Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090013714 | Refrigeration System - A compressor ( | 01-15-2009 |
20090019879 | Refrigeration System - A refrigerant circuit ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090025406 | Refrigerant Quantity Determining System of Air Conditioner - In a multi-type air conditioner, the adequacy of the refrigerant quantity charged in the air conditioner can be accurately determined, even when the refrigerant quantity charged on site is inconsistent, or even when a reference value of the operation state quantity, which is used for determining the adequacy of the refrigerant quantity, fluctuates depending on the pipe length of the refrigerant communication pipe, combination of utilization units, and the difference in the installation height among each unit. In an air conditioner ( | 01-29-2009 |
20090100849 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner includes a pipe volume calculating section and a refrigerant circuit configured by the interconnection of a heat source unit and a utilization unit via a refrigerant communication pipe. The pipe volume calculating section calculates the volume of the refrigerant communication pipe based on an additional charging quantity which is a refrigerant quantity to be additionally charged after the refrigerant circuit is configured by interconnecting the heat source unit and the utilization unit via the refrigerant communication pipe. | 04-23-2009 |
20090116818 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD - Provided is a recording medium which enables special playback processing such as fast-forward/rewind although part of the AV stream recorded therein is transformed. An AV stream, a first EP map, and a second EP map are recorded on the recording medium. In the AV stream, part of the multiplexed stream including a first video stream and a second video stream is transformed; the first EP map indicates one or more entry points of the first video stream; and the second EP map indicates one or more entry points of the second video stream. In the AV stream, TS packets constituting I-pictures, of the first video stream, indicated by every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map, and TS packets constituting I-pictures, of the secondary video stream, indicated by the entry points whose presentation time is closest to the presentation time of any one of the every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map. | 05-07-2009 |
20090126379 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner includes a refrigerant circuit, a refrigerant quantity calculating section, and a refrigerant quantity judging section. The refrigerant circuit is configured by the interconnection of a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an indoor heat exchanger. The refrigerant quantity calculating section uses a relational expression between the refrigerant quantity in each portion of the refrigerant circuit when the refrigerant circuit is divided into a plurality of portions and an operation state quantity of constituent equipment or refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant circuit in order to calculate the refrigerant quantity in each portion from the operation state quantity of constituent equipment or refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant quantity judging section uses the refrigerant quantity in each portion calculated by the refrigerant quantity calculating section in order to judge the adequacy of the refrigerant quantity in the refrigerant circuit. | 05-21-2009 |
20090151377 | Refrigeration System and Refrigeration System Analyzer - In a refrigeration system ( | 06-18-2009 |
20090211282 | Hot water supply system - A hot water supply system ( | 08-27-2009 |
20090272135 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner refrigerant circuit performs a cooling operation in which an outdoor heat exchanger functions as a condenser of the refrigerant compressed in a compressor and an indoor heat exchanger functions as an evaporator of the refrigerant condensed in the outdoor heat exchanger. Further, an outdoor expansion valve is disposed at a position that is at once downstream of the outdoor heat exchanger and upstream of a liquid refrigerant communication pipe in the refrigerant flow direction in the refrigerant circuit in the cooling operation, and shuts off the refrigerant flow. A refrigerant detection unit is disposed upstream of the outdoor expansion valve and detects the amount or the amount-related value of refrigerant accumulated upstream of the outdoor expansion valve. | 11-05-2009 |
20090282849 | Refrigeration System - A refrigeration system ( | 11-19-2009 |
20100154467 | Gas-Liquid Separator and Refrigeration System With Gas-Liquid Seperator - A refrigeration system includes a refrigerant circuit including a gas-liquid separator ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100180612 | REFRIGERATION DEVICE - A refrigeration device includes a compression mechanism, a radiator, a first expansion mechanism, a second expansion mechanism, an evaporator, a first internal heat exchanger, a branch pipe, a third expansion mechanism, and a second internal heat exchanger. The first internal heat exchanger causes heat to be exchanged between refrigerant that flows from the radiator to the inflow side of the first expansion mechanism, and refrigerant that flows from the evaporator to the compression mechanism. The branch pipe branches from a third refrigerant pipe for connecting the radiator and the second expansion mechanism, and merges with the second refrigerant pipe. A third expansion mechanism is provided to the branch pipe. The second internal heat exchanger causes heat to be exchanged between refrigerant that flows out from the first expansion mechanism, and refrigerant that flows out from the third expansion mechanism. | 07-22-2010 |
