Patents Assigned to Matsushita Electric
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Patent number: 9601772Abstract: The present invention provides a cathode active material that makes possible a high capacity nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has excellent discharge load characteristics that provide both good cycle characteristics and thermal stability. The cathode active material comprises a lithium nickel composite oxide having the compositional formula LiNi1?aMaO2 (where, M is at least one kind of element that is selected from among a transitional metal other than Ni, a group 2 element, and group 13 element, and 0.01?a?0.5) to which fine lithium manganese composite oxide particle adhere to the surface thereof. This lithium nickel composite oxide is obtained by adding manganese salt solution to a lithium nickel composite oxide slurry, causing manganese hydroxide that contains lithium to adhere to the surface of the lithium nickel composite oxide particles, and then baking that lithium nickel composite oxide.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignees: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO. LTD., MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Sasaoka, Ryuuichi Kuzuo, Atsushi Fukui, Mitsukuni Kondou, Shin Imaizumi, Kensuke Nakura, Shuji Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 8935242Abstract: Optimizing operation of a media player during rendering of media files. The invention includes authoring software to create a data structure and to populate the created data structure with obtained metadata. The invention also includes rendering software to retrieve the metadata from the data structure and to identify media files to render. In one embodiment, the invention is operable as part of a compressed media format having a set of small files containing metadata, menus, and playlists in a compiled binary format designed for playback on feature-rich personal computer media players as well as low cost media players.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Leigh LaChapelle, Ian Cameron Mercer, Nobuyasu Takeguchi, Toshihiko Mizukami, Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Chiyoko Matsumi, Harutoshi Miyamoto, Yasuyuki Torii, Keisuke Matsuo
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Patent number: 8886685Abstract: Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A container group is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying each of the playlists associated with the container group along with references to each of the playlists.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ian Cameron Mercer, Kevin Leigh LaChapelle, Harutoshi Miyamoto, Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Nobuyasu Takeguchi, Chiyoko Matsumi
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Patent number: 8738615Abstract: Optimizing operation of a media player during rendering of media files. The invention includes authoring software to create a data structure and to populate the created data structure with obtained metadata. The invention also includes rendering software to retrieve the metadata from the data structure and to identify media files to render. In one embodiment, the invention is operable as part of a compressed media format having a set of small files containing metadata, menus, and playlists in a compiled binary format designed for playback on feature-rich personal computer media players as well as low cost media players.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Leigh LaChapelle, Ian Cameron Mercer, Nobuyasu Takeguchi, Toshihiko Mizukami, Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Chiyoko Matsumi, Harutoshi Miyamoto, Yasuyuki Torii, Keisuke Matsuo
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Patent number: 8470938Abstract: An epoxy resin composition for use in producing a prepreg for printed wiring boards excellent in appearance, flame retardancy, etc., which comprises an epoxy resin, a phenolic novolak, and a curing accelerator. It is characterized in that the epoxy resin comprises an epoxy (a) and an epoxy (b), wherein the epoxy (a) is a brominated epoxy resin which is obtained by reacting/mixing a bisphenol A epoxy resin with tetrabromobisphenol A and has an epoxy equivalent of 350 to 470 g/eq and an n=0 component content of 20 to 35% in terms of areal percentage in a GPC chart, and the epoxy (b) is at least one bifunctional epoxy resin which is obtained by reacting any one selected from the group consisting of bisphenol A, bisphenol F, and tetrabromobisphenol A with epichlorohydrin and has an n=0 component content as determined from a GPC chart of 60% or higher.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetsugu Motobe, Akinori Hibino, Katsuhiko Ito
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Patent number: 8437604Abstract: To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an index file management section 72 manages and updates an index file held in an index file hold section 51 as the video data and audio data are updated. At this point, a search section 92 searches disc internal IDs assigned to clips or edit lists contained in the index file for the maximum value. A disc internal ID generation section 91 generates a disc internal ID according to the maximum value. An index file management section 72 updates the index file with the disc internal ID generated by the disc internal ID generation section 91.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Hirose, Yoshiaki Shibata, Hideaki Mita, Hiroshi Saitou, Tatsushi Bannai
