Abstract: In one embodiment, a temperature management device is provided with a plurality of battery cells, power sensor(s) each of which detects the charge/discharge power of battery cell(s) at a prescribed time interval, a power representative value calculation section which calculates a power representative value of a time lapse data of the charge/discharge power(s) detected by the power sensor, temperature sensor(s) each of which detects the temperature of battery cell(s) at a prescribed time interval, a temperature representative value calculation section which calculates a temperature representative value of a time lapse data of temperature(s) detected by the temperature sensor, a radiation characteristic identification section which identifies a radiation characteristic from the temperature representative value and the power representative value, and an air conditioning setting calculation section which calculates an air conditioning setting for the battery cell(s) corresponding to the power representative value

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery evaluation device includes a charging/discharging controller and a deterioration evaluator. The charging/discharging controller acquires a charging/discharging power command value, performs control to charge and discharge an energy storage device according to the charging/discharging power command value, sets a dead zone in which the charging and discharging is not performed when an absolute value of the charging/discharging power command value is equal to or smaller than a threshold, and performs control to stop the charging and discharging when the charging/discharging command value enters the dead zone. The deterioration evaluator measures a response characteristic of a voltage of the energy storage device at a time when the charging and discharging is stopped from a state in which the energy storage device is charged and discharged and evaluates a deterioration state of the energy storage device on a basis of the response characteristic.

Abstract: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Abstract: A guide route matching with the characteristic of vehicle control is searched to reduce the frequency at which re-search of a guide route is executed. A navigation device 50 includes an information input unit 582 for acquiring a control condition for controlling the traveling of the vehicle 2 as control characteristic information from an autonomous driving control device 30, and a route searching unit 583 for searching a guide route for the vehicle 2 satisfying the control condition based on the control characteristic information acquired by the information input unit 582. Accordingly, the guide route matching with the control characteristic of the vehicle 2 can be searched.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a display unit displaying information on a display screen, an operation unit including a text input key, and a control unit. The control unit displays text in response to input from the operation unit in a state of displaying an initial screen on the display screen, shows an application using text to a user for selection, starts up the application in accordance with the user's selection, and executes the application, using the text inputted from the operation unit.

Abstract: An air conditioning control device as an aspect of the present invention includes a processor configured to execute a program to provide at least a control period calculator and a control instructor. The control period calculator calculates, based on control history about control over an air conditioning device and operation history about operations of the air conditioning device, a control period during which the control is maintained. The control instructor gives an instruction to the air conditioning device to cause the control to be maintained until the control period elapses after start of the control.

Abstract: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a display unit displaying information on a display screen, an operation unit including a text input key, and a control unit. The control unit displays text in response to input from the operation unit in a state of displaying an initial screen on the display screen, shows an application using text to a user for selection, starts up the application in accordance with the user's selection, and executes the application, using the text inputted from the operation unit.

Abstract: A recommendation apparatus according to the embodiments of the present invention includes a history acquirer, a matching information calculator, and a recommender. The history acquirer acquires an activity history of a user. The matching information calculator calculates first matching information for the activity history of a pre-condition defined based on an activity of the user, regarding a control rule including the pre-condition and a post-condition indicating content of control performed for a device, the control rule defining to perform the control indicated by the post-condition when the pre-condition is established. The recommender generates recommendation information of the control rule for the user according to the first matching information.

Abstract: An active balun circuit includes a CG transistor having a source terminal thereof connected to an input terminal and a gate terminal thereof grounded, a CS transistor having a gate terminal thereof connected to the input terminal and a source terminal thereof grounded, an asymmetrical transformer, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The asymmetrical transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary coil includes a first inductor connected to the CG transistor and a second inductor connected to the CS transistor. The secondary coil includes a third inductor associated with the first inductor and a fourth inductor associated with the second inductor. The first output terminal outputs a first signal generated at the third inductor, and the second output terminal outputs a second signal generated at the fourth inductor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage-battery evaluation device includes: a data generator and a deterioration evaluator. The data generator generates a plurality of data items including charge amounts and voltage values of an energy storage device based on current values and the voltage values measured from the energy storage device, the energy storage device being subjected to charge/discharge control in accordance with charge/discharge command values. The deterioration evaluator evaluates a deterioration state of the energy storage device based on a distribution of the voltage values included in the data items the charge amounts of which belong to a first charge-amount range when it is detected that a distribution of first charge/discharge command values satisfies a predetermined condition, the first charge/discharge command values being the charge/discharge command values at which the data items the charge amounts of which belong to the first charge-amount range is obtained.

Abstract: An operational parameter value learning device according to one embodiment learns an operational parameter value of a device for each of users. A calculator is configured to calculate a duration time during which the device is estimated to have operated at each operational parameter value for each of the users based on history information including at least one of: behavior states of the users, an environmental state, and an operational state of the device. A selector is configured to calculate a continuation probability feature amount according to which the device continues an operation at each operational parameter value in each duration time for each of the users on a basis of the duration time calculated by calculator and selects the operational parameter value based on the calculated continuation probability feature amount.

Abstract: An active balun circuit includes a CG transistor having a source terminal thereof connected to an input terminal and a gate terminal thereof grounded, a CS transistor having a gate terminal thereof connected to the input terminal and a source terminal thereof grounded, an asymmetrical transformer, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The asymmetrical transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary coil includes a first inductor connected to the CG transistor and a second inductor connected to the CS transistor. The secondary coil includes a third inductor associated with the first inductor and a fourth inductor associated with the second inductor. The first output terminal outputs a first signal generated at the third inductor, and the second output terminal outputs a second signal generated at the fourth inductor.

Abstract: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Abstract: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Abstract: A collecting unit collects detection information of human bodies present in plural rooms. The calculating unit calculates movement probabilities at which at least one of individual persons moves from one of two rooms to the other and from the other room to the one room, based on a time difference between human body detections for two rooms and a parameter depending on a movement distance between the two rooms. An updating unit calculates, for each of the rooms, first and second movement probabilities of each of the individual persons, each being a movement probability from the room to each of the other rooms and being a movement probability from each of the other rooms to the room, and updates the in-room probability of each of the individual persons for each of the rooms based on the first and second movement probabilities.

Abstract: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a display unit displaying information on a display screen, an operation unit including a text input key, and a control unit. The control unit displays text in response to input from the operation unit in a state of displaying an initial screen on the display screen, shows an application using text to a user for selection, starts up the application in accordance with the user's selection, and executes the application, using the text inputted from the operation unit.

Abstract: A battery-less multi-rotation encoder including detection coils with the Barkhausen effect includes a rotation detection mechanism and a signal processing circuit. The detection coils generate voltage pulses with different positive and negative signs, and transmit them to the signal processing circuit, and the signal processing circuit includes a controller and an adder. The controller can set states of the detection coils to be High or Low and to maintain them at High or Low, based on the positive and negative signs of the respective voltage pulses and no voltage pulse being generated therefrom. The controller is configured to store the states of the respective detection coils in a memory. The adder can update a number of rotations according to the changes in the states of the respective detection coils. The signal processing circuit can determine the rotational angle of a rotational shaft within about 1/4 rotation unit.