20100229069 | DRIVE DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, DATA READOUT METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A drive device is provided to promote copyright protection by preventing playback of copied contents, even if unique identification information on a recording medium, used to generate title keys for decrypting encrypted contents, is revealed, and the contents are independently encrypted and copied using this identification information. Identification information unique to a recording medium | 09-09-2010 |
20100229582 | Refrigeration System - A refrigerant circuit ( | 09-16-2010 |
20100244863 | FLUID SENSOR, REFRIGERANT LEAKAGE DETECTION DEVICE, REFRIGERATION SYSTEM, AND REFRIGERANT LEAKAGE DETECTION METHOD - It is possible to detect refrigerant leakage while pinpointing the location where refrigerant leakage is occurring in a refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration system. A fluid sensor ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100275036 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM DEVICE, AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - A memory card and a recording/playback device are provided that are capable of deterring a memory card manufacturer from illicitly storing a same media ID on a plurality of memory cards. A memory card ( | 10-28-2010 |
20100275634 | REFRIGERATION APPARATUS - A refrigerant circuit ( | 11-04-2010 |
20100295841 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A display device of an embodiment of the present invention is a display device of an active matrix type, and includes a display driver supplied with image data included in serial data by serial transmission. The serial data has a first flag for specifying a polarity of voltage of a common electrode added thereto. The display driver generates, in accordance with a timing of a serial clock, a timing signal for a horizontal period for a data signal line driver, and a timing signal for a gate signal line driver. This realizes a display device capable of easily generating, within a driver IC, a timing signal for writing the image data in pixels. | 11-25-2010 |
20100309173 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A display device of at least one embodiment of the present invention is a display device of an active matrix type, and includes a display driver supplied with image data included in serial data by serial transmission. The serial data is provided with a first flag for specifying a polarity of voltage of a common electrode. The display driver extracts the first flag from the serial data in accordance with a timing of a serial clock, and performs display in accordance with the image data, while generating the voltage of the common electrode which voltage has the polarity specified by the first flag extracted. This realizes a display device capable of generating a timing signal for AC common voltage, while having a small circuit. | 12-09-2010 |
20110000234 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND REFRIGERANT QUANTITY DETERMINATION METHOD - An air conditioning apparatus and a refrigerant quantity determination method are provided, whereby a refrigerant quantity can be determined in a simple and accurate manner without compromising the reliability of a compressor. A refrigerant circuit ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110000240 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, an operation controlling device and a liquid refrigerant accumulation determining device. The refrigerant circuit has an accumulator. The operation controlling device performs normal operation control where each device of the heat source unit and the utilization unit are controlled in accordance with operating load of the utilization unit, and refrigerant quantity determination operation control where properness of quantity of the refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit is determined while performing the cooling operation. The liquid refrigerant accumulation determining device determines whether or not liquid refrigerant is accumulating in the accumulator. When it has been determined that liquid refrigerant is accumulating in the accumulator, liquid refrigerant accumulation control is performed to eliminate liquid refrigerant accumulation in the accumulator. | 01-06-2011 |
20110052153 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A problem with high resource-consuming managed copy is that simultaneous execution of the managed copy, which is controlled by a playback device, and a BD-J application, which is recorded on a recording medium, leads to a shortage in resources. Provided is a playback device that enables simultaneous execution of the managed copy and the BD-J application while preventing resource contention therebetween, by imposing an access limitation on the disc medium by causing the BD-J application to assume that the disc medium has been virtually ejected. | 03-03-2011 |
