Patents by Inventor Kouichi Nakamura

Kouichi Nakamura 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: 20200160055
    Abstract: An augmented reality displaying system for displaying a virtual object through compositing on an image taken of the real world, comprising: a camera for capturing an image of the real world; a location information acquiring portion for acquiring, as location information, the coordinates and orientation at the instant of imaging by the camera; an image analyzing portion for analyzing, as depth information, the relative distances to imaging subjects for individual pixels that structure the real world image that has been captured; a virtual display data generating portion for generating virtual display data, on real map information that includes geographical information in the real world, based on the location information acquired by the location information acquiring portion; and a compositing processing portion for displaying the virtual display data, generated by the virtual display data generating portion, superimposed on an image captured by the camera in accordance with the depth information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi NAKAMURA, Kazuya ASANO
  • Publication number: 20200139228
    Abstract: An object control system in a location-based game, in which a character in a virtual world is linked with and moved along with a movement of a user in a real world, is provided with: a location information acquiring unit which detects a current location and displacement in the real world of the user; a virtual display data generating unit which selects a boundary line on real map information so as to be an area and a shape according to the current location of the user in the real world and information density on the real map information corresponding to the current location, and generates a virtual fantasy block that partially covers the real map; and a synthesis processing unit which superimposes and displays the fantasy block generated by the virtual display data generating unit on the real map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi NAKAMURA, Kazuya ASANO
  • Publication number: 20190348203
    Abstract: A combined coil module includes a first planar coil, a second planar coil, and a magnetic sheet in which a magnetic path of the first planar coil and a magnetic path of the second planar coil are to be formed. The first planar coil is used for radio communication. The second planar coil is used for electric power transmission of contactless charging. The magnetic sheet is made of one kind of a magnetic material. The magnetic sheet includes a first magnetic path formation portion in which the magnetic path of the first planar coil is to be formed and a second magnetic path formation portion in which the magnetic path of the second planar coil is to be formed. A permeability of the first magnetic path formation portion is different from a permeability of the second magnetic path formation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: KATSUTOSHI HIRAKAWA, KOUICHI NAKAMURA, KOUJI YASUMURA
  • Patent number: 10399596
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a plurality of sensor elements and an output circuit in one sensor part, and a correction value calculator in an ECU, which obtains output signals from the sensor part and calculates an offset correction value based on a plurality of signal values that correspond to a detection value when a calculability condition is satisfied. The ECU also includes a control calculator that performs a calculation based on the corrected signal values that have been corrected by the offset correction value. Therefore, the offset correction value is calculated in view of an aging and an accuracy variation of the components used in the sensor device. In such manner, the detection value is appropriately corrected for the calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakamura, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Takaharu Kozawa, Shuji Kuramitsu, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 10384712
    Abstract: If abnormalities of the sensor part are detected, the power-source control section temporarily stops the electric power supply from the sensor power source to the sensor part so that the sensor power source voltage Vs which is the voltage between the sensor power source and the sensor part falls. In addition, after electric power supply to the sensor part resumes, and the sensor part is recovered from the abnormalities, then, the power source control section continues the electric power supply from the sensor power source to the sensor part. When the sensor part is not recovered from the abnormalities, the power source control section stops the electric power supply from the sensor power source to the sensor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hayashi, Takaharu Kozawa, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 10343714
    Abstract: A sensor device includes sensors and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The sensors include sensor elements, a signal comparator, and a signal transmitter. The signal comparator compares a first main detection value from one of the sensor elements, and a first sub detection value from the other of the sensor elements. When the first main detection value matches the first sub detection value, the signal transmitter generates and transmits an output signal that includes a first main signal corresponding to the first main detection value without including a first sub signal corresponding to the first sub detection value. In such manner, the responsiveness of the sensor device may be improved, without deteriorating a reliability of the output signals from the sensor sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koutarou Nakashima, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai, Takaharu Kozawa, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10232879
    Abstract: A communication system includes a sensor apparatus, which includes sensing elements and a transmission circuit, and a microcomputer, which includes a reception circuit, a difference calculator, and a differential calculator. The transmission circuit shifts a transmission time point of one of sensor signals including sensor value detected by one of the sensing elements by a predetermined period with respect to a transmission time point of another one of sensor signals including sensor value detected by another one of the sensing elements. The predetermined period is set shorter than a transmission cycle of the transmission circuit. The difference calculator calculates a difference value so that an offset error among the sensing elements is compensated or a fluctuation caused by a variation in slopes of output characteristics of the sensing elements is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai, Kouichi Nakamura, Shuji Kuramitsu, Takaharu Kozawa, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10173720
    Abstract: A sensor device includes two sensor parts and an ECU. An output division of one of the two sensor parts stops output of an output signal when a detected internal abnormality is a first abnormality. Further, when the detected internal abnormality is a second abnormality that is different from the first abnormality, the output division controls an abnormality signal to take a value indicative of the second abnormality. An abnormality determiner determines either of a signal obtainment abnormality or the first abnormality of the sensor part when the output signal is not obtained from the one of the sensor parts, or determines the second abnormality of the one of the sensor parts when the obtained output signal includes the abnormality signal having a value indicative of the second abnormality. Such determination, thus, enables the abnormality determiner to classify an abnormality caused in the sensor parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaharu Kozawa, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10077069
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a main sensor, a sub sensor, and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The ECU has a torque calculator that sets, as a steering torque, a main steering torque that is calculated based on a main sensor signal when a main output signal is normal. During a transition period between an abnormality detection and an abnormality establishment regarding the main output signal, the torque calculator calculates the steering torque based on (i) a sub steering torque calculated based on a sub sensor signal and (ii) a prior-to-abnormality-detection main steering torque. In such manner, even when abnormality is detected in a part of the sensor signals, a fluctuation of the steering torque due to, or accompanying, the switching of the steering torque calculation to a normal signal only calculation is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Kuramitsu, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Takaharu Kozawa, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 10029727
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine control device includes a first system controller and a second system controller, an overheat protection controller and an abnormality detector. The overheat protection controller includes a temperature estimator and a restricted current calculator. The temperature estimator estimates system temperatures as well as other temperature, including a shared component temperature of a shared component that is connected to both of plural systems in a shared manner. The restricted current calculator calculates restricted current values, based on the system temperatures and the shared component temperature. At least one of the system temperatures, the shared component temperature, and/or the restricted current values is changed from an all-systems normal time, when at least one of a plurality of systems is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9878736
    Abstract: A communication system includes at least one sensor apparatus including at least one sensing element and a transmission circuit, and a microcomputer including a reception circuit and a differential calculator. The sensing element detects a sensor value indicating a physical quantity of a detection target, and the transmission circuit transmits, as a digital signal, a sensor signal including information indicative of the sensor value at a predetermined transmission cycle. The reception circuit receives the sensor signal through a signal line and updates last time sensor value with present time sensor value. The differential calculator calculates, at a predetermined calculation cycle, a time differential value by performing a time differential calculation to the updated using time information provided separate from the sensor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Takaharu Kozawa, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9774442
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a plurality of sensors, each of which includes at least one sensor element that detects information relating to a single detection target and an output circuit that generates an output signal based on a detection signal of the sensor element and transmits the output signal; and a controller that acquires the output signal. One of the sensors transmits the output signal to the controller at an output timing that is shifted, by a predetermined period shorter than a length of one period of the output signal, from another output timing when another one of the sensors transmits the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaharu Kozawa, Hideki Kabune, Toshihiro Fujita, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Kouichi Nakamura, Shuji Kuramitsu, Toshimitsu Sakai, Masaya Taki
  • Patent number: 9673747
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a rotary machine controls drive of the rotary machine with winding groups. The control apparatus includes electric power converters in multiple systems, a failure detection portion, and a controller. The electric power converter has switching elements in an upper arm and a lower arm, and converts direct current power. The failure detection portion detects a failure of an electric power converter or a failure of a winding group. The controller operates the switching elements and controls electricity supply. When the failure detection portion detects the failure, the controller stops output to an electric power converter in a failure system, and the controller reduces a total number of times of switching per unit time of the switching elements in a normally operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakamura, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170072991
