Panasonic Patents Granted

Patents granted to Panasonic by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11997650
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of setting reserved subframes for indication of a resource pool by a bitmap, a user equipment, and a base station. In the present disclosure, the resource pool is used for transmitting or receiving sidelink signals within a system frame number cycle that includes predefined subframes and remaining subframes that are subframes after excluding the predefined subframes within the system frame number cycle. In the method, a number of the reserved subframes is determined so that the bitmap is repeated by integer times within the subframes after excluding the reserved subframes and the predefined subframes within the system frame number cycle. In the method, position of each of the reserved subframes is set, wherein at most two reserved subframes are set per n subframes within the system frame number cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11997548
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a source base station. The source base station comprises a processing circuitry that generates a user equipment packet duplication status. The user equipment packet duplication status includes information on the status of uplink packet duplication performed by a user equipment with the source base station and at least one further base station. The information on the status of uplink packet duplication is per uplink radio bearer, one or more uplink radio bearers being established between the user equipment and the source base station. The source base station further comprises a transmitter that transmits the user equipment packet duplication status to a target base station which is the target of a handover from the source base station performed for the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Ming-Hung Tao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11996605
    Abstract: This antenna device comprises an antenna element disposed in a recess 2 on the exterior of a moving body, and a non-feeding element of which the center is disposed at a position higher than the horizontal plane in which the center of the antenna element is positioned in the recess. In the antenna device, furthermore, the moving body is a vehicle, and the recess may be provided in a roof 1 of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Uejima
  • Patent number: 11997796
    Abstract: A work device includes a main body, a connector part, a guide, and a data transmitter. The connector part, the guide, and the data transmitter are provided in the main body. The connector part is configured to be fitted to a connector of the feeder carriage. The guide guides the feeder carriage so that the connector is fitted to the connector part when the feeder carriage is brought close to the main body while making the connector face the connector part. The data transmitter transmits data to the feeder carriage through the connector when the connector is fitted with the connector part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Ishitani
  • Patent number: 11993382
    Abstract: A display in a commercial passenger vehicle can an option to be locked or unlock to enhance security. An example system for securing an in-vehicle entertainment (IVE) display in a commercial passenger vehicle comprises a mobile device and a computer. The mobile device comprises a first processor configured to secure a display located in the commercial passenger vehicle, where the first processor is configured to: obtain a payload; generate a first digitally signed payload as a first output of a first mathematical computation performed on the payload with a secret key; and send a first message comprising the first digitally signed payload and a lock command to instruct the display to lock the display. The computer is communicably coupled with the display and comprises a second processor configured to send a first instruction to cause the display to lock in response to a reception of the lock command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gurmukh Khabrani
  • Patent number: 11997325
    Abstract: A video transmission method according to the present disclosure includes: generating a transmission signal including, in a time series, first video data having a first luminance dynamic range and second video data having a second luminance dynamic range wider than the first luminance dynamic range; and transmitting the transmission signal generated. In the generating of the transmission signal, a signal level corresponding to a luminance value is limited to a value lower than a limit value that is predetermined, in a transition period provided for switching from one of the first video data and the second video data to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11996586
    Abstract: A circuit board soldering structure includes lead a plate inserted into a slit hole of a circuit board and soldered to a conductive pattern provided along the slit hole. The lead plate is made of an elastically-deformable metal plate thinner than an opening width (W) of slit hole. The lead plate includes insertion section inserted into the slit hole. The insertion section includes a bent section approaching from one of opposing inner surfaces of the slit hole facing each other toward another of the opposing inner surfaces of the slit hole. The bent section is disposed in the slit hole. The insertion section has both surfaces that are close to or contact corresponding opposing inner surfaces of the slit hole to solder the insertion section to the conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiya Matsushita, Shota Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11992856
    Abstract: An intermittent valve device includes: an intermittent valve capable of switching between a first state in which a coating material is supplied to a die that applies the coating material onto a material to be coated and a second state in which the supply of the coating material is stopped; and a drive unit that switches the first state and the second state of the intermittent valve. The drive unit includes a cam that rotates in one direction with a circumferential surface of the cam connected to the intermittent valve. The cam includes, on the circumferential surface, a first shape part that places the intermittent valve in the first state, and a second shape part that places the intermittent valve in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tokieda, Yuta Fukutomi, Naoyuki Koide, Yoshinori Sakai
