Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Babcock-hitachi K.k.

Tadashi Kurihara

Yoshiaki Sugimoto

Minoru Fukumori

Shunsuke Kawasaki

Hiroshi Inoue

Nobuo Kurihara

Yoshio Sato

Shinichi Taniguchi

Shigeyoshi Kawano

Toshinori Shigenaka

Satoru Minowa

Michihiro Iioka

Shoji Nagai

Daizo Iba

Kazuhiro Takenaga

A highly reliable facility evaluation information (rating information) that is free of arbitrary ratings. A server system includes a facility rating information creation and updating unit that grants a rating with regard to a facility to be rated on the basis of parking information. The parking information is obtained by assessing whether the present position of a mobile body, which is being carried together with a vehicle, has been parked in the area of the facility to be rated whereat parking is possible. A facility rating provision unit that outputs the rating regarding to the facility to be rated, which has been granted by the facility rating information creation and updating unit.

Facility rating device and facility rating method

A display apparatus includes a display which performs digital display; a sensor which detects use of the display apparatus by a user; and at least one processor. The processor controls the display to set a digital display to be in a burn-in prevention state in a first time period. When the sensor detects use in a second time period including the first time period, the processor stops the burn-in prevention state and changes data regarding setting of the first time period.

Display apparatus and display action control method

Forecasting a mobile body distribution situation after a prescribed time by forecasting an excursion action of a mobile body on the basis of an inter-facility movement correlation of the mobile body. A server system includes an inter-facility movement computation part for computing a facility staying time estimate, an inter-facility movement time estimate, and an inter-facility movement correlation on the basis of a trend in past position information from the mobile body, a plurality of pieces of facility information, and map information wherein a road map is included; a receiving part for receiving present position information of a plurality of the mobile bodies; and a mobile body distribution situation forecast part for forecasting the distribution situation of the mobile bodies after a prescribed time on the basis of the inter-facility movement correlation and the present position information of the plurality of mobile bodies.

Mobile body distribution situation forecast device and mobile body distribution situation forecast method

An information analysis device is provided with: a visit information database update unit that receives position information pertaining to a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit that stores map information including the position of a facility that the plurality of vehicles can visit, and a route on which the plurality of vehicles can travel; and a visit rate calculation unit that specifies information pertaining to a visit to the facility by the moving body and a number of moving bodies passing through a region that corresponds to the facility on the basis of the position information and the map information, and calculates the rate at which the moving body visits the facility on the basis of the result of specification.

Information analysis device and information analysis method

To statistically analyze information on the path of ra movement of a moving body. An information analysis device includes a communication unit that receives position information for a vehicle, a memory unit that stores map information pertaining to roads over which the vehicle can travel and position information concerning facilities, a visit frequency calculator that calculates the frequency at which the vehicle visits a facility on the basis of facility information concerning the facility, and a travel path specification unit that specifies the vehicle that has made a plurality of visits to the facility on the basis of the results of calculations made by the visit frequency calculator and specifies the travel path to the facility for the specified vehicle from the position information and the map information pertaining to the roads.

Information analysis device and path information analysis method

A map-providing server includes: a travel information database creation unit that receives position information of a vehicle and vehicle brake application information; a place of residence estimation unit that estimates the position of the place of residence of a vehicle; a sudden braking location identification unit that identifies a location of the occurrence of vehicle sudden braking from information from the travel information database creation unit; a unit for determining the cause of sudden braking, which determines whether the location where sudden braking has occurred locally, at a position within a predetermined range from the position of the place of residence of the user of the vehicle; and a unit for recording sudden braking information that records, on map information, the location where sudden braking has occurred, in association with information indicating whether the vehicle user is a local resident.

Map-providing server and map-providing method

A content distribution server is provided with: a storage unit, which stores a plurality of pieces of content related to a facility; an acquisition unit, which acquires, from an in-vehicle navigation device of the vehicle, any one or both of starting information on a vehicle and location information on the vehicle, as information for determination; and a content distribution unit, which distributes content stored in the storage unit to a mobile terminal. The content distribution unit determines, on the basis of the information for determination acquired by the acquisition unit, whether a user can visit the facility by the vehicle, and determines, on the basis of the determination result, which content in the plurality of pieces of content stored in the storage unit is distributed to the mobile terminal.

Content distribution server and content distribution method

A combined cycle power plant of the present invention is configured of a compressor; a combustor for combusting compressed air compressed by the compressor together with supplied fuel; a gas turbine driven by a combustion gas exhausted from the combustor; a heat recovery steam generator for recovering high temperature exhaust heat exhausted from the gas turbine; a steam turbine driven by steam obtained from the heat recovery steam generator; and an exhaust gas duct having an HRSG inlet duct that is provided between the gas turbine and the heat recovery steam generator and introduces an exhaust passage into the heat recovery steam generator, and a bypass stack that leads the exhaust gas outside, wherein the exhaust duct is configured of a damper, a damper drive for changing any of angle and opening of the damper, and a guide mechanism for preventing a vibration of the damper.

Fast start-up combined cycle power plant

In an automatic control system, controls receive an input indicative of a deviation between feedback and demand signals and produce an output which in turn is applied to a plant to control it. A diagnostic device includes a model having an equivalent characteristic to the controls and receives the deviation signal. When a noise coming into the automatic control system is detected or when a deviation between the outputs of the model and controls is sufficiently small, no model operation is performed, and the output of the controls is determined as that of the model. However, when the deviation between the outputs of the model and the controls is large, the model is supplied with an input thereby performing a model operation. A resultant output of the model is then compared with the output of the controls to produce an alarm indicative of an abnormal state of the controls in accordance with a deviation between these outputs.

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Tadashi Kurihara