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Publication number: 20120323917Abstract: Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A container group is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying each of the playlists associated with the container group along with references to each of the playlists.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicants: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Ian Cameron Mercer, Kevin Leigh LaChapelle, Harutoshi Miyamoto, Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Nobuyasu Takeguchi, Chiyoko Matsumi
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Patent number: 8320740Abstract: To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a reproduction process 123 that reproduces material data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, a disc information file management section 63 references a reproduction history of a disc information file held in a disc information file hold section 52 and starts reproducing material data from a position according to the reproduction history. When the reproduction process is completed, the disc information file management section 63 updates the reproduction history of the disc information file held in the disc information file hold section 52. A disc information file record control section 82 records the updated disc information file on the disc 32.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisao Tanaka, Masaki Hirose, Takayoshi Kawamura, Hiroshi Saitou, Yoshiho Gotoh, Tatsushi Bannai
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Patent number: 8305856Abstract: To record specific information to a disk-shaped record medium and reproduce the recorded specific information without any influence on the error correction capability. Copy protection information (CPID) having an error correction code appended thereto, shuffled and otherwise treated is sent as a CPID bit block to an EDC rewrite circuit (14). The EDC rewrite circuit (14) rewrites an error detection code appended to user data in each sector in accordance with bit information in the CPID bit block. Thereafter, the data in each sector is scrambled, and an ECC block including a plurality of sectors is modulated with an error correction code and sync signal appended thereto. The modulated signal is recorded in a reserve area of a lead-in area of the disk-shaped record medium. During reproduction, CPID is restored based on the result of error detection of each sector.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Tamotsu Yamagami, Yuji Takagi, Makoto Usui, Paulus Gijsbertus Petrus Weijenbergh, Bart Van Rompaey
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Patent number: 8294576Abstract: An infrared sensor switch of the invention comprises an infrared sensor with a detection range, and a controller that uses the sensor to try to detect whether or not a person is present in the detection range and controls an ON or OFF state of a corresponding load unit based on each detection result obtained from the sensor. The switch further comprises a sensor block comprising the sensor, and a housing that is mounted in a wall and retains the block so that the center axis of the detection range can be rotated about a horizontal axis and as well as rotated up to at least 40 degrees downward from a forward direction of 0 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Makiko Matsuoka, Tomohiro Ieki, Koji Yokota, Hajime Yabu, Susumu Nakano, Kei Miura
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Publication number: 20120263339Abstract: A damper, which is an element of a speaker and suppresses the rolling of a voice coil unit, includes a corrugated structure portion at its inner periphery and a leaf spring at its outer periphery. By coupling the corrugated structure portion to the voice coil unit and coupling the leaf spring to the frame, the distortion of a speaker can be reduced and the driving efficiency can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Osamu Funahashi
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Patent number: 8280920Abstract: Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A container group is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying each of the playlists associated with the container group along with references to each of the playlists.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ian Cameron Mercer, Kevin Leigh LaChapelle, Harutoshi Miyamoto, Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Nobuyasu Takeguchi, Chiyoko Matsumi
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Publication number: 20120183006Abstract: After forming domain inverted layers 3 in an LiTaO3 substrate 1, an optical waveguide is formed. By performing low-temperature annealing for the optical wavelength conversion element thus formed, a stable proton exchange layer 8 is formed, where an increase in refractive index generated during high-temperature annealing is lowered, thereby providing a stable optical wavelength conversion element. Thus, the phase-matched wavelength becomes constant, and variation in harmonic wave output is eliminated. Consequently, with respect to an optical wavelength conversion element utilizing a non-linear optical effect, a highly reliable element is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhisa YAMAMOTO, Kiminori Mizuuchi, Yasuo Kitaoka, Makoto Kato
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Patent number: 8193436Abstract: A method (100) and apparatus (200) are disclosed for transcribing a humming signal into a sequence of musical notes. The method begins by grouping (305) the signal into frames of data samples. Each frame is then processed to derive (320) a frequency distribution for each frames. The frequency distributions are processed to derive (410) a Harmonic Product Energy (HPE) distribution over the frames. The HPE distribution is then segmented (115, 120) to obtain boundaries of musical notes. The frequency distributions of the frames are also processed to derive (412) a fundamental frequency distribution. A pitch for each note is determined (125) from the fundamental frequency distribution.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Hwee Sim, Chun Woei Teo, Sua Hong Neo, Kok Seng Chong
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Publication number: 20120037787Abstract: An image sensor comprises, a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric converters mounted on the substrate, for each of which a photoelectric conversion layer is formed of an organic compound layer and is sandwiched between an anode and a cathode so as to perform photoelectric conversion based on incident light, drive circuits for detecting output provided by a signal current generated by the photoelectric converters and for reading signal charges, and a wiring for electrically connecting the photoelectric converters and the drive circuits, wherein, for the plurality of the photoelectric converters that form one read pixels, the size of a photoelectric conversion area differs in accordance with a sensitivity of each of the plurality of photoelectric converters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kitada, Masahiro Inoue, Shinichiro Kaneko, Takahiro Komatsu, Masakazu Mizusaki, Yasuyuki Takano
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Publication number: 20120039326Abstract: Network system and method for providing an ad-hoc access environment. A network system capable of providing an ad-hoc access environment comprises a controller unit connected to the network for receiving access requests from a device; and an authority unit for providing an authorization assertion to the controller unit; wherein the controller unit carries out an authorization process based on an access control policy including at least one rule based on which the controller unit contacts the authority unit and the authority unit provides an authorization assertion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pei Yen Chia, Pek Yew Tan
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Patent number: 8107332Abstract: A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining a first track of the plurality of tracks, based on the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction and the track management information; determining whether or not the first track is a closed track; when the first track is determined to be the closed track, performing a process including: determining a second track different from the first track, the second track being an open track; determining as a next writable address a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the second track, based on the last recorded address in the second track; pseudo-overwrite recording the data at the next writable address as a replacement location.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2005Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tadashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 8085317Abstract: A data generation section generates an essence data file composed of a file header, a file body, and a file footer. A header size obtainment section obtains header size information of essence data file from the data generation section, and supplies the header size information to a clip generation section and an index file update section. The clip generation section generates a clip information file that describes the header size information supplied from the header size obtainment section. The index file update section registers a clip element that describes the header size information supplied from the header size obtainment section to an index file stored in a ROM.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2004Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignees: Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Hyodo, Masaki Hirose, Hideaki Mita, Hiroshi Saitou, Tatsushi Bannai
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Patent number: 8067132Abstract: To provide a photomask capable of preventing a foreign matter generation in using the photomask, and an exposure method using this photomask. The photomask includes a transparent substrate 2; a transfer pattern 4 formed in a main region 3 of a center portion of the transparent substrate 2; a light-shading band region 5 provided adjacent to the main region 3 in the outer peripheral region of the main region 3; and a pellicle 6 formed by adhering a pellicle film 6a to a pellicle frame 6b by an adhesive 8a, wherein this pellicle 6 is adhered onto a light-shading region 7 consisting of a light-shading film formed in the outer peripheral region of the main region 3, through an adhesive 8b.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignees: Hoya Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiro Takushima, Takashi Yasui
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Patent number: 8062750Abstract: An epoxy resin composition for a prepreg used in manufacturing a printed wiring board, particularly a multilayered printed wiring board, is provided. The composition features: (A) a multifunctional epoxy resin having on average 2.8 or more epoxy groups per molecule; (B) a reaction product of a phosphorous compound, a bifunctional epoxy resin, and an optional multifunctional epoxy resin, provided in an amount of 20% to 55% by mass, based on the total amount of epoxy resin, including (A) and (B); (C) a curing agent of dicyandiamide and/or a multifunctional phenolic compound; and (D) an inorganic filler blend containing an inorganic filler with a thermal decomposition temperature of 400° C. or above. The composition does not generate toxic substances when combusted and has excellent ignition resistance, solder heat resistance after moisture absorption, and high temperature rigidity.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetsugu Motobe, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Takeshi Koizumi, Ryuji Takahashi