    Abstract: If abnormalities of the sensor part are detected, the power-source control section temporarily stops the electric power supply from the sensor power source to the sensor part so that the sensor power source voltage Vs which is the voltage between the sensor power source and the sensor part falls. In addition, after electric power supply to the sensor part resumes, and the sensor part is recovered from the abnormalities, then, the power source control section continues the electric power supply from the sensor power source to the sensor part. When the sensor part is not recovered from the abnormalities, the power source control section stops the electric power supply from the sensor power source to the sensor part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hayashi, Takaharu Kozawa, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20170050670
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a main sensor, a sub sensor, and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The ECU has a torque calculator that sets, as a steering torque, a main steering torque that is calculated based on a main sensor signal when a main output signal is normal. During a transition period between an abnormality detection and an abnormality establishment regarding the main output signal, the torque calculator calculates the steering torque based on (i) a sub steering torque calculated based on a sub sensor signal and (ii) a prior-to-abnormality-detection main steering torque. In such manner, even when abnormality is detected in a part of the sensor signals, a fluctuation of the steering torque due to, or accompanying, the switching of the steering torque calculation to a normal signal only calculation is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Shuji Kuramitsu, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Takaharu Kozawa, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20170029015
    Abstract: A sensor device includes sensors and an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The sensors include sensor elements, a signal comparator, and a signal transmitter. The signal comparator compares a first main detection value from one of the sensor elements, and a first sub detection value from the other of the sensor elements. When the first main detection value matches the first sub detection value, the signal transmitter generates and transmits an output signal that includes a first main signal corresponding to the first main detection value without including a first sub signal corresponding to the first sub detection value. In such manner, the responsiveness of the sensor device may be improved, without deteriorating a reliability of the output signals from the sensor sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Koutarou Nakashima, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai, Takaharu Kozawa, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170029022
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a plurality of sensor elements and an output circuit in one sensor part, and a correction value calculator in an ECU, which obtains output signals from the sensor part and calculates an offset correction value based on a plurality of signal values that correspond to a detection value when a calculability condition is satisfied. The ECU also includes a control calculator that performs a calculation based on the corrected signal values that have been corrected by the offset correction value. Therefore, the offset correction value is calculated in view of an aging and an accuracy variation of the components used in the sensor device. In such manner, the detection value is appropriately corrected for the calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakamura, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Takaharu Kozawa, Shuji Kuramitsu, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20170029016
    Abstract: A sensor device includes two sensor parts and an ECU. An output division of one of the two sensor parts stops output of an output signal when a detected internal abnormality is a first abnormality. Further, when the detected internal abnormality is a second abnormality that is different from the first abnormality, the output division controls an abnormality signal to take a value indicative of the second abnormality. An abnormality determiner determines either of a signal obtainment abnormality or the first abnormality of the sensor part when the output signal is not obtained from the one of the sensor parts, or determines the second abnormality of the one of the sensor parts when the obtained output signal includes the abnormality signal having a value indicative of the second abnormality. Such determination, thus, enables the abnormality determiner to classify an abnormality caused in the sensor parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Takaharu Kozawa, Shuji Kuramitsu, Kouichi Nakamura, Masaya Taki, Toshimitsu Sakai, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9543880
    Abstract: A rotary machine control apparatus controlling a drive of a rotary machine that has multiple winding groups is provided. The rotary machine control apparatus includes electric power converters in multiple systems, a failure detection portion, and a control portion. An electric power converter has switching elements in an upper arm and a lower arm and converts DC power. The failure detection portion detects a failure of an electric power converter or a winding group. The control portion calculates a current command value and a maximum current limit value, and controls an output to the electric power converter. The control portion stops the output to the electric power converter in a failure system, and the control portion increases the maximum current limit value with respect to the output to an electric power converter in a normal system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakamura, Takashi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170001661
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine control device includes a first system controller and a second system controller, an overheat protection controller and an abnormality detector. The overheat protection controller includes a temperature estimator and a restricted current calculator. The temperature estimator estimates system temperatures as well as other temperature, including a shared component temperature of a shared component that is connected to both of plural systems in a shared manner. The restricted current calculator calculates restricted current values, based on the system temperatures and the shared component temperature. At least one of the system temperatures, the shared component temperature, and/or the restricted current values is changed from an all-systems normal time, when at least one of a plurality of systems is abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Kouichi Nakamura