Patents by Inventor Shogo Tanaka

Shogo Tanaka 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: 10986272
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to display a captured image and a shake corrected image thereof on the same screen. An imaging device is provided and has a configuration provided with a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for correcting image shake in a frame image, a shake corrected image generator that generates a shake corrected image in which the image shake is corrected by performing a geometrical conversion with respect to a current frame image based on the correction amount, and a synthesized image generator that generates a synthesized image in which the current frame image and the shake corrected image are disposed on the same screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tabei, Shogo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210027744
    Abstract: An adjustment is performed on input gradation values, and 1st-stage gradation values are obtained. When a color expressed by a set of the input gradation values is a single color of any one of R, G, and B, the 1st-stage gradation value is set to 0. Further, correction is performed for R, G, and B according to one-dimensional lookup tables, respectively, and correction is performed for W according to one-dimensional lookup tables. Further, a contribution amount of the gradation values obtained through correction of the former and the gradation values obtained through correction of the latter to output gradation values is changed according to a color expressed by a set of the 1st-stage gradation values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Kazuhiro ISHIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10863092
    Abstract: Imaging device has a configuration provided with: a primary correction amount calculator that calculates a primary correction amount for correcting image shake in a current frame image based on a physical shake amount of the imaging device; a secondary correction amount calculator that calculates a secondary correction amount for correcting a search shake amount between the current frame image and a previous frame image which is one frame image before the current frame image; a correction amount selector that selects at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount based on at least one of an imaging condition and the primary correction amount; and an image converter that performs a geometrical conversion with respect to the current frame image based on at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount which is selected by the correction amount selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kenji Tabei
  • Patent number: 10825158
    Abstract: Provided is a color camera that captures using environmental light, a monochrome camera that captures using infrared light, a signal processing unit that processes a signal of a color image output from the color camera and a signal of a monochrome image output from the monochrome camera, a storage unit that stores alignment information generated from a color image and a monochrome image captured in a state of sufficient environmental light, an alignment unit that performs an alignment based on alignment information to match positions of a subject shown in a color image and a monochrome image captured in a state of insufficient environmental light, and an image synthesis unit that acquires color information from the aligned color image and performs color conversion to colorize the monochrome image using the color information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kenji Tabei
  • Patent number: 10759249
    Abstract: A vehicle-height control system including a tank, a compressor, an actuator, and a valve between the tank and the compressor. The valve is closed to a state of a pressure medium supplier to the compressor-pressure supply state when a tank pressure has reached a threshold in a tank-pressure supply state in which the tank pressure is supplied to the actuator. In the compressor-pressure supply state, the tank pressure is kept at the threshold, and a pressure in the actuator is greater than the tank pressure. The threshold makes it difficult for a pressure differential in the valve to become greater than a valve-opening pressure differential, making it difficult for the valve to be opened in the compressor-pressure supply state. This system enables good supply of a pressure medium from the compressor to the actuator, avoiding a longer time for vehicle height control and achieving a shorter compressor operation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Ohashi, Jun Tokumitsu, Ryo Kanda, Shogo Tanaka, Masaaki Oishi
  • Patent number: 10744840
    Abstract: A vehicle height control system includes a fluid feeder and a vehicle height control unit. The vehicle height control unit includes a communication control unit. In a first communication state, a high-pressure source and a common passage are made to communicate with each other via the first passage and the second passage. In a second communication state, the first passage is shut off and the high-pressure source and the common passage are made to communicate with each other via the second passage. The communication control unit selects one from among the plurality of communication states based on at least one of a content of a start condition, a target vehicle height of a height increasing control and a number of wheels to be controlled in the height increasing control, when the start condition of the height increasing control is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Hideki Ohashi, Jun Tokumitsu, Ryo Kanda, Ken Ogue, Hirokazu Shiozaki, Tomoyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200186716
    Abstract: Imaging device has a configuration provided with: a primary correction amount calculator that calculates a primary correction amount for correcting image shake in a current frame image based on a physical shake amount of the imaging device; a secondary correction amount calculator that calculates a secondary correction amount for correcting a search shake amount between the current frame image and a previous frame image which is one frame image before the current frame image; a correction amount selector that selects at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount based on at least one of an imaging condition and the primary correction amount; and an image converter that performs a geometrical conversion with respect to the current frame image based on at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount which is selected by the correction amount selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Kenji TABEI
