Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Jtekt Corporation

Cnk Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tomoki Ogawa

Hiroshi Yahata

Taiji Sasaki

Masayuki Kozuka

Wataru Ikeda

Tadamasa Toma

Masaya Yamamoto

Kunio Gobara

Junya Suzuki

Tomoyuki Okada

Yasushi Uesaka

Kazuhiro Mochinaga

Kaoru Murase

Yoshio Ohtsuka

Masayuki Aihara

Takahiro Nishi

Akihiko Inoue

Tohru Wakabayashi

Toshiyuki Nakashima

Yoshihiro Mori

Takashi Katayama

Joseph McCrossan

Toshihisa Nakano

Yoshihiro Ujiie

Junji Ando

Yoshishige Yoshikawa

Kosuke Nishio

Kazunori Aoki

Takeshi Tanaka

Shunji Harada

Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi

Hideshi Ishihara

Atsushi Tanaka

Masahiro Suzuki

Ryoji Suzuki

Noriaki Horii

Kazuyoshi Yamakawa

Toshihiko Munetsugu

Tadashi Miki

Takuji Hiramoto

Mitsuki Yamada

Shinya Nakai

Toru Kawaguchi

Yuka Ozawa

Shingo Matsumoto

Kazuhiro Funamoto

Masato Izawa

Keizo Ishiguro

Tomoo Suzuki

Hideyuki Oka

Tomohiro Matsumoto

Yukinobu Nishiyama

Satoshi Araki

Hiroyuki Hashitomi

Yoshinori Satou

Taro Katayama

Masashi Hitotsuya

Hiroki Urabe

Daigo Yamamoto

Yoshimi Nishii

Makoto Yoshino

Toshiya Kubo

Kohsuke Yamamoto

Akinori Iwai

Nobuyoshi Yoshimura

Yahata Hiroshi

Joseph Mccrossan

Watura Ideda

Ikeda Wataru

Sasaki Taiji

Kunio Gohara

An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit and an image determination unit. The imaging unit generates an image data item showing a target tooth for image capturing inside a mouth. The image determination unit defines two-dimensional plane coordinates for the image data item generated by the imaging unit and extracts the position coordinates of the outline of the target tooth from the entire imaging area of the imaging unit. When a part of the outline of the target tooth is outside an effective area set inside the entire imaging area of the imaging unit, the image determination unit determines that the target tooth extends beyond the effective area.

Intraoral camera system and image capturing operation determination method

An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit that generates image data by capturing an image of a tooth inside the mouth of a user, an area detector that detects the orientation of the imaging unit according to output by a multi-axis acceleration sensor and detects, according to the orientation detected, an area whose image is being captured by the imaging unit from among areas inside the mouth, the areas being determined by dividing a dentition into sections, and an identifier that narrows candidates which are combinations of tooth types and tooth positions down to fewer candidates to be used, according to the image data and the area detected, and identifies the type and the position of the tooth according to the narrowed candidates and the image data.

Intraoral camera system, tooth identification method, control method, and recording medium

An intraoral camera system includes an imaging unit and an image processor. If a first angle formed by an imaging plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the imaging unit and a first direction that is the vertically upward direction along a vertical axis is less than a predetermined second angle, the image processor rotates image data to cause the vertically upward direction along the vertical axis to coincide with an upward direction of an image by rotating the image data by a third angle formed by the first direction and a second direction from a handle toward a head.

Intraoral camera system and image display method

A dentition image capturing system includes: illumination devices to radiate light; an imaging device to capture first and second dentition images in a predetermined exposure period; a high luminance region extraction unit to extract a high luminance region for the first and second dentition images; a high luminance region comparison unit to calculate a degree of similarity between the high luminance region of the first dentition image and the second dentition image; a halation region specification unit to specify the high luminance region of the first dentition image as a halation region in a case where the similarity degree is smaller than a predetermined threshold; an image synthesis processing unit executing image synthesis processing of extracting a trimming region in the second dentition image corresponding to the halation region and replacing the halation region with the trimming region; and a dentition image output unit to output the first dentition image.

Dentition image capturing system and dentition image capturing method

An information presentation method includes: sequentially obtaining, from a first appliance, appliance data including an operation status of the first appliance; receiving, from a second appliance different from the first appliance, notification of an opportunity of presenting information by the second appliance; determining, after receiving the notification in the receiving, whether to present the information by the second appliance, based on the appliance data obtained in the sequentially obtaining; and instructing the second appliance to present the information when determining to present the information by the second appliance in the determining, and prohibiting the second appliance from presenting the information when determining not to present the information by the second appliance in the determining.

Information presentation method, information presentation system, and information presentation apparatus

A decoding system decodes a video stream, which is encoded video information. The decoding system includes a decoder that acquires the video steam and generates decoded video information, a maximum luminance information acquirer that acquires maximum luminance information indicating the maximum luminance of the video stream from the video stream, and an outputter that outputs the decoded video information along with the maximum luminance information. In in a case where the video stream includes a base video stream and an enhanced video stream, the decoder generates base video information by decoding the base video stream, an enhanced video information by decoding the enhanced video stream, and generates the decoded video information based on the base video information and the enhanced video information, and the outputter outputs the decoded video information, along with the maximum luminance information.

