Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Takeshi Ando

Duyhinh Nguyen

Hiroyuki Sasai

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Toshiaki Yamauchi

Norihiro Shibata

Noriaki Imaoka

Ryuichi Nakada

Toshinori Hirose

Masayuki Taira

Osamu Mizuno

Soichiro Fujioka

Mizuho Sakakibara

Shohei Nakashioya

Masakatsu Takizawa

Takeshi Ishikawa

Koichi Kishi

Masahiko Nagaya

Youichirou Ueda

Sensuke Obata

Provided is an information processing method that includes: acquiring record content recorded by a first mobile unit and first position information indicating a position of the first mobile unit while the record content is recorded; storing the first position information in association with the record content; and transmitting a part or all of the record content to a second mobile unit based on a distance between a position of the second mobile unit and the position of the first mobile unit indicated by the first position information.

Information processing method, system, and processor in which a first mobile unit transmits recorded content to a second mobile unit based on positions of the first and second mobile units

The present invention provides a vehicle with which it is possible to realize stable platoon travel. This vehicle () travels autonomously by following a leading vehicle while maintaining a prescribed distance between vehicles, wherein the vehicle () has: a detection unit () that detects moving bodies present around the vehicle; and a control unit () that determines an entering moving body, among the moving bodies detected by the detection unit (), that may enter an area between the vehicle and the leading vehicle, and causes the vehicle to accelerate or decelerate on the basis of the distance between the entering moving body and the area.

Vehicle with inter-vehicular distance acceleration control

A mobile robot includes at least two first reflection parts, each of the at least two first reflection parts having a first reflection surface on a side surface thereof, the first reflection surface being configured to reflect electromagnetic waves. For each of the at least two first reflection parts: a cross-sectional shape obtained by being cut in a first direction perpendicular to a reference axis is symmetrical and continuous with respect to points passing through the reference axis, the first direction being parallel to a top surface of the first reflection part or a bottom surface of the first reflection part; and a reflection surface angle defined by the points passing through the reference axis and both ends of the first reflection surface is 90 degrees or more to 360 degrees or less when the first reflection part is viewed along the reference axis.

Mobile robot

Based on schedule information indicating one or more events to be occurred and information relating to a location associated with each of the one or more events, a navigation method estimates an area and time at which congestion may be likely to occur in the vicinity of the location. Furthermore, the navigation method presents to a moving body information which is based on the estimated result of the area and the time, and which is related to a movement plan when moving using the moving body.

Navigation method, navigation system, moving body, and navigation program

Provided is a moving vehicle which enables a user to easily recognize that the moving vehicle is stopped due to the user's own clothing or the like being determined as an object, thereby enabling the user to cancel the stopped state and return to a moving state. A moving vehicle on which a person rides and which stops moving if the distance to an object is equal to or less than a first predetermined value, said moving vehicle comprising: a sensor () for detecting the distance; a determiner () for determining, if the distance is equal to or less than a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value, a state in which the field of view of the sensor () is blocked due to the clothing covering the sensor (); and a notifier () that, if said state is determined by the determiner (), issues a notification.

Moving vehicle

A mobile body configured so that multiple mobile robots can travel along the same track in formation even when an obstacle is present on the travel path of the mobile robots, and a method of controlling the mobile body. This mobile body () includes: a map storage () that stores travel path information; and an intelligence processor () that recognizes whether or not an object in the periphery is a mobile body to be followed (). When the object is the mobile body to be followed () and the mobile body to be followed () does not exist on a travel path () indicated by the travel path information, the intelligence processor () sets a position on the travel path () in which the mobile body to be followed () is projected, as a temporary destination ().

Mobile body and method of controlling mobile body

A method of culturing cells including: dividing a culture area into a center area and a plurality of peripheral areas, and designating the center area and the plurality of peripheral areas as measurement positions; calculating: a confluent rate at each of the measurement positions designated; and an average confluent rate which is an average of sum of the confluent rates at the measurement positions designated, the confluent rate being defined as a proportion of an area occupied by cells in a designated area; and determining a timing to perform a subculture of the cells, based on the confluent rate, wherein the determining of the timing further includes determining when the average confluent rate is smaller than a first threshold value, the confluent rate of the center area is larger than a second threshold value, and the second threshold value is larger than the first threshold value.

