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).

Panasonic Patents by Type
  • Publication number: 20240249217
    Abstract: An information processing device performs: acquiring use information indicating a use situation of an appliance or a facility; collecting household job data of each of a plurality of users on the basis of the use information; acquiring user coefficient information indicating a user coefficient for each of the users; and calculating, on the basis of the household job data and the user coefficient information, a household job point that is commensurate with a household job amount of each of the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masataka UEMURA, Atsushi NISHIMURA, Hirokazu KITO
  • Publication number: 20240247781
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light source that radiates primary light; and a first phosphor that absorbs the primary light and converts the primary light into first wavelength-converted light having a longer wavelength than the primary light, the first wavelength-converted light includes fluorescence based on electron energy transition of Cr3+, and a fluorescence spectrum of the first wavelength-converted light has a maximum fluorescence intensity value in region of a wavelength exceeding 710 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru NITTA, Shozo OSHIO, Takeshi ABE
  • Publication number: 20240249490
    Abstract: An illumination adjustment apparatus comprises: a recognizer that recognizes an abnormal region in a captured image; and an adjuster that adjusts an intensity of illuminating light in accordance with a shape and a type of the abnormal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240251055
    Abstract: A video processing device installable in a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes: an imaging device imaging an outside of the vehicle and generating a first video signal; and a display device displaying a first video and a second video, with the first video being generated based on the first video signal, and the second video being generated by performing first processing on the first video signal. The video processing device includes: a first computer configured to control a first reception circuit; and a second computer different from the first computer, with the second computer entirely including a hardware processor. The first reception circuit receives the first video signal from the imaging device. The hardware processor: receives the first video signal directly from the first reception circuit; performs the first processing on the first video signal; and outputs the second video signal to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei OHMURA, Yuji MATSUMOTO, Takeshi SHITASHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240250825
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a monitored unit; a first monitor unit that monitors the monitored unit, and repeatedly verifies the monitored unit by comparing a hash value of the monitored unit with a first expected hash value; and a second monitor unit that is more secure than the first monitor unit, monitors the first monitor unit, and repeatedly verifies the first monitor unit by comparing a hash value of the first monitor unit including the first expected hash value with a second expected hash value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito TAKEUCHI, Takumaru NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20240251157
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for causing a user to perform image shooting for modeling of a subject, the imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject to generate image data; an output interface configured to output information to the user; and a controller configured to recognize a situation in which image shooting operation is executed by the imaging apparatus, to control the output interface, the image shooting operation including a plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor for modeling the subject, wherein the controller is configured to cause the output interface to output shooting guide information, according to the recognized situation in the image shooting operation, the shooting guide information guiding the user to succeed in shooting of each of a plurality of images for modeling of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240248213
    Abstract: A GNSS receiver is capable of receiving GNSS data in an on-board device. The on-board device includes a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: request and acquire time information recorded in the GNSS receiver when the GNSS receiver starts positioning processing; and execute positioning using, as initial positioning data of the GNSS receiver, time information held by the on-board device without acquisition from outside the on-board device, instead of the time information of an initial value recorded in the GNSS receiver, when the time information acquired from the GNSS receiver is in a state of the initial value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka TANIMOTO, Fumio KOSUGE, Toshihiko MORI, Tomoaki ABE
  • Publication number: 20240250976
    Abstract: An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HAGA, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Manabu MAEDA, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Junichi TSURUMI, Jun ANZAI
  • Publication number: 20240249210
    Abstract: An information processing device performs: acquiring use information indicating a use situation of an appliance or a facility; collecting household job data of a user on the basis of the use information; acquiring third party coefficient information indicating a third party coefficient set by a third party different from the user; and calculating, on the basis of the household job data and the third party coefficient information, a household job point that is commensurate with a household job amount of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hirokazu KITO, Atsushi NISHIMURA, Masataka UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240248664
