Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Sony Corpotation

Mitsuru Matsui

Shiho Moriai

Junko Nakajima

Kazumaro Aoki

Masayuki Kanda

Toshio Tokita

Kyoji Shibutani

Masanobu Katagi

Toru Akishita

Masakazu Ukita

Asami Yoshida

Taizo Shirai

Seiichi Matsuda

Tomoyuki Asano

Yu Tanaka

Yohei Kawamoto

Tetsu Iwata

Muneki Shimada

Dai Sasaki

Kazuo Nakamura

Atsushi Ozawa

Shinichi Uesaka

Masafumi Kusakawa

Sumio Morioka

Shin Hotta

Youichi Takashima

Tomoyuki Ono

Kazuo Ohta

Kazuhito Tsuchida

Kazuhiro Kanee

Kentaro Marutani

Tsuyoshi Masato

Shigeki Teramoto

Eiichiro Kubota

Masanobu Okabe

Talzo Shirai

A power control device forms energy storage equipment together with a storage battery. The power control device includes: a communication portion that communicates with a power management device, which manages charge and discharge of the storage battery; a power conditioner that supplies electricity to a predetermined destination for supply; a control portion that controls operation of the power conditioner based on instructions from the power management device that are received by the communication portion; and an authentication processing portion that performs authentication processing with the power management device.

Power control device, power management device and power management system

There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires power supply request information that includes information on a supply period during which an electric power system is requesting supply of electric power, and reservation information for a vehicle, a calculation unit that, on the basis of the reservation information, calculates supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicle during the supply period, and a notification unit that notifies the electric power system of the calculated supply power.

Determining power to be supplied based on reservation information of a vehicle

An energy control device, an energy management device, an energy control method, and an energy management system are provided. The energy management system includes the energy management device and the energy control device. The energy management device includes an electric power management unit configured to generate an instruction specifying a supply destination for electric power generated by an electric power generator, and includes a communication unit configured to transmit the instruction to the energy control device. The energy control device includes a power conditioner configured to distribute the electric power to the supply destination based on the instruction, and includes a control unit configured to control an operation of the power conditioner.

Electric power controller, electric power management device, electric power control method, and electric power management system for trading and distributing electric power

Disclosed herein is an electrical-charging/discharging control apparatus composing an electric-power accumulation facility in conjunction with an electric-power accumulation battery and including: a communication section configured to receive a command to carry out either of electrical charging and discharging operations on the electric-power accumulation battery from an electric-power management apparatus for managing the electrical charging and discharging operations carried out on the electric-power accumulation battery; a control section configured to control the electrical charging and discharging operations carried out on the electric-power accumulation battery on the basis of the command; and a power conditioner for supplying electric power from an electric-power network to the electric-power accumulation battery and transferring electric power accumulated in the electric-power accumulation battery to the electric-power network in accordance with control carried out by the control section.

Electrical charging/discharging control apparatus, electric-power management apparatus, electric-power management method and electric-power management system

A plurality of user terminals or sensors transmit data encrypted by individual cryptographic key, a server receives the encrypted data items, and executes a data process according to a program defining a decryption process sequence. Bit slice expression data is generated by performing a bit slice process with respect to the plurality of encrypted data items which are decryption target, bit slice expression key based on the cryptographic key of each encrypted data item is generated, round key is generated based on a bit slice expression key, a decryption process including operation and movement processes of a block unit of the bit slice expression data, and an operation using the round key is executed, and a plurality of plain text data items corresponding to the plurality of encrypted data items are generated by a reverse conversion of the data with respect to the decryption process results.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

There is provided an analysis server including a first verifying unit that analyzes data acquired from a local power management system composed of an electronic appliance provided with a sensor and a power management apparatus managing power supply to the electronic appliance connected to a power network, by using history information of the local power management system or data acquired from another local power management system with a power usage state similar to that of the local power management system, a second verifying unit that analyzes the data acquired from the local power management system, by using an estimated value calculated by simulation using characteristics information and/or specification information of the electronic appliance, and a control unit that controls the first verifying unit and the second verifying unit.

