Patents by Inventor Naoki KUSUMOTO

Naoki KUSUMOTO 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: 11975716
    Abstract: A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Masui, Ryo Mizuno, Takashi Maeda, Naoki Kusumoto, Yuki Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20240034314
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle includes a monitoring sensor and a brake apparatus. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether a pre-preceding vehicle is present in front of a preceding vehicle in front of an own vehicle in a vehicle advancing direction. In response to the pre-preceding vehicle is determined to be present in front of the preceding vehicle, the vehicle control apparatus compares a first required deceleration required to cause the own vehicle to travel to follow the preceding vehicle based on a monitoring result of the monitoring sensor and a second required deceleration required to cause the own vehicle to travel to follow the pre-preceding vehicle based on a monitoring result of the monitoring sensor, and controls the brake apparatus to bring deceleration of the own vehicle closer to the second required deceleration in response to the second required deceleration being greater than the first required deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Takaomi KINUGAWA, Tooru TAKAHASHI, Yuki TEZUKA, Naoki KUSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11780425
    Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus comprises a sensor to detect a turning movement physical quantity, an acceleration-deceleration device, a control unit, and a device to obtain road shape information representing a shape of a road at a position that is away from a vehicle by a predetermined distance. The unit determines that a first control start condition becomes satisfied when a magnitude of the physical quantity exceeds a first value while the curved road has not been determined to be present based on the road shape information, to perform an acceleration-deceleration control for making the vehicle run at a target speed depending on a curvature of the road. The unit determines that a second control start condition becomes satisfied when the magnitude of the physical quantity exceeds a second value smaller than the first value while the curved road has been determined to be present to perform the acceleration-deceleration control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tezuka, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20230271611
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is provided for a vehicle equipped with a high-accuracy sensor and a low-accuracy sensor to detect a preceding vehicle. The low-accuracy sensor is able to detect a distance to a preceding vehicle larger than a maximum distance to a preceding vehicle detectable by the high-accuracy sensor, and having low ranging accuracy. A control unit is configured to perform following control in which the vehicle is controlled so as not to collide with the preceding vehicle, using at least either of the first detection information derived from the high-accuracy sensor and the second detection information derived from the low-accuracy sensor, and further configured to, when performing the following control using only the second detection information, reduce a degree of change in vehicle control that is based on the second detection information, as compared to when performing the following control using the first detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Youhei MASUI, Naoki KUSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230254432
    Abstract: A printed material management system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a management program, a server, and a shredder. The management program is configured to cause a controller of a device to execute a print data acquisition process, a generation process, a printing process, and a transmission process. In a case where the shredder receives specific information, the shredder is configured to execute a reading process of conveying a printed material input from the inlet and reading the code printed on the printed material by using the scanner. In a case where the shredder does not receive the specific information, the shredder is configured to convey a printed material input from the inlet and shred the printed material using the cutter without executing the reading process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20230249192
    Abstract: A printed material management system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a management program, a server, and a shredder. The management program is configured to cause a controller of a device in which the management program is installed to execute a print data acquisition process of acquiring print data, a generation process of determining a printed material ID, and generating a code by encoding the determined printed material ID, a printing process of printing the code and an image on a page corresponding to the printed material ID, and a transmission process of transmitting, to the server, a print log including the printed material ID and first data indicating that disposal is not completed. In a case where the code is successfully read, the shredder executes a rewriting process of transmitting a rewriting request associated with the printed material ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11603096
    Abstract: A traveling control apparatus performs a target-following control process on a target to be followed detected by a target detecting unit. Further, the traveling control apparatus calculates a probability that the target to be followed is within an own lane, and determines whether a degree of recognition by the target detecting unit of the target to be followed is in a weakly recognized state where the degree of recognition is weaker than a predetermined degree. The apparatus sets a reliability of the target to be followed on the basis of the probability calculated by a probability calculating process and a determination result by a determining process, and controls acceleration of an own vehicle so that a jerk which is a differential value of the acceleration becomes smaller as the reliability of the target to be followed is lower while the target-following control process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Takuma Sudo, Takashi Maeda, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11563864
    Abstract: An application server recognizes a content of voice input to a smart speaker connected via a network interface. In a case where the recognized content of voice is a content indicative of a user's dissatisfaction or request for an image formed by a printer, the application server executes processing for determining an item of a setting parameter and a value thereof to be changed in the printer, based on the recognized content of voice, generates a command including the determined item and value of the setting parameter, and transmits the generated command to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11494144
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus has a display interface, an operation interface, and a communication interface, and is connected with a printer through the communication interface. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to control the display interface to display a setting screen to accept entry of print settings applicable to the printer, including a first special setting which is feasible to a first channel but infeasible to a second channel, and in response to a specific operation related to the first special setting to the setting screen through the operation interface, determine the first channel to be a processing channel to be used to cause the printer to print the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aiko Mizutani, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220306108
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit configured to, in a case where a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle in a stopped state starts, determine whether an object is located inside a specified area that is a predetermined area in front of the vehicle, and a driving assistance unit configured to maintain the stopped state of the vehicle in a case where an object is located inside the specified area in a case where the preceding vehicle starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Norio TSUCHIDA, Naoki KUSUMOTO, Yuki TEZUKA
