Patents by Inventor Kei Suwa

Kei Suwa 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: 11964618
    Abstract: In an undercover structure according to the present invention, a first cover part that is a lowermost part of an undercover has a first rear end positioned ahead of a front wheel axle. Further, a curved part with a predetermined curvature is formed at the first rear end of the first cover part in a side view. This generates a strong negative pressure in a region ahead of the front wheel axle 21. Accordingly, the flow rate of air flowing to each wheelhouse 23 decreases (the flow rate of the airflow between a road and a vehicle generated along the bottom surface of the first cover part 15a of the undercover 15 increases). This causes an attraction force that attracts the vehicle to a road surface to act on a vehicle body of the vehicle, thereby making traveling stability more excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Ambo, Kenichi Ando, Yoshiteru Hoshida, Yuki Nakamura, Yoji Suwa, Takumi Sobue
  • Publication number: 20240069190
    Abstract: A wind speed prediction device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire a scattering signal that is each of a plurality of beams after being emitted to space and scattered in the space; variably set a range bin width as distance resolution of each of the acquired scattering signals in accordance with an elevation angle of each of the beams emitted to the space, and calculate at least one Doppler frequency of at least one range bin corresponding to a two-dimensional plane including an observation region from the each of the scattering signals; estimate at least one wind speed distribution in the two-dimensional plane from the plurality of Doppler frequencies calculated; and predict a wind speed in the observation region from the at least one wind speed distribution in the two-dimensional plane using a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAMURA, Kei SUWA, Shumpei KAMEYAMA, Hiroshi SAKAMAKI, Masaharu IMAKI
  • Publication number: 20240012104
    Abstract: While transmitting any one transmission signal of a plurality of transmission signals, a transmitting-receiving unit in a radar device acquires, as a reception signal for target detection, a reception signal of a frequency band different from a frequency band of the transmission signal, and blocks a reception signal of the same frequency band as the frequency band of the transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa OKAMOTO, Yasuhide NONAKA, Fuyuki FUKUSHIMA, Kentaro ISODA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20230358880
    Abstract: A radar signal processing device includes: a forming unit to form beams by using reception signals; a compensation unit to compensate for a phase within a range frequency; a generation unit to generate an image of each beam by applying Fourier transform in an azimuth direction to the beams (with phases compensated; an identification unit to identify a position of a target object based on the image; a calculation unit to calculate power of each beam represented by the image of each beam at a position of the target object; a computing unit to compute an antenna gain of each beam at a position of the target object; and an angle measurement unit to measure angle on the target object by performing maximum likelihood estimation of comparing the power of each beam with the antenna gain of each beam at the position of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya YAMAOKA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20230227045
    Abstract: Disclosed is a physique estimation device that can estimate a physique. The physique estimation device includes: a sensor having a transmission antenna to transmit a transmission wave, and a reception antenna to receive the transmission wave reflected by at least one target in a vehicle cabin as a received wave; a frequency analysis unit to acquire position information about a reflection point where the transmission wave is reflected using the received wave; and a physique estimation unit to estimate the physique of a non-static object present in the vehicle cabin using the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAMURA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20230204751
    Abstract: An object detection device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire wave data; acquire the moving velocity of a radar device; estimate a relative distance between the radar device and a target, angle of incidence of a reflection signal from the target, and a first relative velocity between the radar device and the target, by using the wave data; and estimate a second relative velocity between the radar device and the target in a case where the target is a static object, on the basis of the acquired moving velocity and the relative distance and the angle of incidence, and determine whether the target is a static object by comparing the first relative velocity and the second relative velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu SHIMIZU, Satoshi KAGEME, Takayuki KITAMURA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20230176208
    Abstract: A road shape estimation device includes processing circuitry to detect, from received signals of radio waves reflected by an object present around a vehicle, reflection points each indicating a reflection position of each radio wave on the object, to perform classification of reflection points of an object present in a left side area of the vehicle into a first group, and of reflection points of an object present in a right side area of the vehicle into a second group, to perform translation of each reflection point classified into the first group to a right direction of the vehicle, and perform translation of each reflection point classified into the second group to a left direction of the vehicle, and to calculate an approximate curve representing a point cloud including all reflection points after the translation and perform estimation of a shape of the road from the approximate curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro FURUTA, Hiroshi SAKAMAKI, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20230039504
