Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Masayuki Hiromoto

Kazunori Yamada

Shigehiro Iida

Mitsuhiro Aso

Michiko Sasagawa

An information providing method is an information providing method for consumer electronics devices, a display device, and a server, all of which are connected via a public network, the information providing method including: (a) receiving, by the server from the consumer electronics devices, information pieces on the consumer electronics devices; (b) filtering, by the server, the information pieces on the consumer electronics devices received in step (a), to obtain one or more filtered information pieces, and performing, by the server, processing for generating display information for display, by the display device, in a specific display format; and (c) transmitting, by the server, the display information generated in step (b) to the display device.

Information providing method

An information sharing method that provides a graphical user interface image for sharing information relating to an appliance within a home among a plurality of users includes a receiving step of receiving, as home appliance event information, information on a state change of an appliance within a plurality of homes, a priority determining step of determining a priority of a home that is to be displayed in the graphical user interface image in accordance with an occurrence frequency of the home appliance event information within each home, and a home determining step of determining a home to be displayed in the graphical user interface image in accordance with the priority.

Information sharing method that provides a graphical user interface image for sharing information relating to an application within a home among a plurality of users

An image compression device which compresses image data, including: a first quantization unit which performs a quantization modeto quantize pixel values using two values Aand B(A&#x3c;B), in one range defined by Aand B; a second quantization unit which performs a quantization modeto quantize the pixel values using two values Aand B(A&#x3e;B), in two ranges defined by Aand B; and a compressed data generation unit which generates compressed data including a value A, a value B, and quantized values of the pixel values quantized in a selected quantization mode, wherein the compressed data generation unit generates the compressed data using: Aand Bas A and B, respectively, when the quantization modeis selected; and Aand Bas A and B, respectively, when the quantization modeis selected.

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Kyoto, Japan

Masayuki Hiromoto