  • Patent number: 10669961
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine comprises an air-fuel ratio control device controlling an air-fuel ratio of the inflowing exhaust gas to a target air-fuel ratio. If a first judged condition wherein an estimated amount of change of an oxygen storage amount of the catalyst when the target air-fuel ratio is maintained at the first set air-fuel ratio is equal to or greater than a first reference amount, and a second judged condition wherein a difference of an air-fuel ratio detected by the upstream side air-fuel ratio sensor and a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio is equal to or greater than a difference of a second judged air-fuel ratio and a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio are satisfied, the air-fuel ratio control device switches the target air-fuel ratio from the first set air-fuel ratio to the second set air-fuel ratio when the first judged condition and second judged condition are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Inoshita, Shogo Tanaka, Norihisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10641146
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system comprises a catalyst 20, an upstream side air-fuel ratio sensor 40, a downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor 41, and an air-fuel ratio control device. The air-fuel ratio control device alternately switches a target air-fuel ratio between a rich set air-fuel ratio and a lean set air-fuel ratio, calculates an oxygen storage amount and an oxygen discharge amount, updates a learning value, and corrects an air-fuel ratio-related parameter based on the learning value. The air-fuel ratio control device changes a condition for switching the target air-fuel, stores the learning value at the time when the operating state of the internal combustion engine changes from the first state to the second state as a first state value, and updates the learning value to the first state value when the operating state of the internal combustion engine returns from the second state to the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Inoshita, Shogo Tanaka, Norihisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10634027
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system comprises an air-fuel ratio control device. If the air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor 41 reaches a second judged air-fuel ratio, the air-fuel ratio control device sets the target air-fuel ratio to a third set air-fuel ratio when the air-fuel ratio reaches the second judged air-fuel ratio, and switch the target air-fuel ratio from the third set air-fuel ratio to the second set air-fuel ratio when the air-fuel ratio becomes a value at the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio side from the second judged air-fuel ratio. The first set air-fuel ratio, the first judged air-fuel ratio and the second judged air-fuel ratio are an air-fuel ratio in the first region. The second set air-fuel ratio and the third set air-fuel ratio are an air-fuel ratio in a second region at an opposite side from the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kenji Inoshita, Norihisa Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20200072114
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system of the internal combustion engine, is provided with: an exhaust purification catalyst having a catalytic function; a particulate filter arranged at a downstream side from the exhaust purification catalyst; an oxygen feed device feeding gas containing oxygen into exhaust gas flowing into the particulate filter; a detection device detecting a concentration of ammonia in exhaust gas flowing out from the particulate filter; and a control device. The control device controls the oxygen feed device so as to feed oxygen from the oxygen feed device to the particulate filter if a temperature of the exhaust purification catalyst is equal to or greater than an activation temperature and an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas is a rich air-fuel ratio, and estimates the amount of deposition of particulate matter on the particulate filter based on the output of the detection device when feeding oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Norihisa NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200063630
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes an exhaust gas control catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage, a filter disposed downstream of the catalyst, a secondary air supply device configured to supply secondary air into exhaust gas flowing into the filter at a location downstream of the catalyst in an exhaust gas flow direction, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when a temperature of the catalyst is higher than or equal to an activation temperature and an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas emitted from an engine body is a rich air-fuel ratio, cause the supply device to supply secondary air into exhaust gas while periodically increasing or reducing the air such that the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the filter alternately varies between rich and lean air-fuel ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Norihisa NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200068130
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to display a captured image and a shake corrected image thereof on the same screen. An imaging device is provided and has a configuration provided with a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for correcting image shake in a frame image, a shake corrected image generator that generates a shake corrected image in which the image shake is corrected by performing a geometrical conversion with respect to a current frame image based on the correction amount, and a synthesized image generator that generates a synthesized image in which the current frame image and the shake corrected image are disposed on the same screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji TABEI, Shogo TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200029016
