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20090044227 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a program information display controller configured to display recommendation information which relates to a recorded program, which is obtained in advance, and which is introduced in the program, and configured to display, when the recommendation information is searchable by web searching, a notification describing that the recommendation information is searchable by the web searching along with the recommendation information, and a search display controller configured to determine at least one search site in accordance with a type of the recommendation information when a user selects the searchable recommendation information and display a search dialog including the determined at least one search site as at least one candidate. | 02-12-2009 |
20090288119 | Information receiving apparatus, information receiving method, program, and broadcast system - Disclosed herein is an information receiving apparatus including an EPG processing section configured to acquire electric program guide information (EPG information) from broadcast waves in a suitably timed manner before storing the acquired EPG information; an iEPG information acquisition section configured to acquire Internet-derived EPG information (iEPG information) from the Internet; and a reservation system section configured to let programs be reserved for recording using time designations based on the iEPG information. | 11-19-2009 |
20100131901 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed. | 05-27-2010 |
20110055281 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - There is provided an information processing apparatus which includes a content collection unit which collects content, an output control unit which simultaneously provides main content and sub-content, and a content group creation control unit which sets a creation logic and an algorithm by using the algorithm based on the creation logic, a content group in which content to be recommended for the user is assembled from a plurality of content collected by the content collection unit. The content group creation control unit creates a plurality of content groups. The plurality of content groups include a content group created based on a creation logic related to the main content and a content group created based on a creation logic related to the sub content. The output control unit causes the plurality of content groups to be displayed to the user. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055718 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user. | 03-03-2011 |
20120216148 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed. | 08-23-2012 |
20140137047 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140257582 | ELECTRICITY DEMAND REGULATING SYSTEM AND DEMAND ADJUSTMENT EXECUTIVE SYSTEM - There is provided an electricity demand regulating system which estimates a load amount of an individual equipment whose measurement information can not be acquired and improves estimation accuracy of an electricity demand amount in a power system. The electricity demand regulating system for managing electric energy used by a consumer according to an operation state of the power system includes a storage part to store measurement information of a consumer equipment, and a generation part to generate a load pattern indicating a load amount tendency from the measurement information of the equipment stored in the storage part. A load amount of an equipment whose measurement information is not stored in the storage part is estimated from the load pattern generated by the generation part, and an electricity demand amount of the consumer is obtained based on the measurement information and the estimated load amount. | 09-11-2014 |
20140327309 | ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND REGULATING SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND REGULATING DEVICE, AND ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND REGULATING METHOD - A power demand regulation system has a power demand regulation device that regulates the load applied to equipment of an electrical power system by a load apparatus operating by means of power from the electrical power system, which supplies power to consumers. When regulating the load to the equipment, the power demand regulation device selects a load apparatus as the subject of a request for an alteration of operating state on the basis of by-apparatus load information, which is information of each load apparatus, and a regulation target value, which is the amount of load that is to be regulated, and, in the period from the start to the end of regulation, executes a plurality of times the outputting of an alteration request that requests the alteration of the operating state of the selected load apparatus. | 11-06-2014 |
20140350741 | DEMAND REGULATING SYSTEM, DEMAND REGULATING APPARATUS, AND CONSUMPTION DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - The priority of a demand regulating control for a device is changed in accordance with a simple operation by a consumer. A demand regulating system has an operation unit that selects from among a plurality of consumption devices, on the basis of priority information and a regulating quantity, a plurality of control-target devices, which are targeted for demand regulating control reducing consumption of the resource. A control unit executes the demand regulating control on the basis of a control instruction; and an input unit receives a first operation by the consumer, and transmits first request information requesting a change in the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices, to the operation unit in accordance with the first operation. The operation unit, upon receiving the first request information, specifies the plurality of control-target devices, and changes the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information. | 11-27-2014 |
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20090174369 | Battery Management System - A battery management system which can output a battery state enabling optimum charge and discharge control to be performed even when a temperature variation occurs among individual single cells. A plurality of temperature sensors measure temperature values of a battery. A measurement unit measures a voltage and a current of the battery. A maximum/minimum temperature selection unit in a calculation unit determines a maximum temperature and a minimum temperature from the temperature values measured by the temperature sensors. An available power calculation unit calculates respective values of maximum available charge and discharge powers or maximum available charge and discharge currents of the battery corresponding to the maximum temperature and the minimum temperature based on the voltage and the current of the battery. A selection unit selects and outputs smaller maximum available charge and discharge powers or smaller maximum available charge and discharge currents from the respective values of the maximum available charge and discharge powers or the maximum available charge and discharge currents of the battery corresponding to the maximum temperature and the minimum temperature, which are calculated by the calculation unit. | 07-09-2009 |
20110161131 | Energy Saving Assistance System and Energy Saving Assistance Program - The present invention provides an energy saving assistance technique for creating a plan for selecting an energy saving solution to continuously clear a target value of energy saving in accordance with the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy and a time when to introduce this selected solution with consideration through plural bases in total, in accordance with users need such as priority order of base selection. The present invention includes a user setting section for setting users need including a target value such as an annual rate of energy saving for every year and a priority order of base selection when carrying out an energy saving solution, an elemental effect calculation section for calculating an energy saving effect due to replacement with energy saving equipment (energy saving solution) for every base, and a consolidation for creating and outputting, based on the energy saving effect calculated for every base, an energy saving plan that continuously clears a target such as an annual rate of energy saving for every year and satisfies the users need. | 06-30-2011 |
20120035802 | LEARNING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, STATE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, AND STATE LEARNING DEVICE FOR WORKING MACHINE - A learning diagnostic system for a working machine is capable of making a fault diagnosis of the working machine universally relative to various types of sensor information, and preventing a failure in the working machine by enabling a fault diagnosis even in a transient operating state that represents a transitional state between operating states.
