Patents Assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20240193273
    Abstract: A threat analysis method includes acquiring system configuration information indicating hardware components of a system for which threat analysis is performed, function allocation information indicating functions allocated to the hardware components, an asset information indicating assets used in each function, and asset input/output information indicating hardware components of input/output sources and input/output destination of the asset; deriving a physical data flow that indicates a flow of the asset corresponding to each hardware component and a logical data flow that indicates a flow of the asset corresponding to each function in accordance with the acquired information and analyzing a likelihood of an attack on the asset and an impact of the attack on the asset for each of the hardware components and each of the functions in accordance with the physical data flow and the logical data flow; and outputting a result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki WADA, Yusuke NEMOTO, Minehisa NAGATA, Hatsuho AOSHIMA
  • Patent number: 12007475
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes distance measuring devices and a hardware processor. The distance measuring devices are provided in a vehicle and emit ultrasonic waves. The distance measuring devices detect an object around the vehicle and obtain distance information indicating a distance to the detected object. The hardware processor determines a scene in which the vehicle is placed. The determination is performed on the basis of the distance information, vehicle speed information, an image of surroundings of the vehicle, and/or a location of the vehicle on a map. The hardware processor performs, on the basis of a scene determination result, setting of a high-sensitivity area where sensitivity for detecting the reflected waves is temporarily increased, a change of an emission interval of the ultrasonic waves, and/or a change of an emission sequence of the ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Okabe, Toshimasa Takagi, Hiroki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11999342
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus that generates a display overhead image including overhead images of each of a vacant parking space and a vehicle and outputs the display overhead image to a display apparatus. The display overhead image includes at least one of an overhead image of the vacant parking space outside of a current viewing angle of a vehicle-mounted camera and an overhead image of the vacant parking space hidden behind a static object as seen from a current position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michio Obora
  • Patent number: 12001691
    Abstract: A memory controller controls access to a Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) including banks. The memory controller includes: a receiver that receives a memory access request from an access master; a selector that selects one of a first issue mode and a second issue mode each related to command issuing; and an issuer that issues a command sequence to the SDRAM in response to the memory access request, in accordance with the one of the first issue mode and the second issue mode which is selected by the selector. The first issue mode is a mode in which an activation command for activating a bank among the banks is issued in continuous clock cycles without dividing the activation command, the activation command being included in the command sequence. The second issue mode is a mode in which the activation command is divided and issued in non-continuous clock cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhito Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12000921
    Abstract: The target detection accuracy of a radar apparatus is improved. The radar apparatus includes signal generation circuitry, which, in operation, generates a first transmission signal and a second transmission signal, and transmission circuitry, which, in operation, transmits a multiplexed signal resulting from code-multiplexing the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, wherein a modulation frequency of the first transmission signal at a first timing is identical to a modulation frequency of the second transmission signal at a second timing that is later than the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Kishigami
  • Patent number: 11993278
    Abstract: A driving assistance device to be installed on a vehicle is provided. The driving assistance device receives stop-behavior information of the vehicle from an automatic-driving control device. Inquiry information for notifying an occupant on whether a possibility of collision between the vehicle and a person is to be excluded from decision-making of the automatic-driving control device is output when a distance between the person and a point at which the person is predicted to end crossing is greater than or equal to a first threshold and a speed of the person is less than or equal to a second threshold. A command to exclude the possibility of collision between the vehicle and the person from the decision-making is output to the automatic-driving control device when a response signal of a response operation is performed by the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Emura
  • Patent number: 11996713
    Abstract: A charging apparatus includes: a receptacle including terminals; a power supply configured to supply a voltage or a current to a first terminal; a first voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of the first terminal; a second voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of a second terminal at one place, two places or three places away from the first terminal; and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the voltage of the second terminal is equal to or higher than a second threshold value during a period in which the voltage of the first terminal is equal to or higher than a first threshold value, and stop supply of the voltage or the current from the power supply to the first terminal in a case in which the voltage of the second terminal is equal to or higher than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takichi, Takashi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 11996076
    Abstract: An active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal input terminal that receives a reference signal outputted by a reference signal source and having a correlation with noise in a space in an automobile, the reference signal source being attached to the automobile; a test signal source that outputs a test signal to a loudspeaker attached to the automobile, the loudspeaker being used to output a canceling sound for reducing the noise; and an anomaly determiner that determines whether the reference signal source has an anomaly, based on the reference signal inputted from the reference signal source to the reference signal input terminal when the test signal is outputted to the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Kotegawa
  • Patent number: 11996079
    Abstract: An active noise reduction device reduces noise in a space in an automobile. The active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal input terminal that receives a reference signal outputted by a reference signal source and having a correlation with the noise, the reference signal source being attached to the automobile; a compressor that compresses and outputs the reference signal received by the reference signal input terminal and having an amplitude greater than or equal to a threshold; an adaptive filter unit that applies an adaptive filter to the reference signal outputted from the compressor to generate a canceling signal to be used to output a canceling sound for reducing the noise; and a filter coefficient updater that updates a coefficient of the adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Tani
  • Patent number: 11987122
