Patents by Inventor Ryota Ohnishi

Ryota Ohnishi 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: 11970172
    Abstract: An information processing method to be executed by a computer includes: obtaining a driving skill of a person who rides an autonomous vehicle, which represents at least one of whether the person can drive a manually-drivable autonomous vehicle or a level at which the person can drive; obtaining specifications of autonomous vehicles about autonomous driving; obtaining a route for transporting the person; determining deviation risks, each of which includes at least one of a possibility of deviation of an autonomous driving system including a corresponding one of the autonomous vehicles from an operational design domain or a degree of the deviation, based on the specifications and the route; selecting an autonomous vehicle assigned to transportation of the person from the autonomous vehicles according to each of the deviation risks and the driving skill; and sending a notification of the selected autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Hiroaki Urabe
  • Publication number: 20220315056
    Abstract: An information processing method is an information processing method executed by a computer, and includes: detecting a first operation by a supervising party that supervises a moving body which drives autonomously from a remote location where the moving body cannot be supervised directly; and when the first operation is detected, relaxing an execution condition for autonomous driving of the moving body more than an execution condition applied when the first operation is not detected, and causing the moving body to drive autonomously under the execution condition that has been relaxed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Motoshi ANABUKI, Kazuma TAKEUCHI, Ryota OHNISHI
  • Patent number: 11455835
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first sensing data from a first sensor that performs sensing of an object outside a vehicle, a presentation control unit that generates presentation information based on the first sensing data and causes a presentation device present in the vehicle to present the presentation information, a second acquisition unit that acquires input data for presentation of the presentation information via an input device present in the vehicle, and a boarding control unit that controls boarding of a person on the vehicle according to the input data acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Hiroaki Urabe
  • Publication number: 20210284173
    Abstract: An information processing method to be executed by a computer includes: obtaining a driving skill of a person who rides an autonomous vehicle, which represents at least one of whether the person can drive a manually-drivable autonomous vehicle or a level at which the person can drive; obtaining specifications of autonomous vehicles about autonomous driving; obtaining a route for transporting the person; determining deviation risks, each of which includes at least one of a possibility of deviation of an autonomous driving system including a corresponding one of the autonomous vehicles from an operational design domain or a degree of the deviation, based on the specifications and the route; selecting an autonomous vehicle assigned to transportation of the person from the autonomous vehicles according to each of the deviation risks and the driving skill; and sending a notification of the selected autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Ryota OHNISHI, Hiroaki URABE
  • Publication number: 20210255632
    Abstract: An information processing method is a method to be executed by a computer. The information processing method includes obtaining a specification of an autonomous vehicle about autonomous driving; obtaining a route for transporting a user; determining an operational design domain of the autonomous vehicle, based on the specification and the route; and outputting the determined operational design domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ryota OHNISHI, Hiroaki URABE, Yoshimasa HONDA
  • Patent number: 11062880
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes: a main body which includes a plurality of units which are disposed along a beamline along which an ion beam is transported, and a substrate transferring/processing unit which is disposed farthest downstream of the beamline, and has a neutron ray source in which a neutron ray is generated due to collision of a ultrahigh energy ion beam; an enclosure which at least partially encloses the main body; and a neutron ray scattering member which is disposed at a position where a neutron ray which is emitted from the neutron ray source is incident in a direction in which a distance from the neutron ray source to the enclosure is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES ION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsushita, Ryota Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10823574
    Abstract: A communication method in a roadside unit that acquires first dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around the roadside unit and second dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around in-vehicle units includes: selecting at least one in-vehicle unit from among the plurality of in-vehicle units on a basis of a list in which the second dynamic information and the in-vehicle units having the second dynamic information are associated with each other; acquiring the first dynamic information indicative of a state around the roadside unit acquired by a sensor mounted in the roadside unit; configurating a dynamic map on a basis of the acquired first dynamic information, the second dynamic information acquired from the selected in-vehicle unit, and a static map indicative of a static object; and transmitting the dynamic map to one or more of the in-vehicle units that communicate with the roadside unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yuta Shimotsuma, Kazunobu Konishi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryota Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200303163
