Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
  • Patent number: 11910406
    Abstract: Provided are an eNB, a UE and wireless communication methods. The eNB, in an embodiment, includes circuitry operative to fill a SPS activation/deactivation field in a DCI with a predetermined pattern of bits; and a transmitter operative to transmit the DCI to a first UE for the first UE to start periodically transmitting signals to a second UE or stop periodically transmitting signals to the second UE based on the SPS activation/deactivation field. The DCI is in a SPS format formed by adopting part or all bits of at least one field of DCI format 5 as the SPS activation/deactivation field, and information supposed to be transmitted in the at least one field is indicated with the assistance of or by RRC or MAC signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Sujuan Feng, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Prateek Basu Mallick, Masayuki Hoshino, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11909952
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method encodes a plurality of three-dimensional points, and includes: selecting one of two or more prediction modes for calculating a predicted value of an attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point, in accordance with attribute information items of one or more second three-dimensional points in the vicinity of a first three-dimensional point; calculating the predicted value by the selected prediction mode; calculating, as a prediction residual, a difference between a value of the attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point and the calculated predicted value; and generating a bit stream that includes the one prediction mode and the prediction residual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11910425
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which comprises a transmitter, which transmits a signal to a base station over a channel, wherein the signal is transmitted based on an initial channel quality information indicating a first channel quality of the channel. A receiver of the UE receives a transmission quality information indicating a second channel quality of the channel used for transmitting the signal. A processing circuitry of the UE estimates a transmission quality based on the initial channel quality information and the transmission quality information, wherein the transmission quality indicates whether the transmission of the signal over the channel was successful or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Quan Kuang, Rikin Shah
  • Patent number: 11908492
    Abstract: A decoding method of a video stream, which is encoded video information. The video stream includes a base video stream, and an enhanced video stream, which is a video stream to enhance luminance of the base video stream, and a describer that contains the combination information of the base video stream and the enhanced video stream. The decoding method includes acquiring the describer, and identifying the combination of the base video steam and the enhanced video stream. The decoding method also includes generating base video information by decoding the base video stream, generating enhanced video information by decoding the enhanced video stream, generating decoded video information based on the base video stream and the enhanced video stream, and outputting the decoded video information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Tadamasa Toma, Tomoki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11909992
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: calculating coefficient values from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data; quantizing the coefficient values individually to generate quantized values; and generating a bitstream including the quantized values. Each of the coefficient values belongs to any one of layers. In the quantizing, each of the coefficient values is quantized using a quantization parameter for a layer to which the coefficient value belongs among the layers, and the bitstream includes first information and pieces of second information, the first information indicating a reference quantization parameter, the pieces of second information being for calculating quantization parameters for the layers from the reference quantization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi, Chung Dean Han, Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang
  • Patent number: 11909748
    Abstract: In an anti-fraud control system, a first error monitoring device includes a first frame transmitting and receiving unit that receives a frame flowing on the on-board network; and a first error detector that causes transmission of an error notification frame for notifying of an occurrence of an error in the frame when detecting the occurrence of the error in the frame received by the first frame transmitting and receiving unit. Each of second error monitoring devices includes: a second frame transmitting and receiving unit that receives the error notification frame; and a second error detector that regards, as a frame to be invalidated, the frame subjected to the error and included in the received error notification frame, and shifts the second error monitoring device to an invalidation mode for invalidating reception of subsequent frames, if no error is detected in an own branch with respect to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie
  • Publication number: 20240053977
    Abstract: A gateway device is connected to a plurality of electronic controllers on-board a vehicle. The gateway device acquires firmware update information, which includes at least a part of updated firmware to be applied to a first electronic controller, patch data, and information indicating where to apply the patch data. When the gateway device determines that the first electronic controller does not include a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation, the gateway device executes a proxy process. In this regard, the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, merges the patch data and existing firmware to create updated boot ROM data with updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM data and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Tomoyuki HAGA, Manabu MAEDA, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11902067
    Abstract: A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11902505
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Patent number: 11902576
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: classifying three-dimensional points included in point cloud data into layers, based on geometry information of the three-dimensional points; generating first information indicating whether to permit referring to, for a current three-dimensional point included in the three-dimensional points, attribute information of another three-dimensional point belonging to a same layer as the current three-dimensional point; and encoding attribute information of the current three-dimensional point to generate a bitstream, by or without referring to the attribute information of the other three-dimensional point according to the first information. The bitstream includes the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11900920
    Abstract: A sound pickup device includes a plurality of microphone elements, a sensitivity correcting unit that corrects a difference in sensitivity among the microphone elements by multiplying an output signal of each of the microphone elements by a gain. The sound pickup device also includes a target sound detecting unit that detects a voice of a speaker as a target sound, a sensitivity correction control unit that controls the gain based on a result of detecting the target sound, and a directivity synthesizing unit that picks up the target sound in a boosted manner using the output signals from the microphone elements of which difference in sensitivity is corrected. The sensitivity correction control unit updates the gain based on the output signals from the microphone elements if the voice of the speaker is detected and does not update the gain if the voice of the speaker is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroki Furukawa, Shinichi Yuzuriha