  • Patent number: 11996541
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a laminated electrode body comprises: a negative electrode cutting drum that forms a negative electrode sheet by cutting a negative electrode single sheet to a first width and conveys the negative electrode sheet; a negative electrode heating drum that heats the negative electrode sheet; a positive electrode cutting drum that forms a positive electrode sheet by cutting a positive electrode single sheet to a second width and conveys the positive electrode sheet; a positive electrode heating drum that heats the positive electrode sheet; and a bonding drum at which the negative electrode sheet is arranged on a first separator single sheet, a second separator single sheet is arranged on the negative electrode sheet, the positive electrode sheet is arranged on the second separator single sheet, and the sheets are bonded. The conveyance between drums is carried out by a belt conveyor which joins with two drums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Masada, Kenji Inagaki, Masahide Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11996422
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a capacitor; an insulating layer; at feast one trench provided in the insulating layer; and a first conductive plug, at least part of which is surrounded by the insulating layer. The capacitor includes: a first lower electrode provided along an inner wall of the at least one trench, a dielectric layer provided on the first lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on the dielectric layer. At least part of the first conductive plug is positioned between an upper surface of the insulating layer and a lowermost portion of the at least one trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Takase, Shunsuke Isono, Yuuko Tomekawa
  • Patent number: 11993528
    Abstract: An ion removing system includes an electrolysis apparatus electrolyzing hard water to generate acidic water and alkaline water; and an ion removing apparatus that includes a hard water storage part storing the alkaline water generated by the electrolysis apparatus and a fine bubble generating part generating and supplying fine bubbles to the hard water storage part and that causes the fine bubbles to adsorb metal ions in the alkaline water in the hard water storage part to remove the metal ions from the alkaline water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayane Takehisa, Yasunari Maeda, Tomohiro Akita
  • Patent number: 11997708
    Abstract: In a base station (100), a controller (101) determines one set from among a plurality of sets, each of which including one or more candidates for a resource for an uplink (UL) control channel during initial access, and determines one candidate from among the one or more candidates for the resource, which is included in the determined set. A transmitter (114) indicates the determined set to a terminal (200) by higher layer signaling, and indicates the determined candidate by dynamic signaling. A receiver (116) receives a UL control signal, using the resource corresponding to the determined candidate in the determined set. In the base station, the association between a value to be indicated by the higher layer signaling and the plurality of sets is configured for each of one or more parameters relating to the initial access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11995107
    Abstract: The control system includes: a determiner that determines, based on browsing information on browsing using a browsing device, a target device and a browsing relation degree indicating relationship between a predetermined function of the target device and the browsing; a device information obtainer that obtains device information on a target control device that is the target device having the browsing relation degree of the browsing greater than or equal to a threshold; and a control unit that changes an operation mode for executing the predetermined function of the target control device when the device information obtained satisfies a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Morimoto, Jitsuho Nishida, Kazuki Sakamoto, Yasuhiko Akemine, Kyohei Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11994605
    Abstract: Provided is a direction of arrival estimation device wherein: a calculation circuit calculates a frequency weighting factor for each of a plurality of frequency components of signals recorded in a microphone array, on the basis of the differences among unit vectors indicating the directions of the sound sources of each of the plurality of frequency components; and an estimation circuit estimates the direction of arrival of a signal from the sound source, on the basis of the frequency weighting factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Rohith Mars, Srikanth Nagisetty, Chong Soon Lim, Hiroyuki Ehara, Akihisa Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11995150
    Abstract: An information processing method implemented by a computer includes: obtaining a piece of first data, and a piece of second data not included in a training dataset for training an inferencer; calculating, using a piece of first relevant data obtained by inputting the first data to the inferencer trained by machine learning using the training dataset, a first contribution representing contributions of portions constituting the first data to a piece of first output data output by inputting the first data to the inferencer; calculating, using a piece of second relevant data obtained by inputting the second data to the inferencer, a second contribution representing contributions of portions constituting the second data to a piece of second output data output by inputting the second data to the inferencer; and determining whether to add the second data to the training dataset, according to the similarity between the first and second contributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Denis Gudovskiy, Alec Hodgkinson, Takuya Yamaguchi, Sotaro Tsukizawa
  • Patent number: 11995294
    Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information terminal includes: executing a first obtainment process of obtaining identification information of each of a plurality of lighting fixtures installed in a space, in response to a first request transmitted to a first range in the space by radio wave communication; and executing a second obtainment process of obtaining identification information of part of the plurality of lighting fixtures, in response to a second request transmitted to a second range in the space by radio wave communication, the second range being narrower than the first range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Nakamura, Hajime Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11995181
    Abstract: A vehicle surveillance device for an in-vehicle network system that includes one or more electronic control units includes: a frame transmitter and receiver that receives a frame flowing over the in-vehicle network system; and a score calculator that detects a suspicious behavior different from a normal driving behavior based on the frame received by the frame transmitter and receiver and vehicle data including information on one or more frames received by the frame transmitter and receiver prior to receiving the frame, and calculates, based on a detection result, a score indicating a likelihood that reverse engineering has been performed on a vehicle provided with the in-vehicle network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Tomoyuki Haga
  • Patent number: 11995536
    Abstract: A learning device includes an input section and a learning section. The input section obtains training data in which an image containing an image of equipment of a vehicle, first information indicating a skeleton location of a specific part of a vehicle-occupant, and second information indicating a state of the vehicle-occupant with respect to the equipment are associated with each other. The learning section forms a model such that an estimating device can obtain the first information and the second information associated with the image containing the image of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyoko Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11994909
    Abstract: An electronic device is installed in a given space and comprises a main body, one or more sensors, and a controller. The one or more sensors are configured to detect an object around the main body. The controller is configured to set a detection range of the one or more sensors according to an installation state of the main body in the given space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kotaro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11995211
    Abstract: A secure authentication method includes: deriving a distributed LSH value using secret LSH, taking a first distributed feature amount which is a feature amount of user information distributed through a secret distribution method and encrypted LSH parameters as inputs; deriving a distributed hash value using a secret unidirectional function, taking the distributed LSH value and a distributed key as inputs; decoding the hash value by reversing distribution of the distributed hash value; selecting, from a secret hash table storing sets of a hash value as an index and a distributed feature amount as a data string, a set including a hash value matching the decoded hash value; computing, in secret, similarity between the distributed feature amount in the set and the first distributed feature amount; deriving, in secret, a user authentication result based on the similarity computed; and outputting the derived authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Naohisa Nishida, Tatsumi Oba, Yuji Unagami, Tadanori Teruya, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Goichiro Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 11996076
    Abstract: An active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal input terminal that receives a reference signal outputted by a reference signal source and having a correlation with noise in a space in an automobile, the reference signal source being attached to the automobile; a test signal source that outputs a test signal to a loudspeaker attached to the automobile, the loudspeaker being used to output a canceling sound for reducing the noise; and an anomaly determiner that determines whether the reference signal source has an anomaly, based on the reference signal inputted from the reference signal source to the reference signal input terminal when the test signal is outputted to the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Kotegawa
  • Patent number: 11993278
    Abstract: A driving assistance device to be installed on a vehicle is provided. The driving assistance device receives stop-behavior information of the vehicle from an automatic-driving control device. Inquiry information for notifying an occupant on whether a possibility of collision between the vehicle and a person is to be excluded from decision-making of the automatic-driving control device is output when a distance between the person and a point at which the person is predicted to end crossing is greater than or equal to a first threshold and a speed of the person is less than or equal to a second threshold. A command to exclude the possibility of collision between the vehicle and the person from the decision-making is output to the automatic-driving control device when a response signal of a response operation is performed by the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Emura
  • Patent number: 11997271
    Abstract: An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a first partition mode for partitioning a first block, and a second block partition mode for partitioning a second block which is one of blocks obtained after the first block is partitioned. When the number of partitions of the first block partition mode is three, the second block is a center block among the blocks obtained after partitioning the first block, and the partition direction of the second block partition mode is same as the partition direction of the first block partition mode, the second block partition mode indicates that the number of partitions is only three. A parameter for identifying the second block partition mode includes a first flag indicating a horizontal or vertical partition direction, and does not include a second flag indicating the number of partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • Patent number: 11995874
