Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Canon Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaaki Harada

Hiroaki Watanabe

Keiji Nose

Takumi Furukawa

Kenya Terada

Tsutomu Sekibe

Tomohiko Kitamura

Masashi Hoshino

Toshiro Suzuki

Yuusaku Ohta

Kozo Nishimura

Hideki Taniguchi

Satoru Kuriki

Satomi Amano

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Takeshi Nakayama

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Taiji Sasaki

Taichi Sato

Hiroko Sugimoto

Tomohito Taniguchi

Kazushige Yamada

Yukinori Nagata

Yuji Osaki

Hideyuki Kanzaki

Toshihiro Otaka

Yoshimasa Sawada

Kunio Nakatsukasa

Hideyuki Takagi

A control method includes acquiring time information including a wake-up set time; acquiring a sleep state of a sleeper who is stimulated by a stimulation device; determining a change of the sleep state; causing the stimulation device to start increasing a stimulus which urges the sleeper to awake at a control start time as time before the wake-up set time by a predetermined time period; and controlling a change amount of the stimulus based on the change of the sleep state with the stimulus.

Control method, control device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording program

An air-conditioning control system includes an in-bed air conditioner which adjusts an in-bed temperature using air in a room interior, an in-room air conditioner which adjusts an in-room temperature, an in-bed environment measurer which measures the in-bed temperature, an in-room environment measurer which measures the in-room temperature, and an air-conditioning controller which performs first cooperation control that controls operation of the in-bed air conditioner and a wind direction of the in-room air conditioner on the basis of the in-bed temperature acquired from the in-bed environment measurer and the in-room temperature acquired from the in-room environment measurer.

Air-conditioning control method and air-conditioning control system for in-bed air conditioning

A cloud server includes an environment history DB storing in-room temperature history information representing a history of an in-room temperature change in a living room whose temperature is adjusted by an air-conditioner in relation to operation history information representing an operation history of the air-conditioner, an in-room environment predictor that predicts, as a predicted off-state in-room temperature, a future in-room temperature of the living room based on the in-room temperature history information and the operation history information for a case where the temperature is not adjusted by the air-conditioning apparatus, and an air conditioning setting unit that determines, based on the predicted off-state in-room temperature, a control parameter of the air-conditioner used to control the in-room temperature so as to reach a target temperature at a target time.

Air-conditioning control method, air-conditioning control apparatus, and storage medium

A control method causes the processor to execute: excluding one or more pieces of first vibration data from a plurality of pieces of vibration data stored in the memory, wherein the plurality of pieces of vibration data are acquired within one period, wherein vibration times associated with the one or more pieces of first vibration data are included in an operation period in which the user performed the operation with respect to the information terminal device, and wherein the operation period is specified based on the time in the log information stored in the memory; and updating the threshold value using at least one piece of vibration data in the plurality of pieces of vibration data from which the one or more pieces of first vibration data are excluded.

Control method of information terminal device, body movement measuring device, and recording medium

In a control method, a vibration sensor of an information terminal apparatus acquires vibration data that is time-sequential data of vibrations including vibrations based upon body movements of a user on bedding on which the information terminal apparatus is placed. The acquired vibration data is stored in a memory, an action performed by the user is detected, and, from among the vibration data stored in the memory, vibration data included in a predetermined period that ends at a time at which the detected action was performed is extracted. Then, a vibration waveform indicated by the extracted vibration data is stored in the memory as a bed-leaving vibration pattern produced by the user.

Control method of information terminal apparatus provided with vibration sensor

A wireless connection authentication method includes: receiving first information transmitted by a first access point according to a message transmitted from a first wireless communications apparatus; receiving second information transmitted by a second access point according to a message transmitted from a second wireless communications apparatus which has already established communication with a second access point; and, if the first access point indicated in the first information and the second access point indicated in the second information are the same access point, determining the same access point as a connection destination access point of the first wireless communications apparatus.

Wireless connection authentication method and server

A portable terminal apparatus receives an operation instructing that an image displayed on a screen be scrolled, and moves the image in the instructed direction. The apparatus comprising: one or more memories, and circuitry. The circuitry which, in operation, judges whether or not a display image at an end of scrolling is included in a region of the screen during scrolling and determines, to be a control target region, a region judged not to include the display image at the end of the scrolling of the region of the screen; and performs control of lowering brightness of the control target region on the display image during scrolling.

