Panasonic Patents
Panasonic Corporation manufactures and sells electronic and electric products. Its products include audiovisual equipment (such as flat-panel televisions, Blu-ray recorders, digital cameras, PCs projectors and in-flight entertainment systems), home appliances (such as cooking, beauty, cooling and heating equipment), systems and communications products (such as mobile phones and surveillance and security cameras). Panasonic also offers lighting, automotive systems (such as car navigation systems) and industrial devices (such as electronic components, electronic materials, semiconductors and optical devices).
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Patent number: 12103478Abstract: A vehicle system is a vehicle system used for a vehicle, and includes: a plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses installed in the vehicle; and at least one of (i) a controller that, in accordance with a depth of penetration of a malicious attack carried out on the plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses, changes at least one of a communication method with an outside of the vehicle, a defense method against the malicious attack, or a storage method for logs pertaining to the plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses, or (ii) a determiner that determines whether or not the malicious attack is being carried out based on anomaly detection in the plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kento Tamura, Jun Anzai, Yoshiharu Imamoto
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Patent number: 12103277Abstract: A shock absorbing laminate includes: a shock absorbing layer having an adhesive property and a stress relieving property; a heat diffusion layer having a thermal diffusive property, and a shield layer having electromagnetic interference shielding characteristics. The shock absorbing layer, the heat diffusion layer, and the shield layer are stacked on one another. The shock absorbing laminate which has heat dissipation characteristics and electromagnetic interference shielding characteristics and which can be affixed to another member without using the adhesive layer can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadatoshi Nakanishi, Kakeru Hanabusa, Motoi Kawamura, Muneo Yamada
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Patent number: 12103165Abstract: An actuator apparatus includes an actuator, a setter, an operation controller, and an acquirer. The operation controller is configured to control the actuator to take out an object from a placement table. The actuator includes a suction nozzle configured to suck and hold the object. The acquirer is configured to acquire a difference between a first moment applied to the suction nozzle and a second moment applied to the suction nozzle when the object is taken out by the suction nozzle by a first taking-out movement distance. The operation controller is configured to control whether or not to further continue taking-out the object, based on the difference between the first moment and the second moment.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Kato, Jun Ozawa
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Patent number: 12107713Abstract: A transmission method comprises: generating a transmission signal including OFDM symbols, wherein the last OFDM symbol of the OFDM symbols can be partitioned into four segments, and wherein the generating includes: computing an initial padding factor value associated with one of the four segments and computing an initial number of OFDM symbols; determining a user with a longest packet duration among plural users; determining a common padding factor value being the initial padding factor value and a common number of OFDM symbols being the initial number of OFDM symbols of the determined user with the longest packet duration; adding pre-FEC padding bits toward one of four possible boundaries of the last OFDM symbol, the one of four possible boundaries being represented by the determined common padding factor value; and adding post-FEC padding bits in remaining segment(s) of the last OFDM symbol; and transmitting the generated transmission signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Michael Hong Cheng Sim
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Patent number: 12108373Abstract: It is an object to provide a sequence allocating method that, while maintaining the number of Zadoff-Chu sequences to compose a sequence group, is configured to make it possible to reduce correlations between different sequential groups. This method comprises the steps of setting a standard sequence with a standard sequence length and a standard sequence number in a step, setting a threshold value in accordance with an RB number in a step, setting a sequence length corresponding to RB number in a step, judging whether ¦r/N?rb/Nb¦=Xth(m) is satisfied in a step, including a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences with a sequence number and a sequence length in a sequence group in a step if the judgment is positive, and allocating the sequence group to the same cell in a step.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Tomofumi Takata, Yoshihiko Ogawa
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Patent number: 12107386Abstract: In various embodiments, laser resonators include enclosed cooling manifolds defining protrusions each configured to conduct heat-exchange fluid to a beam emitter in the resonator. Installation of such cooling manifolds may be facilitated via use of a rigid installation tool functioning as a mechanical reference, prior to installation of the beam emitters and sealing of the beam emitters to the cooling manifold.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO. LTDInventors: Matthew Sauter, Bryan Lochman, Oscar Corripio, Bien Chann
