Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
  • Patent number: 11949869
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: (i) in a first case where a layered structure is generated by classifying three-dimensional points into layers: encoding attribute information for the three-dimensional points based on the layered structure; and generating a bitstream including layer information utilized for the generation of the layered structure; and (ii) in a second case where the three-dimensional points are not classified: encoding attribute information for the three-dimensional points; and generating a bitstream not including the layer information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11949611
    Abstract: Provided are a frame configuring unit configured to configure a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data, and a transmitter which transmits the frame. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, a second period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division, a third period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by frequency division, and a fourth period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division and frequency division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11949705
    Abstract: An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa, Junichi Tsurumi, Jun Anzai
  • Publication number: 20240103161
    Abstract: This acoustic active sensor device comprises: a camera unit; an acoustic actuator having a sound generation unit that generates a sound; and a sound detection unit having a plurality of microphones which detect a reflective sound of the sound generated by the sound generation unit. The sound generation unit and the sound detection unit are disposed around the outer circumference of the camera unit and are centered thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240105174
    Abstract: A voice recognition device includes an estimation unit that compares a plurality of pieces of registration voice data stored in a database with input voice data uttered by a speaker who gets on a mobile body to estimate a registration command corresponding to the input command, a presentation unit that presents an estimation result, a second acquisition unit that acquires an error instruction indicating that the estimation result is an error, a determination unit that, in a case where the error instruction is acquired, determines a correct command corresponding to the input command based on an operation by the speaker, and a database management unit that stores the correct command and the input voice data in the database in association with each other
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takahiro KAMAI, Katsunori DAIMO, Misaki DOI, Kousuke ITAKURA
  • Patent number: 11943243
    Abstract: In an anomaly detection method that determines whether each frame in observation data constituted by a collection of frames sent and received over a communication network system is anomalous, a difference between a data distribution of a feature amount extracted from the frame in the observation data and a data distribution for a collection of frames sent and received over the communication network system, obtained at a different timing from the observation data, is calculated. A frame having a feature amount for which the difference is predetermined value or higher is determined to be an anomalous frame. An anomaly contribution level of feature amounts extracted from the frame determined to be an anomalous frame is calculated, and an anomalous payload part, which is at least one part of the payload corresponding to the feature amount for which the anomaly contribution level is at least the predetermined value, is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Daiki Tanaka, Makoto Yamada, Hisashi Kashima, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11943233
    Abstract: An electronic control unit is connected to a network in an in-vehicle network system. The electronic control unit includes a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The first control circuit is connected to the network via the second control circuit. The second control circuit performs a first determination process on a frame to determine conformity of the frame with a first rule. Upon determining that the frame conforms to the first rule, the second control circuit transmits the frame to the first control circuit. The first control circuit performs a second determination process on the frame to determine conformity of the frame with a second rule. The second rule is different from the first rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Jun Anzai, Yoshihiko Kitamura, Masato Tanabe, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryota Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11943788
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver, which, in operation, receives time unit information related to an amount of an uplink time resource per a time unit, and receives a number of repetitions over a plurality of the time units, wherein the time unit includes a downlink time resource for a downlink signal and the uplink time resource for a response signal. The amount of the uplink time resource is expressed as a fixed number of consecutive symbols that remains the same number over the plurality of the time units over which the response signal is repeatedly transmitted. The terminal includes a transmitter, which, in operation, repeatedly transmits the response signal over the plurality of the time units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Ayako Horiuchi, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11943806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure, performed between a user equipment and radio base station. The UE is configured with at least one numerology scheme, each associated with parameters partitioning time-frequency radio resources into resource scheduling units differently. The UE is configured with logical channels each of which is associated with at least one numerology scheme. A receiver of the UE receives from the radio base station an uplink scheduling assignment, which indicates uplink radio resources usable by the UE. A processor of the UE determines for which numerology scheme the received uplink scheduling assignment is intended based on the received uplink scheduling assignment. The processor performs a logical channel prioritization procedure by allocating the assigned uplink radio resources to the configured logical channels and by prioritizing those logical channels that are associated with the numerology scheme for which the uplink scheduling assignment is intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11943764
    Abstract: A user equipment, a base station and respective methods are provided. The user equipment receives a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) config information element (IE) in form of radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the PUSCH config IE being applicable to a particular bandwidth part. The user equipment configures a table which is defined by a PUSCH time domain resource allocation list IE carried in the received PUSCH config IE, the table comprising rows, at least one row comprising a first set of values related to allocated time-domain resources for a plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The user equipment receives downlink control information (DCI) signaling carrying a time-domain resource assignment filed with value m, wherein the value m provides a row index m+1 to the RRC configured table. The user equipment determines allocated time-domain resources for the plurality of PUSCH transmissions based on the index of the slot carrying the received DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Naoya Shibaike, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hongchao Li
  • Patent number: 11941011
    Abstract: A provision method provides plurality of pieces of advice pertaining to household appliances of a user on a tablet 103. A priority of each piece of advice is changed by determining whether an advice-specific standard for the user the reference that piece of advice is met by an auto-log or overall user information. The pieces of advice are displayed in accordance with determination results. The format of display according to determination results is a list of advice sorted by priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshitake, Hideo Umetani, Kentaro Nakai, Keigo Aso, Shunsuke Kuhara
  • Publication number: 20240096216
    Abstract: A control method including, by a computer: acquiring schedule information indicating movement plans of a plurality of mobile bodies capable of short-range wireless communication with each other, when detecting that state information indicating a current state of a first mobile body among the plurality of mobile bodies is unable to be received from the first mobile body, searching for a second mobile body planned to move to a first area where the first mobile body is staying based on the schedule information; and transmitting delivery data for the first mobile body to the second mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Masahiro TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11936893
    Abstract: An encoder that includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry encodes a slice into one or more data access regions in a variable length encoding process. The circuitry encodes one or more offsets into a slice header, based on a flag written into a sequence header and a total number of the one or more data access regions. The one or more offsets each specify a head position of a corresponding one of the one or more data access regions in a bitstream. When the flag indicates that the one or more offsets are to be encoded and the total number is at least two, the one or more offsets are encoded. The flag switches between encoding and not encoding the one or more offsets regardless of whether the total number is at least two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11936886
    Abstract: An encoder includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry, for each of temporal sub-layers for temporal scalability different from spatial scalability, stores first parameters into buffering period supplemental enhancement information (SEI) and encodes the first parameters. The first parameters present initial delays in timing to extract data from a coded picture buffer (CPB). The circuitry stores a second parameter into the buffering period SEI and encodes the second parameter. The second parameter indicates a total number of the temporal sub-layers. A value of the second parameter is equal to a value of a third parameter that is encoded into a sequence parameter set and indicates a total number of the temporal sub-layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11937259
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of enhancing signal reception performance. In the base station (100), a control unit (101) generates data signals in unit of fixed length. A transmission unit (107) performs repetitive transmission of a transmission signal including at least one of the data signals in unit of fixed length in a resource that can be set to a plurality of data lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomoya Nunome, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11937237
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user device, a base station, a method for data transmission/reception by a user device, and a method for data reception/transmission by a base station. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives a parameter defining a rule for assigning to ports respective resources for carrying reference signals, generates, based on a mapping known to the user device and the base station, a set of layer-to-port mapping combinations, and receives, from the base station, control information indicating one of the set of layer-to-port mapping combinations which is to be applied for data transmission and/or reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11936887
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry, and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, for each of a plurality of sub-bitstreams having mutually different frame rates, encodes identification information into a header of a bitstream including the plurality of sub-bitstreams, the identification information indicating a temporal ID that is an identifier of a temporal layer related to a temporal scalability and corresponds to the sub-bitstream, and encodes level information indicating a conformance level of the sub-bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11936910
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes encoding information of a current node included in an N-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In the encoding, first information is encoded, the first information indicating a range for one or more referable neighboring nodes among neighboring nodes spatially neighboring the current node, and the current node is encoded with reference to a neighboring node within the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang, Chung Dean Han, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11936846
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding a first flag indicating whether a node having a parent node different from a parent node of a current node is to be referred to in encoding of the current node included in an n-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data; selecting a coding table from N coding tables according to occupancy states of neighboring nodes of the current node, and performing arithmetic encoding on information of the current node using the coding table selected, when the first flag indicates that the node is to be referred to; and selecting a coding table from M coding tables according to the occupancy states of the neighboring nodes of the current node, and performing arithmetic encoding on information of the current node using the coding table selected, when the first flag indicates that the node is not to be referred to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang, Chung Dean Han, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11936919
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: when combine coding including (i) combining pieces of point cloud data to generate combined point cloud data and (ii) encoding the combined point cloud data is performed: setting first information to a first value, and generating a bitstream including the first information set, the first information indicating whether there is a possibility that each leaf node includes three-dimensional points, the first value indicating that there is the possibility that the leaf node includes the three-dimensional points; and when the combine coding is not performed: setting the first information to the first value or a second value, and generating a bitstream including the first information set, the second value indicating that there is no possibility that the leaf node includes the three-dimensional points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi