Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10152826
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system includes: a data producing system that produces position information of an object; a cloud server that receives the position information produced by the data producing system; and a terminal device connectable to the cloud server through a network. The terminal device includes: an imaging unit that produces an image data; a camera attitude estimating unit that estimates an attitude of the imaging unit from the image data; a data receiving unit that receives a content and the position information regarding the content from the cloud server; a data overlaying unit that transforms the position information correspondingly to the attitude of the imaging unit estimated by the camera attitude estimating unit, and overlays the content on the image data based on a reference position indicated by the transformed position information to obtain an overlay image data; and a display unit that displays the overlay image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Saito
  • Patent number: 10050262
    Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, capable of improving the energy density and the cycle characteristics of the battery without lowering the initial charge/discharge efficiency of the battery. This negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material including a silicon oxide represented by SiOx and carbon material. A proportion of a mass of the silicon oxide relative to a total mass of the silicon oxide and the carbon material: y satisfies 0.03?y?0.3. A difference between a theoretical capacity density of the negative electrode active material and a charge capacity density of the negative electrode active material when a cutoff voltage is 5 mV relative to lithium metal: ?C (mAhg?1) satisfies L=?C/100 and 6y?L?12y+0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Suehiro, Taisuke Yamamoto, Tatsuki Hiraoka, Katsumi Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 10038849
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an optical system including a plurality of lenses, an imaging element that images a subject image formed by the optical system, a shake detector that detects a shake of the imaging device, a lens driving controller that moves one of the plurality of lenses on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis based on an output signal from the shake detector to correct the shake, an imaging element driver that moves the imaging element on the plane perpendicular to the optical axis, an imaging controller that causes the imaging element to perform an imaging operation to obtain image data, and an image processor that performs a plural number of the imaging operations while moving the imaging element by a predetermined amount and synthesizes a plurality of obtained images to generate a synthesis image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Sakurai
  • Patent number: 9755539
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a first detection circuit that acquires input information about an AC voltage and/or an alternating current which are inputted to the power conversion device from an AC power supply, a rectifier circuit, an inverter circuit including a switch, and a control circuit that generates a pulse signal for the switch while the control circuit (A) determines, based on the input information, whether the rectifier circuit is in a state in which the rectifier circuit allows switching noise to propagate from the switch to the AC power supply and (B) changes a frequency of the pulse signal with time at least in a period in which the rectifier circuit is in the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Kazuyuki Sakiyama
  • Patent number: 9749714
    Abstract: An information notification apparatus includes: a communication unit which receives first device information and first history information from a first device and then transmits notification; an information collection database which holds, based on the first device information received by the communication unit, the received first history information in association with the held first device information; a determination unit which determines need to transmit notification of the first device when information included in the first history information held in the information collection database satisfies a condition; a display device designation unit which designates, based on destination information and the received first device information, a display device on which notification of the first device is to be displayed; and a generation unit which generates notification when the determination unit determines need to transmit the notification of the first device, wherein the communication unit transmits the gener
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Umetani, Yuji Unagami, Michiko Sasagawa, Kazunori Isogai, Motoji Ohmori
  • Patent number: 9581693
    Abstract: An ultrasound sensor includes a transmitting/receiving device configured to transmit/receive ultrasound waves; and a controller configured to make the transmitting/receiving device transmit an ultrasound burst wave, as each of the ultrasound waves, and detect an object through a reception signal that is output from the transmitting/receiving device. The controller is configured to shift operation mode to a detecting mode, when the object is detected in a monitoring mode. In the monitoring mode, the number of waves included in the ultrasound burst wave is changed in two stages. The detecting mode is of detecting the object, using the ultrasound burst wave having the waves that are being used at a time point when the object is detected in the monitoring mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Urase
  • Patent number: 9565781
    Abstract: A holding apparatus includes a holding member that holds an electronic apparatus, a supporting member that is connected to the holding member and supports the holding member, and a first pushing member and a second pushing member which are disposed between the holding member and the supporting member. When the first pushing member is handled by the user, the first pushing member pushes the second pushing member in the first direction toward the holding member, and pushes the holding member in the second direction toward the supporting member and opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Asano
  • Patent number: 9472094
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion for displaying a video, a generator for generating a synchronization signal including a command signal synchronized with display of frame images of the video and a transmitter for transmitting the synchronization signal. The command signal including a predetermined member of pulse signals has a leading pulse signal for notifying a start of the command signal, a terminal pulse signal for notifying an end of the command signal and a control pulse signal for notifying a content of synchronization control synchronized with the display of the frame images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mihara, Hiroshi Mitani, Shuji Inoue, Masanobu Inoe, Katsuo Saigo, Seiji Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 9428366
