Panasonic Patents
Panasonic Corporation manufactures and sells electronic and electric products. Its products include audiovisual equipment (such as flat-panel televisions, Blu-ray recorders, digital cameras, PCs projectors and in-flight entertainment systems), home appliances (such as cooking, beauty, cooling and heating equipment), systems and communications products (such as mobile phones and surveillance and security cameras). Panasonic also offers lighting, automotive systems (such as car navigation systems) and industrial devices (such as electronic components, electronic materials, semiconductors and optical devices).
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Publication number: 20240088390Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure comprises: an electrode body in which a belt-shaped positive electrode and a belt-shaped negative electrode are wound with a separator therebetween; an electrolyte; and an outer case which accommodates the electrode body and the electrolyte. The negative electrode has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer which is formed on a surface of the negative electrode current collector and which contains a negative electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The negative electrode mixture layer has a region in which the solid electrolyte content in the inner winding end part is higher than the solid electrolyte content in the outer winding end part, and the solid electrolyte content continuously decreases from the inner winding end part side to the outer winding end part side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumikazu Mizukoshi, Nobuhiro Sakitani
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Publication number: 20240087301Abstract: An imaging control device includes a correct answer information acquiring part that acquires first correct answer information corresponding to a training image of a machine learning model from a first storage part, a correct answer image display control part that causes a display device to display a first correct answer image based on the first correct answer information, an imaging control part that causes an imaging device that acquires a blurred image to capture the first correct answer image displayed on the display device and acquires a second correct answer image, a correct answer information generating part that generates second correct answer information based on the second correct answer image, and a storage control part that stores a data set including a set of the training image and the second correct answer information in a second storage part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Satoshi SATO, Yasunori ISHII, Kunio NOBORI
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Publication number: 20240087570Abstract: A voice recognition device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a first feature amount that is a feature amount of input voice data acquired by a first acquisition unit; an estimation unit that estimates a driving situation of a mobile object on the basis of operation information acquired by a second acquisition unit; an extraction unit that extracts, from a feature amount database, a second feature amount corresponding to the driving situation; a recognition unit that recognizes an input command on the basis of similarity between the first feature amount and the second feature amount; and an output unit that outputs a recognition result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Takahiro KAMAI, Kousuke ITAKURA, Misaki DOI, Katsunori DAIMO
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Publication number: 20240088372Abstract: Active material particles include composite particles each containing a lithium silicate phase, and a silicon phase dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a first coating covering at least part of surfaces of the composite particles. The first coating contains an oxide of a first element with low crystallinity, and a carbon material, the oxide and the carbon material being mixed together. The first element is an element other than non-metallic elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuhei Uchida, Yoshinori Satou
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Publication number: 20240086226Abstract: A monitoring system is for monitoring a vehicle or a monitoring target that operates inside the vehicle, and the monitoring system includes: a reliability manager that manages reliability indicating a security protection state of the monitoring target, according to a vehicle event of the vehicle; and a function restrictor that places a restriction on at least a part of functions of the monitoring target, according to the reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Ryo HIRANO, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240088352Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material for secondary batteries that is capable of inhibiting negative electrode swelling and the decline of the charge/discharge cycle characteristics of a battery. A negative electrode active material for secondary batteries according to the present disclosure is characterized by including a Si-based material, activated carbon, and a conductive material, and in that the Si-based material and the conductive material are carried in pores of the activated carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru Inoue, Motohiro Sakata, Akihiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20240085773Abstract: A fluorescence emitting module includes: a fluorescent substrate consisting essentially of a sintered fluorescent substance that includes a fluorescent material; and a rotator that rotates the fluorescent substrate about an axis extending in a thickness direction of the fluorescent substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke HONDA, Shinichi KITAOKA, Noriyasu NAKASHIMA, Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20240086548Abstract: An anomaly detection system includes: a register value collector that collects register values of register numbers from a controller; a future state predictor that predicts a future state of the control system; a blacklist creator that creates a blacklist based on a prediction result; an anomaly determiner that determines whether the control system enters an anomalous state by checking the collected register values against the blacklist; and an outputter that outputs a determination result. The blacklist creator defines, as the blacklist: a predicted register number that is predicted, if a register value of the predicted register number is changed, to cause the control system to enter the anomalous state in the future; and a range of the register value within which the control system is predicted to enter the anomalous state, and dynamically creates the blacklist corresponding to a combination of the collected register values.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Rikiya HIRAISHI, Takuji HIRAMOTO, Tatsumi OBA
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Publication number: 20240084133Abstract: One aspect of the present application relates to a polyphenylene ether resin composition including a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A) that is terminally modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond, and a crosslinking-type curing agent (B) having two or more carbon-carbon unsaturated double bonds in each molecule, the modified polyphenylene ether compound (A) including a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A-1) having a specific structure, and a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A-2) having a specific structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki UMEHARA, Fumito SUZUKI, Jun YASUMOTO, Hiroharu INOUE
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Publication number: 20240083283Abstract: In a battery abnormality prediction system, an acquisition unit acquires a current flowing through a battery and a temperature of the battery. A prediction unit predicts the occurrence of an abnormality in the battery, based on a relationship between the amount of the current flowing through the battery for a certain period of time and a rise in the temperature of the battery for the certain period of time. The prediction unit may compare the ratio of an integrated amount of current to the temperature rise for the certain period of time with a threshold determined based on data on the battery having caught fire and thereby predict a sign of fire to be caught by the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: YUSUKE ITAKURA, MUTSUHIKO TAKEDA, SHINYA NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240085772Abstract: A fluorescence emitting element includes: a wavelength conversion member that is plate-shaped and includes a fluorescent material, the wavelength conversion member including a first principal surface and a second principal surface that is on an opposite side from the first principal surface; and a metal film bonded to at least one surface out of the first principal surface and the second principal surface. In a plan view of the wavelength conversion member, the wavelength conversion member includes a region that does not overlap the metal film, and the metal film includes a bonding surface that is bonded to the at least one surface, and an exposed surface on an opposite side from the bonding surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyasu NAKASHIMA, Yosuke HONDA, Shinichi KITAOKA, Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20240084245Abstract: A modified cyanobacterium in which a total amount of a protein involved in binding between an outer membrane and a cell wall of cyanobacterium is suppressed to at least 30 percent and at most 70 percent of a total amount of the protein in a parent strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seiji Kojima
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Publication number: 20240086541Abstract: An integrity verification device, in which software is executed by one of one or more electronic control units connected to an in-vehicle network system, includes: a verification schedule determiner that determines a verification timing at which to verify the integrity of the software; an integrity verifier that, for the software, determines, at the verification timing determined for the software, whether first integrity information, that is information for verifying the integrity of the software and that corresponds to at least part of the software corresponding to a verification scope, matches second integrity information, that is information calculated from at least part of the software at the verification timing, and determines that the integrity of the software is ensured when the first integrity information and the second integrity information match; and a verification priority determiner that determines a verification priority that affects determining of the verification timing or the verification scopType: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Ryo HIRANO, Yoshihiro UJIIE
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Publication number: 20240086290Abstract: A monitoring device includes three or more monitors each monitoring, as a monitoring target, at least one of software and a communication log. The three or more monitors include a first monitor operating with a first execution privilege, a second monitor operating with a second execution privilege having a reliability level lower than the first execution privilege, and a third monitor operating with a third execution privilege having a reliability level that is the same as the second execution privilege or that is lower than the second execution privilege. The first monitor monitors software of the second monitor, and at least one of the first monitor or the second monitor monitors software of the third monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ryo HIRANO, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Jun ANZAI, Yoshiharu IMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11926054Abstract: A determination value calculated based on a distance from a work point of a tip of robot arm (10) to virtual straight line (30) passing through an axis of second joint (J2) and an axis of third joint (J3) is compared with a predetermined threshold. A method of calculating deflection compensation amounts for second joint (J2) and third joint (J3) is changed depending on whether the determination value is larger or smaller than the threshold. Second joint (J2) and third joint (J3) are caused to pivot based on the calculated deflection compensation amounts.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Ueda, Hiroyuki Nakata, Atsumi Hashimoto, Ryosuke Yamamoto, Masayoshi Iwatani
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Patent number: 11926502Abstract: A transport device transports an individualized sheet-shaped workpiece. The transport device includes: an annular transport belt having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and having a plurality of suction holes extending between the first surface and the second surface; first and second decompression chambers arranged along a moving direction of the transport belt; and a vacuum degree adjusting mechanism provided in the first decompression chamber and adjusting a vacuum degree in the first decompression chamber. The first and second decompression chambers each abut against the second surface, and each suction the workpiece through at least one of the plurality of suction holes toward the first surface such that the transport belt is capable of transporting the workpiece in the moving direction in a suspended state from the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentarou Adachi, Takafumi Kaneda, Hayase Minoura, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11928544Abstract: An article management system includes an acquirer and a management unit. The acquirer is configured to acquire identification information and management information. The identification information is information read from an electronic tag by the reading device in each of a plurality of bases in a distribution channel for an article, the electronic tag being attached to the article and storing the identification information. The management information is information collected in association with the identification information in a corresponding one of the plurality of bases, the management information relating to management of the article. The management unit is configured to manage the article with reference to the identification information and the management information which are acquired by the acquirer in each of the plurality of bases.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Okada, Akifumi Nagao, Kou Inoue, Takaaki Sato