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Patent number: 12107096Abstract: An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a counter electrode provided above the photoelectric conversion layer, a pixel electrode that faces the counter electrode with the photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode, and a contact plug covered with the pixel electrode and connected to the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes a first layer and a second layer provided on the first layer in contact with the first layer. A surface of the first layer that is in contact with the second layer has a protrusion that protrudes upward.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Morikazu Tsuno, Takanori Doi, Yoshinori Takami
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Patent number: 12107395Abstract: In various embodiments, pointing errors in a non-wavelength-beam-combining dimension of a laser system are at least partially alleviated via staircased collimation lenses.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Wang-Long Zhou, Bryan Lochman, Bien Chann, Matthew Sauter
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Patent number: 12107397Abstract: An electric discharge device according to the present disclosure includes a discharge electrode, a counter electrode, a voltage application circuit, and a liquid supply unit. The discharge electrode is a columnar electrode. The counter electrode faces the discharge electrode. The voltage application circuit applies an application voltage between the discharge electrode and the counter electrode. The liquid supply unit supplies liquid to the discharge electrode. The liquid extends and contracts along a central axis of the discharge electrode by discharge. The counter electrode includes a peripheral electrode part and a projecting electrode part. In a direction along the central axis of the discharge electrode, a tip of the liquid in a state in which the liquid extends is located at the same position as an outer peripheral edge of the peripheral electrode part or located closer to the discharge electrode than the outer peripheral edge.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yohei Ishigami, Takafumi Omori, Tetsunori Aono, Sadahiko Wakaba, Takayuki Nakada
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Patent number: 12107298Abstract: A secondary battery has an electrode body, a sealing plate sealing an opening of a battery case, current collector tabs provided respectively on a positive and a negative electrode plate, current collector terminals disposed inside the sealing plate and connected respectively to the positive and the negative electrode plate with the respective current collector tabs interposed therebetween, and external terminals disposed outside the sealing plate and connected to the respective current collector terminals. The electrode body is accommodated in the battery case with the electrode current collector tabs being bent in a space inside the sealing plate, and each of the current collector tabs has a joined portion ultrasonically joined to the corresponding current collector terminal and a bend portion provided at a position away from the joined portion and on the electrode body side and serving as a starting portion at which the current collector tab is bent.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyomi Kozuki
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Patent number: 12108092Abstract: A transmitting method stores data making up a coded stream into a predetermined data unit and transmits the stored data in the predetermined data unit. The transmitting method further generates presentation time information indicating a presentation time of the predetermined data unit, based on reference time information received from an external source; and transmits the predetermined data unit, first control information which includes the generated presentation time information, and second control information which includes leap second information indicating whether or not the presentation time information is a time that is before a leap second adjustment. A receiving method receives the predetermined data unit, first control information, and second control information; and reproduces the received predetermined data unit based on the first and second control information that are received.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Tadamasa Toma
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Patent number: 12108080Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory: prohibits a first splitting method when arrangement and shapes of blocks obtained by splitting a first block multiple times by the first splitting method are identical to arrangement and shapes of blocks obtained by splitting the first block multiple times by a second splitting method different from the first splitting method, and when scan order of the blocks obtained by the first splitting method is identical to scan order of the blocks obtained by the second splitting method; and encodes the first block.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh
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Patent number: 12107655Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a base station, an operating method for a mobile terminal and an operating method for a base station.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, Rikin Shah
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Patent number: 12103519Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus for assisting driving of a vehicle. The driving assistance apparatus includes a teacher data generator that stores a movement route traveled by the vehicle according to the user's driving operation in a teacher traveling mode, and generates teacher data related to a target route generated by inverting the movement route; a position estimator that estimates the vehicle current position based on sensor information from a peripheral sensor monitoring the surrounding environment of the vehicle; and a vehicle controller that feedback controls the vehicle based on the vehicle current position estimated by the position estimator and each of target positions on the target route so that the vehicle travels along the target route when an execution command for an automatic traveling mode is received from the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventor: Takafumi Tokuhiro
