Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Toshimasa Takaki

Toshio Oka

Akino Inoue

Masaki Sato

Daisaku Komiya

Shigenori Maeda

Satoshi Senga

Moe Yoshida

Joerg Vogler

Gerald Pfeiffer

Masaki Takahashi

Atsushi Ando

Akihiro Miyazaki

Tsutomu Uenoyama

Tadashi Ono

Ryohei Kimura

Yusuke Suzuki

Kazunori Yamada

Hiroyasu Terazawa

Satoshi Inami

Naoki Ochi

Seiichi Muroya

Takao Nishiyama

Fukutaro Sekine

A position information relay device interposed between a network device and an apparatus includes: a position information recognizer which recognizes position information of the apparatus; and a position information relay which receives a communication packet transmitted by the apparatus to the network device, includes the position information in the communication packet received, and transmits the communication packet including the position information to the network device.

Relay device inserting apparatus position information in packet

A threshold value calculation device includes: a device state acquirer that acquires a device state of a first device provided in a facility in which a home network is installed during a first period; an occupancy state determiner that determines an occupancy state by people in the facility during the first period based on information acquired from a second device in the facility; a communication log collector that collects a communication log; and a learner that calculates a threshold value for the communication transmitted and received by the first device during a second period that is a period after the first period. The learner calculates the threshold value for each of combinations of one or more states of the first device and one or more states of the people.

Threshold value calculation device, anomaly detection device, threshold value calculation method, and anomaly detection method

A control method is provided for controlling a refrigerator that is connected to one or more electrical apparatuses, in which the refrigerator includes a door/drawer and a processor. The control method causes the processor to sense a change in an opened state or a closed state of the door/drawer and receive state information indicating an operation state of the one or more electrical apparatuses from the one or more electrical apparatuses, which are operable when the user is. The processor determines whether the user is cooking based on the received state information, and notifies the user of different information each time a change in the opened state or the closed state is sensed if a change in the opened state or the closed state is sensed when a determination is made that the user is cooking.

Method for controlling a refrigerator and refrigerator

In a normal operation state, a connection management section writes data transmitted from a first processing section to a data temporary storage section and reads data to be received by a second processing section from the data temporary storage section. Upon receiving control signals which instruct a change of the subject of processing, the first processing section and the second processing section output a transmitting-end clear request and a receiving-end clear request, respectively. The connection management section reads data from the empty data storage section after a transmitting-end clear request is received and until a receiving-end clear request is received, and writes data to the empty data storage section after a receiving-end clear request is received and until a transmitting-end clear request is received.

Stream data processing apparatus

A device in a PANhaving a plurality of devicestoconnected by short range communication whose network configuration dynamically changes is provided. A cellphoneincludes a discovery function to discovery the devicestofor a device capable of carrying out prescribed processing based on a request for execution of the prescribed processing from the cellphoneand a transmission control function to transmit output control information for outputting a notice indicating the capability of carrying out the prescribed information to the devices found by the discovery.

Device and program product for the same

In a moving picture data structure having a structure comprising I pictures (intraframe coded image) and P pictures (interframe forward predictive coded image), a P' picture of a forward predictive coded image of a picture immediately preceding an I picture and the I picture is placed following the I picture. If an error occurs during the I picture transmission, the P&#x2032; picture can be used to recover from the error.

Moving picture transmission apparatus, moving picture reception apparatus, and moving picture data record medium

A system is arranged by a service providing apparatusfor storing a plurality of contents dataand capable of transmitting the contents data via network interfacesand a communication path; and also a service relaying apparatusfor producing compressed moving picture data having a high image quality from still picture data, and capable of transmitting the compressed moving picture data via network interfacesand another communication pathto a reproducing terminal. As a result, desirable contents data can be displayed by the reproducing terminal which owns a capability of displaying the compressed moving picture data, but does not own such a capability of displaying the desirable contents data.

Information providing apparatus

Conventionally, when a multimedia data processing section that has become a component is taken out of a database, it is necessary that the multimedia data processing section is taken out of the database once and a condition determination of this multimedia data processing section and other multimedia data processing sections is performed, and the problem is that a search for a multimedia data processing section is thus time consuming. According to the present invention, not only the body of a multimedia data processing section (), but also a function entry () of a function () that performs a condition determination of the multimedia data processing section () is registered with a database (), so that when a search for the multimedia data processing section () is performed, the function entry alone is taken out first and a condition determination is performed, and, only when it suits the purpose, the body of the multimedia data processing section () is taken out. By this means, search time for the multimedia data processing section () can be reduced.

Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and data processing program

The invention provides a television meeting unit that is capable of displaying a picture smoothly on a middle participation terminal. To realize such television meeting unit, the multicast meeting unit is provided with a picture coding means for coding an input picture, a picture transmission means for transmitting the coded picture by mean of multicast, a picture receiving means for receiving the transmitted coded picture, a picture decoding means for decoding the received picture, a picture display means for displaying the decoded picture, a middle participation notice means for notifying middle participation in a meeting, and a middle participation terminal detection means for detecting the middle participation notice and for transmitting it to the picture coding means. The picture coding means, upon receiving the middle participation notice from the middle participation terminal detection means, changes the coding format to the in-frame coding format.

Multicast meeting unit and multicast meeting program

In a moving picture data structure having a structure comprising I pictures (intraframe coded image) and P pictures (interframe forward predictive coded image), a P&prime; picture of a forward predictive coded image of a picture immediately preceding an I picture and the I picture is placed following the I picture. If an error occurs during the I picture transmission, the P&prime; picture can be used to recover from the error.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshimasa Takaki