System and method for securing a power management apparatus from an attack by verifying acquired data based on statistical processing, data simulation, and watermark verification

A common-key blockcipher processing configuration with enhanced immunity against attacks such as saturation attacks and algebraic attacks (XSL attacks) is realized. In an encryption processing apparatus that performs common-key blockcipher processing, S-boxes serving as non-linear transformation processing parts set in round-function executing parts are configured using at least two different types of S-boxes. With this configuration, the immunity against saturation attacks can be enhanced. Also, types of S-boxes present a mixture of different types. With this configuration, the immunity against algebraic attacks (XSL attacks) can be enhanced, thereby realizing a highly secure encryption processing apparatus.

Encryption processing apparatus, encryption processing method, and computer program

Provided is a secondary battery cell that can certainly prevent detachment of an integrated circuit from the secondary battery cell and attachment of the integrated circuit to another secondary battery cell, a battery pack including such secondary battery cells, and an electric power consumption device including such a battery pack. A secondary battery cellof the present invention includes an integrated circuit (an IC chip)that has stored identification information, and the integrated circuitis driven by power from the secondary battery cell. A battery pack of the present invention includes secondary battery cells each including an integrated circuit (an IC chip) that has stored identification information, and the integrated circuits are driven by power from the secondary battery cells. An electric power consumption device of the present invention contains a battery pack that includes secondary battery cells each including an integrated circuit (an IC chip) that has stored identification information, and the integrated circuits are driven by power from the secondary battery cells.

Secondary battery cell, battery pack, and electric power consumption device

An electric power apparatus includes an energy device, a device manager, and a storage system manager.

Electric storage apparatus and power control system

Speed-up of a cryptographic process by software (program) is realized. A data processing unit which executes a data process according to a program defining a cryptographic process sequence is included, and the data processing unit, according to the program, generates a bit slice expression data based on a plurality of plain text data items which are encryption process targets and a bit slice expression key based on a cryptographic key of each plain text data item, generates a whitening key and a round key based on the bit slice expression key, executes the cryptographic process including operation and movement processes of a block unit of the bit slice expression data, and an operation using the round key, as a process according to a cryptographic algorithm Piccolo, and generates the plurality of encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain text data items by the reverse conversion of the data with respect to the cryptographic process results.

A terminal device, which includes an encrypting section encrypting input data in a fully homomorphic encryption scheme to generate encrypted data. The terminal device includes an encrypted data transmission section transmitting the encrypted data generated by the encrypting section to a server. The terminal device includes an encrypted data reception section receiving the encrypted data on which the server implements a predetermined process and a decrypting section decrypting the encrypted data on which the predetermined process is implemented.

Terminal device, server, data processing system, data processing method, and program

There is provided a power management system including a power receiving unit for receiving power from outside according to consumption of power, an electrical storage unit for storing the power received by the power receiving unit, and a discharge control unit for controlling a second power amount discharged from the electrical storage unit so that a first power amount provided by the power receiving unit attains a predetermined time-series pattern.

Power management system, power management apparatus, and power management method

Speed-up of a cryptographic process by software (program) is realized. A data processing unit which executes a data process according to a program defining a cryptographic process sequence is included, and the data processing unit, according to the program, generates a bit slice expression data based on a plurality of plain text data items which are encryption process targets and a bit slice expression key based on a cryptographic key of each plain text data item, generates a round key based on the bit slice expression key, executes the cryptographic process including operation and movement processes of a block unit of the bit slice expression data, and an operation using the round key, and generates the plurality of encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain text data items by the reverse conversion of the data with respect to the cryptographic process results.

There is provided a power management apparatus including: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, a control unit controlling operation of the managed appliance and supplying of power to the managed appliance, a managed appliance information acquiring unit acquiring, from the managed appliance, as managed appliance information, at least any of appliance information including identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance, information indicating an operation state of the electronic appliance, information indicating an usage state of the electronic appliance and power information of the electronic appliance, and an appliance state judging unit judging a state of the managed appliance based on the managed appliance information acquired by the managed appliance information acquiring unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shiho Moriai