Patents by Inventor Hideo Hiroshige
Hideo Hiroshige 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).
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Patent number: 7983837Abstract: A navi-server which is provided with information from a traffic information providing center, and presents and provides information made on the information to a terminal is characterized by being equipped with a first storage means storing the information provided from the traffic information providing center; a traffic jam statistical making means which makes traffic jam statistical information including traffic jam information in a predetermined point and a predetermined zone as well as a reliability of the traffic jam information, based on information stored in the first storage means; and a second storage means storing information made by the traffic jam statistical making means, wherein the navi-server presents and provides the information stored in the second storage means to the terminal, based on a request of the terminal and at a predetermined timing.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Kenichiro Yamane, Junsuke Fujiwara, Yoshinori Endo, Kimiyoshi Machii, Shigeru Matsuo, Hideo Hiroshige, Takumi Fushiki, Takayoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 7502674Abstract: In an on-vehicle terminal system operating a plurality of operating systems, control of peripheral devices connected to the on-vehicle terminal system can be continued even if one of the operating systems is stopped. A second operating system monitors an operating status of a first operating system using an OS status monitoring function. When the first operating system stops, a list recording allocation of the peripheral devices is updated to switch the allocation to the second operating system. By doing so, an interrupt signal from a peripheral device is allocated to the second operating system, and accordingly the second operating system can control the peripheral device.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Mariko Okude, Tadashi Kamiwaki, Yoshinori Endo, Hideo Hiroshige, Kozo Nakamura
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Patent number: 7127723Abstract: An information processing apparatus wherein a plurality of operating systems operate on a single processor and a framework (shared object) enabling reliable and quick sharing of correct information between the plurality of operating systems is provided. The apparatus has a function the plurality of operating systems can create, register and refer to the shared object which provides an interface for registration and reference of information. The shared object is operated so that, while one of the operating systems is registering information or referring thereto, the other operating system is inhibited from registering the information and referring thereto. When one operating system finished the registration or reference of the information, one operating system informs the other operating system of the fact.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Endo, Mariko Okude, Hideo Hiroshige, Kozo Nakamura, Yukihiro Kawamata, Kimiya Yamaashi
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Publication number: 20050043880Abstract: A navi-server which is provided with information from a traffic information providing center, and presents and provides information made on the information to a terminal is characterized by being equipped with a first storage means storing the information provided from the traffic information providing center; a traffic jam statistical making means which makes traffic jam statistical information including traffic jam information in a predetermined point and a predetermined zone as well as a reliability of the traffic jam information, based on information stored in the first storage means; and a second storage means storing information made by the traffic jam statistical making means, wherein the navi-server presents and provides the information stored in the second storage means to the terminal, based on a request of the terminal and at a predetermined timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Applicants: HITACHI, LTD., XANAVI INFORMATICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Yamane, Junsuke Fujiwara, Yoshinori Endo, Kimiyoshi Machii, Shigeru Matsuo, Hideo Hiroshige, Takumi Fushiki, Takayoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 6617980Abstract: In a broadcasting type information providing system, a moving body 10 includes a bidirectional communication unit 13 which performs communication with an information providing center 21, an information processing unit 11 which communicates request information necessary for a user via the bidirectional communication unit 13 to the information providing center 21 as well as presents answer information with respect to the request information to the user and a broadcast receiving unit 14 which receives the answer information broadcasted from a broadcasting station 22, and the information providing center 21 generates the answer information with respect to the request information being transmitted from the moving body 10 as well as selects a broadcasting station 22 of which service area covers the position of the moving body 10 depending on the position of the moving body 10 detected either at the side of the moving body 10 or at the side of the information providing center 21 and causes the selected broadcastingType: GrantFiled: February 7, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Endo, Kozo Nakamura, Toshio Fujiwara, Ke'nichirou Kurata, Hideo Hiroshige, Hiroshi Kuroda, Ichiro Hondo, Okude Mariko
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Patent number: 6587784Abstract: The view point-setting part calculates the position of the view point V to be set behind the current position of the car and up in the air, based on the current position calculated by the current position-measuring part and the position correcting part. The data reading part reads out map data M about map elements such as buildings, which are located around the current position. The representing method-changing part calculates the distance or level difference between the viewpoint and each of the map elements, and, for example, changes the representation shapes of ones of the map elements near the view point, that is, in the region within a predetermined distance from the view point, to detailed shapes, and the rest ones far from the view point, that is, outside the region within a predetermined distance from the view point, to simple shapes, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2000Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Mariko Okude, Yoshinori Endo, Hideo Hiroshige
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Publication number: 20030036843Abstract: In an on-vehicle terminal system operating a plurality of operating systems, control of peripheral devices connected to the on-vehicle terminal system can be continued even if one of the operating systems is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventors: Mariko Okude, Tadashi Kamiwaki, Yoshinori Endo, Hideo Hiroshige, Kozo Nakamura
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Publication number: 20020094825Abstract: In a broadcasting type information providing system, a moving body 10 includes a bidirectional communication unit 13 which performs communication with an information providing center 21, an information processing unit 11 which communicates request information necessary for a user via the bidirectional communication unit 13 to the information providing center 21 as well as presents answer information with respect to the request information to the user and a broadcast receiving unit 14 which receives the answer information broadcasted from a broadcasting station 22, and the information providing center 21 generates the answer information with respect to the request information being transmitted from the moving body 10 as well as selects a broadcasting station 22 of which service area covers the position of the moving body 10 depending on the position of the moving body 10 detected either at the side of the moving body 10 or at the side of the information providing center 21 and causes the selected broadcastingType: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Endo, Kozo Nakamura, Toshio Fujiwara, Ke ?apos; nichirou Kurata, Hideo Hiroshige, Hiroshi Kuroda, Ichiro Hondo, Okude Mariko
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Patent number: 6359571Abstract: In a broadcasting type information providing system, a moving body 10 includes a bidirectional communication unit 13 which performs communication with an information providing center 21, an information processing unit 11 which communicates request information necessary for a user via the bidirectional communication unit 13 to the information providing center 21 as well as presents answer information with respect to the request information to the user and a broadcast receiving unit 14 which receives the answer information broadcasted from a broadcasting station 22, and the information providing center 21 generates the answer information with respect to the request information being transmitted from the moving body 10 as well as selects a broadcasting station 22 of which service area covers the position of the moving body 10 depending on the position of the moving body 10 detected either at the side of the moving body 10 or at the side of the information providing center 21 and causes the selected broadcastingType: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics Corp.Inventors: Yoshinori Endo, Kozo Nakamura, Toshio Fujiwara, Ke'nichirou Kurata, Hideo Hiroshige, Hiroshi Kuroda, Ichiro Hondo, Okude Mariko
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Patent number: 6324469Abstract: Whether the structure data read from the map data correspond to a non-decomposition structure or a decomposition structure, the drawing attribute of the mesh boundary is modified for the decomposition structure, and textures such as windows are mapped on the side wall of the structure by mapping the texture on the side wall of the structure reconstructed after reconstructing the single-bodied structure before decomposition, or mapping the texture progressively on the side wall of the decomposition structure with the stored start point and end point of the texture to be mapped.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Mariko Okude, Yoshinori Endo, Hideo Hiroshige, Kozo Nakamura
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Publication number: 20010029550Abstract: An information processing apparatus wherein a plurality of operating systems operate on a single processor and a framework (shared object) enabling reliable and quick sharing of correct information between the plurality of operating systems is provided. The apparatus has a function the plurality of operating systems can create, register and refer to the shared object which provides an interface for registration and reference of information. The shared object is operated so that, while one of the operating systems is registering information or referring thereto, the other operating system is inhibited from registering the information and referring thereto. When one operating system finished the registration or reference of the information, one operating system informs the other operating system of the fact.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2001Publication date: October 11, 2001Inventors: Yoshinori Endo, Mariko Okude, Hideo Hiroshige, Kozo Nakamura, Yukihiro Kawamata, Kimiya Yamaashi