Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Tsuge

Masatoshi Tsuge 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: 11989954
    Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses monitor a physical state of an occupant in a vehicle in different methods. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more first processors and one or more first memories. Upon receiving data indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state from the determination apparatus, the one or more first processors cooperate with one or more programs in the one or more first memories to: make assignment of a part to be monitored and data to be acquired, of the occupant in the vehicle, to be detected by the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses; and detect the physical state of the occupant on the basis of first and second occupant monitoring data from the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Nakamura, Tsukasa Mikuni, Takuya Homma, Yutaka Ishii, Masatoshi Tsuge, Kazuhiro Hayakawa, Toru Kato
  • Patent number: 11984027
    Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a vehicle communicator, an emergency reporting switch, a user interface, and a processor. The vehicle communicator transmits an emergency report about an emergency involving the vehicle to a server to make a request for an emergency response. The processor generates an emergency report and causes the vehicle communicator to transmit the emergency report if the vehicle is involved in an emergency. If the emergency reporting switch is manually operated by an occupant of the vehicle upon occurrence of the emergency, the processor presents emergency category items to allow the occupant to select a category item among the emergency category items on the user interface, generates the emergency report based on a manual operation about the category item selected by the occupant, and causes the vehicle communicator to transmit the emergency report based on the manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 11777701
    Abstract: A phase synchronization circuit which includes a first delay circuit for adjusting a first delay amount, delaying a first reference clock signal by the first delay amount, and outputting a first delayed reference clock signal. The phase synchronization circuit further includes a first clock control circuit that compares phases of the first delayed reference clock signal and a first output clock signal and generates a first clock control signal based on a result of the comparison; a first clock signal generation circuit that generates the first output clock signal based on the first clock control signal; and a first monitoring circuit that monitors jitter in the first output clock signal and adjusts the first delay amount based on a result of monitoring the jitter in the first output clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 11750775
    Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories store data including traveling-state comparative data and stopped-state comparative data. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors compare the occupant monitoring data with the traveling-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the traveling state, and compare the occupant monitoring data with the stopped-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the stopped state, to detect a state of the occupant in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Nakamura, Tsukasa Mikuni, Takuya Homma, Yutaka Ishii, Masatoshi Tsuge, Kazuhiro Hayakawa, Toru Kato
  • Patent number: 11741824
    Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a processor, a vehicle communication device, a first calling device, and a vehicle outside occupant detector. The processor determines, by means of the vehicle outside occupant detector, whether an occupant who has been present inside the vehicle before an emergency is present inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle after the emergency. If the occupant is present inside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor uses the first calling device to enable a communication between an occupant inside the vehicle and an operator terminal. If the occupant is present outside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor additionally uses a second calling device to enable a communication between an occupant present outside or inside the vehicle and the operator terminal. The second calling device allows for a communication outside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Tsuge
  • Patent number: 11644328
    Abstract: A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, first and second determination processors, and a search control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit is provided inside and outside the vehicle and acquires information including biometric information of the occupant. The first and the second determination processors determine physical and mental fatigue levels of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit or the information acquired by the information acquisition unit. The search control processor searches for a recommended traveling route and a recommended stop-by point on the basis of a search condition, and propose a result of the search to the occupant. The search condition is based on one or both of determination information obtained by the first determination processor, the second determination processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Homma, Tsukasa Mikuni, Toru Kato, Ryota Nakamura, Masatoshi Tsuge
  • Publication number: 20230025199
    Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a vehicle communicator, an emergency reporting switch, a user interface, and a processor. The vehicle communicator transmits an emergency report about an emergency involving the vehicle to a server to make a request for an emergency response. The processor generates an emergency report and causes the vehicle communicator to transmit the emergency report if the vehicle is involved in an emergency. If the emergency reporting switch is manually operated by an occupant of the vehicle upon occurrence of the emergency, the processor presents emergency category items to allow the occupant to select a category item among the emergency category items on the user interface, generates the emergency report based on a manual operation about the category item selected by the occupant, and causes the vehicle communicator to transmit the emergency report based on the manual operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20230023067
    Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a processor, a vehicle communication device, a first calling device, and a vehicle outside occupant detector. The processor determines, by means of the vehicle outside occupant detector, whether an occupant who has been present inside the vehicle before an emergency is present inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle after the emergency. If the occupant is present inside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor uses the first calling device to enable a communication between an occupant inside the vehicle and an operator terminal. If the occupant is present outside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor additionally uses a second calling device to enable a communication between an occupant present outside or inside the vehicle and the operator terminal. The second calling device allows for a communication outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20230021809
    Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function transmits an emergency report in a case where the vehicle is involved in an emergency. The vehicle includes a vehicle communicator and a vehicle memory. The vehicle communicator transmits the emergency report to an operator terminal. The operator terminal acquires emergency-related information by accessing a memory holding the emergency-related information. The emergency-related information includes limited-access information about the vehicle, an occupant of the vehicle, or both. The vehicle memory holds authentication information to be used to access the limited-access information held in the memory. The vehicle communicator transmits the authentication information to the operator terminal, and causes the operator terminal to acquire the limited-access information from the memory, as a part of the emergency-related information, by using the authentication information received from the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20230021599
    Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a communicator, a memory, a user interface, and a processor. The communicator transmits an emergency report to an operator terminal if the vehicle is involved in an emergency. The memory holds information on injury inquiry items for inquiry about injury to an occupant. The user interface is provided in the vehicle and used by the occupant of the vehicle. The processor controls the vehicle to cause the communicator to transmit the emergency report to the operator terminal if the vehicle is involved in the emergency. In the case where the vehicle is involved in the emergency, the processor inquires of the occupant about the injury inquiry items held in the memory, via the user interface, and causes the communicator to automatically transmit, to the operator terminal, an inquiry result of the injury to the occupant after the occurrence of the emergency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20220314975