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Patent number: 12105346Abstract: A lens barrel (10) comprises a holding frame (51); a guide pole (53); a focusing lens unit (52) that is slidably guided by the guide pole (53) and moves in an axial direction; an actuator that moves the focusing lens unit (52) in the axial direction relative to the holding frame (51); and leaf springs (55) that support the guide pole (53) so as to allow movement in the axial direction relative to the holding frame (51), at an amplitude smaller than the stroke of the focusing lens unit (52).Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroyasu Fujinaka
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Patent number: 12105343Abstract: A lens support mechanism 10 comprises lens group units 23 to 27, a substantially cylindrical rectilinear cylinder 11, and a substantially cylindrical cam cylinder 12. The rectilinear cylinder 11 envelops the lens group units 23 to 27, and has main cam followers 11b protruding outward in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface, and a sub cam groove 11c. The cam cylinder 12 has main cam grooves 12b and a sub cam follower 12c, and is disposed on the outer peripheral side of the rectilinear cylinder 11. The main cam grooves 12b engage with the main cam followers 11b and are formed substantially parallel to the sub cam groove 11c, and upon rotating relative to the rectilinear cylinder 11, move the lens group units 23 to 27 back and forth in the optical axis direction. The sub cam followers 12c project inward in the radial direction and engage with the sub cam grooves 11c.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Daisuke Ito
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Patent number: 12106622Abstract: A visitor management system, which can accurately determine if a visitor presents a proper ticket for the visitor's personal attribute, includes: a reader configured to read ticket information in a ticket medium; a camera configured to capture an image of the visitor; a control device configured to acquire a personal attribute of the visitor from the captured image, determine if consistency is achieved between the ticket information from the reader and the acquired personal attribute, and generate a management screen including determination result information; and a display configured to display the management screen. The determination result information generated by the control device may include a number of persons for each ticket type and a number of persons for each personal attribute, and inconsistency information indicating that consistency is not achieved.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takayuki Matsukawa
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Patent number: 12104937Abstract: An ultrasonic flowmeter includes: a flow path body having a flow path through which a fluid to be measured flows; a pair of ultrasonic transducers disposed in the flow path body; a substrate fixed to the flow path body; a sensor plate on which a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the fluid to be measured is disposed, the sensor plate being flat; and an arithmetic unit that calculates a flow rate of the fluid to be measured from a propagation time of ultrasonic waves between the pair of ultrasonic transducers and the temperature detected by the temperature sensor. The sensor plate is configured to project from the substrate and to project into a flow path cross-section of the flow path from a sensor hole provided in the flow path body at a time of fixing the substrate to the flow path body.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuji Nakabayashi, Masato Satou, Asako Miyoshi, Masataka Matsuda
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Patent number: 12106529Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image by receiving incident light, to generate image data; a controller that controls an image shooting operation using the image sensor; a recorder that records the image data as a result of the image shooting operation; and an adjuster that adjusts a light reception rate in each position on an incident surface, the light reception rate allowing the image sensor to receive the light, the incident surface being entered by the light corresponding to an image represented by the image data. The controller controls the adjuster to render the light reception rate in a position corresponding to part of the image on the incident surface different from the light reception rate in another position thereon, and causes the image sensor to capture the image with the light reception rate rendered different by the adjuster in the image shooting operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Yamamoto, Wataru Okamoto
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Patent number: 12106610Abstract: A vehicle log transmission device includes: an anomaly detector that obtains a vehicle log from at least one electronic control unit, detects an anomaly based on log information in the vehicle log, and extracts log information in which the anomaly is detected as an anomaly log; an anomaly notifier that transmits the anomaly log to a server; a change instructor that, based on a vehicle state extracted from the vehicle log, transmits, to the at least one electronic control unit, a change instruction to change a save priority level of the log information included in the vehicle log; and a vehicle log request responder that, when a vehicle log request is received, obtains the vehicle log including log information saved based on the save priority level changed in response to the change instruction, and transmits the vehicle log obtained to the server.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Ryo Hirano, Takeshi Kishikawa, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Tomoyuki Haga
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Patent number: 12106877Abstract: It is aimed to provide a laminated varistor capable of reducing stray capacitance to occur between an internal electrode and an external electrode, and also capable of reducing a variation in the stray capacitance due to a variation in the external electrode. A laminated varistor of the present disclosure has external electrodes on first end surface, second end surface, and first side surface of sintered body. No external electrode is provided on second side surface opposite to first side surface. Varistor regions in which internal electrodes overlap each other in a laminating direction are provided at positions closer to second side surface than to first side surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Sayaka Matsumoto, Ken Yanai, Masashi Takamura, Masaya Hattori, Tomomitsu Muraishi
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Patent number: 12107231Abstract: A device for manufacturing a laminated electrode body, the device comprising: a negative electrode out drum for cutting a single-plate negative electrode at a first width, producing a negative electrode plate, and transporting the negative electrode plate; a negative electrode heat drum for heating the negative electrode plate; a positive electrode cut drum for cutting a single-plate positive electrode at a second width, producing a positive electrode plate, and transporting the positive electrode plate; a positive electrode heat drum for heating the positive electrode plate; an affixing drum for disposing the negative electrode plate on a first single-plate separator, disposing the second single-plate separator thereon, disposing the positive electrode plate thereon, and performing affixation; a separator cut drum for cutting, at a third width, the first single-plate separator and the second single-plate separator of the laminate affixed by the affixing drum; and a lamination drum for laminating the cut lamiType: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Masada, Kenji Inagaki, Masahide Maruyama
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Patent number: 12107251Abstract: A negative electrode cutting drum that cuts a negative electrode single plate to a first width to produce a negative electrode plate, and conveys said negative electrode plate; a negative electrode heating drum that heats the negative electrode plate; a positive electrode cutting drum that cuts a positive electrode single plate to a second width to produce a positive electrode plate, and conveys said positive electrode plate; a positive electrode heating drum that heats the positive electrode plate; a bonding drum; a separator cutting drum that cuts to a third width a first separator single plate and a second separator single plate of a laminate bonded by the bonding drum; and a lamination drum that laminates the cut laminates on a lamination stage. The rectangular lamination stage is provided, at the four corners, with a plurality of protuberances for pressing and holding the laminate on the stage surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Masada, Kenji Inagaki, Masahide Maruyama
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Patent number: 12108202Abstract: A speaker unit incorporated in a housing of an earphone includes: a frame having a cylindrical shape; a diaphragm emitting sound; and a board to which a wiring line of a coil provided to the diaphragm is connected. The frame has a space inside, and the diaphragm and the board are placed inside the frame with the space interposed between the diaphragm and the board.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Obase, Koichi Muramatsu
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Patent number: 12108073Abstract: Provided is an encoder including circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. A prediction mode for a current block is an affine mode, and in operation, the circuitry: derives a base motion vector which is a motion vector to be used in a prediction process for the current block, and is a motion vector at an affine-mode control point in the current block; derives a first motion vector different from the base motion vector; derives a motion vector difference based on a difference between the base motion vector and the first motion vector; determines whether the motion vector difference is greater than a threshold; if so, modifies a second motion vector different from the base motion vector and the first motion vector, and if not, does not modify the second motion vector; and encodes the current block using the second motion vector modified or the second motion vector not modified.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Jing Ya Li, Chong Soon Lim, Ru Ling Liao, Han Boon Teo, Hai Wei Sun, Che Wei Kuo, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
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Patent number: 12107687Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication apparatus including circuitry, which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a signal field and a data field, the signal field indicating one or more user-specific allocations in the data field. An aggregate medium access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU) transmitted in each of the one or more user-specific allocations is segmented into one or more code blocks. The communication apparatus includes a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the generated transmission signal and a receiver, which, in operation, receives a null data packet (NDP) or a medium access control (MAC) frame carrying hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information for the one or more code blocks.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
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Patent number: 12107622Abstract: In the present invention, regarding a narrowband used in a subframe for transmitting uplink data, if a switch is made from a first narrowband used in a first subframe to a second narrowband that is different from the first narrowband, with respect to a second subframe continuing to the first subframe, a final one symbol of the first subframe and an initial one symbol of the second subframe are punctured and set as a retuning time to transmit the uplink data in the first narrowband and the second narrowband.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