    Abstract: An assist information providing method is implemented by an information processing device. The information processing device communicates with a display terminal. The display terminal displays an image on a user's field of view to provide assist information to be displayed on the display terminal. The method includes acquiring an image obtained by performing imaging in a moving direction of a user. The method includes detecting an object included in the image. The method includes determining a position of the object in the user's field of view as a superimposition position of assist information regarding the object. The method includes transmitting information about the superimposition position to the display terminal to cause the display terminal to superimpose and display the assist information on the user's field of view at timing corresponding to the superimposition position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Toru FUJISAWA, Takuro KOYAMA, Makoto HINATA
  • Patent number: 12044801
    Abstract: A distance measurement device for measuring a distance to an object that exists in a distance measurement region includes: a light source configured to emit laser light; a lens configured to converge the laser light emitted from the light source, into substantially parallel light; a tubular light blocking member disposed on an optical path of the laser light emitted from the light source and surrounding the optical path; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of the laser light, reflected at the distance measurement region; and a condensing lens configured to condense the reflected light passing through the outside of the light blocking member, onto the photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hibino, Takashi Haruguchi, Masaomi Inoue, Kazuhisa Ide, Masahiro Shiihara, Kouichi Bairin, Kouichi Kumamaru, Hirotaka Ueno, Hideo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12044435
    Abstract: A liquid-retainable device includes a device body capable of accommodating a liquid, a first ventilation part, a second ventilation part, a partition part, and a humidification filter. The first ventilation part includes a first hole passing through a wall surface of the device body, and being configured to introduce air. The second ventilation part includes a second hole passing through the wall surface of the device body, and being configured to let out the air. The partition part divides an interior of the device body into a first region, which is a region for accommodating the liquid, and a second region, which is a region for forming an air flow path between the first ventilation part and the second ventilation part. The humidification filter is arranged so as to extend from the first region to the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Kajiyama
  • Patent number: 12044529
    Abstract: The problem to be overcome by the present disclosure is to reduce harmonic components included in output signals. A magnetic sensor includes a detecting magnetoresistance element and a canceling magnetoresistance element. A tilt angle formed by a magnetic sensing direction of the canceling magnetoresistance element with respect to a magnetic sensing direction of the detecting magnetoresistance element falls within a predetermined range. The predetermined range is defined by reference to either n×?/3 or n×?/3+?/2, where ? is an angle of rotation of a rotator corresponding to one cycle of a fundamental harmonic included in output signals of the detecting magnetoresistance element and n is a natural number equal to or greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Osabe, Hideaki Fujiura, Yoshiyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 12043116
    Abstract: A display system includes a display and a shielding member. The display has a display screen to display an image thereon. The shielding member has an opening, through which light emerging from the display screen passes. The shielding member defines a shape of the light emerging from the display screen. The display screen has a non-rectangular display area to display the image thereon. At least one peripheral edge of the opening defines a shape that conforms to an outer peripheral shape of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Akiyoshi, Tomoaki Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12046979
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a bearing holder. The rotor is disposed inside the stator. The rotor rotates with respect to the stator. The bearing holder holds a bearing of the rotor. The stator includes a plurality of coils, a plurality of teeth, and a coupling portion. Around the plurality of teeth, the plurality of coils are respectively arranged via an insulator. The coupling portion is located closer to the rotor than the plurality of coils are. The coupling portion couples at least some adjacent ones of the plurality of teeth. The bearing holder is positioned within a plane intersecting at right angles with a rotational axis of the rotor by coming into contact with either respective inner peripheral tips of the plurality of teeth or the coupling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akito Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12043130
    Abstract: A cooling structure is provided. The cooling structure includes a harness, a board electrically connected to the harness, a heat transfer member whose one end is connected between the harness and the board, the heat transfer member being a member to which heat of the harness is transmitted, and a heat sink connected to the other end of the heat transfer member and configured to radiate heat transmitted to the heat transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Kimura
