a divided ordering controllerfor performing control of dividing and ordering the purchase request per item specific dealer when the administration controller allows the purchase request; and an order totaling controllerfor totaling the order data ordered by the divided ordering controller according to the attribute of the expense item of the order.

System for purchase management and for facilitating distribution

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Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Inoue