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: 20250060746
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robot in a robot control system is provided. The method includes acquiring an electronic request for the robot to accompany a user when the user moves outside a prescribed area comprising the home of the user and acquiring, from sensors on the robot, operating location information indicating a location of the robot and confirmation information indicating that the robot is near the user. The method also includes transmitting command program instructions for changing a setting of the robot in response to the request when the user has moved outside the prescribed area, wherein the changing the setting of the robot includes increasing a permitted speed of the robot based upon access rights that permit the robot to move at a higher speed when located outside of the home of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi YAHATA
  • Publication number: 20250062333
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery contains a lithium metal composite oxide having a crystal structure based on a rock salt structure belonging to the space group Fm-3m. The lithium metal composite oxide contains at least one element A1 selected from the group consisting of Fe, Ca, Cr, Na, Al, Si, Mg, Cu, Zn, Pb, Sb, and W. The content of the element A1 in the lithium metal composite oxide is 10 ppm by mass or more and 1000 ppm by mass or less with respect to the total amount of the lithium metal composite oxide. A lattice constant a, which indicates a length in an a-axis direction of a crystal lattice of the lithium metal composite oxide is 4.09 ? or more and 4.16 ? or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Zhang, Issei Ikeuchi, Mitsuhiro Hibino, Kensuke Nakura
  • Publication number: 20250063056
    Abstract: An information processing method is executed by an information processing device that detects an attack against a monitored object by communicating with the monitored object. The information processing method includes: obtaining attack information related to an attack against the monitored object; and determining priorities of a plurality of detection rules based on the attack information, and storing the priorities in association with the plurality of detection rules, the plurality of detection rules being used for determining whether an anomaly has occurred in the monitored object when the monitored object is attacked. The priorities indicate at least one of (i) an order in which the plurality of detection rules are used or (ii) whether to use the plurality of detection rules when determining whether an anomaly has occurred in the monitored object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka KAWAGUCHI, Yuishi TORISAKI, Shoichiro SEKIYA, Takayoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20250062334
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery contains a lithium metal composite oxide having a crystal structure based on a rock salt structure belonging to the space group Fm-3m. The lithium metal composite oxide contains at least one element A1 selected from the group consisting of Fe, Cr, Na, Mg, Cu, Zn, Pb, Sb, and W. The content of the element A1 in the lithium metal composite oxide is 10 ppm by mass or more and 1000 ppm by mass or less with respect to the total amount of the lithium metal composite oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Zhang, Issei Ikeuchi, Mitsuhiro Hibino, Kensuke Nakura
  • Patent number: 12227101
    Abstract: A charger information holding unit of a management system holds an identification information item and charging efficiencies of a plurality of chargers for charging an electric vehicle, the identification information item and the charging efficiencies being associated with each other. A communication unit of the management system receives an identification information item on a charger from an electric vehicle connected to the charger, via a network. A creating unit of the management system creates a charging plan for the electric vehicle, based on a required charging amount and a target charging termination time. The creating unit of the management system refers to the charger information holding unit and determines a charging efficiency of the charger connected to the electric vehicle, based on the received identification information item, and creates a charging plan with the charging efficiency of the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuda, Changhui Yang
  • Patent number: 12227107
    Abstract: Provided is a control method which includes: obtaining battery information which is information regarding a battery; calculating a present residual value of the battery based on the battery information obtained; calculating a first residual value using a first model which has been trained, the first residual value being a residual value of the battery in a case where a user uses the battery with a tendency identical to a tendency of a plurality of other users; and issuing a token to the user according to an evaluation value calculated based on the present residual value and the first residual value calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Junichiro Soeda, Kohsuke Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 12227431
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery includes a mixing step of mixing a lithium-nickel composite oxide which is a starting material with a tungsten compound powder without lithium, while being heated, to prepare a tungsten mixture, and a heat treatment step of heat-treating the tungsten mixture. The lithium-nickel composite oxide contains lithium (Li), nickel (Ni), and an element M (M), wherein, the element M is at least one element selected from Mn, V, Mg, Mo, Nb, Ti, Co, and Al, wherein, in the starting material, a ratio of number of tungsten atoms to a total number of nickel atom and the element M atoms contained in the lithium-nickel composite oxide is 0.05 at. % or more and 3.00 at. % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD., Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12228979
    Abstract: An image display device according to an embodiment includes: a display panel which displays an image on a front surface of the display panel; an antenna unit which is positioned in front of the front surface of the display panel; and a front wall which accommodates the antenna unit. For example, the antenna unit overlaps the display panel in a front-back direction. For example, the front wall is disposed along a lower edge of the display panel, and protrudes forward relative to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Yamashita, Ichiro Okuda, Chiharu Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 12229808
