Patents by Inventor Takahiro Kudoh

Takahiro Kudoh 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: 7885761
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7885762
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7869942
    Abstract: A travel plan presenting apparatus includes: a travel history accumulation unit (109) which accumulates, in association with a date and time, pieces of travel history information regarding a travel of the mobile object from a departure place to an arrival place; a travel pattern extracting unit (112) which extracts at least one travel pattern from the pieces of travel history information and generates travel patterns in each of which an order of arrival places other than the final arrival place included in a corresponding one of the extracted travel patterns; a travel plan calculating unit (113) which calculates estimated arrival times at each of the arrival places in the travel patterns extracted and generated by the travel pattern extracting unit (112); and a display processing unit (114) which generates display information for displaying the estimated arrival time for each travel pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Naito, Takahiro Kudoh, Takashi Tajima
  • Publication number: 20100262362
    Abstract: A travel plan presenting apparatus includes: a travel history accumulation unit (109) which accumulates, in association with a date and time, pieces of travel history information regarding a travel of the mobile object from a departure place to an arrival place; a travel pattern extracting unit (112) which extracts at least one travel pattern from the pieces of travel history information and generates travel patterns in each of which an order of arrival places other than the final arrival place included in a corresponding one of the extracted travel patterns; a travel plan calculating unit (113) which calculates estimated arrival times at each of the arrival places in the travel patterns extracted and generated by the travel pattern extracting unit (112); and a display processing unit (114) which generates display information for displaying the estimated arrival time for each travel pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Eiichi Naito, Takahiro Kudoh, Takashi Tajima
  • Publication number: 20100161213
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100161208
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation apparatus operable to, in route guidance using a photographed image, dynamically set a frequency of updating a guide arrow in accordance with circumstances. The navigation apparatus performs the route guidance by displaying the photographed image, comprising: a searching section (7) for searching a route from a current position to a destination; and a drawing section (11) for displaying the guide arrow which indicates the route searched by the searching section (7) such that the guide arrow is superimposed on the photographed image, wherein the drawing section (11) dynamically sets a frequency of updating a display of the guide arrow based on a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi Akita, Takahiro Kudoh, Tsuyoshi Kindo
  • Publication number: 20100153000
    Abstract: A navigation system generating a display which enables an intuitive and instant grasp of a distance to a guide point (such as a guide target intersection) is provided. The navigation system displays an object on a route between the vicinity of a vehicle position and the guide point, and includes a object display control section (9) which calculates a distance from an arbitrary point on the route between the vehicle position and the guide point to the guide point, and sets a mode for displaying the object in accordance with the distance from the arbitrary position on the route to the guide point. The object display control section (9) sets, for example, a display color, a pattern, or a shape of the object in accordance with the distance from the arbitrary point on the route to the guide point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi Akita, Takahiro Kudoh, Tsuyoshi Kindo, Takuya Hirai
  • Patent number: 7729518
    Abstract: A biometrics authentication device, which uses blood vessel images of a human body to perform individual authentication, performs verification processing according to a detected body temperature. A temperature sensor, which detects the temperature of a body, is provided in a blood vessel image capture device. The temperature at the time of registration of a blood vessel image is stored together with the blood vessel image, and the temperature of the body at the time of use (at the time of verification) is detected; the temperature difference at the time of registration and at the time of use is reflected in the verification processing, and when there is a verification error, the cause of the verification error is judged from the temperatures at the time of registration and at the time of use. Whether a verification error is due to temperature can be easily distinguished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Awatsu, Masanori Ohkoshi, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Publication number: 20100042317
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100036601
    Abstract: To provide a destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination more accurately than before. A destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination of a mobile object includes: a stay characteristic accumulating unit (103) in which stay characteristic information indicating a time period when the mobile object will likely stay at a predetermined point is accumulated; a travel time calculating unit (104) which calculates a travel time in the case where the mobile object heads from a current location obtained by a current point obtaining unit (101) to the point; and a destination predicting unit (106) which calculates an estimated arrival time based on a current time obtained by a current time obtaining unit (105) and the calculated travel time and predicts the point as a destination only when a condition that the calculated estimated arrival time and a time period indicated by the stay characteristic information is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Jun Ozawa, Takashi Tajima, Mototaka Yoshioka, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Publication number: 20090319176
    Abstract: Provided is a destination-prediction apparatus that predicts a destination with increased accuracy than using a conventional technique. The destination-prediction apparatus comprises a candidate-destination selecting unit (112) that selects and orders a plurality of candidate destinations, a drawing processing unit (117) that displays the selected candidate destinations according to the ordering, a rule setting unit (130) that sets a rule that a moving object moves to the candidate destination at a constant frequency during a certain unit period, a unit-period frequency accumulating unit (115) that determines actual frequency at which the moving object has moved to the candidate destination during the unit period, and a actual-frequency judging unit (116) that judges whether or not the actual frequency reaches trip frequency included in the rule. The drawing processing unit (117) displays the candidate destinations, reflecting a result of the judgment that the actual frequency satisfies the rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Takahiro Kudoh, Eiichi Naito
  • Patent number: 7636627
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Publication number: 20090312946
