Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Masayoshi Tojima

Yasuo Kohashi

Takahiro Nishi

Kiyofumi Abe

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Kenji Kondo

Kotaro Sakata

Masayasu Iguchi

Hiroaki Toida

Tomoaki Maruyama

Masahiro Ohashi

Yuji Sugisawa

Mana Hamada

Masahiro Oohashi

Miki Arita

Yoshinori Okajima

Shunsuke Kuhara

Shunichi Kuromaru

Toshihiro Moriiwa

Hiromasa Nakajima

Hiroshi Miyajima

Masayuki Kozuka

Motoji Ohmori

Toshihisa Nakano

Takashi Hashimoto

Tokuzo Kiyohara

Kazuo Okamura

Takako Hirose

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Masashi Hoshino

Masatoshi Matsuo

Tomonori Yonezawa

Hitoshi Fujimoto

Daisuke Iwahashi

Hideyuki Kanzaki

Tsuyoshi Sakata

An information processing method includes the following executed by a computer: obtaining a result of sensing the interior of a mobile body; performing a recognition process of recognizing at least one of dirt and damage inside the mobile body, on the basis of the result of sensing; determining handling timing for handling at least one of the dirt and the damage inside the mobile body, according to the result of the recognition process; and outputting a notification for the mobile body to move to a handling place according to the handling timing.

Information processing method, information processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

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

Event-related information is acquired, and a judgment is made as to whether a particular event is detected. When a particular event is detected, direction information indicating a first direction is acquired, and first recognition result information is acquired as to a result of a recognition process as to an object located outside a vehicle. Furthermore, a judgment is made as to whether the first recognition result information includes a result of object recognition in the first direction and as to whether existence of a specific object in the first direction is detected. In a case where it is judged that the first recognition result information indicates that object recognition in the first direction is performed and existence of a specific object in the first direction is not detected, process completion information indicating that the vehicle has performed the recognition process in the first direction is generated and output.

Information processing method, information processing system, and program

Provided is a server device () including: a transmitting/receiving section () for receiving, from a household electric appliance (), an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance () and an operation status of the household electric appliance (); an updating section () for estimating a consumption status of a consumer good using the received operation status so as to update the consumption status of the consumer good stored in a utilization information accumulating section () based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good; and a determination section () for deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used with the household electric appliance, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good.

Information obtaining method, information obtaining system, and information appliance

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 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

There is disclosed a decoding method for decoding an incoming bitstream entropy-encoded according to an encoding method based on either of arithmetic encoding algorithm and non-arithmetic encoding algorithm, the incoming bitstream including syntax elements. The decoding method includes a first converting step of converting the incoming bitstream into an intermediate bitstream according to the encoding method, the first converting being capable of being omitted, a buffering step of selecting, according to the encoding method, either the intermediate bitstream or the incoming bitstream to store the selected bitstream onto a memory, and a second converting step of reading the selected bitstream from the memory to convert the read bitstream into syntax elements, the read bitstream being either the intermediate bitstream or the incoming bitstream.

Decoding method for decoding an incoming bitstream and method for performing the same

A battery-driven device extends an operating time of a battery (a secondary battery). A battery control unit included in the battery drive-device stores therein one or more voltage thresholds, and detects a sharp voltage drop that occurs immediately after the start of discharging of a battery that is fully charged, based on the current and voltage of the battery and the stored voltage thresholds. Upon detecting a sharp voltage drop, the battery control unit decreases power consumption of the battery.

Battery driving device, load control method, integrated circuit and load control program

In layout design step of the semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing method, when it is found that the wiring length between an external terminal and an IO block (external terminal I/F circuit) corresponding to the external terminal increases after a floorplan of a circuit including a functional block and the IO block is determined, placement of the IO block is determined such that the IO block is placed close to the external terminal to alleviate constraints on the wiring between the IO block and the external terminal, and timing adjustment circuits whose number is determined according to the wiring length of a bus (or a shared bus) connecting a data transfer circuit and the IO block is inserted into the bus.

Integrated circuit manufacturing method and semiconductor integrated circuit

An encoding device encoding binary signals using arithmetic-encoding. The encoding device includes a binarization unit binarizing multivalued syntax elements in order to generate the binary signals. The generated binary signals are stored on an intermediate buffer. Further, the encoding device includes an arithmetic-encoding unit performing the arithmetic-encoding on the binary signals stored on the intermediate buffer. Additionally, the generated binary signals are binary representations of values of the multivalued syntax elements.

Encoding apparatus for encoding binary signals generated from binarized multivalued syntax elements and method for performing the same

A moving image recording/playback device records a moving image of a subject. In the case of recording, the moving image recording/playback device sequentially outputs a plurality of image frames that constitute the moving image at a predetermined frame rate and, for the plurality of image frames, records whole image frames at intervals of a predetermined number of frames and partly records other image frames, onto at least one recording medium. In the case of playback, when reading a partly recorded image frame, the moving image recording/playback device generates a display frame from the partly recorded image frame and a recorded whole image frame.

Moving image recording/playback device

A decoding-processing apparatus that decodes bitstreams using an intermediate format. The apparatus includes a context-calculating unit () calculating the probability of symbols contained in incoming bitstreams, a parameter-generating unit () generating parameters for use in the context-calculating unit (), and an arithmetic decoding-calculating unit () decoding the incoming bitstreams in accordance with the probability, thereby providing decoded data. The apparatus also includes a stream-converting unit () converting the decoded data into intermediate bitstreams, a storage unit () storing the intermediate bitstreams, a synchronization-detecting unit () detecting calculation start timing from the intermediate bitstreams fed out of the storage unit (), thereby providing detected calculation start timing, and a multivalued calculating unit () permitting the intermediate bitstreams fed out of the storage unit () to be multivalued in synchronism with the detected calculation start timing from the synchronization-detecting unit ().

Decoding-processing apparatus for decoding bitstreams encoded in accordance with an arithmetic-encoding system in image compression and method for performing the same

The camera system of the present invention includes a plurality of cameras each including an imaging unit and an image processing unit. If configured to operate in a mode that is for cooperation with other cameras, a first camera included in the camera system causes the image processing unit thereof to receive images from other cameras, and generate synthesized image by synthesizing the received images and an image captured by the imaging unit thereof. The first camera transmits the generated synthesized image to a second camera included in the camera system. The second camera causes, if configured to operate in the mode that is for cooperation with other cameras, the image processing unit thereof to perform part or whole of encoding of the received synthesized image.

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Masayoshi Tojima