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Patent number: 12108039Abstract: An encoding method includes: changing values of luma pixels in a first block and a second block to filter a first boundary between the first block and the second block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values are within respective luma clip widths, the luma pixels in the first block and the second block being arranged along a first line across the first boundary; and changing values of chroma pixels in a third block and a fourth block to filter a second boundary between the third block and the fourth block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values are within respective chroma clip widths, the chroma pixels in the third block and the fourth block being arranged along a second line across the second boundary. The luma clip widths applied to the luma pixels are selected to be asymmetrical relative to the first boundary.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
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Patent number: 12107784Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver, which in operation, receives one or more discovery reference signal (DRS) transmitted by a base station within a channel occupancy time (COT) starting at a possible starting position that is not aligned with half a slot boundary. The terminal includes circuitry, which in operation, determines frame timing in response to receiving the one or more DRS.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Lei Huang, Akihiko Nishio, Tien Ming (Benjamin) Koh
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Publication number: 20240323545Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a controller, and a user interface. The image sensor captures a subject image to generate imaging data. The controller performs repair processing to generate a moving image file from a corrupted file, the moving image file being capable of reproducing a moving image indicated by the imaging data, the corrupted file having a defect as the moving image file. The user interface inputs a user operation related to the repair processing. The controller receives a user operation selecting a specific corrupted file from one or more of corrupted files via the user interface, and performs the repair processing on the selected corrupted file in response to the user operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru OKAMOTO, Akira SETO, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240322217Abstract: Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery (10) including a positive electrode (11) containing a positive electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, a negative electrode (12) including a negative electrode current collector, a separator (13) disposed between the positive electrode (11) and the negative electrode (12), and a nonaqueous electrolyte having lithium ion conductivity. At the negative electrode, lithium metal deposits during charging, and the lithium metal dissolves during discharging. The negative electrode current collector includes an austenitic stainless steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yohei Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20240317310Abstract: A parking assist method according to the present disclosure is for performing autonomous driving of a vehicle on the basis of teacher driving by a driver. The parking assist method includes acquiring, from an imaging device installed in the vehicle, captured images obtained by imaging periphery of the vehicle in time series according to movement of the vehicle during the teacher driving. The method includes recording a travel route of the vehicle in the teacher driving, and generating, on the basis of the captured images, a first enlarged overhead image of a display target range viewed from above. The display target range covers the travel route and a periphery of the travel route. The method further includes causing a display device to display the first enlarged overhead image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventor: Takafumi TOKUHIRO
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Publication number: 20240323611Abstract: A loudspeaker includes: a diaphragm; a magnetic circuit; a frame that holds the magnetic circuit; an edge that is annular and connects the diaphragm and the frame; and a voice coil body that is disposed in a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit. The diaphragm includes: a central portion; and an outer-circumferential portion that is provided as a single piece together with the central portion in an outer periphery of the central portion, and is bonded to the edge at a location in a vicinity of the central portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi ITOH
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Publication number: 20240317311Abstract: A parking assist method according to the present disclosure is for performing autonomous driving of a vehicle on the basis of teacher driving by a driver. The parking assist method includes acquiring, from an imaging device installed in the vehicle, captured images obtained by imaging periphery of the vehicle in time series according to movement of the vehicle during the teacher driving. The method includes recording a travel route of the vehicle in the teacher driving, and generating, on the basis of the captured images, a first enlarged overhead image of a display target range viewed from above. The display target range covers the travel route and a periphery of the travel route. The method further includes causing a display device to display the first enlarged overhead image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventor: Takafumi TOKUHIRO
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Publication number: 20240317313Abstract: A parking assistance device causes a vehicle to automatically travel based on a travel path in a parking operation in past by a driver, and includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: acquire at least one of environmental information concerning environment around the vehicle and user information concerning a user who gets on the vehicle; cause the memory to store a plurality of travel paths in association with at least one of the environmental information and the user information; specify a travel path on which the vehicle automatically travels based on at least one of the environmental information and the user information among the stored plurality of travel paths; cause a display unit to display information for urging the driver to approve the specified travel path; and cause the vehicle to travel based on the travel path approved by the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA, Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Yukihiro TANIZOE
