Patents by Inventor Satoshi Otsuka

Satoshi Otsuka 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: 11985291
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20240149773
    Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAKU, Atsushi KUSANO, Hiroyuki NUMAJIRI, Satoshi FUJITA, Takako MIYOSHI, Munetaka KOWA, Ryuichiro HIROSE, Yoshikazu ITO, Yosuke HIGASHI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Ryosuke SATO, Kento UETAKE, Yasuharu OTSUKA, Satoru KANEDA
  • Patent number: 11975662
    Abstract: The wire harness 11 disclosed by the present specification includes: a sheet-shaped base member 12; and a plurality of covered electric wires W fixed side by side along the base member 12, in which the transverse cross-sectional area of at least one of the plurality of covered electric wires W is different from the transverse cross-sectional area of another covered electric wire W, and the thickness of the covered electric wire W is substantially the same as the thickness of the covered electric wire W adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Makoto Higashikozono, Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Toyoki Furukawa, Hayato Ooi, Hirotaka Kato
  • Patent number: 11958385
    Abstract: A seat includes a seat body and a sensor configured to acquired information on an occupant seated on the seat body. The seat includes a coating as a location marker that marks a location of the sensor to render the location visually recognizable from outside the seat body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Ryuichiro Hirose, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Atsushi Kusano, Yoshikazu Ito, Yousuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake, Yasuharu Otsuka, Satoru Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11932147
    Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Atsushi Kusano, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Ryuichiro Hirose, Yoshikazu Ito, Yosuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake, Yasuharu Otsuka, Satoru Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20240053766
    Abstract: The problem of ensuring safety and work efficiency for the actions of a control target is addressed in an environment in which different types of control systems coexist. A safety control server controls the actions of respective control targets in differing systems and includes an action adjustment unit that, for each control target of differing control systems, outputs to a control target an action adjustment instruction for adjusting the action of that control target when a contention occurs in which the action of that control target deviates from an assumed control result. An action plan adjustment unit, when the adjustment of the action satisfies a prescribed condition, adjusts an action plan indicating an action rule for achieving a function and avoiding a contention in a control target; and a safety rule adjustment unit adjusts a safety rule indicating an action rule for avoiding a contention in the control target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuyasu KANEKAWA, Junya TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OTSUKA, Hiroyuki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240048794
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20230409176
    Abstract: A safety design support system includes a display control unit that causes a display means to display main function design information in which items related to a main function of a product to be designed are hierarchically ordered, and safety design information in which items related to safety design of the product are hierarchically ordered. In accordance with change or addition of an item of the main function design information, the change or addition being made by a user's input operation, the display control unit causes the display means to display instruction information that prompts the user to carry out a next input operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Natsumi WATANABE, Masaya ITOH, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Satoshi OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11831945
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20230322261
    Abstract: An autonomous travel control system having a vehicle control system that is mounted in a vehicle and that controls automatic driving of the vehicle, and a safety monitoring system for monitoring a field F, are connected so as to enable communication. The safety monitoring system is provided with: a monitoring processing unit for recognizing an object and creating outside world recognition information; a reception unit for receiving automatic driving control information transmitted from the vehicle control system; a verification unit for verifying, on the basis of the outside world recognition information, the safety of the automatic driving control information received by the reception unit; and a transmission unit for transmitting the result of the verification by the verification unit to the vehicle control system. The vehicle control system controls automatic driving of the vehicle on the basis of the verification result transmitted by the safety monitoring system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi OTSUKA, Tasuku ISHIGOOKA
  • Patent number: 11763035
    Abstract: A software management device capable of converting a term used in a model and an abstraction level thereof. The software management device includes an input unit that inputs a target model, a storage unit that hierarchically stores functions and/or names constituting the model, and an in-model name replacement unit that selects a corresponding function and/or name from the storage unit according to the input model input from the input unit, and replaces a function and/or a name in the input model with the selected function and/or name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Maehama, Fumio Narisawa, Satoshi Otsuka, Kazuyoshi Serizawa
  • Publication number: 20230283754
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20230267837
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic control system capable of ensuring safety even when an autonomous mobile body, a manned mobile body, or a pedestrian has committed a safety rule violation. This traffic control system comprises a mobile body, an infrastructure sensor that monitors the mobile body and a pedestrian within a field, and a safety monitoring device that communicates wirelessly with the mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Tasuku ISHIGOOKA, Satoshi OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11659152
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20220368880
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 11438567
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20220272404
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11372442
    Abstract: In the present invention, control feasibility in a vehicle control system architecture is efficiently determined by performing determination based on control feasibility in a physical element based on a converted parameter when a logical architecture is arranged in a physical architecture. The present invention includes: an arrangement unit 101 that arranges a logical architecture 601, which includes a linkage of each of logical functions and an execution time constraint of the linkage, in a physical architecture 300; a delay time calculation unit 104 that calculates a processing delay time based on a converted parameter when the logical architecture 601 is arranged in the physical architecture 300; and a verification unit 102 that verifies whether a total of the processing delay time satisfies the execution time constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Kohei Sakurai, Fumio Narisawa
  • Patent number: 11363326
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20220035954
    Abstract: The present invention provides a software management device capable of converting a term used in a model and an abstraction level thereof. A software management device 1 includes: an input unit 2 that inputs a target model; a storage unit 3 that hierarchically stores functions and/or names constituting the model; and an in-model name replacement unit 6 that selects a corresponding function and/or name from the storage unit 3 according to the input model input from the input unit 2, and replaces a function and/or a name in the input model with the selected function and/or name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki MAEHAMA, Fumio NARISAWA, Satoshi OTSUKA, Kazuyoshi SERIZAWA