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Patent number: 11925590Abstract: An electric wheelchair includes a main frame; a drivable wheel supported by the main frame; an electric motor disposed on the main frame and configured to drive the drivable wheel; a clutch configured to switch a power transmission path from the electric motor to the drivable wheel between an engagement state and a disengagement state; and a clutch operation handle configured to be moved in a predetermined range in an up-down direction. The clutch operation handle is configured to operate the clutch so as to be in: (i) one of the engagement state or the disengagement state when the clutch operation handle is stopped at a lowest position of the predetermined range; and (ii) the other of the engagement state or the disengagement state when the clutch operation handle is stopped at a highest position of the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Nagata, Motoki Hirose, Takeshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11929771Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kaga, Toshihiro Nagayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yasunori Komukai, Shinichi Okada, Yasumichi Takai, Yoshinori Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11925305Abstract: An autonomous travel-type cleaner includes a housing, a drive unit for moving the housing, an incoming call detector that detects whether or not there is an incoming call to a communication terminal, a person detector that detects whether or not a person is present within a first range, an incoming call notification unit (for example, a light source and a speaker) for notifying of presence of an incoming call, and a controller. The controller controls a notification operation of the incoming call notification unit based on a detection result of the person detector and a detection result of the incoming call detector.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichiro Nishioka, Yuko Tsusaka
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Patent number: 11929895Abstract: A communication log aggregation device includes: a communicator that obtains flow information including one or more flow records and first statistical information for each flow from each of collection devices, the one or more flow records each including flow identification information included in a message received by at least one observer that is disposed in a control network system, the flow being classified based on the flow identification information, the collection devices each collecting the one or more flow records and the first statistical information for each flow from the message received by the observer; and a flow aggregator that generates aggregated flow information by performing at least one of the following: (i) selecting at least one of the one or more flow records, (ii) adding second statistical information, and (iii) deleting at least one of the one or more flow records, and outputs the aggregated flow information.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie
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Patent number: 11925304Abstract: An information processing method in a server device includes obtaining first information obtained by at least one of one or more sensors installed in a space, detecting the breakage of an article present in the space based on the first information, estimating a situation where the breakage of the article occurred based on the first information, and outputting second information for causing a self-propelled device to perform a predetermine operation in the space according to the estimated situation.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takanori Ogawa, Masashi Koide
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Patent number: 11929654Abstract: Inclined surfaces are formed in areas adjacent to a tooth protruding from the inner circumferential surface of the yoke, on both sides in a motor rotation circumferential direction, and the inclined surfaces are inclined or curved toward a protruding direction of the tooth as a distance from the tooth increases in the motor rotation circumferential direction. The conductive wire includes parts extending in the motor rotation circumferential direction on both sides of the tooth in the motor rotational shaft direction in each of first to n-th turns, and bent portions bending in a thickness direction of the conductive wire are formed in the parts so as to align in a winding axis direction through the width of the conductive wire. Portions of the conductive wire on are inclined toward the protruding direction of the associated tooth as the distance from the bent portion increases in the motor rotation circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Ukaji, Mitsuoki Hishida
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Patent number: 11927750Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an image source emitting a light field. A first freeform mirror is positioned to provide a first reflection of the light field. A generally concave second freeform mirror is positioned to receive the first reflection and provide a second reflection of the light field. The second reflection is reflected off of a windshield of the vehicle so as to be visible to a driver of the vehicle as a virtual image. The generally concave second freeform mirror includes a reflective surface having a shape such that the virtual image appears to be curved to the driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Patrick O'Connell, Edo Omanovic
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Patent number: 11929221Abstract: An interrupter includes a gas producer, an actuator pin, and an electrical conductor. The electrical conductor includes a first terminal portion, a first separable portion, a second terminal portion, and a second separable portion. The second separable portion is electrically connected to the first separable portion in parallel. A first timing when the first separable portion starts to be cut off from the first terminal portion is earlier than a second timing when the second separable portion starts to be cut off from the second terminal portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa Fukuda, Kazuhisa Kinoshita, Shinya Kimoto, Kenji Kanematsu, Masato Nakamura
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Patent number: 11927532Abstract: A component analysis device includes a data acquisition circuit that acquires spectral data of an analyte containing components, the spectral data being obtained by measuring a spectrum of the analyte with a sensor, a type acquisition circuit that acquires information indicating a type of the analyte, a storage that stores a reference spectral data set including multiple spectral data of substances each of which is estimated to be included in the analyte, the reference spectral data set corresponding to the type of the analyte, and an analysis circuit that performs a parallel factor analysis by using, as input data, the spectral data of the analyte and the reference spectral data set.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mariko Miyashita, Tatsushi Ohyama
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Patent number: 11929972Abstract: An information processing method executed by a computer to control notification by a plurality of terminals (first terminal and second terminal) associated with an appliance includes: obtaining information defining, for each state of a plurality of possible states of the appliance, whether the state is a predetermined state that requires the notification by all of the first terminal and the second terminal; obtaining a state of the appliance; determining whether the state of the appliance obtained is the predetermined state; performing control to cause all of the first terminal and the second terminal to make the notification, when it is determined that the state of the appliance is the predetermined state; and performing control to cause a specific terminal out of the first terminal and the second terminal to make the notification, when it is determined that the state of the appliance is not the predetermined state.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Okubo, Mariko Nakaso, Hiroko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11927748Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a lens unit including a plurality of lenses stacked on each other to guide light to the imaging unit, a heater member used for a heater configured to heat a top lens closest to an object among the lenses included in the lens unit, and a reflection suppressor disposed between a region outside of an effective region of the top lens and the heater member, the reflection suppressor being configured to suppress light reflection. The reflection suppressor includes a first reflection suppressor disposed on the top lens side and having an uneven surface, and a second reflection suppressor disposed on the heater member side, the first reflection suppressor being layered on the second reflection suppressor. A surface of the second reflection suppressor facing the heater member is smoother than a surface of the second reflection suppressor facing the first reflection suppressor.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Okada, Katsumi Umeda
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Patent number: 11929083Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a processor; and a memory having instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the signal processing device to perform operations. The operations include performing a modulation processing of modulating a sound signal by using a modulation parameter based on an interaural phase difference at a listening position of the sound signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Tao, Kanro Oyama
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Patent number: 11929953Abstract: Provided are a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and methods thereof. The transmitting apparatus includes: circuitry, which, in operation, generates a signal including a first type of reference signal used for demodulation and a second type of reference signal used for demodulation; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the signal, wherein the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is mapped to a first resource, and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is mapped to a second resource, the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for a first physical control channel and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for a second physical control channel; or the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for PSCCH and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for PSSCH.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11929949Abstract: An integrated circuit includes generation circuitry and transmission circuitry. The generation circuitry uses a reference size for a search space to generate downlink control information (DCI) in a first DCI format used for sidelink communications. The transmission circuitry transmits the DCI in the first DCI format mapped on the search space. When a second DCI format used for base station communications is mapped on the search space and the second DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, the reference size for the search space is based on the second DCI format. When a third DCI format used for sidelink communications is mapped on the search space and the third DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, and the second DCI format larger than the third DCI format is not mapped on the search space, the reference size is based on the third DCI format.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
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Patent number: 11930206Abstract: An encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry generates a list which includes candidates for a first motion vector for a first partition. The list has a maximum list size and an order of the candidates, and at least one of the maximum list size or the order of the candidates is dependent on at least one of a partition size or a partition shape of the first partition. The circuitry selects the first motion vector from the candidates included in the list; encodes an index indicating the first motion vector among the candidates in the list into the bitstream based on the maximum list size; and generates the predicted image for the first partition using the first motion vector.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Chong Soon Lim, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Ru Ling Liao, Jing Ya Li, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
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Patent number: 11930021Abstract: An unauthorized frame detection device that can keep an unauthorized ECU from spoofing as a legitimate server or client while suppressing an overhead during communication is provided. The unauthorized frame detection device includes a plurality of communication ports corresponding to the respective of networks, a communication controller, and an unauthorized frame detector. The plurality of communication ports are each connected to a corresponding predetermined network among the plurality of networks and each transmit or receive a frame via the predetermined network. The unauthorized frame detector determines whether an identifier of a service, a type of the service, and port information that are each included in the frame match a permission rule set in advance and outputs a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Tomoyuki Haga
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Patent number: 11929102Abstract: A decoding system decodes a video stream, which is encoded video information. The decoding system includes a decoder that acquires the video steam and generates decoded video information, a maximum luminance information acquirer that acquires maximum luminance information indicating the maximum luminance of the video stream from the video stream, and an outputter that outputs the decoded video information along with the maximum luminance information. In in a case where the video stream includes a base video stream and an enhanced video stream, the decoder generates base video information by decoding the base video stream, an enhanced video information by decoding the enhanced video stream, and generates the decoded video information based on the base video information and the enhanced video information, and the outputter outputs the decoded video information, along with the maximum luminance information.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Tadamasa Toma, Tomoki Ogawa
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Patent number: 11929661Abstract: An in-vehicle power supply device includes an input end configured to be connected to an in-vehicle secondary battery, an output end configured to be connected to an in-vehicle load, an external signal input port configured to receive an activation signal, a first converter unit connected to the input end and the output end, and a second converter unit connected in parallel to the first converter unit. The first converter unit includes a first drive power supply configured to constantly receive power suppled from the input end, and a first voltage converter operable in response to the power received by the first drive power supply to constantly output power from the output end.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Hideki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11928726Abstract: An information processing method in a server device includes obtaining first information on an object to be sucked by a self-propelled vacuum cleaner, specifying a first article constituted by the object to be sucked based on the first information, specifying a second article relating to the first article based on second information on the first article and third information on an owner of the first article, and outputting fourth information on the specified second article.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Takanori Ogawa
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Patent number: 11928844Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding geometry information of each of three-dimensional points based on one of a first geometry information encoding method of encoding using octree division and a second geometry information encoding method of encoding without using octree division; and generating a bitstream including the geometry information encoded and a geometry information flag indicating whether the encoding was performed based on the first geometry information encoding method or the second geometry information encoding method. In the generating of the bitstream: when the encoding is performed based on the first geometry information encoding method, the bitstream including a parameter set used in octree division is generated; and when the encoding is performed based on the second geometry information encoding method, the bitstream not including the parameter set used for octree division is generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
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Patent number: 11928974Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: a sensor that includes at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines quality of a target sound using the sound data generated by the microphone, obtains a positional relationship between the unmanned aircraft and a sound source of the target sound using data generated by the sensor, and controls movement of the unmanned aircraft to control a distance between the unmanned aircraft and the sound source of the target sound, in accordance with the quality of the target sound and the positional relationship.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Stephen William John, Kazunobu Konishi, Katsuhiko Asai, Kazuo Inoue, Shunsuke Kuhara
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Publication number: 20240078128Abstract: A control device is mountable on a vehicle. The control device includes a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to implement a first hypervisor and a second hypervisor. The first hypervisor controls execution of a first virtual machine. The second hypervisor performs communication with the first hypervisor via a gateway and controls execution of a second virtual machine. The hardware processor is configured to dynamically limit at least one of a communication traffic of application communication or a communication traffic of evaluation and verification communication, based on the application communication executed between the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor, and the evaluation and verification communication executed between the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor during activation of the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine, and based on a communication capacity of the gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshinari MORIKAWA, Ikuya MITSUYA, Motoyasu TAGUCHI, Takashi NISHIWAKI, Yuya AOKI, Mitsunori ETO
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Publication number: 20240079722Abstract: A method of producing an all-solid-state battery comprises preparing a second slurry which is a solid electrolyte slurry, and applying the second slurry to a foundation layer using a die head to form a solid electrolyte layer. A pressure P of the second slurry and a viscosity ? of the second slurry inside the die head at a predetermined shear rate satisfy a relationship of P/4?<4. The foundation layer has a porosity within a range of 30% to 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventors: Kazuya OTSU, Akio Kaneyama, Takaaki Tamura
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Publication number: 20240075881Abstract: A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji NAGATOMI, Norihiro IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20240077788Abstract: In an imaging apparatus system, a first imaging apparatus includes a first front casing, a common rear casing, a first lens mount attached to the first front casing, and a common monitor attached to the common rear casing. A second imaging apparatus includes a second front casing, a common rear casing, a second lens mount attached to the second front casing and different from the first lens mount, and a common monitor. When the first and second front casings are respectively attached to the common rear casings and, the center of the first lens mount and the center of the second lens mount are identical, regarding the relative positions in the left-right direction with respect to the common rear casings and.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun SAIKI, Takuo TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KUDO, Rintaro WADA, Ryousuke TAMAKI
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Publication number: 20240080553Abstract: A camera system includes a camera body, a lens barrel that is mounted to the camera body and includes at least one movable lens, and a zoom ring drive device that is mounted to the camera body. A first control unit of the camera body controls a second control unit of the lens barrel and a third control unit of the zoom ring drive device so as to move a zoom lens with a DC motor on the basis of information about the characteristic of the zoom lens and an optical characteristic value inputted to an input unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro SHINGU, Tetsuya UNO
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Publication number: 20240075600Abstract: An electric tool includes a motor, an impact mechanism, an output shaft, a torque measuring unit, a fastening torque calculating unit, and a control unit. The output shaft receives, from the impact mechanism, rotational impact around an axis. The torque measuring unit measures, as measured torque, torque applied to the output shaft. The fastening torque calculating unit calculates, based on the measured torque measured by the torque measuring unit, fastening torque to be applied to a fastening member. The control unit performs a speed reducing function by changing, according to the fastening torque calculated by the fastening torque calculating unit, the number of revolutions of the motor from a first number of revolutions into a second number of revolutions. The second number of revolutions is smaller than the first number of revolutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke TANJI, Hideki TAMURA
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Publication number: 20240078848Abstract: The information processing device acquires operation history information and failure state description information about a device to be repaired, predicts a repair content candidate for the device to be repaired based on the learned repair content prediction model and the acquired operation history information and the failure state description information, and outputs the predicted repair content candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventor: Takaaki FUKUNISHI
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PHOSPHOR, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, SENSING SYSTEM LIGHT SOURCE, AND SENSING SYSTEM ILLUMINATION SYSTEM
Publication number: 20240079532Abstract: Provided is a phosphor that contains Cr3+ and emits near-infrared light, wherein a host crystal of the phosphor has a crystal structure same as that of a compound Mg3Ga2GeO8, a fluorescence spectrum FF1 has a fluorescence peak FPF1 within a range of wavelengths of 700 or more and less than 900 nm, and a fluorescence spectrum data group FD that is an aggregate of spectral intensities of the fluorescence spectrum FF1 at every 10 nm exhibits a unimodal shape within the range of wavelengths of 700 or more and less than 900 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru NITTA, Ryosuke SHIGITANI, Shozo OSHIO -
Publication number: 20240079564Abstract: Provided is an active material contributing to improving the charge/discharge cycle characteristics of a battery. This active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a core capable of reversible intercalation and deintercalation of Li; and a salt attached to the surface of the core, wherein the salt comprises an oxyfluoride represented by general formula M1OFa (2?a?6, M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Si, P, and B).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Murata, Hiroshi Kawada
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Publication number: 20240077790Abstract: An imaging apparatus system includes a first imaging apparatus, and a second imaging apparatus. The first imaging apparatus includes a first top casing including a casing top surface, and a common rear casing including a casing rear surface. The second imaging apparatus includes a second top casing including a casing top surface, and the common rear casing. The first top casing has a shape in which a vent hole is formed in the second top casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun SAIKI, Takuo TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki KUDO, Rintaro WADA, Ryousuke TAMAKI
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Publication number: 20240080240Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication device configured to communicate with a server device that provides data; a storage device; and a control device that cyclically accesses the server device using the communication device to check whether or not new data has been provided from the server device, determines, based on a predetermined probability, whether to download the new data from the server device or to postpone download when the new data has been provided, and stores, in the storage device, the new data downloaded from the server device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Akira AMANO, Miyu MIYAJIMA
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Publication number: 20240079902Abstract: An electricity charge output method includes, by a computer: acquiring a sum of electric energy usages, in a specified period, of a previously specified first device group among all devices provided at a facility and of a second device group that is among the all devices and is different from the first device group; acquiring an electric energy usage of the first device group in the specified period; reducing the sum in accordance with the electric energy usage of the first device group and calculating an electricity charge for the facility in the specified period, based on an electric energy after the reduction; and outputting information representing the electricity charge for the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ryota FUJIMURA, Ryuta HAMAMOTO, Hiroki TAKEUCHI