Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
  • Publication number: 20240039932
    Abstract: A module for a vehicle includes: a first communication module that transmits and receives first data to and from a first in-vehicle module; a second communication module that transmits and receives second data to and from a second in-vehicle module; and a control module that controls relay of third data among the first communication module and the second communication module. In a case where reception data received by the control module from the first or second communication module is unauthorized, the control module stops relaying the third data in accordance with a traveling state of the vehicle satisfying a predetermined condition, The traveling state includes: the vehicle being stopped; a vehicle speed being at or below a predetermined speed; brakes being applied; a hazard indicator being on; a driver being in a state capable of driving; and/or self-driving functions being in an off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuishi TORISAKI, Takamitsu SASAKI, Tomoyuki HAGA
  • Patent number: 11889076
    Abstract: Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry encodes an image block using the memory. In encoding the image block, the circuitry: obtains one or more size parameters related to a size of the image block; determines whether the one or more size parameters and one or more thresholds satisfy a determined relationship; encodes a split parameter when the one or more size parameters and the one or more thresholds are determined to satisfy the determined relationship, the split parameter indicating whether the image block is to be split into a plurality of partitions including a non-rectangular partition; and encodes the image block after splitting the image block into the plurality of partitions when the split parameter indicates that the image block is to be split into the plurality of partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 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: 11889114
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method uses a first encoding scheme and a second encoding scheme different from the first encoding scheme, and includes: (i) transforming a first quantization parameter to a first scale value or (ii) transforming the first scale value to the first quantization parameter, based on a first table indicating a correspondence between values of the first quantization parameter and values of the first scale value and being shared between the first encoding scheme and the second encoding scheme; performing encoding including a first quantization process to generate encoded attribute information, the first quantization process being a process of dividing, by the first scale value, each of first coefficient values based on items of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data; and generating a bitstream including the encoded attribute information and the first quantization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio, Chung Dean Han, Pongsak Lasang
  • Patent number: 11888579
    Abstract: Provided are a base station device and a mobile station device, which can lighten a cell-search processing. The base station device includes a frame constitution unit for forming a frame, in which a pilot symbol multiplied by a base station scrambling code and a plurality of sequences contained in the corresponding sequence set is arranged in at least the head or tail, and a radio transmission unit for sending the formed frame. On the receiving side, the frame timing can be detected from the position of a pilot symbol contained in that frame. Since the base station scrambling code and the sequence set containing the sequences are made to correspond to each other, candidates can be narrowed to at most the base station scrambling codes of the number of the combinations of the sequences contained in the sequence set, by detecting the sequences multiplied by the pilot symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Naka, Hiroki Haga, Hidenori Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11888767
    Abstract: A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians. Each of the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal is modulated via a modulation scheme of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) using non-uniform mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Patent number: 11889094
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs prediction on an image. A motion vector predictor list used in the prediction includes a spatially neighboring motion vector predictor obtained from a block spatially neighboring a current block, and a spatially broad motion vector predictor obtained from a block positioned at any of a plurality of predetermined positions in a second range that is broader than a first range that spatially neighbors the current block. The plurality of predetermined positions are defined by a regular interval using the top-left of a current picture as a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11889105
    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 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 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: 11889104
    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 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 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: 11889059
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. The circuitry: derives an absolute value of a sum of horizontal gradient values; derives, as a first parameter, the total sum of the absolute values of horizontal gradient values; derives, as a second parameter, the total sum of the absolute values of vertical gradient values; derives a horizontal-related pixel difference value; derives, as a third parameter, the total sum of the absolute values of horizontal-related pixel difference values; derives a vertical-related pixel difference value; derives, as a fourth parameter, the total sum of the absolute values of vertical-related pixel difference values; and generates a prediction image using the first to fourth parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Jing Ya Li, Ru Ling Liao, Chong Soon Lim, Han Boon Teo, Hai Wei Sun, Che Wei Kuo, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11889078
    Abstract: An image encoder/decoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. When a geometry of a block of a picture satisfies a first condition, the circuitry splits the block of the picture into sub blocks having a first set of geometries. When the geometry of the block does not satisfy the first condition, the circuitry splits the block of the picture into sub blocks having a second set of geometries, the second set of geometries being different from the first set of geometries. The circuitry encodes/decodes the sub blocks of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chong Soon Lim, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Ru Ling Liao, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11886588
    Abstract: An intrusion point identification device includes: a threat information collector that collects and stores threat information including identification information identifying a moving body, route information indicating a route through which the threat has intruded into the moving body, and discovery information indicating a discovery date of an attack; a vehicle log collector that collects logs, extracts, from the logs, histories of points that indicate locations of one or more moving bodies within a predetermined period, and stores the histories of the points as history information, the logs indicating points that indicate locations of the one or more moving bodies, the predetermined period being set based on the discovery information; an intrusion point identification unit that identifies an intrusion point of the threat from a first attack source through a first route among the points indicated in the history information; and an intrusion point notifier that outputs the intrusion point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryo Hirano, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11889103
    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 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 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: 11889512
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which monitors, during a first time period, a downlink channel of an unlicensed radio cell for a channel occupancy signal transmitted by a base station via the unlicensed radio cell. The channel occupancy signal indicates that the base station occupies the downlink channel. The UE receives the channel occupancy signal during the first time period from the base station and determines that the base station occupies the downlink channel based on the received channel occupancy signal. After determining that the base station occupies the downlink channel, the UE monitors, during a second time period, the downlink channel for downlink control information regarding a downlink transmission to be received by the user equipment. The UE receives the downlink control information during the second time period and receives subsequently the downlink transmission from the base station based on the received downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Ming-Hung Tao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ankit Bhamri, Quan Kuang
  • Patent number: 11883210
    Abstract: A method of controlling a device includes: obtaining information related to a body surface temperature of a person by detecting the body surface temperature of the person by a thermal camera, estimating a deep body temperature of the person on the basis of the information related to the body surface temperature of the person, detecting the person's condition on the basis of the deep body temperature of the person, and controlling an operation of the device according to the detected person's condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame, Aki Yoneda, Nawatt Silawan, Shinji Uchida, Tatsuo Itoh
  • Patent number: 11889075
    Abstract: Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry encodes an image block using the memory. In encoding the image block, the circuitry: obtains one or more size parameters related to a size of the image block; determines whether the one or more size parameters and one or more thresholds satisfy a determined relationship; encodes a split parameter when the one or more size parameters and the one or more thresholds are determined to satisfy the determined relationship, the split parameter indicating whether the image block is to be split into a plurality of partitions including a non-rectangular partition; and encodes the image block after splitting the image block into the plurality of partitions when the split parameter indicates that the image block is to be split into the plurality of partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 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: 11888518
    Abstract: A communication system includes: a plurality of cameras that generate image data by capturing images; a server that stores the image data generated by each of the plurality of cameras; and a plurality of transmission devices in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of cameras. Each of the plurality of transmission devices transmits light, including, as a visible light communication signal, information related to communication for accessing a storage location at which the image data generated by a corresponding one of the plurality of cameras is stored in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Nobuhiko Hashida
  • Publication number: 20240028791
    Abstract: An information processor is configured to: acquire room layout information on a building with multiple first spaces; acquire installation information on at least one of an apparatus and a facility that are installed in each first space of the multiple first spaces; set a use application for each of the first spaces based on the room layout information and the installation information; define at least one second space by grouping the multiple first spaces including at least one of integration of two or more first spaces and division of one first space based on the use application; and output a result of the grouping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hiroko IZUMI, Keiichi SENDA, Noriaki HORII
  • Publication number: 20240031385
    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: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu MAEDA, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240023751
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing method including: by a computer, acquiring information indicating a first recipe including multiple cooking processes and multiple blocks associated with the corresponding multiple cooking processes, the multiple blocks including first information indicating at least one of an apparatus and an instrument used in the multiple cooking processes; acquiring second information indicating one or more apparatuses and instruments possessed by a user and information indicating operation states of the one or more apparatuses and instruments indicated by the second information; generating a second recipe by deleting, from the first recipe, a block including one or more apparatuses and instruments that are included in the first information and are not included in the second information, and a block including one or more apparatuses and instruments having an operation state indicating being in operation; and outputting information indicating the second recipe to be displayed on a disp
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAOKA, Kenta MURAKAMI, Satoshi SUEMASU
  • Publication number: 20240027660
    Abstract: A light beam emission system includes a blower that forms a flow path in which aerosol flows, an emitter that emits a laser beam, and a light guide that guides the laser beam to the flow path in which the aerosol flows. The light guide is hollow, and at least a part of the laser beam passing through the light guide and guided to the flow path propagates along the flow path of the aerosol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MORIYAMA, Kohei NOMA, Hideki AOYAMA, Mitsuaki OSHIMA