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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: 10687014Abstract: A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kengo Terada, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
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Patent number: 10687402Abstract: A data generation method is for generating video data that covers a second luminance dynamic range wider than a first luminance dynamic range and has reproduction compatibility with a first device that does not support reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range and supports reproduction of video having the first luminance dynamic range, and includes: generating a video signal to be included in the video data using a second OETF; storing, into VUI in the video data, first transfer function information for identifying a first OETF to be referred to by the first device when the first device decodes the video data; and storing, into SEI in the video data, second transfer function information for identifying a second OETF to be referred to by a second device supporting reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range when the second device decodes the video data.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
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Patent number: 10687031Abstract: A computer implemented information processing method includes acquiring a first photographed image that represents an inside portion of a vehicle, identifying a driver who drives the vehicle from the first photographed image, acquiring driver information that indicates at least one of an attribute of the identified driver and a driving history of the identified driver. Then the method determines whether or not the identified driver satisfies a condition of experienced driver using the driver information. Finally the method decides a threshold value that is used for detection of occurrence of an event to be a trigger of photographing or recording of a second photographed image which represents an outside portion of the vehicle based on a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Seiya Imomoto, Shunsuke Kuhara
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Patent number: 10687368Abstract: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a number (p) of current sequence allocations are initialized, and in ST202, it is determined whether the number (p) of current sequence allocations is coincident with a number (K) of allocations to one cell. In ST203, it is determined whether the number (K) of allocations to the one cell is odd or even. If K is even, in ST204-ST206, sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, are combined and then allocated. If K is odd, in ST207-ST212, for sequences that cannot be paired, one of sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, is allocated.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10686042Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer; a first opening penetrating the second nitride semiconductor layer; an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer which are formed along an upper surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer and a recessed surface of the first opening; a gate electrode disposed above the electron supply layer; a second opening penetrating the electron supply layer and the electron transit layer; a source electrode disposed to cover the second opening and electrically connected to the second nitride semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode disposed on a back surface of the substrate. The electron supply layer has a side surface formed along a side surface of the first opening. The gate electrode is not disposed on the side surface of the electron supply layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Ujita, Daisuke Shibata, Satoshi Tamura
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Patent number: 10687038Abstract: A play back device includes a readout unit and a playback unit. The readout unit reads out an encoded main video stream and an encoded sub-video stream that are recorded in a recording medium. The sub-video stream is a sub-video that is to be superimposed on the main video and displayed. The playback unit plays the main video stream and the sub-video stream that have been read out. The sub-video stream includes multiple sets, each set including a first sub-video stream for a first luminance dynamic range and a second sub-video stream for a second luminance dynamic range, which is wider than the first luminance dynamic range. In the same set in the multiple sets, a registration order of the first sub-video stream in the first database and a registration order of the second sub-video stream in the second database are the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Tadamasa Toma
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Patent number: 10687222Abstract: In order to shorten a waiting time until a user terminal receives a down signal transmitted from a base station apparatus and ensure that a transmission beam is transmitted to a direction towards where one or more user terminals are present, a base station for time-divisionally transmitting a down signal to multiple user terminals present in a cell concurrently with changing a transmission beam direction where the down signal is common to the multiple user terminals is provided and includes a wireless communicator configured to time-divisionally transmit the down signal concurrently with changing the transmission beam direction, an information storage configured to store transmission schedule information which specifies transmission timing of the transmission beam, and a controller configured to control, based on the transmission schedule information, the transmission beams when the base station transmits the down signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shimizu, Osamu Katou