    Abstract: A control method of a fund management system including a plurality of servers that hold a distributed ledger, and executed by one of the plurality of servers, includes: receiving transaction data, the transaction data pertaining to payment processing for payment of a token from one or more applicants of crowdfunding to a management account, and storing the transaction data that is received in the distributed ledger held in each of the plurality of servers; determining, using a smart contract, whether or not a target condition of the crowdfunding is met; and outputting information indicating a result of the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Junji Michiyama, Junichiro Soeda, Yuji Unagami, Yuuki Hirose, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori
  • Patent number: 12228847
    Abstract: A light source device includes: blue, green, and red laser light sources; a first retardation plate that controls polarization of blue laser light emitted from the blue laser light source; a polarizing beam splitter that separates the blue laser light whose polarization is controlled by the first retardation plate into a first blue laser light and a second laser light; a second retardation plate that controls polarization of the second blue laser light separated by the polarizing beam splitter; a fluorescent plate that is excited by the first blue laser light separated by the polarizing beam splitter and emits fluorescent light including a green component and a red component; a first dichroic mirror that combines the second blue laser light whose polarization is controlled by the second retardation plate and light emitted from the green and red laser light sources, to generate combined laser light; a dynamic diffuser plate that diffuses the combined laser light combined by the first dichroic mirror to generat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12232182
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the prioritization of devices taking part in a multi-user random access wireless communication. Based on some known conditions, devices that comply with the conditions are given preferential treatment during the random access period. The preferential treatment may refer to the eligible devices being allowed to access more resource units during the random access, or it may also mean faster access to the medium during the random access. By taking advantage of the methods described in the present disclosure, it is possible to assign higher priority to selected frame types and/or device categories in a multi-user random access wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Yoshio Urabe, Lei Huang, Michael Hong Cheng Sim
  • Patent number: 12228912
    Abstract: A production equipment monitoring system 20 including: an anomaly index determination unit 23 determining an anomaly index a of a production equipment 10, based on a feature quantity obtained from an equipment information on the production equipment 10; a relevance determination unit 24 determining a degree of relevance D between each of anomalous conditions predicable to occur in the production equipment 10 and an observed condition of the production equipment 10; a detection threshold determination unit 25 determining a single detection threshold th for detecting a degree of anomaly A of the production equipment 10, based on anomaly thresholds at which are thresholds of the anomaly index a corresponding respectively to the anomalous conditions, and on the degree of relevance D; and an anomaly degree detection unit 26 detecting the degree of anomaly A of the production equipment 10, based on the anomaly index a and the detection threshold th.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 12229625
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an antenna for non-contact communication with a communication medium, with the communication medium storing first information; and a touch panel that electrically detects a contact or a proximity of an object as an input detection function. The antenna is arranged around the touch panel, and outputs radio waves for the non-contact communication by receiving a power supply. The information processing apparatus turns OFF the power supply to the antenna in response to the input detection function of the touch panel being turned ON. The information processing apparatus turns OFF the input detection function of the touch panel in response to the power supply to the antenna being turned ON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohito Takakura, Kohei Takada, Kenichiro Shimano
  • Patent number: 12229757
    Abstract: A control method includes: receiving first transaction data related to a sign-up for service and storing the first transaction data received into the distributed ledger included in each of the plurality of servers, the service offering, if a goal condition predetermined for the service is satisfied, a token to a participant that is a user who signs up for the service; storing, into the distributed ledger, second transaction data indicating that the user is offered the token predetermined for the service, if it is determined that the goal condition is satisfied; and storing, into the distributed ledger, third transaction data indicating that the user is offered a deposit that is a temporary token predetermined for the service, at a predetermined timing included in a period from the storing of the first transaction data into the distributed ledger until when determination of whether the goal condition is satisfied is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama, Yuuki Hirose, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori
  • Patent number: 12228676
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a circuit board including a board surface provided with an antenna module for transmitting an electromagnetic wave, a housing accommodating the circuit board and including a facing wall facing the board surface, and a heat transfer module transferring heat generated inside the housing to the housing. The facing wall includes a transmission portion transmitting therethrough the electromagnetic wave transmitted from the antenna module and an absorption portion having a thickness different from the thickness of the transmission portion and absorbing the electromagnetic wave which is incident. The heat transfer module includes a first transfer member placed to be in contact with the absorption portion in the housing and a second transfer member transferring the heat to the first transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiozaki, Ken Takahashi, Noriaki Saito
  • Patent number: 12230043
