Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Okawara

Hiroyuki Okawara 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).

  • Publication number: 20240070728
    Abstract: The information processing device determines whether or not to re-lease the first vehicle after returning from the lease. The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire, for the first vehicle, a evaluation result of a state according to a predetermined evaluation method, and output that the first vehicle is to be leased again when the evaluation result indicates that the first vehicle does not require repair, and output that the first vehicle is to be sold when the evaluation result indicates that the first vehicle needs repair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OKAWARA, Masafumi FUJIO, Koji TAKAHASHI, Sho KOBAYASHI, Takahiro ICHINOSE
  • Publication number: 20240070767
    Abstract: In the information processing device according to the present disclosure, when the lease contract period of the new vehicle expires, the control unit calculates and outputs the settlement amount based on the first table. In the information processing device according to the present disclosure, when the lease contract period of the used vehicle expires, the control unit calculates and outputs the settlement amount based on the second table. The first table stores a first reduction value associated with the assessment for each pre-partitioned item relating to a defect in the vehicle. The second table stores, for each item that is the same as the first table, a second reduction value related to the assessment. Among the second reduction values stored in the second table, the second reduction value of the first item is set to a value smaller than the first reduction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OKAWARA, Tomoko HARADA
  • Publication number: 20240020754
    Abstract: A controller is provided which is configured to: output, as lease plans for a new vehicle, a first plan in which an initial cost is incurred but a premature cancellation fee is not incurred and a second plan in which an initial cost is not incurred but a premature cancellation fee is incurred; and output only the first plan as a lease plan for a used vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OKAWARA, Masafumi FUJIO, Koji TAKAHASHI, Sho KOBAYASHI, Takahiro ICHINOSE
  • Patent number: 5317678
    Abstract: In order to accomplish a color adjustment capable of determining a color at a high degree of freedom, a variety of color expressions and corresponding input instructions are correlated to reflect the instruction of a color change by a certain expression upon another expression. In order to accomplish a color change considering the changes in the ambience, moreover, each vector of an object color, a light source color, a color texture, an ambient color and an input bias is decided to determine the separated component values of the former three vectors of a picture element value so that the changed color of the picture element value may be determined after the vector change from the separated component values and the changed vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okawara, Makoto Kato, Shinichiro Miyaoka, Makoto Nohmi, Yuri Takizawa
  • Patent number: 5247583
    Abstract: An image processing area is divided into a plurality of small areas which are allowed to overlap one another. One or a plurality of pixels in a region to be segmented and in a region not to be segmented are specified. A representative point of the region to be segmented and a reference point of the region not to be segmented are determined from the color information of each of the pixels. A discriminating plane, a plane or a curved surface that intersects the line segment connecting the representative point and the reference point a right angles is used in processing. By the processing a particular region can be segmented out of the image. Further, a shape model is made by two-dimensionally projecting from a given direction the three-dimensional structure expressed by a line drawing consisting of nodes and curves connecting the nodes based on priori property relating the structure of the region to be segmented in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kato, Shinichiro Miyaoka, Makoto Nohmi, Hiroyuki Okawara, Toyohisa Morita