Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Mikiya Nakata

Kunio Nobori

Satoshi Sato

Takeo Azuma

Nobuhiko Wakai

Ayako Maruyama

Kenichiro Suetsugu

Shunji Hibino

Hiroshi Nakayama

Katsuhiro Kanamori

Masamichi Nakagawa

Hiroki Takeuchi

Yukio Maeda

Norihisa Mino

Yuko Tsusaka

Akira Asai

Yumi Wakita

Hidetsugu Maekawa

Kazumasa Okumura

Kazuhiro Ikurumi

Masaharu Tsujimura

Shoshi Kabashima

Yutaka Mitsumoto

Koichi Hotta

Hiroaki Takano

Jun Ozawa

Atsushi Yamaguchi

Kenji Kondo

Eiichi Naito

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Shusaku Okamoto

Hiroyoshi Komobuchi

Kazuhiro Mori

Yasuaki Okumura

Yudai Fudaba

Katsuji Aoki

Takaharu Gamo

Hidenori Miyakawa

Mikiko Matsuo

Osamu Yamada

Masahiro Iwasaki

Hideshi Aoki

Yoshio Morita

Yoshio Maruyama

Tomonobu Naruoka

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Masato Hirano

Hiroto Yanagawa

Yuichi Aoki

Yoshinori Wada

Takashi Akiguchi

Masato Tanino

Natsuki Saito

Yasuji Kawashima

Masuo Koshi

Norihiro Miyamura

Tadashi Tanno

Brahm Pal Singh

Tomiyasu Ueda

Yumiko Ohno

Toshihiko Nishionji

Tadahiro Taniguchi

Yoshinobu Hagiwara

Yasuhiro Morinaka

Ryunosuke Inui

Masaki Kiyono

Tatsuo Okuji

Kenichiro Todoroki

A detection system for detecting a virus or the like. The detection system includes an autonomous collection device that is capable of moving on a floor surface and for collecting an object on the floor surface, and a station device for detecting an analyte from the object collected from the floor surface by the autonomous collection device. The autonomous collection device includes a moving part for moving on the floor surface, a primary electric blower for sucking the object on the floor surface, and a dust container for storing the sucked object. The station device includes a transfer pipe fluidically connected to the dust container of the autonomous collection device when the autonomous collection device is positioned in a home position, and a virus detection part for detecting the analyte from the object transferred from the dust container through the transfer pipe.

Detection device

A detection system including an autonomous collection device that is capable of moving on a floor surface and for collecting an object on the floor surface, and a station device for detecting an analyte from the object collected from the floor surface by the autonomous collection device. The autonomous collection device includes a moving part for moving on the floor surface, a primary electric blower for sucking the object on the floor surface, and a dust container for storing the sucked object. The station device includes a transfer pipe fluidically connected to the dust container of the autonomous collection device when the autonomous collection device is positioned in a home position, and a virus detection part for detecting the analyte from the object transferred from the dust container through the transfer pipe.

The present disclosure provides a collection device capable of collecting a virus or the like effectively. The collection device according to the present disclosure is an autonomous collection device () for collecting an object having an analyte and moisture from a floor surface. The autonomous collection device () comprises a drying part () for drying the object, a suction opening () for suctioning the object dried by the drying part, and a dust container () for storing the object suctioned from the suction opening.

Collection device and detection device

A terminal apparatus includes a camera, a display that displays a display screen including a mobile robot that autonomously travels, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a first planned route of the mobile robot, displays, on the display, a screen having the first planned route superimposed on a camera image taken by the camera, detects a contact point on the display on which the screen is displayed, generates a second planned route of the mobile robot that travels through the contact point, and transmits the second planned route to the mobile robot.

Mobile robot and control method of mobile robot

The present disclosure provides a detection system whereby a virus or the like can be effectively detected in order to suppress the spread of infectious disease by the virus or the like. The detection system according to the present disclosure includes an autonomous collection device that is capable of moving on a floor surface and for collecting an object on the floor surface, and a station device for detecting an analyte from the object collected from the floor surface by the autonomous collection device. The autonomous collection device includes a moving part for moving on the floor surface, a primary electric blower for sucking the object on the floor surface, and a dust container for storing the sucked object. The station device includes a transfer pipe fluidically connected to the dust container of the autonomous collection device when the autonomous collection device is positioned in a home position, and a virus detection part for detecting the analyte from the object transferred from the dust container through the transfer pipe.

A camera-parameter-set calculation apparatus includes a three-dimensional point group calculator that calculates a plurality of three-dimensional coordinates, based on first and second images respectively captured by first and second cameras and first and second camera parameter sets of the first and second cameras; an evaluation value calculator that determines a plurality of pixel coordinates in the second image, based on the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates and the second camera parameter set, determines a plurality of third pixel coordinates in a third image captured by a third camera, based on the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates and a third camera parameter set of the third camera, and calculates an evaluation value, based on pixel values at the plurality of second and third pixel coordinates in the second and third images; and a camera-parameter-set determiner that determines a fourth camera parameter set for the third camera, based on the evaluation value.

Camera-parameter-set calculation apparatus, camera-parameter-set calculation method, and recording medium

Provided are: a point group obtainer that obtains three-dimensional point group data indicating three-dimensional locations of each of a plurality of three-dimensional points included in an imaging space of one or more cameras; a camera parameter calculator that (i) obtains corresponding points, for each of the plurality of three-dimensional points, in individual images captured using the one or more cameras, based on the three-dimensional point group data and an initial camera parameter of each camera, and (ii) calculates a camera parameter of each camera on the basis of the initial camera parameter of each camera and pixel values, included in the individual images, at the corresponding points; and a camera parameter outputter that outputs the calculated camera parameter of each camera.

Camera parameter calculation apparatus based on the average pixel values

A camera parameter set calculation method including (a1) acquiring a first image captured by a first camera and a second image captured by a second camera, (a2) acquiring camera parameter sets of the first and second cameras, (a3) extracting, from the first image, a predetermined portion having assumed three-dimensional position information, (a4) calculating three-dimensional coordinate sets corresponding to the predetermined portion on a basis of the assumed three-dimensional position information, the first image, and the first camera parameter set, (a5) determining first pixel coordinate pairs and second pixel coordinate pairs corresponding to the predetermined portion in the first image and second image, respectively, on the basis of the three-dimensional coordinate sets, (a6) calculating an evaluation value on the basis of pixel values at the first pixel coordinate pairs and pixel values at the second coordinate pairs, (a7) updating the camera parameter sets on the basis of the evaluation value.

Camera parameter set calculation method, recording medium, and camera parameter set calculation apparatus

A device control system including a wearable device and a server. The wearable device includes a device that ejects a fragrance material, a biological sensor, and a computer. The computer transmits biological data to the server, receives a first control signal, and causes the device to eject a fragrance material upon receipt of the first control signal. The server includes a computer. The computer receives the biological data, estimates user's emotion from the received biological data, and in a case where it is determined that the user has positive emotion by using a result of the estimation, (i) transmits the first control signal to the wearable device and (ii) transmits, to an aroma device, a second control signal for causing the aroma device to eject a fragrance material at a predetermined timing.

Device control system, wearable device, information processing device, fragrance material ejection method, and device control method

Three-dimensional point group data indicating three-dimensional coordinate sets of three-dimensional points included in a common imaging space of one or more cameras is received, one or more images captured by the one or more cameras are transmitted, the one or more transmitted images are received, initial camera parameters of each cameras are decided based on one or more mounting locations and one or more directions of the cameras, corresponding points in the one or more images are calculated for each of the three-dimensional points, based on the three-dimensional point group data and the initial camera parameters, and one or more camera parameters of the one or more cameras are calculated based on pixel values at the corresponding points in the one or more images.

Camera parameter calculation method, recording medium, camera parameter calculation apparatus, and camera parameter calculation system

Camera parameter calculation apparatus, method, and recording medium based on an absolute value of corresponding pixel values

A camera parameter set calculation apparatus calculates three-dimensional coordinate sets corresponding to overlapping regions including images of a portion of a subject, based on a first and second images captured by a first and second cameras, a first camera parameter set of the first camera and a second camera parameter set of the second camera; determines first pixel coordinate pairs based on the first camera parameter set by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets on the first image; determines second pixel coordinate pairs based on the second camera parameter set by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets on the second image; calculates an evaluation value, based on pixel values at the first pixel coordinate pairs on the first image and pixel values at the second pixel coordinate pairs on the second image; and updates the first and second camera parameter sets based on the evaluation value.

Camera parameter set calculation apparatus, camera parameter set calculation method, and recording medium

A control method comprises: receiving from a first vehicle, first information including a first required amount of the energy source; receiving from a second vehicle, second information including a second required amount of the energy source; and determining, when a total sum of required amounts of the energy source received from two or more vehicles including the first vehicle and the second vehicle is larger than a remaining amount in a storage reservoir, i) a first reserved supply amount of the energy source for the first vehicle, wherein the first reserved supply amount is smaller than the first required amount, and ii) a second reserved supply amount of the energy source for the second vehicle. The second reserved supply amount is determined within a range where a total sum of the first reserved supply amount and the second reserved supply amount does not exceed the remaining amount.

Control method for energy source supply system that stores an energy source and supplies the energy source to one or more vehicles

A comment-provided video generating apparatus includes: a display priority calculating unit which calculates a display priority for each of the comments and subject regions to which the comments are provided, based on comment information indicating comments to be superimposed and displayed on a video and display positions of the comments, and user information, by calculating a higher display priority for one of the comments and the subject regions specified by user information; a comment superimposing method determining unit which determines, as a method for superimposing the comments onto a video, an order of displaying the comments and the subject regions such that a comment or a subject region having a higher display priority is displayed at a position frontward than the others, according to the display priority; and an image composing unit which superimposes the comments on the video, according to the comment superimposing method.

Comment-provided video generating apparatus and comment-provided video generating method

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