Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Natsume

Yoshifumi Natsume 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: 8401789
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device has a display for indicating guidance of a route retrieved by a route retriever and a GPS receiver for detecting the present location. A route retrieval server has a database for storing the present location of each bus running on bus lines and an alternative route guider for evaluating alternative bus route to provide guidance. When the guided route includes a walking route, the route retriever references the database based on the present location of the mobile terminal device to identify an alternative route that includes a bus. The alternative route guider compares the alternative route and guided route. When the alternative route is more favorable than the guided route, the alternative route guider sends alternative route information indicating presence of the alternative route to the mobile terminal device, displays the guided route on a display, and indicates the presence of the alternative route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Navitime Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Natsume
  • Publication number: 20100153004
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device has a display means for indicating a guidance of a route retrieved by a route retrieval means and a GPS receiver means for detecting the present location. A route retrieval server has an operation service information database for collecting and storing the present location of each bus running on bus lines and an alternative route guiding means for evaluating alternative bus route to provide a guidance. When the guided route includes a walking route block, the route retrieving means makes reference to the operation service information database in accordance with the present location of the mobile terminal device to identify bus services which a user of the mobile terminal device can use for retrieving a route alternative to the walking route block, while the alternative route guiding means compares the route data between the alternative route and guided route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: NAVITIME JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Natsume
  • Patent number: 7633632
    Abstract: To provide measurement data on a real time basis from a laser measurement device mounted on an air vehicle to a ground station. The laser measurement unit sequentially outputs laser measurement data during a measurement period in which the air vehicle flies along a straight line flight fairway (32). The transmission unit desirably compresses the laser measurement data when the laser measurement data is accumulated to a file size while the air vehicle flies along straight line flight fairway (32), and transmits the laser measurement data to the ground station. The transmission units does not transmit the flight state data obtained by the GPS/IMU to the ground station on the straight line flight fairway (32), but transmits during a measurement suspended period in which the air vehicle flies along a turn fairway (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Pasco Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Sasakawa, Yoshifumi Natsume, Nobuyasu Teraoka, Toshikazu Asanuma
  • Publication number: 20090161116
    Abstract: To provide measurement data on a real time basis from a laser measurement device mounted on an air vehicle to a ground station. The laser measurement unit sequentially outputs laser measurement data during a measurement period in which the air vehicle flies along a straight line flight fairway (32). The transmission unit desirably compresses the laser measurement data when the laser measurement data is accumulated to a file size while the air vehicle flies along straight line flight fairway (32), and transmits the laser measurement data to the ground station. The transmission units does not transmit the flight state data obtained by the GPS/IMU to the ground station on the straight line flight fairway (32), but transmits during a measurement suspended period in which the air vehicle flies along a turn fairway (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: PASCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Sasakawa, Yoshifumi Natsume, Nobuyasu Teraoka, Toshikazu Asanuma