Omron Corporation

Rohm Co., Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Otsuki

Masayuki Oyagi

Shunji Ota

Masaki Yamato

Yoshihiko Fukushima

Hiroshi Shimamoto

Yasushi Kasajima

Hiroshi Shimamto

An electrostatic capacitance type input device includes: first electrodes arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; second electrodes arranged in the second direction and extending in the first direction; a storage unit storing first direction detection values obtained through the first electrodes resulting from the change in capacitance between a first conductor and the electrodes, and storing second direction detection values obtained through the second electrodes resulting from the change in capacitance between the first conductor and the electrodes; and a calculation unit, which generates first map values from a first value and a second value obtained, respectively, by processing at least one of the first direction detection values and at least one of the second direction detection values. The calculation unit determines whether the first conductor has approached the first electrodes and second electrodes using the first map values.

Electrostatic capacitance type input device and calculation method for calculating approach position of conductor

An information processing device (central apparatus ()) in a sensor network system is arranged so as to include an input-output processing section (); an information converting section () and a resource specification information recognizing section () for dividing target information which is requested with the information request signal into a combination of information elements which appropriately compose the target information; a data acquiring section () for acquiring data of sensing results; and an input-output processing section () for outputting information based on the data acquired by said data acquiring section.

Sensor or networks with server and information processing system, method and program

A sensor network controller () includes: a sensor interface () receiving sensing data transmitted from sensors (); a data write section () writing the received sensing data and sensing time information indicating a sensing time of the sensing data in association with each other to a memory section (); the memory section () storing the sensing data and the sensing time information; a first data processing section () generating sensing data which is at the timing designated by a client on the basis of the sensing data and the sensing time information stored in the memory section (); and a data output section () outputting the generated sensing data to the client. The client is enabled to acquire sensing data in accordance with a request even if the scheme by which the sensors convey sensing data does not match with the scheme by which the client makes a request for sensing data.

Sensor manager device, computer program for controlling sensor manager device, computer-readable storage medium containing computer program, and method controlling sensor manager device

In a sensor network system, a communications network connects a set of sensors to a server collectively managing the set of sensors. First, the sensor-managing server acquires remaining drive times of batteries in the sensors, and specifies a target remaining drive time. The server then controls the operation of the sensors so that the remaining drive times of the batteries in the sensors are substantially equal to the target remaining drive time. This reduces the maintenance workload for a system manager, especially, in the recharging of the sensor batteries.

Sensor network system managing method, sensor network system managing program, storage medium containing sensor network system managing program, sensor network system managing device, relay network managing method, relay network managing program, storage medium containing relay network managing program, and relay network managing device

A mobile communication device () can be disconnected form a vehicle monitoring apparatus () arranged on vehicle for sensing the state of the vehicle as a monitoring object and transmitting sensing data representing the sensing result. The mobile communication device () can also be connected via a communication network () to a report destination. The mobile communication device () includes a judgment unit () for judging the state of the vehicle according to the sensing data, a decision unit () for deciding a report destination to be connected according to the judgment result of the judgment unit (), and a communication unit () for receiving the sensing data and establishing a connection with the report destination decided by the decision unit (). Thus, it is possible to report the abnormal state of the vehicle sensed to an appropriate report destination in a short time.

Mobile communication apparatus, monitoring apparatus, monitoring system, monitoring method, monitoring program, and computer-readable recording medium containing the monitoring program

An alarm device including a sensor having sufficiently high detection sensitivity. The sensorin the alarm deviceis disposed such that a plane M perpendicular to the detection direction P of the sensor 51 is aligned at a specified angle &#x3b8; with respect to a plane V perpendicular to the sun visor 72 (the lower surface), were the specified angle &#x3b8; should be set to be an approximately mean value of the expected minimum angle &#x3b3;=0&#xb0; and the expected maximum angle &#x3b3;=40&#xb0; (in this case, &#x3b8;=20&#xb0;). In other words, the plane M perpendicular to the detection direction P of the sensor 51 should be aligned at an angle &#x3b1;(&#x3b1;=90&#xb0;&#x2212;&#x3b8;) of less than 90&#xb0; with respect to the sun visor(the lower surface). The alarm device may be mounted onto a vehicle for preventing the vehicle theft.

Alarm device

A vehicle surveillance system includes a vehicle-installed sensor apparatus for transmitting by radio, sensor information acquired by a sensor, a communication adapter for receiving by radio the sensor information from the vehicle-installed sensor apparatus and transmitting the received sensor information onto a public network, and a surveillance server for receiving the sensor information from the communication adapter. The vehicle surveillance system further includes at least one portable surveillance remote for relaying transmission of the sensor information from the vehicle-installed sensor apparatus to the communication adapter.

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Kyoto, Japan

Yoshiyuki Otsuki