Portable terminal device, luminance control method, and luminance control program

This image processing circuit performs, with reduced power consumption, pipeline processing of image data. This image processing circuit has an image processing unit which performs pipeline processing of image data having N-bit pixel data. The image processing unit has a pipeline register () having upper bit flip-flop circuits (), lower-order bit flip-flop circuits (), a comparison circuit () which determines whether the input values and the output values of the upper bit flip-flop circuits () are the same, and a clock gating control circuit () which controls supply of the clock signal such that, when the aforementioned input and output values are the same, the clock signal is not supplied to the upper bit flip-flop circuits (). The pipeline register () does not have a circuit for controlling supply of the clock signal to the lower 1-bit flip-flop circuits (), and holds pixel data or calculation results during pipeline processing.

Image processing circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit

A drive control device that is capable of ensuring user convenience. The drive control device () is a device that controls the drive of an electronic device driven by means of the power of a battery, and comprises a battery information management section () and a battery state assessment section (). Said battery information management section () manages the remaining power of a rechargeable battery, replaceable battery or other type of reserve battery for the electronic device, and/or whether a reserve battery exists. On the basis of the remaining power of the reserve battery and/or whether a reserve battery exists, said battery state assessment section () determines whether to drive the electronic device in a power-saving mode when the remaining power of a battery mounted in the electronic device has decreased to no more than a preset battery capacity.

Drive control device, drive control method and drive control program

A wireless access point terminal capable of reducing power consumption even if housed terminals are present is provided. The wireless access point terminal individually connects a plurality of housed terminals to a network using a wireless communications unit capable of individual wireless communications with the plurality of housed terminals. The wireless access point terminal has: a housed terminal management unit that determines whether or not to continue connection for each connected housed terminal; and a connection control unit that controls the wireless communications unit such that the wireless communication is disconnected for a housed terminal for which a determination has been made to not continue the connection.

Wireless access point terminal and connection control method

The present invention provides a charging member having an elastic layer on a surface thereof in which occurrence of compression set is reduced. The charging member includes an electro-conductive support and an elastic layer provided on the support as a surface layer, wherein the elastic layer is a rubber layer made of a crosslinked product of a rubber mixture including acrylonitrile butadiene rubber and polybutadiene, the polybutadiene includes 1,2-syndiotactic polybutadiene, and the elastic layer is formed by irradiating a surface of the rubber layer with electron rays.

Charging member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus

The present invention provides a charging member which has a low compression set and which can suppress the generation of image defects. A layer of an unvulcanized rubber composition including an unvulcanized acrylonitrile butadiene rubber and N,N'-methylenebis(1,4-phenylene)dimaleimide is vulcanized.

Charging member and electrophotographic apparatus

To provide a charging member that can not easily cause faulty cleaning on a photosensitive member while having a flexibility high enough to form a nip between it and the photosensitive member in a sufficient width. The charging member has an electro-conductive support and an elastic layer that is a surface layer, which elastic layer has at its surface a region having been cured by irradiation with electron rays, where this region supports spherical polyethylene particles in such a state that the spherical polyethylene particles are exposed to the surface of the elastic layer, thereby making the surface roughened.

Charging member, process for its production, and electrophotographic apparatus

The data transfer control device of the present invention is capable of improving data transfer efficiency while discarding error data, a DMA parameter storing control unit () temporarily stores parameters to a store resource; a data processing unit () performs error detection processing for data that is transferred; a DMA parameter return control unit () causes parameters used at transfer time of data for which the processing result in the error detection processing was an error to be returned as parameters for subsequent data transfer use from the store resource; and a completion notification delay control unit (), with regard to the parameters, causes the completion notification to a host system that indicates that data transfer has completed normally for each of the parameters to wait for normal completion of data transfer that uses parameters that had been set earlier than each of the first-mentioned parameters.

Data transfer control device and data transfer control method

A data transfer control deviceincludes a read pointer update unitupdating a value of a global read pointer RPg with a value of a local read pointer (first local read pointer) RPlheld by a local read pointer hold unitwhen completion of data transfer is recognized and a position, in an order of reading descriptors, of a descriptor Dindicated by the local read pointer RPlis earlier than positions of descriptors Dand Drespectively indicated by local read pointers (second local read pointers) RPland RPlheld by the other data transfer control devicesand

Data transfer control device, integrated circuit of same, data transfer control method of same, data transfer completion notification device, integrated circuit of same, data transfer completion notification method of same, and data transfer control system

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Yokohama, Japan

Masaaki Harada