Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100225540 | POSITIONING SYSTEM, AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM, AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - To provide a positioning system that clearly defines a disposition of a base station for identifying a position of a radio set. While a wireless base station | 09-09-2010 |
20100293974 | AIRCONDITIONING EQUIPMENT, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT - An air conditioning equipment having an in-room unit connected to one end of the refrigerant pipes and an out-room unit connected to the other end of the refrigerant pipes. The air conditioning equipment includes signal coupling portions which are respectively disposed at both end parts of the refrigerant pipes. Each of the signal coupling portions couples an alternating current (AC) control signal to the refrigerant pipes and exhibits a predetermined impedance with respect to an AC electric signal. The configuration of the air conditioning equipment brings forth the advantages that the electrical insulation devices used in the prior art are dispensed with, and the signal transmissions between the in-room unit and the out-room unit can be performed by a simple apparatus configuration. | 11-25-2010 |
20100301837 | POWER MEASURING SYSTEM, MEASURING APPARATUS, LOAD TERMINAL, AND DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM - A power measuring system, a measuring apparatus, a load terminal, and a device control system are provided, which need no special installation work to be made by any skillful professionals such as persons qualified for electrical work. A voltage sensor detects a voltage waveform of a power line in a noncontact manner, and a current sensor acquires a current waveform of the power line in a noncontact manner. A measuring portion of a load terminal operates a contact means to connect the power line and a voltage measuring terminal to measure a current flowing from the power line to a load and to calculate a voltage value from the measured current value and the load. The measuring portion of the load terminal transmits, in response to a request from a measuring apparatus, the measured current value and the calculated voltage value to the measuring apparatus via a communication means. A control portion of the measuring apparatus receives the current value and the voltage value from the load terminal via a communication means. The control portion calculates a power value based on the received current value and voltage value, as well as on the voltage waveform acquired from the voltage sensor and the current waveform acquired from the current sensor. | 12-02-2010 |
20100317287 | AIRCONDITIONING EQUIPMENT, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT - An air conditioning equipment having an in-room unit connected to one end of the refrigerant pipes and an out-room unit connected to the other end of the refrigerant pipes. The air conditioning equipment includes signal coupling portions which are respectively disposed at both end parts of the refrigerant pipes. Each of the signal coupling portions couples an alternating current (AC) control signal to the refrigerant pipes and exhibits a predetermined impedance with respect to an AC electric signal. The configuration of the air conditioning equipment brings forth the advantages that the electrical insulation devices used in the prior art are dispensed with, and the signal transmissions between the in-room unit and the out-room unit can be performed by a simple apparatus configuration. | 12-16-2010 |
20100317288 | AIRCONDITIONING EQUIPMENT, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT - An air conditioning equipment having an in-room unit connected to one end of the refrigerant pipes and an out-room unit connected to the other end of the refrigerant pipes. The air conditioning equipment includes signal coupling portions which are respectively disposed at both end parts of the refrigerant pipes. Each of the signal coupling portions couples an alternating current (AC) control signal to the refrigerant pipes and exhibits a predetermined impedance with respect to an AC electric signal. The configuration of the air conditioning equipment brings forth the advantages that the electrical insulation devices used in the prior art are dispensed with, and the signal transmissions between the in-room unit and the out-room unit can be performed by a simple apparatus configuration. | 12-16-2010 |
20110010106 | APPARATUS STATE DETECTOR, METHOD FOR DETECTING APPARATUS STATE, APPARATUS STATE DETECTION SERVER AND APPARATUS STATE DETECTION SYSTEM; LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY DETECTOR, LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY, AND APPARATUS-STATE DATABASE MAINTENANCE SERVER - An apparatus state detector and its associates are provided to save time and effort for learning combinations of operation states of all apparatuses at home and commit fewer estimation errors even when an unknown apparatus starts operating. The apparatus state detector includes measuring means | 01-13-2011 |
20110043050 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE - Wireless power supply and information communication are achieved between electronic circuit substrates in the electronic equipment, and the size of the circuitry for achieving the above is reduced. There are provided a first electronic circuit substrate, a second electronic circuit substrate, a first coil connected to the first electronic circuit substrate, and a second coil connected to the second electronic circuit substrate. Power is transmitted from the first coil to the second coil by electromagnetic induction so that the first electronic circuit substrate and the second electronic circuit substrate are electrically connected. | 02-24-2011 |
20110102317 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, FACILITY APPLIANCE CONTROL DEVICE, AND APPLIANCE STATE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An application program changes a property value of a graphic object arranged in an object database. An object manager reads out the property value from the object database and then issues a drawing command. A graphics engine executes the drawing command to configure a memory image of the graphic object on a VRAM to display the image on a liquid crystal display via an LCDC. | 05-05-2011 |
20110141909 | WIRELESS TERMINAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, METHOD OF POSITIONING WIRELESS TERMINAL, ENVIRONMENT MEASURMENT SYSTEM, FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD OF MEASURING ENVIRONMENT, AND METHOD OF DECIDING DESTINATION OF WIRELESS MOBILE TERMINAL - To obtain a method of positioning a wireless terminal capable of obtaining the position of each communication terminal by measuring distances with installed communication terminals each other without fixedly installing a base station. | 06-16-2011 |
