Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation America
  • Patent number: 11991726
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved radio resource allocation performed by a vehicular mobile terminal. The vehicular mobile terminal determines whether to determine radio resources based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or not, based on information received from an entity of the communication system. In case the radio resources are to be selected based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal, the vehicular mobile terminal determines the location of the vehicular mobile terminal, and determines radio resources for communication with at least the second mobile terminal, based on the determined location of the vehicular mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11991437
    Abstract: A first camera robot includes: a camera that captures an image of surroundings; an image recognizer that detects one or more subjects from within a captured image; a controller that selects an operation pattern of the first camera robot based on an attribute of one or more subjects detected, and causes the robot to operate according to the selected operation pattern; a communicator that transmits, to another camera robot, instruction information for causing the other robot to operate according to the selected operation pattern; and a shutter that outputs an image obtained by capturing the one or more subjects while the first camera robot and the other robot are operating according to the selected operation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ino, Hwayoung Kang, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori, Takashi Kondo, Takanori Endo, Yuki Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11989921
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes generating a bitstream by encoding subspaces included in a current space including three-dimensional points. In the generating of the bitstream: first information is stored in a first header which is common to the subspaces and included in the bitstream, the first information indicating first coordinates which are coordinates of the current space; and second information is stored in a second header which is provided on a subspace basis and included in the bitstream, the second information indicating a difference between second coordinates which are coordinates of a corresponding subspace among the subspaces and the first coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chung Dean Han, Pongsak Lasang, Chi Wang, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11991743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, with a processor which upon being triggered by a random access events, determines random access transmission parameters to be used by the UE for transmitting a random access message to its base station. At least part of the random access transmission parameters are determined based on the random access event that triggered the transmission of the random access message and on random access configuration information. The random access configuration information associates each of a plurality of random access events with a set of random access transmission parameters among a plurality of random access transmission parameters usable by the user equipment to transmit a random access message to the base station. A transmitter of the UE transmits the random access message to the base station using the determined random access transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, Ming-Hung Tao
  • Patent number: 11990975
    Abstract: A non-personal basic service set control point/access point (non-PCP/AP) communication apparatus includes a reception circuit, an estimation circuit, and a transmission circuit. The reception circuit receives a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) Beacon frame including a sector sweep (SSW) field, the SSW field including a Parameter subfield indicating a value obtained by using a transmission Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of a PCP/AP communication partner apparatus and a reception antenna gain of the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus. The estimation circuit estimates an expected reception power at the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus by using the value of the Parameter subfield, and checks inequality between the estimated expected reception power and a receiver sensitivity value. The transmission circuit transmits a frame for Association Beamforming Training (A-BFT) if the estimated expected reception power is larger than the receive sensitivity value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Lei Huang, Tomoya Urushihara, Masataka Irie
  • Publication number: 20240161771
    Abstract: In an information processing system, an estimation as to whether a sound collected by a microphone is steady sound or non-steady sound is executed, sound information estimated to indicate the non-steady sound is transmitted to a server as output sound information when it is estimated that it is the non-steady sound, and the server acquires the output sound information, and estimates an action of a person from a resulting output obtained by inputting the output sound information to a second trained model indicative of a relevance between the output sound information and action information on an action of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Taketoshi NAKAO, Toshiyuki MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240161594
    Abstract: An information notification device is configured to: acquire apparatus information on an apparatus; determine an action for the apparatus based on the apparatus information; determine an executor who is to perform the determined action from among multiple users; determine a notification target person to be notified that the executor is to perform the action with reference to relationship information indicating a relationship among the multiple users; and notify the determined notification target person of notification information indicating that the executor is to perform the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kotaro SAKATA, Keiichi TOIYAMA, Kenta MURAKAMI, Takamichi MATSUSAKO, Megumi MIZOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11983019
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle that delivers a package includes a plurality of rotary wings, a plurality of first motors, a main body, a connector, a movable block, and a processor. When the connector is connected to a rail, the processor sets a rotation rate of the plurality of first motors to a rotation rate that is lower than a minimum rotation rate necessary for floating and higher than a minimum rotation rate necessary for propulsion along the rail. Furthermore, the processor causes the movable block to increase the angle formed by the normal direction of an imaginary plane containing the plurality of rotary wings relative to a support direction of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Takuya Takahama, Fumio Muramatsu, Nobuaki Hayashi, Hideki Aoyama, Gaku Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11983282
    Abstract: Provided is a data protection method which includes: receiving transaction data which includes a first hash value obtained from history information of a home; obtaining, from a data server, a second hash value computed by the data server performing computation processing on encrypted history information without decrypting the encrypted history information, the encrypted history information being history information of the home encrypted using a secure computation method which enables computation without decrypting the encrypted history information, the encrypted history information being obtained from the home; verifying the transaction data, and determining whether the first hash value and the second hash value match; and when a validity of the transaction data is verified and the first hash value and the second hash value match, recording the transaction data in a distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yuji Unagami
  • Patent number: 11984960
    Abstract: A communication apparatus of the present disclosure includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a signal that includes a non-legacy preamble and a data field, the non-legacy preamble comprising a first field for indicating a number of spatial streams (Nss) in the data field and a second field for indicating one of a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), wherein two or more frequency diversity transmission schemes are supported and one of the two or more frequency diversity transmission schemes is applied based on a value of the Nss; and circuitry which, in operation, decodes the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11985349
