Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Yuri Nishikawa

Jun Ozawa

Masayuki Kozuka

Motoji Ohmori

Toshihisa Nakano

Masaki Takahashi

Kenji Shimizu

Jun Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Sekibe

Katsuyoshi Yamagami

Kazushige Yamada

Chikara Yoshida

Hiroyuki Takemura

Takeshi Hosaka

Kazunori Yamada

Aki Yoneda

Masayuki Misaki

Shun Matsuura

A visiting duration corresponding to a first current location is determined, on the basis of the first current location and a destination, a first traveling duration that is necessary for a user to travel from the first current location to the destination is calculated, on the basis of a first time, the visiting duration corresponding to the first current location, and the first traveling duration, a first expected arrival time is calculated, on the basis of a first scheduled delivery time and the first expected arrival time, a first difference is calculated, a first message in accordance with the first difference is transmitted to a first information terminal of the user, and the first information terminal displays the first message.

Information providing method and information providing apparatus

A delivery notification mail for notifying each of users of information regarding a corresponding one of packages to be delivered by a delivery vehicle is transmitted to a first information terminal () owned by the user. Opening time information indicating an opening time of each of the delivery notification mails is received from the corresponding first information terminal (). A degree of interest of each of the users in the corresponding package is calculated. The degree of interest is calculated on the basis of a difference between a transmission time of the delivery notification mail corresponding to each of the packages and the opening time indicated by the opening time information. Order of delivery of the packages is set on the basis of the degrees of interest. Delivery order information indicating the order of delivery is transmitted to a second information terminal ().

Presentation device and presentation method

A people stream analysis apparatus includes an image information capturer that captures an external appearance image of a person, a person recognizer that recognizes the person from the external appearance image, a store inferrer that identifies from the external appearance image a possession carried by the person, and infers from the identified possession a store from which the possession has been obtained, a memory that stores, in an associated form, person information indicating the recognized person, store information indicating the inferred store, and time information indicating time at which the external appearance image has been captured, and an arrival store order determiner that determines an order of stores in which the person has visited, based on a change in a time sequence of listing of stores indicated by the store information stored on the memory.

People stream analysis method, people stream analysis apparatus, and people stream analysis system

A human flow analysis apparatus includes a movement information acquirer that acquires movement information, the movement information representing a history of movement within a predetermined space by multiple persons moving within the predetermined space, an associated-nodes extractor that, based on the movement information, extracts at least two persons assumed to be moving in association with each other, an association information identifier that identifies association information, the association information indicating what association the extracted at least two persons have with each other, a node fusion determiner that, based on the identified association information, determines whether to group the at least two persons together, and a behavior predictor that predicts a behavior of the at least two persons who have been determined to be grouped together.

Human flow analysis method, human flow analysis apparatus, and human flow analysis system

One or more sensor devices detect a condition of each of users. With regard to a user set including at least two of the users as elements, an information processing apparatus calculates an agreement degree representing a degree of agreement between the at least two users being the elements in the user set, based on the condition information on the at least two users which is in the obtained condition information on all the users. An information presentation device provides presentation information based on a result of the agreement degree calculation.

Information processing method, information processing system, and information processing apparatus

A method includes: acquiring first voice information indicating a voice of a user input from a microphone; outputting, to a server via a network, first text string information generated from the first voice information, when the first text string information does not match any of pieces of text string information in the first database; acquiring, from the server, first semantic information and/or a control command corresponding to the first semantic information, when a second database includes a piece of text string information matched with the first text string information and the matched piece of text string information is associated with the first semantic information therein; instructing at least one device to execute an operation based on the first semantic information and/or the control command; and outputting, to a speaker, second voice information generated from second text string information, the second text string information being registered and associated with the first semantic information in the first database.

Information processing method and non-temporary storage medium for system to control at least one device through dialog with user

A communication controlling method includes: (A) receiving, from second communication devices, device identification information items for identifying the second communication devices, and situation information items for grasping situations around the second communication devices; (B) when at least one of the received situation information items includes an information item on a user, updating a neighborhood information database indicating which second communication device is around which user, based on the information item on the user and the at least one of the device identification information items; (C) when receiving a request for connection to a target user from the first communication device, selecting, from among the second communication devices, a second communication device present around the target user with reference to the neighborhood information database; and (D) communicably connecting the selected second communication device and the first communication device.

Method, controller, telepresence robot, and storage medium for controlling communications between first communication device and second communication devices

A communication control method includes detecting whether one master terminal, and m (m is an integer not less than 1 and not more than n-1) slave terminals among n (n is an integer not less than 2) slave terminals are in a conversation state, and in response to detecting that the master terminal and the m slave terminals are in the conversation state, disconnecting the master terminal and the m slave terminals from the basic network, and forming a first sub-network, the first sub-network including the master terminal as a master and each of the m slave terminals as a slave.

Communication control method, communication controller, telepresence robot, and recording medium storing program

A control method according to the present disclosure is used in a remote control system including apparatuses and an information terminal that controls at least one of the apparatuses via a network. The control method includes: a step (S) of displaying, on a user interface region of a display unit of the information terminal, apparatus icons indicating target apparatus candidates among the apparatuses; a step (S) of obtaining, via the network, (a) apparatus state information related to the apparatuses and (b) sensor information that is a value indicating a spatial environment in which the apparatuses are located; and a step (S) of (i) determining priorities of the target apparatus candidates based on the apparatus state information and the sensor information, all of which are obtained in the step (S), and (ii) sorting, according to the determined priorities, the apparatus icons displayed on the user interface region.

Control method

A private conversation request is received from a first communication apparatus, and a region of fixed range based on the position of a first user is set as a first conversation-listening area. Based on a position management database, a second communication apparatus positioned inside the first conversation-listening area from among one or a plurality of second communication apparatus is detected as a first evacuation communication apparatus, and an evacuation order causing the first evacuation communication apparatus to be evacuated from the first conversation-listening area is transmitted to the first evacuation communication apparatus.

Communication control method, communication control apparatus, telepresence robot, and recording medium storing a program

A control method for controlling at least one of a plurality of apparatuses. The control method includes: displaying candidate information and obtaining, via a network, an operation history of each of the apparatuses. The method includes generating a control signal for performing a predetermined control on a target apparatus, when the user confirms that the predetermined control is to be performed.

Method of controlling a target apparatus, selected from a plurality of apparatuses based on a selection from displayed apparatus information, place information, or operator information

A control method used in a remote control system according to the present disclosure includes: a step of displaying candidates for a target apparatus to be controlled among apparatuses on a user interface region of a display unit of an information terminal; a step of obtaining, via a network, control indexes used to determine a display mode for the user interface region; a step of displaying, on the user interface region, one or more control menus in a display mode determined based on a selected target apparatus and the control indexes; a step of generating a control signal for causing the target apparatus to perform an operation according to control corresponding to a control menu, when the control menu is selected from the one or more displayed control menus; and a step of transmitting the control signal to the target apparatus via the network.

Control method used in a remote control system

A cloud server extracts voiceprint data from voice data of a user, and distinguishes the user. The cloud server identifies a task which the user instructs, from the voice data of the user. If contexts required to execute the task have not been amassed, the cloud server registers the distinguished user as a task owner, and notifies the user with a reply sentence to cause the user to speak the required context. If the voiceprint data of the voice data which the user has uttered matches the voiceprint data of the user A, and all required contexts are amassed, the cloud server causes a device to execute the task.

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Yuri Nishikawa