Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
  • Patent number: 12096302
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved handover procedure for a mobile terminal. Under control of the target base station, the mobile terminal is to perform a handoff to a target base station, wherein it is to be configured for communication with the target base station via a target radio cell comprising a downlink carrier and an uplink carrier. The mobile terminal receives a handoff command message for the handoff to the target base station including a handoff execution condition as trigger for executing handoff to the target base station. Then, the mobile terminal determines, based on the received handoff execution condition, whether or not the mobile terminal is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station. In case the mobile terminal determines that it is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station, the mobile terminal executes the handoff to the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 12096467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitting device, which performs a resource sensing procedure to acquire information about radio resources usable for transmitting data at a later point in time. After data becomes available for transmission, the transmitting device performs an autonomous radio resource allocation to select radio resources within a transmission window to be used for transmitting the data, based on the information acquired by the resource sensing procedure during a sensing window. The autonomous radio resource allocation comprises selecting radio resources in primary subframes of the transmission window preferably over radio resources in secondary subframes of the transmission window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Sujuan Feng, Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 12096005
    Abstract: An encoder which encodes a current block of a picture includes a processor and memory. Using the memory, the processor: determines whether intra prediction is to be used for the current block; and when it is determined that intra prediction is to be used for the current block, generates first transform coefficients by performing first transform of residual signals of the current block using a first transform basis; quantizes the first transform coefficients when an intra prediction mode for the current block is a determined mode and the first transform basis is different from a determined transform basis; and generates second transform coefficients by performing second transform of the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis, and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the intra prediction mode for the current block is not the determined mode or when the first transform basis matches the determined transform basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masato Ohkawa, Hideo Saitou, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 12095783
    Abstract: A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a second electronic control unit connected to the network. A first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed is switched to a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition. Moreover, the second mode is switched to the first mode upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 12095704
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transmission apparatus that comprises a first payload generator configured to generate payload of a packet of a first signal type; a second payload generator configured to generate payload of a packet of a second signal type; a packet scheduler that controls the transmission timings of the first and the second packet; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits, under the timing control of the packet scheduler, the packet of the first signal type followed by the packet of the second signal type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 12095527
    Abstract: An access point (AP) includes circuitry, which, in operation, generates a frame that includes joint transmission (JT) data and a JT identity that uniquely identifies the JT data. The access point further includes a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the frame to one or more APs that jointly transmit the JT data to a communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe
  • Publication number: 20240302662
    Abstract: The camera photographs a visual field of the user. The controller acquires an image captured by the camera, recognizes, through image recognition processing, a package that is a work target of the user and a hand of the user from the acquired image, determines whether or not the user is in a state of being about to carry a package based on a positional relationship between the recognized package and the recognized hand, and recognizes, through image recognition processing, a package ID from the acquired image in a case where it is determined that the user is in a state of being about to carry the package. The communication part receives delivery information regarding the package corresponding to the package ID from a delivery management server. The controller generates, based on the delivery information, alert information to be presented to the user, and outputs the generated alert information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kenta MURAKAMI, Naomi TOMIYAMA, Satoshi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20240304206
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a mixed feature amount conversion part that converts a mixed acoustic signal including a plurality of acoustic signals into a mixed feature amount; a mask estimation part that estimates a plurality of masks based on the mixed feature amount; an acoustic signal conversion part that converts a plurality of separated feature amounts calculated using the plurality of masks into a plurality of separated acoustic signals; an environment acoustic signal extraction part that extracts, as an environment acoustic signal, the mixed acoustic signal in the environment sound section estimated based on the plurality of separated acoustic signals from the mixed acoustic signal; and an environment sound feature amount conversion part that converts the environment acoustic signal into an environment sound feature amount. The mask estimation part estimates the plurality of masks based on the mixed feature amount weighted using the environment sound feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Moe TAKADA, Shinichi YUZURIHA
  • Patent number: 12088791
    Abstract: An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, stores a first parameter into a bitstream, the first parameter indicating, as a prediction mode, one of (i) a multiple prediction mode in which a prediction image is generated by overlapping an inter prediction image of a current block and an intra prediction image of the current block and (ii) one of a plurality of prediction modes including a non-rectangular mode in which a prediction image is generated for each non-rectangular partition in the current block, and encodes the current block according to the prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ru Ling Liao, Chong Soon Lim, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 12087023
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: transforming pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data into coefficient values; and encoding the coefficient values to generate a bitstream. In the transforming, weighting calculation is performed hierarchically to generate the coefficient values belonging to one of layers, the weighting calculation separating each of the pieces of attribute information into a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component. In the weighting calculation, the weighting calculation is performed using weights fixed or not fixed in the layers. The bitstream includes first information indicating whether to fix the weights in the layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi, Pongsak Lasang, Chung Dean Han