    Abstract: A cooking assistance method executed by a computer includes: causing an output device to display a first image relating to a first cooking process in which a cooking operation is performed using a cooking board; obtaining a load on the cooking board at a first temporal resolution while the first image is displayed; changing the first image displayed on the output device to a second image relating to a second cooking process in which a cooking operation different from the first cooking process is performed using the cooking board; changing the first temporal resolution used to obtain the load to a second temporal resolution different from the first temporal resolution, when the first image is changed to the second image; and obtaining a load on the cooking board at the second temporal resolution while the second image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Satoshi Suemasu, Tatsuhiro Kishi
  • Patent number: 12230223
    Abstract: A server is configured to: determine a ratio of each of a first group and a second group to be allocated to the multiple display objects according to a third user situation of a presentation target user or a schedule information; determine a display mode of each of multiple first display objects allocated to the first group in accordance with the determined ratio based on multiple first user situations, and determine a display mode of each of multiple second display objects allocated to the second group in accordance with the determined ratio based on multiple second user situations; and output setting information for displaying the multiple first display objects and the multiple second display objects in the determined display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kihiro Yuasa, Mikiko Matsuo, Keiichi Toiyama, Naomi Tomiyama, Takamichi Matsusako, Megumi Mizoguchi, Kenta Murakami
  • Patent number: 12232152
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and respective operation method. The mobile terminal comprises circuitry, which in operation monitors PDCCH candidates of a first search space set located in a designated first frequency range from the plurality of frequency ranges, and receives a DCI transmitted in the first search space set of the designated first frequency range. The received DCI includes an indication whether or not the mobile terminal is to skip monitoring some specific or all PDCCH candidates in at least one second search space set associated with at least one second frequency range from the plurality of frequency ranges. And only if the indication in the received DCI does not indicate to skip monitoring the specific or all PDCCH candidates, the circuitry additionally monitors the specific or all PDCCH candidates associated with the at least one second frequency range for receiving a DCI thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12230793
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a negative electrode mixture layer including a negative electrode active material and a negative electrode additive, the negative electrode active material including a carbon material and a Si-containing material, the content of the Si-containing material in the negative electrode mixture layer being 5 mass % or more, and the negative electrode additive including a formaldehyde condensate of an aromatic organic acid having a hydroxyl group and/or an aromatic organic acid salt having a hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kuroda, Ryo Kazama
  • Patent number: 12230287
    Abstract: This quantization scale factor determination device is provided with a correction circuit which corrects an initial value of a quantization scale factor on the basis of whether or not an audio signal spectrum is sparse, and a search circuit which searches for a quantization scale factor on the basis of the initial value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Akira Harada, Hiroyuki Ehara
  • Patent number: 12230794
    Abstract: This lithium transition metal composite oxide, which configures a secondary battery positive electrode active material, is a composite oxide represented by general formula Li?[LixMnyCozMe(1-x-y-z)]O2 (in the formula, Me is at least one species selected from Ni, Fe, Ti, Bi and Nb, and 0.5<?<1, 0.05<x<0.25, 0.4<y<0.7, and 0<z<0.25), and has at least one crystal structure selected from the O2 structure, the T2 structure and the O6 structure. The ratio (Co2/Co1) of the Co molar fraction (Co2) in the surface of the oxide to the Co molar fraction (Co1) in the entire lithium transition metal composite oxide is 1.2<(Co2/Co1)<6.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawada, Kosuke Kuroda, Atsushi Fukui
  • Patent number: 12231195
    Abstract: A precoding process is performed on a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal to generate a first precoding signal and a second precoding signal. A pilot signal is inserted into the first precoding signal and phase change is performed on the second precoding signal. A pilot signal is inserted into the phase changed second precoding signal, and phase change is further performed on the phase-changed second precoding signal with the pilot signal inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 12230541
    Abstract: The element chip manufacturing method includes: a preparing process of preparing a substrate 1 including a plurality of element regions EA and a dividing region DA, the substrate 1 having a first principal surface 1X and a second principal surface 1Y; a groove forming process of forming a groove 13 in the dividing region DA from the first principal surface 1X side; and a grinding process of grinding the substrate 1 from the second principal surface 1Y side, to divide the substrate 1 into a plurality of element chips 20. The groove 13 includes a first region 13a constituted by a side surface having a first surface roughness, and a second region 13b constituted by a side surface having a second surface roughness larger than the first surface roughness. In the grinding process, grinding of the substrate 1 is performed until reaching the first region 13a of the groove 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harikai, Shogo Okita, Akihiro Itou, Toshiyuki Takasaki
  • Patent number: 12231237
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a base station can dynamically change a repetition transmission method as appropriate. In a base station (100), a repetition control unit (103) determines a data repetition pattern for a terminal (200). A transmission unit (109) repeatedly transmits data (repetition transmission) on the basis of the repetition pattern. The data repetition pattern corresponds to control information to be reported to the terminal (200) by dynamic signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomoya Nunome, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 12230795
    Abstract: A positive-electrode active material for a magnesium secondary battery contains a composite oxide represented by the following composition formula: M1xM2yO2, where M1 is sodium, M2 is nickel and manganese, and 0<x+y?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hibino, Youshin Lee
  • Patent number: 12230882
    Abstract: A transmitting array antenna includes a second antenna group placed in a position inside a first antenna group in a first direction and a position different from the first antenna group in a second direction. A receiving array antenna includes a fourth antenna placed in a position outside a third antenna group arranged in the first direction and a position different from the third antenna group in the second direction. An interelement spacing between a receiving antenna of the third antenna group located at an end on a second side is identical to an interelement spacing in the first direction between a transmitting antenna of the first antenna group on the first side and each of the second antenna group. In a case where the first antenna group and the third antenna group are identical in position in the second direction, positions of antennas are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaaki Kishigami
  • Patent number: 12230767
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of suppressing an internal short circuit of a battery due to an external impact in both a fully charged state and a non-fully charged state. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is characterized by: comprising a wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound thereon via a separator, and a battery case that houses the electrode body; the positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer formed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector; and the separator having a normal part and a plastically deformed part having a higher puncture strength than the normal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kaiduka, Noriko Sugii
  • Patent number: 12230954
    Abstract: A protection system includes: a first positive terminal; a second positive terminal; a first relay configured to be opened and closed by contact and separation of a first contact portion and a second contact portion; and a fuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Iwaki, Hideki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12229888
    Abstract: A display method is a display method performed by a display device that operates in conjunction with a mobile object, and includes: determining which one of first surrounding information, which is video showing a surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using two-dimensional information, and second surrounding information, which is video showing the surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using three-dimensional data, is to be displayed, based on a driving condition of the mobile object; and displaying the one of the first surrounding information and the second surrounding information that is determined to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Koyama, Takahiro Nishi, Toshiyasu Sugio, Tadamasa Toma, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Toru Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 12231758
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes lens group Gm located on that is closest to an object among lens groups in which a distance between the lens groups changes during zooming, the lens groups having negative power. Lens group Gm includes, in order from the object side toward an image side, lens element LGmF1 having the negative power, lens element LGmF2 having the negative power, both surfaces of lens element LGmF2 having an aspherical shape, and at least two lens elements having power. The present disclosure provides the imaging optical system having good various aberrations such as spherical aberration, astigmatism, and distortion and an imaging device and a camera system that are provided with the imaging optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kurioka, Takahiro Kitada
  • Patent number: 12230003
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data decoding method includes: obtaining three-dimensional space information including encoded three-dimensional points; calculating an angle formed by a line segment connecting a predetermined position in the three-dimensional space information and a first base point and a line segment connecting the first base point and a second base point different from the first base point; determining whether the angle calculated satisfies a predetermined condition; and decoding the encoded three-dimensional points included in the three-dimensional space information when the angle calculated is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, and not decoding the encoded three-dimensional points included in the three-dimensional space information when the angle calculated is determined not to satisfy the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chung Dean Han, Pongsak Lasang, Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk, Keng Liang Loi, Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 12230484
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus including: a chamber; a plasma generation unit configured to generate a plasma in the chamber; a stage 111 for placing a conveying carrier 10, the stage provided in the chamber; a cover 124 for covering at least part of the conveying carrier placed on the stage; a relative position change unit capable of changing a relative distance between the cover 124 and the stage 111 to a first distance and to a second distance smaller than the first distance; a determination unit configured to determine a placed state of the conveying carrier 10; and a control unit. The determination unit determines the placed state of the conveying carrier while the distance between the cover 124 and the stage 111 is the first distance, and the plasma processing is performed while the distance between the cover 124 and the stage 111 is the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harikai, Shogo Okita
  • Patent number: 12231191
    Abstract: According to a communication method of the present disclosure, a responder, after the end of transmission sector sweep (TXSS), receives from an initiator a first feedback frame including a BF training type FIELD indicating whether or not to implement a beam forming training (BFT) of a single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO). If the BF training type FIELD indicates that a BFT of the SU-MIMO is to be implemented, the responder transmits to the initiator a second feedback frame based on the result of the TXSS and including a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and a sector identifier (ID) order. The initiator implements the BFT of the SU-MIMO between the initiator and the responder on the basis of the SNR and the sector ID order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12231757
    Abstract: The present disclosure facilitates access to an imaging surface of an imaging element in an imaging apparatus in which a plurality of optical filters are selectively arranged in front of the imaging surface of the imaging element. An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element including an imaging surface on which light from a subject is incident, a first filter unit including a first optical filter, a second filter unit including a second optical filter, and a filter unit drive mechanism that drives each of the first and second filter units between a filtering position in front of the imaging surface and a retracted position deviated from the front of the imaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kuroki
  • Patent number: 12231754
    Abstract: An imaging module according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of components. The imaging module includes a first component and a second component. The first component has a higher light transmittance. The second component has a lower light transmittance. A joint is included in the first component and the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsumoto, Masayuki Yoshie
  • Patent number: 12231979
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radio base station serving a user equipment in a first radio cell of a mobile communication system. The radio base station comprises processing circuitry which determines that a neighbor radio base station does not provide a beamformed reference signal to the user equipment. The neighbor radio base station controls the transmission in its neighbor radio cell of an omni-directional reference signal and the beamformed reference signal. A transmitter transmits a reference signal request to the neighbor radio base station. The reference signal request requests the neighbor radio base station to provide the beamformed reference signal to the user equipment. A receiver receives from the neighbor radio base station a reference signal request response, including information on the transmission of the requested beamformed reference signal. The transmitter transmits a notification to the user equipment, comprising information on the requested beamformed reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Rikin Shah, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12231037
    Abstract: In a switching power supply device, a control circuit controls a first thyristor, a second thyristor, and a switching element according to an input voltage. The control circuit maintains the first thyristor in an on state while maintaining the second thyristor and the switching element in an off state in a first period in which the absolute amplitude value is equal to or less than a first threshold value within the latter half of a first half-cycle of the input voltage at startup, and maintains the second thyristor in an on state while maintaining the first thyristor and the switching element in an off state in a second period in which the absolute amplitude value is equal to or less than a second threshold value within the latter half of a second half-cycle of the input voltage at startup. The second half-cycle is the half-cycle following the first half-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nakata, Atsushi Seki
  • Patent number: 12231971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a receiver of the UE receives, from a source base station of a source radio cell, a common timing advance value for a target radio cell. The UE is connected to the source radio cell and is involved in a handover procedure to hand over the UE from the source radio cell to the target radio cell. Further, the common timing advance value is received from the source base station in a first message of the handover procedure, which also comprises a timing indication for transmitting a second message from the UE to the target base station. Then, a processor of the UE determines a first uplink timing of uplink transmissions to the target base station with respect to downlink transmissions from the target base station, based on the received common timing advance value and the timing indication. A transmitter of the UE transmits a second message of the handover procedure to the target base station based on the determined uplink timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Rikin Shah, Akihiko Nishio, Hongchao Li
  • Patent number: 12231474
    Abstract: A UE includes an EUTRA-CMR reception unit that receives a codec mode request (EUTRA-CMR) including a codec mode that is determined by an eNB in accordance with a radio condition of the UE, a mode switching notification unit that notifies an encoder of switching to the codec mode included in the received codec mode request; and a mode switching acknowledgement unit that transmits a response message to the eNB when confirming that the encoder switches the codec mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 12232042
    Abstract: Provided is a user equipment (UE), a scheduling node, and communication methods for UE and, respectively, scheduling node. The UE comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives a configuration of a PoSS (power saving signal) time window for monitoring a PoSS and preceding a DRX (discontinuous reception) ON period for monitoring a PDCCH (physical downlink control channel), wherein the PoSS indicates whether or not the UE starts monitoring for the PDCCH in the DRX ON period and circuitry which, in operation, determines, based on the configuration, the PoSS time window, and controls the transceiver to perform monitoring for the PoSS within the PoSS time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12231165
    Abstract: Provided is a device, which is a transmission device that can improve performance, that includes: a light source; and a transmitter that generates a modulated signal based on an input signal and transmits the modulated signal from the light source as visible light by changing a luminance of the light source in accordance with the modulated signal. The transmitter includes, in the modulated signal, a plurality of items of information related to service set identifiers (SSIDs) of a plurality of mutually different access points in a wireless local area network (LAN), and transmits the modulated signal from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 12232129