  • Patent number: 11902026
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and communication methods. The transmitting apparatus includes: a receiver, operative to receive, from a base station, first control information for sidelink communication between the transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus; and a transmitter, operative to transmit a physical sidelink shared channel to the receiving apparatus according to the first control information. The transmitter is operative not to transmit a first physical sidelink control channel to the receiving apparatus, or the transmitter is operative to transmit the first physical sidelink control channel with second control information to the receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11902577
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining geometry information which includes first three-dimensional positions on a measurement target, and is generated by a measurer that radially emits an electromagnetic wave in different directions and obtains a reflected wave which is the electromagnetic wave that is reflected by the measurement target; generating a two-dimensional image including first pixels corresponding to the directions, based on the geometry information; and encoding the two-dimensional image to generate a bitstream. Each of the first pixels has a pixel value indicating a first three-dimensional position or attribute information of a three-dimensional point which is included in a three-dimensional point cloud and corresponds to a direction to which the first pixel corresponds among the directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi, Pongsak Lasang, Chi Wang, Chung Dean Han
  • Patent number: 11902526
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. In both of a first type of residual coding where an orthogonal transform is applied and a second type of residual coding where the orthogonal transform is skipped, wherein when a restriction on a number of CABAC processes allows CABAC coding of a set of coefficient information flags, the circuitry: encodes the coefficient information flags by CABAC; and otherwise, the circuitry: skips the CABAC encoding of the coefficient information flags; and the circuitry encodes a remainder value of the coefficient with Golomb-Rice code when the coefficient information flags are encoded; and otherwise the circuitry encodes a value of the coefficient with the Golomb-Rice code, wherein in the second type of residual coding, the circuitry encodes absolute value flags each relating to an absolute value of the coefficient after encoding the coefficient information flags and before encoding the remainder value of the coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kato, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240048634
    Abstract: An ID management server acquires a plurality of user IDs respectively identifying a plurality of users associated with a group ID identifying a group to which the users belong, acquires, by using the user IDs, at least one service information piece about at least one available service among a plurality of service information pieces about a plurality of services available for each of the user IDs, and outputs the acquired at least one service information piece in the group to a shared terminal shared by the users associated with the group ID to cause the shared terminal to show the at least one service information piece in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Takeshi NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240048401
    Abstract: An ID management server acquires a deletion request for requesting deletion of a first building ID associated with a group ID when a building used by at least one user is changed from a first building to a second building, deletes the first building ID associated with the group ID from a second table in response to the deletion request, and registers a second building ID for identifying the second building in a second table in association with the group ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yoshihiko TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20240048523
    Abstract: A device management server acquires, from a device installed in an indoor environment, first identification information for identifying a position specifying device installed in a space set in advance among a plurality of spaces included in the indoor environment, and second identification information for identifying the device installed in the indoor environment, refers to a first table in which the first identification information for identifying the position specifying device and a name of the space in which the position specifying device is installed are associated to each other in advance, specifies a name of a space associated with the first identification information having been acquired, creates a name of the device by using the name of the space having been specified, and registers the second identification information having been acquired and the name of the device having been created in a second table in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yoshihiko TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20240045636
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes an image acquiring part that acquires a first training image of a machine learning model, a display control part that causes a display device to display the first training image based on a distance between the display device and an imaging device that acquires a blurred image, an imaging control part that causes the imaging device to capture the first training image to acquire a second training image, and a storage control part that stores a data set including a set of the second training image and correct answer information. The display control part changes, when the distance is changed, a display size of the first training image so that a size of the second training image acquired by the imaging device is maintained. The imaging control part causes the imaging device to capture the first training image when the distance is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Yasunori ISHII, Kunio NOBORI
  • Publication number: 20240044989
    Abstract: A generation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires one or more pieces of identification information imparted to a component in a certain hierarchy among a plurality of components, the one or more pieces of identification information being identification information identifiably imparted with the type and the number of components in a lower hierarchy; a generation unit that generates a trained model corresponding to each piece of identification information for estimating a state of a battery by learning operating data for each of the one or more pieces of identification information; and an output unit that outputs the generated trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Sowyo MATSUMURA, Junichi IMOTO
  • Patent number: 11895316
    Abstract: A decoder that decodes a current block using a motion vector includes: a processor; and memory. Using the memory, the processor: derives a first candidate vector from one or more candidate vectors of one or more neighboring blocks that neighbor the current block; determines, in a first reference picture for the current block, a first adjacent region that includes a position indicated by the first candidate vector; calculates evaluation values of a plurality of candidate regions included in the first adjacent region; and determines a first motion vector of the current block, based on a first candidate region having a smallest evaluation value among the evaluation values. The first adjacent region is included in a first motion estimation region determined based on the position indicated by the first candidate vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh