Patents Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property
  • Patent number: 11635225
    Abstract: A plurality of independent air conditioners, a first air conditioner (AC) (9a), a second AC (9b), and a third AC (9c), are disposed in an air conditioning room. Individual target temperatures of each habitable room that are acquired from an input/output terminal (19) and an outdoor temperature that is acquired by an outdoor temperature sensor (7) are input to a mode setter (32). Based on the individual target temperatures and the outdoor temperature, the mode setter (32) sets a cooling mode and a cooling setpoint temperature for operation in the cooling mode, or a heating mode and a heating setpoint temperature for operation in the heating mode, for each of the first AC (9a), the second AC (9b), and the third AC (9c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanematsu, Naoyuki Funada, Ayumi Konishi
  • Patent number: 11638213
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises primary connectivity radio (PCR) circuitry which, in operation, exchanges a wake up radio (WUR) mode setup frame with a communication partner apparatus in awake state; and wake up radio (WUR) circuitry which, in operation, receives a wake-up frame from the communication partner apparatus, wherein upon successful completion of the WUR mode setup frame exchange in mode other than WUR mode, the communication apparatus enters the WUR mode in which the WUR circuitry is in state to receive a WUR frame, and wherein upon receiving the wake-up frame by the WUR circuitry in the WUR mode, the PCR circuitry changes current state to the awake state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11637976
    Abstract: An imaging device including: a first photoelectric converter that generates a first signal by photoelectric conversion; a first transistor having a gate configured to be electrically coupled to the first photoelectric converter; a second photoelectric converter that generates a second signal by photoelectric conversion; a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal being configured to be electrically coupled to second photoelectric converter, a first potential being applied to the second terminal; and a switch element provided between the gate of the first transistor and the first terminal of the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuko Nishimura, Tokuhiko Tamaki, Masashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 11637733
    Abstract: A terminal (transmission apparatus) is disclosed, which is capable of appropriately configuring processing of a Post-IFFT section in accordance with a communication environment in signal waveform generation. In the terminal, an IFFT section performs IFFT processing on a transmission signal; a control section determines a signal waveform configuration for the transmission signal after the IFFT processing in accordance with a communication environment of the terminal; and the Post-IFFT section performs Post-IFFT processing on the transmission signal after the IFFT processing based on the determined signal waveform configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11636196
    Abstract: A misuse detection method used in an electronic control unit in a vehicle network system including multiple electronic control units that communicate with one another through networks. The misuse detection method includes receiving a target data frame at one time point, and receiving a reference data frame at another time point different than the one time point. The misuse detection method further includes performing, as misuse detection for the target data frame based on a certain rule specifying a reception interval between the one time point at which the target data frame is received and the other time point at which the reference data frame is received, and determining the target data frame received is for misuse based on a length of the reception interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Manabu Maeda, Hideki Matsushima, Hiroshi Amano, Toshihisa Nakano
  • Patent number: 11637287
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode material which further improves charge/discharge efficiency. The positive electrode material according to the present disclosure includes a positive electrode active material and a first solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material includes Li, M, and X, and does not include sulfur. M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li. X is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. The positive electrode active material includes a metal oxyfluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Sugimoto, Ryuichi Natsui, Izuru Sasaki, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11637626
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a transmission path estimator that estimates a first transmission path characteristic of a transmission signal using a vertical signal out of vertical and horizontal signals resulting from being received by a vertical polarization antenna and a horizontal polarization antenna; a transmission path estimator that estimates a second transmission path characteristic of the transmission signal using the horizontal signal; a weight calculator that calculates a first weight for the vertical signal and a second weight for the horizontal signal, using the first transmission path characteristic and the second transmission path characteristic; and a weighting applier that applies weighted summation to the vertical signal and the horizontal signal using the first weight and the second weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Tomohiro Kimura, Takayuki Sotoyama, Naoki Adachi, Naoya Shibaike, Shutai Okamura
  • Patent number: 11634065
    Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure includes: obtaining (receiving) position information (a danger warning signal) indicating a target position where a target object is present; determining whether the vehicle is driving autonomously or is being driven manually; when the vehicle is determined to be being driven manually, inspecting whether the target position is located within a predetermined region of a travel route of the vehicle based on the position information; when the target position is located within the predetermined region, changing the light transmission state of the headlight from a first state to a second state; and when the vehicle is determined to be driving autonomously and/or the target position is not located within the predetermined region, maintaining the light transmission state of the headlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Hasegawa, Daisuke Iwahashi, Hiroki Monta, Rumi Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 11638261
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved radio resource allocation performed by a vehicular mobile terminal. The vehicular mobile terminal determines whether to determine radio resources based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal or not, based on information received from an entity of the communication system. In case the radio resources are to be selected based on the location of the vehicular mobile terminal, the vehicular mobile terminal determines the location of the vehicular mobile terminal, and determines radio resources for communication with at least the second mobile terminal, based on the determined location of the vehicular mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11636877
    Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fukushima, Tokuo Nakatani, Nobuyuki Enoki, Kazuhiro Mochinaga, Masaya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11637552
    Abstract: A speed-up circuit is configured to be provided between a power supply terminal and a gate of a semiconductor switching element. An impedance element is configured to be provided between a signal input terminal and a node, the node being between the speed-up circuit and the gate of the semiconductor switching element. In the speed-up circuit, a second field effect transistor is connected in series to a first field effect transistor and is configured to be connected to the gate of the semiconductor switching element. The impedance element has an impedance higher than an impedance of the speed-up circuit when both the first field effect transistor and the second field effect transistor are in an ON state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinoshita, Takashi Ichiryu, Ryusuke Kanomata, Hidetoshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 11638287
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data transmitting device, data receiving device and the corresponding data transmitting method and data receiving method for transmitting/receiving data over a wireless channel in a communication system. In particular, a first resource grant is received for a data transmission in a subframe and a second resource grant for a data transmission of data in said subframe. Then, it is determined, according to which of the first resource grant and the second resource grant data are to be transmitted in the subframe; and the data is transmitted in the subframe according to the selected first grant or second grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11635506
    Abstract: One of a transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna includes a first antenna group and a second antenna group. The first antenna group includes one or more first antenna elements of which the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out at each first layout spacing following a first axis direction, and a shared antenna element. The second antenna group includes a plurality of second antenna elements and the one shared antenna element, and the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out in two columns at each second layout spacing following a second axis direction that is different from the first axis direction. The phase centers of the antenna elements included in each of the two columns differ from each other regarding position in the second axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Iwasa, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 11636002
    Abstract: An information processing device that detects an anomaly in an in-vehicle network provided in a vehicle includes: a local rule storage in which at least an individual rule which is a rule generated for the vehicle is stored; a global rule storage in which an integrated rule which is a rule generated for a plurality of vehicles including the vehicle is stored; and a processing unit that performs, using a rule stored in at least one of the local rule storage or the global rule storage, an anomaly detection process on a frame transmitted on the in-vehicle network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Takeuchi, Toshihisa Nakano, Kaoru Yokota, Yuishi Torisaki
  • Patent number: 11637278
    Abstract: An alkaline dry battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an alkaline electrolytic solution contained in the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the separator. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material including zinc, and an additive. The additive includes at least one selected from the group consisting of maleic acid, maleic anhydride and maleate salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kusumoto, Yasufumi Takahashi, Atsushi Fukui
  • Patent number: 11638068
    Abstract: A mobile entity tracking device is provided with: a video receiving unit for receiving a moving-image frame of a ball game captured by each of a plurality of cameras present at different positions; a mobile entity candidate extraction unit for extracting a candidate for a mobile entity using a plurality of moving-image frames; a mobile entity selection unit for displaying candidates for a mobile entity and accepting selection, by a user, of the mobile entity to be tracked; and a mobile entity tracking unit for tracking the mobile entity that is the object to be tracked. When the mobile entity selection unit accepts selection, by a user, of the mobile entity to be tracked, the mobile entity tracking unit corrects the object to be tracked to the mobile entity selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuma Katayama, Junko Ueda
  • Patent number: 11636201
    Abstract: A method used in an on-board network system, having electronic controllers that exchange messages and a fraud detecting electronic controller. The method includes determining whether a message transmitted conforms to fraud detection rules, and querying an external device whether there is delivery data for updating the fraud detection rules. When there is the delivery data for updating the fraud detection rules, receiving from an external device the delivery data, including updated fraud detection rules and network type information indicating a network type that the updated fraud detection rules are to be applied. The method also includes determining whether a vehicle in which the on-board network system is installed is running, and whether the network type information indicates a drive network that is connected to an electronic controller related to travel of the vehicle. When the network type information does not indicate the drive network, updating the fraud detection rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11637736
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a modulation circuit that modulates a data sequence using QAM by mapping the data sequence to only four symbols each of which differs in phase by 90 degrees from an adjacent one of the four symbols and at least two of which have different amplitudes; and a transmission circuit that wirelessly transmits the data sequence mapped to the four symbols through the modulation by the modulation circuit, by assigning the data sequence mapped to the four symbols through the modulation by the modulation circuit to different subcarriers for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Peter Klenner
  • Patent number: D984155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: D984622
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jura Sawada, Katsuyuki Tomonaga