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
  • Patent number: 12128766
    Abstract: An in-vehicle display device according to the present disclosure includes a front plate and a housing. In the front plate, a first arc surface bulging outward is formed on a front surface side in an outer peripheral edge portion. The housing supports the front plate from a rear surface side. In the housing, a second arc surface bulging outward is formed on a side surface side, and a part on the side surface side protrudes toward the front surface side from a rear surface of the front plate, and faces the outer peripheral edge portion of the front plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Iwasawa, Tomohiro Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 12132168
    Abstract: A battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a first solid electrolyte layer that is positioned between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and that contains a metal alloyable with lithium; and a second solid electrolyte layer that is positioned between the negative electrode and the first solid electrolyte layer and that is free of the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ito, Kazuya Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12130481
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a waveguide element including a first mirror that is light transmissive, a second mirror that faces the first mirror, and an optical waveguide layer located between the first mirror and the second mirror, the waveguide element allowing light input to the optical waveguide layer to propagate along a first direction and to be emitted through the first mirror; a first photodetector that is located on a path of light to be input to the optical waveguide layer or on another path branching off from the path and outputs a first signal according to an amount of received light; and a second photodetector that is located on a path of light that has propagated through the optical waveguide layer along the first direction and passed the optical waveguide layer and outputs a second signal according to an amount of received light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nakamura, Yasuhisa Inada
  • Patent number: 12133464
    Abstract: To provide a fused hetero 5-membered ring molecule having further sufficiently high hole mobility. Disclosed is a fused hetero 5-membered ring molecule having, in one molecule, eight aromatic rings including three or five hetero 5-membered rings, and the eight aromatic rings having one or two naphthalene structures. The three or five hetero 5-membered rings are each independently selected from the group consisting of a thiophene ring, a selenophene ring, and a furan ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Hideyuki Arai, Masaru Sasago
  • Patent number: 12130075
    Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator that includes the following: a storage chamber having a space to store a preserved product; an oscillator that forms high frequency power; and oscillation electrode (24) and counter electrode (25) disposed facing each other and connected to the oscillator, oscillation electrode (24) and counter electrode (25) receiving the high frequency power from the oscillator to generate an electric field in the storage chamber. Oscillation electrode (24) and counter electrode (25) are provided at interval H that is shorter than a long side dimension of oscillation electrode (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mori, Kei Nambu, Tsuyoki Hirai
  • Patent number: 12132390
    Abstract: An electronic circuit unit includes a trigger circuit and a circuit module. The trigger circuit includes a semiconductor switching element configured to output a switching pulse signal in response to an external trigger signal, a load resistor for the semiconductor switching element, a one-shot pulse circuit configured to convert the switching pulse signal into a one-shot pulse with a predetermined pulse width, and a forcible-reset circuit connected to an input side of the semiconductor switching element. The one-shot pulse circuit includes a coupling capacitor connected to an input side of the semiconductor switching element and a charging resistor for the coupling capacitor. The pulse width of the one-shot pulse is determined by a time constant of the coupling capacitor and the charging resistor. The forcible-reset circuit is configured to temporarily input an on-voltage to the semiconductor switching element so as to forcibly switch the circuit module to the operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12130431
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A polarizing device is rotatable between at least a first rotational position and a second rotational position. The polarizing device receives the light field from the picture generation unit and emits the light field regardless of whether the polarizing device is in the first rotational position or the second rotational position. More of the light is emitted by the polarizer in a P-polarization state in the second rotational position than in the first rotational position. A windshield reflects the light field from the polarizing device such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America. Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick O'Connell
  • Patent number: 12130410
    Abstract: An imaging optical system has an image circle defined on an imaging element. The imaging optical system includes: lens elements arranged from an object side to an image plane side, and a diaphragm arranged between two of the lens elements. The lens elements include freeform lens elements, each having a freeform surface that is an asymmetrical surface with respect to a long side direction and a short side direction which cross with each other with a first diameter of the image circle in the long side direction being larger than a second diameter of the image circle in the short side direction. At least two of the freeform lens elements are located on an object side of the diaphragm. The imaging optical system satisfies a condition based on a summation for freeform surfaces of freeform lens elements located on the object side of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinghua Zhao, Yoshio Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12131509
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding three-dimensional points each located in any one of a plurality of regions, on a per region basis, to generate encoded three-dimensional points; generating connectivity information generated based on a relationship between a first region among the plurality of regions and second regions aside from the first region among the plurality of regions, the connectivity information including (i) tile information indicating values each uniquely assigned to a different one of the plurality of regions and (ii) relation information indicating that the first region and one of the second regions are related; and generating a bitstream including the connectivity information generated and the encoded three-dimensional points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chung Dean Han, Pongsak Lasang, Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk, Keng Liang Loi, Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 12133067
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus comprising a cryptographic circuitry which, in operation, uses a shared cryptographic secret Key and a cryptographic salt to generate a cryptographically encoded Message Integrity Code (MIC) that is computed over the address field of a Wake Up Radio (WUR) frame, and a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a secure WUR signal by replacing the address field of the WUR frame with the MIC, and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the secure WUR signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 12132527
    Abstract: Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is measured accurately even in a case where a discovery signal is transmitted. A receiver receives a plurality of subframes, at least one of which includes a discovery signal, and a measurer measures Reference Signal Reception Power (RSRP) using a first resource in which the discovery signal is mapped, measures RSSI using a second resource different from the first resource for which the discovery signal is mapped, and calculates Reference Signal Reception Quality (RSRQ) using RSRP and RSSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 12131549
    Abstract: An image monitoring device includes a hardware processor. An image of the outside of a vehicle is captured by a camera. The hardware processor notifies that dirt adheres to a lens of the camera when a ratio of a smooth region in the image is more than a threshold. In the smooth region, differences in luminance value between pixels are small. The hardware processor does not notify that dirt adheres to the lens of the camera when: a ratio of the smooth region in a sky region in the image is more than a threshold, a ratio of the smooth region in a ground region in the image is more than a threshold, and a difference between an average of luminance values of the smooth region in the sky region and an average of luminance values of the smooth region in the ground region is more than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tsurube
  • Patent number: 12131284
    Abstract: A service provider server is configured to receive from a terminal of an orderer order information concerning a product provided by a store, and a type of optional processing applied to the product; determine a deliverer who has a device capable of executing the optional processing, and delivers the product from the store to a delivery destination designated by the orderer; and send to a terminal of the deliverer or the device set information for the device to execute the optional processing applied to the product in a delivery way from the store to the delivery destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Naomi Tomiyama, Megumi Mizoguchi, Kenta Murakami, Yuki Takaoka
  • Patent number: 12131872
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes at least one capacitor element. The at least one capacitor element includes: an anode body including an anode lead portion, and a cathode forming portion; a dielectric layer disposed on at least a surface of the cathode forming portion of the anode body; and a cathode part covering at least a part of the dielectric layer. The cathode part includes a solid electrolyte layer that contains a conductive polymer, and covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. A ratio T1/T2 of a thickness T1 of the solid electrolyte layer formed at a corner portion of the anode body to a thickness T2 of the solid electrolyte layer formed at a center portion of a principal surface of the anode body is in a range from 0.8 to 1.7, inclusive, in a cross section of the at least one capacitor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Umahashi, Masatoshi Takeshita, Hitoshi Fukui, Makoto Nagashima
  • Patent number: 12132584
    Abstract: A method includes: recording provision record information in which provider identification information which identifies a data provider, data identification information which identifies each of one or more items of provided data generated by a home appliance, and value reference information which serves as a reference for calculating a data value of each of the one or more items of provided data are associated with one another; and when the one or more items of provided data include used data that is data used by a data user, determining an incentive for the data provider of the used data based on the provision record information. The value reference information includes an index value determined by each of a plurality of value indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Motoji Ohmori, Ayaka Mitani, Kakuya Yamamoto, Junji Michiyama
  • Patent number: 12132904
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In residual coding of a current block, the circuitry, in operation, encodes a subblock flag by Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) in both of a first type of residual coding where an orthogonal transform is performed and a second type of residual coding where the orthogonal transform is skipped, the subblock flag indicating whether a non-zero coefficient is included in a plurality of coefficients for a subblock within the current block, wherein a first syntax used for the first type of residual coding is different from a second syntax used for the second type of residual coding; and controls a number of CABAC processes, wherein the encoding of the subblock flag is not counted as the number of CABAC processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kato, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 12132894