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Patent number: 10687159Abstract: In a noise reduction device that generates and outputs a control sound signal for reducing noise, an internal loop control unit controls an internal loop in which a pre-output control sound signal that is acquired from a control sound output unit before output to a speaker is input to a sound receiver. A measurement unit measures an input level of a microphone sound signal and an input level of the pre-output control sound signal that has been input to the sound receiver in the internal loop. A fault detector uses the input level of the microphone sound signal and the input level of the pre-output control sound signal measured by the measurement unit to detect a fault in any one of the microphone, the sound receiver, the speaker, and the control sound output unit. A transmitter sends a result of fault detection performed by the fault detector to a management device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Ezaki, Kenichi Kubota, Masaru Matsuoka, Yuji Suzuki, Junji Araki, Shinichi Takayama
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Patent number: 10686994Abstract: An imaging device includes: a light source that applies light at a timing according to a light emission control signal; a light receiver that performs exposure to reflected light from an object at different timings according to an exposure control signal, and outputs exposure signals generated as a result of the exposure; a calculator that calculates a distance to the object; and a controller that outputs the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal for any of: modulating a length of a light emission period and an exposure period by increasing or decreasing the number of pulses of each of the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal; and modulating a repetition sequence of the light emission period and the exposure period while maintaining a phase relationship between the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal, randomly or in conformity with a specific rule.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya Kishimoto, Haruka Takano, Junichi Matsuo
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Patent number: 10687052Abstract: Three-dimensional point group data indicating three-dimensional coordinate sets of three-dimensional points included in a common imaging space of one or more cameras is received, one or more images captured by the one or more cameras are transmitted, the one or more transmitted images are received, initial camera parameters of each cameras are decided based on one or more mounting locations and one or more directions of the cameras, corresponding points in the one or more images are calculated for each of the three-dimensional points, based on the three-dimensional point group data and the initial camera parameters, and one or more camera parameters of the one or more cameras are calculated based on pixel values at the corresponding points in the one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuhiko Wakai, Takeo Azuma, Kunio Nobori, Satoshi Sato, Mikiya Nakata
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Patent number: 10684539Abstract: A lighting device of the present disclosure includes: an excitation light source; a phosphor for receiving an excitation light from the excitation light source and emitting a fluorescent light; a spreader for supporting the phosphor; and a reflective layer disposed between the phosphor and the spreader and reflecting the fluorescent light. The phosphor is a plurality of phosphor pieces disposed to be adjacent to each other and having the same characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigekazu Yamagishi, Takashi Ikeda, Masafumi Tanaka
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Patent number: 10684619Abstract: A notification method includes determining, on the basis of positional information regarding a drone and positional information regarding a plurality of terminals carried by an operator who visually observes and operates the drone and one or more visual observers who visually observe the drone, at least either responsible observation areas, which are areas in which the operator and the one or more visual observers are to visually observe the drone, or responsible observation periods, which are periods for which the operator and the one or more visual observers are to visually observe the drone, and notifying the plurality of terminals of at least either the responsible observation areas or the responsible observation periods.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Shunsuke Kuhara
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Patent number: 10685579Abstract: A learning system includes an output unit that outputs a first problem and a display message prompting a user to take a break, an acquisition unit that acquires an answer to the first problem from the user, an electroencephalogram measurement unit that measures an electroencephalogram of the user, and a control unit. The control unit determines whether first motivation is present on the basis of a first event-related potential included in the electroencephalogram and starting from a timing at which the first problem is output, determines whether second motivation of the user is present on the basis of a second event-related potential included in the electroencephalogram and starting from a timing at which the answer is acquired, and instructs the output unit to output a display message prompting the user to take a break if the first motivation is not present and the second motivations is not present.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Minoda, Koji Morikawa