  • Patent number: 12047712
    Abstract: A surveillance device of the present disclosure includes an image analysis server that generates an alarm when detecting an alarm generation target that has entered an intrusion detection area, based on a camera image captured by a camera. The image analysis server acquires the camera image (basic image) to set a fixed object area (basic area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the basic image, acquires a camera image (live image) to extract a fixed object area (reference area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the live image, calculates a deviation amount of an angle of view based on a result of a comparison in standard position between the basic area and the reference area, and generates a surveillance screen including an adjustment screen for guidance on an operation for cancelling the deviation amount of the angle of view to display the surveillance screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Iwai, Shin Yamada
  • Patent number: 12043177
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted display device includes a glass plate that includes a first arcuate surface at a first outer circumferential edge part, the first arcuate surface facing a front surface side, a casing that supports the glass plate from a rear surface side, the casing including a housing and a frame that projects from the housing, and a display unit stored in the casing configured to output a display light toward the glass plate. A rear surface of the glass plate and a front surface of the frame face each other at a spaced distance. The frame further includes a projection that projects, within the spaced distance, from the front surface of the frame toward the rear surface of the glass plate at a second outer circumferential edge part of the front surface of the frame, and the projection includes a second arcuate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihito Kitajima, Tomoaki Yamamoto, Yuji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12046781
    Abstract: A compression apparatus includes a stack of electrochemical cells each including an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte membrane interposed therebetween, a pair of insulating plates disposed at respective ends of the stack in a stacking direction, a pair of first end plates disposed on outside surfaces of the respective insulating plates, and a voltage applicator that applies a voltage between the anode and the cathode. Upon the voltage applicator applying the voltage, the compression apparatus causes hydrogen included in a hydrogen-containing gas fed to the anode to move to the cathode and produces compressed hydrogen. One of the first end plates have a first channel formed therein, through which the hydrogen-containing gas fed to the anode flows, and a second channel formed therein, through which a heating medium flows. The compression apparatus further includes a heater that heats the heating medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Sakai, Yukimune Kani, Takashi Kakuwa, Hiromi Kita, Tomoya Kamata, Takayuki Nakaue
  • Patent number: 12045069
    Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle includes a microphone which picks up a sound emitted by a target, an actuator which extends to change a position of the microphone, and a processor. The processor obtains positional relationship information which indicates at least one of a position of the target or a distance from the unmanned aerial vehicle to the target, causes the unmanned aerial vehicle to move to a first position at which the unmanned aerial vehicle and the target have a predetermined positional relationship based on the positional relationship information, and causes actuator to extend toward the target after unmanned aerial vehicle moves to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Asai, Kazuo Inoue, Kazunobu Konishi, Stephen William John, Shunsuke Kuhara
  • Patent number: 12046097
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is mounted on a moving body, and includes a wireless communication unit, a terminal identification (ID) reader, an operation receiver, a moving body state detector, a communication permission list, and a controller. The wireless communication unit transmits and receives information to and from the wireless terminal. The terminal ID reader reads, from the wireless terminal, ID information that identifies the wireless terminal. The operation receiver receives a specific operation from a user. The moving body state detector detects an operation state of the moving body. The communication permission list stores the ID information of a wireless terminal that is permitted to communicate with the wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Nakayama, Yusuke Toyofuku, Yusuke Kushiki
  • Patent number: 12044573
    Abstract: A flame detection system includes a determiner and an outputter. The determiner is configured to, when image processing performed on image data detects ultraviolet light, determine that a light emitting source is a fire flame. The outputter is configured to output a determination result by the determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Okino, Yutaka Hirose
  • Patent number: 12046748
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material containing a composite oxide particle that includes Ni, Co and Li, and also includes at least one among Mn and Al, and the ratio of Ni to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li is 50 mol % or more. In the composite oxide particle, the ratio (A/B) of a BET specific surface area (A) to a theoretical specific surface area (B) determined by the following formula is more than 1.0 and less than 3.3. Theoretical specific surface area (B) (m2/g)=6/(true density (g/cm3)×volume average particle diameter (?m)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kuroda, Manabu Takijiri
