Patents by Inventor Akifumi Hirata

Akifumi Hirata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11924578
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an interface (12) configured to acquire a surrounding image of a moveable body (1) and a processor (12) configured to overlay a display indicating a course trajectory of a specific portion of the moveable body (1) in a travel direction of the moveable body (1) on the surrounding image at a position corresponding to the height of the specific portion from a road surface (3). The processor (12) is configured to change the display indicating the course trajectory when an obstacle, included in the surrounding image and present in the travel direction of the moveable body (1), and the course trajectory of the specific portion are in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Akifumi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20220379809
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an interface (12) configured to acquire a surrounding image of a moveable body (1) and a processor (12) configured to overlay a display indicating a course trajectory of a specific portion of the moveable body (1) in a travel direction of the moveable body (1) on the surrounding image at a position corresponding to the height of the specific portion from a road surface (3). The processor (12) is configured to change the display indicating the course trajectory when an obstacle, included in the surrounding image and present in the travel direction of the moveable body (1), and the course trajectory of the specific portion are in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Akifumi HIRATA
  • Patent number: 11433810
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an interface (12) configured to acquire a surrounding image of a moveable body (1) and a processor (12) configured to overlay a display indicating a course trajectory of a specific portion of the moveable body (1) in a travel direction of the moveable body (1) on the surrounding image at a position corresponding to the height of the specific portion from a road surface (3). The processor (12) is configured to change the display indicating the course trajectory when an obstacle, included in the surrounding image and present in the travel direction of the moveable body (1), and the course trajectory of the specific portion are in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Akifumi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20210394675
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an interface (12) configured to acquire a surrounding image of a moveable body (1) and a processor (12) configured to overlay a display indicating a course trajectory of a specific portion of the moveable body (1) in a travel direction of the moveable body (1) on the surrounding image at a position corresponding to the height of the specific portion from a road surface (3). The processor (12) is configured to change the display indicating the course trajectory when an obstacle, included in the surrounding image and present in the travel direction of the moveable body (1), and the course trajectory of the specific portion are in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Akifumi HIRATA
  • Patent number: 8615276
    Abstract: A radio unit and a baseband processing unit perform wireless communications with a plurality of base station apparatuses compatible with a plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. A battery remaining amount management unit inspects a remaining amount of battery to be supplied to the radio unit and the like. A control unit controls standby operations that the radio unit and the baseband processing unit are to perform on the plurality of wireless communication schemes, based on the remaining amount of battery inspected by the battery remaining amount management unit. The control unit defines degrees of priority for the plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. As the remaining amount of battery becomes low, the control unit sets long a time interval of the standby operation for a base station compatible with a wireless communication scheme having a low degree of priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Tanaka, Toma Watanabe, Nirou Imaoka, Akifumi Hirata, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8121554
    Abstract: A data rate is to be determined depending on circumstances. A control unit (30) transmits, at a predetermined frequency, a request signal by which to supply information on a data rate to a targeted radio apparatus compatible with a variable data rate. The control unit (30) receives rate information from the targeted radio apparatus. The control unit (30) sets a data rate used in the case of transmitting data, based on the information on a data rate contained in the rate information. The control unit (30) identifies the reliability level of the data rate contained in the rate information. And when the reliability level is low, the control unit (30) lowers the frequency at which the rate request signal is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Seigo Nakao, Ken Nakaoka, Akifumi Hirata, Kiyoshige Ito, Yoshiyuki Otani
  • Patent number: 7706471
    Abstract: A correction unit corrects the phases of received multicarrier signals, respectively, carrier by carrier. A combining unit and a computing unit performs adaptive array processing on the corrected multicarrier signals on a carrier-by-carrier basis. A derivation unit derives, carrier by carrier, a phase for correction to be used by the correction unit, based on error in the multicarrier signals which have undergone the adaptive array processing. The derivation unit updates a frequency for correction about a carrier to which a known signal is assigned, based on error in the carrier, so as to derive a phase for correction and the derivation unit also derives a phase for correction, based on the error in the carrier and the phase for correction in a carrier to which the known signal is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Yoshiharu Doi, Kiyoshige Ito, Akifumi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20090036062
    Abstract: A data rate is to be determined depending on circumstances. A control unit (30) transmits, at a predetermined frequency, a request signal by which to supply information on a data rate to a targeted radio apparatus compatible with a variable data rate. The control unit (30) receives rate information from the targeted radio apparatus. The control unit (30) sets a data rate used in the case of transmitting data, based on the information on a data rate contained in the rate information. The control unit (30) identifies the reliability level of the data rate contained in the rate information. And when the reliability level is low, the control unit (30) lowers the frequency at which the rate request signal is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Seigo Nakao, Ken Nakaoka, Akifumi Hirata, Kiyoshige Ito, Yoshiyuki Otani
  • Publication number: 20080058000
    Abstract: A radio unit and a baseband processing unit perform wireless communications with a plurality of base station apparatuses compatible with a plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. A battery remaining amount management unit inspects a remaining amount of battery to be supplied to the radio unit and the like. A control unit controls standby operations that the radio unit and the baseband processing unit are to perform on the plurality of wireless communication schemes, based on the remaining amount of battery inspected by the battery remaining amount management unit. The control unit defines degrees of priority for the plurality of wireless communication schemes, respectively. As the remaining amount of battery becomes low, the control unit sets long a time interval of the standby operation for a base station compatible with a wireless communication scheme having a low degree of priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Yuya Tanaka, Toma Watanabe, Nirou Imaoka, Akifumi Hirata, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070248196
    Abstract: A correction unit corrects the phases of received multicarrier signals, respectively, carrier by carrier. A combining unit and a computing unit performs adaptive array processing on the corrected multicarrier signals on a carrier-by-carrier basis. A derivation unit derives, carrier by carrier, a phase for correction to be used by the correction unit, based on error in the multicarrier signals which have undergone the adaptive array processing. The derivation unit updates a frequency for correction about a carrier to which a known signal is assigned, based on error in the carrier, so as to derive a phase for correction and the derivation unit also derives a phase for correction, based on the error in the carrier and the phase for correction in a carrier to which the known signal is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Yoshiharu Doi, Kiyoshige Ito, Akifumi Hirata
  • Patent number: 6677898
    Abstract: An adaptive controller for an ESPAR antenna randomly perturbs a bias voltage vector V(n) composed of elements of bias voltage values Vm by a random vector R(n) generated by a random number generator, compares an objective function value J(n) of a cross correlation coefficient for a bias voltage vector V(n) before the perturbation with an objective function value J(n+1) of a cross correlation coefficient for a bias voltage vector V(n+1) after the perturbation, and selects and sets the bias voltage Vm corresponding to that when the cross correlation coefficient increases before and after the perturbation. Then the adaptive controller repeats the random perturbation and setting from the bias voltage of respective varactor diodes. This leads to that it is not necessary to provide a long training sequence signal, and the control process can be executed with learning so that a performance can be improved every iteration for search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
    Inventors: Jun Cheng, Akifumi Hirata, Takashi Ohira, Kyouichi Iigusa, Takuyo Nakaji, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Naoki Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20030137451
    Abstract: An adaptive controller for an ESPAR antenna randomly perturbs a bias voltage vector V(n) composed of elements of bias voltage values Vm by a random vector R(n) generated by a random number generator, compares an objective function value J(n) of a cross correlation coefficient for a bias voltage vector V(n) before the perturbation with an objective function value J(n+1) of a cross correlation coefficient for a bias voltage vector V(n+1) after the perturbation, and selects and sets the bias voltage Vm corresponding to that when the cross correlation coefficient increases before and after the perturbation. Then the adaptive controller repeats the random perturbation and setting from the bias voltage of respective varactor diodes. This leads to that it is not necessary to provide a long training sequence signal, and the control process can be executed with learning so that a performance can be improved every iteration for search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Jun Cheng, Akifumi Hirata, Takashi Ohira, Kyouichi Iigusa, Takuyo Nakaji, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Naoki Inagaki
  • Patent number: 5560966
    Abstract: A high tensile strength film has at least one small aperture or slit for tearing the film in a direction normal to a longitudinal direction of the film. The aperture has at least one apex which has an acute angle and is directed toward a direction normal to a longitudinal direction of the film. The aperture is in the form of a triangle, a polygon, an oval or a crescent moon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Kishimoto, Akifumi Hirata