    Abstract: An encoder that encodes a current block in a picture includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: determines whether to use intra prediction for the current block; and when determining to use intra prediction, (i) performs a first transform on a residual signal of the current block using a first transform basis to generate first transform coefficients; and (ii-1) performs a second transform on the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis to generate second transform coefficients and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when an intra prediction mode of the current block is a predetermined mode or when the first transform basis is same as a predetermined transform basis; and (ii-2) quantizes the first transform coefficients without performing the second transform when the intra prediction mode is different from the predetermined mode and the first transform basis is different from the predetermined transform basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masato Ohkawa, Hideo Saitou, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 12132886
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry switches between storing and not storing of a decoded picture buffer (DPB) parameter related to a DPB in a common header shared between layers in layer groups each including at least one output layer, according to whether or not all the layer groups in a bitstream each include only one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 12132225
    Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes; a porous base material; a first filler layer which contains phosphate particles as a primary component and is arranged on one surface of the base material; and a second filler layer which is arranged on the other surface of the base material and which contains at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of an aromatic polyamide, an aromatic polyimide and an aromatic polyamideimide. The BET specific surface area of the phosphate particles is 5-100 m2/g. The content of the aforementioned compounds in the second filler layer 32 is 15 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Sugimori, Yasunori Baba, Katsunori Yanagida, Nobuhiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 12133200
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to resource configuration for sidelink communication, sidelink discovery or any other sidelink operation in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to determine a Bandwidth Part (BWP) assigned for sidelink transmission and reception in a carrier; and a transceiver operative to perform the sidelink transmission and reception on the determined BWP in the carrier, wherein dynamic BWP switching is not supported for the sidelink transmission and reception in the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12132433
    Abstract: A motor driver drives a motor that controls a position of an object based on a command from a controller. The motor driver includes: a correction command output part that outputs a correction command for correcting a position of the motor based on a position of the object detected by a displacement sensor that detects the position of the object; and a position controller that outputs a drive signal for driving the motor based on the command from the controller and the position of the motor detected by an encoder that detects the position of the motor, or based on the correction command and the position of the motor detected by the encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Yoshino, Yusuke Nonogaki, Yusuke Imada
  • Patent number: 12132436
    Abstract: Provided is a stepping motor abnormality detecting device capable of detecting an abnormality of a stepping motor. Stepping motor abnormality detecting device (100) includes power supply (1), stepping motor (4), stepping motor driver (3), determiner (5), and controller (6). Controller (6) causes stepping motor driver (3) to operate stepping motor (4), current level detector (2) to acquire a current level while stepping motor (4) is driven, and determiner (5) to detect the abnormality of stepping motor (4) by comparing the current level acquired with a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumpei Niwa, Yoshio Horiike, Koichi Toyota, Yukihiro Omoto
  • Publication number: 20240350697
    Abstract: Space purification system includes: hypochlorous acid water supplier that supplies hypochlorous acid water to mixing tank; water supplier that supplies water to mixing tank; water level sensor that detects a water level of mixing tank; air purifier that micronizes and releases, into air, mixed water of the hypochlorous acid water and the water stored in mixing tank; and air purification control unit that controls supply treatment and drainage treatment of the mixed water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro HAYASHI, Yuki MIZUNO, Shinji YOSHIDA, Masahide FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240357844
    Abstract: A solar cell of the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion element; and an exterior body surrounding the entire photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element includes a perovskite compound. The exterior body includes a first sealing portion and a second sealing portion. The first sealing portion includes a water vapor concentration adjusting material. The first sealing portion has a first exposed surface exposed to an outside of the exterior body and a second exposed surface exposed to an inside of the exterior body, and is continuous between the first exposed surface and the second exposed surface. The second sealing portion includes a material having a water vapor permeability coefficient lower than that of the water vapor concentration adjusting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Takeyuki SEKIMOTO, Maki HIRAOKA, Taisuke MATSUI, Toru NAKAMURA, Yukihiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240352623
    Abstract: A group-III nitride substrate includes: a first region having a first impurity concentration in a polished surface; and a second region having a second impurity concentration lower than the first impurity concentration in the polished surface, wherein a first dislocation density of the first region is lower than a second dislocation density of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke MORI, Masashi YOSHIMURA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Akira KITAMOTO, Junichi TAKINO, Tomoaki SUMI, Yoshio OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240354389
    Abstract: An authentification device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire and detect a voice signal of an utterance voice of a speaker, an authentication unit configured to authenticate whether the speaker is the person himself/herself based on collation between the voice signal detected by the acquisition unit and a database, and a display interface configured to display, on a terminal device, an authentication status indicating whether the speaker is the person himself/herself based on an authentication result of the authentication unit, in which the display interface updates a display content of the authentication status of the speaker by the authentication unit every time the authentication status changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro OKADA, Teppei FUKUDA, Masanari MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240351525
    Abstract: A display device includes a housing, an electro-optic layer, a display to display at least a portion of a rearward image, and an actuator to switch the electro-optic layer between first and second postures. In the first posture, the display displays the portion of the rearward image. In the second posture, the reflectivity of the incident light varies between at least first and second values based on at least one of a first illuminance or a second illuminance, and the second value is larger than the first value. In the first posture, the reflectivity of the incident light is equal to or more than the second value. The first illuminance indicates brightness around a vehicle and is detected by a sensor. The second illuminance indicates intensity of light emitted on a front surface of the display device and is detected by another sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori OZEKI, Osamu TAKEYASU, Ryuko ARISAWA, Takayuki HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240356026
    Abstract: The disclosed negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes active material particles containing silicon, and a surface layer formed on surfaces of the active material particles. The surface layer contains a reaction product of a compound reacted so as to form a siloxane bond. The compound includes a structure represented by Si—R1—Si. R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms. The two Si's are each bound with at least one atomic group selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sho Shibata
  • Publication number: 20240356019
    Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode active material which is capable of improving the battery capacity. A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to one embodiment of the present disclosure contains a first lithium transition metal composite oxide that is represented by general formula LiaNibM11-bO2 (wherein 1.5?a?2.5; 0.95?b?1.00; and M1 represents at least one element that is selected from among Cu, Sr, Ca, Nb, Si and Al); the first lithium transition metal composite oxide has voids inside; and the void fraction of the first lithium transition metal composite oxide is 2% to 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daizo Jito, Takeshi Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20240357843
    Abstract: A solar cell of the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion element; and an exterior body surrounding the entire photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element includes a perovskite compound. The exterior body includes a first sealing portion and a second sealing portion. The first sealing portion includes an oxygen concentration adjusting material. The first sealing portion has a first exposed surface exposed to an outside of the exterior body and a second exposed surface exposed to an inside of the exterior body, and is continuous between the first exposed surface and the second exposed surface. The second sealing portion includes a material having an oxygen permeability coefficient lower than that of the oxygen concentration adjusting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Takeyuki SEKIMOTO, Taisuke MATSUI, Toru NAKAMURA, Yukihiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20240352232
    Abstract: A cellulose composite resin includes a base resin, a cellulose fiber, a dispersing agent, and a rubber-containing polymer, and an ?-cellulose content in the cellulose fiber is 50% by mass or more and less than 80% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi IMANISHI, Toshifumi Nagino, Masashi Hamabe, Shouma Nishino
  • Publication number: 20240357225
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a controller, and an output interface. The image sensor captures a subject image to generate imaging data. The controller performs repair processing to generate a moving image file by sequentially analyzing information used for reproduction of a moving image from a corrupted file, the moving image file being capable of reproducing the moving image indicated by the imaging data, the corrupted file having a defect corrupted from the moving image file. The output interface outputs information to be presented to a user. The controller outputs a part of the moving image via the output interface, in a period from start of the repair processing on the corrupted file to completion of the repair processing, based on analyzed information in the repair processing in execution, the part of the moving image corresponding to the analyzed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao OZAWA, Akira SETO
  • Publication number: 20240356435
    Abstract: A voltage boost circuit includes an input node, a voltage booster, a voltage divider, a comparator unit, and a voltage boost controller. The input node receives, from a reference signal source, a reference signal defined by a reference voltage. The voltage booster boosts an input voltage to deliver an output voltage. The voltage divider divides the output voltage into a fractional voltage to generate a fractional voltage signal defined by the fractional voltage. The comparator unit compares the reference signal and the fractional voltage signal with each other to generate a comparison signal. The voltage boost controller controls, in accordance with the comparison signal, operation of the voltage booster to narrow a difference between the reference voltage and the fractional voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 12126437