  • Patent number: 12044849
    Abstract: An example device includes a heads up display (HUD) to guide light towards a user in a vehicle. The device includes a HUD housing with a base plane and a stationary mirror mount on the HUD base. The device includes an adjustable mirror mount on the HUD base and an attachment slot disposed in the HUD housing, the attachment slot to accept a mounting tab. The attachment slot is shaped to accept either one of a predominantly vertical mounting tab and a predominantly horizontal mounting tab. The predominantly vertical mounting tab includes a first portion that projects horizontally from a sidewall of the HUD. The first portion includes a first end inserted into the attachment slot and a second end opposite the first end. A second portion is coupled perpendicularly to the second end of the first portion. The second end extends parallel to the sidewall of the HUD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Patrick O'Connell, Edo Omanovic
  • Patent number: 12046092
    Abstract: In a gate pass management system, a first reception unit having a first reception range receives a first RF signal including identification information of a mobile device. In the gate pass management system, a second reception unit having a second reception range, defined to be a range located closer to a predetermined area than the first reception range is, receives a second RF signal. In the gate pass management system, when the second RF signal is received after the first RF signal has been received, a decision is made that the mobile device be currently located within the second reception range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Matsuo, Yanfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 12046078
    Abstract: An accident detection device is provided with: a possession detection unit that uses a photographed images from a surveillance camera to detect a person and a possession, which is an object possessed by the person; and an accident determination unit that determines whether an accident has occurred on the basis of movement of the person and the possession in the photographed images from the surveillance camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12042260
    Abstract: A biometric apparatus includes a light source, an image sensor, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit causes a light source to repeatedly emit a light pulse radiated onto a target part including a head of a target, causes an image sensor to receive a reflected light pulse which is caused as the light pulse is radiated onto the target part, causes the image sensor to output first image data indicating appearance of a face of the target, and causes the image sensor to output second image data according to distribution of an amount of light of at least one of components of the reflected light pulse. The signal processing circuit generates data indicating a state of the target based on a temporal change in the first image data and a temporal change in the second image data and outputs the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Ohno, Kenji Narumi, Tsuguhiro Korenaga, Jin Muraoka, Satoshi Arimoto, Takamasa Ando
  • Patent number: 12043180
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a left side view camera attached to the left lateral side of the body and having a field of view in a rearward direction. A right side view camera is attached to the right lateral side of the body and has a field of view in a rearward direction. There is a right back up camera and a left back up camera. An optics module receives resulting video signals and produces light fields such that the light fields are reflected off of windows of the motor vehicle and are then visible to a driver of the motor vehicle as virtual images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America
    Inventor: Benjamin David Sweet
  • Patent number: 12047587
    Abstract: An encoder includes memory, and circuitry accessible to the memory. The circuitry accessible to the memory: determines whether OBMC is applicable to generation of a prediction image of a current block, according to whether BIO is to be applied to the generation of the prediction image of the current block; when BIO is to be applied to the generation of the prediction image of the current block, determines that OBMC is not applicable to the generation of the prediction image of the current block, and applies BIO to the generation of the prediction image of the current block without applying OBMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 12045341
    Abstract: An unauthorized communication detection device that detects unauthorized communication in a manufacturing system that manufactures products includes: an obtainer that obtains operation information of the manufacturing system; a storage that stores element information indicating one or more target elements among a plurality of elements related to manufacturing of the products; a specifier that specifies, for each of a plurality of communications performed in the manufacturing system, an element corresponding to the communication, based on the operation information; a calculator that calculates an abnormal degree of each of one or more communications, which satisfy that the element specified by the specifier is included in the one or more target elements indicated by the element information, among the plurality of communications; and a determiner that determines that, when an abnormal degree calculated by the calculator is larger than a threshold value, a communication corresponding to the abnormal degree is th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Amano, Narumi Atsuta, Noriaki Hamada, Yosuke Tajika, Nobutaka Kawaguchi, Yuichi Higuchi, Taichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12048171
