Patents by Inventor Masao Nonaka

Masao Nonaka 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).

  • Patent number: 11268702
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process that is executed using a cooking appliance and is obtained from a server device, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11010320
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes: a storage that stores first cooking information indicating a cooking method for a first foodstuff and second cooking information indicating a cooking method for a second foodstuff; a placement unit on which the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed; and a cooking controller that controls cooking of the first foodstuff, based on the first cooking information, and that controls cooking of the second foodstuff, based on the second cooking information, when the first foodstuff and the second foodstuff are placed on the placement unit. The storage includes a memory, and the cooking controller includes a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masao Nonaka, Motoji Ohmori, Shingo Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20200400316
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process that is executed using a cooking appliance and is obtained from a server device, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masao NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20200372165
    Abstract: A server receives identification information for identifying an equipment and operating information of the equipment corresponding to a predetermined time, permitting a terminal device, if it is determined that the received operating information satisfies a predetermined condition, to refer to log information of the equipment accumulated in the server, the log information corresponding to the identification information corresponding to a time before the predetermined time, and not permitting the terminal device, if it is determined that the received operating information does not satisfy the predetermined condition, to refer to the log information of the equipment accumulated in the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji OSAKI, Masao NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10801733
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20200217542
    Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus determines, for an element in a diagnostic element table, whether log information stored in a log storing unit satisfies a predetermined condition, the element indicating that a failure symptom can be diagnosed provided that the log information satisfies the predetermined condition, changes, based on a result of the determination, the element in the diagnostic element table to indicate the failure symptom can be diagnosed or cannot be diagnosed, the element originally indicating that the failure symptom can be diagnosed provided that the log information satisfies a predetermined condition, calculates a diagnostic priority of a plurality of operating conditions based on the statistical information and the changed diagnostic element table, and outputs information based on an operating condition, among a plurality of operating conditions, having the diagnostic priority satisfying the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Masao NONAKA, Yuji OSAKI
  • Patent number: 10545632
    Abstract: A method includes causing a processor to execute determining a first operation from among a plurality of operations to be performed in sequence in cooking, and displaying a guide image on a display, the guide image including operation information that indicates a content of the first operation and ingredient information that indicates a name of an ingredient prepared for the cooking, where in the displaying of the guide image, when an ingredient on which a process has been performed in a second operation different from the first operation is used in the first operation, the name of the ingredient included in the ingredient information is replaced with ingredient process information indicating that the process has been performed on the ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10455651
    Abstract: A information processor of a terminal apparatus reads from a memory identification information of a food handling apparatus and a table, identifies a function associated with the identification information of the food handling apparatus received by a information receiver in accordance with the table, and starts up the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masao Nonaka, Takashi Morimoto, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Publication number: 20190267024
    Abstract: A diagnosis method includes giving an instruction to present at least two sound collection positions of an abnormal sound of an electric apparatus to an outside; comparing a current position of the diagnosis device and one sound collection position of the at least two sound collection positions; obtaining sound data indicative of an abnormal sound of the electric apparatus collected by a microphone, based on a comparison result and storing the sound data in a sound data storage portion so as be correlated with log data and the one sound collection position; and diagnosing an abnormal sound of the electric apparatus by using at least two items of sound data and at least two sound collection positions, based on a determination result whether sound collection is completed and a determination result whether diagnosis of an abnormal sound is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Masao NONAKA, Yuji OSAKI, Hiroko SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10395553
    Abstract: A method includes: causing a processor to determine a first step from among a plurality of steps that should be executed in order in cooking; and causing the processor to display, on a display, a guide image including a first indicative contents of the determined first step and a second indicative contents of a second step that is a step that should be executed next to the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10395670
    Abstract: A diagnosis method includes giving an instruction to present at least two sound collection positions of an abnormal sound of an electric apparatus to an outside; comparing a current position of the diagnosis device and one sound collection position of the at least two sound collection positions; obtaining sound data indicative of an abnormal sound of the electric apparatus collected by a microphone, based on a comparison result and storing the sound data in a sound data storage portion so as be correlated with log data and the one sound collection position; and diagnosing an abnormal sound of the electric apparatus by using at least two items of sound data and at least two sound collection positions, based on a determination result whether sound collection is completed and a determination result whether diagnosis of an abnormal sound is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Nonaka, Yuji Osaki, Hiroko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10372102
    Abstract: An operation mode selection image represents a first selection range of values of power consumption setting that are selectable in a first mode at the time of purchase of an air conditioner, a second selection range values of power consumption setting that are selectable in the first mode at a current time, a third selection range values of power consumption setting that are selectable in a second mode at the time of purchase of the air conditioner, and a fourth selection range values of power consumption setting that are selectable in the second mode at the current time. The relationship between the sizes of the first and second selection ranges and the relationship between the sizes of the third and fourth selection ranges represent a degree of decrease in the performance of the air conditioner over the period from the time of purchase to the current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Osaki, Chieko Sasaki, Masao Nonaka, Hiroko Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20190226683
    Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masao NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10281155
    Abstract: A heating power control device includes a storage in which first information is stored, the first information being on a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives second information indicating an absence of a user of the cooking appliance or a presence of the user, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the second information, determines, based on the first information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the first information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10213046
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes a communicator that communicates with a terminal, a link-state manager that manages link-state information indicating whether or not a link to the terminal is active, a heater that performs a heating operation on a cooking tool, a receiver that receives a user operation, and a controller that controls the communicator or the heater which is a control target, on the basis of the user operation. In the case where the link is active, when the user operation is performed on the receiver, the controller causes the communicator to transmit instruction information to the terminal. The instruction information indicates an instruction to switch an image being displayed on the information display apparatus from a first image to a second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masao Nonaka, Mitsuhiro Aso
  • Patent number: 10026038
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing system including a recognition database generated from information on an article, wherein the article is associated with a home electric device, and the information processing system performs a matching process against the recognition database on the basis of article-use detection information provided by the home electric device with which the article is associated, and identifies an article used in the home electric device. With the configuration described above, on the basis of a recognition database generated from information on a purchased article and on the basis of article-use detection information of a home electric device associated with a purchaser of the purchased article, an article used in the home electric device can be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Morimoto, Yasuhiro Yuki, Masao Nonaka, Kazunori Okubo, Mina Shimizu, Hidekatsu Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 9954957
    Abstract: In a system that centrally manages a terminal device group composed of a plurality of terminal devices in a home, a method allows for: determining an instruction to be transmitted to one of the terminal devices according to an operation status acquired from a different one of the terminal devices; specifying, from among the terminal devices, a terminal device as a transmission destination of the instruction, with use of pieces of connection source information specifying the respective terminal devices in a network, and acquisition times of the pieces of connection source information; and transmitting the instruction to the specified terminal device. Upon receiving the instruction, the specified terminal device performs an operation based on the received instruction. The operation is in coordination with the operation status acquired from the different terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masao Nonaka, Toshihisa Nakano, Ryota Miyazaki, Motoji Ohmori, Masayuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20180017264
    Abstract: A heating power control device includes a storage in which first information is stored, the first information being on a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives second information indicating an absence of a user of the cooking appliance or a presence of the user, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the second information, determines, based on the first information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the first information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masao NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20180007744
    Abstract: A information processor of a terminal apparatus reads from a memory identification information of a food handling apparatus and a table, identifies a function associated with the identification information of the food handling apparatus received by a information receiver in accordance with the table, and starts up the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Masao NONAKA, Takashi MORIMOTO, Yasuhiro YUKI
  • Patent number: 9836521
    Abstract: A device classification method that includes: receiving a first action performed on a first device in the device group, for classifying the first device as belonging to the coordinated operation group; setting, when the first action is received, each of one or more devices in the device group other than the first device to a classifiable state in which the device is classifiable as belonging to the coordinated operation group; receiving a second action performed on a second device in the device group that is set to the classifiable state, for classifying the second device as belonging to the coordinated operation group; and classifying, when the second action is received, the first device and the second device as belonging to the coordinated operation group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Miyazaki, Toshihisa Nakano, Masao Nonaka, Motoji Ohmori, Masayuki Kozuka