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiver and a transmitter and is configured to report channel state information (CSI) to a base station in a communication system in which a plurality of downlink component carriers and at least one uplink component carrier are configured. The receiver receives, in a slot nTrigger, a trigger message that triggers reporting of the CSI for at least one unlicensed downlink component carrier of the plurality of downlink component carriers. The transmitter transmits, in a slot nReport, the CSI based on reference signals present in a slot nRS on the at least one unlicensed downlink component carrier. Responsive to the at least one unlicensed downlink component carrier being occupied for a period of time for a bursty downlink transmission, only the reference signals in the slot nRS are evaluated for the CSI, and other slots in the period of time are not evaluated for the CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Michael Einhaus, Sujuan Feng, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12125646
    Abstract: A disclosed capacitor element includes: a first electrode; a dielectric layer covering at least a portion of the first electrode; and a second electrode covering at least a portion of the dielectric layer. The second electrode includes a solid electrolyte layer, a conductive carbon layer covering at least a portion of the solid electrolyte layer, and a metal paste layer covering at least a portion of the carbon layer. The carbon layer includes flake carbon particles and spherical carbon particles. A particle diameter of the spherical carbon particles is less than an average major diameter of the flake carbon particles, or greater than or equal to the average major diameter of the flake carbon particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamasaki, Shinji Kondou, Hitoshi Ishimoto, Yukihiro Shimasaki, Yuji Miyachi, Kohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12126274
    Abstract: A GaN layer is formed over the substrate. An AlGaN layer is formed on the GaN layer. A first source electrode, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, and a second source electrode are formed on or over the AlGaN layer. A first p-type Alx1Ga1-x1N layer where 0?x1<1 is interposed between the first gate electrode and the AlGaN layer. A second p-type Alx2Ga1-x2N layer where 0?x2<1 is interposed between the second gate electrode and the AlGaN layer. The substrate is electrically insulated from all of the first source electrode, the second source electrode, the first gate electrode, and the second gate electrode. The bidirectional switch further includes a terminal used to connect the substrate to a fixed potential node. The terminal is connected to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Yamada, Takashi Ichiryu, Masanori Nomura, Hidetoshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 12126398
    Abstract: A communication system includes one or more chargers and a server capable of communicating with the one or more chargers. The server obtains first information from a first vehicle via a first charger included in the one or more chargers, during charging of the first vehicle by the first charger, and supplies second information based on the first information to a second vehicle via a second charger included in the one or more chargers, during charging of the second vehicle by the second charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Nobuhiko Hashida
  • Patent number: 12126432
    Abstract: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a number (p) of current sequence allocations are initialized, and in ST202, it is determined whether the number (p) of current sequence allocations is coincident with a number (K) of allocations to one cell. In ST203, it is determined whether the number (K) of allocations to the one cell is odd or even. If K is even, in ST204-ST206, sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, are combined and then allocated. If K is odd, in ST207-ST212, for sequences that cannot be paired, one of sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12125971
    Abstract: A battery includes: a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer containing a solid electrolyte, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector that are laminated in this order; and a sealing member. The battery has an opening hole penetrating the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material layer, the solid electrolyte layer containing the solid electrolyte, the negative electrode active material layer, and the negative electrode current collector in a laminating direction and further includes a sealing member. In cross-sectional view perpendicular to the laminating direction, the sealing member is located between the opening hole and each of the positive electrode active material layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode active material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Honda, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Tsutomu Koshizuka, Akira Kawase
  • Patent number: 12127207
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to multiplexing of UCI in PUSCH in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to process UCI bits to be transmitted according to the comparison of the number M of UCI bits generated based on DL assignment(s) before an UL grant from a base station and the number N of UCI bits generated based on DL assignment(s) after the UL grant with the number P of UCI bits indicated in the UL grant and/or the maximum number Q of bits determined based on at least a configured coding rate, wherein each of M, N, P, Q is an integer equal to or larger than 0; and a transmitter operative to transmit the processed UCI bits in PUSCH at a TTI indicated in the UL grant to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomoya Nunome, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12126983
