Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation America
  • Patent number: 11994605
    Abstract: Provided is a direction of arrival estimation device wherein: a calculation circuit calculates a frequency weighting factor for each of a plurality of frequency components of signals recorded in a microphone array, on the basis of the differences among unit vectors indicating the directions of the sound sources of each of the plurality of frequency components; and an estimation circuit estimates the direction of arrival of a signal from the sound source, on the basis of the frequency weighting factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Rohith Mars, Srikanth Nagisetty, Chong Soon Lim, Hiroyuki Ehara, Akihisa Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11995181
    Abstract: A vehicle surveillance device for an in-vehicle network system that includes one or more electronic control units includes: a frame transmitter and receiver that receives a frame flowing over the in-vehicle network system; and a score calculator that detects a suspicious behavior different from a normal driving behavior based on the frame received by the frame transmitter and receiver and vehicle data including information on one or more frames received by the frame transmitter and receiver prior to receiving the frame, and calculates, based on a detection result, a score indicating a likelihood that reverse engineering has been performed on a vehicle provided with the in-vehicle network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Tomoyuki Haga
  • Patent number: 11995874
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: assigning three-dimensional points to one of layers, based on items of geometry information of the three-dimensional points; searching three-dimensional points surrounding a current three-dimensional point to be encoded, to select, from the three-dimensional points, a three-dimensional point to be referred to when a predicted value of attribute information of the current three-dimensional point is calculated, the current three-dimensional point belonging to a first layer among the layers; and calculating the predicted value of the attribute information of the current three-dimensional point using the three-dimensional point selected. In the searching of the three-dimensional points, a search range for a same layer as the current three-dimensional point is different from a search range for a layer higher than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11997708
    Abstract: In a base station (100), a controller (101) determines one set from among a plurality of sets, each of which including one or more candidates for a resource for an uplink (UL) control channel during initial access, and determines one candidate from among the one or more candidates for the resource, which is included in the determined set. A transmitter (114) indicates the determined set to a terminal (200) by higher layer signaling, and indicates the determined candidate by dynamic signaling. A receiver (116) receives a UL control signal, using the resource corresponding to the determined candidate in the determined set. In the base station, the association between a value to be indicated by the higher layer signaling and the plurality of sets is configured for each of one or more parameters relating to the initial access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11997119
    Abstract: A vehicle log transmission device includes: a vehicle log division processor that generates one or more divided logs; existing identifier storage that stores an existing identifier list, which is a list of identifiers corresponding to existing divided logs generated by dividing an existing vehicle log shared between the vehicle log transmission device and a vehicle log analysis server; a vehicle log transmission necessity determiner that determines that a divided log corresponding to an identifier present in the existing identifier list is a first divided log, and that a divided log corresponding to an identifier not present in the existing identifier list is a second divided log; and a vehicle-side communicator that transmits the identifier corresponding to the first divided log to the vehicle log analysis server, and transmits the second divided log to the vehicle log analysis server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryo Hirano, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11997271
    Abstract: An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a first partition mode for partitioning a first block, and a second block partition mode for partitioning a second block which is one of blocks obtained after the first block is partitioned. When the number of partitions of the first block partition mode is three, the second block is a center block among the blocks obtained after partitioning the first block, and the partition direction of the second block partition mode is same as the partition direction of the first block partition mode, the second block partition mode indicates that the number of partitions is only three. A parameter for identifying the second block partition mode includes a first flag indicating a horizontal or vertical partition direction, and does not include a second flag indicating the number of partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • Patent number: 11997650
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of setting reserved subframes for indication of a resource pool by a bitmap, a user equipment, and a base station. In the present disclosure, the resource pool is used for transmitting or receiving sidelink signals within a system frame number cycle that includes predefined subframes and remaining subframes that are subframes after excluding the predefined subframes within the system frame number cycle. In the method, a number of the reserved subframes is determined so that the bitmap is repeated by integer times within the subframes after excluding the reserved subframes and the predefined subframes within the system frame number cycle. In the method, position of each of the reserved subframes is set, wherein at most two reserved subframes are set per n subframes within the system frame number cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11997310
    Abstract: An encoder includes memory and circuitry. The circuitry derives a first motion vector in a unit of a prediction block using a first inter frame prediction mode that uses a degree of matching between two reconstructed images of two regions in two difference pictures, the prediction block being obtained by splitting an image included in a video; and performs, in the unit of the prediction block, a first motion compensation process that generates a prediction image by referring to a spatial gradient of luminance in an image generated by performing motion compensation using the first motion vector derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 11995150
    Abstract: An information processing method implemented by a computer includes: obtaining a piece of first data, and a piece of second data not included in a training dataset for training an inferencer; calculating, using a piece of first relevant data obtained by inputting the first data to the inferencer trained by machine learning using the training dataset, a first contribution representing contributions of portions constituting the first data to a piece of first output data output by inputting the first data to the inferencer; calculating, using a piece of second relevant data obtained by inputting the second data to the inferencer, a second contribution representing contributions of portions constituting the second data to a piece of second output data output by inputting the second data to the inferencer; and determining whether to add the second data to the training dataset, according to the similarity between the first and second contributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Denis Gudovskiy, Alec Hodgkinson, Takuya Yamaguchi, Sotaro Tsukizawa
  • Patent number: 11997548
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a source base station. The source base station comprises a processing circuitry that generates a user equipment packet duplication status. The user equipment packet duplication status includes information on the status of uplink packet duplication performed by a user equipment with the source base station and at least one further base station. The information on the status of uplink packet duplication is per uplink radio bearer, one or more uplink radio bearers being established between the user equipment and the source base station. The source base station further comprises a transmitter that transmits the user equipment packet duplication status to a target base station which is the target of a handover from the source base station performed for the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Ming-Hung Tao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20240169933
    Abstract: A server is configured to: determine a ratio of each of a first group and a second group to be allocated to the multiple display objects according to a third user situation of a presentation target user or a schedule information; determine a display mode of each of multiple first display objects allocated to the first group in accordance with the determined ratio based on multiple first user situations, and determine a display mode of each of multiple second display objects allocated to the second group in accordance with the determined ratio based on multiple second user situations; and output setting information for displaying the multiple first display objects and the multiple second display objects in the determined display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kihiro YUASA, Mikiko MATSUO, Keiichi TOIYAMA, Naomi TOMIYAMA, Takamichi MATSUSAKO, Megumi MIZOGUCHI, Kenta MURAKAMI
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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