Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Ryuji Inoue

Shintaro Yamada

Shin Murayama

Shuuichi Nakagawa

Hiroshi Goto

Shuichi Nakagawa

Yoichi Fujieda

Takamitsu Sasaki

Kazushige Oonishi

Toru Tanigawa

Yoshihiro Kojima

Rumi Konishi

Shunji Harada

Tomofumi Yoshida

Junji Machida

Tetsumaru Fujita

Yuji Nagatomo

Naohiko Noguchi

Ryota Tsukidate

Rie Mitani

Shinichi Matsui

Kazushige Ohnishi

Kaoru Murase

Yuusuke Furuichi

Osamu Saito

Hirobumi Ooyoshi

Minoru Wada

Chikara Tsutsui

Yasuhide Ohkubo

Ichiro Demizu

Kotaro Sakata

Yoshihiro Fukuhata

Takafumi Miyazaki

Ryouichi Kawanishi

Minehisa Nagata

Keiji Icho

Yoshiko Ogawa

Yasuhide Matsuno

Shinichi Nakai

Kenji Asuwa

Mitsuhiro Sato

Hidekazu Shono

Yuichi Kobayakawa

Takashi Shimojima

Kei Hasegawa

Yasuhiro Sakurai

Ryouhei Ohi

Toshiya Naka

Yoshiko Yaoi

Taihei Yagawa

Syuichi Nakagawa

An unregistered first subject device is managed in memory as one or more subject devices. A room selection screen for selection of a room where the unregistered first subject device is installed, is displayed on a display. The unregistered first subject device is associated with a first room and managed as a registered first subject device, based on selection of the first room from the room selection screen. A room list screen including a first room icon representing the first room is generated, and displayed on the display.

Control method of information device for displaying subject device list screen, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program causing computer to perform the method

A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of an electric home appliance of a first type corresponding to the first user ID; generating a first electricity bill value by converting the difference value to an electricity bill; generating display data indicating that the first electricity bill value corresponds to the first conversion value; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data.

Method for providing device level power usage information according to device type

A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of a first electric home appliance; generating a first electricity bill value by converting the differential value to an electricity bill; generating display data indicating that the first electricity bill value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data.

Method for providing comparison information for power usage amongst users

A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage corresponding to each of the plurality of user IDs; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in a prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of a first electric home appliance among electric home appliances corresponding to the first user ID; generating display data indicating that the differential value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data to an information terminal device corresponding to the first user ID.

Method for providing device level power usage information

A method includes: inputting information indicating power usage corresponding to each of a plurality of user IDs; generating a differential value between i) a first cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a first user ID in a prescribed period and ii) a second cumulative value of power usage corresponding to a second user ID in the prescribed period; generating a first conversion value by converting the differential value to a use time of an electric home appliance corresponding to a first type among electric home appliances corresponding to the first user ID; generating display data indicating that the differential value corresponds to the first conversion value; and transmitting the display data to an information terminal device corresponding to the first user ID.

Method for providing information

A pet medical checkup device of the present disclosure includes a shooting section that shoots a moving image of a pet, a first storage section that stores the moving image of the pet shot by the shooting section, a first database that stores motion information representing a specific motion made by the pet when the pet has a disease for each disease of the pet, a first determination section that determines whether or not the pet is making the specific motion represented by the motion information stored in the first database using the moving image of the pet stored in the first storage section, and an estimation section that estimates the disease of the pet based on a determination result of the first determination section.

Pet medical checkup device, pet medical checkup method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing program

An accidental ingestion detecting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a swallowing sensing unit which senses swallowing by an animal; a swallowing detecting unit which detects swallowing based on sensing data outputted by the swallowing sensing unit and which outputs swallowing information that is information related to the swallowing; a feeding information inputting unit which accepts input of information related to feeding of the animal and which outputs the information as feeding information; and an accidental ingestion determining unit which determines accidental ingestion by the animal, wherein the accidental ingestion determining unit determines accidental ingestion by the animal based on date/time information included in the swallowing information and date/time information included in the feeding information.