    Abstract: An ion implanter includes: a main body which includes a plurality of units which are disposed along a beamline along which an ion beam is transported, and a substrate transferring/processing unit which is disposed farthest downstream of the beamline, and has a neutron ray source in which a neutron ray is generated due to collision of a ultrahigh energy ion beam; an enclosure which at least partially encloses the main body; and a neutron ray scattering member which is disposed at a position where a neutron ray which is emitted from the neutron ray source is incident in a direction in which a distance from the neutron ray source to the enclosure is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsushita, Ryota Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10728160
    Abstract: A router includes a content store (CS) that stores content, a packet processing determination unit that determines whether a received interest packet is a best available (BA) interest packet, and an optimum content request processor that if it is determined that the interest packet is a BA interest packet and if the optimum content request processor determines that content having higher quality than the quality of the content stored in the CS can be acquired from an upstream router, on the basis of the quality of the content stored in the CS and constraining conditions of the BA interest packet, forwards the BA interest packet to the upstream router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Takahiro Yoneda, Eiichi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 10680922
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus connected to a content-oriented network includes a transmitter, a receiver, a memory, and a processor. The transmitter transmits an interest packet requesting a plurality of pieces of content. The receiver receives a first data packet including (i) a first piece of content, which is one of the pieces of content, and (ii) first PIT information representing a name of a second piece of content, which is another of the pieces of content and which has not been transmitted from a transmission source. The memory stores a transmission PIT in which names of the pieces of content are registered. The processor registers, in response to transmission of the interest packet, the names of the pieces of content registered in the transmission PIT, and deletes, in response to reception of the first data packet, a name of the first piece of content from the transmission PIT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Takahiro Yoneda, Eiichi Muramoto, Yuki Minoda
  • Patent number: 10665105
    Abstract: A roadside device transmits first detection data obtained by a first sensor to a server. The server extracts an unobservable area that is a blind spot of the first sensor, based on the first detection data, and transmits unobservable-area information indicating the unobservable area to a moving terminal. The moving terminal extracts, based on second detection data obtained by a second sensor, second dynamic information indicating an object that exists in a sensing range of the second sensor, and determines whether or not an overlapping area where the unobservable area indicated by the unobservable-area information and the sensing range of the second sensor overlap each other exists. Upon determining that the overlapping area exists, the moving terminal transmits, to the server, third dynamic information that is included in the second dynamic information and that indicates an object that exists in the overlapping area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Eiichi Muramoto, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryota Ohnishi, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Publication number: 20200074159
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first sensing data from a first sensor that performs sensing of an object outside a vehicle, a presentation control unit that generates presentation information based on the first sensing data and causes a presentation device present in the vehicle to present the presentation information, a second acquisition unit that acquires input data for presentation of the presentation information via an input device present in the vehicle, and a hoarding control unit that controls boarding of a person on the vehicle according to the input data acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota OHNISHI, Hiroaki URABE
  • Patent number: 10567924
    Abstract: A communication method includes generating a packet including the data regarding which the priority has been set beforehand, acquiring channel-used time, calculating channel-usable time based on the channel-used time, calculating a first channel usage estimated time, calculating a wireless transmission rate to be applied when the wireless base station transmits the packet to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, based on the priority of the data included in the packet, to where the first channel usage estimated time is within the channel-usable time, and transmitting the packet, and information indicating the wireless transmission rate, to the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Yuta Shimotsuma, Ryota Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10497265
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an obtainment unit that obtains first blind spot information from an infrastructure system having an infrastructure sensor detecting a surrounding object, the first blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from the infrastructure sensor, and a detection recognizer that generates second blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from an in-vehicle sensor detecting the object. The detection recognizer has a combination unit that outputs common blind spot information indicating a first common blind spot region common to the blind spot regions based on the first blind spot information and the second blind spot information to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Yuta Shimotsuma, Akira Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10397861
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus that is capable of wireless connection with a roadside device is provided. The roadside device is on, above, or below a road. The vehicle-mounted apparatus is on a vehicle and acquires position information broadcast from the roadside device by wireless communication. The position information is about a position of the roadside device. The vehicle-mounted apparatus decides whether individual wireless connection is performed between the roadside device and the vehicle-mounted apparatus based on roadside device information. The roadside device information includes the position information about the position of the roadside device. Connection or disconnection of individual wireless connection is performed between the vehicle-mounted apparatus and the roadside device based on the decision. Periphery information of the roadside device is acquired from the roadside device during the individual wireless connection in response to the individual wireless connection being connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Ryota Ohnishi, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Patent number: 10299154
    Abstract: A communication method includes acquiring information relating to a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, deciding priority of data based on information relating to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, generating a packet including the data regarding which the priority has been decided, acquiring channel-used time, calculating channel-usable time based on the channel-used time, calculating a first channel usage estimated time, calculating a wireless transmission rate to be applied when the wireless base station transmits the packet to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, based on the priority of the data included in the packet, to where the first channel usage estimated time is within the channel-usable time, and transmitting the packet, and information indicating the wireless transmission rate, to the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Akira Ishikawa, Ryota Ohnishi, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Patent number: 10193662
    Abstract: A congestion control method includes determining whether congestion occurs by monitoring a network, receiving an interest packet including a name of content data that is requested to be sent, generating a first NACK packet indicating an occurrence of congestion if it is determined that the congestion occurs when the interest packet is received, and sending the generated first NACK packet to the network. In the generating of the first NACK packet, if first alternative content data which is an alternative of the content data corresponding to a name included in the received interest packet is stored in a cache of the router, information regarding the first alternative content data is set in the first NACK packet. At least one of the determining whether the congestion occurs, the receiving the interest packet, the generating the NACK packet, and the sending the NACK packet is performed by a processor of the router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Takahiro Yoneda, Eiichi Muramoto
  • Publication number: 20180347992
    Abstract: A communication method in a roadside unit that acquires first dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around the roadside unit and second dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around in-vehicle units includes: selecting at least one in-vehicle unit from among the plurality of in-vehicle units on a basis of a list in which the second dynamic information and the in-vehicle units having the second dynamic information are associated with each other; acquiring the first dynamic information indicative of a state around the roadside unit acquired by a sensor mounted in the roadside unit; configurating a dynamic map on a basis of the acquired first dynamic information, the second dynamic information acquired from the selected in-vehicle unit, and a static map indicative of a static object; and transmitting the dynamic map to one or more of the in-vehicle units that communicate with the roadside unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: YUTA SHIMOTSUMA, KAZUNOBU KONISHI, TAKAHIRO YONEDA, RYOTA OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20180336787
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an obtainment unit that obtains first blind spot information from an infrastructure system having an infrastructure sensor detecting a surrounding object, the first blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from the infrastructure sensor, and a detection recognizer that generates second blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from an in-vehicle sensor detecting the object. The detection recognizer has a combination unit that outputs common blind spot information indicating a first common blind spot region common to the blind spot regions based on the first blind spot information and the second blind spot information to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: RYOTA OHNISHI, TAKAHIRO YONEDA, KAZUNOBU KONISHI, YUTA SHIMOTSUMA, AKIRA ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180310242
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus that is capable of wireless connection with a roadside device is provided. The roadside device is on, above, or below a road. The vehicle-mounted apparatus is on a vehicle and acquires position information broadcast from the roadside device by wireless communication. The position information is about a position of the roadside device. The vehicle-mounted apparatus decides whether individual wireless connection is performed between the roadside device and the vehicle-mounted apparatus based on roadside device information. The roadside device information includes the position information about the position of the roadside device. Connection or disconnection of individual wireless connection is performed between the vehicle-mounted apparatus and the roadside device based on the decision. Periphery information of the roadside device is acquired from the roadside device during the individual wireless connection in response to the individual wireless connection being connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, RYOTA OHNISHI, YUTA SHIMOTSUMA