Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Yasuo Yoshimura

Tetsuya Kouda

Hisashi Takayama

Yuki Waki

Masaru Yamaoka

Masaki Hayashi

Kazuhiko Hashimoto

Koji Yoshino

Koji Nakamura

Toshihisa Ikeda

Kazunori Kurimoto

Naofumi Nakatani

Satoshi Tsujimura

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Hiromi Toyota

Yoshiyuki Inoue

Shigeru Morimoto

Michihiro Matsumoto

Toshiaki Ohnishi

Takashi Kashimoto

Kenichi Kamon

Masato Murayama

Mariko Nakaso

Masafumi Sadahira

Hiroyoshi Nomura

Gantetsu Matsui

Tadashi Miki

Shigeo Yoshida

Eiichi Sadayuki

Mahbub Rashid

Yoshiaki Watanabe

Hiroki Nishida

Kenji Kida

Tatsuya Morishita

Takaaki Okude

Atusi Nakayama

Tosihisa Ikeda

Makoto Shibuya

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 device control apparatus periodically transmits a status confirmation signal to a control source device described in a cooperation control table and receives a response signal with respect to the status confirmation signal. Device control apparatus determines whether or not a status included in the response signal matches a status described in the cooperation control table. If they match, a control destination device, an operation and a control command corresponding to the operation are specified using the cooperation control table. A configuration for transmitting a control command with respect to the control destination device is provided. Therefore, even in a case where a communication protocol and the control command are different from one another in makers of devices, it is possible to realize cooperation control.

Device cooperation control system, device control apparatus, device, method for controlling devices of device cooperation control system, and program thereof

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 information terminal includes a first radio communication unit that performs communication with a server, a condition input unit through which a condition for retrieving a specific cooking recipe information group from cooking recipe information groups stored in the server is input, and a display unit that displays the specific cooking recipe information group specified based on the condition input through the condition input unit. Further, the display unit displays list screen () that displays as a list the specific cooking recipe information group so that first cooking recipe information that is associated with operation control information is differentiated from second cooking recipe information that is not associated with the operation control information, and a cooking method screen that displays a cooking method relating to specific cooking recipe information in the specific cooking recipe information group displayed on the list screen.

Information terminal, information terminal control method, and information terminal control program

An electrical instrument of the present invention includes: a main function section; a communication section that receives an aspect of a main function to be executed by the main function section from an external information terminal by near field communication; an input section for allowing a user to input an aspect of the main function to be executed by the main function section; a notification section for issuing a notice on information regarding the near field communication; a main function section control unit that controls the main function section based on the aspect of the main function, which is inputted to the input section, and based on the aspect of the main function, which is received by the communication section; a history recording unit that records a near field communication control history that is a history that the main function section control unit has controlled the main function section based on the aspect of the main function, which is received by the communication section; and a notification content decision unit that decides whether or not to issue the notice on the information regarding the near field communication in accordance with whether or not the near field communication control history is recorded in the history recording unit.

Electrical instrument

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

Provided is a control device that makes it possible to surely give an appropriate instruction to operate. An appliance control device that controls an electric appliance that performs one of a first operation and a second operation includes: a price obtaining unit that obtains information indicating a price of power; a detecting unit that detects a change in the price in a not shorter one of the first period and the second period, the price being indicated in the obtained information; a first calculating unit that calculates a first cost produced when the electric appliance performs the first operation, in the case where the change is detected; a second calculating unit that calculates a second cost produced when the electric appliance performs the second operation, in the case where the change is detected; a comparing unit; and an instructing unit that instructs performing of a determined operation.

Control device, integrated circuit, control method, and program for controlling an appliance performing different operations

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

A cooking device includes: first and second heating cooking units; a mode setting unit configured to set heating modes of the first and second heating cooking units; a receiving unit; a priority managing unit configured to store priorities which are given to the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit, respectively; and a power adjusting unit configured to adjust using power of a heating cooking unit to which a lower one of the priorities of the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit stored in the priority managing unit is given when the receiving unit receives a power adjustment request signal transmitted from a power controlling device. The priorities are different values for each heating mode.

Cooking device having priority managing unit for first and second heating units

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Shiga, Japan

Yasuo Yoshimura