Patents by Inventor Takamitsu Sakai
Takamitsu Sakai 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).
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Publication number: 20240171521Abstract: A signal transfer device according to an embodiment receives a plurality of signals including an aperiodic signal having a higher priority than other signals, respectively holds the plurality of received signals by a plurality of buffers according to the priority, acquires signal information including at least one of a time at which the aperiodic signal is transmitted or received and a data length of the aperiodic signal, predicts a timing at which the aperiodic signal arrives at the buffer based on the acquired signal information, sets reservation of a period for transmitting the aperiodic signal with priority over other signals based on the predicted timing, controls the plurality of buffers to output the aperiodic signal with priority over other signals in the period in which the reservation is set, and transmits the signal output by the buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Takamitsu TOCHINO, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Keita Takahashi, Yoshihito SAKAI
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Patent number: 11787287Abstract: Vehicle drive assist systems, methods, and programs display an alert image superimposed on a real view on a display. The systems, methods and programs determine a blind spot area, the blind spot area being an area that becomes a blind spot of a driver of a vehicle due to a front obstacle present on a front side in a traveling direction of the vehicle. The alert image is displayed such that the alert image is superimposed on a target point, the target point being a point where traveling of the vehicle is likely to be influenced when there is a moving obstacle jumping out of the blind spot area.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventor: Takamitsu Sakai
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Publication number: 20230281746Abstract: There is provided a system that reduces a possibility of concurrence of cargo handling. A delivery assistance system includes a delivery destination information obtaining part that obtains delivery destination information including goods to be delivered, for each of a plurality of delivery destinations; a base information obtaining part that obtains base information including locations of a plurality of bases from which delivery vehicles that deliver the goods depart, and processing abilities of the delivery vehicles for the respective bases; and a delivery plan creating part that creates, based on the delivery destination information and the base information, delivery plans in which the delivery vehicles for the respective bases do not simultaneously perform cargo handling at the same delivery destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Takamitsu SAKAI, Tomonori SUGIURA, Yuichi KURIWAKI, Mitsunori MATSUO
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Publication number: 20200406747Abstract: Vehicle drive assist systems, methods, and programs display an alert image superimposed on a real view on a display. The systems, methods and programs determine a blind spot area, the blind spot area being an area that becomes a blind spot of a driver of a vehicle due to a front obstacle present on a front side in a traveling direction of the vehicle. The alert image is displayed such that the alert image is superimposed on a target point, the target point being a point where traveling of the vehicle is likely to be influenced when there is a moving obstacle jumping out of the blind spot area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamitsu SAKAI
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Patent number: 10878256Abstract: Travel assistance devices and programs obtain a captured image that captures a surrounding environment of a vehicle by an imaging device having a start point of a driver's line of sight and an optical axis corresponding to a driver's line-of-sight direction. The devices and programs identify, based on the captured image and map information of an area around the vehicle, a location where a connecting road is present in the captured image. The connecting road is a road connecting to a traveling road of the vehicle at a divergence point present around the vehicle. The devices and programs determine driver's visibility of the connecting road based on a positional relationship between the location of the connecting road and a location of an obstacle present around the vehicle in the captured image and output a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu Sakai, Nozomi Jimbo, Tomoaki Hirota
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Publication number: 20200307617Abstract: Vehicle driving assistance systems, methods, and programs display an alert image superimposed on a real view on a display. The alert image is an image having a region indicating a call for attention based on a course of a dynamic obstacle, the dynamic obstacle being one or a plurality of moving obstacles. The region indicating the call for attention varies depending on a likelihood of the course of the dynamic obstacle changing due to presence of another obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu SAKAI, Ryosuke TOBUCHI
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Publication number: 20200284605Abstract: Vehicle driving assistance systems, methods, and programs display a recommended driving marking superimposed on a real view on a display. The recommended driving marking includes (i) a recommended route marking representing a recommended route, the recommended route being a traveling route with a relatively low likelihood of interference with one or a plurality of obstacles present in a traveling direction of a vehicle; and (ii) a recommended speed marking representing a recommended speed index, the recommended speed index being an index related to a travel speed recommended when the vehicle travels the recommended route. The recommended route marking and the recommended speed marking are displayed so as to be associated with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamitsu SAKAI
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Patent number: 10733462Abstract: Travel assistance devices and programs identify a connecting road present in a driver's field of vision and having driver's visibility lower than a threshold among connecting roads. The connecting roads are roads connecting to a traveling road of a vehicle at a divergence point present around the vehicle. The devices and programs provide guidance informing of presence of an invisible road that is the identified connecting road.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu Sakai, Tomoaki Hirota
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Publication number: 20200118433Abstract: A drive assistance system receives predicted future actions taken by each of a vehicle and another vehicle, based on vehicle information obtained by each of the vehicle and the other vehicle, determines, based on the predicted future actions by the vehicle and the other vehicle, whether the future action by the other vehicle influences the future action by the vehicle; and transmits information causing display of the future action by the other vehicle having been determined to influence the future action by the vehicle, such that the future action by the other vehicle is caused to be displayed superimposed on a real viewType: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamitsu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20190344803Abstract: Travel assistance devices and programs identify a connecting road present in a driver's field of vision and having driver's visibility lower than a threshold among connecting roads. The connecting roads are roads connecting to a traveling road of a vehicle at a divergence point present around the vehicle. The devices and programs provide guidance informing of presence of an invisible road that is the identified connecting road.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu SAKAI, Tomoaki HIROTA
