Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corportion of America

Yoichi Ikeda

Yoshihiro Kojima

Mitsuaki Oshima

Tsutomu Mukai

Masaru Yamaoka

Takahiro Sato

Ikuo Fuchigami

Yosuke Matsushita

Masaki Yamauchi

Shohji Ohtsubo

Tadanori Tezuka

Kumi Harada

Tomonari Takahashi

Hironori Nakae

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Hiroko Sugimoto

Hiroshi Kutsumi

Shigenori Maeda

Yasuo Kohashi

Satoru Matsunaga

Yoshiki Ohashi

Takashi Nishimori

Takahiro Higashimura

Ryo Nishimura

Takuma Iwasa

A notification management device includes: an operation log obtainer that obtains an operation log indicating a state of an information source appliance operated by a user, from the information source appliance; an operation log storage that stores the operation log obtained by the operation log obtainer; a setting content information storage that stores setting content information indicating setting content of a voice notification of an utterance appliance set by the user; a voice notification log storage that stores a voice notification log indicating a history of the voice notification output by the utterance appliance based on the setting content; an estimator that estimates the user's interest based on at least one of the operation log, the setting content information, or the voice notification log; and a push notification transmitter that transmits, to a terminal device, a push notification for notifying the user of notification content related to the estimated interest.

Notification management device, notification system, control method of notification management device, and recording medium

A voice speech device includes: a display; a selector that causes the display to display one or more candidates for a name to be provided to a target appliance (appliance), and accepts selection of one name among the one or more candidates; a receiver for receiving first state information that is sent from the target appliance and indicates a state of the target appliance; a speech sentence creator that creates a speech sentence for notifying the state of the target appliance, based on the first state information received by the receiver, the speech sentence containing the one name accepted by the selector; and a voice outputter that outputs the speech sentence by voice.

Voice speech device, voice speech system, and voice speech method to create name of a target appliance based on its operation history

An information presentation method that is executed by a computer includes acquiring travelling path information that includes a cleaning path and a relocation path, the cleaning path showing positions cleaned by a self-propelled vacuum cleaner in each of a plurality of regions included in a specific area, and the relocation path showing a route of the self-propelled vacuum cleaner that has travelled from one region to another region different from the one region out of the regions, the route being included in the specific area; generating presentation information that includes the cleaning path and the relocation path and that changes the mode of display of at least one of the cleaning path or the relocation path when a specific condition is satisfied; and presenting the presentation information to the user as the travelling path of the self-propelled vacuum cleaner in the specific area.

Information presentation method, information presentation device, and recording medium

The infrared detector acquires measurement information which is obtained by measuring infrared radiant energy amount in a measuring range including a mobile terminal; acquires information indicating a reference temperature; detects infrared radiant energy distribution area indicating an area where the infrared radiant energy amount corresponding to the mobile terminal is measured out of the measuring range, based on measurement information; and calibrates a conversion table for converting infrared radiant energy amount to a temperature value based on infrared radiant energy amount in the detected infrared radiant energy distribution area and the reference temperature.

Information processing method, information processing system, mobile terminal, infrared detector, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing program

Methods, systems, and media for managing a plurality of target devices are provided. A voice command is received by an input associated with a first target device. The voice command includes first voice information and indicates an operation instruction. The first voice information includes identification information. The first target device is specified by referencing a database in which the identification information and a device ID of the first target device are associated. It is determined whether the voice command includes second voice information that identifies a second target device as an operation object for the operation instruction. When the second voice information is not included, the first target device is caused to execute the operation instruction. When the second voice information is included, a control command is transmitted to the second target device for causing the second target device to execute the operation instruction.

Device control method, device management system, and voice input apparatus

A method is provided that includes receiving, from a voice input apparatus associated with a first target device among a plurality of target devices, instruction information that includes first voice information indicating an operation instruction for any target device, and recognizing the operation instruction from the first voice information included in the received instruction information. The method also includes specifying the first target device by referencing a first database, and determining whether second voice information indicating an operation object for the operation instruction is included in the instruction information. The method further includes transmitting, (i) when the second voice information is not included in the instruction information, a first control command for executing the recognized operation instruction to the first target device, and (ii) when the second voice information is included in the instruction information, the first control command to a second target device associated with the operation object.

A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer.

Communication device, communication system, image presentation method, and program

A method in a device management system for managing a plurality of target devices is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a voice input apparatus associated with a first target device among the plurality of target devices, instruction information that includes first voice information indicating an operation instruction for any target device among the plurality of target devices; recognizing the operation instruction from the first voice information; determining whether or not second voice information indicating a second target device among the plurality of target devices is included in the instruction information; and transmitting, (i) if the second voice information is not included in the instruction information, a control command for executing the recognized operation instruction to the first target device, or, (ii) if the second voice information is included in the instruction information, the control command to the second target device.

An information input apparatus includes: a touch pad; a touch information detecting unit which detects touch information that is information resulting from an operator contacting the touch sensor with a finger; a touch operation start position detecting unit which detects, using the touch information, a touch operation start position that is a start position of a touch operation performed by the operator; a touch operation recognition condition storage unit which stores a plurality of touch operation recognition conditions each for recognizing one of types of touch operation, in association with each of touch operation start positions; and a touch recognizing unit, which recognizes the touch operation, using the touch operation recognition conditions stored in association with the touch operation start position detected by the touch operation start position detecting unit, to determine a type of the touch operation.

Information input apparatus, information input method, and program

A communication device, which can simplify various setting processes, transmits, to a server via a network, external device information received from an external device by using proximity wireless communication. The communication device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication with the external device; a proximity wireless communication unit communicating with the external device via the antenna to receive the external device information from the external device; an external device storage unit storing the external device information received by the proximity wireless communication unit; a registration information generation unit generating registration information to be registered in a database in the server based on (a) the external device information stored in the external device storage unit and (b) communication device information including communication device identification information for identifying the communication device; and a server communication unit transmitting registration information to the server via the network.

Communication device that receives external device information from an external device using near field communication

To switch a coordinate mode by automatically recognizing a coordinate mode more usable for a user performing a natural operation, a coordinate determination apparatus () according to the present invention includes: an obtain and store unit () which obtains coordinate information from a coordinate input device () and stores the coordinate information onto a recording medium; a time correlation specifying unit () which specifies a correlation between times of input indicated by first and second coordinate information; a coordinate correlation specifying unit () which specifies input coordinates indicated by the second and third coordinate information; a coordinate mode selection unit () which selects the coordinate mode based on a coordinate correlation value and a time correlation value; and a coordinate transform unit () which transforms the input coordinates indicated by the second coordinate information into coordinates selected according to the coordinate mode.

Coordinate determination apparatus, coordinate determination method, and coordinate determination program

In order to provide an information input device that solves the misclick caused by a clickable touch sensor without using information corresponding to pressure of the user's finger, the information input device includes: a touch information detecting unit that detects a touch information item obtained when a finger of the user is in contact with the touch sensor; a touch information sequence storage unit configured to store the touch information item for a predetermined period; and a pressing start position estimating unit configured to estimate a pressing start position at which the user started to press the touch sensor with the finger, based on touch information items stored in the touch information sequence storage unit, when the switch was pressed down, the touch information items including the touch information item.

Information input device, information input method, and program

An operating apparatus () which includes: an operation information obtaining unit () which obtains, from an input apparatus (), operation information indicating operations inputted by a user to first and second input units (and); an operation amount calculation unit () which calculates amounts of the operations by the user to the first and second input units (and), using the operation information obtained by the operation information obtaining unit (); and an operation region change unit () which changes sizes of first and second operation regions (and) so that areas of the first and second operation regions (and) corresponding to the first and second input units (and) increase as the amounts of the operations to the first and second input units (and) calculated by the operation amount calculation unit are greater.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoichi Ikeda