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter that converts incident light to charge, a semiconductor substrate that includes an element isolation region and a first impurity region of a first conductivity type, the first impurity region being electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, a plug that includes a first semiconductor, the plug being connected directly to the first impurity region, a pad that includes a second semiconductor, the pad being connected directly to the plug, and a first transistor that includes the first impurity region as one of a source and a drain and includes a first gate. The first impurity region is positioned between the first gate and a first portion of the element isolation region in plan view. The pad overlaps the first gate and the first portion in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Morikazu Tsuno
  • Patent number: 12046258
    Abstract: An audio signal processing device includes a first input terminal which receives an audio signal from a record player, a memory which stores a correction parameter for audio signal processing and characteristic information indicating the characteristic of an audio signal for measurement, a signal processing circuit which performs the audio signal processing on the audio signal received based on the correction parameter, and a microcomputer. The microcomputer measures the sound characteristic of the audio signal received when the audio signal for measurement recorded on a phonograph record for measurement are reproduced, generates the correction parameter based on a result of comparison between the result of the measurement and the characteristic information, and stores, in the memory, setting information and the correction parameter generated, in association with each other, the setting information indicating a setting on the audio signal processing when the measurement is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kitagawa, Masaaki Tomoda
  • Patent number: 12048082
    Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus of the present disclosure includes a first electrode (11), a second electrode (12), a high frequency power supply, a position adjuster (20), and a controller. The second electrode (12) is disposed facing the first electrode (11). The high frequency power supply supplies high frequency power to the first electrode (11) or the second electrode (12). The position adjuster (20) adjusts the position of the first electrode (11). The controller controls the position adjuster (20). The position adjuster (20) includes a weight (21), one or more connecting lines (22), one or more pulleys (23), and one or more drive units (24). The one or more connecting lines (22) connect the weight (21) and the first electrode (11). The one or more pulleys (23) support the one or more connecting lines (22). The one or more drive units (24) are attached to the one or more pulleys (23) and drive the one or more pulleys (23). In this embodiment, a heating target can be heated efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Uno, Mikio Fukui, Koji Yoshino, Daisuke Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 12043574
    Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, an insertion step, an evacuation step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding a first substrate having an evacuation port and a second substrate with a bonding material having a frame shape to form an internal space. The insertion step includes inserting a sealing material into the evacuation port. The evacuation step includes evacuating the internal space by connecting an exhaust device to the evacuation port and driving the exhaust device. The sealing step includes sealing the evacuation port with the sealing material while an evacuated state in the internal space is maintained. In the sealing step, a measured value by a pressure gauge is monitored while the sealing material is heated, softening of the sealing material is detected based on the transition of the measured value, and heating of the sealing material is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimizu, Masataka Nonaka, Haruhiko Ishikawa, Eiichi Uriu, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tasuku Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 12047605
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method for encoding three-dimensional points having a hierarchical structure, the three-dimensional data encoding method including: setting one prediction mode out of two or more prediction modes each for calculating a predicted value of an item of first geometry information of a first three-dimensional point using one or more items of second geometry information of one or more second three-dimensional points surrounding the first three-dimensional point; calculating a predicted value of the one prediction mode set; calculating a prediction residual that is a difference between the item of first geometry information and the predicted value calculated; and generating a first bitstream including the one prediction mode set and the prediction residual. In the setting, the one prediction mode is set based on a depth of the first three-dimensional point in the hierarchical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 12047669
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor generating original image data; an image processor performing image processing to generate image data; a storage storing a plurality of first parameter sets and at least one second parameter set; and a user interface receiving a user operation combining a first parameter set with a second parameter set. Each of the plurality of first parameter sets defines the effect in the image processing. Each of the at least one second parameter set defines a correspondence before and after color information in an image is converted. Based on the user operation, the image processor: adjusts an image indicated by the original image data, using the first parameter set included in the combination designated by the user operation; and converts color information included in the image adjusted by the first parameter set, using the second parameter set included in the designated combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Tomoaki Tsutsumi, Daisuke Baba, Kyosuke Osuka
  • Patent number: 12048170
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; pixel electrodes located above the semiconductor substrate and each electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate; a counter electrode located above the pixel electrodes; a first photoelectric conversion layer located between the counter electrode and the pixel electrodes; and at least one first light-shielding body located in or above the first photoelectric conversion layer. The first photoelectric conversion layer contains a semiconducting carbon nanotube that absorbs light in a first wavelength range and an organic molecule that covers the semiconducting carbon nanotube, absorbs light in a second wavelength range, and emits fluorescence in a third wavelength range. The at least one first light-shielding body absorbs or reflects light with a wavelength in at least part of the second wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Nozawa, Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Nozomu Matsukawa, Sanshiro Shishido
  • Patent number: 12047603
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: dividing point cloud data into pieces of sub point cloud data by dividing a three-dimensional space into subspaces; shifting each of the pieces of sub point cloud data in accordance with a predetermined shift amount; and generating a bitstream by encoding the pieces of sub point cloud data shifted. The bitstream includes first control information common to the pieces of sub point cloud data, and pieces of second control information for each of the pieces of sub point cloud data, the first control information including first information about a shift amount of each of the pieces of sub point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 12046869
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a spring is utilized to fix an optic to a mechanical mount in a laser system. Such springs may consist of a single length of elastic material having first and second ends. The length of elastic material may define first and second off-center bends providing first and second base portions, as well as a central bend that is generally U-shaped and that defines first and second contact portions. The first and second contact portions are opposed to each other across the central bend to thereby resist compression of the first and second contact portions toward the first and second base portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO. LTD
    Inventors: Mark Mordarski, Bryan Lochman, Michael Miceli, Connor Baker
  • Patent number: 12046607
    Abstract: An imaging device including: a photoelectric converter that converts light into a charge; a first diffusion region of a first conductivity type to which the charge is input; a second diffusion region of the first conductivity type; a first plug that has a first surface directly connected to the first diffusion region; and a second plug that has a second surface directly connected to the second diffusion region, where an area of the second surface of the second plug is larger than an area of the first surface of the first plug in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sato, Yoshinori Takami, Ryota Sakaida
  • Patent number: 12047192
    Abstract: A control device causes, when being adapted to a gateway, a space creating part to create a second space by combining two or more first spaces on the basis of position information acquired by an acquiring part, a device control part to generate relevance information indicative of a relevance between identification information of the second space and identification information of two or more devices included in the second space among the devices, and a notification part to notify, on the basis of the relevance information generated by the device control part, at least one of collective control information for collectively controlling the two or more devices included in the second space and individual control information for individually controlling the two or more devices included in the second space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noriaki Horii, Tatsumi Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20240239974
    Abstract: A resin composition includes: a compound (A) represented by the following formula wherein X is 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-yl-10-oxide and Y is a protecting group; and a thermosetting resin (B) containing at least one selected from among an epoxy resin, a polyphenylene ether resin, a cyanate ester resin, a phenol resin, an active ester resin, a benzoxazine resin, a maleimide resin, an acrylic resin, a methacrylic resin, a vinyl resin, an allyl resin, a propenyl resin, and a hydrocarbon-based resin having an unsaturated double bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirosuke SAITO, Yiqun WANG, Hiroharu INOUE, Yasunori NISHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240239354
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a pre-processor that obtains input data; a model processor that obtains output data by inputting the input data to part of a machine learning model, and outputs the output data; and a post-processor which obtains the output data from the model processor, and executes post-processing using the output data. The model processor obtains data indicating a feature as the output data, the data being data output from the part of the machine learning model for the input data and being obtained in the middle of the prediction performed by the data. The post-processor identifies the result of the prediction performed by the machine learning model by inputting the output data to a remaining part of the machine learning model, and executes post-processing on the result of the prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi ITO, Kaoru YOKOTA, Akihito TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240244956