20110088414 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS REFRIGERANT QUANTITY DETERMINATION METHOD AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A refrigerant circuit of an air conditioning apparatus includes a heat source unit, a utilization unit having a utilization-side heat exchanger, and liquid and gas refrigerant connection pipes interconnecting the heat source unit and the utilization unit. The heat source unit has an adjustable capacity compressor, a heat source-side heat exchanger, an expansion mechanism and an accumulator. The refrigerant circuit can perform at least cooling operation. Compressor frequency, degree of superheat, and degree of supercooling are stored in a stable state where the degree of supercooling has been made equal to or greater than a first predetermined value. After a predetermined time period, the degree of supercooling is detected while compressor frequency and degree of superheat become the stored compressor frequency and degree of superheat. The detected degree of supercooling is compared with the stored degree of supercooling to determine adequacy of the quantity of refrigerant inside the refrigerant circuit. | 04-21-2011 |
20110107780 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS REFRIGERANT QUANTITY DETERMINATION METHOD - A refrigerant circuit of an air conditioning apparatus includes a heat source unit, a utilization unit having a utilization-side heat exchanger, an expansion mechanism, and liquid and gas refrigerant connection pipes interconnecting the heat source unit and the utilization unit. The heat source unit has an adjustable capacity compressor, a heat source-side heat exchanger, and a cooling heat source adjusting part to adjust cooling action of a cooling heat source with respect to the heat source-side heat exchanger. The refrigerant circuit can perform at least a cooling operation. A determination of the adequacy of the quantity of the refrigerant charged inside of the refrigerant circuit is made based on a first degree of supercooling corrected value derived by correcting a degree of supercooling or an operating state quantity by at least one of outside air temperature, condensation temperature, and a value obtained by numericizing cooling action. | 05-12-2011 |
20110174059 | LEAKAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, LEAKAGE DIAGNOSIS METHOD, AND REFRIGERATION APPARATUS - A leakage diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing presence/absence of refrigerant leakage in a refrigerant circuit performing a refrigeration cycle, wherein refrigerant leakage diagnosis using the amount of refrigerant exergy loss in a circuit component of the refrigerant circuit is realized. In a leakage diagnosis apparatus, an exergy calculation section calculates a leakage index value which changes in accordance with the amount of refrigerant leaking out of a refrigerant circuit based on the amount of refrigerant exergy loss in the circuit component. Then, a leakage determination section determines whether there is refrigerant leakage in the refrigerant circuit based on the leakage index value calculated by the exergy calculation section. | 07-21-2011 |
20110208967 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COPYING APPARATUS - The management apparatus 105 | 08-25-2011 |
20110219232 | CONTROLLER TO BE INCORPORATED IN STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE, SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE - The present invention is a controller capable of preventing card makers from conducting unauthorized acts. The controller includes: a controller key storage unit | 09-08-2011 |
20110222691 | RECORDING SYSTEM, PLAYBACK SYSTEM, KEY DISTRIBUTION SERVER, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM DEVICE, PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND PLAYBACK METHOD - To protect rights of a copyright owner of digital content, technology is required to prevent digital content on a recording medium from being copied onto another recording medium and played back. A key distribution server securely receives a media unique key from a recording medium device, generates a first title key different for each content, encrypts the generated first title key with the media unique key, encrypts the content with the first title key, and transmits the encrypted first title key to the recording medium device and the encrypted content to the recording device. The recording device securely receives the encrypted content from the key distribution server and the first title key and a second title key from the recording medium device, decrypts the encrypted content with the first title key, encrypts the decrypted content with the second title key, and transmits the encrypted content to the recording medium device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110242078 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THIS - In a display panel having no black matrix in a picture-frame region, occurrence of flicker in the picture-frame region is suppressed. On a substrate constituting a liquid crystal panel, a peripheral electrode is formed in such a way as to cover at least a part of an electrical wiring line arranged in a picture-frame region facing a counter electrode with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. Also, a voltage generating circuit for providing a predetermined potential to the peripheral electrode is provided in the liquid crystal panel. A control signal, which is a binary signal, is provided to the voltage generating circuit from an external source. The voltage generating circuit provides a potential having a predetermined potential difference from a potential provided to the counter electrode, or a potential equal to the potential provided to the counter electrode, to the peripheral electrode according to a value of the control signal. | 10-06-2011 |
20110299679 | CONTROLLER, CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR RECORDING APPARATUS - A controller for embedding in a recording medium apparatus in order to control memory access comprises a unique key generation unit that generates a unique key assigned to the controller, a decryption unit that acquires encrypted key information generated by encrypting a private key for the recording medium apparatus with the unique key, and that decrypts the encrypted key information so acquired with the unique key to generate decrypted information; a private key verification unit that verifies whether or not the decrypted information is the private key, and an encrypted key information write unit that writes the encrypted key information so acquired to memory when the decrypted information is verified to be the private key. | 12-08-2011 |
20120002520 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - A playback device reads a BD-J application from a BD-ROM and runs the BD-J application. The BD-J application causes, by using a socket connection API, the digital copy module of the playback device to execute copying of a protected content for portable terminals to a removable recording medium and setting of a resume playback point on the copied content. The resume playback point is specified by the BD-J application according to playback time information read from the PSR set. | 01-05-2012 |
20120023329 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROLLER, KEY ISSUING AUTHORITY, METHOD FOR JUDGING REVOCATION LIST VALIDITY, AND KEY ISSUING METHOD - A memory card | 01-26-2012 |
20120057441 | SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION APPROPRIATE POSITION SEARCH APPARATUS, AND SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION APPROPRIATE POSITION SEARCH METHOD - A focus error amplitude obtaining device is configured to obtain amplitudes of a focus error signal. An error amplitude difference calculation device is configured to calculate an error amplitude difference which is a difference between the amplitudes of the focus error signal obtained at two different positions in a moving range of a spherical aberration correction device. An appropriate position search control device is in charge of overall control of structural elements; spherical aberration correction device movement control device, focus error amplitude obtaining device, and error amplitude difference calculation device. The appropriate position search control device decides an appropriate position of the spherical aberration correction device based on the error amplitude difference. | 03-08-2012 |
20120092323 | Flip-Flop, Shift Register, Display Drive Circuit, Display Apparatus, And Display Panel - A flip-flop includes: a first, second, third, and fourth transistors; input terminals; and first and second output terminals, the first and second transistors constituting a first CMOS circuit such that gate terminals are connected and drain terminals are connected, the third and fourth transistors constituting a second CMOS circuit such that gate terminals are connected and drain terminals are connected, the first output terminal connected to a gate side of the first CMOS circuit and a drain side of the second CMOS circuit, the second output terminal connected to a gate side of the second CMOS circuit and a drain side of the first CMOS circuit, at least one input transistor included in the group of the first through fourth transistors, a source terminal of the input transistor being connected to one of the input terminals. This can provide a further compact flip-flop. | 04-19-2012 |
20120143765 | CONTENT COPY SYSTEM, CONTENT USAGE APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SERVER, CONTENT USAGE METHOD, CONTENT USAGE PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Provided is a content copy system that distributes main content (e.g., movie) and sub-content using a rental optical medium and properly recovers the usage fee for sub-content separately from the usage fee for main content. The content copy system includes: a content usage apparatus comprising an acquisition unit that acquires usage ID provided thereto in exchange for the usage fee for content, a transmission unit that transmits the acquired usage ID to the management server, and a usage unit that receives a decryption key from the management server and records the decryption key and encrypted content on a recording medium; and a management server comprising a storage unit storing usage IDs and decryption keys in one-to-one correspondence, and a control unit that, when receiving usage ID from the content usage apparatus, transmits a decryption key for content corresponding to the usage ID and performs settlement processing for the usage ID. | 06-07-2012 |
20120287110 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVE METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device, an in-phase signal or a reversed phase signal of a signal supplied to a counter electrode is supplied to a source bus line during a video signal unwritten period, where (i) a video signal written period represents a period during which a voltage is applied to a pixel electrode in accordance with a video signal to be supplied to the source bus line and (ii) the video signal unwritten period represents a period between end of the data written period and start of a next data written period. This allows an electronic potential difference between the source bus line and the counter electrode to be kept constant. It is therefore possible to attain a liquid crystal display device excellent in its display quality by preventing flickers from being generated between a source bus line and a counter electrode. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290834 | KEY DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A terminal device used in a content distribution system including a key distribution device, the terminal device, and a recording medium device, the key distribution device distributing a title key for protecting a content to the recording medium device, the terminal device for controlling writing of the title key on the recording medium device, and the recording medium device recording the content, wherein the key distribution device and the recording medium device comprise a communication unit configured to transfer the title key safely between the key distribution device and the recording medium device without direct involvement by the terminal device, and the terminal device confirms a supported function of the key distribution device and determines whether to permit operations pertaining to the key distribution device in accordance with the supported function. | 11-15-2012 |
20120317661 | TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, CONTENT RECORDING CONTROL SYSTEM, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING PERMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A terminal device recording content onto a recording medium device, a permission to record the content onto the recording medium device being granted by a server device, the terminal device comprising: a generation unit generating a value calculated so as to represent subject content for which permission to record is requested; an information transmission unit requesting the permission from the server device by transmitting information indicating the value generated by the generation unit to the server device; a signature reception unit receiving subject content signature data from the server device, the subject content signature data being transmitted by the server device upon granting the permission; and a recording unit recording the subject content onto the recording medium device as one of plain-text data and encrypted data, as well as the subject content signature data received by the signature reception unit. | 12-13-2012 |
20130054971 | TERMINAL DEVICE, VERIFICATION DEVICE, KEY DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD, KEY DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The terminal device | 02-28-2013 |
20130058628 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording medium enables special playback processing although part of the AV stream recorded therein is transformed. An AV stream, a first EP map, and a second EP map are recorded on the recording medium. In the AV stream, a part of the multiplexed stream including a first video stream and a second video stream is transformed. The first EP map indicates one or more entry points of the first video stream and the second EP map indicates one or more entry points of the second video stream. TS packets constituting I-pictures of the first video stream are indicated by every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map, and TS packets constituting I-pictures of the second video stream are indicated by the entry points whose presentation time is closest to the presentation time of any one of the every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map. | 03-07-2013 |
20130061053 | RECORDING MEDIUM DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - When the terminal device | 03-07-2013 |
20130077791 | REVOCATION LIST GENERATION DEVICE, REVOCATION LIST GENERATION METHOD, AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Provided is a revocation list generation device that can suppress an increase in the amount of data of a revocation list. A revocation list generation device | 03-28-2013 |
20130145481 | RECORDING MEDIUM APPARATUS AND CONTROLLER - A storage unit | 06-06-2013 |
20130176489 | PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Provided is a production apparatus that can produce a distribution content that offers an even richer color tone expression during playback of video. The production apparatus for producing a distribution content including distribution video data is constituted by an original acquisition unit that acquires original video data; a distribution video acquisition unit that acquires the distribution video data, the distribution video data having been generated by conversion of the original video data to a lower gradation; a difference generation unit that generates difference data between the original video data and the distribution video data; and an output unit that outputs the difference data. A playback apparatus plays back the distribution content. | 07-11-2013 |
20130283357 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, MEMORY MEDIA DEVICE AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD - A terminal device | 10-24-2013 |
20130315565 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTENT RECORDING SYSTEM, TITLE KEY RECORDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A terminal device | 11-28-2013 |