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Publication number: 20190251374Abstract: Travel assistance devices and programs obtain a captured image that captures a surrounding environment of a mobile unit and obtain, as a map information image, a map image that three-dimensionally represents a map and that represents a same range as an image capturing range of the captured image from a same direction as an image capturing direction of the captured image. The devices and programs extract a risk factor based on learning data by inputting the captured image and the map information image to machine learning as input images with a plurality of channels. The risk factor is present in the surrounding environment of the mobile unit and is not included in the captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu SAKAI, Tomoaki HIROTA
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Publication number: 20190197323Abstract: Travel assistance devices and programs obtain a captured image that captures a surrounding environment of a vehicle by an imaging device having a start point of a driver's line of sight and an optical axis corresponding to a driver's line-of-sight direction. The devices and programs identify, based on the captured image and map information of an area around the vehicle, a location where a connecting road is present in the captured image. The connecting road is a road connecting to a traveling road of the vehicle at a divergence point present around the vehicle. The devices and programs determine driver's visibility of the connecting road based on a positional relationship between the location of the connecting road and a location of an obstacle present around the vehicle in the captured image and output a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu SAKAI, Nozomi JIMBO, Tomoaki HIROTA
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Patent number: 8370059Abstract: A display is divided into two regions, a standard region and an enlarged region with a user positioned is at an angle relative to the display. The standard region is formed on a side nearer the user and the enlarged region is formed on a side farther from the user. When the navigation device displays guidance information, information displayed in the standard region is displayed on a standard scale, while information displayed in the enlarged region is displayed enlarged relative to the standard scale. Since the display on the side farther from the user position is thus enlarged, the user can more easily view that guidance information.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takamitsu Sakai
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Publication number: 20110285649Abstract: Information display devices, methods, and programs display an image on a display screen. The devices, methods, and programs determine the number of fingers pressing the display screen, detect a pressed coordinate position pressed by at least one of the fingers pressing the display screen, and detect a movement direction and a movement speed of the detected pressed coordinate position just before the at least one finger terminates the pressing of the display screen. The devices, methods, and programs set a scroll speed of the displayed image based on the detected movement direction, the detected movement speed, and the determined number of fingers, and scroll the displayed image based on the set scroll speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi OGAWA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Takamitsu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20110153661Abstract: A navigation device that is provided with reference databases that include search databases that are referenced when the navigation device performs a location search for a location on a map, that accepts provided update data, and that performs update processing for the reference databases is provided with a priority processing unit that, in a case where a command to perform the location search is input during the update processing for the reference databases, gives priority to performing the update processing for location data that are stored in the search databases, as well as with a search unit that, after the update processing for the location data is completed by the priority processing unit, is enabled to perform the location search using the updated location data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamitsu Sakai, Masaru Ohashi, Seiji Takahata, Tomofumi Shibata, Mitsuhiro Naito, Tetsuo Kumagai, Toru Sakai, Hiroyoshi Masuda
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Publication number: 20110074714Abstract: In an information display device, a touch panel is provided in front of a display part and detects a drag operation. A function execution unit executes a predetermined function according to the drag operation. A touched-point number determination unit determines the number of touched points in the drag operation detected by the touch panel. A function control unit changes a control parameter of the predetermined function to be executed by the function execution unit according to the number of touched points determined by the touched-point number determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi OGAWA, Kazuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Takamitsu SAKAI
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Publication number: 20100332130Abstract: A vehicle navigation apparatus determines whether or not the currently traveled route having a current vehicle position matches with estimated routes after determining, on the basis of the traveled route history, the estimated routes which correspond to destination candidates. Then, the navigation apparatus further determines whether or not the subsequent portion of the estimated route overlaps with other estimated route, for selecting one of the destination candidates. The vehicle navigation apparatus thus selects the destination candidate, in a highly accurate manner in terms of user preference, based on the traveled route history.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimizu, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Kazutaka Yoshikawa, Tomofumi Shibata, Takamitsu Sakai, Nobuhiro Mizuno
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Publication number: 20090248219Abstract: A device that enables a vehicle to be moved when a disaster occurs includes a forced engine start unit and a constraint unit. When it is detected that the vehicle has stopped after a disaster detection signal is received, the position where the vehicle has stopped is stored. Thereafter, the forced engine start unit enables the engine of the vehicle to be started by a start switch, without using an ignition key. The constraint unit restricts the moving of the vehicle by the forced engine start unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAUCHI, Takamitsu SAKAI, Takaaki NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20090150065Abstract: Search devices, methods, and programs input a plurality of search terms that are associated with search objects and set a search condition for the input search terms. The devices, methods, and programs calculate an approximate number of the search objects that correspond to the set search condition and output the search objects that correspond to the set search condition as search results. The devices, methods, and programs display the calculated approximate number of the search objects until the search results are output. One or more of the output search objects may be used as a destination by a navigation device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kawauchi, Takamitsu Sakai
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Publication number: 20090043493Abstract: A display is divided into two regions, a standard region and an enlarged region with a user positioned is at an angle relative to the display. The standard region is formed on a side nearer the user and the enlarged region is formed on a side farther from the user. When the navigation device displays guidance information, information displayed in the standard region is displayed on a standard scale, while information displayed in the enlarged region is displayed enlarged relative to the standard scale. Since the display on the side farther from the user position is thus enlarged, the user can more easily view that guidance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamitsu Sakai