    Abstract: A control device controls sound of a plurality of speakers. The control device includes: a generation unit acquiring image data and generates display image data from the image data by using conversion processing using shape information indicating a shape of a display surface; a display controller displaying a display image on the display surface by using the display image data; a receiver causing a cursor to be superimposed and displayed on the display image and receives position designation related to the plurality of speakers on the display image from a user who has visually recognized the cursor; and an identification unit calculating a position of the cursor from the position designation by referring to a correspondence relationship between the image data before the conversion processing and the display image data after the conversion processing, and identifying the position of the cursor as a position related to the plurality of speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Ohashi, Naoya Tanaka, Ryo Hirota
  • Patent number: 12125969
    Abstract: A halide solid electrolyte material according to the present disclosure is represented by the chemical formula Li6-4b+2ab(Zr1-aMa)bX6 (I), wherein M denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Zn, X denotes at least one halogen element, and two mathematical formulae 0<a<1 and 0<b<1.5 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Sakaida, Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai, Yusuke Nishio, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12125904
    Abstract: A bidirectional switch module includes a plurality of bidirectional switches and a mount board. Each of the plurality of bidirectional switches includes a first source electrode, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, and a second source electrode. On the mount board, the plurality of bidirectional switches are mounted. In the bidirectional switch module, the plurality of bidirectional switches are connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ichiryu, Yusuke Kinoshita, Ryusuke Kanomata, Masanori Nomura, Hidetoshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 12125970
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a solid electrolyte material having high lithium ion conductivity. A solid electrolyte according to the present disclosure contains Li, Sm, O, and X. X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Sakaida, Koki Ueno, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12126037
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery that can further reliably suppress penetration of moisture and so forth inside the battery. A battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a power generation element; and a sealing member containing an insulating material and zeolite particles. The power generation element includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The zeolite particles have an average particle size less than or equal to 1 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Yasutaka Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 12125972
    Abstract: A solid-electrolyte material includes Li, Y, X, O, and H. X is at least two elements selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazufumi Miyatake, Yusuke Nishio, Takashi Kubo, Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 12121981
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a pressure-sensitive sensor, a support, an output shaft, and a controller. The pressure-sensitive sensor is configured to sense pressing force which is externally provided. The support supports the pressure-sensitive sensor. The output shaft is configured to hold a tip tool and be rotated relative to the support by motive power provided from an electric motor with the output shaft holding the tip tool. The controller is configured to control rotation of the output shaft in accordance with an output according to the pressing force, the output being output from the pressure-sensitive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Kitamura, Itaru Murui, Naoki Tsujimoto, Kotaro Momoeda, Akito Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12122129
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a resin composition containing (A) a thermosetting compound having a styrene structure or a (meth)acrylate structure, and (B) at least one of maleimide compounds represented by the formulas (1) to (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Umehara, Rihoko Watanabe, Hiroharu Inoue, Yiqun Wang
  • Patent number: 12127182
    Abstract: Provided are a resource scheduling method, a resource determining method, an eNB, and a user equipment. The resource scheduling method for wireless communication is performed by the eNB. The wireless communication involves at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The resource scheduling method includes: transmitting a DCI in the first carrier to a UE to schedule downlink resources for a PDSCH of the second carrier, wherein the eNB is able to start transmitting a burst in the second carrier at a flexible time independent of the subframe boundaries of the second carrier after the second carrier is occupied by the eNB, and the DCI for a flexible PDSCH of the burst different from the normal PDSCH of the second carrier contains information on the time period scheduled for the flexible PDSCH. The flexible PDSCH and its corresponding RS can reuse the DwPTS subframe structure for minimal specification impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Li Wang, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Michael Einhaus, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 12122651
    Abstract: A moving body includes a housing, a traction motor, a plurality of elevator motors and a battery. The traction motor allows the housing to travel along a traveling surface. The plurality of elevator motors actuates an elevator unit, the elevator unit being configured to be elevated and lowered with respect to the traveling surface. The battery supplies electric power to the traction motor and the plurality of elevator motors. In the moving body, the plurality of elevator motors, the traction motor, and the battery are distributed when viewed perpendicularly to the traveling surface. The moving body further comprises at least one driving wheel to support the housing on the traveling surface. The plurality of elevator motors, the traction motor, and the battery fall, in a direction perpendicular to the traveling surface, within a range defined by a diameter of the at least one driving wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Matsuda, Shozo Fukushima, Masaya Shitami, Masatomo Kitada