Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property
  • Publication number: 20230133086
    Abstract: A display control device performs display control on the displays of a vehicle. The display control device includes an obtainer and a display controller. The obtainer obtains switching information indicating that switching between driving modes including an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode is to be performed in the vehicle. When the switching information indicates that first switching which is switching from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode is to be performed, the display controller causes, before completion of the first switching, (i) one of the displays (first display) to display first information indicating that the first switching is to be performed and third information indicating that another display (second display) is displaying second information for assisting the user of the vehicle in driving in the manual driving mode and (ii) the second display to display the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito OISHI, Tadahiro UCHIKOSHI, Shintaro MIIKE
  • Patent number: 11640104
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a light emitting element; a heat slinger including a first surface in contact with the light emitting element and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a thermoelectric element including a heat absorbing surface in contact with the second surface and a heat radiating surface opposite to the heat absorbing surface, the thermoelectric element producing a temperature difference upon having current flowing in the thermoelectric element; a heat sink in contact with the heat radiating surface; a frame body that is open in a stacking direction of the light emitting element, the heat slinger, the thermoelectric element, and the heat sink, and supports the light emitting element, the heat slinger, the thermoelectric element, and the heat sink in a stacked state; and a sealing member that is filled in the frame body to cover the heat slinger and the thermoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Matsui, Shigekazu Yamagishi, Toshihiko Matsuda, Makoto Morita
  • Patent number: 11640729
    Abstract: A sound output device provided in a vehicle includes: an obtainer that obtains a drive state of the vehicle; a generator that generates a simulated vehicle sound signal based on the drive state obtained; an outputter that outputs the simulated vehicle sound signal generated; a determiner that determines that a first wheel of the vehicle is free spinning when the drive state obtained suddenly changes; and a corrector that corrects the simulated vehicle sound signal generated based on the drive state that has suddenly changed, when the determiner determines that the first wheel is free spinning. The outputter outputs the simulated vehicle sound signal corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11641628
    Abstract: In a terminal, a selecting unit selects one generation method from a plurality of generation methods for reference signals (sounding reference signals (SRSs)). A radio transmitting unit transmits reference signals (SRSs) generated in accordance with the selected generation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomohumi Takata, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11640779
    Abstract: An image display system according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of image output devices and a plurality of image display devices that are connected to one another via a network. When a predetermined image output device that is one of the plurality of image output devices and a predetermined image display device that is one of the plurality of image display devices are connected, the predetermined image output device transmits a pairing start image signal to the predetermined image display device. The predetermined image display device receives the pairing start image signal transmitted from the predetermined image output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinao Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11639993
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes an antenna composed of an end-fire array antenna and including a plurality of antenna elements; and a circuit board in which the plurality of antenna elements is disposed side by side in a first direction. At least one of the plurality of antenna elements is parallel to a substrate surface of the circuit board. A directivity of at least one of the plurality of antenna elements is set to a third direction tilted with respect to the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiozaki, Yuto Suzuki, Tooru Miura, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11640576
    Abstract: A shelf monitoring device may be provided with a detector, a setter, a monitoring section, and an output section. The detector detects shelf labels attached to a display shelve to correspond to articles to be displayed on the display shelves, with video recognition of video data that includes the display shelves. Based on the position of the detected shelf label, the setter sets a monitoring area in which articles to be displayed on the display shelves in video data. The monitoring section monitors the shelving condition of the articles on the display shelves based on a change in video in response to the presence or absence of the article in the monitoring area. The output unit outputs the monitoring results according to the monitoring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yanagi, Takeshi Wakako, Tetsurou Kakizawa
  • Publication number: 20230127086
    Abstract: Provided is a behavior recognition device that selects a candidate behavior as a recognition candidate from among target behaviors based on position information on an image sensor and room layout information, acquires image data detected by the image sensor, determines one or more recognizers corresponding to the candidate behavior, calculates a feature value of the image data using the one or more recognizers, and recognizes the candidate behavior based on the feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Nobuhiko WAKAI, Kazuki KOZUKA, Shigehiro IIDA, Yohei NAKATA, Yumiko SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20230126289
    Abstract: A server device acquires location information indicating a location of a mobility, identification information on another mobility, the identification information being received from the other mobility by near field communication, and stop information indicating whether the mobility stops, from multiple mobilities; classifies two or more mobilities into a same mobility group, the two or more mobilities stopping and mutually receiving the identification information among the multiple mobilities; and specifies a stop place where the mobility group stops based on the location information on the two or more mobilities classified into the mobility group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Nobuaki TASAKI, Masahiro TAGUCHI, Ayaka MITANI
  • Publication number: 20230129603
    Abstract: A key management method serves as an electronic control unit (ECU) in an onboard network system having a plurality of ECUs that perform communication by frames via a network. The method includes storing, in a first-type ECU, a shared key to be mutually shared with second-type ECUs, and executing encryption processing regarding a framed transmitted or received via the network, based on the shared key. The method further includes executing, by the first-type ECU, inspection of a security state of the shared key stored by the second type ECUs in a case where a vehicle is in at least one of the following particular states, including immediately after the vehicle is not driving and is entering the accessory-on state, immediately after the vehicle is not driving and the vehicle is entering the accessory-off state, and immediately after the vehicle engine is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Jun ANZAI, Yoshihiko KITAMURA, Masato TANABE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230129491
    Abstract: An electroacoustic conversion device includes a vibration plate, an inner voice coil attached to the vibration plate, an outer voice coil attached to the vibration plate outside the inner voice coil to surround the inner voice coil, a magnet, a yoke, and the frame which holds the vibration plate and the yoke. The magnet includes a wiring portion which is in a form of a through hole or a notch in which inner signal lines for the inner voice coil are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi ITOH, Mitsukazu KUZE, Shinya KAGAWA, Kiyohisa HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230127044
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is mountable on a vehicle. The vehicle control device includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the vehicle control device to perform operations. The operations includes: acquiring detection information obtained by detecting an obstacle around the vehicle; performing collision determination of evaluating a possibility of collision with the obstacle, generating, based on the detection information, information on an approaching object that is an obstacle approaching the vehicle and information on a detection point group that is a set of detection points indicating an obstacle that does not move; and excluding the approaching object from collision determination in a case in which the detection point group has a shielding effect of shielding the vehicle from the approaching object. The shielding effect is evaluated by using a gap threshold that is set based on a vehicle width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa TAKAGI, Takeo TOMIDA, Yoshimasa OKABE
  • Publication number: 20230128234
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is mountable on a vehicle. The vehicle control device includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the vehicle control device to perform operations including: acquiring detection information obtained by detecting an obstacle around the vehicle; performing collision determination of evaluating a possibility of collision with the obstacle; generating, based on the detection information, information on an approaching object that is an obstacle approaching the vehicle and information on a detection point indicating an obstacle that does not move; estimating a position of a shielding object based on the information on the detection point; evaluating, based on the position of the shielding object and the information on the approaching object, a ghost likelihood indicating a possibility that the approaching object is a ghost; and excluding, based on the ghost likelihood, the approaching object from the collision determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa OKABE, Takeo TOMIDA, Toshimasa TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20230131342
    Abstract: An acoustic processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes one or more microphones, a first voice processing unit, and a second voice processing unit. The second voice processing unit is connectable between the microphones and the first voice processing unit. The second voice processing unit includes an operational amplifier, an output terminal, an attenuator, and a transistor. The output terminal is connectable to the first voice processing unit. The attenuator is electrically connected between an output node of the operational amplifier and the output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230128568
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, a face authentication system, and an information processing method which can improve the processing speed for collation that uses a face image of a person passing through a specific area. This information processing device includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring an image that is obtained by imaging, at a first site, a person who can ride a vehicle moving to a second site from the first site; and a processing unit for determining, on the basis of information about a face image contained in the image, a candidate of a person who can reach the second site with the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao KUBOTA, Yoshinori KUNIEDA, Yutaka YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230128084
    Abstract: This electrode for batteries is provided with: a core material; and a mixture layer which contains an active material and a binder, while being arranged on the surface of the core material. If the mixture layer is trisected in the thickness direction and the divided sections are defined as the first region, the second region and the third region sequentially from the core material side, the void fraction of the second region is higher than the void fraction of the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Takayama, Takao Kuromiya, Satoru Maeda, Rikiya Okimoto
  • Patent number: 11638349
    Abstract: A metal-clad laminate includes: an insulating layer; and a metal layer stacked on the insulating layer. The insulating layer includes: a first layer; and a second layer interposed between the first layer and the metal layer. The first layer contains a cured product of a first resin composition containing composite particles. The second layer contains a cured product of a second resin composition. The first resin composition contains composite particles, each having a core containing a fluororesin and a shell containing a silicon oxide that coats the core at least partially. The second resin composition may or may not contain composite particles. When the second resin composition contains the composite particles, a ratio of the composite particles in the second resin composition to solid content of the second resin composition is lower than a ratio of the composite particles in the first resin composition to solid content of the first resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dai Sasaki, Yasunori Nishiguchi, Kazuki Matsumura, Yohsuke Ishikawa, Hiroki Tamiya, Koji Kishino
  • Patent number: 11636615
    Abstract: A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs: acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring, from the memory, an infrared light image generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging a substantially same scene as the scene of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint as a viewpoint of imaging the infrared light image at a substantially same time as a time of imaging the infrared light image; detecting a flare region from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the flare region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the flare region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Takeo Azuma, Nobuhiko Wakai, Kohsuke Yoshioka, Noritaka Shimizu, Yoshinao Kawai, Takaaki Amada, Yoko Kawai, Takeshi Murai, Hiroki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11638012
    Abstract: An encoder encodes a video, and includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. Using the memory, the circuitry: obtains at least two items of prediction information for a first partition included in the video; derives at least one template from neighboring samples which neighbor the first partition; calculates at least two costs, using the at least one template and the at least two items of prediction information; using the at least two costs, (i) determines at least one splitting direction for the first partition or (ii) assigns one of the at least two items of prediction information to a second partition split from the first partition according to the splitting direction, and another thereof to a third partition split from the first partition according to the splitting direction; and encodes the first partition according to the splitting direction and the at least two items of prediction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    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: 11637277
    Abstract: A positive-electrode active material containing a compound that has a crystal structure belonging to the space group FM-3M and is represented by the composition formula (1): LixMeyO?F???(1) wherein Me denotes one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ni, Fe, and Al, and the following conditions are satisfied. 1.3?x?2.2, 0.8?y?1.3, 1???2.93, 0.07???2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Natsui, Kensuke Nakura