  • Patent number: 12088802
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry in operation: determines whether the shape of a current chroma block to be split satisfies a first condition; generates one or more second candidates for a block partitioning method by eliminating one or more predetermined candidates from a plurality of first candidates for a block partitioning method when the current chroma block satisfies the first condition; selects a block partitioning method from among the one or more second candidates; and splits the current chroma block according to the block partitioning method selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 12088923
    Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by a wall toward the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received in an outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a terminal in the indoor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Hideki Aoyama, Ikuo Fuchigami, Hidehiko Shin, Tsutomu Mukai, Yosuke Matsushita, Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada
  • Patent number: 12083971
    Abstract: An anomaly handling method in an in-vehicle network includes: transmitting and receiving frames; detecting a frame having an anomaly; and switching, when the anomaly is detected in the detecting, a transmission timing of the frame in which the anomaly is detected. The switching includes changing a switched transmission timing to which the transmission timing is switched, according to predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano
  • Patent number: 12088849
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry determines whether or not a current video to be processed is a progressive video. When it is determined that the current video is a progressive video, the encoder encodes, into a bitstream, one syntax element indicating a chroma location type which is information indicating locations of chroma samples relative to luma samples for a frame included in the current video. When it is determined that the current video is not a progressive video, the encoder encodes two syntax elements into the bitstream, each of which indicates the chroma location type for a different one of fields of two types included in the current video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 12089060
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving of system information which includes controlling the transmission and/or the reception to transmit and/or receive system information including a coverage enhancement level indication for indicating enhanced coverage levels supported by the wireless communication system and to transmit and/or receive system information including a group of information elements common for different coverage enhancement levels and information elements specific for different coverage enhancement levels grouped for respective coverage enhancement levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 12086283
    Abstract: A control method that, in an information management system including a plurality of servers each having a distributed ledger, is executed by a server from among the plurality of servers, includes: receiving first transaction data that includes identification information and permission or non-permission information, the identification information being associated with user information that is managed in the information management system and relates to a first user, the permission or non-permission information indicating whether provision of the user information to a second user is permitted; and storing the first transaction data received, in the distributed ledger in each of the plurality of servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama, Junichiro Soeda, Yuuki Hirose, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori
  • Patent number: 12088664
    Abstract: In a data distribution method according to the disclosure, first authentication servers and a first data server belong to a first group, and second authentication servers and a second data server belong to a second group different from the first group. A first authentication server obtains first transaction data that includes a data obtaining request indicating a request for obtaining or referring to data pertaining to an apparatus, and records a block including the first transaction data into its distributed ledger belonging to the first group. A second authentication server obtains the first transaction data, and records the block including the first transaction data into a distributed ledger belonging to the second group. The first authentication server causes the first data server to transfer the data pertaining to the apparatus held therein to the second data server or to make such data available for reference by the second data server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda
  • Patent number: 12088395
    Abstract: Apparatuses and systems for providing multiple structures to enable flexibility of a multiple transmission and reception point ultra-reliable low-latency communication (M-TRP URLLC) operation and reduce measurement effort and power consumption from a transceiving apparatus such as a UE are provided. The techniques disclosed here feature a transceiving apparatus including a transceiver and circuitry. The transceiver, in operation, receives signals from multiple transmission and reception points (M-TRPs) in a network on at least physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs). The circuitry, in operation, performs beam failure recovery (BFR) by evaluating beam failure detection (BFD) and candidate new beam detection (CBD) for the signals from at least a first one of the M-TRPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Xuan Tuong Tran, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lei Huang, Tien-Ming Benjamin Koh, Yang Kang, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12088447
    Abstract: When a plurality of the subcarrier spacing values are applied, a reference signal is generated by using a sequence having a sequence length corresponding to a first ratio of a first subcarrier spacing set for transmission data to the maximum settable subcarrier spacing. The sequence of the reference signal is mapped to a frequency resource at mapping intervals in accordance with a second ratio which is the reciprocal of the first ratio, and the transmission data and the reference signal are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Quan Kuang
  • Publication number: 20240296823
    Abstract: A noise control system includes: a noise detector; a first control filter that outputs a first control signal; a second control filter that outputs a second control signal; an adder that adds the first control signal and the second control signal to output a third control signal; a speaker that generates a control sound on the basis of the third control signal; an error microphone; a transmission characteristic corrector; a first coefficient updater that updates a coefficient of the first control filter so as to minimize the error signal; a first band limiting filter that performs a band limitation to the noise signal; a second band limiting filter that performs a band limitation to the third control signal; and a second coefficient updater that updates, on the basis of an output signal from the first band limiting filter and an output signal from the second band limiting filter, a coefficient of the second control filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Hiroyuki KANO