Patents Assigned to Panasonic Corporation of North America
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Patent number: 11950037Abstract: A surface vehicle includes a microphone detecting sounds originating outside of the surface vehicle. A heating element is mounted in association with the microphone and provides heat for preventing accumulation of ice near the microphone wherein the ice accumulation would degrade an ability of the microphone to detect sounds originating outside of the surface vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventor: Karl Warren Frisch Cressman
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Patent number: 11949206Abstract: A system and method for stabilizing and combining multiple emitted beams into a single system using both WBC and WDM techniques.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Parviz Tayebati, Bien Chann
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Patent number: 11933990Abstract: In various embodiments, optical repositioners and/or angled dispersive elements are utilized to manipulate portions of an input laser beam emitted by a group of laser emitters in order to form a multi-wavelength output beam having a high beam quality factor.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Parviz Tayebati, Wang-Long Zhou, Bien Chann, Robin Huang, Michael Cruz
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Patent number: 11927750Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an image source emitting a light field. A first freeform mirror is positioned to provide a first reflection of the light field. A generally concave second freeform mirror is positioned to receive the first reflection and provide a second reflection of the light field. The second reflection is reflected off of a windshield of the vehicle so as to be visible to a driver of the vehicle as a virtual image. The generally concave second freeform mirror includes a reflective surface having a shape such that the virtual image appears to be curved to the driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Patrick O'Connell, Edo Omanovic
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Patent number: 11919388Abstract: A motor vehicle includes at least one camera capturing images of an environment outside of the motor vehicle. A proximity sensor detects an object disposed adjacent to the motor vehicle. An electronic processor receives the images captured by the at least one camera, and receives a proximity signal from the proximity sensor. The proximity signal is indicative of whether an object is disposed adjacent to the motor vehicle. The electronic processor determines, based upon the images captured by the at least one camera and the proximity signal, whether the motor vehicle is disposed within an enclosure. The electronic processor receives an engine start request signal that has been wirelessly transmitted by a user. In response to receiving the engine start request signal, the electronic processor causes the engine start system to start an engine of the motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is not disposed within an enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Padmanaban Kanagaraj, Katherine Freund
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Patent number: 11906752Abstract: In various embodiments, laser delivery systems feature one or more optical elements for receiving a radiation beam and altering the spatial power distribution thereof, a lens manipulation system for changing a position of at least one optical element within the path of the radiation beam, and a controller for controlling the lens manipulation system to achieve a target altered spatial power distribution on a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Wang-Long Zhou, Parviz Tayebati, Bien Chann, Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo
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Patent number: 11889250Abstract: A loudspeaker arrangement for a seat within a motor vehicle utilizes one or more localized sound output ports for low frequency sound reproduction. A housing, such as an enclosure, substantially surrounds a loudspeaker. One or more audio transmission line channels acoustically interconnect the interior of the enclosure to one or more sound output ports. The enclosure is situated below, behind, or in some fixed location around or within a vehicle seat. The sound outputs ports are situated at or near a headrest such that the output ports are located substantially less than a wavelength of sound at the highest operating frequency from either ear of the seat's occupant. The acoustic response and resonances of a 1) rear enclosure, 2) a front vented enclosure, 3) a loudspeaker, and 4) an audio transmission path from the enclosure to one or more output ports are used to provide localized low frequency sound reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventor: Mark William Ziemba
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Patent number: 11860362Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Fidelis Itsede, John Austin, Duane Lucero
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Patent number: 11863967Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to example systems and methods for operating wireless headset system for a vehicle. An example system includes a first wireless chipset to handle communication with a smartphone, and a second wireless chipset to handle communication with a headset. The example system also includes a processor configured to execute a first virtual machine to control the first wireless chipset and a second virtual machine to control the second wireless chipset.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Janardhan Thodeti, Rajgopal Shrikanth, Arun Krishnan Padmakumar, Dallas Hickerson, Jason Weida, Nitish James, Senthilnathan Subramanian, Shyamkumar Kurra
