Patents by Inventor Takaya Tanaka

Takaya 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: 11993344
    Abstract: A bicycle electric component comprises a wireless communicator, a casing, and an electromagnetic shield. The wireless communicator is configured to receive a wireless signal. The casing has an internal space. The wireless communicator is disposed in the internal space of the casing. The electromagnetic shield includes a shield member to cover at least a part of the wireless communicator. The shield member of the electromagnetic shield is a separate member with respect to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Takafumi Suzuki, Takaya Masuda, Toshihiko Takahashi, Masafumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11945177
    Abstract: A first laminated body is worked to form a second laminated body, the first laminated body being formed by laminating prepregs including reinforcing fibers and resin, the second laminated body including a flat portion and a wavy portion, the flat portion being located at at least one of side edge portions of the second laminated body, the wavy portion being located at a portion adjacent to the side edge portion and extending along a longitudinal direction. An intermediate product is formed from the second laminated body by a forming die such that the flat portion becomes a bent portion that is an inside portion whose circumferential length is shorter in a curved portion, and the wavy portion becomes a bent portion that is an outside portion whose circumferential length is longer in the curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Shimada, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Sayaka Ochi, Shouhei Kanazawa, Kenshirou Okumura, Takaya Hamamoto, Kentaro Tanaka, Yuya Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20240046802
    Abstract: A flight management system is configured to manage the flight of a flight vehicle in communication with a user terminal operated by a user. The flight management system includes a receiver configured to receive from the user terminal the flight application information including the identification information of the flight vehicle, a flight path preferred by the user, and a flight time preferred by the user; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves with the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path at the flight time based on the flight application information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the flight information instructing the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path to the flight vehicle identified by the identification information on the condition that the determination unit determines to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou YAMAZAKI, Takaya TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11823579
    Abstract: A flight management system is configured to manage the flight of a flight vehicle in communication with a user terminal operated by a user. The flight management system includes a receiver configured to receive from the user terminal the flight application information including the identification information of the flight vehicle, a flight path preferred by the user, and a flight time preferred by the user; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves with the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path at the flight time based on the flight application information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the flight information instructing the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path to the flight vehicle identified by the identification information on the condition that the determination unit determines to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou Yamazaki, Takaya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11790788
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a flight information acquisition unit that acquires a flight path on which a flight device operating by electric battery power supplied from a battery is scheduled to fly, a radio wave information acquisition unit that acquires radio wave information including the intensity of a radio wave used for communication by the flight device within a predetermined range based on the flight path, and a decision unit that decides a candidate charging facility in which the battery is chargeable, as a charging facility used for charging the battery by the flight device based on the intensity in at least one of a region including the candidate charging facility and a region between the flight path and the candidate charging facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230297124
    Abstract: An operation management device includes: a condition storage unit that stores a performance condition required for a mobile object that moves at each of the plurality of positions; an application acceptance unit that accepts application data for requesting permission for an applying mobile object to move, and movement range data indicating an area in which the applying mobile object is desired to move; and a movement permission unit that executes processing of permitting a movement corresponding to the application data if performance of the applying mobile object included in the application data or performance of the applying mobile object stored in a mobile object information storage unit in association with a flight vehicle ID satisfies the performance condition stored in the condition storage unit in association with one or more positions included in a desired movement area indicated by the movement range data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Patent number: 11727599
    Abstract: A color correspondence information generating system includes an object database that stores correspondences between recognition information and color characteristic information about first objects recognized by the recognition information; an object recognition section that recognizes the first objects in the first image from the first image and the recognition information, and outputs image regions of the first objects in the first image and first color characteristic information; and a color correspondence information generation section that generates the color correspondence information using the color information and the first color characteristic information of pixels in the image regions. The color characteristic information and the recognition information have a one-to-one correspondence relation with each other, or the color characteristic information is the recognition information itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Tanaka, Takashi Inamura, Kazuhiro Sano
  • Publication number: 20230169873
    Abstract: A flight management apparatus having a storage unit that stores flight plan information indicating a flight plan for a flying vehicle, including a scheduled flight route for the flying vehicle; an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a position of the flying vehicle from the flying vehicle before the flying vehicle flies based on the flight plan; a setting unit that sets an additional flight plan including an additional flight route from the position indicated by the position information acquired by the acquisition unit to a prescribed position on the scheduled flight route included in the flight plan; and an output unit that outputs additional flight plan information indicating the additional flight plan set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230116839
    Abstract: A management system provided with an acquisition unit that acquires machine identification information for identifying an unmanned moving apparatus, operation data indicating positions of the unmanned moving apparatus corresponding to the machine identification information, and action states of the unmanned moving apparatus; a storage control unit that stores the machine identification information in association with the operation data and the action states acquired by the acquisition unit; and an output control unit that outputs, in display forms corresponding to the action states, a path over which the unmanned movement apparatus moved, based on the operation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230100982
    Abstract: An information output apparatus provided with an acquisition unit that acquires machine identification information and information indicating an operation amount; an identification unit that identifies at least one of a model type of the unmanned moving apparatuses, a purpose of use of the unmanned moving apparatuses, an operation region of the unmanned moving apparatus or component information indicating a component included in the unmanned moving apparatuses, which are associated with the machine identification information; a selection unit that selects an inspection threshold value corresponding to the attribute, as an attribute of the unmanned moving apparatus; a determination unit that determines whether or not a cumulative operation amount calculated by cumulating the operation amount is greater than the inspection threshold value; and an output unit that outputs determination results from the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230043334
    Abstract: A flight plan generation device for generating a flight plan of a flight device that transmits a captured image captured by an imaging unit through wireless communication during flight includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire target information for specifying an imaging target to be imaged by the imaging unit during flight of the flight device and image quality information for specifying required image quality of a captured image of the imaging target, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire communication quality information on wireless communication quality in a predetermined area including at least a flight airspace of the flight device, and a flight plan generation unit configured to generate a flight plan including a flight path of the flight device and an imaging parameter of the imaging unit based on the acquired target information, image quality information, and communication quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Mitsuyoshi MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220246045
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage unit configured to store setting information representing an association between port identification information, a use condition to use the port, and an available duration to use the port. The information processing device includes a reception unit configured to receive from a user terminal user information relating to the flight vehicle and/or the user and a date and time of use, a determination unit configured to determine that the port identified by the port identification information is available to the flight vehicle when the user information satisfies the use condition while the date and time of use are included in the available duration, and an output unit configured to output to the user terminal the information about the port which the determination unit determines to be available to the flight vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220238028
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a flight information acquisition unit that acquires a flight path on which a flight device operating by electric battery power supplied from a battery is scheduled to fly, a radio wave information acquisition unit that acquires radio wave information including the intensity of a radio wave used for communication by the flight device within a predetermined range based on the flight path, and a decision unit that decides a candidate charging facility in which the battery is chargeable, as a charging facility used for charging the battery by the flight device based on the intensity in at least one of a region including the candidate charging facility and a region between the flight path and the candidate charging facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220238024
    Abstract: A flight route generation device is configured to generate a plurality of flight routes for a flight vehicle to fly over a plurality of working areas in a one-time flight. The flight route generation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the working-area information for designating a plurality of working areas intended for a plurality of operations to be performed by a flight vehicle during its flight and the interregional information for determining a plurality of interregional flight routes along which the flight vehicle is permitted to fly over a plurality of working areas, and a generator configured to generate a plurality of intraregional flight routes for the flight vehicle to fly through the plurality of working areas based on the working-area information and a plurality of interregional flight routes based on the interregional information to prevent the flight vehicle from entering into a flight-prohibited area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Sou YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220236747
    Abstract: A flight control apparatus is a flight control apparatus for controlling a flight device operating by electric battery power supplied from a battery and includes a flight path acquisition unit that acquires a flight path, a flight control unit that causes the flight device to fly along the flight path, a battery remaining capacity acquisition unit that acquires a remaining capacity of the battery, and a specifying unit that specifies a charging facility for charging the battery, which corresponds to a position of the flight device, in which the flight control unit causes the flight device to fly to the specified charging facility and charge the battery, and then, causes the flight device to fly to the flight path, if the remaining capacity is less than or equal to a threshold value while the flight device flies along the flight path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220208009
    Abstract: A flight management system is configured to manage the flight of a flight vehicle in communication with a user terminal operated by a user. The flight management system includes a receiver configured to receive from the user terminal the flight application information including the identification information of the flight vehicle, a flight path preferred by the user, and a flight time preferred by the user; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves with the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path at the flight time based on the flight application information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the flight information instructing the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path to the flight vehicle identified by the identification information on the condition that the determination unit determines to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou YAMAZAKI, Takaya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210366164
    Abstract: A method for generating color conversion information including providing a user with color sample information for determining a color sample of which color characteristic information is known, receiving, from the user, an image including the color sample determined by the color sample information in a lighting environment, and generating color conversion information which corresponds to the lighting environment and is correlated with the user, based on the image and the color characteristic information of the color sample determined by the color sample information. The color conversion information converts between color information and color characteristic information, the color information is information which corresponds to a lighting environment and indicates colors of an object in the lighting environment, and the color characteristic information indicates color characteristics of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi TAKASE, Takashi INAMURA, Takaya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210004989
    Abstract: A color correspondence information generating system includes an object database that stores correspondences between recognition information and color characteristic information about first objects recognized by the recognition information; an object recognition section that recognizes the first objects in the first image from the first image and the recognition information, and outputs image regions of the first objects in the first image and first color characteristic information; and a color correspondence information generation section that generates the color correspondence information using the color information and the first color characteristic information of pixels in the image regions. The color characteristic information and the recognition information have a one-to-one correspondence relation with each other, or the color characteristic information is the recognition information itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Takashi INAMURA, Kazuhiro SANO
  • Patent number: 10587779
    Abstract: A reproduction color profile correction system includes, a differential colorimetric value calculator which calculates a differential colorimetric value that is a difference between a predicted colorimetric value and a measured colorimetric value, the predicted colorimetric value being a colorimetric value of a predicted reproduction color corresponding to a process ink combination of an ink combination, and a measured colorimetric value being a colorimetric value obtained by measuring a reproduction color in a color chart corresponding to the process ink combination, and a colorimetric value corrector which corrects, by using the differential colorimetric value, a predicted colorimetric value of a reproduction color reproduced by the ink combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190098178
    Abstract: A reproduction color profile correction system includes, a differential colorimetric value calculator which calculates a differential colorimetric value that is a difference between a predicted colorimetric value and a measured colorimetric value, the predicted colorimetric value being a colorimetric value of a predicted reproduction color corresponding to a process ink combination of an ink combination, and a measured colorimetric value being a colorimetric value obtained by measuring a reproduction color in a color chart corresponding to the process ink combination, and a colorimetric value corrector which corrects, by using the differential colorimetric value, a predicted colorimetric value of a reproduction color reproduced by the ink combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaya Tanaka