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20130054040 | Load Leveling System of Power System - It is an object of the present invention to provide a load leveling system of a power system capable of attaining load leveling in a distribution substation unit and a method thereof. Disclosed is a load leveling system of a power system with a controller having a major customer and lower transforming apparatus, and with a customer connected to the lower transforming apparatus via a low-voltage line. The system also has a communication unit between the customer and its own system, and control use time zones of devices within the customer; an electric demand prediction unit, and a first load leveling processing unit. By employing such an arranged system, it becomes possible to provide a load leveling system of a power system capable of realizing load leveling of both a distribution substation unit and a pole transformer unit. | 02-28-2013 |
20130289785 | POWER DEMAND REGULATING APPARATUS, POWER REGULATING NETWORK SYSTEM, AND POWER REGULATING METHOD - A power demand regulating apparatus is provided which can efficiently achieve the purpose of peak shift in a power system and which can reduce the total incentive which an operator of a demand regulation server distributes to consumers having cooperated with a request for regulating an amount of energy to be used. A demand regulation server ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130311236 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT - Energy demand in an entire community including multiple demanders is properly predicted and energy consumption thereof is properly controlled. Every day, some demanders are selected from the community and a request to adjust energy consumption for the following day is sent to the selected demanders. To decide a content of the request, energy demand for the following day is predicted. In this case, demanders which did not receive a request on past days are specified, and demand in the community for the following day is predicted based on the actual energy consumption by those demanders on the past days. | 11-21-2013 |
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20120152640 | INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE - In a work vehicle, a controller controls the displacement of a hydraulic motor by electronically controlling a motor displacement control part. When an inching operation member is being operated, the controller performs inching control for setting the minimum displacement of the hydraulic motor to a greater value in correspondence with a lower pilot pressure detected by a pilot pressure detector. | 06-21-2012 |
20120152641 | WORK VEHICLE - In a work vehicle, a cutoff-pressure-setting part sets cutoff pressure at a predetermined first pressure value when vehicle speed is greater than a predetermined first speed threshold, and at a second pressure value greater than the first pressure value when vehicle speed is equal to or less than a second speed threshold less than the first speed threshold. When the vehicle is moving forward and the forward/backward switch lever is in forward motion position, or when he vehicle is moving backward and the forward/backward switch lever is in backward motion position, the second speed threshold is set to a predetermined first value. When the vehicle is moving forward and the forward/backward switch lever is in backward motion position or when the vehicle is moving backward and the forward/backward switch lever is in forward motion position, the second speed threshold is set to a second value lower than the first value. | 06-21-2012 |
20120152642 | WORK VEHICLE - In the work vehicle, a controller is configured to control a motor displacement control part via feedback control so that the driving hydraulic pressure detected by a driving hydraulic pressure detector approaches a predetermined target driving hydraulic pressure. The controller is configured to perform low temperature motor displacement limitation control, which reduces the maximum displacement of a hydraulic motor, when the temperature of the hydraulic fluid detected by the fluid temperature detector is lower than a predetermined temperature. | 06-21-2012 |
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20120304744 | UREA QUALITY DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - A urea quality diagnosis system capable of accurately diagnosing a quality of an aqueous urea solution in a urea tank. A concentration and a level L of an aqueous urea solution inside a urea tank | 12-06-2012 |
20130055802 | COMPETENCE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM FOR UREA WATER TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A competence diagnosis system for a urea water temperature sensor that can limit a diagnosis during a cold start. The system includes a cold start condition determination unit that obtains a difference between an engine cooling water temperature and an ambient temperature, a difference between an engine cooling water temperature and a fuel temperature, and a difference between an ambient temperature and a fuel temperature by using an engine cooling water temperature, an ambient temperature, and a fuel temperature measured immediately after engine starting, and allows a diagnosis by the competence diagnosis unit when the temperature differences are less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. | 03-07-2013 |
20130055803 | COMPETENCE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM FOR UREA WATER TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A competence diagnosis system for a urea water temperature sensor that can prevent a misdiagnosis when urea water is replenished in a urea tank. The system includes a urea water level condition determination unit that stores a urea water level, which is measured by a level sensor provided in the urea tank, in a storage unit immediately before key-off, obtains a level difference between the urea water level stored in the storage unit and a current urea water level after key-on, and allows a diagnosis by the competence diagnosis unit through temperature comparison when the level difference is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060486 | NOX SENSOR DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION SYSTEM - An NOx sensor diagnosis apparatus, which diagnoses an NOx sensor provided in an exhaust pipe to detect a concentration of NOx in exhaust gas, includes a calculation value operating unit to acquire a calculation value of the concentration of NOx in the exhaust gas based on an actuation state of an engine, an error determining unit to determine that the sensor is erroneous when a difference between the calculation value and the detection value of the concentration of NOx detected by the sensor is larger than a determination threshold value, and a determination threshold value setting unit to set the determination threshold value based on a temperature of water for cooling the engine, an atmospheric pressure, and an outdoor temperature. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064716 | SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION SYSTEM - A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that can detect whether or not a float is stuck even where a water level sensor that detects a liquid level in a stepwise manner is used, including: an urea injection quantity integrating unit that integrates an injected quantity of urea to calculate an urea injection quantity integrated value; an integrated value resetting unit that, if a detected value from detection means changes, resets the urea injection quantity integrated value; and an abnormality determination unit that, if the urea injection quantity integrated value exceeds a predetermined threshold value for determination, determines a level sensor as having an abnormality. | 03-14-2013 |
20130104638 | NOx SENSOR DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |