Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation America
  • Patent number: 11962479
    Abstract: In an abnormality detection method, for a detection target packet stream made up of a plurality of detection target packets that are consecutive, a plurality of distances between the plurality of detection target packets are calculated, a feature amount of the detection target packet stream is extracted using the plurality of distances calculated, and information about the degree of abnormality in the detection target packet stream is calculated using the extracted feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Tatsumi Oba
  • Patent number: 11962804
    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: April 16, 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: 11962519
    Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods and devices. In one embodiment, a wireless communication method performed by a wireless communication device comprises: transmitting a data packet repeatedly in multiple subframes including at least one normal subframe and at least one special subframe to another wireless communication device, wherein the available resources in the special subframe are different from that in the normal subframe, the data packet includes multiple modulated symbols which are divided into multiple modulated-symbol sets, in each subframe, each OFDM symbol is mapped by one of the modulated-symbol sets, and in every subframe, the modulated symbols in the same modulated-symbol set are mapped onto REs in one OFDM symbol in a fixed order. In another embodiment, multiple repetitions of the data packet are transmitted in each subframe, and in each special subframe, different repetitions are mapped onto REs with cyclic shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Chi Gao, Li Wang, Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11962653
    Abstract: A device monitoring method includes: receiving a message transmitted from a first device to a second device and addressed to the second device; determining whether the message contains a device control command for controlling the second device; if the message contains the device control command, further determining whether to transmit the message to the second device based on a predetermined condition; and when the message is determined to be transmitted to the second device, transmitting the message to the second device. The predetermined condition includes a first condition that the first device is registered as a device having a predetermined function in a device list containing information about whether each of the devices is a device having the predetermined function. The message is determined to be transmitted to the second device when the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami
  • Patent number: 11960503
    Abstract: A data management method performed by a first authentication server included in a plurality of authentication servers each having a distributed ledger in a data management system including a device and the plurality of authentication servers includes: obtaining first transaction data generated by the device and including device data obtained or generated by the device; and generating a block including the first transaction data and recording the generated block in the distributed ledger, when the device data included in the first transaction data is first data indicated in an information type list which is a data list indicating data that is subject to recording in the distributed ledger and related to a predetermined contract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junichiro Soeda
  • Patent number: 11962537
    Abstract: UEs each monitor a search space in multiple CORSETs and appropriately detect a DCI. In a base station (100), a DCI generator (102) selects one of multiple cases each indicating a combination of CORSETs to be monitored by a terminal (200) among multiple control channel regions (CORSETs). A transmitter (106) indicates, by higher-layer signaling, configuration information indicating the multiple cases, and indicates the selected case by dynamic signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Publication number: 20240121554
    Abstract: A howling suppressing device includes: an adaptive filter that estimates an acoustic feedback characteristic representing a characteristic of an acoustic feedback sound reaching a microphone from a speaker by defining an output signal to the speaker as a reference signal, and eliminates the acoustic feedback sound from an input signal obtained via the microphone by using the estimated acoustic feedback characteristic; an estimator that estimates, on the basis of the acoustic feedback characteristic, an acoustic feedback amplitude frequency characteristic in a frequency domain; a suppression gain calculator that calculates, from the acoustic feedback amplitude frequency characteristic, a suppression gain in the frequency domain for smoothing a frequency peak of the acoustic feedback amplitude frequency characteristic; and a suppressor that suppresses an output signal from the adaptive filter in the frequency domain by using the suppression gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hiroki FURUKAWA, Shinichi YUZURIHA
  • Patent number: 11956466
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: stores MV information and correction processing information into a FIFO buffer for an HMVP mode in association, the MV information being derived for a processed block and correction processing information being related to correction processing of a prediction image of the processed block; registers, in a prediction candidate list for a merge mode, one or more prediction candidates each being a combination of MV information and correction processing information, the prediction candidates including a prediction candidate which is a combination of the motion vector information and the correction processing information stored in the FIFO buffer; and selects a prediction candidate from the prediction candidate list when a current block is to be processed in the merge mode, and performs correction processing of a prediction image of the current block, based on the correction processing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11956262
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device (IDS ECU) includes a detection rule generator that monitors a communication establishment frame flowing over Ethernet in a communication establishment phase of service-oriented communication and that generates, for each communication ID, a detection rule including the communication ID written in the communication establishment frame and a server (or client) address written in the communication establishment frame; an anomaly detector that monitors a communication frame flowing over the Ethernet in a communication phase of the service-oriented communication and that, by referring to a detection rule that includes a communication ID written in the communication frame, detects the communication frame as an anomalous frame when a server (or client) address written in the communication frame differs from a server (or client) address included in the detection rule; and an anomaly notifier that provides a notification of an anomaly in response to the anomalous frame being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryo Hirano, Takeshi Kishikawa, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Tomoyuki Haga
  • Patent number: 11956833
    Abstract: A communication apparatus in the present disclosure comprises an AID generator, a Trigger frame generator, and a wireless transmitter/receiver. When a Trigger Type in a trigger frame is an RA trigger, the AID generator (103) generates, as information for an AID12 subfield, information that is different from an AID. The Trigger frame generator (104) generates a RA variant Trigger frame when the Trigger Type in the trigger frame is an RA trigger, and sets, in the AID12 subfield included in the RA variant Trigger frame, the information output from the AID generator (103). The wireless transmitter/receiver (106) transmits the Trigger frame, generated by the Trigger frame generator (104), to a terminal (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11956467
    Abstract: An encoder, when sub-block encoding is to be performed, determines a plurality of sub-blocks in a first image block, the plurality of sub-blocks including a first sub-block, determines a first motion vector for the first sub-block by referring to a first candidate list, performs first inter prediction processing on the first sub-block using the first motion vector, and encodes the first image block using a result of the first inter prediction processing. When partition encoding is to be performed, the encoder, in operation, determines a plurality of partitions in a second image block, the plurality of partitions including a first partition, determines a second motion vector for the first partition by referring to a second candidate list, performs second inter prediction processing on the first partition using the second motion vector, and encodes the second image block using a result of the second inter prediction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • Patent number: 11956434
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, for each coefficient of a plurality of coefficients included in a block, determines a base level relating to Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) for the coefficient, and encodes an absolute value of the coefficient. In determining the base level, when one or more flags are used in encoding the absolute value of the coefficient, the base level is determined to be a first value, and when one or more flags are not used in the encoding, the base level is determined to be a second value that is smaller than the first value. In encoding the absolute value of the coefficient, when one or more flags are not used, a rice parameter is determined based on the base level which is equal to the second value, and the coefficient is binarized using the rice parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kato, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11956013
    Abstract: A terminal (1050) includes a light receiver (151) that receives a light signal emitted by an apparatus (1000), the light signal including an identifier (SSID) of at least one base station (470); a receiver (153) that performs a reception process on the received light signal to output reception data; a data analyzer (155) that selects one base station based on the identifier of the at least one base station that is included in the reception data; and a radio device (453) that establishes a wireless connection with the selected base station (470) by using the identifier of the base station (470) and wirelessly communicates with the base station (470).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Publication number: 20240112682
    Abstract: An utterer identification device executes: performing voice recognition from input utterance data; selecting, from among a plurality of registered utterance contents set in advance, a registered utterance content closest to a recognized utterance content indicated by a result of the voice recognition as a selected utterance content; selecting, from among a plurality of databases respectively associated with the registered utterance contents, a database associated with the selected utterance content; calculating a similarity between a feature quantity of the input utterance data and a feature quantity stored in the selected database; and identifying a certain utterer on the basis of the similarity, and outputting a result of the identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takahiro KAMAI, Misaki DOI, Katsunori DAIMO, Kousuke ITAKURA
  • Patent number: 11950187
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a terminal and a base station as well as to a method which may be performed at a terminal and at a base station in a communication system. For example, a mobile device may comprise a transceiver, which, in operation, receives and/or transmits a signal, as well as a circuitry. The circuitry monitors a signal in a first set of resources. When the monitored signal includes identification of the mobile device and an indicator having a first value, controls the transceiver: to receive or transmit signal on a second set of resources and to, after a time period indicated in the monitored control signal, not receive or transmit signal on a second set of resources and monitor the control signal in the first set of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang, Ankit Bhamri, Quan Kuang
  • Patent number: 11949884
    Abstract: An encoder encodes a video, and includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. Using the memory, the circuitry: obtains at least two items of prediction information for a first partition included in the video; derives at least one template from neighboring samples which neighbor the first partition; calculates at least two costs, using the at least one template and the at least two items of prediction information; using the at least two costs, (i) determines at least one splitting direction for the first partition or (ii) assigns one of the at least two items of prediction information to a second partition split from the first partition according to the splitting direction, and another thereof to a third partition split from the first partition according to the splitting direction; and encodes the first partition according to the splitting direction and the at least two items of prediction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • Patent number: 11949611
    Abstract: Provided are a frame configuring unit configured to configure a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data, and a transmitter which transmits the frame. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, a second period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division, a third period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by frequency division, and a fourth period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division and frequency division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11949869
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: (i) in a first case where a layered structure is generated by classifying three-dimensional points into layers: encoding attribute information for the three-dimensional points based on the layered structure; and generating a bitstream including layer information utilized for the generation of the layered structure; and (ii) in a second case where the three-dimensional points are not classified: encoding attribute information for the three-dimensional points; and generating a bitstream not including the layer information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11949705
    Abstract: An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa, Junichi Tsurumi, Jun Anzai
  • Publication number: 20240103161
    Abstract: This acoustic active sensor device comprises: a camera unit; an acoustic actuator having a sound generation unit that generates a sound; and a sound detection unit having a plurality of microphones which detect a reflective sound of the sound generated by the sound generation unit. The sound generation unit and the sound detection unit are disposed around the outer circumference of the camera unit and are centered thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MATSUMURA