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a receiver, which receives, from abase station, a minimum cross-slot time-domain scheduling parameter, indicating a minimum amount of slots between a scheduling downlink control information, DCI, and an uplink or downlink transmission scheduled by the scheduling DCI. The minimum cross-slot time domain scheduling parameter is carried by a DCI message. Processing circuitry of the UE determines an updating time at which a previously-received minimum cross-slot time-domain scheduling parameter is to be updated based on the received minimum cross-slot time-domain scheduling parameter and then updates the previously-received minimum cross-slot time-domain scheduling parameter based on the received minimum cross-slot time-domain scheduling parameter at the determined updating time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hongchao Li, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, Ming-Hung Tao
  • Patent number: 12231665
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes one or more pictures which have common time information and each of which is included in a different layer; adds the one or more pictures into one access unit in a bitstream; and adds, into the bitstream, a first flag indicating that a total number of access units present in the bitstream is one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 12232112
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transceiver device and a scheduling device, and communication methods for transceiver device and scheduling device. The transceiver device comprises a transceiver, which, in operation, receives control information over a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, the control information indicating a scheduled transmission of data; and circuitry, which, in operation, sets a monitoring period according to a number of blind retransmissions of the data, wherein the transceiver, in operation, monitors the PDCCH during the monitoring period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ming-Hung Tao, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 12232115
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes receiving circuitry and transmitting circuitry. The receiving circuitry, in operation, controls reception of a downlink control information on one or more consecutive control channel elements (CCEs) in a search space, and controls reception of downlink data on a downlink resource that is indicated by the downlink control information, the search space being comprised of a plurality of CCEs that includes the one or more consecutive CCEs, and the plurality of CCEs starting on a CCE that is determined from both a number of the one or more consecutive CCEs, and a total number of CCEs configured in a subframe. The transmitting circuitry, in operation, controls transmission of uplink control information on an uplink resource, which is associated with a CCE index of a first CCE of the one or more consecutive CCEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 12232094
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to receiving and transmitting data in a frame with subframes of a wireless communication system, each subframe being either an uplink subframe accommodating uplink signal, a downlink subframe accommodating downlink signal or a special subframe including a downlink signal portion as well as an uplink signal portion. A control signal includes a special subframe configuration specifying the length of the uplink and/or downlink portion of the special subframe. The mapping and demapping of user data and/or control data including feedback information in a transmission time interval, TTI, onto or from one subframe is then performed, wherein the length of a second TTI for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe is shorter than a first TTI for mapping onto an uplink subframe, or a first number of TTIs mapped onto the uplink subframe is larger than a second number of TTIs for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Lilei Wang, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12232027
    Abstract: A control method that is achieved by a refrigerator application installed in portable terminal (110), the control method including the steps of instructing an operating system (OS) of portable terminal (110) to connect to a refrigerator in operation in a software access point mode, and sending a service set identifier (SSID) of an access point and a password for connecting to the access point to the refrigerator. An SSID of the refrigerator that operates in the software access point mode, and a password for connecting to the refrigerator that operates in the software access point mode are incorporated in the refrigerator application in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Hoashi, Kazuhiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 12231589
    Abstract: A terminal includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, determines a first transmission power for a first uplink signal and a second transmission power for a second uplink signal by prioritizing allocation of a transmission power to the second transmission power for the second uplink signal, responsive to, in a first transmission time interval (TTI) where the first uplink signal is transmitted, the second uplink signal being transmitted in a second TTI that is shorter than the first TTI. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the first uplink signal with the determined first transmission power and transmits the second uplink signal with the determined second transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 12231662
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes pictures in an encoding order according to temporal scalability that specifies temporal layers; adds, to a bitstream, information indicating whether CPB removal timings of lower pictures in one or more first temporal layers lower than or equal to a lower temporal layer lower than a higher temporal layer among the temporal layers in a first case in which the one or more first temporal layers are to be decoded are identical to CPB removal timings of the lower pictures in a second case in which second temporal layers lower than or equal to the higher temporal layer are to be decoded; and sets, in the information, a value indicating that the CPB removal timings in the first case are identical to the CPB removal timings in the second case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: D1062370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Asano