    Abstract: An input unit receives a first image that captures a scene in front of a vehicle or a scene in front of a user on board a vehicle at a first point of time. A generator generates a third image showing a result of prediction of the scene in front at the first point of time, based on a second image that captures the scene in front at a second point of time preceding the first point of time. A display controller controls display of information presentation based on a result of comparison between the first image received by the input unit and the third image generated by the generator using a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Kato, Koichi Emura
  • Patent number: 11983856
    Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Hayashi, Toshiya Mori, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Masanaga Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11979683
    Abstract: A video processing device installable in a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes: an imaging device imaging an outside of the vehicle and generating a first video signal; and a display device displaying a first video and a second video, the first video being generated based on the first video signal, the second video being generated by performing first processing on the first video signal. The video processing device includes: a first reception circuit to receive the first video signal from the imaging device; a hardware processor to receive the first video signal from the first reception circuit and perform the first processing; and a first transmission circuit to receive the first video signal from the first reception circuit, receive, from the hardware processor, a second video signal for displaying the second video, and transmit the first/second video signals to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Ohmura, Yuji Matsumoto, Takeshi Shitashimizu
  • Patent number: 11977225
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: recognize a traffic regulation mark provided on a traveling path of a car, the traffic regulation mark indicating traffic regulation; specify a valid regulation range used as a valid range of regulation indicated by the traffic regulation mark based on the recognized traffic regulation mark; and control a display device mounted on the car to display regulations information on a display area, the regulations information including contents of regulation indicated by the recognized traffic regulation mark. The processor is configured to switch displaying the regulations information into another upon satisfying a predetermined condition in a case where the valid regulation range is not specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsui, Masato Noguchi, Nobutoshi Higaki, Kazuomi Kato, Tetsuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11979513
    Abstract: A hands-free apparatus enables a hands-free call by being wirelessly connected to a mobile phone that stores therein history data including incoming call history data and outgoing call history data, and phonebook data. The hands-free apparatus is configured to: perform control of connecting to the mobile phone by a transfer protocol for transferring the history data and the phonebook data; receive the history data and the phonebook data from the mobile phone by the transfer protocol when the mobile phone is present in a wireless connection area; and display an error and display a reconnection screen for receiving an instruction for reconnection by the transfer protocol with the mobile phone from a user, on a display, when connection by the transfer protocol with the mobile phone is disconnected during reception of at least one of the history data and the phonebook data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Shimoda, Yasuo Miura, Satoshi Kawamura, Tomoaki Katada
  • Patent number: 11977709
    Abstract: An input device includes: a plurality of first sensor electrodes; and a plurality of second sensor electrodes. Furthermore, the plurality of first sensor electrodes and the plurality of second sensor electrodes are electrically disconnected. Additionally, the plurality of first sensor electrodes are disposed in a radial arrangement centered on a reference point. Moreover, the plurality of second sensor electrodes are disposed in a concentric circular arrangement centered on the reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kanda, Yoshihiro Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11970117
    Abstract: A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagatomi, Norihiro Imamura
  • Patent number: 11974061
    Abstract: A display processing device is installed in a vehicle. The display processing device includes a hardware processor coupled to a memory. The processor acquires an image obtained by capturing a periphery of the vehicle and generates a bird's-eye view image of the periphery of the vehicle. The processor estimates a movement amount of the vehicle and generates past images whose capturing times are past time points. The past images are generated on the basis of the movement amount of the vehicle and a past bird's-eye view image. The processor generates a display image to be displayed on a display device in the vehicle by combining the past images and the bird's-eye view image. When occurrence of a skid phenomenon of the wheel is detected, the processor generates the display image by performing, on the past images, processing indicating that the skid phenomenon has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Okabe, Takanori Setsu, Toshihiko Hashinaga
  • Patent number: 11970158
    Abstract: A sensor detects an obstacle to a vehicle. An alert device provides alert information for inquiring a passenger to determine whether to continue automatic driving when a distance between the obstacle and an end of the lane is equal to or larger than a width necessary for travel based on a width of the vehicle. An input device receives a passenger's manipulation to continue automatic driving in response the inquiry provided from the alert device. A command output unit outputs a command to ease lane-based restriction on continuation of automatic driving to an automatic driving control device when the manipulation in response is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Emura
  • Patent number: 11968508
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer includes a diaphragm, a tubular first sliding component which surrounds an outer peripheral portion of the diaphragm, a ring-shaped second sliding component which is attached to an outer rim of the diaphragm and slides against an inner peripheral surface of the first sliding component, and a first low-friction membrane interposed between the inner peripheral surface of the first sliding component and an outer peripheral surface of the second sliding component. The first low-friction membrane includes: a swollen body which includes a first polymer chain and a plurality of second polymer chains which branch from the first polymer chain as side chains; and a grease which permeates the second polymer chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11958405
    Abstract: An illumination device is to be mounted on a ceiling of an interior of a vehicle, and the illumination device includes a light source that emits light to illuminate the interior, a light guide that receives the light emitted from the light source and transmits the received light, a first flow path that, in a state in which the illumination device is mounted on the ceiling, extends so as to intersect with an up and down direction of the vehicle and is located at the same position as at least one of the light source or the light guide in the up and down direction, and an air blower that produces an airflow that, having been sucked into the illumination device, travels through the first flow path and is blown out of the illumination device after having traveled through the first flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryota Yoshizumi