Patents Assigned to PANASONIC
  • Patent number: 11495413
    Abstract: A film capacitor includes a first film, a second film, a first electrode part, and a second electrode part. The first electrode part is disposed on a first film surface of the first film. The second electrode part is disposed on a second film surface of the first film or the second film. The first film surface has a first non-electrode part extending along a longitudinal direction of the first film surface. The second film surface has a second non-electrode part extending along a longitudinal direction of the second film surface. A first region having a light transmittance ranging from 30% to 80%, inclusive, is disposed between the first electrode part and the first non-electrode part. A second region having a light transmittance ranging from 30% to 80%, inclusive, is disposed between the second electrode part and the second non-electrode part. A width of each of the first region and the second region is less than or equal to 0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahito Sano
  • Patent number: 11495855
    Abstract: An insulating plate for a secondary battery includes a wound electrode group, an electrolyte, a cylindrical battery case that houses the electrode group and the electrolyte, and a sealing body that seals an opening of the battery case and includes a discharge valve. The insulating plate is disposed between the electrode group and the sealing body and has a disk shape with a thickness T of 0.1 mm or more. The insulating plate has a first hole formed centrally therein and at least one second hole formed around the first hole so as to extend along the outer periphery of the disk shape. The ratio (=T/D) of the thickness T to a diameter D of the insulating plate is 0.016 or less, and the insulating plate has an opening ratio of 36% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Enomoto, Tomohiko Yokoyama, Yuji Yamagami, Kazutoshi Kohira
  • Patent number: 11495289
    Abstract: Connection weight coefficients to be used in a neural network computation are stored in a memory array. A word line drive circuit drives a word line corresponding to input data of a neural network. A column selection circuit connects to a computation circuit bit lines to which a connection weight coefficient to be computed is connected. The computation circuit determines the sum of cell currents flowing in the bit lines. A result of the determination made by the computation circuit is stored in an output holding circuit, and is set as an input of a neural network in the next layer, to the word line drive circuit. A control circuit instructs the word line drive circuit and the column selection circuit to select the word line and the bit line to be used in the neural network computation, based on information held in a network configuration information holding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuriko Hayata, Kazuyuki Kouno, Masayoshi Nakayama, Reiji Mochida, Takashi Ono, Hitoshi Suwa
  • Patent number: 11493739
    Abstract: A lens system is configured to form an image on an imaging element having a quadrilateral shape disposed on an optical axis, and includes a first free-curved lens being asymmetrical with respect to the optical axis. A free-curved surface of the first free-curved lens has positive refractive power at an intersection point between a circle separated from the optical axis by a length having a predetermined ratio with respect to a minimum image height and a first surface passing through the optical axis and parallel to longer sides of the imaging element, and negative refractive power at an intersection point between a circle separated from the optical axis by a length having the predetermined ratio with respect to the minimum image height and a second surface passing through the optical axis and parallel to shorter sides of the imaging element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshio Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20220353988
    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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dai SASAKI, Yasunori NISHIGUCHI, Kazuki MATSUMURA, Yohsuke ISHIKAWA, Hiroki TAMIYA, Koji KISHINO
  • Publication number: 20220350557
    Abstract: A display panel is capable of displaying a meter image that includes a pointer image constituting a pointer and a mark image constituting a mark pointed to by the pointer. A display controller controls a display state of the display panel. The display panel simultaneously displays a plurality of meter images including a first meter image and a second meter image and a background image encircling the plurality of meter images and is capable of switching the first meter image to a third meter image, which is the meter image of a type different from the first meter image, and displaying the third meter image. The display controller changes a display mode of at least one of the second meter image, the third meter image, or the background image when switching the first meter image to the third meter image and displaying the third meter image on the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro TAKADA, Hiroya OUE, Masao ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220353606
    Abstract: A sound pickup device includes a diaphragm that vibrates according to an acoustic pressure of input sound, an acoustic member having a sound channel formed to guide sound to the diaphragm, and a Helmholtz resonator having an opening formed in a wall surface surrounding the sound channel, in which the diaphragm is disposed inside a microphone in which a sound hole is formed, the acoustic member includes: a first substrate that has a through hole formed at the same position as the sound hole, and is attached to the microphone; and a second substrate that has the sound channel formed at a position corresponding to the through hole, and is attached to the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yuki TERASHIMA, Toshiyuki MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220352513
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode mixture layer, wherein the positive electrode mixture layer includes a positive electrode active material, a first binder, and a second binder; the positive electrode active material includes a composite oxide represented by the following formula (1): LiaNixCoyMe(1-x-y)O2 (1), where 0.97?a?1.2, 0.5?x?1, and 0?y?0.1; the element Me is at least one selected from the group consisting of Al, Mn, B, W, Sr, Mg, Mo, Nb, Ti, Si, and Zr; the first binder is a polymeric binder comprising at least a vinylidene fluoride unit; the second binder is a polymeric binder comprising at least a diene unit; and a ratio of the second binder to a total amount of the first binder and the second binder is 5 mass % or more and 35 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Harada, Rina Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220351219
    Abstract: Provided is a system which enables a business operator that operates a physical store to identify each customer and acquire related store use information, without any need for management of customers' face images at each store. A store use information distribution device includes a processor and an action history storage for storing action history information about customers' actions in the store. The processor is configured to: acquire face images of customers; generate face image IDs for identifying the face images of the customers; transmit the IDs to a business operator device; perform a customer segmentation operation on action history information based on segmentation criteria related to customers' store usage, to thereby assign the customers to segments; and transmit a set of face IDs of customers assigned to certain segments to the business operator device as the store use information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke SUETSUGI, Masataka SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 11490093