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Publication number: 20240320702Abstract: An information providing method includes: acquiring, from a first server, a point ID corresponding to a user who is on a vehicle parked in a parking lot and parking position distance information indicating a distance from a parking position to an entrance connecting the parking lot and a commercial facility; and when the distance from the parking position to the entrance is equal to or larger than a predetermined value based on purchase information and the parking position distance information of the user corresponding to the point ID, transmitting, to the first server, first coupon information representing a coupon available in at least one store among a plurality of stores where a use frequency by the user is equal to or larger than a certain value in order to display the first coupon information on an information terminal of the user corresponding to the point ID.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Fumio KOSUGE, Shinya AIZAWA
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Publication number: 20240320790Abstract: A display device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a surrounding video; a setting unit configured to receive a correction setting of image quality for the surrounding video; a determination unit configured to determine a recommended correction processing for the surrounding video; and a notification unit configured to notify of the recommended correction setting for the surrounding video based on a determination result by the determination unit and the correction setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiki IWAHANA, Takayuki SUZUKI, Tetsuo NAKAMURA, Akitoshi YAMASHITA, Tatsuki HOTANI
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Publication number: 20240322232Abstract: An alkali metal ion conductive solid electrolyte including an organic polymer having an alkali metal sulfonate group, wherein the alkali metal sulfonate group is a part of an alkali metal alkyl sulfonate group represented by a formula: —R—SO3X (where R is an alkylene group and X is an alkali metal atom), the organic polymer may be a derivative of a polysaccharide, and the mass (EW value) of the organic polymer per 1 mol of the alkali metal sulfonate group is 168 g/mol or more and 300 g/mol or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Hara, Motohiro Sakata, Hirotetsu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240322352Abstract: A seal plate of a cylindrical battery has an outer peripheral portion, which is at least partly fixed to an opening of an outer can, and an annular thin portion adjacent to the outer peripheral portion. The thin portion has a sloping portion sloping radially inward toward the bottom of the outer can in an axial direction. In a cross section of the thin portion taken in a plane including the radial direction and the axial direction, an inner surface of an adjacent portion adjacent to the outer peripheral portion of the thin portion has a curved shape, and the gradient of an outer surface of the thin portion changes towards the outer peripheral portion so as to decrease the thickness of the adjacent portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keisuke Yamashita
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Publication number: 20240320711Abstract: A method includes causing a computer of a communication terminal to perform a process including acquiring, in response to receipt of a beacon signal transmitted from a vending machine, identification information and type information of a plurality of drinks from the vending machine by using short-range wireless communication; acquiring preference information on drinks of a user of the communication terminal; generating, based on the identification information, the type information, and the preference information, a push notification screen that recommends at least one drink that matches a preference of the user indicated by the preference information from among the plurality of drinks stored in the vending machine indicated by the identification information; and displaying the push notification screen on a display of the communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi YAHATA, Takahiro NISHI, Tadamasa TOMA, Toshiyasu SUGIO
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Publication number: 20240323205Abstract: A monitoring server of an in-vehicle control network system includes a threat information generator that obtains first threat information pertaining to a threat that has occurred in a vehicle of a first vehicle type, a threat information abstractor that generates abstracted threat information by deleting information specific to the first vehicle type from the first threat information, and a display that outputs second threat information generated based on the abstracted threat information and including a risk value indicating a risk level of the threat to a second vehicle type different from the first vehicle type.