Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Tokimec Inc.

Sony Group Corporation

Yoshihito Ishibashi

Shinako Matsuyama

Fumio Kubono

Hideaki Watanabe

Susumu Kusakabe

Tomoyuki Asano

Taizo Shirai

Shigeru Tajima

Mamoru Suzuki

Daisuke Yamazaki

Tateo Oishi

Toru Akishita

Kenji Yoshino

Kayoko Tanaka

Hiroshi Kawashima

Kazumi Sato

Jun Kitahara

Masayuki Takada

Naoki Ide

Yoshitomo Osawa

Katsuyuki Tanaka

Masahiro Suzuki

Makoto Tanaka

Teppei Yokota

Kentaro Odaka

Nobuyuki Kihara

Takumi Okaue

Takeshi Ito

Hiroshi Abe

Shinichi Fukuda

Masahiko Enari

Hiroaki Kitano

Yoshiaki Kumagai

Masashi Kon

Ichiro Futamura

Shoji Nagai

Yuko Yoshida

Ryoki Honjo

Hideki Noma

Tomoyuki Ono

Akihiro Muto

Junichi Sawada

Rui Kamada

Masahiro Uno

Yukihiro Sakamoto

Shigekazu Hayashi

Asami Mizuno

Shinya Saito

Makoto Oka

Masaharu Yoshimori

Takashi Miyamoto

Kazuhisa Funamoto

Yuji Ide

Masakatsu Matsumoto

Masao Oba

Tetsu Natsume

Alexis Andre

Shigeki Teramoto

Izuru Kitamura

Kazuhiro Toma

Noboru Shimada

Susumi Kusakabe

Taizou Shirai

Kazuo Nagai

Shin-ichi Hayakawa

Manabu Asakura

There is provided a route guidance apparatus including a route search unit which searches for at least one route, to a predetermined destination, which is to be traveled by an electric vehicle propelled by electric power stored in a secondary battery provided within the vehicle, and a power consumption calculation unit which calculates power consumption of the electric vehicle when a route to a destination, which was searched for by the route search unit, is traveled by the electric vehicle, based on information on electric power to be consumed when the electric vehicle travels and geographical information relating to the route.

Route guidance apparatus, route guidance method and computer program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a travelable information display unit that displays before a discharge, regarding motor-driven movable bodies of a discharge source and a discharge destination driven by using electric power of batteries, information about places to which the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source can move using electric power of the battery left after the discharge by assuming, when information about a discharge amount discharged from the battery of the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source toward the motor-driven movable body of the discharge destination that receives power supply is input, a case in which the discharge amount is discharged from the battery.

Information processing apparatus, motor-driven movable body, and discharge control method

In one example embodiment, a power storage management system includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus and an information processing apparatus. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus is configured to, using a mobile communication network (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications or the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), communicate with the power storage apparatus.

Power storage management system, information processing apparatus, power storage apparatus, method of operating power storage management system, and method of operating information processing apparatus

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and power storage apparatus management system

A communication apparatus of the disclosure includes: an authentication section that performs personal authentication of a user through BAN (Body Area Network) communication prior to data exchange with a communication peer for predetermined processing; and a communication section that performs the data exchange with the communication peer for the predetermined processing in a case of success of the personal authentication.

Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system

A communication unit of the disclosure includes a human-body electrode and a space electrode that perform communication through a human body by means of an electric field method, and a first auxiliary conductor section that includes a first end and a second end, the first end causing electrostatic induction corresponding to a transmission signal with respect to the human body, the second end being disposed at a position closer to the human-body electrode than to the space electrode.

Communication unit and communication system

An opening-closing control device of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit that perform communication with an authenticated communication device; an authentication processor that performs authentication processing on the authenticated communication device on a basis of a result of the communication with the authenticated communication device; an opening-closing operation unit that performs an operation on a lockable opening-closing unit; an operation detector that detects an operation state of the opening-closing operation unit; and a controller that locks or unlocks the opening-closing unit on a basis of a result of the authentication processing and a result of detection of the operation state.

Opening-closing control device, opening-closing control method, and opening-closing control system

An electricity distribution system includes an electricity supply control unit that receives information on power consumption, estimates the current and the future power consumption, and controls the supply of electricity to the electric device; an information display unit that displays information on a power use situation of an electric device electrically connected with the electricity supply control unit; and a battery server that accumulates power, in which the electricity supply control unit communicates the information on the power consumption with a new electric device when the new electric device is electrically connected, and when the amount of available power is exceeded by supplying electricity to the electric device, does not supply electricity to the electric device, makes the information display unit display that the amount of available power is exceeded by supplying electricity to the information display unit, and determines whether to use the power accumulated in the battery server.

Electricity distribution system and electricity distribution method

There is provided a communication device including: a storage unit configured to store an authentication key generated from a plurality of keys; a communication unit configured to receive authentication key identification information for specifying the authentication key; and an authentication unit configured to perform an authentication process for a transmission source of the authentication key identification information using the authentication key specified from the storage unit based on the authentication key identification information.

Communication device, communication method, and communication system

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihito Ishibashi