Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
  • Patent number: 11902526
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. In both of a first type of residual coding where an orthogonal transform is applied and a second type of residual coding where the orthogonal transform is skipped, wherein when a restriction on a number of CABAC processes allows CABAC coding of a set of coefficient information flags, the circuitry: encodes the coefficient information flags by CABAC; and otherwise, the circuitry: skips the CABAC encoding of the coefficient information flags; and the circuitry encodes a remainder value of the coefficient with Golomb-Rice code when the coefficient information flags are encoded; and otherwise the circuitry encodes a value of the coefficient with the Golomb-Rice code, wherein in the second type of residual coding, the circuitry encodes absolute value flags each relating to an absolute value of the coefficient after encoding the coefficient information flags and before encoding the remainder value of the coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kato, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240048634
    Abstract: An ID management server acquires a plurality of user IDs respectively identifying a plurality of users associated with a group ID identifying a group to which the users belong, acquires, by using the user IDs, at least one service information piece about at least one available service among a plurality of service information pieces about a plurality of services available for each of the user IDs, and outputs the acquired at least one service information piece in the group to a shared terminal shared by the users associated with the group ID to cause the shared terminal to show the at least one service information piece in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Takeshi NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240048401
    Abstract: An ID management server acquires a deletion request for requesting deletion of a first building ID associated with a group ID when a building used by at least one user is changed from a first building to a second building, deletes the first building ID associated with the group ID from a second table in response to the deletion request, and registers a second building ID for identifying the second building in a second table in association with the group ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yoshihiko TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20240048523
    Abstract: A device management server acquires, from a device installed in an indoor environment, first identification information for identifying a position specifying device installed in a space set in advance among a plurality of spaces included in the indoor environment, and second identification information for identifying the device installed in the indoor environment, refers to a first table in which the first identification information for identifying the position specifying device and a name of the space in which the position specifying device is installed are associated to each other in advance, specifies a name of a space associated with the first identification information having been acquired, creates a name of the device by using the name of the space having been specified, and registers the second identification information having been acquired and the name of the device having been created in a second table in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yoshihiko TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20240045636
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes an image acquiring part that acquires a first training image of a machine learning model, a display control part that causes a display device to display the first training image based on a distance between the display device and an imaging device that acquires a blurred image, an imaging control part that causes the imaging device to capture the first training image to acquire a second training image, and a storage control part that stores a data set including a set of the second training image and correct answer information. The display control part changes, when the distance is changed, a display size of the first training image so that a size of the second training image acquired by the imaging device is maintained. The imaging control part causes the imaging device to capture the first training image when the distance is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Yasunori ISHII, Kunio NOBORI
  • Publication number: 20240044989
    Abstract: A generation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires one or more pieces of identification information imparted to a component in a certain hierarchy among a plurality of components, the one or more pieces of identification information being identification information identifiably imparted with the type and the number of components in a lower hierarchy; a generation unit that generates a trained model corresponding to each piece of identification information for estimating a state of a battery by learning operating data for each of the one or more pieces of identification information; and an output unit that outputs the generated trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Sowyo MATSUMURA, Junichi IMOTO
  • Patent number: 11895316
    Abstract: A decoder that decodes a current block using a motion vector includes: a processor; and memory. Using the memory, the processor: derives a first candidate vector from one or more candidate vectors of one or more neighboring blocks that neighbor the current block; determines, in a first reference picture for the current block, a first adjacent region that includes a position indicated by the first candidate vector; calculates evaluation values of a plurality of candidate regions included in the first adjacent region; and determines a first motion vector of the current block, based on a first candidate region having a smallest evaluation value among the evaluation values. The first adjacent region is included in a first motion estimation region determined based on the position indicated by the first candidate vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 11893082
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining sensing data; determining a synthesis region in the sensing data in which recognition target data is to be synthesized with the sensing data; generating composite data by synthesizing the recognition target data into the synthesis region, the recognition target data having same or similar characteristics perceived by a human sensory system as the sensing data; obtaining recognition result data by providing the composite data to a model which has been trained using machine learning to recognize a recognition target; making a second determination based on the recognition result data and reference data including at least the synthesis region, the second determination being to determine whether to make a first determination, the first determination being to determine training data for the model based on the composite data; and making the first determination when it is determined in the second determination to make the first determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasunori Ishii, Hiroaki Urabe
  • Patent number: 11895299
    Abstract: An encoder that encodes a current block in a picture includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: performs a first transform on a residual signal of the current block using a first transform basis to generate first transform coefficients; and performs a second transform on the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis to generate second transform coefficients and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the first transform basis is the same as a predetermined transform basis; and quantizes the first transform coefficients without performing the second transform, when the first transform basis is different from the predetermined transform basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masato Ohkawa, Hideo Saitou, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 11894922
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to enabling and disabling of codewords in multi-subframe grants. In particular, dynamic and subframe based enabling/disabling of codewords is enabled even if other control parameters including the resource allocation is performed for multiple subframes. For instance, signal from a scheduling entity to a scheduled entity comprises control information including the resource grant common for multiple subframes and a plurality of codewords for each subframe, and a codeword indication indicating enabling or disabling of one or more codewords for each of the multiple subframes. For each subframe it is determined whether a codeword from the plurality of codewords in said subframes is enabled or disabled according to the codeword indication and/or which codeword is enabled or disabled. The indication of enabling and disabling may alternatively be done by using modulation and coding scheme indicator values which are not associated with a particular modulation and coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11895322
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in operation, selects an encoding mode from among candidates including a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) encoding mode and a partition encoding mode. When the DMVR encoding mode is selected, the circuitry: obtains a first motion vector for a first image block; derives a second motion vector from the first motion vector using motion search; and generates a prediction image for the first image block using the second motion vector. When the partition encoding mode is selected, the circuitry: determines a plurality of partitions in a second image block; obtains a third motion vector for each partition; and generates a prediction image for the second image block using the third motion vector, without deriving a fourth motion vector from the third motion vector using motion search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 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: 11894890
    Abstract: According to a communication method of the present disclosure, a responder, after the end of transmission sector sweep (TXSS), receives from an initiator a first feedback frame including a BF training type FIELD indicating whether or not to implement a beam forming training (BFT) of a single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO). If the BF training type FIELD indicates that a BFT of the SU-MIMO is to be implemented, the responder transmits to the initiator a second feedback frame based on the result of the TXSS and including a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and a sector identifier (ID) order. The initiator implements the BFT of the SU-MIMO between the initiator and the responder on the basis of the SNR and the sector ID order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11895670
    Abstract: A signal assignment unit (105) assigns a downlink control signal including resource assignment information of a PDSCH to a downlink resource. A specification unit (108) specifies a PUCCH resource using an offset value set to either a first PRB set or a second PRB set when the downlink control signal is disposed to spread over the first PRB set and the second PRB set. A signal separation unit (109) separates an ACK/NACK signal included in the specified PUCCH resource from a received signal from a terminal to which the downlink control signal has been transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11892856
    Abstract: An information processing method uses a computer and includes: obtaining a first information item regarding first monitoring performed by a first monitor on a first vehicle, the first monitoring being allocated to the first monitor; obtaining a second information item regarding second monitoring on a second vehicle, the second monitoring being not allocated to any monitor; comparing the first information item with the second information item; generating presentation information indicating the second monitoring on the second vehicle in accordance with a result of the comparing; and presenting the generated presentation information via a presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Toshiya Arai, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Patent number: 11894928
    Abstract: A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts that encode transport data; a mapping part that performs such a mapping that encoded data sequentially formed by the encoding parts are not successively included in the same symbol, thereby forming data symbols; and a symbol interleaver that interleaves the data symbols. In this way, a low computational complexity can be used to perform an interleaving process equivalent to a bit interleaving process to effectively improve the reception quality at a receiving end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Shutai Okamura, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Masayuki Orihashi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11894893
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for channel estimation. The communication apparatus comprises a transmitter, which in operation, transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to one or more other communication apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network, the PPDU including a long training field (LTF) that facilitates the one or more other communication apparatus to estimate respective channels for respective communications with the communication apparatus; and a controller, which in operation, establishes the number of LTF symbols (NLTF) for generating the LTF in the PPDU, wherein the NLTF depends on a maximum value (NSTSMAX) of the number of space-time streams for each resource unit (RU) in the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11895298
    Abstract: Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry splits an image block into a plurality of partitions, obtains a prediction image for a partition, and encodes the image block using the prediction image. When the partition is not a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains (i) a first prediction image for the partition, (ii) a gradient image for the first prediction image, and (iii) a second prediction image as the prediction image using the first prediction image and the gradient image. When the partition is a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains the first prediction image as the prediction image without using the gradient image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 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: 11893104
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing method of one authentication server in a management system including one or more vehicles and one or more authentication servers. The method includes receiving, from one vehicle of the one or more vehicles, first transaction data which includes a first identifier that uniquely identifies each of one or more electronic control units that have been replaced out of a plurality of electronic control units connected to a network in the one vehicle, and indicates that the one or more electronic control units have been replaced among the plurality of electronic control units. The method further includes verifying validity of the first transaction data, and transmitting a duplicate of the first transaction data to one or more of other authentication servers when the validity of the first transaction data is verified in the verifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Motoji Ohmori, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11895462
    Abstract: A microphone device according to the present disclosure includes: two or more microphone elements for picking up sounds which are disposed in spatially different locations; a baffle that has a surface on which the two or more microphone elements are disposed, and interferes with, among the sounds, a passage of a sound other than a direct sound that travels from a frontal direction in which the two or more microphone elements face and directly reaches the two or more microphone elements; and a directionality synthesizer that produces a directionality synthesized signal by performing directionality synthesis on output signals outputted by the two or more microphone elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Takeo Kanamori
  • Patent number: 11895323
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in operation, selects an encoding mode from among candidates including a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) encoding mode and a partition encoding mode. When the DMVR encoding mode is selected, the circuitry: obtains a first motion vector for a first image block; derives a second motion vector from the first motion vector using motion search; and generates a prediction image for the first image block using the second motion vector. When the partition encoding mode is selected, the circuitry: determines a plurality of partitions in a second image block; obtains a third motion vector for each partition; and generates a prediction image for the second image block using the third motion vector, without deriving a fourth motion vector from the third motion vector using motion search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 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