Panasonic

About: Panasonic is a company organization based out in Kadoma, Ôsaka, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Layer (electronics). The organization has 49129 authors who have published 71118 publications receiving 942756 citations. The organization is also known as: Panasonikku Kabushiki-gaisha & Panasonic.

Electric blower and vacuum cleaner using the same

Abstract: An electric blower (37) includes a main body (47) incorporating therein a suction inlet (46) for suctioning dust and an electric blower for generating an air suction stream; an outlet (54) through which air discharged from the electric blower (37) is exhausted outside; a control unit (43) for controlling an operation of the electric blower, wherein the electric blower including an impeller (50) for generating the air suction stream by the rotation thereof, a casing (53) enclosing the impeller, and exhaust openings (51) formed in the casing through which a part of an air stream suctioned by the impeller (50) is discharged; and the control unit (43) is disposed on an air path (58) between the exhaust openings (51) and the outlet (47).

System for controlling physical distribution pallets

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for controlling physical distribution pallets, by which it is possible to accurately identify status of pallets, to set up an adequate forwarding plan of pallets, and to accomplish physical distribution in smooth manner. The system comprises wireless detecting means 22 mounted on pallets and for detecting pallet control information transmitted from transmitting means 21 which stores pallet control information of said pallet and transmits in wireless, pallet stock data storage means 23 for receiving and storing the pallet control information detected by the wireless detecting means via a wide area communication network, and pallet status judging means 24 for judging whether the pallet stored in memory of the pallet stock data storage means is empty or not based on the pallet control information of said pallet. Further, it comprises supply and demand predicting means 27 for predicting supply and demand of pallets at physical distribution bases and planning means 29 for setting up a forwarding plan for forwarding pallets at minimal cost between physical distribution bases. It is possible according to the present system to accurately identify the status of pallets, to set up an adequate forwarding plan for pallets, and to accomplish smooth physical distribution.

Method and an optical disc for generating a bitstream containing a plurality of video objects including video and audio data

Abstract: An interleaving method for the presentation of a bitstream that is reproduced by selecting two or more data units from a bitstream comprising three or more data units contiguous on the same time-base. The bitstream is generated by arranging the selected data units in a particular sequence on the same time-base based on the presentation time of each data unit so that it is possible to sequentially access all data units and present only the selected data units without time-base intermittence, and is characterized by dividing the data units into shortest-read-time data units. The bitstream is generated by arranging the shortest-read-time data units in a particular sequence on the same time-base based on the shortest read time in each shortest-read-time data unit so that it is possible to sequentially access all shortest-read-time data units and present only the shortest-read-time data units of the selected data units without time-base intermittence. The presentation time of each shortest-read-time data unit is the same.

A Deformable Mixture Parsing Model with Parselets

Abstract: In this work, we address the problem of human parsing, namely partitioning the human body into semantic regions, by using the novel Parselet representation. Previous works often consider solving the problem of human pose estimation as the prerequisite of human parsing. We argue that these approaches cannot obtain optimal pixel level parsing due to the inconsistent targets between these tasks. In this paper, we propose to use Parselets as the building blocks of our parsing model. Parselets are a group of parsable segments which can generally be obtained by low-level over-segmentation algorithms and bear strong semantic meaning. We then build a Deformable Mixture Parsing Model (DMPM) for human parsing to simultaneously handle the deformation and multi-modalities of Parselets. The proposed model has two unique characteristics: (1) the possible numerous modalities of Parse let ensembles are exhibited as the ``And-Or" structure of sub-trees, (2) to further solve the practical problem of Parselet occlusion or absence, we directly model the visibility property at some leaf nodes. The DMPM thus directly solves the problem of human parsing by searching for the best graph configuration from a pool of Parse let hypotheses without intermediate tasks. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the encouraging performance of the proposed approach.

Method for forming a dielectric thin film or its pattern of high accuracy on a substrate

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a dielectric thin film or pattern thereof is provided in which a positive or negative resist of a desired pattern if formed on various substrates including a semiconductor substrate by contact of the resist with a liquefied gas or super critical fluid of CO2, NH3 or the like. Alternatively, a thin film of an organic or inorganic compound dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent which has been formed on substrate becomes substantially free of any organic matter or functional groups by contact with the liquefied gas or super critical fluid. Semiconductor devices of high performance and high reliability are ensured.