20140013453 | DUPLICATION JUDGMENT DEVICE AND DUPLICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Each recording medium device includes a memory and a controller having controller information allocated thereto. Each recording medium device has a medium identifier allocated thereto. A duplication judgment device | 01-09-2014 |
20140108822 | CONTROLLER TO BE INCORPORATED IN STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE, SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STORAGE MEDIUM DEVICE - Provided is a controller capable of preventing card makers from conducting unauthorized acts. The controller includes: a controller key storage unit configured to hold a controller key that has been embedded by a controller manufacturing device in advance; a decryption unit configured to receive encrypted media key information that has been generated by a key issuance center that is authorized and to decrypt the received encrypted media key by using the controller key, the encrypted key information generated through encryption of key information with use of the controller key; and an encryption unit configured to encrypt the decrypted media key again by using an individual key that is unique to the controller. | 04-17-2014 |
20140196134 | VERIFICATION METHOD FOR VERIFYING VALIDITY OF PROGRAM, AND VERIFICATION SYSTEM - A verification method pertaining to the present invention is executed by a terminal device and is used for determining the validity of a control program used for remotely controlling an appliance via a server. Verification data generated from: a unique identifier which is assigned to a user of the terminal device; a parameter which is generated by the server device and is assigned to the control program; and partial data which is at least a portion of the control program, is compared with comparison data generated from: the ID of the user stored in the server device; the parameter; and a portion of a program corresponding to the partial data of the control program. When a mismatch occurs, the remote control of the appliance will be prohibited. | 07-10-2014 |
20140207304 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - Convenience of a control device for controlling an operating state of electrical equipment is enhanced. To achieve the enhanced convenience, a control device for controlling an operating state of electrical equipment includes a receiver, a tough-panel liquid crystal display, and an operation controller. The receiver receives power demand information transmitted from a broadcast station. The liquid crystal display receives user setting information indicating settings for operation of the electrical equipment. The operation controller controls the operating state of the electrical equipment in order to adjust power consumption of the electrical equipment, based on the power demand information received by the receiver and the user setting information input to the liquid crystal display. | 07-24-2014 |
20140237624 | TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, CONTENT RECORDING CONTROL SYSTEM, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING PERMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A terminal device recording content onto a recording medium device, a permission to record the content onto the recording medium device being granted by a server device, the terminal device comprising: a generation unit generating a value calculated so as to represent subject content for which permission to record is requested; an information transmission unit requesting the permission from the server device by transmitting information indicating the value generated by the generation unit to the server device; a signature reception unit receiving subject content signature data from the server device, the subject content signature data being transmitted by the server device upon granting the permission; and a recording unit recording the subject content onto the recording medium device as one of plain-text data and encrypted data, as well as the subject content signature data received by the signature reception unit. | 08-21-2014 |
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20140317410 | NETWORK SERVICE INTERMEDIATION METHOD AND INTERMEDIATION SYSTEM - An intermediation method used in an intermediation system that includes an intermediation device determining a permission for application services requiring user authentication on a network, where in response to a user request, a first account used for a first service and a second account used for a second service, and a registration request for using the linking service linking the first application service and the second application service are associated with each other, when the two accounts are valid, as accounts usable in a linking service, an association between the first and second services is stored in the intermediation device, and when the user makes a request to use the linked services, that use is controlled by a query to the intermediation device regarding whether the account is associated as able to use the linking service. | 10-23-2014 |
20140347173 | METHOD USED IN A SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING AN APPLIANCE - A method used in a remote control system for remotely controlling an appliance by execution of a remote control command contained in a control program stored in an operation terminal device, by which: a first identifier is acquired at a first time point (S | 11-27-2014 |