    Abstract: A link has first and second ends coupled, so as to be axially shiftable, respectively to two shafts that include a reference point located in a base and cross each other. A gas actuator has an inner space that has gas pressure pressing the first end of the link toward the reference point so as to shift the first end of the link such that a distance between a first end position of the link and the reference point is equal to or more than a distance between the first and second ends in a state where the inner space has a volume equal to zero obtained by extrapolating variation of the inner space volume relative to the first end position. The second end and a lift section that is vertically shiftable with respect to the base are coupled by means of a coupling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Asai
  • Patent number: 9368153
    Abstract: A disc device records or reproduces information in or from a disc stored in a disc cartridge. The disc cartridge includes a casing having a front face with an opening for receiving the disc; and a cover closing the opening of the casing. The cover includes a slider moving along a side face of the casing, a shutter closing the opening; and a hinge part rotatably coupling the shutter to the slider. The disc device includes a stopper contacting the slider when the disc cartridge is inserted into the disc device to restrict movement of the slider in an insertion direction, and a cam part separating the hinge part from a contact region between the shutter and the casing when or before the casing further moves with the stopper restricting movement of the slider and the shutter is pressed by the casing to rotate about the hinge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Shiomi, Yukio Morioka, Yuji Ariyoshi, Masakazu Ishizuka, Yasuhisa Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9223054
    Abstract: A proximity sensor detects an object to be detected. The proximity sensor includes a board; at least three light emitting portions which are mounted on a surface of the board such that not all the light emitting portions is arranged on a straight line, and which emits light; and a light receiving portion which is mounted on the surface of the board so as to have a predetermined positional relationship with the three light emitting portions, and which receives reflected light derived from light emitted from the light emitting portions and reflected by the object to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke Morita
  • Patent number: 9202112
    Abstract: A monitoring device is provided with a person image analyzer which has a person detector which detects a person from captured moving images and acquires positional information which relates to a person area, and an area state determinator which determines an area state which indicates the state of people in the person area based on the positional information, a mask image setter which sets the mask image which corresponds to the area state, and a moving image output controller which generates and outputs output moving images where the person area is changed to the mask image which corresponds to the area state based on the positional information and the area state which are output from the person image analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ueta, Yuichi Matsumoto, Kazuma Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9106856
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: an imaging region; a peripheral circuit region; photodiodes arranged in rows and columns in the imaging region; output circuits in the imaging region for outputting, to the outside of the imaging region, pixel signals corresponding to electric charges photoelectrically converted in the photodiodes; a read circuit in the peripheral circuit region for reading the pixel signals from the imaging region; and signal lines extending in a column direction to connect output circuits to the read circuit. One pixel cell includes two photodiodes adjacent in a row direction and an output circuit. An output circuit in a first pixel cell is adjacent, in the row direction, to a second pixel cell adjacent to the first pixel cell in the column direction and shifting from the first pixel cell by one column of the photodiodes in the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ohtsuki, Masashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9084300
    Abstract: An induction cooking device includes a control unit and a plurality of light-emitting parts. The control unit includes a heating control unit that controls the output of an inverter circuit and a light-emission control unit that controls the light emission. When receiving a command for starting with one heating coil, the control unit turns on only the light-emitting parts provided near the outer circumference of the heating coil for starting heating, and when receiving a command for starting heating with two or more adjacent heating coils, the control unit turns off the light-emitting parts disposed between the heating coils for starting heating among the light-emitting parts provided near the outer circumference of each one of the heating coils for starting heating, and turns on the remaining light-emitting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kataoka, Takaaki Kusaka, Kazunori Takechi
  • Patent number: 9006778
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting device includes: an uneven substrate having an uneven structure in which recesses are formed; a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductive type formed on the uneven structure; a first light emitting layer formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductive type formed on the light emitting layer, wherein each protrusion has a bottom made of a material or composition having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than the thermal expansion coefficient of the material or composition of the first nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nozaki, Toshiyuki Takizawa, Kazuhiko Yamanaka
  • Patent number: RE48538
    Abstract: A ceiling fan includes blade (11) that is integrally formed of root (12), vane (13), and step (14) for maintaining vane (13) in a state inclined from horizontal. Blade (11) includes bend (16) on upstream side (11c), first reinforcement (17) on upstream downstream side (11c) (11b), and a plurality of second reinforcements (18) between bend (16) and first reinforcement (17). First reinforcement length (17a) is longer than second reinforcement length (18a). Further, the ceiling fan includes blade drop prevention portion (37) for locking blade (11) to support (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Mangement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kuramochi, Hironari Ogata, Daiki Sakito