    Abstract: An encoder capable of properly handling an image to be encoded or decoded includes processing circuitry and memory connected to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry: obtains parameters including at least one of (i) one or more parameters related to a first process for correcting distortion in an image captured with a wide angle lens and (ii) one or more parameters related to a second process for stitching a plurality of images; generates an encoded image by encoding a current image to be processed that is based on the image or the plurality of images; and writes the parameters into a bitstream including the encoded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chong Soon Lim, Han Boon Teo, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ru Ling Liao, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Hai Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 11983783
    Abstract: Provided is a control method including: receiving, from first power equipment, first transaction data including, for example, transmitted power amount information indicating the amount of power transmitted to power accumulation equipment; obtaining, from the power accumulation equipment, received power information including, for example, received power amount information indicating the amount of power received from the first power equipment; verifying the first transaction data by referring to the received power information; executing a first consensus algorithm with second servers when the first transaction data is verified successfully; and recording a block including the first transaction data in a distributed ledger of a first server when the validity of the first transaction data is verified through the first consensus algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11984139
    Abstract: A playback device acquires first management information that stores first playback control information and second management information that stores second playback control information. The first playback control information specifies that a video stream of a high-luminance range is to be played, and the second playback control information specifies that a video stream of a standard-luminance range is to be played. A video player acquires and plays the video stream of the high-luminance range based on the first playback control information in a case of playing the content as the high-luminance range. The video player acquires and plays the video stream of the standard-luminance range based on the second playback control information in a case of playing the content as the standard-luminance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11984982
    Abstract: A transmission device includes a generator that generates a frame in a predetermined frame format and a communicator that transmits the frame generated by the generator. The predetermined frame format includes a first field indicating whether information related to a wake-up process performed by a device that received a frame in the predetermined frame format is valid or not. When the first field indicates that the information is valid, the predetermined frame format further includes a second field indicating identification information identifying the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 11985350
    Abstract: An encoder capable of properly handling an image to be encoded or decoded includes processing circuitry and memory connected to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry: obtains parameters including at least one of (i) one or more parameters related to a first process for correcting distortion in an image captured with a wide angle lens and (ii) one or more parameters related to a second process for stitching a plurality of images; generates an encoded image by encoding a current image to be processed that is based on the image or the plurality of images; and writes the parameters into a bitstream including the encoded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chong Soon Lim, Han Boon Teo, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ru Ling Liao, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Hai Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 11985639
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to receiving and transmitting data in a frame with subframes of a wireless communication system, each subframe being either an uplink subframe accommodating uplink signal, a downlink subframe accommodating downlink signal or a special subframe including a downlink signal portion as well as an uplink signal portion. A control signal includes a special subframe configuration specifying the length of the uplink and/or downlink portion of the special subframe. The mapping and demapping of user data and/or control data including feedback information in a transmission time interval, TTI, onto or from one subframe is then performed, wherein the length of a second TTI for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe is shorter than a first TTI for mapping onto an uplink subframe, or a first number of TTIs mapped onto the uplink subframe is larger than a second number of TTIs for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Lilei Wang, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11985513
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device capable of reducing interference, caused by non-SR transmission, with a basic service set (BSS) performing spatial reuse (SR) transmission. An SR transmission resource control unit (107) of the radio communication device (SR initiator) (100) determines transmission resources for an SR signal to be transmitted by means of SR to a second BSS other than a first BSS to which the radio communication device (100) belongs on the basis of radio quality information transmitted from other radio communication devices (SR responders) in the first BSS. A radio transmission/reception unit (101) transmits the SR signal by using the determined transmission resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jun Minotani, Atsushi Matsumoto, Takashi Iwai, Tomofumi Takata, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 11985682
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transceiver device and scheduling device, and communication methods for transceiver device and scheduling device. The transceiver device comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), indicating a frequency range included in a carrier and applicable for transmission to be performed between the transceiver device and a scheduling device and a slot format indicating a sequence of symbol types by which the transmission is to be performed on a plurality of symbols included in a slot on the frequency range, the symbol types including at least one of an uplink symbol type, a downlink symbol type, and a flexible symbol type, and circuitry which, in operation, determines, based on the PDCCH, the frequency range and the slot format. The transceiver, in operation, performs the transmission on the frequency range in compliance with the slot format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11985698
    Abstract: In an AP, a Trigger frame generator generates a trigger signal instructing an uplink signal transmission, the trigger signal including a terminal information field that includes a terminal ID subfield and a resource unit allocation information subfield, and a radio transmitter/receiver transmits the trigger signal. In a case where the trigger signal includes a first terminal information field specifying one or more contiguous resource units for random access, the Trigger frame generator sets an unused ID that is not to be used as a terminal ID in the first terminal information field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Yoshio Urabe, Tomohumi Takata
  • Patent number: 11979827
    Abstract: A multi-band communication device includes: one or more transceiver circuitries, each of which in operation transmits and receives data on a plurality of channels in different frequency bands; and a band configuration circuitry operative to change a configuration of any one of the transceiver circuitries based on configuration information received from a multi-band Access Point (AP). The configuration information specifies one of the frequency bands as a Primary band and the other frequency bands as Secondary band(s). The transceiver circuitry operating on the Primary band is used as a default circuitry for communication with the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe