Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Toshihisa Ikeda

Yasuo Yoshimura

Tetsuya Kouda

Hisashi Takayama

Yuki Waki

Yuji Mizuguchi

Takahisa Sakai

Toshihiko Kurosaki

Kazunori Kurimoto

Satoshi Tsujimura

Naofumi Nakatani

Kenichi Moriguchi

Toshiaki Mori

Minoru Nishioka

Mitsujiro Matsumoto

Mitsuru Kitao

Toshio Oga

Toshikazu Hattori

Kiyoshi Kanazawa

A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.

Apparatus and method for obtaining and displaying appliance photographic image and supplemental data

Apparatus and method

Display apparatus for control information, method for displaying control information, and system for displaying control information

An electric power price information acquisition unit () acquires information related to an electric power purchase price, which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using electric power supplied from a commercial power source, a price determination unit () determines, for each time block, a generated power price which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using generated power of a power generator for generating power using natural energy, and a stored power price which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using electric power stored in an electric storage device, and a user price list generation unit () generates an electric power price list capable of displaying, with regard to an arbitrary time block, the electric power purchase price, the generated power price and the stored power price.

Information processing apparatus, method for generating electric power price list, information processing system, and display device

A power control system, a power control method, a power control device and a power control program supplies power to an electric device and charge an electric vehicle. A control device and method includes a receiver that receives charge information pertaining to the charging of the rechargeable battery prior to an arrival of the electric vehicle at a location where power is supplied to the electric vehicle, and a control determination unit that determines an operation start time of starting the operation of the electric device on the basis of the charge information received by the receiver. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a control program that controls the charging of a rechargeable battery of an electric vehicle and controls operation of the electric device.

Power control system, power control method, power control device and power control program

An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.

Electric device and electric device control method

A washer-dryer is provided with a time shift function for performing timer presetting processing on the basis of a time shift computation result which indicates an operation start time suitable for operation. The washer-dryer includes: an input operation unit for allowing a user to perform operations for operating the washer-dryer; a display unit for displaying information relating to the operation of the washer-dryer; and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the washer-dryer on the basis of the time shift computation result. When a start button on the input operation unit is operated by the user, the operation control unit automatically performs the timer presetting processing on the basis of the time shift computation result and also displays a timer preset time at the display unit.

Household electrical appliance and method for controlling household electrical appliance

An equipment control device has: a reception unit for receiving desired time information indicating a desired operation start time or a desired operation termination time, operation period information and electrical power information; a time-shift period setting unit for setting a time-shift period indicating a period which has a time range including the desired time information and during which the operation start time or the operation termination time of a household appliance is shiftable; an electrical power charge information acquisition unit for acquiring electrical power charge information; an operation time computing unit for computing the operation start time or the operation termination time, on the basis of which the electricity charge that is billed when the household appliance is operated within the time-shift period falls to or below a predetermined charge; and a transmission unit for transmitting the operation start time or the operation termination time to the household appliance.

Electrical equipment control device, electrical equipment control method and electrical equipment

A heating device includes a main body with an opening, a magnetron for generating electromagnetic waves for heating, a door for putting in and taking out an object to be heated, a reader, and a barrier. The magnetron emits electromagnetic waves into the main body. The door covers the opening of the main body. The reader reads information contained in a wireless IC tag attached to the object to be heated. The barrier acts a shield for the reader from the electromagnetic waves emitted by the magnetron when the door is closed, and the shield is broken when the door is opened.

Heating device

A data transmission system including first and second source devices for transmitting video data (isochronous data) outputted from first and second data output units, and a sink device for receiving the video data transmitted from the source devices and outputting the data to a video composition device, in which the video data supplied from the data output units to the source device are synchronized in frame units and transmitted from the source devices to one sink device. In the data transmission system, synchronous information (reference signal information) in the video composition device is transmitted from the sink device to the source devices, and timing reference signals in the data output units are generated by the source devices based on the synchronous information.

System, method and apparatus for data transmission

In a network of a topology of a loop and a bus, occurrence of a failure is detected and a location of the failure is specified. Occurrence of the failure is detected by detecting that a specific signal pattern to be received at regular time intervals within a fixed time period is not received. A node which has detected occurrence of the failure transmits or receives a specifying signal among the nodes, and decide whether or not the failure has occurred adjacently to itself. A packet indicating a decided location of the failure is transmitted or received among nodes, and thereby respective nodes specify the location of the failure. When the failure has occurred at the master node, a node having a smallest node ID after waiting time according to the node ID operates as the alternative master node.

Network system, network terminal, and method for specifying location of failure in network system

A master station,produces a token packet for isochronous data in which a slave station,and slave stations,and,serving as a sending station and receiving stations are designated using IDs for isochronous data &ldquo;&num;,&rdquo; and &ldquo;&num;,&rdquo; in accordance with contents described in a table,held in its inner part so as to manage a transmission bandwidth using a token packet sending/analysis executing device,and sends out the produced token packet to a transition path,on the downstream side. The slave station,sends out an isochronous data packet,using the token packet for isochronous data,According to the token packet for isochronous data,the slave stations,and,are designated as receiving stations using the ID for isochronous data &ldquo;&num;,&rdquo;, so that the slave stations,and,perform the above-mentioned operations, to receive the isochronous data packet,The sending station can thus transmit the same isochronous data to a plurality of receiving stations belonging to a broadcast group, so that it is possible to establish multicast communication (communication to a plurality of nodes).

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Toshihisa Ikeda