Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Yoshimi Nishii

Yoshihiro Ujiie

Masaki Yamauchi

Susumu Kobayashi

A first detection unit detects a horizontal air-blowing position inputted by a user using a plan view of a room included in an operation screen. A second detection unit detects a vertical air-blowing position inputted by the user using a profile view included in the operation screen. A generation unit determines an airflow direction of an air conditioner from the horizontal air-blowing position detected by the first detection unit and the vertical air-blowing position detected by the second detection unit, and generates control data that specifies the determined airflow direction.

Control method and communication device

A character input prediction apparatus includes: an operation input unit that obtains information of a character input operation by a user using a character key layout display which includes character keys; a dictionary storage unit that stores a dictionary including candidate character strings; an indication movement detection unit that detects an indication position and an indication direction respectively showing a position and a movement direction of the character input operation in the character key layout display, from the information of the character input operation; a filter generation unit that determines a character range located in the indication direction with the indication position as a base point, in the character key layout display; and a dictionary search unit that searches the dictionary for a predictive character string including any character included in the character range.

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Kyoto, Japan

Yoshimi Nishii