20110234607 | OPERATION TERMINAL AND SCREEN IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD FOR OPERATION TERMINAL - An operation terminal for remotely operating an electronic apparatus includes a processing unit for remotely communicating with the electronic apparatus in accordance with a program, a memory on which the processing unit performs writing or reading of data, a nonvolatile memory for storing a basic screen image drawing command for drawing a basic screen image that is displayed before the operation terminal is operated, a drawing processor for creating a bitmapped image of the basic screen image in accordance with the basic screen image drawing command, and a display unit for displaying the bitmapped image on a screen. | 09-29-2011 |
20110249009 | STATE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD OF STATE DISPLAY DEVICE - A state display device capable of reducing a processing load applied to a microcomputer by performing part of a GUI process by hardware and a display method of the state display device are obtained. A rendering processing device starts a process in response to a rendering request stored in a rendering request region when a starting command is stored in a start/end instruction register. When a rendering request specified by an instruction address is a rendering termination request, the rendering processing means terminates the process performed in response to the rendering request, stores a termination factor in an interruption factor register, and issues an interruption to a central processing device. | 10-13-2011 |
20110273461 | STATUS DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a development environment which makes it easy to verify the performance, processing load, and display status in an actual built-in device, enabling a reduced work cycle time during development and high work efficiency. Display means, central processing means, drawing processing means, and storage means are provided. The central processing means, at every predetermined operation unit clock, interprets content stored in the storage means at an instruction address and performs various computation processing. The drawing processing means shares the storage means with the central processing means and performs drawing processing. The display means shares with the drawing means a predetermined memory space starting at a display address in the storage means and makes a display device perform display in accordance with the memory state of the predetermined memory space starting at the display address. The storage means and/or central processing means is allowed to be provided outside of the status display apparatus. | 11-10-2011 |
20110283255 | PROGRAM CODE GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM EXECUTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM CODE COMPRESSION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - To obtain a program code generation support device, method, and the like, capable of generating a new program code, in particular, generating in accordance with an incorporating apparatus, by performing a further optimization on a program code. The device includes storage means for storing as data, an optimization rule that is composed of a conversion condition for converting data of a program code and a conversion content thereof, and code optimization means that includes a code analysis unit for analyzing the program code, a condition search unit for search a part matching the conversion condition in the program code through a collation with the optimization rule stored in the storage means on the basis of the analyzed program code, and an optimization unit for generating data of a new program code by converting the part matching the conversion condition on the basis of the conversion content. | 11-17-2011 |
20110285212 | INPUT/OUTPUT APPARATUS AND REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS - An input/output apparatus is provided which is capable of preventing electric shock without reinforcing the insulation of a power-supply unit and capable of connecting to a USB, a LAN, or the like. An input/output apparatus includes a power-supply circuit that uses electric power as the power supply of the present apparatus, which is generated in a resonance circuit by an induction of an AC magnetic field from the resonance circuit on the apparatus main body side, and a communication circuit that transmits and receives a signal between a resonance circuit of the present apparatus and a resonance circuit on the apparatus main body side, and capable of being insulated from the power supply of the apparatus main body by receiving electric power from the apparatus main body in a non-contact state and by communicating with the apparatus main body in a non-contact state, thereby. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289492 | PROGRAM CODE GENERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM EXECUTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM CODE COMPRESSION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - To obtain a program code generation support device, method, and the like, capable of generating a new program code, in particular, generating in accordance with an incorporating apparatus, by performing a further optimization on a program code. The device includes storage means for storing as data, an optimization rule that is composed of a conversion condition for converting data of a program code and a conversion content thereof, and code optimization means that includes a code analysis unit for analyzing the program code, a condition search unit for search a part matching the conversion condition in the program code through a collation with the optimization rule stored in the storage means on the basis of the analyzed program code, and an optimization unit for generating data of a new program code by converting the part matching the conversion condition on the basis of the conversion content. | 11-24-2011 |
20120101778 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS RESULT DISPLAY APPARATUS - An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus and an air conditioning system diagnosis result display apparatus capable of representing various kinds of failures with high visibility by generating a system structure diagram that illustrates an air conditioning system in a different form depending on a detected failure and illustrating the failure using this system structure diagram are obtainable. Diagnosis result superimposed diagram generating means for generating a system structure diagram that includes icons, such as an icon of an outdoor unit and an icon of an indoor unit, and a line that links them on the basis of system structure information derived by system structure analyzing means and for superimposing a refrigeration cycle diagnosis result derived by refrigeration cycle analyzing means in the vicinity of an icon of a concerned device in the system structure diagram is included. | 04-26-2012 |
20120120092 | FACILITY OPERATION DISPLAY DEVICE, AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - The display color of, for example, a button image responsive to a command input into a facility operation display device is controlled by a palette value having a smaller number of bits than an RGB value. When the display color of the button image is changed, the palette value of a drawing object associated with the button image is changed to an RGB value. This eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-performance CPU as a central arithmetic unit. In addition, it is not necessary to pre-store images corresponding to several kinds of display colors specified by RGB values, to thereby eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-capacity storage medium in the facility operation display device. Accordingly, the device cost can be reduced. | 05-17-2012 |
20130273936 | POSITION IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, POSITION IDENTIFICATION METHOD, POSITION IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM, AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A locating apparatus comprises a first acquirer requesting multiple installed devices installed within a given space to radio-communicate with each other so as to acquire first radio communication information representing a first physical quantity obtained for each pair of the installed devices for each of the installed devices; a storage recording the first radio communication information acquired by the first acquirer for each of the installed devices; a second acquirer requesting a terminal present within the given space and the multiple installed devices to radio-communicate with each other so as to acquire second radio communication information representing a second physical quantity obtained for each pair of the terminal and installed devices; and a detector detecting the installed device from which the first physical quantity close to the second physical quantity is obtained among the multiple installed devices. | 10-17-2013 |
20130289777 | AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND AIR-CONDITIONING METHOD - An air-conditioning system comprises portable devices including measurement units that measure temperature or humidity. In addition, the air-conditioning system comprises a transmitter mounted in indoor equipment that transmits light or electromagnetic waves to the portable devices, and a receiver mounted in the indoor equipment that receives detected intensity information expressing the intensity of the light or the electromagnetic waves detected by the portable devices. Furthermore, the air-conditioning system comprises a detector that detects the distance from the indoor equipment to the portable devices based on the detected intensity expressed by the detected intensity information, and a controller that controls the air-blowing state of the indoor equipment based on the detected distances and the measured temperature or humidity. Thus, the temperature or the humidity at a specified location can be adjusted more accurately. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293560 | RENDERING DEVICE AND RENDERING METHOD - A DMA controller operates independently from a CPU, reads image data stored on an ROM sequentially in given units from the first reading start position of the image data and writes the image data into a buffer. A DMA controller operates independently from the CPU, writes the data read into the buffer to a VRAM one byte at a time from the writing start position. The controller of a companion chip updates the writing start position in the VRAM to the position of the same column in the next row each time writing the data string in each row is completed. | 11-07-2013 |
20130328899 | RENDERING DEVICE, RENDERING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A DMA controller reads image information recorded on a ROM by address unit from a front reading start position. A shift operator shifts a first data sequence of one row of the reading by only a designated number of bits, and generates a second data sequence. A DMA controller reads a third data sequence already stored in a VRAM writing start position. A controller performs a prescribed operation on the second data sequence and the third data sequence, and generates a fourth data sequence. The controller writes the generated fourth data sequence successively in a horizontal direction by address unit from the VRAM writing start position. | 12-12-2013 |
20140306887 | CONTROL DEVICE AND REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE - A control device includes a storage device for prestoring rendering command data, a central processing device, and a rendering processing device. The rendering command data is data for generating a rendering command executed in order to generate display data indicating a display image to be displayed on a display device. The central processing device refers to a screen management table when a predetermined rendering condition is satisfied, and specifies and outputs rendering command specifying data corresponding to the satisfied rendering condition. The rendering processing device acquires the rendering command data specified by the outputted rendering command specifying data from storage device, generates display data based on the acquired rendering command data, and outputs the display data to the display device. | 10-16-2014 |
20150088441 | ENERGY USAGE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND ENERGY USAGE ESTIMATION METHOD - A power measure calculates, based on a current and a voltage measured at a predetermined location in a power supply line, active power and apparent power for each predetermined time period based on utilization of plural kinds of electric facilities connected to the power supply line. A data memory accumulates and stores data regarding the active power and the apparent power calculated by the power measure in a time-series manner. A variation detector analyzes data regarding the active power by what corresponds to a predetermined time period and stored in the data memory to detect a time slot at which there is an operation change in any one of the electric facilities. A distribution estimator calculates, when the variation detector detects the time slot, a power factor in the time slot, and estimates power consumption for each kind of the electric facilities in the time slot. | 03-26-2015 |