Power storage management system, information processing apparatus, power storage apparatus, method of operating power storage management system, and method of operating information processing apparatus

• US 10,484,961 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2018
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Noma, Hideki, Ono, Tomoyuki, Kawashima, Hiroshi, Tanaka, Kayoko, Honjo, Ryoki, Tajima, Shigeru, Yamazaki, Daisuke, Sato, Kazumi, Ishibashi, Yoshihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnes-Bullock, Crystal J
• Application Number:
  US15/865,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20180129236A1
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/66 Regulating electric power
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1615 Switching on; Switching off, e.g. remotely battery saving circuits associated with selective call operation H04W52/00; details of power consumption reduction in a PLL, H03L7/0802, H03L7/14, H03L2207/08, H03L2207/18; muting amplifiers by gain control see H03G3/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/18 Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

In one example embodiment, a power storage management system includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus and an information processing apparatus. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus is configured to, using a mobile communication network (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications or the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), communicate with the power storage apparatus.

Claims

1. A power storage management system, comprising:

a camera mounted to a power storage apparatus and configured to take images;

the power storage apparatus comprising

first information indicative of a position of the power storage apparatus; and

second information indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus; and

an information processing apparatus configured to communicate, using wireless communications, with the power storage apparatus to acquire the first information, the second information and the images taken by the camera from the power storage apparatus.

2. A power storage management system of claim 1, wherein:

the information processing apparatus displays a location of the power storage apparatus and displays the images taken by the camera mounted on the power storage apparatus.

3. A power storage management system of claim 2, wherein:

the location of the power storage apparatus is the present location or the movement route of the power storage apparatus on a map.

4. A power storage management system of claim 1, wherein:

the information processing apparatus is configured to register the power storage apparatus.

5. A power storage apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a camera configured to take images;

a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

using wireless communications, communicate with an information processing apparatus, wherein the power storage apparatus includes first information indicative of a position of the power storage apparatus and second information indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus; and

provide the first information, the second information and the images taken by the camera from the power storage apparatus to the information processing apparatus using the wireless communications.

6. The power storage apparatus of claim 5, wherein the wireless communications including communicating over at least one of a wireless LAN, Bluetooth.

7. The power storage apparatus of claim 5, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor further cause the processor to

acquire power from at least one of a power generating apparatus or a power supplying network;

and

supply the acquired power to an appliance.

8. The power storage apparatus of claim 5, wherein

(a) the power storage apparatus includes first power storage apparatus information,

(b) the power storage apparatus has an operation state, and

(c) the instructions when executed by the processor further cause the processor to, in response to a change in the operation state, transmit the power storage apparatus information to the information processing apparatus.

9. The power storage apparatus of claim 5, wherein

(a) the power storage apparatus includes power storage apparatus information, and

(b) instructions when executed by the processor further cause the processor to

(ii) determine whether a specific situation has occurred, and

(ii) in response to determining that the specific situation has occurred, transmit the power storage apparatus information to the information processing apparatus.

10. A method of operating a power storage management system that includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus and an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

causing the information processing apparatus to, using wireless communications, to communicate with the power storage apparatus to acquire first information, second information, and images taken by a camera from the power storage apparatus to the information processing apparatus,

wherein the power storage apparatus includes the first information indicative of a position of the power storage apparatus and the second information indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus.

11. A method of operating an information processing apparatus including instructions, the method comprising:

causing a processor to execute the instructions to, using wireless communications, communicate with a power storage apparatus to acquire first information, second information and images taken by a camera from a power storage apparatus to the information processing apparatus, wherein the first information is indicative of a position of the power storage apparatus and the second information is indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus.

12. A method of operating a power storage apparatus including instructions, the method comprising:

causing a processor to execute the instructions to, using wireless communications, communicate with an information processing apparatus to provide first information, second information, and images taken by a camera from a power storage apparatus to the information processing apparatus, wherein

the first information is indicative of a position of the power storage apparatus and the second information is indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus.