Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tatsuo Itoh

Kazuhisa Yamamoto

Shinichi Shikii

Tetsuro Mizushima

Koichi Kusukame

Takayuki Nagata

Kenichi Kasazumi

Shinichi Kadowaki

Nawatt Silawan

Hiroyuki Furuya

Aki Yoneda

Kenji Nakayama

Kiminori Mizuuchi

Akira Kurozuka

Shinji Uchida

Teruhiro Shiono

Keiji Sugiyama

Kakuya Yamamoto

Seiji Nishino

Kazuki Funase

Tomoya Sugita

Toshifumi Yokoyama

Shin-ichi Kadowaki

Ken'ichi Kasazumi

Shinichi Mizuguchi

Kazuya Hisada

Keishi Kubo

Naoyuki Harada

Nobuyuki Horikawa

Yoshitaka Kitaoka

Takeo Sato

Tomohiro Matsuo

Yuichi Hatase

Hiroshi Obi

Kazumi Ohtsubo

Hirofumi Enomoto

Hirohiko Oowaki

Kosuke Imawaka

Akira Koruzuka

A sensor mounting device () of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit () configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor () configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit () configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (); and a second control unit () configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit () Power to the sensor () and the first control unit () is directly supplied from the power supply unit (). Power to the second control unit () is supplied from the power supply unit () via a switching unit () whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit ().

Appliance equipped with a sensor and method of controlling the same

An optical device includes: a light source part configured to project illumination light toward a sensing region; a photodetector configured to receive reflected light of the illumination light reflected on the sensing region; and a condenser mirror. The condenser mirror has a through hole through which the illumination light from the light source part passes and an optical axis of the light source part and an optical axis of the condenser mirror are aligned with each other. A reflection surface of the condenser mirror has a shape obtained by cutting out a columnar body extending in a projection direction of the illumination light, with a spheroid whose rotation axis is a major axis. The photodetector is disposed in a direction toward a first focal position of the condenser mirror. The sensing region is set in a direction toward a second focal position of the condenser mirror.

Optical device

A method of controlling a device includes: obtaining information related to a body surface temperature of a person by detecting the body surface temperature of the person by a thermal camera, estimating a deep body temperature of the person on the basis of the information related to the body surface temperature of the person, detecting the person's condition on the basis of the deep body temperature of the person, and controlling an operation of the device according to the detected person's condition.

Method for estimating physical condition, physical condition estimation apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

A sensor mounting device () of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit () configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor () configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit () configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (); and a second control unit () configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit (). Power to the sensor () and the first control unit () is directly supplied from the power supply unit (). Power to the second control unit () is supplied from the power supply unit () via a switching unit () whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit ().

Air conditioning control device and method for controlling an air conditioning appliance and a wind-blowing appliance

A thermal image sensor including: a plurality of infrared detector elements that detect infrared light in a detection area; and rotors that scan the detection area in a scanning direction to detect, with the plurality of infrared detector elements, infrared light in an area to be captured as a single thermal image. The plurality of infrared detector elements include infrared detector elements arranged in mutually different positions in a rotational direction corresponding to the scanning direction of the plurality of infrared detector elements.

Thermal image sensor and user interface

A road surface condition prediction system includes a collector which collects pieces of moisture information on moisture on a road surface obtained by detecting the moisture on the road surface of a road on which moving bodies travel, and pieces of position information each indicating a position on the road surface at which the moisture is detected, one or more of the pieces of moisture information and one or more of the pieces of position information being collected from each of the moving bodies; and a predictor which predicts a moisture condition of a target road surface at a time after a time at which moisture on the target road surface is detected, based on moisture information obtained by detecting the moisture on the target road surface, the target road surface being a road surface at a position indicated by at least one of the pieces of position information.

Road surface condition prediction system, driving assistance system, road surface condition prediction method, and data distribution method

A control method of a personal authentication apparatus and a personal authentication apparatus stores a piece of authentication information of a predetermined user. The method and apparatus estimates an emotion felt by a target user, based on a physical quantity acquired by a sensor, generates identification information that identifies an object that causes the target user to feel the estimated emotion, based on the physical quantity acquired by the sensor or presentation information presented by a presenter, and determines whether the target user is the predetermined user based on the estimated emotion and the generated identification information and the piece of authentication information of the predetermined user.

Information presenting apparatus and control method therefor

In a method for controlling an information display apparatus that displays information on a display seen by a plurality of users, a feeling of a first user among the plurality of users is estimated on the basis of a physical value obtained from a sensor, it is determined, using the obtained physical value or the estimated feeling, whether to display the estimated feeling, and the display is controlled in accordance with a result of the determination.

Method for controlling information display apparatus, and information display apparatus

A method for estimating a physical condition used by a computer includes simultaneously measuring blood flow volumes of at least two body parts of a person and estimating the person's physical condition on the basis of the blood flow volumes of the at least two body parts measured in the simultaneously measuring.

An emotion estimating method includes: acquiring first data and second data from the subject, the first data corresponding to physiology data, and the second data corresponding to one of physiology data different from the first data and non-physiology data; calculating a first value and a second value based on the acquired first data and second data, the first value indicating a degree of arousal of the subject and the second value indicating a degree of valence of the subject; estimating the emotion of the subject, by using the calculated first value and second value and based on a predetermined association of people's emotions with a degree of arousal and a degree of valence of the people, the predetermined association being pre-stored in a memory; and outputting information indicating the estimated emotion.

Emotion estimating method, emotion estimating apparatus, and recording medium storing program

A control method for an information presenting apparatus includes: estimating an emotion felt by a user, based on a physical quantity acquired by a sensor; generating identification information that identifies a cause that causes the user to feel the estimated emotion, based on the physical quantity acquired by the sensor or information that a presenter included in the information presenting apparatus presents to the user; and controlling presentation performed by the information presenting apparatus, by using information obtained by executing predetermined processing using the estimated emotion and the generated identification information.

Sensor mounting device

A detection device includes: a light source that emits, toward an object, light of a first wavelength band, and light of a second wavelength band that is less readily absorbed by water than the light of the first wavelength band; a polarization splitter that splits at least one of S-polarized light and P-polarized light from light that has been reflected or scattered at the object; a photoreceptor that receives light reflected or scattered at the object via the polarization splitter; and a control unit that determines a state of the object from information based on light received by the photoreceptor. The light emitted by the light source is random polarized light where the ratio of P-polarized light and S-polarized light is generally uniform.

Detection device, detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing detection program

A laundry washing machine includes a wash tub that allows laundry and water to be loaded therein, a holding unit that separates some of the water in the wash tub and holds the some of the water, where the water contains a substance that was attached to the laundry and that is dissolved therein, a detection unit that detects a predetermined substance contained in the some of the water held by the holding unit and outputs information indicating a result of detection, and a laundry detergent dispenser that dispenses a laundry detergent into the wash tub or instructs a user to add the laundry detergent to the wash tub after the some of the water is separated.

Laundry washing machine and method for detecting attached substance

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Osaka, Japan

Tatsuo Itoh