Accidental ingestion detection apparatus, accidental ingestion detection system, and accidental ingestion detection method

A toner container includes a substantially tetrahedral toner-containing portion having an openable edge to discharge toner contained in the toner-containing portion, and a reference fold along which the toner container is foldable after the openable edge is opened. The reference fold extends from the openable edge and is provided on medians of two triangular faces of the toner-containing portion adjoining each other along the openable edge.

Toner container, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A content selection apparatus selects a target content item which is a content item to be presented to a user, from a plurality of content items. The plurality of content items are sorted into a plurality of management units according to a creation date and time of each content item. The content selection apparatus includes a selection unit that selects a predetermined number of management units in ascending order of the number of sorted content items, and selects a content item that belongs to the selected management units as the target content item.

Content selection apparatus and content selection method

An excrement detection system of this disclosure includes: an excretion information acquiring apparatus acquiring excretion information indicating whether a pet in a living space has performed excretion; a toilet observing apparatus observing inside of a pet toilet to acquire toilet information regarding inside of the pet toilet; an excretion information processing unit determining whether the pet has performed excretion based on the excretion information; a toilet information processing unit determining whether the pet is in the pet toilet based on the toilet information; an excretion position determining unit determining that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion and that the pet is absent from the pet toilet; and a notifying unit notifying a pet's owner that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when determined that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet.

Excrement detection system, excrement detection method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing program that controls excrement detection system

A content managing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains (i) a first content item held by a first user, (ii) a metadata item that indicates attribute information for classifying the first content item, and (iii) information on a sharing state, between the first user and a second user who is a user other than the first user, of a second content item having a metadata item identical to the metadata item held by the first content item; a degree of interest calculating unit which calculates a degree of interest that is an index indicating an interest of the second user on the metadata item; and a managing unit which manages the first content item based on the degree of interest of the second user.

Content managing apparatus, content managing method, content managing program, and integrated circuit

A display control device includes a first-contents-list displaying unit which displays a first contents list on a display screen, a base-point-content identifying unit which identifies a base-point content on the first contents list, a base-point-content-position obtaining unit which obtains a first base-point-content position on the first contents list, a focus position obtaining unit which obtains a focus position on the first contents list, a positional difference calculating unit which calculates a positional difference between the first base-point-content position and the focus position, and a first scrolling unit which scrolls the first contents list displayed on the display screen so that the positional difference decreases.

Display control device and display control method

A developing device includes a toner bearer including a surface in which multiple recesses having a cross-sectional void rate of 50% or smaller are formed, a toner supply member to supply toner to the toner bearer, and a developer regulator disposed facing or in contact with the toner bearer and including a bent tip portion. The toner bearer has a surface roughness Ra within a range from 1.0 &#x3bc;m to 2.0 &#x3bc;m, and a surface area ratio within a range from 2.0 to 4.0. The developing device uses polymerized toner having a weight average particle diameter of 8.0 &#x3bc;m or smaller and an average circularity of 0.98 or greater.

Developing device and process unit and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A developer regulator to restrict an amount of a developer, including a base portion; an intermediate portion continuous with the base portion, the intermediate portion having a flat area on one face, the flat area having a roughened surface; and a distal end continuous with the intermediate portion, the distal end being bent relative to the base portion in a direction opposite the one face in which the flat area is formed.

Developer regulator, development device, and image forming apparatus incorporating same

When registering content in a data storage unit (), a data registration unit () transmits, to another content management apparatus, metadata that is assigned to the content. The content management apparatus which has received the metadata returns related metadata that is related to the received metadata. An import determination unit () determines whether or not each of the metadata elements included in the returned related metadata is importable. The metadata elements which have been determined to be importable, within the related metadata, are added by a metadata editing unitas a part of the metadata of the content that is to be registered.

Content management apparatus, content management method, content management program, and integrated circuit

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Ryuji Inoue