  • Patent number: 11449291
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a set of program instructions for an information processing apparatus. The set of program instructions includes a set of first program instructions. The set of the first program instructions, when executed by a computer, causes the information processing apparatus to perform: in response to calling a first Application Programming Interface (API) from an interface module, transferring the first API to the interface module; receiving a specific value through the first API to which the interface module inputs the specific value as the argument; acquiring printer type information indicating a type of the printer; acquiring a printer characteristic value corresponding to the printer type information; generating second parameters by using the specific value and the printer characteristic value; and outputting the generated second parameters. The second parameters are all of parameters concerning the sheet and corresponding to the printer type information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220289190
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a determination unit that determines whether a brake light of a preceding vehicle located in front of a vehicle is turned on, based on a lighting state of a headlight of the preceding vehicle and an acceleration/deceleration of the preceding vehicle, a calculation unit that calculates a target acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle, based on a determination by the determination unit of whether the brake light of the preceding vehicle is turned on, and a control unit that controls the vehicle so that an acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle corresponds to the target acceleration/deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiko INOUE, Youhei MASUI, Hiroaki NIINO, Yuki TEZUKA, Naoki KUSUMOTO, Yuuji KOSAKA
  • Patent number: 11435965
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions for an information processing apparatus including a processor, a communication interface, and a memory. The set of program instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the information processing apparatus to perform: acquiring type information indicative of a printer type; acquiring first data having a first format; identifying particular information corresponding to the acquired type information based on a conversion correspondence table, the conversion correspondence table showing a correspondence between the type information and the particular information, the particular information identifying at least a structure of data after conversion or a character code type of the data after conversion; converting the first data into second data corresponding to the identified particular information, the second data having a second format to be inputted to the printer; and outputting the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11428804
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle detection system capable of detecting a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of an own vehicle based on a position of an object by using an electromagnetic wave sensor while suppressing erroneous detection, an ECU determines if first and second positions detected by a millimeter wave radar are included in the same vehicle. The ECU designates calculated information of the preceding vehicle detected based on the first position as a calculation result if it determines that detection of the preceding vehicle is made based on the first position. The ECU uses calculated information of the preceding vehicle detected based on the second position as the calculation result when it determines that detection of the vehicle is not made based on the first position but the first and the second positions had been determined in the past as detected in the same vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michihiro Kuroki, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Hiroshi Yamada, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11425773
    Abstract: A terminal device may acquire first connection information including a plurality of parameters, and send the first connection information to a communication device by using a first wireless connection and not via an access point. The first connection information is used in the communication device to execute a process for establishing a wireless connection with a target access point. The terminal device may receive a failure notification indicating that the process has failed from the communication device by using the first wireless connection and not via an access point in a case where the process in the communication device has failed, and display a cause screen indicating that the process has failed due to the specific parameter on a display unit in a case where the failure notification is received from the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keishi Naka, Hiroyuki Yamaoka, Tatsuhiko Sone, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11409484
    Abstract: A system including a server and a terminal device controls a specific printer. The server includes an input acquisition unit that acquires input data generated based on sound data indicating voice by an utterer and transmitted from a voice input device to which the voice is input, and a print instruction output unit that outputs print instruction data indicating an instruction relating to a print job to be executed by the specific printer, by using the input data. The terminal device includes a print instruction receiving unit that receives the print instruction data transmitted from the server via a first communication interface, a print job generation unit that generates print job data indicating a print job to be executed by the specific printer, by using the print instruction data, and a print job transmission unit that transmits the print job data to the specific printer via a second communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220111842
    Abstract: A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei MASUI, Ryo MIZUNO, Takashi MAEDA, Naoki KUSUMOTO, Yuki TEZUKA
  • Publication number: 20220083295
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus has a display interface, an operation interface, and a communication interface, and is connected with a printer through the communication interface. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to control the display interface to display a setting screen to accept entry of print settings applicable to the printer, including a first special setting which is feasible to a first channel but infeasible to a second channel, and in response to a specific operation related to the first special setting to the setting screen through the operation interface, determine the first channel to be a processing channel to be used to cause the printer to print the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aiko Mizutani, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11235766
    Abstract: A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Masui, Ryo Mizuno, Takashi Maeda, Naoki Kusumoto, Yuki Tezuka
  • Patent number: 11188281
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus has a display interface, an operation interface, and a communication interface, and is connected with a printer through the communication interface. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to control the display interface to display a setting screen to accept entry of print settings applicable to the printer, including a first special setting which is feasible to a first channel but infeasible to a second channel, and in response to a specific operation related to the first special setting to the setting screen through the operation interface, determine the first channel to be a processing channel to be used to cause the printer to print the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aiko Mizutani, Naoki Kusumoto