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: assigning three-dimensional points to one of layers, based on items of geometry information of the three-dimensional points; searching three-dimensional points surrounding a current three-dimensional point to be encoded, to select, from the three-dimensional points, a three-dimensional point to be referred to when a predicted value of attribute information of the current three-dimensional point is calculated, the current three-dimensional point belonging to a first layer among the layers; and calculating the predicted value of the attribute information of the current three-dimensional point using the three-dimensional point selected. In the searching of the three-dimensional points, a search range for a same layer as the current three-dimensional point is different from a search range for a layer higher than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11997310
    Abstract: An encoder includes memory and circuitry. The circuitry derives a first motion vector in a unit of a prediction block using a first inter frame prediction mode that uses a degree of matching between two reconstructed images of two regions in two difference pictures, the prediction block being obtained by splitting an image included in a video; and performs, in the unit of the prediction block, a first motion compensation process that generates a prediction image by referring to a spatial gradient of luminance in an image generated by performing motion compensation using the first motion vector derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 11997119
    Abstract: A vehicle log transmission device includes: a vehicle log division processor that generates one or more divided logs; existing identifier storage that stores an existing identifier list, which is a list of identifiers corresponding to existing divided logs generated by dividing an existing vehicle log shared between the vehicle log transmission device and a vehicle log analysis server; a vehicle log transmission necessity determiner that determines that a divided log corresponding to an identifier present in the existing identifier list is a first divided log, and that a divided log corresponding to an identifier not present in the existing identifier list is a second divided log; and a vehicle-side communicator that transmits the identifier corresponding to the first divided log to the vehicle log analysis server, and transmits the second divided log to the vehicle log analysis server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryo Hirano, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11995416
    Abstract: A translation device comprises: a memory that stores first dictionary information including a replacement target term in a first language and a translated word in a second language for the replacement target term in association with each other, and second dictionary information including an alternative term instead of the replacement target term; a controller that replaces the replacement target term included in an input sentence with the alternative term to generate a replaced sentence; and a communication interface that outputs the replaced sentence to an external device and acquires a translation result of the replaced sentence in the second language from the external device. The controller detects a specific character string in the translation result of the replaced sentence acquired from the communication interface, and replaces the detected character string with a translated word associated with the replacement target term in the first dictionary information, to generate a translated sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomokazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11996713
    Abstract: A charging apparatus includes: a receptacle including terminals; a power supply configured to supply a voltage or a current to a first terminal; a first voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of the first terminal; a second voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of a second terminal at one place, two places or three places away from the first terminal; and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the voltage of the second terminal is equal to or higher than a second threshold value during a period in which the voltage of the first terminal is equal to or higher than a first threshold value, and stop supply of the voltage or the current from the power supply to the first terminal in a case in which the voltage of the second terminal is equal to or higher than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takichi, Takashi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 11995937
    Abstract: A gate open/close control device (face authentication machine) includes a face image acquirer (camera) that captures a user before passing through a gate device (external device) and acquires a face image for authentication of the user; a transmitter (communicator) that transmits a processing request for face authentication to the face collation server based on the face image for authentication; a receiver (communicator) that receives the authentication result returned from the face collation server; and a controller that reflects the authentication result on an open/close control signal of the gate device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Ozono, Yoshifumi Yonemoto, Kunio Furuta, Takao Shime
  • Patent number: 11996079
    Abstract: An active noise reduction device reduces noise in a space in an automobile. The active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal input terminal that receives a reference signal outputted by a reference signal source and having a correlation with the noise, the reference signal source being attached to the automobile; a compressor that compresses and outputs the reference signal received by the reference signal input terminal and having an amplitude greater than or equal to a threshold; an adaptive filter unit that applies an adaptive filter to the reference signal outputted from the compressor to generate a canceling signal to be used to output a canceling sound for reducing the noise; and a filter coefficient updater that updates a coefficient of the adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Tani
  • Patent number: 11990542