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer includes a photoelectric conversion material and a phosphate ester. A method for manufacturing the photoelectric conversion element of the present disclosure includes: applying a precursor solution to a base to form a coating film, the precursor solution containing a raw material of the photoelectric conversion material, the phosphate ester, and a solvent containing dimethyl sulfoxide; and baking the coating film to form a photoelectric conversion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroko OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240243623
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a motor. The motor includes a stator core and a rotor. The rotor has an output shaft and rotates with respect to the stator core. The stator core includes: an inner cylindrical portion having a circular cylindrical shape; and a plurality of teeth. Inside the inner cylindrical portion, the rotor is arranged. Each of the plurality of teeth includes a body portion and a tip piece. The body portion protrudes outward from the inner cylindrical portion along a radius of the inner cylindrical portion. The tip piece extends, from a tip part of the body portion, in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the body portion protrudes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro ESAKA, Akito NAKAMURA, Kenji OKADA, Mitsumasa MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20240244379
    Abstract: A diaphragm including at least a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion that are arranged around a predetermined reference axis extending in a vibration direction, and each have a different cross-sectional shape along a plane that includes the reference axis, in which the cross-sectional shape of the first portion is an arc having a first radius of curvature, the cross-sectional shape of the second portion is an arc having a second radius of curvature different from the first radius of curvature, and the cross-sectional shape of the third portion is a part of an ellipse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsukazu KUZE, Tetsushi ITANO, Ryouichi UEMOTO, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240242163
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs on the basis of an evaluation value for a first worker confirmation information of ordering a first worker to perform a confirmation as to whether a first operation is normally completed, the confirmation information including more confirmation items as the evaluation value is lower; determines on the basis of confirmation result information indicative of a result of the confirmation whether the first operation is normally completed; determines, when the first operation is determined to be not normally completed, on the basis of the confirmation result information whether a cause due to which the first operation is not normally completed lies in a second operation by a second worker different from the first operation; and decreases an evaluation value for the second worker when the cause is determined to lie in the second operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yasuyuki YAMAGA, Ryo AIDA, Yuki WATANABE, Takeshi NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240244773
    Abstract: An electronic device of the present disclosure includes a battery, a housing that houses the battery and includes a plurality of through holes in an area where the battery is disposed, and a film member that is disposed in the housing, closes the plurality of through holes, and melts from heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo ARAKAWA, Keiichiro YOHARA, Fuyuto NAKAMURA, Noriyuki MAKI, Ryota MORIKAWA, Tsunekazu IKATSU
  • Publication number: 20240242593
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring server communicates with a vehicle to acquire information related to a traveling condition of the vehicle. The vehicle monitoring server detects an area outside a communication range where communication with the vehicle is unavailable. The vehicle monitoring server calculates an expected stay time for which the vehicle remains in the area outside the communication range. The vehicle monitoring server executes a safety confirmation process in a mode, of a plurality of modes of safety confirmation process characterized by different loads, corresponding to a traveling condition of the vehicle acquired so far, when a time elapsed since communication with the vehicle became unavailable exceeds the expected stay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240239225
    Abstract: A charge control map for chargers specifies the relationship between an upper limit current and charging conditions including at least one of the temperature of the chargers, the state of charge (SOC) of a secondary battery mounted in an electrically driven vehicle to be charged, the voltage of the secondary battery, and time. A charge control map for an electrically driven vehicle specifies the relationship between an upper limit current and charging conditions including at least one of the temperature of the secondary battery, the SOC of the secondary battery, the voltage of the secondary battery, and time. A charger selection unit (118) selects a charger used for charging any electrically driven vehicle of a plurality of electrically driven vehicles from among the plurality of chargers. The charger selection unit (118) selects at least one charger that least limits the charging performance of the electrically driven vehicle to be charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Takegata, Makoto Hashimoto, Takashi Iida, Masaharu Amaike