Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kouda

Tetsuya Kouda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230395040
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKAYAMA, Yuki WAKI, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Tetsuya KOUDA, Toshihisa IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11769470
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takayama, Yuki Waki, Yasuo Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kouda, Toshihisa Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20220392423
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKAYAMA, Yuki WAKI, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Tetsuya KOUDA, Toshihisa IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11430415
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takayama, Yuki Waki, Yasuo Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kouda, Toshihisa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10978025
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takayama, Yuki Waki, Yasuo Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kouda, Toshihisa Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20210074246
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKAYAMA, Yuki WAKI, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Tetsuya KOUDA, Toshihisa IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190279262
    Abstract: An electric power price information acquisition unit (114) acquires information related to an electric power purchase price, which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using electric power supplied from a commercial power source, a price determination unit (100) determines, for each time block, a generated power price which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using generated power of a power generator for generating power using natural energy, and a stored power price which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using electric power stored in an electric storage device, and a user price list generation unit (107) generates an electric power price list capable of displaying, with regard to an arbitrary time block, the electric power purchase price, the generated power price and the stored power price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKAYAMA, Yuki WAKI, Tetsuya KOUDA, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Toshihisa IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10354297
    Abstract: An electric power price information acquisition unit (114) acquires information related to an electric power purchase price, which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using electric power supplied from a commercial power source, a price determination unit (100) determines, for each time block, a generated power price which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using generated power of a power generator for generating power using natural energy, and a stored power price which is an electricity cost when an electronic device is operated using electric power stored in an electric storage device, and a user price list generation unit (107) generates an electric power price list capable of displaying, with regard to an arbitrary time block, the electric power purchase price, the generated power price and the stored power price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takayama, Yuki Waki, Tetsuya Kouda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Toshihisa Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20190096369
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKAYAMA, Yuki WAKI, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Tetsuya KOUDA, Toshihisa IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10170083
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takayama, Yuki Waki, Yasuo Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kouda, Toshihisa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9969288
    Abstract: A power control system, a power control method, a power control device and a power control program supplies power to an electric device and charge an electric vehicle. A control device and method includes a receiver that receives charge information pertaining to the charging of the rechargeable battery prior to an arrival of the electric vehicle at a location where power is supplied to the electric vehicle, and a control determination unit that determines an operation start time of starting the operation of the electric device on the basis of the charge information received by the receiver. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a control program that controls the charging of a rechargeable battery of an electric vehicle and controls operation of the electric device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ikeda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Satoshi Tsujimura, Naofumi Nakatani, Kazunori Kurimoto, Tetsuya Kouda
  • Patent number: 9690462
    Abstract: An information terminal includes a first radio communication unit that performs communication with a server, a condition input unit through which a condition for retrieving a specific cooking recipe information group from cooking recipe information groups stored in the server is input, and a display unit that displays the specific cooking recipe information group specified based on the condition input through the condition input unit. Further, the display unit displays list screen (1200) that displays as a list the specific cooking recipe information group so that first cooking recipe information that is associated with operation control information is differentiated from second cooking recipe information that is not associated with the operation control information, and a cooking method screen that displays a cooking method relating to specific cooking recipe information in the specific cooking recipe information group displayed on the list screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kouda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Kuroyama, Mariko Nakaso, Gantetsu Matsui, Hiromi Toyota
  • Patent number: 9523968
    Abstract: An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kouda, Satoshi Tsujimura, Naofumi Nakatani, Toshihisa Ikeda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Kazunori Kurimoto
  • Publication number: 20160365073
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKAYAMA, Yuki WAKI, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Tetsuya KOUDA, Toshihisa IKEDA
  • Patent number: 9488966
    Abstract: Provided is a control device that makes it possible to surely give an appropriate instruction to operate. An appliance control device that controls an electric appliance that performs one of a first operation and a second operation includes: a price obtaining unit that obtains information indicating a price of power; a detecting unit that detects a change in the price in a not shorter one of the first period and the second period, the price being indicated in the obtained information; a first calculating unit that calculates a first cost produced when the electric appliance performs the first operation, in the case where the change is detected; a second calculating unit that calculates a second cost produced when the electric appliance performs the second operation, in the case where the change is detected; a comparing unit; and an instructing unit that instructs performing of a determined operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Waki, Hisashi Takayama, Tosihisa Ikeda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kouda
  • Patent number: 9459606
    Abstract: A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takayama, Yuki Waki, Yasuo Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kouda, Toshihisa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9442469
    Abstract: A washer-dryer is provided with a time shift function for performing timer presetting processing on the basis of a time shift computation result which indicates an operation start time suitable for operation. The washer-dryer includes: an input operation unit for allowing a user to perform operations for operating the washer-dryer; a display unit for displaying information relating to the operation of the washer-dryer; and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the washer-dryer on the basis of the time shift computation result. When a start button on the input operation unit is operated by the user, the operation control unit automatically performs the timer presetting processing on the basis of the time shift computation result and also displays a timer preset time at the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsujimura, Toshihisa Ikeda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Naofumi Nakatani, Tetsuya Kouda, Kazunori Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 9433036
    Abstract: A cooking device includes: first and second heating cooking units; a mode setting unit configured to set heating modes of the first and second heating cooking units; a receiving unit; a priority managing unit configured to store priorities which are given to the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit, respectively; and a power adjusting unit configured to adjust using power of a heating cooking unit to which a lower one of the priorities of the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit stored in the priority managing unit is given when the receiving unit receives a power adjustment request signal transmitted from a power controlling device. The priorities are different values for each heating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kurimoto, Satoshi Tsujimura, Naofumi Nakatani, Tetsuya Kouda, Yasuo Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20160107534
    Abstract: A power control system, a power control method, a power control device and a power control program supplies power to an electric device and charge an electric vehicle. A control device and method includes a receiver that receives charge information pertaining to the charging of the rechargeable battery prior to an arrival of the electric vehicle at a location where power is supplied to the electric vehicle, and a control determination unit that determines an operation start time of starting the operation of the electric device on the basis of the charge information received by the receiver. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a control program that controls the charging of a rechargeable battery of an electric vehicle and controls operation of the electric device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Toshihisa IKEDA, Yasuo YOSHIMURA, Satoshi TSUJIMURA, Naofumi NAKATANI, Kazunori KURIMOTO, Tetsuya KOUDA
  • Patent number: 8983633
    Abstract: An equipment control device has: a reception unit for receiving desired time information indicating a desired operation start time or a desired operation termination time, operation period information and electrical power information; a time-shift period setting unit for setting a time-shift period indicating a period which has a time range including the desired time information and during which the operation start time or the operation termination time of a household appliance is shiftable; an electrical power charge information acquisition unit for acquiring electrical power charge information; an operation time computing unit for computing the operation start time or the operation termination time, on the basis of which the electricity charge that is billed when the household appliance is operated within the time-shift period falls to or below a predetermined charge; and a transmission unit for transmitting the operation start time or the operation termination time to the household appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kouda, Satoshi Tsujimura, Naofumi Nakatani, Toshihisa Ikeda, Yasuo Yoshimura, Kazunori Kurimoto