Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

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Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Matsushita Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd

Matsushita Research Institute Tokyo, Inc.

Director General of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade & Ind.

Yuka Yamada

Nobuyasu Suzuki

Tsutomu Kanno

Akihiro Sakai

Kohei Takahashi

Takehito Yoshida

Masahiro Deguchi

Hiromasa Tamaki

Toshiharu Makino

Hideo Kusada

Satoshi Yotsuhashi

Hidehiro Sasaki

Hirofumi Kanai

Hiroshi Hashiba

Yasunori Morinaga

Toshihide Mori

Katsuhiko Mutoh

Masa-aki Suzuki

Yuji Matsuda

Yoshikazu Hori

Mitsuru Hashimoto

Shigeru Takeyama

Takeyuki Sekimoto

Hideyuki Maehara

Kazuhiro Ohkawa

Kiyoshi Morimoto

Keisuke Koga

Hiroshi Kutsumi

Akira Taomoto

Atsushi Omote

Yuji Zenitani

Takafumi Seto

Nobuhiro Aya

Daisuke Ueda

Makoto Kato

Hideaki Adachi

Nobuyuki Otsuka

Tadashi Sotomura

Toshiaki Tanaka

Reiko Taniguchi

Daisuke Ino

Hiroya Tanaka

Yuko Kida

Nobuo Kitao

Shuichi Shinagawa

Toshihiro Arai

Kazuhiko Kimoto

Keiichi Noda

An excrement determination device performs: acquiring image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet provided in a toilet room to photograph a bowl of the toilet; acquiring sensing data from a sensor that detects sitting and leaving of a user onto and from the toilet; deciding whether to validate or invalidate the image data on the basis of a change in the sensing data; determining, on the basis of image data decided to be valid, an occurrence of at least one of defecation and urination; and outputting a result of the determination.

Excrement determination method, excrement determination device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

A notification device includes: an image data acquisition part that acquires image data captured by a camera which is provided to photograph buttocks of a user sitting on a toilet seat; a sitting position detection part that detects a sitting position of the user sitting on the toilet seat provided on a toilet by image recognition of the image data; and a guidance information output part that outputs, on the basis of the detected sitting position, guidance information to guide the user to an appropriate sitting position.

Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing information processing program

An excrement determination method includes: acquiring sensing data detected by a first gas sensor; acquiring image data captured by a camera; making a first determination of determining whether a gas concentration indicated by the sensing data is higher than a first reference concentration; making a second determination of executing image processing onto the image data and determining whether the image data contains an image about defecation; making a third determination of determining, based on a determination result of the first determination and a determination result of the second determination, that at least one of the defecation and flatulating occurred; and outputting a determination result of the third determination.

An output device performs: acquiring a plurality of images chronologically captured by a camera located to photograph an inside of a bowl of a toilet; extracting, from the acquired images, an excrement image showing excrement; extracting, from the acquired images, a blood image showing a blood spot; determining, based on time information about the excrement image, an excretion start time; determining, based on time information about the blood image, a blood appearance start time, and determining, based on the blood image, a blood size indicating a size of the blood spot; generating, as excretion information, information including the excretion start time, the blood appearance start time, and the blood size; and outputting the generated excretion information.

Output device, method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

An image capturing device which captures an image of excrement is provided at a toilet having a bowl and includes a sensor unit including an image capturing sensor. A view angle and an attachment position of the sensor unit are set so that a detection area presumed to receive dropping excrement in the bowl falls within a view field of the sensor unit.

Imaging device

A controller acquires image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet to capture an image of a bowl of the toilet, determines whether an unacceptable matter being an object having a possibility of clogging the toilet is in the bowl by performing image recognition based on the image data, and sends, to a flush water controller, a flow prohibition signal of prohibiting flush water from flowing when it is determined that the unacceptable matter is in the bowl.

Flush water control method, control device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

An information processing method performed by a computer includes determining a plurality of first support contents corresponding to a care recipient or assistance recipient from a plurality of support contents based on basic information on the care recipient or assistance recipient, outputting first presentation information for presenting the plurality of first support contents and assessment items respectively associated with the plurality of first support contents to a user, determining a second support content from the plurality of first support contents based on assessment results input by the user for the assessment items, and outputting second presentation information for presenting the second support content to the user.

Information processing method, information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing information processing program

A thermoelectric generator system according to the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric generator units, each including tubular thermoelectric generators. Each of the generators has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates electromotive force in an axial direction thereof based on a temperature difference between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. Each unit further includes: a container housing the generators inside; and electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside, and openings into which the generators are inserted. A buffer vessel is arranged between the first and second units, and has a first opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the first unit and a second opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the second unit.

Thermoelectric generator system

A method for reducing carbon dioxide is provided. In the present method, used is an anode electrode comprises a stacked structure of a photoelectric conversion layer, a metal layer, and an InGaN layer (where 0&#x3c;x&#x2264;1). The InGaN layer is of i-type or n-type. The metal layer is interposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the InGaN layer. When irradiating the anode electrode with light, a first light part included in the light is absorbed by the InGaN layer and a second light part included in the light travels through the InGaN layer. The second light part is absorbed by the photoelectric conversion layer to generate electric power in the photoelectric conversion layer. The second light part has a longer wavelength than the first light part. The carbon dioxide contained in the first electrolyte solution is reduced on the cathode electrode.

Method for reducing carbon dioxide and device used therefor

An exemplary thermoelectric generator unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of tubular thermoelectric generators. Each generator generates electromotive force in an axial direction based on a difference in temperature between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. The unit further includes a container housing the generators inside and a plurality of electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection among the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside the container, and a plurality of openings into which the respective generators are inserted. In one implementation, the unit includes a baffle, which is provided between the fluid inlet port and the generators and changes the flow direction of the fluid that has flowed into the container through the fluid inlet port.

Thermoelectric generator unit and thermoelectric generator system

The present invention provides a method for splitting water. In the present method, first, prepared is a water splitting device comprising: cathode and anode containers in which first and second electrolyte solutions are stored respectively; a proton exchange membrane disposed therebetween; a cathode electrode in contact with the first electrolyte solution and comprises a metal or metal compound; and an anode electrode in contact with the second electrolyte solution and comprises a nitride semiconductor layer. Then, the anode electrode is irradiated with light to split water contained in the first electrolyte solution. The anode electrode comprises a cobalt oxide layer formed of CoOas a main component on a surface of the nitride semiconductor layer; the surface of the nitride semiconductor layer being in contact with the second electrolyte solution. The cathode electrode is electrically connected to the anode electrode without an external power supply.

Water splitting method

A thermoelectric power generation system of the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric power generation units. Each of the thermoelectric power generation units includes a plurality of tubular thermoelectric generators. The first and second thermoelectric power generation units are electrically connected to each other such that a first impedance caused by the tubular thermoelectric generator included in the first thermoelectric power generation unit is matched with a second impedance caused by the tubular thermoelectric generator included in the second thermoelectric power generation unit.

Thermal power generation unit and thermoelectric power generation system

An n-type thermoelectric conversion material expressed in a chemical formula XX'TCuSb(0&#x2266;x&#x3c;3, 0&#x2266;y&#x3c;3.0, and x+y&#x3e;0), the X includes one or more element(s) of Zr and Hf, the X&#x2032; includes one or more element(s) of Nb and Ta, and the T includes one or more element(s) selected from Ni, Pd, and Pt, while including at least Ni, the n-type thermoelectric conversion material expressed in the chemical formula XX&#x2032;TCuSbhas symmetry of a cubic crystal belonging to a space group I-43d.

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A thermoelectric conversion material expressed by a chemical formula XTT'Sb(0.025&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.5), wherein the X includes one or more elements selected from Zr and Hf, the T includes one or more elements selected from Ni, Pd, and Pt, while including at least Ni, and the T&#x2032; includes one or more elements selected from Co, Rh, and Ir.

Thermoelectric conversion material

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Yuka Yamada