Method of culturing cells

A robot and a method for controlling the robot are provided, each of which prevents the robot from hitting an obstacle when autonomous movement of the robot is controlled using an OSS. The method for controlling a robot including a plurality of rangefinder sensors, the robot being configured to autonomously move based on a map created using one or more measurement data portions of the plurality of rangefinder sensors. The method includes: deleting some of the one or more measurement data portions of the plurality of rangefinder sensors; integrating the one or more measurement data portions remaining after the deleting into an integrated measurement data portion; and determining the integrated measurement data portion to be a measurement data portion of one or more virtual rangefinder sensors which are fewer in number than the number of the plurality of rangefinder sensors.

Robot and method for controlling the same

A non-limiting example game system comprises a main body apparatus, and a left controller and a right controller are attachably and detachably attached to the main body apparatus. Each of the left controller and the right controller is provided with a plurality of operation buttons, an analog stick and a vibrator. A player character is provided with a radar object, and a rod-like determination object having one end that is located at a center of the character object is rotated within a plane parallel to a horizontal plane in a virtual space. When the determination object touches an enemy character, the vibrator of the left controller or/and the right controller is caused to vibrate.

Storage medium, game system, game apparatus and game controlling method

According to a control method for an electric vehicle of the present invention, when an electric vehicle () moves at a first velocity and approaches an object () on the basis of instructed information, the electric vehicle () is temporarily stopped at a position at which the distance between the electric vehicle () and the object () is a first stopping distance, after which the velocity is switched to a second velocity that is slower than the first velocity, the electric vehicle () is caused to approach the object (), and the electric vehicle () is stopped at position at which the distance between the electric vehicle () and the object () is a second stopping distance that is shorter than the first stopping distance.

Method for controlling electrically driven vehicle, and electrically driven vehicle

A mobile robot includes a mobile robot body, a drawing unit provided at the mobile robot body and including a marker configured to draw a travel locus of the mobile robot on a travel plane, and a detector provided at the mobile robot body and configured to detect the travel locus drawn by the drawing unit. The mobile robot travels along the travel locus detected by the detector.

Mobile robot and method of tracking mobile robot

A moving body includes a frame, a pair of right and left first wheels, a pair of right and left second wheels, a pair of right and left first parallel links connecting the first wheels and the second wheels, and a second parallel link connecting the pair of right and left first parallel links. Furthermore, a height changing unit connects the second parallel link and the frame and changes a position of the frame in a height direction with respect to the second parallel link, and a controller controls the height changing unit so as to maintain a height of the frame from a road surface.

Moving body

An electrically powered wheelchair has a main frame, a seat frame, a seat back frame, a footrest frame, a wheel section, and an obstacle detection sensor. The seat frame is disposed above the main frame, and supports a sitting seat which supports buttocks and thighs of a user. The seat back frame is disposed behind the main frame, and supports a backrest which supports a back of the user. The footrest frame is disposed in front of the main frame, and supports a footrest which supports feet of the user. The wheel section movably supports the main frame. The obstacle detection sensor is installed in front of the seat frame, and detects an obstacle.

Electrically powered wheelchair

A pipette tip includes a main body section; and a straight pipe section disposed at the leading end of the main body section, in which the inner diameter of the straight pipe section is 0.8 mm to 1.5 mm inclusive, and the length of the straight pipe section is 5 mm to 15 mm inclusive.

Pipette tip having a straight pipe section with inner protrusion and pipetting method for a liquid including cells

An apparatus for culturing cells of the present invention is an apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium in a culture vessel. The apparatus includes: pump connected to pipet held by first holder; first shifter configured to shift first holder; second holder configured to hold culture vessel; second shifter configured to grip and shift culture vessel; and controller. Controller is programmed to, when pipet draws a liquid in culture vessel or discharges a liquid into culture vessel, control second shifter to translationally shift lid of culture vessel in a horizontal direction.

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Kyoto, Japan

Takeshi Ando