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an n-type drift layer; a p-type blocking layer; a gate opening which penetrates through the blocking layer to the drift layer; an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer provided on an inner face of the gate opening; a gate electrode above the electron supply layer and covering the gate opening; a source opening penetrating through the electron supply layer and the electron transport layer to the blocking layer; a source electrode covering the source opening, the source electrode being connected to the electron supply layer, the electron transport layer, and the blocking layer; and a drain electrode on a side of the substrate opposite from a side on which the blocking layer is located. A bottom face of the gate electrode is closer to the drain electrode than a bottom face of the blocking layer is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Shibata, Satoshi Tamura, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11988516
    Abstract: A delivery plan generating method includes determining a start point that is point where delivery of a delivery object starts, determining an end point where the delivery of the delivery object finishes, determining a transfer point as a destination with reference to the start point, the end point, a position of the first mobile unit, and a position of the second mobile unit, the transfer point being a point where the delivery object is transferred from the first mobile unit to the second mobile unit, and generating a delivery plan for causing the first mobile unit to travel via the start point to the determined transfer point and causing the second mobile unit to travel via the determined transfer point to the end point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Hayama
  • Patent number: 11989226
    Abstract: Reliability regarding a class determination for an object is improved. Classification system includes first classification part, second classification part, and determination part. First classification part classifies first target data into at least one of a plurality of first classes. Second classification part classifies second target data into at least one of a plurality of second classes. Determination part decides whether to use one or both of a first classification result that is a classification result obtained by first classification part and a second classification result that is a classification result obtained by second classification part, and determines a class of object based on one or both of them. The first target data is image data of object. The second target data is manufacturing data regarding a manufacturing condition of object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisaji Murata, Hideto Motomura, Jeffry Fernando, Yuya Sugasawa
  • Patent number: 11990581
    Abstract: A battery includes a power generating element group including multiple laminated power generating elements each of which contains a solid electrolyte, and a first member in contact with a principal surface of a first power generating element that is one among the multiple power generating elements. The principal surface includes a central portion and an end portion with a ring-like shape surrounding the central portion in a plan view. The first member includes a central region overlapping with the central portion of the principal surface in a plan view, and an end region overlapping with the end portion of the principal surface in a plan view. At least one of the central region or the end region is in contact with the principal surface. A Young's modulus of the end region is smaller than that of the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Izuru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11989792
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring, based on a restaurant ID, menu information indicating dishes provided by a restaurant corresponding to the restaurant ID from a second server related to the restaurant via a network, transmitting identification information stored in an information terminal to a first server, acquiring, from a first server, allergy information related to a user based on the identification information, generating, based on the menu information and the allergy information, a personalized menu arranged for the user according to the allergy information, displaying the personalized menu on a second operation screen for accepting an order of a dish in the restaurant, the second operation screen being displayed on a display of the information terminal of the user, and transmitting ordered-dish information representing the dish selected from the personalized menu to the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11988404
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes: an infrared sensor configured to detect an infrared ray and output a thermal image; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the infrared sensor; and a processor configured to process output signals of the infrared sensor and the temperature sensor, and the processor is configured to estimate a temperature distribution in a space between the infrared sensor and a background in a detection direction of the infrared sensor from a background temperature of the thermal image and the temperature of the infrared sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Hiramatsu, Takanori Sugiyama, Hiroshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11987191
    Abstract: A back-up power supply system (1) is configured to supply electric power from an electric storage device (5) to loads (3) when a power supply (2) is defective. The back-up power supply system (1) includes a first voltage conversion circuit (6) configured to convert an output voltage of the electric storage device (5). The loads (3) include a first load (31) and a second load (32). The back-up power supply system (1) is configured to supply power from the electric storage device (5) to the first load (31) not via the voltage conversion circuit (6), and to supply electric power from the electric storage device (5) to the second load (32) via the voltage conversion circuit (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Mitani, Masatoshi Nakase
  • Patent number: 11987408
    Abstract: A component mounting system including: a component mounting device group in which a plurality of component mounting devices that mount components supplied to a board transported in from an upstream side by a tape feeder and transport out the board to a downstream side, and cut a carrier tape after supplying the components by a cutter device and discharge scraps of carrier tape, are installed on a floor surface while being arranged in a direction of conveying the board; a main conveyor that is installed along an arrangement direction of the plurality of component mounting devices in a region on the floor surface under the component mounting device group, and transports the scraps of carrier tape discharged from each of the plurality of component mounting devices; and a scraps storage that is installed outside the region and stores the scraps of carrier tape transported by the main conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Naoki Azuma, Chikara Takata, Yuzo Asano, Toru Chikuma, Hiroshi Satoh
  • Patent number: 11988750
    Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: an image capturer that captures N segmental images corresponding to N segmental distances into which a distance measurement range is divided; and a range image generator that generates a range image from the N segmental images. The range image generator determines: among segmental pixels included in the N segmental images, a segmental pixel having a maximum signal value from N segmental pixels at the same pixel position among pixel positions; a value indicating a segmental distance of the segmental pixel having the maximum signal value to be a distance value of the pixel position of the range image, when the maximum signal value is greater than or equal to a threshold; and a value indicating a value outside the distance measurement range to be the distance value of the pixel position of the range image, when the maximum signal value is less than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Saitou, Shinzo Koyama, Motonori Ishii, Masato Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11990646
    Abstract: A power storage module includes a plurality of power storage devices and a bus bar electrically connecting the plurality of power storage devices. Each power storage device has a housing and a pair of output terminals disposed on a first surface of the housing. The bus bar has the plurality of terminal connections connected to the output terminals of each power storage device, and a linking part connecting the plurality of terminal connections. Each terminal connection part has a first part connected to each output terminal and a second part continuous from the first part and extending along a second surface spreading in a direction intersecting the first surface of the housing. Each linking part has a third part that connects the second parts of the adjacent terminal connections to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Kume, Akihiro Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 11988441
    Abstract: A refrigerator management method according to one aspect of the present invention includes: obtaining log information including temperature information indicating an interior temperature of a refrigerator and opened and closed information indicating whether or not a door of the refrigerator has been opened and closed; calculating, based on the log information, a timewise change in the interior temperature for when the door is opened and closed in a predetermined period and for when the door is not opened and closed in the predetermined period; and outputting result information indicating a calculation result calculated in the calculating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wanjing Du, Yuji Osaki
  • Patent number: 11991437
    Abstract: A first camera robot includes: a camera that captures an image of surroundings; an image recognizer that detects one or more subjects from within a captured image; a controller that selects an operation pattern of the first camera robot based on an attribute of one or more subjects detected, and causes the robot to operate according to the selected operation pattern; a communicator that transmits, to another camera robot, instruction information for causing the other robot to operate according to the selected operation pattern; and a shutter that outputs an image obtained by capturing the one or more subjects while the first camera robot and the other robot are operating according to the selected operation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ino, Hwayoung Kang, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori, Takashi Kondo, Takanori Endo, Yuki Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11991679
    Abstract: In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11988215
    Abstract: A blower unit includes at least a blower case that is hollow and a centrifugal fan coupled to a rotational shaft of a motor that is housed in the blower case and has the rotational shaft in an integrally rotatable manner. The blower case includes an outer surface including two side surfaces facing each other at a predetermined interval, and an outer circumferential surface continuous with the two side surfaces. The blower case includes a suction port, an air discharge portion provided with an exhaust port at a distal end, and a wire harness outlet. The exhaust port and the wire harness outlet face in the same direction as viewed from the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11991743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, with a processor which upon being triggered by a random access events, determines random access transmission parameters to be used by the UE for transmitting a random access message to its base station. At least part of the random access transmission parameters are determined based on the random access event that triggered the transmission of the random access message and on random access configuration information. The random access configuration information associates each of a plurality of random access events with a set of random access transmission parameters among a plurality of random access transmission parameters usable by the user equipment to transmit a random access message to the base station. A transmitter of the UE transmits the random access message to the base station using the determined random access transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin Shah, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Quan Kuang, Ming-Hung Tao
  • Patent number: D1027948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Terashima, Soichiro Katayama
  • Patent number: D1028053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Sono, Ryo Taniguchi
  • Patent number: D1028063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ippei Ohashi
  • Patent number: D1028360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka Takematsu, Kouhei Mimura
  • Patent number: D1029390
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ushio Bessho