Abstract: An equilibrium state analyzing apparatus, equilibrium state analysis method, program thereof and recording medium are provided that place few constraints on the degree of freedom in the area of motion or posture of the examinee. An equilibrium state analyzing apparatus includes acceleration information detector, attached to the trunk of the human body, of detecting accelerations generated in at least one direction within the horizontal plane, motion information storing device of storing the detected accelerations, and equilibrium state analyzer of analyzing the equilibrium state of the human body using the stored acceleration information.

Abstract: An operating condition determiner compares an operation starting time (t1) of network-connected first consuming apparatuses received by a schedule information receiver and a consumption starting time (t2) predicted by a predicting system based on a total consumption amount of the first consuming apparatuses and a second consuming apparatus, which is not network-connected, and determines the operation starting time (t1) as an operation starting time of a fuel cell if the operation starting time (t1) is earlier than the consumption starting time (t2) while determining the consumption starting time (t2) as such if the operation starting time (t1) is later than the consumption starting time (t2), so that the fuel cell can stably generate power. The fuel cell can stably supply power at a time when the consuming apparatuses start consuming power.

Abstract: An energy management system is provided which is capable of calculating, based on equipment information on electrical equipment which is used by a resident, a power consumption estimated when a replacement is made with energy-saving equipment, then comparing and displaying it and the power consumption of the electrical equipment owned by the resident, and thereby, allowing the resident to become aware of how the replacement helps save energy.

Abstract: Heretofore, in a dispersed energy supplying system, the unit cost of energy generated in houses and the unit rate of energy bought from an electric power company, etc. have been compared, but consideration has never been made of environmental burden.

Abstract: An operating condition determiner compares an operation starting time (t1) of network-connected first consuming apparatuses received by a schedule information receiver and a consumption starting time (t2) predicted by a predicting system based on a total consumption amount of the first consuming apparatuses and a second consuming apparatus, which is not network-connected, and determines the operation starting time (t1) as an operation starting time of a fuel cell if the operation starting time (t1) is earlier than the consumption starting time (t2) while determining the consumption starting time (t2) as such if the operation starting time (t1) is later than the consumption starting time (t2), so that the fuel cell can stably generate power. The fuel cell can stably supply power at a time when the consuming apparatuses start consuming power.

Abstract: An equilibrium state analyzing apparatus, equilibrium state analysis method, program thereof and recording medium are provided that place few constraints on the degree of freedom in the area of motion or posture of the examinee. An equilibrium state analyzing apparatus includes acceleration information detector, attached to the trunk of the human body, of detecting accelerations generated in at least one direction within the horizontal plane, motion information storing device of storing the detected accelerations, and equilibrium state analyzer of analyzing the equilibrium state of the human body using the stored acceleration information.

Abstract: An energy management system is provided which is capable of calculating, based on equipment information on electrical equipment which is used by a resident, a power consumption estimated when a replacement is made with energy-saving equipment, then comparing and displaying it and the power consumption of the electrical equipment owned by the resident, and thereby, allowing the resident to become aware of how the replacement helps save energy.

Abstract: The present invention prepares air-conditioner energy consumption as teacher data in the case three indices of solar radiation amount, heat conduction amount, and clearance area are respectively changed; performs interpolation calculations to the air-conditioner energy consumption using said three indices; and stores the energy consumption interpolation information into the air-conditioner energy consumption interpolation information storage unit (35). The air-conditioner energy consumption calculation unit (30) calculates, based on the actual use condition inputted to the use condition input unit (10), air-conditioner energy consumption using said three factors calculated by the air-conditioner load factor calculation unit (20) and energy consumption interpolation information stored in the air-conditioner energy consumption interpolation information storage unit (35).

Abstract: A remote maintenance system has a center server that is located in a service center for performing maintenance of an electrical appliance and a home server that is located in a house and monitors a status of the electrical appliance 102 in the house which are connected via a communication network. The home server includes an electrical appliance management unit that acquires a status value of the electrical appliance, a communication unit that receives from the center server a failure model which is information defining a method of deriving a decision whether the electrical appliance has failed or not from the status value, and a failure deciding unit that decides whether the electrical appliance has failed or not based on the acquired status value and the received failure model using qualitative reasoning. The center server includes a failure model updating unit that updates a failure model and sends the updated failure model to the home server via a communication unit.

Abstract: In a room exit determination, a determination of presence of a body in a room is made if a movement pattern vector consisting of a room ID of movement origin, a room ID of movement destination and a movement period of time is not received from the a non-specified room response sensor within a predetermined period of time. A determination of exit from the room of a body is made only when the movement period of time in the movement pattern vector agrees with a movement period of time of past exits from the room stored in the a movement time storage if this vector is received from the non-specified room response sensor.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device and the like that controls home electrical appliances via a communication line by using function codes which are set without being specialized for specific home electrical appliances. This object is achieved by a home electrical appliance control device that controls a home electrical appliance connected via a communication line, comprising: a memory section for storing a function table for mapping function identifiers, which identify function types allocated with the focus on the function itself to functions with which the home electrical appliance is equipped, with attributes of the functions; and a control section for controlling the home electrical appliance via the communication line on the basis of the function table.

