Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property of America
  • Patent number: 9094997
    Abstract: A base station able to maintain backward compatibility with an LTE mobile station while minimizing the amount of increase in uplink scheduling information reception and demodulation/decoding processing in independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. A wireless communication system includes a cell #1, a cell #2, and an LTE-A mobile station, and supports independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. The base station of the cell #2 arranges a PDCCH+, which includes uplink scheduling information from the LTE-A mobile station to the base station of the cell #2, in a downlink data region in the downlink connection of the base station of the cell #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumasu, Shozo Okasaka, Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20150143394
    Abstract: A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property of America
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Kotaro Sakata, Masaki Yamauchi