Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Sun Patent Trust

Tomoaki Ohira

Toshiaki Ohnishi

Masaru Yamaoka

Michihiro Matsumoto

Mitsuaki Oshima

Tsutomu Mukai

Kazunori Yamada

Yosuke Matsushita

Shohji Ohtsubo

Hironori Nakae

Masaru Fuse

Mizuho Sakakibara

Kouichi Masuda

Shigehiro Iida

Satoshi Furusawa

Tsuyoshi Ikushima

Tomokazu Sada

Kohei Yamaguchi

Hayashi Ito

Kumi Harada

Hideyuki Yoshida

Tsutomu Niiho

Fumiaki Suzuki

Kazuhiro Nojima

Tsuyoshi Sakata

Kazue Fusakawa

Fumio Fujisaki

Kuniharu Itakura

A server apparatus includes a storage unit that stores information indicating activity patterns of an applicant and information indicating activity patterns of residents of properties neighboring a candidate property, which is a candidate for a property to which the applicant moves, and a determination unit that determines the desirability of a combination of the applicant and the candidate property on the basis of the information indicating the activity patterns of the applicant and the information indicating the activity patterns of the residents of the neighboring properties.

Combination desirability determination apparatus, method for determining desirability of combination, and recording medium storing program

A presence and absence prediction method includes: acquiring electric power data of a predetermined building at a first point in time; acquiring learning data obtained by learning, for each predetermined time period, a correspondence relationship between electric power data of the building at a point in time preceding the first point in time and information indicating whether the person was actually present in the building; predicting, on the basis of the electric power data of the building at the first point in time and the learning data, whether the person is present in the building; and generating presence and absence information that indicates a result of the prediction and outputting the presence and absence information to a predetermined terminal.

Presence and absence prediction method and presence and absence prediction apparatus

The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit () obtains apparatus information from an apparatus. A position information obtainment unit () obtains position information of the communication device (). An operation information obtainment unit () obtains operation information based on the apparatus information. A storage unit () stores the position information as apparatus position information indicating as a position of the apparatus, in association with the operation information. A direction sensor unit () detects direction of the communication device (). A directional space calculation unit () calculates a directional space of the communication device (). A selection unit (a) specifies the apparatus existing in the directional space based on the apparatus position information and selects the operation information associated with the specified apparatus. An operation information transmission unit () transmits, based on the selected operation information, a control signal to the specified apparatus so as to allow the communication device to operate the apparatus.

Communication device

The present invention provides a communication apparatus and a communication method that can easily indicate the position of the antenna incorporated in the communication apparatus to a user and can align the antenna of the communication apparatus with the antenna of an external device. A portable device () includes a loop antenna () for performing near-field communication, a display unit () provided on a side of the portable device () opposite the orientation of the loop antenna (), and an antenna position information storing unit () that stores antenna position information representing the position of the loop antenna () in the portable device (). The display device () displays the position of the loop antenna () on the basis of the antenna position information stored in the antenna position information storing unit ().

Communication apparatus and communication method

A mobile device includes a position sensing unit, a remote control information obtainment unit, and a storage unit. Position information obtained by the position sensing unit is stored in the storage unit in association with remote control information. The mobile device further includes a directional space obtainment unit and an apparatus specification unit. The mobile device recognizes a direction pointed by a user using the mobile device, and enables operation of a terminal apparatus existing in the pointing direction.

Communication device for performing wireless communication with an external server based on information received via near field communication

A terminal apparatus that communicates with a mobile apparatus includes a near-field communication unit that receives time-of-day information from the mobile apparatus through near-field communication, a use history information generation unit that extracts operation information of the terminal apparatus, and generates use history information on the basis of the time-of-day information received by the near-field communication unit, the use history information including time-of-day information associated with the detected operation information and indicating the time of day at which the corresponding operation was performed, and a main memory that stores the generated use history information.

Communication device and communication method

A repeater apparatus includes a network communication unit that acquires, from a server through a network, first terminal identification information for identifying a terminal to be controlled and control information for controlling the terminal to be controlled, a near-field communication unit that acquires, by near-field communication from the terminal, second terminal identification information for identifying the terminal and stored in the terminal, and a comparison unit that decides whether the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information. The near-field communication unit transmits the control information to the terminal by near-field communication, in the case where the comparison unit decides that the first terminal identification information agrees with the second terminal identification information.

Communication apparatus, communication method and communication system

A relay device performs Near Field Communication with a terminal device that is a communication terminal device, and processes information received from the terminal device. A loop antenna receives radio waves from the terminal device; an NFC unit performs Near Field Communication with the terminal device via a loop antenna, and receives from the terminal device application identification information, which identifies an application that processes the information received from the terminal device. A controller acquires an application corresponding to the received application identification information, and causes the acquired application to run.

The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit () obtains apparatus information from an apparatus. A position information obtainment unit () obtains position information of the communication device (). An operation information obtainment unit () obtains operation information based on the apparatus information. A storage unit () stores the position information as apparatus position information indicating as a position of the apparatus, in association with the operation information. A direction sensor unit () detects direction of the communication device (). A directional space calculation unit () calculates a directional space of the communication device (). A selection unit () specifies the apparatus existing in the directional space based on the apparatus position information and selects the operation information associated with the specified apparatus. An operation information transmission unit () transmits, based on the selected operation information, a control signal to the specified apparatus so as to allow the communication device to operate the apparatus.

Display screen with graphical user interface

An optical transmission device is provided with an external optical modulator including three or more Mach-Zehnder interferometers and outputs a single-sideband optical intensity-modulated signal with suppressed optical carrier component, wherein an optical carrier component and an unnecessary one sideband component contained in the outputted optical signal are suppressed. A light branching section () branches an optical signal outputted by an external optical modulator () into two signals. A photodetector section () converts one of the optical signals to an electric signal. An optical carrier component extracting section () extracts an optical carrier component signal that is in the vicinity of a frequency ffrom the electric signal. An optical carrier component suppressing section () applies a bias voltage for suppressing the optical carrier component to the external optical modulator () based on the signal level of the optical carrier component. A vestigial sideband component extracting section () extracts a vestigial sideband component signal in the vicinity of a frequency 2&#xd7;ffrom the electric signal. A vestigial sideband component suppressing section () applies a bias voltage for suppressing an unnecessary one sideband component to the external optical modulator () based on the signal level of the vestigial sideband component.

Optical transmission device

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Tomoaki Ohira