    Abstract: The present application is provided with: a color camera that captures a monitoring area using environmental light, a monochrome camera that captures the monitoring area using infrared light, and a signal processor that processes a signal of a color image output from the color camera and a signal of a monochrome image output from the monochrome camera, in which the signal processor includes: a resolution converter that reduces the number of pixels in the color image by adding a signal value of each of a plurality of adjacent pixels in the color image, a signal level detector that detects the signal level of the color image, and a signal processing controller that controls an operation of the resolution converter based on the signal level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Kenji TABEI
  • Publication number: 20190385291
    Abstract: Provided is a color camera that captures using environmental light, a monochrome camera that captures using infrared light, a signal processing unit that processes a signal of a color image output from the color camera and a signal of a monochrome image output from the monochrome camera, a storage unit that stores alignment information generated from a color image and a monochrome image captured in a state of sufficient environmental light, an alignment unit that performs an alignment based on alignment information to match positions of a subject shown in a color image and a monochrome image captured in a state of insufficient environmental light, and an image synthesis unit that acquires color information from the aligned color image and performs color conversion to colorize the monochrome image using the color information
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo TANAKA, Kenji TABEI
  • Patent number: 10471949
    Abstract: With a motor in rotation, 0 is set as each of a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command, and offset learning is carried out. Then, in carrying out offset learning, a transmission is controlled such that a shift stage of the transmission falls within a low vehicle speed-side predetermined shift stage range. Thus, the rotational speed of the motor can be more reliably made high to a certain extent, and offset learning can be carried out. As a result, the accuracy of offset learning can be restrained from decreasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoji Sato, Masayuki Baba, Shogo Tanaka, Takuya Shimaji
  • Patent number: 10449820
    Abstract: A vehicle-height control system includes: a fluid supply and discharge device including a compressor device and a tank storing fluid pressurized by the compressor device; a vehicle-height control actuator corresponding to a wheel and connected to the fluid supply and discharge device; a vehicle height controller that controls a vehicle height for the wheel by controlling the fluid supply and discharge device to control supply and discharge of fluid to and from the vehicle-height control actuator; a tank pressure controller that controls a tank pressure; and a fluid supply controller that supplies the fluid to a low pressure portion by controlling the fluid supply and discharge device at start and/or termination of at least one of control executed by the vehicle height controller and control executed by the tank pressure controller. The low pressure portion is at least a portion of the fluid supply and discharge device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuhide Iyoda, Takayuki Tachi, Hideki Ohashi, Katsuyuki Sano, Jun Tokumitsu, Ryo Kanda, Shogo Tanaka, Masao Ikeya, Masaaki Oishi
  • Patent number: 10384508
    Abstract: A vehicle-height control system is configured to control a vehicle height for a wheel. The vehicle-height control system includes: a vehicle-height control actuator provided so as to correspond to the wheel; a pressure-medium supply and discharge device configured to supply and discharge a pressure medium to and from the vehicle-height control actuator; and a vehicle height controller configured to control the vehicle height for the wheel by controlling the pressure-medium supply and discharge device based on an inside temperature and an outside-air temperature to control at least one of supply and discharge of the pressure medium to and from the vehicle-height control actuator. The inside temperature is a temperature in the vehicle-height control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Ohashi, Katsuyuki Sano, Jun Tokumitsu, Ryo Kanda, Shogo Tanaka, Masaaki Oishi, Ken Ogue, Masakazu Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20190176562
    Abstract: A vehicle-height control system including a tank, a compressor, an actuator, and a valve between the tank and the compressor. The valve is closed to a state of a pressure medium supplier to the compressor-pressure supply state when a tank pressure has reached a threshold in a tank-pressure supply state in which the tank pressure is supplied to the actuator. In the compressor-pressure supply state, the tank pressure is kept at the threshold, and a pressure in the actuator is greater than the tank pressure. The threshold makes it difficult for a pressure differential in the valve to become greater than a valve-opening pressure differential, making it difficult for the valve to be opened in the compressor-pressure supply state. This system enables good supply of a pressure medium from the compressor to the actuator, avoiding a longer time for vehicle height control and achieving a shorter compressor operation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki OHASHI, Jun TOKUMITSU, Ryo KANDA, Shogo TANAKA, Masaaki OISHI
  • Patent number: 10291859
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging section including an imaging sensor section of a rolling shutter system, a condition designator that sets an imaging condition using first auxiliary light which is non-visible light as an imaging condition for the imaging section and an imaging condition using visible light with the first auxiliary light as non-emitted light, and alternately designates the imaging condition and a light emission condition of the first auxiliary light at a cycle of at least two frames in a time division basis, a first light emitter that emits the first auxiliary light according to the light emission condition; and an image composer that composes a non-visible light image captured by the imaging section under the imaging condition using the first auxiliary light during a first period in which the first auxiliary light is emitted and a visible light image captured by the imaging section under the imaging condition using the visible light during a second period subsequent to the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Tanaka, Kenji Tabei