Patents by Inventor Masayuki TACHIIWA

Masayuki TACHIIWA 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: 11887489
    Abstract: A storage facilities management device is configured to manage storage facilities such as storage sheds for keeping flight devices. Upon receiving instruction information including a takeoff/landing time of a flight device from a flight management device, the storage facilities management device acquires circumferential information representing circumstances of a storage shed before the takeoff/landing time so as to determine whether or not the flight device is able to take off at the takeoff time of the instruction information or to determine whether or not the flight device is able to land at the landing time of the instruction information according to the circumferential information, thus transmitting the determination result to the flight management device and allowing for takeoff or landing of the flight device according to the instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Tachiiwa
  • Patent number: 11620915
    Abstract: A flight device configured to fly in an air includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a flight plan of the flight device; and a flight control part configured to change the flight plan during a flight along a flight route according to the flight plan for the flight device to circumvent a high-density area having a density of avoided objects equal to or above a threshold density in a first area located forward and downward from a position of the flight device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Tachiiwa
  • Patent number: 11620911
    Abstract: A management device includes a route determination unit configured to determine a photography route, an instruction unit configured to instruct a first flying device to perform photography on the photography route, and an identification unit configured to identify a stop position of the photography by the first flying device. When the identification unit has identified the stop position, the instruction unit is configured to instruct a second flying device, which is different from the first flying device, to start the photography on the photography route from the stop position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Tachiiwa
  • Publication number: 20220229450
    Abstract: A flight management apparatus includes a condition information acquisition unit that acquires condition information including a weather condition for flight of a flight apparatus, the weather condition being associated with a position provided on a flight path or in a flight range in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information including weather at a current position at which the flight apparatus is positioned, or a scheduled position at which the flight apparatus is scheduled to be positioned, a determination unit that determines whether or not the weather satisfies the weather condition associated with the current position or the scheduled position in the condition information, and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masayuki TACHIIWA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220222617
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an article specification unit specifying a delivery destination of a first delivery target article which is a delivery target desired by a user, and a first feature of the first delivery target article, a time specification unit that specifies one or more dates and times scheduled for a flight, which can deliver the first delivery target article specified based on the first feature and flying object information indicating a feature of an article that can be delivered by a flying object scheduled to fly to the delivery destination, to fly to the delivery destination, an information transmission unit transmitting the one or more dates and times to an information terminal of the user, and an output unit receiving date and time information indicating a date and time selected from the one or more dates and times and outputs the received date and time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki TACHIIWA, Tomoaki MATSUKI, Kyohei TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20220215763
    Abstract: A flight management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives, from a user's terminal, flight schedule information including user identification information for identifying the user, a flight path or a flight range in which a flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, and a flight schedule period in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, an aircraft identification unit that identifies aircraft information related to the flight apparatus and associated with the user identification information, a carrier identification unit that identifies a communication carrier providing a communication service available to the flight apparatus on the basis of the aircraft information, a determination unit that determines whether the flight apparatus is communicable during flight using the communication service on the basis of the communication carrier and the flight path or the flight range, and a transmission unit that transmits a determination result to the user's terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masayuki TACHIIWA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220207459
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an information acquiring unit configured to acquire article identification information from an information terminal; a specifying unit configured to specify a total weight value of one or more delivery target articles corresponding to one or more pieces of the article identification information by referring to an article database; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the one or more delivery target articles can be delivered by a flying object on the basis of at least the total weight value; and a display control unit configured to cause the information terminal to display a delivery method designation screen on which a delivery method for delivering articles using the flying object can be designated in a case in which the determination unit determines that the one or more delivery target articles can be delivered by the flying object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki TACHIIWA, Tomoaki MATSUKI, Mitsuyoshi MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220207476
    Abstract: A user can receive an article even when the user of a delivery destination is absent. An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to store article identification information, article name information, delivery destination user identification information, delivery destination information, and arrival date and time information in association with each other; a notification unit configured to notify a delivery destination information terminal used by the delivery destination user of an arrival date and time before the moving body starts to move to deliver the delivery target article to the delivery destination; and an information receiving unit configured to store housing place identification information in the storage unit when the housing place identification information and information are received, in which the notification unit notifies the delivery destination information terminal of the article name of the delivery target article and the housing place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Tachiiwa, Tomoaki Matsuki, Hiroshi Kawana
  • Patent number: 11341862
    Abstract: A flight management device for managing a flying device which includes an identification unit configured to identify that the flying device is likely to fall and a communication unit configured to transmit the notification information representing that the flying device is likely to fall to the flight management device together with the position information representing a position in flight when the flying device is likely to fall. a notification unit configured to transmit warning information to a vehicle at a position corresponding to position information when notification information has been received from the flying device in flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Tachiiwa
  • Publication number: 20210056859
    Abstract: A flight device configured to fly in an air includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a flight plan of the flight device; and a flight control part configured to change the flight plan during a flight along a flight route according to the flight plan for the flight device to circumvent a high-density area having a density of avoided objects equal to or above a threshold density in a first area located forward and downward from a position of the flight device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki TACHIIWA
  • Publication number: 20210020054
    Abstract: A storage facilities management device includes a reception control part configured to receive instruction information including a takeoff/landing time of a flight device from a flight management device, an information acquisition part configured to acquire circumferential information representing circumstances of a storage shed configured to keep the flight device before the takeoff/landing time, a determination part configured to determine whether or not the flight device is able to take off at the takeoff time of the instruction information or to determine whether or not the flight device is able to land at the landing time of the instruction information according to the circumstances indicated by the circumferential information, and a transmission control part configured to transmit the determination result to the flight management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki TACHIIWA
  • Publication number: 20200410873
    Abstract: A management device includes a route determination unit configured to determine a photography route, an instruction unit configured to instruct a first flying device to perform photography on the photography route, and an identification unit configured to identify a stop position of the photography by the first flying device. When the identification unit has identified the stop position, the instruction unit is configured to instruct a second flying device, which is different from the first flying device, to start the photography on the photography route from the stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki TACHIIWA
  • Publication number: 20200410878
    Abstract: A flight management device for managing a flying device which includes an identification unit configured to identify that the flying device is likely to fall and a communication unit configured to transmit the notification information representing that the flying device is likely to fall to the flight management device together with the position information representing a position in flight when the flying device is likely to fall. a notification unit configured to transmit warning information to a vehicle at a position corresponding to position information when notification information has been received from the flying device in flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki TACHIIWA