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Patent number: 10687002Abstract: An image-capturing device includes an infrared light source configured to emit infrared light, and a solid-state image-capturing device including a plurality of first pixels configured to convert visible light into signal charge and a plurality of second pixels configured to convert infrared light into signal charge, the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels being arranged on a semiconductor substrate in a matrix. The solid-state image-capturing device outputs, during the same single frame scanning period, a first signal obtained from the plurality of first pixels, a second signal obtained from the plurality of second pixels during a period of time when the infrared light is emitted, and a third signal obtained from the plurality of second pixels during a period of time when the infrared light is not emitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Matsuo, Sei Suzuki
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Patent number: 10685573Abstract: A flight route generating method includes accepting, by an input, input of a departure point and a waypoint that the unmanned aerial vehicle will pass, and displaying, on a display, a flight route passing through the departure point and the waypoint, an end time arrival point at which the unmanned aerial vehicle will arrive at an end time of a time zone in which flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle is permitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Shunsuke Kuhara
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Patent number: 10685124Abstract: An evaluation apparatus that is connected to a bus used by a plurality of electronic control units that constitute an electronic control system for communication and that evaluates security of the electronic control system. The evaluation apparatus includes a transmitter that sends, to the bus, at least one attack frame including an invalidation frame for invalidating a frame on the bus, a monitor that monitors at least one of the plurality of electronic control units, and an evaluator that evaluates the electronic control system in terms of security on the basis of the result of monitoring performed by the monitor when the attack frame is sent from the transmitter to the bus.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Amano, Toshihisa Nakano, Kimio Minami, Takako Hirose
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Patent number: 10684615Abstract: A production activity support system for supporting production activity in a component mounting system, comprises: a production information acquirer obtaining production information including a production plan of a production operation executed in the component mounting system and production performance information; a storage storing maintenance relevant information regarding execution history information indicating a history of the maintenance work executed on each of the maintenance targets; a maintenance work plan creation unit creating a work plan of the maintenance work executed on at the maintenance targets; and a display displaying a notification that the maintenance work indicated by the work plan created by the maintenance work plan creation unit is executed at the set maintenance execution date and time along with the production plan.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Maenishi
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Patent number: 10684254Abstract: The present invention provides a method for detecting an analyte with high sensitivity. In the present method, a solution is supplied onto a substrate comprising a first electrode and a second electrode. Then, an alternating voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode to aggregate, onto the surface between the first electrode and the second electrode by dielectrophoresis, bioparticles and dielectric particles contained in the solution. The aggregated bioparticles are broken to release the analyte contained in the bioparticles. The released analyte is bound to a first antibody and a second antibody to cause the dielectric particles to be immobilized onto the substrate through formation of a sandwich structure composed of the first antibody, the analyte, and the second antibody. Finally, the analyte is detected through the fluorescent substance contained in the immobilized dielectric particles.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Okumura, Tatsurou Kawamura, Noriko Shimba
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Patent number: 10682212Abstract: An electric toothbrush according to the present disclosure includes: a shaft to which a brush is attached; a primary drive unit that operates the shaft to let the brush perform a cleaning motion; and a supplementary drive unit that enables the shaft to move eccentrically. Accordingly, the electric toothbrush can facilitate entry of bristles of the brush between teeth and improve performance of cleaning between the teeth.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Taniguchi
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Patent number: 10686249Abstract: An antenna device is designed to be connected to a printed-circuit board having a feeding part and a board ground. The antenna device includes a feed antenna, an antenna ground having a plate shape, an artificial magnetic conductor having a plate shape and being formed between the feed antenna and the antenna ground, a first connection connecting the feed antenna with the feeding part by passing through the antenna ground and the artificial magnetic conductor, and a second connection connecting the antenna ground with the board ground. The artificial magnetic conductor is not connected to the first connection and the second connection.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.Inventor: Taichi Hamabe
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Patent number: 10683035Abstract: A parking assistance device includes an imager that captures an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, and a display that displays a guidance image for guiding the vehicle from a parking start position to a target parking position and displays a moving area in which the vehicle can move during a parking operation. An area and dimension of the moving area displayed on the display changes based on a change in a steering angle of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotaka Kamiyama