Abstract: Response pattern extracting unit 220 extracts absence detection response patterns including moving subject responses to be judged and presence detection response patterns that have symmetrical time component structures to these absence detection response patterns based on moving subject responses of moving subject detecting sensor 110 (at least one moving subject detecting sensor 110 is placed in respective rooms). Leaving room response pattern determining unit 230 adds flags showing leaving room response pattern to the above-mentioned absence detection response pattern when a response pattern extracted in response pattern extracting unit 220 includes a pair of time components that are in time reversal correlation with each other and practically equal to each other.

Abstract: A conventional human body sensing system using a tremor sensing-type human body sensor within a house has a problem such that the system cost becomes high because two human body sensors in each room or one human body sensor in each room plus one human body sensor in a corridor are used in order to sense a stationary person in a room so as to carry out a room exit determination.

Abstract: A remote maintenance system 100 in which a center server 120 that is located in a service center for performing maintenance of an electrical appliance 102 and a home server 101 that is located in each house and monitors a status of the electrical appliance 102 in the house are connected via a communication network 140, wherein (A) the home server 101 includes an electrical appliance management unit 108 that acquires a status value of the electrical appliance 102, a communication unit 105 that receives from the center server 120 a failure model which is information defining a method of deriving a decision whether the electrical appliance 102 is failed or not from the status value, and a failure deciding unit 106 that decides whether the electrical appliance is failed or not based on the acquired status value and the received failure model using qualitative reasoning, and (B) the center server 120 includes a failure model updating unit 127 that updates a failure model and send the updated failure model to the h

Abstract: A fluid analyzer including a physical property value setting section 2 for setting a physical property value in accordance with grid information for boundary conditions and object positions, a number-of-dimension control section 5 for controlling the number of dimensions of a space to be analyzed, a momentum correction section 51 for automatically correcting the momentum of the speed vector of an inlet or outlet, and a boundary condition control section 4 for automatically setting a boundary condition not diverged even in natural convection computation, which repeats repetitive computation until resulting in convergence after generating grids. Thereby, it is possible to accurately set a physical property value and an analysis dimension according to grid division, correct a momentum, and control natural convection computation.

Abstract: A power consumption system has

Abstract: To provide a building renovation supporting apparatus capable of drafting and presenting efficient renovation plan, the proposing means 51 creates the renovation blueprints composed of third dimensional path diagrams of particular view-point, line of sight direction and the view angle corresponding to each types of condition of the symbol diagram to be inputted from the inputting means 10 with many view-point information, visual lien direction information and the view angle information necessary for drafting the third dimensional path diagrams being corresponding to various types of condition of one type of symbol diagrams such as position, direction, angle or the like respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a simulator which is easy to manipulate, and with which a user can experience a realistic simulation in various 3-D spaces, or a designer can understand physical environment conditions with the spaces intuitively or analyze mutual affects when there are a plurality of people in the spaces. The simulator comprises an input manipulation unit that the user can manipulate with one hand, a soft-robot display unit for displaying a soft-robot in accordance with the physical environment conditions, and a soft-robots display unit for producing a plurality of soft-robots.

Abstract: The zenithal angle of a spherical surface is divided at regular intervals, the horizontal angle thereof is also divided at regular intervals in correspondence with each of the zenithal angles, and in addition, the intensity of each energy line emitted from the center of the bottom surface of the spherical surface at the divided zenithal and horizontal angles corresponds to each zenithal angle. Thus, the energy lines can be isotropically emitted from the center of the bottom surface the spherical surface. The emitted energy lines are traced from the center to each object surface and the intensity of each energy line which has reached each object surface are added to each other. Then, the intensity obtained by the addition is divided by the intensity of entire energy lines emitted from the center. Thus, the geometrical view factor of each object surface can be found quickly and accurately.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a sound environment simulator including a sound field analyzing unit, a sound field reproducing unit, and an output unit. The sound environment analyzing unit divides the solid surfaces of a space to be analyzed into a set of sections to compute the volume of reflected sounds with a sound absorption coefficient of walls and form factors. It further computes time series data related to the arrival volume of sounds emanated from a certain sound source to the sound receiving point. An impulse response computing unit in the sound field reproducing unit transduces the time series data into an impulse response. Accordingly, the sound field reproducing unit convolutes the impulse response on a dry source in accordance with data related to a listener's position inputted from an associated virtual reality equipment to generate a reproduced sound over a headphone.