Abstract: A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user.

Abstract: A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user.

Abstract: There is provided an electricity demand regulating system which estimates a load amount of an individual equipment whose measurement information can not be acquired and improves estimation accuracy of an electricity demand amount in a power system. The electricity demand regulating system for managing electric energy used by a consumer according to an operation state of the power system includes a storage part to store measurement information of a consumer equipment, and a generation part to generate a load pattern indicating a load amount tendency from the measurement information of the equipment stored in the storage part. A load amount of an equipment whose measurement information is not stored in the storage part is estimated from the load pattern generated by the generation part, and an electricity demand amount of the consumer is obtained based on the measurement information and the estimated load amount.

Abstract: A battery control apparatus includes a reduced electricity cost analysis unit that obtains a discharge electric power cost at a discharge time and a charge electric power cost at a charge time of a battery, based on a basic cost and a unit cost of an electricity bill, and obtains a reduced electricity cost in which the charge electric power cost is subtracted from the discharge electric power cost for every discharge depth of the battery; an introduction cost analysis unit that calculates an introduction cost of the battery for every discharge depth of the battery; and a charge and discharge depth optimization unit that obtains a difference of the reduced electricity cost and the introduction cost for every discharge depth of the battery, and determines a charge and discharge depth of the battery based. on the difference. The discharge of the battery is performed at the determined charge and discharge depth.

Abstract: A load leveling system and a method for a power system are capable of attaining load leveling in a distribution substation unit. The load leveling system is for a power system with a controller having a major customer and lower transforming apparatus, and with a customer connected to the lower transforming apparatus via a low-voltage line. The system also has a communication unit between the customer and its own system, and control use time zones of devices within the customer, as well as an electric demand prediction unit, and a first load leveling processing unit. By employing such a system, it becomes possible to provide a load leveling system for a power system that is capable of realizing load leveling of both a distribution substation unit and a pole transformer unit.

Abstract: A urea quality diagnosis system capable of accurately diagnosing the quality of an aqueous urea solution in a urea tank. A concentration and a level (L) of an aqueous urea solution inside a urea tank 16 are detected, and the quality of the aqueous urea solution is diagnosed based on a detected value of the concentration of the aqueous urea solution when the level L is equal to or higher than a predetermined value.

Abstract: An NOx sensor diagnosis apparatus, which diagnoses an NOx sensor provided in an exhaust pipe to detect a concentration of NOx in exhaust gas, includes a calculation value operating unit to acquire a calculation value of the concentration of NOx in the exhaust gas based on an actuation state of an engine, an error determining unit to determine that the sensor is erroneous when a difference between the calculation value and the detection value of the concentration of NOx detected by the sensor is larger than a determination threshold value, and a determination threshold value setting unit to set the determination threshold value based on a temperature of water for cooling the engine, an atmospheric pressure, and an outdoor temperature.

Abstract: A learning diagnostic system for a working machine is capable of making a fault diagnosis of the working machine universally relative to various types of sensor information, and preventing a failure in the working machine by enabling a fault diagnosis even in a transient operating state that represents a transitional state between operating states. A state learning device 201 sorts inputted sensor data 101a into one under a steady operating state and one under a transient operating state, and generates, through learning, steady state data 102a and intermediate state data 103a, each including a permissible error. A state diagnostic device 202 uses the steady state data 102a to determine whether an operating state of the working machine related to the inputted sensor data is the steady operating state or the transient operating state, and make a fault determination in the steady operating state.

Abstract: A competence diagnosis system for a urea water temperature sensor that can prevent a misdiagnosis when urea water is replenished in a urea tank. The system includes a urea water level condition determination unit that stores a urea water level, which is measured by a level sensor provided in the urea tank, in a storage unit immediately before key-off, obtains a level difference between the urea water level stored in the storage unit and a current urea water level after key-on, and allows a diagnosis by the competence diagnosis unit through temperature comparison when the level difference is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that can detect whether or not a float is stuck even where a water level sensor that detects a liquid level in a stepwise manner is used, including: an urea injection quantity integrating unit that integrates an injected quantity of urea to calculate an urea injection quantity integrated value; an integrated value resetting unit that, if a detected value from detection means changes, resets the urea injection quantity integrated value; and an abnormality determination unit that, if the urea injection quantity integrated value exceeds a predetermined threshold value for determination, determines a level sensor as having an abnormality.

Abstract: The priority of a demand regulating control for a device is changed in accordance with a simple operation by a consumer. A demand regulating system has an operation unit that selects from among a plurality of consumption devices, on the basis of priority information and a regulating quantity, a plurality of control-target devices, which are targeted for demand regulating control reducing consumption of the resource. A control unit executes the demand regulating control on the basis of a control instruction; and an input unit receives a first operation by the consumer, and transmits first request information requesting a change in the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices, to the operation unit in accordance with the first operation. The operation unit, upon receiving the first request information, specifies the plurality of control-target devices, and changes the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information.

Abstract: A power demand regulation system has a power demand regulation device that regulates the load applied to equipment of an electrical power system by a load apparatus operating by means of power from the electrical power system, which supplies power to consumers. When regulating the load to the equipment, the power demand regulation device selects a load apparatus as the subject of a request for an alteration of operating state on the basis of by-apparatus load information, which is information of each load apparatus, and a regulation target value, which is the amount of load that is to be regulated, and, in the period from the start to the end of regulation, executes a plurality of times the outputting of an alteration request that requests the alteration of the operating state of the selected load apparatus.

Abstract: A control section selectively executes one of a first control and a second control when the accelerator opening degree is less than a first opening degree and a switching operation is performed by a forward and reverse switching operation lever. The control section controls a motor capacity control section so as to maintain the capacity of a hydraulic motor before and after the switching operation in the first control. The control section controls the motor capacity control section such that the capacity of the hydraulic motor is a minimum value which is set in advance at each speed level in the second control. The control section executes the first control when the temperature of the hydraulic oil is equal to or less than a first temperature and executes the second control when the temperature of the hydraulic oil is higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: A wheel loader includes a vehicle cover defining an engine compartment, an engine arranged inside the engine compartment, an air cleaner, a cover member, and a shielding member. The vehicle cover includes a top plate having an opening section. The air cleaner includes an air cleaner body and an intake tube. The air cleaner body is arranged inside the engine compartment to clean air supplied to the engine. The intake tube has an intake port facing upward. The intake tube protrudes upward from the top plate via the opening section. The cover member has an inlet port to take in air. The cover member is installed on the top plate and covers a surrounding area and a top of the intake tube. The shielding member has a first inclined surface inclined downward toward a first direction. The shielding member is arranged above the intake port in the cover member.

Abstract: There is provided an electricity demand regulating system which estimates a load amount of an individual equipment whose measurement information can not be acquired and improves estimation accuracy of an electricity demand amount in a power system. The electricity demand regulating system for managing electric energy used by a consumer according to an operation state of the power system includes a storage part to store measurement information of a consumer equipment, and a generation part to generate a load pattern indicating a load amount tendency from the measurement information of the equipment stored in the storage part. A load amount of an equipment whose measurement information is not stored in the storage part is estimated from the load pattern generated by the generation part, and an electricity demand amount of the consumer is obtained based on the measurement information and the estimated load amount.

Abstract: A NOx sensor diagnosis device which can diagnose validity of a NOx sensor by considering an environmental condition and can prevent erroneous diagnosis, and a selective catalytic reduction system are provided. The device provided in an exhaust pipe of an engine E and diagnosing a NOx sensor that detects NOx concentration in an exhaust gas, a diagnosis prohibition determination unit is provided that prohibits diagnosis of the NOx sensor during diesel particulate filter regeneration, during power take-off operation or during exhaust brake operation.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.

Abstract: In this work vehicle, a control unit controls a shift in a speed gear of a transmission according to the vehicle velocity. The control unit determines whether or not the acceleration rate of the vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold when the vehicle velocity is within a predetermined first range. The control unit switches a lock-up clutch from a not-connected state to a connected state when the acceleration rate of the vehicle is equal to or less than the predetermined threshold. The control unit maintains the lock-up clutch in a not-connected state when the acceleration rate of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a traffic information distribution apparatus 1 including date-time information in traffic information acquired by the traffic information acquire unit 12 or generated by the traffic information prediction unit, and accumulates the traffic information in the traffic information DB 13. When the traffic information distribution apparatus 1 receives distribution request information transmitted from the in-vehicle terminal 5, based on date-time information of reference traffic information held by the in-vehicle terminal 5 included in the distribution request information, the traffic information distribution apparatus 1 retrieves traffic information including the same date-time information as the date-time information of the reference traffic information from the traffic information DB 13.