    Abstract: A drive assist system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, an information acquisition apparatus, a determination apparatus, and a drive assist apparatus. The drive assist apparatus includes one or more processors, and one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors to communicate therewith. The one or more processors appropriately change a warning timing or a drive assist control intervention timing in accordance with the sleep state of a driver of a vehicle at least from a previous day, upon receiving information, from the determination apparatus, that the vehicle transitions from a stopped state to a traveling state. The warning timing is a timing of giving a warning that the vehicle is approaching another vehicle, or the like. The drive assist control intervention timing is a timing of intervention by the drive assist control for avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Toru KATO, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20220319202
    Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses monitor a physical state of an occupant in a vehicle in different methods. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more first processors and one or more first memories. Upon receiving data indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state from the determination apparatus, the one or more first processors cooperate with one or more programs in the one or more first memories to: make assignment of a part to be monitored and data to be acquired, of the occupant in the vehicle, to be detected by the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses; and detect the physical state of the occupant on the basis of first and second occupant monitoring data from the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Yutaka ISHII, Masatoshi TSUGE, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Toru KATO
  • Publication number: 20220315031
    Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, an occupant state detection apparatus, and a determination apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors make assignment of a part to be monitored, of an occupant in a vehicle, to be monitored by the occupant monitoring apparatus, to detect a physical state of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Yutaka ISHII, Masatoshi TSUGE, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Toru KATO
  • Publication number: 20220315017
    Abstract: A drive assist system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and a drive assist control apparatus. The occupant monitoring apparatus monitors a physical state of an occupant, including a driver, of a vehicle. The determination apparatus determines a traveling state and a stopped state of the vehicle. The drive assist control apparatus executes a control to secure safe traveling upon determining that sleep duration of the occupant is less than a predetermined time and quality of sleep thereof is lower than a predetermined level on the basis of monitoring information acquired by the occupant monitoring apparatus. The drive assist control apparatus includes one or more processors that perform, in a case where determination information from the determination apparatus indicates the stopped state, a control of appropriately restricting the driver's driving operation on the basis of at least the sleep duration and the quality of sleep of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Toru KATO, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20220321835
    Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories store data including traveling-state comparative data and stopped-state comparative data. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors compare the occupant monitoring data with the traveling-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the traveling state, and compare the occupant monitoring data with the stopped-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the stopped state, to detect a state of the occupant in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Yutaka ISHII, Masatoshi TSUGE, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Toru KATO
  • Publication number: 20220196423
    Abstract: A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, first and second determination processors, and a search control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit is provided inside and outside the vehicle and acquires information including biometric information of the occupant. The first and the second determination processors determine physical and mental fatigue levels of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit or the information acquired by the information acquisition unit. The search control processor searches for a recommended traveling route and a recommended stop-by point on the basis of a search condition, and propose a result of the search to the occupant. The search condition is based on one or both of determination information obtained by the first determination processor, the second determination processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya HOMMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Toru KATO, Ryota NAKAMURA, Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20220194388
    Abstract: A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, a first determination processor, a second determination processor, and a control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit acquires information including biometric information of the occupant inside and outside the vehicle. The first determination processor and the second determination processor determine a physical fatigue level and a mental fatigue level of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image of the occupant inside the vehicle captured by the imaging unit or the information including the biometric information of the occupant inside and outside the vehicle acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya HOMMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Toru KATO, Ryota NAKAMURA, Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Publication number: 20210126766
    Abstract: A phase synchronization circuit includes: a first delay circuit that is capable of adjusting a first delay amount, delays a first reference clock signal by the first delay amount, and outputs a first delayed reference clock signal; a first clock control circuit that compares phases of the first delayed reference clock signal and a first output clock signal and generates a first clock control signal based on a result of the comparison; a first clock signal generation circuit that generates the first output clock signal based on the first clock control signal; and a first monitoring circuit that monitors jitter in the first output clock signal and adjusts the first delay amount based on a result of monitoring the jitter in the first output clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventor: Masatoshi TSUGE
  • Patent number: 8823177
    Abstract: A semiconductor device or semiconductor device package for transmitting a plurality of differential signals, the reliability of which hardly deteriorates. The semiconductor device is an area array semiconductor device in which a plurality of lands (external terminals) including a plurality of lands for transmitting a plurality of differential signals are arrayed in a matrix pattern in the back surface of a wiring substrate. Some of the lands are located in the outermost periphery of the matrix pattern. Some others of the lands are located inward of the outermost periphery of the matrix pattern and in rows next to the outermost periphery. The spacing between lands in a second region between the lands located in the rows next to the outermost periphery and the side surface of the wiring substrate is larger than in a first region in the outermost periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Tsuge, Makoto Kuwata
  • Publication number: 20120187564
    Abstract: A semiconductor device or semiconductor device package for transmitting a plurality of differential signals, the reliability of which hardly deteriorates. The semiconductor device is an area array semiconductor device in which a plurality of lands (external terminals) including a plurality of lands for transmitting a plurality of differential signals are arrayed in a matrix pattern in the back surface of a wiring substrate. Some of the lands are located in the outermost periphery of the matrix pattern. Some others of the lands are located inward of the outermost periphery of the matrix pattern and in rows next to the outermost periphery. The spacing between lands in a second region between the lands located in the rows next to the outermost periphery and the side surface of the wiring substrate is larger than in a first region in the outermost periphery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Masatoshi TSUGE, Makoto Kuwata