Playback device, playback method, and recording medium

An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.

Information management device and information management method

A decoding method of a video stream, which is encoded video information. The video stream includes a base video stream, and an enhanced video stream, which is a video stream to enhance luminance of the base video stream, and a describer that contains the combination information of the base video stream and the enhanced video stream. The decoding method includes acquiring the describer, and identifying the combination of the base video steam and the enhanced video stream. The decoding method also includes generating base video information by decoding the base video stream, generating enhanced video information by decoding the enhanced video stream, generating decoded video information based on the base video stream and the enhanced video stream, and outputting the decoded video information.

A device management system includes: a server; base stations for long-distance wireless communication; and a device that communicatively connect to one of the base stations and that each sequentially transmit, to the server via the one base station, operation information indicating the current operation state of the device. Upon sequentially receiving the operation information, each of the base stations sequentially transmits, to the server, unique information unique to the base station together with the sequentially received operation information. The server sequentially receives, and sequentially stores in association with each other, the operation information and the unique information. When first and second unique information received at first and second times, respectively, are different, the server separately manages first operation information received in a first period ending at the first time and second operation information received in a second period starting at the second time.

Device management system and device management method

A decoding system decodes a video stream, which is encoded video information. The decoding system includes a decoder that acquires the video steam and generates decoded video information, and a maximum luminance information acquirer that acquires, in a case where a dynamic range of luminance of the video stream is a second dynamic range that is wider than a first dynamic range, maximum luminance information indicating the maximum luminance of the video stream from the video stream. The decoding system also includes an outputter that outputs the decoded video information and the maximum luminance information. Where the dynamic range of luminance of the video stream is expressed by the maximum luminance of all pictures in the video stream as the maximum luminance information, the outputter outputs the decoded video information, along with the maximum luminance information indicating the maximum luminance of all pictures in the video stream.

Disclosed is a method for controlling a cordless telephone device for use in a system that allows remote control of a home electric appliance. The method includes a first generation step of causing a first generation unit in a handset to encode audio input via a sound receiving unit in the handset to generate a first stream, and a first transmission step of transmitting the first stream to a base unit. The first generation step includes causing the first generation unit to generate instruction bit information and a first instruction stream when a first trigger indicating a request to start the remote control is given to the first generation unit. The first transmission step includes transmitting the instruction bit information and the first instruction stream to the base unit through a multiplexing scheme that is common to transmission of a first stream generated when the first trigger is not given.

Method for controlling cordless telephone device, handset of cordless telephone device, and cordless telephone device

A device management method executed in a server communicatively connected, via a network, to a plurality of devices and a first operation device associated with a first user identifier identifying a first user, includes: receiving, from the first operation device, a request to associate the first user identifier and a first device identifier identifying a first device among the plurality of devices; and when, in correspondence information stored in a storage device and including device identifiers identifying devices associated with user identifiers identifying users, (i) the first device identifier is associated with a second user identifier different from the first user identifier and (ii) the first user identifier is associated with a second device identifier identifying a second device different from the first device among the plurality of devices, storing the second device identifier and the second user identifier in association with each other.

Device management method and device management system

A control method for controlling a device that includes a plurality of communication modules including a long-distance communication module that is a communication module for long-distance wireless communication and a short-distance communication module that is a communication module for short-distance wireless communication, the device being capable of being connected through each of the plurality of communication modules to a server that manages the device, the control method includes: receiving information necessary to the short-distance wireless communication by the short-distance communication module, when the long-distance communication module and the short-distance communication module are not operating; determining whether the information satisfies a condition indicating that the information received in the receiving is sufficient for a first connection to the server using the short-distance communication module; and causing the long-distance communication module to start operating, when it is determined that the information does not satisfy the condition.

Control method for a device that includes a long-distance communication module and a short-distance communication module, the device, and a system including the device

A decoding system decodes a video stream, which is encoded video information. The decoding system includes an attribute information acquirer that acquires first attribute information, indicating whether a dynamic range of luminance of the video stream is a first dynamic range or a second dynamic range that is wider than the first dynamic range, and a decoder that acquires the video steam and generates decoded video information. The decoding system also includes an outputter that, in a case where the first attribute information indicates the second dynamic range, outputs the decoded video information and maximum luminance information indicating a maximum luminance of the video stream in accordance with the second dynamic range. Further, in other cases, the outputter outputs the decoded video information and maximum luminance information indicating the maximum luminance of all pictures in the video stream.

Apparatus includes a plurality of wireless communication modules for connecting apparatus to a server that manages the apparatus via a plurality of networks different from one another; storage that stores, for each of the networks, a characteristic regarding communication; acquirer that acquires communication information indicating, for each of communication modules, whether communication via the communication module is possible; identifier that identifies a specific communication module from among communication modules, the specific communication module being indicated by the communication information as being a communication module via which communication is possible, and being selected based on the characteristic; and controller that causes the specific communication module identified by identifier to connect to the server to enable communication.

Apparatus, system, and communication method

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Tomoki Ogawa