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Takamitsu SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240320325Abstract: An analysis support method is performed by an analysis support device that supports an analysis of an attack scenario in an event that has occurred in a monitored object, and the analysis is performed based on raw data related to the event. The analysis support method includes: obtaining the raw data by communicating with the monitored object or communicating with a database that stores the raw data obtained from the monitored object; and outputting a previous analysis result for previously obtained raw data that is similar to the raw data obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi ITO, Shoichiro SEKIYA, Yuishi TORISAKI, Kaoru YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20240322603Abstract: A power transmitting and receiving system includes a power receiving device including a power receiving coil, and a power transmission device including power transmission coils arranged in a line, a power transmission circuit, and control circuitry. The control circuitry switches an electrical connection between the power transmission circuit and each power transmission coil, detects a relative position between the power receiving coil and each power transmission coil, selects adjacent power transmission coils based on the relative position, and causes the power transmission circuit to supply AC power to the selected power transmission coils. In an array direction of the power transmission coils, width Dwt of each power transmission coil is shorter than width Dwr of the power receiving coil. In a direction perpendicular to the array direction, width Dlt of each power transmission coil is equal to or longer than width Dlr of the power receiving coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromu MATSUMOTO, Hiroshi KANNO, Atsushi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240322406Abstract: A cylindrical battery exemplifying one embodiment comprises an electrode assembly, a bottomed cylindrical external can that accommodates the electrode assembly, a sealing assembly that blocks an opening of the external can, a gasket that is interposed between the external can and the sealing assembly, and an external terminal plate that is joined to the outer surface of the external can. The external terminal plate is a metal plate having a thick portion and a thin portion, and the thin portion is joined to an open edge of the external can.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shin Haraguchi, Takumi Kusano, Oose Okutani
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Publication number: 20240324255Abstract: A solar cell 100 of the present disclosure includes a first electrode 20, an electron transport layer 30, an intermediate layer 70, a photoelectric conversion layer 40, and a second electrode 60. The first electrode 20, the electron transport layer 30, the intermediate layer 70, and the photoelectric conversion layer 40 are disposed in this order. The photoelectric conversion layer 40 includes a perovskite compound. The intermediate layer 70 includes a heterocyclic compound. The heterocyclic compound includes a six-membered ring including an element having a lone pair. In the solar cell 100, the photoelectric conversion layer 40 and the intermediate layer 70 may be disposed in contact with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventor: Takeyuki SEKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240320600Abstract: A simulation device comprising: a memory to store plan data indicating a plan related to a task planed in advance; a data obtainer to acquire implementation data indicating a status in which the task is under implementation; a controller to control, based on the stored plan data and the acquired implementation data, simulation processing to simulate a predicted progress status in which the task is implemented after the status indicated by the implementation data; and an output interface to output information, wherein the controller detects a delayed state in which the predicted progress status is delayed compared with the plan, determines, based on a prediction result from the simulation processing for a case where a measure for improving the detected delayed state is applied, an application deadline to apply the measure to improve the delayed state, and causes the output interface to output presentation information including the determined application deadline.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shumma MURATA, Akihiro TANAKA
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Publication number: 20240317215Abstract: Provided is a driving assistance apparatus that makes it possible to correctly estimate an inclination angle of a slope inclined in any direction and perform more accurate automatic parking by performing inclination direction estimation in which an inclination direction is estimated by analyzing a movement amount of a feature point on an image caused by traveling and then performing inclination angle estimation. The driving assistance apparatus includes an inclination detector that detects an inclination direction of a slope or a road surface around a vehicle on the basis of a camera image showing surroundings of the vehicle taken by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and assists driving of the vehicle on the basis of the inclination direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimasa OKABE, Masayoshi MICHIGUCHI, Yudai ISHIBASHI, Kantaro MATSUYAMA, Yusuke TSUJI, Hirotaka NAGAOKA
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Publication number: 20240318862Abstract: Embedded ventilation fan includes housing, decorative panel, inner lid, and air supply blower. Decorative panel includes front surface, rear surface, air supply slit opening, remaining region, and light transmission portion. Inner lid is provided between housing and decorative panel. Inner lid includes display unit including light emitting portion and first fitted portion. Rear surface includes first fitting portion. Light transmission portion transmits light emitted from light emitting portion, and light transmission portion is disposed directly above light emitting portion by fitting first fitting portion and first fitted portion to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki UNO, Daisuke KANEMATSU, Masafumi TSUBOUCHI, Kouji IIO, Yusuke TODA
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Publication number: 20240317930Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a resin composition for optical waveguide containing an epoxy resin and a curing agent, in which the number of aliphatic CH groups in the epoxy resin per unit volume is 0.055× Avogadro's number (NA) (/cm3) or less in the resin composition for optical waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Junko KURIZOE, Naoyuki KONDO, Toru NAKASHIBA
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Patent number: D1045227Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mikiyasu Ishikura, Ushio Bessho, Gakuto Takahashi