Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshiyasu Takeuchi

Kenichi Fujita

Ryota Tsukidate

Shigeki Kaneko

Takashi Kakiuchi

Shuji Murakami

Osamu Sekine

Masahiko Tamura

Akira Hashiguchi

Yukiko Nagoshi

Toshiki Yagi

An energy management device includes: an acquirer that acquires a reduction target period, a reduction target amount, an equipment type, a presence of a special operation schedule, a scheduled time of a special operation, and a status; a generator that generates multiple control patterns on the basis of the information acquired by the acquirer; a selector that selects a control pattern to execute from among the multiple control patterns; and a controller that transmits control information to the equipment to be controlled on the basis of the control pattern to execute. At least one of the multiple control patterns is a control pattern for shifting the scheduled time of a special operation to outside the reduction target period, and reducing the power consumption amount by the reduction target amount or more during the reduction target period.

Energy management device and energy management method

In a program information broadcasting system, it is aimed to minimize time for retrieval of program by viewers in operating an electronic program guide or time for waiting when applying for subscription. As a program information broadcasting system, program elements constituting a broadcasting program are divided into a plurality of items and are turned to data at a center, and a master dataof a program information to recognize the program is prepared. From the data constituting the master data, minimal necessary items for preparation of a program table are extracted, and a program basic informationis prepared. Said master data and said program basic information are transmitted simultaneously with the broadcasting, and said program basic information is received, reproduced and displayed before receiving of the master data at a receiving terminal unitis completed. As a result, the program basic information having far less amount of data than the master data can be incorporated, and it is possible to minimize the time required for storage of the data in memory of the receiving terminal unit.

Program information broadcasting system, broadcasting device, and receiving terminal unit

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshiyasu Takeuchi