    Abstract: A travel history editing device in the present invention includes: a position information detecting unit (101) detecting position information regarding the vehicle; a map information accumulation unit (104) which accumulates pre-registered position information and name information regarding the position information; an arrival point name providing unit (115), assuming an engine shut-down position of the vehicle to be detected by the position information detecting unit (101) as an arrival point, reading out a name of the facility from the map information accumulation unit (104), and providing the name of the facility for the arrival point in the case where the arrival point corresponds to the position of the facility, and reading out the other kind of name information from the map information accumulation unit (104), and providing the other kind of name information for the arrival point in the case where the arrival point does not correspond to the position of the facility; an arrival point history accumulatio
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Mototaka Yoshioka, Jun Ozawa, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Publication number: 20090271105
    Abstract: A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: display means (105) for displaying map information stored in a map database (101); search means (108) for calculating travel time information regarding a travel time to an arbitrary point accessible from a reference point; and time information drawing means (109) for displaying the travel time information in a superimposed manner on the display means (105) by varying a display form in accordance with the scale of a map and/or with the running state of a user's vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kindo, Takahiro Kudoh, Takashi Akita
  • Publication number: 20090262145
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an information display device for presenting, to a user, a correspondence between a position in an actual landscape and a position on a map image. In an information display device (IDA, IDAr), a photographed image acquisition section (1) acquires a photographed image (IC), a map information storage section (4) stores map information (IG) so as to generate a map image (IM), an image display section (7, 8) displays the photographed image (IC) and the map image (IM), an input section (6) designates at least one structure (Rc/Rg) which is displayed in either the photographed image (IC) or the map image (IM) based on an operation performed by the user, and a structure correspondence acquisition section (5) acquires a correspondence (ICb) between the designated structure displayed in either the photographed image (IC) or the map image (IM) and a structure displayed in the other image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Akita, Takahiro Kudoh, Tsuyoshi Kindo
  • Publication number: 20090240426
    Abstract: A navigation device and the like capable of preventing a user from falsely recognizing an intersection to take a turn even when another intersection is present near a guidance target intersection. The navigation device that performs route navigation by displaying a guiding symbol superimposed on a photographed image includes: an adjacent intersection detection unit that calculates a distance between a guidance target intersection and an intersection adjacent to the guidance target intersection; and a guidance display control unit that controls guidance details to be displayed. The guidance display control unit sets timing for indicating a path to be taken at the guidance target intersection by using the guiding symbol based on the distance between intersections calculated by the adjacent intersection detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Akita, Takahiro Kudoh, Tsuyoshi Kindo
  • Publication number: 20090132162
    Abstract: A navigation device is provided, which at a junction such as an intersection point, and the like, offers to a driver an appropriate image of the vicinity of the junction which is required in turning right or left, and the like. A route search section (102) searches for a route leading to a set destination. An imaging regulation setting section (107) determines an imaging regulation of an imaging section (109) at a junction which exists on the searched route. A distance calculation section (104) calculates a distance between a position of a vehicle and the junction. A control section (108) changes an image to be shown in an output device according to the calculated distance based on the determined imaging regulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Takahiro Kudoh, Tsuyoshi Kindo, Takashi Akita
  • Publication number: 20090132161
    Abstract: In a navigation device for providing a guide from an origin to a destination, a display section (5) displays a guide image indicating the guide to the destination. A state acquisition section (10) acquires a state outside a vehicle. A photographed guide generation section (9) generates a photographed guide image, using a photographed image of a captured forward direction of the vehicle. A map guide generation section (8) generates a map guide image, using map information. Based on the state outside the vehicle acquired by the state acquisition section (10), a state determination section (11) determines which one of the photographed guide image and the map guide image is to be displayed by priority. Based on the determination made by the state determination section (11), a guide display control section (12) allows the guide image including at least one of the photographed guide image and the map guide image to be displayed in the display section (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Akita, Takahiro Kudoh, Tsuyoshi Kindo
  • Patent number: 7508957
    Abstract: A biometrics authentication device uses biometrics information for individual authentication, and securely registers biometrics information for an authorized agent other than the principal. Biometrics information for the principal, registered in an IC card, is verified against biometrics information detected by a detection unit, and when biometrics authentication of the principal is satisfactory, biometrics information registration for an authorized agent is performed using the detection unit. Biometrics information for the authorized agent can be registered securely in the card in which is registered the biometrics information for the principal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Awatsu, Takahiro Kudoh, Masashi Sano, Masanori Ohkoshi
  • Patent number: 7508958
    Abstract: A biometrics authentication device uses biometrics information to perform individual authentication, and securely registers biometrics information for an authorized agent other than the principal. Within an IC card, registered biometrics information of a principal is verified against biometrics information detected by a detection unit, and when biometrics authentication of the principal is satisfactory, access is permitted to modify data for an authorized agent in the IC card, so that biometrics information for the authorized agent can be securely modified in a card in which is registered biometrics information for the principal. Similarly, illicit modification access of a card in which is registered biometrics information of the principal by a person impersonating an authorized agent can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Awatsu, Takahiro Kudoh, Masashi Sano, Masanori Ohkoshi