    Abstract: Provided is an encoder including circuitry and memory. In operation, the circuitry: derives one or more first motion vectors based on at least one of one or more motion vectors of a first block encoded in an affine mode; derives one or more second motion vectors based on at least one of one or more motion vectors of a second block that has been encoded and is different from the first block; and determines, as motion vector predictors at control points of a current block to be encoded, motion vectors including at least one of the first motion vectors and at least one of the second motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 11485646
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material includes a first crystal phase. The first crystal phase has a composition that is deficient in Li as compared with a composition represented by the following composition formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai, Masashi Sakaida, Yusuke Nishio, Akinobu Miyazaki, Shinya Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11487009
    Abstract: An image capture control device includes a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data, and a controller that controls an infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of transmission pulses to be emitted to a target, when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Hiroshi Iwamura, Osamu Shibata, Tomohiro Honda, Tomohito Nagata
  • Patent number: 11490025
    Abstract: A method includes setting an exposure time of an image sensor included in a terminal device so that, in an image obtained by capturing a subject by the image sensor, a bright line corresponding to each of a plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The method also includes obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines, by capturing the subject that changes in luminance by the image sensor with the set exposure time. The method further includes estimating a plurality of center areas each of which is in each of the plurality of bright lines, and obtaining identification information of the subject, by demodulating data specified by a pattern of the plurality of center areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Hideki Aoyama, Ikuo Fuchigami, Hidehiko Shin, Tsutomu Mukai, Yosuke Matsushita, Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada
  • Patent number: 11490043
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel array, a first converter, a second converter, a first ramp signal generation circuit that is disposed closer to the first converter than to the second converter and supplies a first ramp signal to the first converter and the second converter, a first connection line having one end connected to an output terminal of the first ramp signal generation circuit and including a portion extending away from an input terminal of the first converter in a path from the one end to the other end of the first connection line, and a second connection line having one end connected to the other end of the first connection line and the other end connected to the input terminal and including a portion extending closer to the input terminal in a path from the one end to the other end of the second connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11490001
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to capture a subject to generate image data; an audio input device configured to input audio to generate an audio signal indicating audio to be collected during image capturing with the image sensor; a setting interface configured to set the imaging apparatus to an auto mode being an operation mode operable to automatically change a directivity of the audio input device in response to an instruction of a user; and a controller configured to control a sound collection area for collecting sound from the subject in the audio signal, wherein with the auto mode being set by the setting interface, the controller is configured to control the sound collection area to cover the subject by changing the directivity of the audio input device in linkage with an image shooting state of the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kasugai, Shinichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11490373
    Abstract: In a terminal, a control unit decides a sequence used for an uplink control channel, in accordance with uplink control information, and a transmission unit transmits the uplink control information using the sequence. Here, the sequence is calculated using cell identification information that identifies the cell to which the terminal belongs, and subcell-specific information relating to at least one subcell included in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11490076
    Abstract: An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, stores a first parameter into a bitstream, the first parameter indicating, as a prediction mode, one of (i) a multiple prediction mode in which a prediction image is generated by overlapping an inter prediction image of a current block and an intra prediction image of the current block and (ii) one of a plurality of prediction modes including a non-rectangular mode in which a prediction image is generated for each non-rectangular partition in the current block, and encodes the current block according to the prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ru Ling Liao, Chong Soon Lim, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11489564
    Abstract: According to a communication method of the present disclosure, a responder, after the end of transmission sector sweep (TXSS), receives from an initiator a first feedback frame including a BF training type FIELD indicating whether or not to implement a beam forming training (BFT) of a single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO). If the BF training type FIELD indicates that a BFT of the SU-MIMO is to be implemented, the responder transmits to the initiator a second feedback frame based on the result of the TXSS and including a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and a sector identifier (ID) order. The initiator implements the BFT of the SU-MIMO between the initiator and the responder on the basis of the SNR and the sector ID order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11486903
    Abstract: Controlling a switching element in accordance with a voltage output from a signal amplifying circuit enables adjusting a voltage to be received by a current calculation circuit. Even when a range of a air volume to be used is wide and a range of output of a DC motor is wide, or a current flowing through the DC motor has a wide range, a resistance value of a shunt resistor and an amplification factor of a signal amplifying circuit are not required to be reduced, and thus current detection accuracy of the DC motor can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoya Nakagaki
  • Patent number: D968397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Azuma, Taichiro Ishii