    Abstract: A radar device includes: a control unit to cause a series of processing to be repeatedly executed, the series of processing including transmitting transmission signals to space using transmission antennas arranged linearly, receiving reflected signals that are the transmission signals reflected in the space using reception antennas linearly arranged in the same direction as the transmission antennas, transmitting the transmission signals simultaneously from the transmission antennas, receiving the reflected signals by the reception antennas, and acquiring digital data; and a signal processing unit to generate a three-dimensional radar image of a target moved in a direction crossing an antenna arrangement direction of the transmission antennas and the reception antennas by using the digital data sequentially acquired in the series of processing repeatedly executed as two-dimensional array data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAMURA, Kei SUWA
  • Patent number: 11474236
    Abstract: A radar image processing device includes a phase difference calculating unit calculating a phase difference between phases with respect to a first and a second radio wave receiving points in each pixel at corresponding pixel positions among pixels in a first and a second suppression ranges, the first and the second suppression ranges being suppression ranges in a first and a second radar images capturing an observation area from the first and the second radio wave receiving points, respectively; and a rotation amount calculating unit calculating each phase rotation amount in the pixels in the second suppression range from each phase difference, wherein a difference calculating unit rotates phases in the pixels in the second suppression range based on the rotation amounts, and calculates a difference between pixel values at corresponding pixel position among the pixels in the first suppression range and phase-rotated pixels in the second suppression range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yumiko Katayama, Kei Suwa
  • Publication number: 20220317276
    Abstract: A radar signal processing device includes a frequency analysis unit for calculating a three-dimensional discrete frequency spectrum related to a first discrete frequency corresponding to a distance to a target object, a second discrete frequency corresponding to a relative speed of the target object, and a third discrete frequency corresponding to an angle of arrival of a series of frequency-modulated waves by performing first to third discrete orthogonal transform on digital received signals, a peak detection unit for detecting, for a discrete frequency value of at least one first search frequency, a discrete frequency value of a peak appearing in the three-dimensional discrete frequency spectrum in a direction of a second search frequency, and a maximum distribution detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi MITSUMOTO, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20220252714
    Abstract: A radar signal processing device includes: a frequency analysis unit performing frequency analysis on a reception signal of at least one reception channel generated by a sensor unit; a target object discriminating unit calculating, on the basis of the frequency analysis, a measurement value of at least one type of feature amounts that characterizes a state of a target object moving in an observation space; and a learned data storing unit storing at least one learned data set that defines a probability distribution in which the at least one types of feature amounts is measured when a recognition targets is observed in the observation space. The target object discriminating unit calculates a posterior probability that a target object belongs to each of class(es) from the measurement value using a learned data set and discriminates the target object on the basis of the calculated posterior probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAMURA, Noboru OISHI, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20210325524
    Abstract: An angle measuring device includes: a signal extracting unit for extracting a signal that includes a first reflection wave and does not include a second reflection wave as a first demodulated signal and a signal that includes the second reflection wave and does not include the first reflection wave as a second demodulated signal from reception signals output from one or more reception antennas among a plurality of reception antennas; an elevation calculating unit for calculating an elevation of a target by performing monopulse angle measurement using a sum signal of the first demodulated signal and the second demodulated signal and a difference signal between the first demodulated signal and the second demodulated signal; and an azimuth calculating unit for calculating an azimuth of the target using reception signals output from the plurality of reception antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu SHIMIZU, Satoshi KAGEME, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20200408902
    Abstract: A radar image processing device includes a phase difference calculating unit calculating a phase difference between phases with respect to a first and a second radio wave receiving points in each pixel at corresponding pixel positions among pixels in a first and a second suppression ranges, the first and the second suppression ranges being suppression ranges in a first and a second radar images capturing an observation area from the first and the second radio wave receiving points, respectively; and a rotation amount calculating unit calculating each phase rotation amount in the pixels in the second suppression range from each phase difference, wherein a difference calculating unit rotates phases in the pixels in the second suppression range based on the rotation amounts, and calculates a difference between pixel values at corresponding pixel position among the pixels in the first suppression range and phase-rotated pixels in the second suppression range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yumiko KATAYAMA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20200408901
    Abstract: A radar image processing device includes a phase difference calculating unit for calculating a phase difference, which is the difference between the phases, with respect to the radio wave receiving points different from each other, of each of a plurality of reflected signals present in one pixel, and the rotation amount calculating unit that calculates each of the phase rotation amounts in a plurality of pixels included in the second radar image from the respective phase differences, in which the difference calculating unit rotates the phases in the plurality of pixels included in the second radar image on the basis of the respective rotation amounts, and calculates a difference between pixel values of pixels at corresponding pixel positions among the plurality of pixels included in the first radar image and the plurality of pixels obtained by the phase rotation included in the second radar image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yumiko KATAYAMA, Kei SUWA
  • Patent number: 10495749
    Abstract: There are provided an azimuth Fourier transform unit that transforms a SAR image into components in a Doppler frequency band, a band cutting-out unit that cuts out sub-band components from the components in the Doppler frequency band, and an azimuth inverse Fourier transform unit that transforms the sub-band components into sub-images, respectively. An image reconstructing unit extracts, for each area irradiated with a beam, a pixel sequence corresponding to the irradiated area from each of the sub-images, and collects the plurality of extracted pixel sequences to construct images for video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Yamaoka, Kei Suwa
  • Patent number: 10481257
    Abstract: A signal processor 2 is configured so as to compensate for a peak shift of the distance between an SAR sensor 1 and a target, the peak shift occurring in the received signal subjected to range compression performed by an image reconstruction processing unit 14 due to a movement of the SAR sensor 1 during a time period until a reflected wave of a pulse signal is received by the SAR sensor 1 after the pulse signal is emitted from the SAR sensor 1. As a result, even when the SAR sensor 1 moves, an SAR image in which no azimuth ambiguity occurs can be reconstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Tsuchida, Kei Suwa, Teruyuki Hara
  • Publication number: 20180045825
    Abstract: There are provided an azimuth Fourier transform unit that transforms a SAR image into components in a Doppler frequency band, a band cutting-out unit that cuts out sub-band components from the components in the Doppler frequency band, and an azimuth inverse Fourier transform unit that transforms the sub-band components into sub-images, respectively. An image reconstructing unit extracts, for each area irradiated with a beam, a pixel sequence corresponding to the irradiated area from each of the sub-images, and collects the plurality of extracted pixel sequences to construct images for video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya YAMAOKA, Kei SUWA
  • Publication number: 20170299715
    Abstract: A signal processor 2 is configured so as to compensate for a peak shift of the distance between an SAR sensor 1 and a target, the peak shift occurring in the received signal subjected to range compression performed by an image reconstruction processing unit 14 due to a movement of the SAR sensor 1 during a time period until a reflected wave of a pulse signal is received by the SAR sensor 1 after the pulse signal is emitted from the SAR sensor 1. As a result, even when the SAR sensor 1 moves, an SAR image in which no azimuth ambiguity occurs can be reconstructed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi TSUCHIDA, Kei SUWA, Teruyuki HARA
  • Patent number: 9400323
    Abstract: A passive radar device includes: a pulse-by-pulse range compression unit executing cross-correlation processing between received signals of a direct wave and scattered wave on each of pulses divided by a direct-wave reception unit and a scattered-wave reception unit, and calculating a pulse-by-pulse range profile; a block-by-block Doppler processing unit calculating a first Doppler frequency spectrum by executing pulse-direction Fourier transform in block units each grouping plural pulses; a Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensation unit compensating a range-direction movement amount with respect to the first Doppler frequency spectrum on a Doppler-frequency-cell-by-Doppler-frequency-cell basis and on a block-by-block basis; and a block-direction Doppler processing unit calculating a second Doppler frequency spectrum by executing block-direction Fourier transform on an output from the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Suwa, Tadashi Oshima, Shohei Nakamura, Toshio Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20160189002
    Abstract: A polygon pattern generating unit 6 to extract a plurality of luminance points from a dictionary image of each group to generate a dictionary polygon pattern whose vertices are the plurality of luminance points, and extract a plurality of luminance points from an observation image to generate a target polygon pattern whose vertices are the plurality of luminance points, and a pattern comparing unit 10 to perform a comparison of the dictionary polygon pattern of each group and the target polygon pattern are disposed, and a type determining unit 15 determines the type of an unknown target by using the result of the comparison of the patterns which is performed by the pattern comparing unit 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kaori KAWAKAMI, Kei SUWA, Takehiro HOSHINO, Teruyuki HARA