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Patent number: 10684783Abstract: Provided is a control method of controlling locking or unlocking of storage using a blockchain. The control method includes: determining, when first request information indicating a lock/unlock request, that is a lock request or an unlock request, is received from a terminal, whether a keyholder identified by reading keyholder information stored in the blockchain matches an owner of the terminal that has transmitted the first request information, the keyholder information indicating a person having the authority to lock or unlock the storage; performing lock/unlock processing when the keyholder is determined to match the owner, the lock/unlock processing being processing for causing the storage to lock or unlock in accordance with the first request information; and performing first storage processing after the lock/unlock processing is performed, the first storage processing being processing of storing, in the blockchain, transaction data indicating that the lock/unlock processing has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Akira Tanaka, Fumiaki Kagaya, Eiichi Abe, Junichiro Soeda
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Patent number: 10684028Abstract: A pipe shield of a ventilating apparatus is disposed at an outdoor side relative to a ventilating apparatus body disposed at an indoor side, and includes a pipe shield base and a rear cover. The pipe shield has an air inlet and an air outlet disposed perpendicular to each other. The pipe shield's rear cover has a left side plate, a right side plate and a rear side plate. The distance from the pipe shield base to the rear side plate of the rear cover opposite to the air inlet of the pipe shield increases in a direction towards the air outlet of the pipe shield. A baffle is disposed at the middle portion of the rear cover, and fixed within the pipe shield by a rotating shaft fixed on the left side plate and the right side plate, the rotating shaft has a spring enabling the baffle to unfold.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignees: Panasonic Ecology Systems Guangdong Co., Ltd., Panasonic CorporationInventors: Donghai Liu, Jianqiang Wu, Jiahan Hong, Naoyuki Funada, Masato Suzuki
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Patent number: 10685637Abstract: A noise masking device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires (i) frequency information indicating a frequency of a noise in a vehicle or frequency-correlated information correlated to the frequency and (ii) vehicle information relating to a characteristic of the noise; a signal source that generates a masker signal for outputting a masker sound that masks the noise in the vehicle; a pitch-shifting unit that pitch-shifts the masker signal according to the frequency information or the frequency-correlated information acquired by the acquisition unit to generate a pitch-shifted masker signal; an adjustment unit that performs, on the pitch-shifted masker signal, an adjustment according to the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit to generate an adjusted masker signal; and an output unit that outputs the adjusted masker signal as the masker sound.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhisa Kotegawa, Kiyohisa Higashi
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Patent number: 10684755Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Tomohiro Ishihara, Kazumasa Gomyo, Satoshi Iino, Yuji Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10685787Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, and a conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer. The conductive polymer layer includes a conductive polymer and a polymer dopant. The polymer dopant includes a copolymer that includes a first monomer unit and a second monomer unit. The first monomer unit has a sulfonate group. Time second monomer unit has a functional group represented by a formula (i); —CO—R1—COOH (where R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an aromatic group, or a divalent group —OR2—, R2 representing an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an aromatic group).Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youichirou Uka, Katsuya Miyahara, Hiroshi Kojima
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Patent number: 10686111Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element including a thermoelectric conversion member formed of a skutterudite-type material containing an element L (indicating one or more elements selected from a group including In, Yb, Eu, Ce, La, Nd, Ga and Sr), an element M (indicating one or more elements selected from a group including Co, Rh, Ir, Fe, Ni, Pt, Pd, Ru and Os), and an element Pn (indicating one or more elements selected from a group including Sb, As, P, Te, Sn, Bi, Ge, Se and Si), an insulator covering the thermoelectric conversion member and a metal layer positioned between the thermoelectric conversion member and the insulator as well as containing the element L.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Junya Tanaka
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Patent number: 10685788Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an electrolyte solution. The capacitor element includes: an anode foil on which a dielectric layer is formed; a cathode foil on which an inorganic conductive layer is formed; and a conductive polymer layer disposed between the anode foil and the cathode foil. The inorganic layer has a surface having projections and recesses.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 10685997Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array, a column processor, and a test signal generating circuit that generates a first digital signal for testing purposes. The test signal generating circuit generates the first digital signal within one horizontal scanning period. The column processor converts a first analog signal, that is converted from the first digital signal, to a second digital signal within the one horizontal scanning period.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Ikuma, Hiroyuki Amikawa, Takayasu Kito, Shinichi Ogita, Junichi Matsuo, Yasuyuki Endoh, Katsumi Tokuyama, Tetsuya Abe
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Patent number: 10686216Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes: a matrix containing, as a solid salt, at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a metal halide containing an alkaline-earth metal and (ii) a metal compound containing the alkaline-earth metal and fluorine; and one or more fillers embedded in the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Norihito Fujinoki
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Patent number: 10686213Abstract: A battery includes a first electrode layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer and serving as a counter electrode for the first electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer includes a first current collector, a first active material layer, and a first solid electrolyte layer, the first active material layer is disposed to be in contact with the first current collector and to occupy a smaller area than the first current collector, the first solid electrolyte layer is disposed to be in contact with the first current collector and the first active material layer and to occupy the same area as the first current collector, the first active material layer faces the second electrode layer with the first solid electrolyte layer therebetween, and the first electrode layer includes a peripheral portion including a first rounded portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuya Iwamoto
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Patent number: 10686112Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion material represented by the following chemical formula (I): Ba8+aCu6?bGe40+6 ??(I) wherein the values of a is not less than 0.1 and not more than 0.47; the values of b is not less than 0 and not more than 0.43; the thermoelectric conversion material has a clathrate crystal structure; and the thermoelectric conversion material is of p-type. The present invention provides a p-type Ba—Cu—Ge clathrate thermoelectric conversion material having high thermoelectric conversion performance index.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Hiromasa Tamaki, Tsutomu Kanno
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Publication number: 20200180502Abstract: Control apparatus that controls headlamp of a vehicle and HUD of the vehicle includes acquirer that obtains information about an object situated ahead of the vehicle from monitoring apparatus monitoring an area ahead of the vehicle, light emission controller that controls the light emission form of headlamp based on a position at which the object is present, and display controller that causes HUD to display an alert image indicating the position of the object such that the alert image is superimposed on or situated adjacent to the actual position of the object in a view that is observed in a forward direction with respect to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ikuya MITSUYA, Takanosuke ADACHI, Hiroki OOBAYASHI, Shinya EMA, Takao NIHEI, Nobutoshi HIGAKI, Yuki NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20200186552Abstract: A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a fraud-sensing electronic control unit connected to the network between a first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed and a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Manabu MAEDA, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20200186755Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first image corresponding to a rear view from a vehicle, a second image corresponding to a left view from the vehicle in a rearward direction, and a third image corresponding to a right view from the vehicle in the rearward direction. An image processor generates, when a speed is greater than or equal to a first threshold, an image by superimposing a fourth image on the second image and the third image, the fourth image resulting from preventing a first predetermined range corresponding to a lower portion of the first image from being displayed. The image processor generates, when the speed is less than a second threshold, an image by superimposing a fifth image on the second image and the third image, the fifth image resulting from preventing a second predetermined range corresponding to both end portions of the first image from being displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigekazu MIYAGAKI, Masanobu KANAYA
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Publication number: 20200185712Abstract: This positive electrode active substance for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains secondary particles that are aggregates of primary particles of a lithium transition metal oxide. The average particle diameter of the primary particles is within the range of 0.5 to 2 ?m, the compressive breaking strength of the primary particles is 1,000 MPa or greater, and the crystallite diameter of the primary particles is within the range of 100 to 280 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hidekazu Hiratsuka
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Publication number: 20200183028Abstract: Seismic device includes acceleration sensor that successively outputs an acceleration value according to magnitude of acceleration of applied vibrations, earthquake determining unit that differentiates and determines an earthquake and a shock from the acceleration value output from acceleration sensor, and seismic intensity calculator that calculates a seismic intensity equivalent value from the acceleration value output from acceleration sensor. Further, earthquake determining unit differentiates and determines an earthquake and a shock from a generation pattern of binary values binarizing the acceleration value output from acceleration sensor with the predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihide TAKAHASHI, Kouji MURASE, Ryohei KONISHI, Yusuke KITANO
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Publication number: 20200185700Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode substrate, a positive electrode active material layer formed on the surface of the positive electrode substrate, and a positive tab section having a substrate-exposed portion in which the positive electrode active material layer is not formed on the surface. The positive electrode active material layer has a notch in the end of the positive electrode active material layer. The outer edge of the notch encloses an end of a boundary where the positive tab section and the positive electrode active material layer come into contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicants: PANASONIC CORPORATION, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma Kamiyama, Ryosuke Iwata, Katsuya Shiozaki
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Publication number: 20200181403Abstract: The present application relates to a polyphenylene ether resin composition containing (A) a modified polyphenylene ether compound having a terminal modified with a substituent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond, (B) a crosslinking curing agent having an unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond in the molecule, and (C) a flame retardant. The flame retardant (C) contains at least a modified cyclic phenoxy phosphazene compound represented by formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumito SUZUKI, Hiroaki UMEHARA, Jun YASUMOTO, Hiroharu INOUE
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Publication number: 20200185725Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a negative electrode plate, a negative electrode current collector lead joined to the inner peripheral end of the negative electrode plate, and a negative electrode current collector-exposed part where a negative electrode active material layer is not formed at the outer peripheral-side end. The negative electrode current collector-exposed part at the outer peripheral end comes in contact with a battery case, and in a plane vertical to the axis of an electrode body, a line connecting the axis and the center of a positive electrode current collector lead does not coincide with a line connecting the axis and the center between the coating end of the outer peripheral-side negative electrode active material layer of the negative electrode plate and the terminal part of the outer peripheral-side positive electrode plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicants: Panasonic Corporation, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tasuku Ishiguro, Atsushi Mizawa
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Publication number: 20200185790Abstract: A battery charging system includes: terminals charging or discharging a secondary battery; a circuit including a power consumer consuming power of the battery; a switch controlling current flow from the battery; a controller; and a memory. The memory includes various instructions instructing the controller to: activate the circuit and cause the power consumer to consume a remaining power of the battery until the battery voltage reaches a first threshold higher than a discharge cutoff voltage; stop, when the battery voltage reaches the first threshold, a first discharge operation; supplying power to an external device; stopping, when the voltage of the battery reaches the discharge cutoff voltage, the power supply operation by controlling the switch; and receiving power, for charging the battery, from an external power supply until the voltage of the battery reaches an upper limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoichi TOYA, Kazuya OHSHIMA
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Publication number: 20200182782Abstract: A moisture amount detection device includes: a light source that projects light that flickers at a predetermined frequency toward an object; a light receiver that receives the light reflected by the object and outputs a detection signal; an amplifier that outputs an amplified signal obtained by amplifying the detection signal by a predetermined amplification factor; a lock-in amplifier that outputs an extracted signal obtained by extracting a signal of a predetermined frequency from the amplified signal; an A/D converter that performs A/D conversion on the extracted signal, and outputs a digital signal; a second low-pass filter whose passband is changeable, and that allows a signal of a frequency in the passband in the digital signal to pass therethrough; and a controller that performs first control to change the passband according to a signal intensity indicated by the digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori HAYASHI, Yoshifumi WATABE, Hirotaka MATSUNAMI
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Publication number: 20200187083Abstract: A communication device is provided and includes: a wireless communication device configured to wirelessly communicate with a base station used as a connection destination; a location information acquisition device configured to acquire location information on a location of the communication device; a storage configured to store historical obstruction information for an obstructed location where decrease in communication quality due to obstruction has occurred before; a controller configured to determine, based on the historical obstruction information and the location information, a degree of risk of occurrence of decrease in communication quality due to obstruction for at least one of a current connection destination that is currently used by the communication device and a future connection destination that is expected to be used by the communication device, and control the connection destination based on a result of determination of the degree of risk.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki SHIMIZU, Hiroaki ASANO, Hideki SHINGU
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Publication number: 20200186058Abstract: A vehicle driving apparatus includes an inverter which drives a permanent magnet motor. The inverter includes a three-phase bridge circuit including a plurality of switch elements, a drive circuit connected to the three-phase bridge circuit, a control circuit connected to the drive circuit, and an abnormality detecting unit which detects abnormality of the inverter. The drive circuit includes a three-phase-short-circuit-forming circuit which causes three phases of the permanent magnet motor to form short circuits, an abnormality accepting terminal which accepts an abnormality signal output from the abnormality detecting unit, and a check terminal which accepts an active check signal for causing the three-phase-short-circuit-forming circuit to perform three-phase short circuit control.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi YUKAWA, Naoya IWASAKI, Hisazumi WATANABE, Yoshihiko MAEDA
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Publication number: 20200186716Abstract: Imaging device has a configuration provided with: a primary correction amount calculator that calculates a primary correction amount for correcting image shake in a current frame image based on a physical shake amount of the imaging device; a secondary correction amount calculator that calculates a secondary correction amount for correcting a search shake amount between the current frame image and a previous frame image which is one frame image before the current frame image; a correction amount selector that selects at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount based on at least one of an imaging condition and the primary correction amount; and an image converter that performs a geometrical conversion with respect to the current frame image based on at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount which is selected by the correction amount selector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Kenji TABEI
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Publication number: 20200187020Abstract: Desired communication quality in relay for data transmission is secured, and stable radio communication is realized. An in-facility transmission system is disposed in a facility with a plurality of closed spaces, and includes a master base station that is disposed in a first closed space and performs a radio communication with an external base station provided outside the facility and a first slave base station that is disposed in a second closed space different from the first closed space and performs a radio communication with the master base station. The first closed space and the second closed space are connected to each other through a first radio waveguide capable of reducing a propagation loss of a radio wave in the radio communication between the master base station and the first slave base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki ASANO, Hideki KANEMOTO, Osamu KATO
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Patent number: 10677421Abstract: An illumination apparatus that is to be disposed in a recess formed in a part of a building includes: a light-emitting module that includes a board and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the board; a light diffuser that has translucency and covers the light-emitting module; and a light reflector that includes a wall having light-reflecting properties and surrounding the plurality of light-emitting elements. Among the plurality of light-emitting elements, every two adjacent light-emitting elements are disposed on the board at a first interval. Among the plurality of light-emitting elements, a light-emitting element closest to the wall is disposed on the board with a second interval to the wall, the second interval being larger than ¼ of the first interval and smaller than the first interval.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Takeshita, Kentaro Yamauchi, Satoru Yamauchi, Shumpei Fujii, Satoshi Hyodo
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Patent number: 10677950Abstract: Rim of steering wheel has a rim body and mounting component mounted to the rim body so as to be exposed from a portion of the rim body. Occupant information detection sensor for a steering wheel disposed in rim includes: sensor wire disposed in the rim body; and conductive member located on at least a surface side of mounting component and electrically connected or capacitively coupled with a portion of sensor wire.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nishio, Hidenori Kitamura
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Patent number: 10675659Abstract: There is provided an instruction projecting device which generates a projection image to be projected on a parcel based on sensing information of the parcel, the device including: a processor; and a memory, in which by cooperating with the memory, the processor determines whether or not the parcel is picked up based on the sensing information, and in a case where it is determined that the parcel is picked up, the processor generates the projection image including detail information of the parcel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Shohji Ohtsubo, Takaaki Moriyama, Takaaki Idera, Takeshi Ishihara
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Patent number: D886891Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Koyama, Masanori Koshiro