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Patent number: 11855408Abstract: In various embodiments, the beam parameter product and/or beam shape of a laser beam is adjusted by coupling the laser beam into an optical fiber of a fiber bundle and directing the laser beam onto one or more in-coupling locations on the input end of the optical fiber. The beam emitted at the output end of the optical fiber may be utilized to process a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Wang-Long Zhou, Bien Chann, Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo, Parviz Tayebati
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Patent number: 11852838Abstract: In various embodiments, laser delivery systems feature variable polarizers and beam shapers for altering the polarization and/or shape of the output beam for processing of various materials. The polarization and/or shape of the beam may be varied based on one or more characteristics of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Parviz Tayebati, Bien Chann, Wang-Long Zhou, Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo, Robin Huang
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Patent number: 11780029Abstract: In various embodiments, workpieces are processed, e.g., via welding or cutting, while the shape and/or one or more other parameters of the laser processing beam are altered. The shape and/or one or more other parameters of the laser processing beam may be varied based on one or more characteristics of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Parviz Tayebati, Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo, Wang-Long Zhou, Bien Chann
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Patent number: 11772467Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a precipitation sensor detecting weather-related precipitation. An actuator moves a movable overhead covering between a covered position and an uncovered position. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the precipitation sensor and to the actuator. The electronic processor responds to the precipitation sensor detecting weather-related precipitation by automatically causing the actuator to move the movable overhead covering from the uncovered position to the covered position.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Edo Omanovic, Katherine Freund
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Patent number: 11768372Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A polarizing device is rotatable between at least a first rotational position and a second rotational position. The polarizing device receives the light field from the picture generation unit and emits the light field regardless of whether the polarizing device is in the first rotational position or the second rotational position. More of the light is emitted by the polarizer in a P-polarization state in the second rotational position than in the first rotational position. A windshield reflects the light field from the polarizing device such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic corporation of North AmericaInventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick O'Connell
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Patent number: 11726322Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
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Patent number: 11728915Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and system for integrating a projection mode of a user mobile device with a terrestrial tuner. In an example, the system may be a vehicle including a head unit and a vehicle projection stack to operate in the head unit. The system may also include a terrestrial tuner communicatively coupled to the vehicle projection stack to receive a terrestrial audio signal from a terrestrial source. The system may also include an audio driver to provide an audio signal to a vehicle interior where the audio signal is from at least one of the terrestrial audio signal and an internet audio signal received at the vehicle projection stack from a user mobile device located inside the vehicle interior.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Shree Jaisimha, Arun Krishnan Padmakumar, Nicholas Cook
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Patent number: 11708030Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a rearview mirror display system with a visible surface and having a mirror mode and a display mode. The visible surface functions as a mirror in the mirror mode. The visible surface displays an electronically produced image in the display mode. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the rearview mirror display system. The electronic processor detects that the display mode is not operating properly, and, in response to the detecting, automatically switches the rearview mirror display system from the display mode to the mirror mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Padhu Kanagaraj, Stephanie Tuttle, Rachel Anderson
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Patent number: 11698482Abstract: In various embodiments, the beam parameter product and/or beam shape of a laser beam is adjusted by directing the laser beam across a path along the input end of a cellular-core optical fiber. The beam emitted at the output end of the cellular-core optical fiber may be utilized to process a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo, Wang-Long Zhou, Parviz Tayebati
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Patent number: 11686936Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick M. O'Connell
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Patent number: 11681396Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and system for optical input diodes. A liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight device may include a processor and a color filter of a pixel including at least one of a red filter, a green filter, or a blue filter. The LCD backlight device may also include a diode to emit light through the color filter in response to being driven by the processor. The diode may generate a voltage in response to light passing through the color filter and arriving on the diode, where an image value may be calculated as a function of the voltage generated and a color filter value of the color filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventor: Nicholas Brian Hansen