Inventory of Panasonic's core smart home patents for those years

No matter whether it is the global smart home patent application data or enterprise layout, Japan cannot ignore its existence, and traditional home appliances have contributed to the efforts in the intelligent process. As a leading Japanese home appliance company and an important smart home patent applicant, its patent applications cover a number of technical areas, including smart lighting, smart kitchens, smart heating, smart air conditioners, and smart washing machines. Matsushita’s patent applications are even greater. Ranked in the top three global rankings. Below we further analyze it.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) was founded in Osaka by Koji Matsushita, founded in 1918. Its extensive product line, in addition to home appliances, also produces digital electronic products, such as DVD, DV (digital cameras), MP3 players, digital cameras, LCD TVs, notebook computers. In addition, it has also expanded into electronic components, electrical parts (such as socket covers), semiconductors, etc., and indirect and direct investment in hundreds of companies. At the beginning of its establishment, the name was "Matsushita Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd." and it was an electric lamp socket. In 1951, Matsushita fortunately helped the United States and opened Panasonic’s Panasonic Panasonic’s market in the United States. As a result, Panasonic had a breakthrough in growth from the 1950s to the 1970s. On October 1, 2008, the company officially changed its name from Matsushita Electric Industrial to Panasonic. At the same time, the National trademark was repealed in 2009 and Panasonic was used in unison. In China and other Greater China regions, Panasonic continued to use the name.

Inventory of Panasonic's core smart home patents for those years

Panasonic is a traditional household appliance company. Its strong technical strength in smart home appliances plays a pivotal role in global applicants in both residential and household appliances. In addition, it has impressive results in intelligent control. Here we will simply look at "Panasonic's core smart home patents for those years."

1. Device for controlling home terminal

This is a patent filed by Matsushita in September 2003 and is a PCT application. At the same time, it also filed a patent application in Japan, the United States, China, Korea, the European Patent Office, Australia, India, and Taiwan. The patent is a home terminal device for sending and receiving packet data from a router connected to an external network, the external network is connected with a server device, and the home terminal device is connected with the router through a home network.

2. Remote operating system and remote operation method

This is a patent that Matsushita applied for in May 2009. It is also part of the PCT application and is filed in Japan, the United States, and China. The patent is a remote operating system for remotely operating at least one network appliance that transmits its own identification information via wireless signals, the remote operating system comprising a remote operating device and a network appliance.

3. Automatic control of home activities using speech recognition and natural language

This is a patent that Panasonic requested in mid-May 2002. At the same time, it filed a patent application in Japan, the United States, China, Germany, and the European Patent Office. The patent is an information screening system for use in a home network having a plurality of home devices with which it communicates.

4. Residential area home automation system

This is a patent that Matsushita applied for in December 2002, and filed patent applications for the same family in Japan, China, and Taiwan. This patent is a home-use home automation system for a residential area, which is characterized by having a housing device in each house of a residential area and controlling a control device of the housing device by outputting at least a signal for controlling the housing device.

5. Equipment Management System

This is a patent that Matsushita applied for in October 2009, and filed patent applications in Japan, the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, India, and Canada. The patent is a device management system coexisting with a device control system in which the device control server controls the load of the device.

6. Information Appliance System

This is a patent that Matsushita applied for in January 2005. It belongs to the PCT application and is filed in the United States and China. The patent is an information appliance system.

7. Mobile phone short message service system for remotely controlling network home appliances

This is a patent filed by Matsushita in March 2005. It belongs to the PCT application and is filed in China at the same time. The patent is a system for remotely controlling networked home appliances using a short message service of a mobile phone.