Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Panasonic IP Management Co., Ltd.

Takuya Matsumoto

Norihiro Matsui

Rinako Kamei

Yutaka Kinugasa

Tadahiro Yamaji

Shohji Ohtsubo

Hiroyuki Yagyu

Nobuyuki Asahi

Makoto Nishimura

Yuichi Uchida

Hiromi Iida

Nobuyuki Miyagawa

Koji Nakanishi

Tetsushi Tamura

Kotaro Sakata

Yukiya Kanazawa

Yoshitaka Kurimoto

Gantetsu Matsui

Tsutomu Niiho

Iku Ohama

Nozomu Tooyama

Nobuyuki Asashi

Makoto Nisimura

An information management method allows presenting the usage of each of storage areas in a visually intuitive manner, the method including: obtaining user configuration information in each of the storage areas; receiving a designated user ID and obtaining user information corresponding to the designated user ID; and displaying an image, wherein when displaying an image, a first image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information regarding a user identified by the designated user ID or the user information, a second image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information regarding a user different from the user identified by the designated user ID or the user information, and a third image is displayed for a storage area that stores user configuration information indicating that the storage area is not being used for any user.

Information management method, information management device, program, and program provision method

An illumination device includes a light emitting module having a module substrate and a semiconductor light emitting element mounted to the module substrate, a base having a mounting surface on which the light emitting module is mounted, and a cover portion configured to cover an edge portion of the module substrate without pressing the edge portion. The module substrate includes a surface which is bonded to the mounting surface of the base through an adhesive layer. The base includes a protrusion provided to protrude upward from the mounting surface without being covered by the module substrate. The cover portion is provided on the protrusion.

Illumination device for preventing a removal of a module substrate and suppressing generation of a crack in the module substrate

A content playback device includes: a video playback unit which plays content having plural scenes; an object appearance information acquisition unit which acquires, for each of the plural scenes, object appearance information of each of one or more objects which appear in the content by analyzing metadata which includes appearance scene data for identifying the one or more objects appearing in at least one of the scenes, the object appearance information indicating whether the object appears at least in or after the scene; and a display unit which presents the object appearance information acquired for a scene being played, when the video playback unit is playing the content.

Content playback device and content playback method

A recipe presentation system which presents an integrated recipe for a plurality of dishes includes: a recipe storage unit storing recipes for dishes including preparation elements arranged in a hierarchy according to closeness to completion of preparation of the respective dishes; a recipe selection unit which allows a user to select a first recipe and a second recipe from among the recipes; an overlapping preparation element identification unit which identifies common preparation elements between the first recipe and the second recipe; a recipe integration unit which generates the integrated recipe by arranging, in order of preparation, the preparation elements included in the first recipe and the preparation elements included in the second recipe, in a manner such that the user recognizes, as a single preparation element, the common preparation elements; and a recipe output unit which outputs the integrated recipe.

Recipe presentation system and recipe presentation method

A recipe presentation device includes: a recipe storage unit storing recipes each including preparation elements of ingredients, intermediate ingredients, and a dish to be served; a receiving unit which receives a dish specified by a user; a search unit which searches the recipe storage unit for a first recipe which is a recipe for the dish; a similarity calculation unit which calculates similarities between the individual recipes for the dishes stored in the recipe storage unit and the first recipe; a selection unit which selects, according to the similarities, a second recipe which is a recipe similar to the first recipe among the recipes for the dishes; and a presentation unit which presents a dish corresponding to the selected second recipe.

Device for presenting recipe and method for presenting recipe

A portable display device comprises: a tilt detection unit detecting an angle of rotation, measured between a vertical plane component of a tilt vector of a predetermined reference line in the display and a gravitational vector, as a display tilt; a facial orientation specification unit recognizing a face of a person facing the display and specifying an upright orientation of the face; a terminal orientation determination unit establishing a plurality of angle ranges, and determining whether the display tilt newly detected by the tilt detection unit exceeds a given angle range and enters another angle range, the given angle range including the angle detected by the tilt detection unit upon updating a previous display orientation; and a control unit causing the facial orientation specification unit to begin the specification when the terminal orientation determination unit makes an affirmative determination, and updating the display orientation according to the specified upright orientation.

Display device and method of switching display direction

In a case where a chapter that introduces a predetermined non-heating step is being played back and execution of the non-heating step has not been completed, a moving image playback control section included in a terminal apparatus controls playback so that the chapter that is being played back is repeated or paused, and when execution of the non-heating step is completed, a subsequent chapter is played back.

Terminal device, method for controlling terminal device, and non-transitory recording medium on which computer program is recorded

An information processing device, while in a first input mode for receiving a touchless operation as an input, receives a touchless operation as an input, and starts processing that corresponds to the received touchless operation. If the information processing device detects a switch operation, which is made with a touch on the information processing device for switching from the first input mode to a second input mode that is a mode for receiving a touch operation as an input, within a predetermined time period after the reception of the touchless operation, the information processing device sets an output status obtained as a result of the started processing to an output status which has been obtained before the start of the processing.

Information processing device, processing control method, program, and recording medium

There is provided an optical module in which leaked light or the like from a plurality of optical elements on the same substrate is made less likely to affect adjacent optical elements, and a cross-talk noise can be thereby significantly reduced. The optical module includes an internal waveguide in a first trench of a substrate, a mirror section, and optical elements. A plurality of the first trenches of the substrate are formed independently of each other and substantially in parallel with each other, and lengths of adjacent first trenches from the end surface of the substrate are made different from each other. The optical elements are mounted on the surface of the substrate so as to oppose the minor sections formed at the tip portions of the first trenches having the different lengths.

Optical module

Disclosed is an optical module which improves optical coupling efficiency either when configured to receive an optical signal from an optical fiber with a light receiving element or when configured to receive an optical signal from a light emitting element with an optical fiber. The optical module includes: a substrate () having in the surface thereof a first groove () and a second groove () formed, with this second groove () being configured to have a substantially V-shaped cross section formed deeper than the first groove and being formed in continuation from the first groove; and an internal waveguide () provided within the first groove () of the substrate (). The optical further modules a mirror portion () for changing an optical path, provided at the front end of the first groove (); an optical element () mounted on the surface of the substrate () so as to face the mirror portion (), and configured to emit an optical signal to a core () of the internal waveguide () via the mirror portion (). Moreover, the optical module further includes an optical fiber () having a fiber cladding () placed within the second groove () and a fiber core () optically connected to the core () of the internal waveguide ().

To provide a photoelectric converter capable of reducing the height of the device. The photoelectric converter includes: a light emitting element or a light receiving element; an IC circuit for transmitting/receiving an electric signal to/from the light emitting element or the light receiving element; a mount substrate adapted to be mounted on one surface from the side on which the light emitting element emits light, or the side on which the light receiving element receives light; an electric connector adapted to be provided on the one surface or the other surface of the mount substrate, and to be attached and detached to and from an external connector; and a waveguide adapted to be provided on the mount substrate along the one surface or the other surface of the mount substrate, and to be optically coupled to the light emitting element or the light receiving element.

Photoelectric converter providing a waveguide along the surface of the mount substrate

An optical module includes an emitter-side mounting substrate, a receiver-side mounting substrate and an external waveguide substrate. The mounting substrate is provided with a waveguide having a core and a pair of fitting recesses. The external waveguide substrate is provided with an external waveguide having a core, a pair of fitting tabs and a lap joint portion. As the fitting tabs are fitted into the respective fitting recesses, the mounting substrate) and the external waveguide substrate are joined together, the two cores are aligned with each other, and the lap joint portion is positioned to overlap the mounting substrate.

In an optical attenuator, there are a first optical waveguideA connected to an input optical waveguide, a second optical waveguideB connected to an output optical waveguideand a connecting optical waveguide, which are connected with each other in series. A first recessA and a second recessB are formed in a positional relationship of opposite directions with respect to an axial direction of an optic axis of light that is inputted through the input optical waveguide, transmitted through the first optical waveguideA, the connecting optical waveguideand the second optical waveguideB and outputted from the output optical waveguide. Further, a first optical attenuating heaterA and a second optical attenuating heaterB are arranged so as to produce opposite refractive index distributions in the axial direction of the optic axis of the light that is inputted through the input optical waveguide, transmitted through the first optical waveguideA, the connecting optical waveguideand the second optical waveguideB and outputted from the output optical waveguide, in the first optical waveguideA and the second optical waveguideB. The optical attenuator capable of reducing a polarization dependent loss for a desired optical attenuation is provided without utilizing an interference of lights.

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Takuya Matsumoto