Patents Assigned to Electronic Navigation Research Institute
  • Patent number: 9417327
    Abstract: A selection method of satellites for RTK positioning calculation includes initializing a mask threshold of the elevation angle mask and/or the signal strength mask, setting the mask threshold as a first mask threshold other than a mask threshold which carried out an initial setting, performing a first RTK positioning calculation based on a signal from the satellite, performing a first quality check about a positioning solution in the first RTK positioning calculation, and when the first quality check is under the threshold of the ratio test, performing a second RTK positioning calculation based on the signal from the satellite newly chosen via the first mask threshold and performing a second quality check about a second positioning solution in the second RTK positioning calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, AN INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTION
    Inventor: Hideki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8803728
    Abstract: A millimeter wave radar-equipped headlamp includes a millimeter wave radar that detects an object ahead of a vehicle, and a lighting device unit that irradiates an area ahead of the vehicle. The lighting device unit incorporates an antenna module of the millimeter wave radar. The lighting device unit includes a projection lens, a light source, a reflector, and a shade. The antenna module includes a millimeter wave waveguide, and a millimeter wave reflection mirror. A reflection surface of the millimeter wave reflection mirror is formed by a spheroidal surface having a first focal point located in the vicinity of the opening of the millimeter wave waveguide, and a second focal point located forward of the rear focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Naruto Yonemoto, Akiko Kohmura, Yoshiki Kurosawa, Takao Watanabe, Satoshi Yamamura
  • Patent number: 8665146
    Abstract: This invention relates to the troposphere delay produced when the electromagnetic waves from a satellite or astronomical body pass through the troposphere, in particular, it is related to a calculation method of an estimated value of the amount of zenith troposphere delay in real time, and troposphere delay of the satellite positioning signal in the case of positioning using the estimated value of this calculated amount of zenith troposphere delay is related with a correcting method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Electronic Navigation Research Institute
    Inventors: Noboru Takeichi, Takeyasu Sakai, Sounosuke Fukushima, Ken Ito
  • Patent number: 8471757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dielectric lens useable in both the radio wave band and the light wave band, and a device using this dielectric lens. The device comprises a dielectric lens formed of a transparent dielectric member small in dielectric loss and having an omnidirectional feature with regard to an electromagnetic wave, a transparent dielectric shell that is hollow inside and having the radius that is equal to the focal distance of the dielectric lens, and a holding mechanism for positioning and holding the dielectric shell and the dielectric lens so as to locate the dielectric shell at a position along the focal distance with the dielectric lens included at the inner center of this dielectric shell. The device is provided, at the focal point of the dielectric lens, with a reflector for reflecting an electromagnetic wave or a generator for generating an electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, An Independent Administrative Institution, Lenstar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naruto Yonemoto, Motoharu Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20110279304
    Abstract: A millimeter wave radar-equipped headlamp includes a millimeter wave radar that detects an object ahead of a vehicle, and a lighting device unit that irradiates an area ahead of the vehicle. The lighting device unit incorporates an antenna module of the millimeter wave radar. The lighting device unit includes a projection lens, a light source, a reflector, and a shade. The antenna module includes a millimeter wave waveguide, and a millimeter wave reflection mirror. A reflection surface of the millimeter wave reflection mirror is formed by a spheroidal surface having a first focal point located in the vicinity of the opening of the millimeter wave waveguide, and a second focal point located forward of the rear focal point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicants: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Independent Administrative Institution, KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naruto Yonemoto, Akiko Kohmura, Yoshiki Kurosawa, Takao Watanabe, Satoshi Yamamura
  • Patent number: 7988629
    Abstract: There is provided a cerebrum evaluation device for evaluating the state of the cerebrum of a subject by analyzing a speech signal of the subject by using chaotic signal processing utilizing the periodicity of the signal. The cerebrum evaluation device evaluates the state of the cerebrum according to the speech signal uttered by the subject. The cerebrum evaluation device includes: a statistic information database containing chaotic index values of speech signals of a plurality of subjects; a speech signal acquisition unit for acquiring a speech signal; a chaotic index value calculation unit for calculating a chaotic index value of the speech signal by the chaotic signal processing utilizing the periodicity of the speech signal acquired; an evaluation unit for evaluating the state of the cerebrum of the subject according to the calculated chaotic index value by referencing the statistic information database; and an output unit for outputting the result evaluated by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, An Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Kakuichi Shiomi, Susumu Kobayashi, Michiko Takaoka, Hitoshi Abe, Michiko Okiyama
  • Patent number: 7974600
    Abstract: It aims at preferentially dealing with emergency communication etc. by a simple and effective method when emergency communication etc. is initiated. In emergency situation, at a mobile station 200, a special call part 206 is switched from a normal mode to an emergency mode, and a mobile station side communication part 206 transmits a radio wave with a transmitted signal of high power (power spectrum density) at the center frequency f0 of a carrier wave. A base station 100 receives the radio wave with the transmitted signal of high power (power spectrum density) at the center frequency f0 of the carrier wave, from the mobile station 200 which output communication for emergency situation. The base station 100 outputs suppression signals for suppressing signal intensity to the other mobile stations. Only the mobile station 200 which transmitted the communication for emergency situation establishes a channel to the base station 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kanada, Kakuichi Shiomi, Atsushi Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 7737859
    Abstract: The present invention provides a psychosomatic state determination system 1 for the purpose of predicting or determining the psychosomatic state of a subject without imparting any awareness to the subject, comprising a data processing means 20 for calculating a psychosomatic state exponent such as Lyapunov exponent from the time series signal of a load value or a barycentric position of the subject, and an evaluation means 22 for comparing the temporal tendency of a psychosomatic state exponent calculated in said data processing means with the temporal tendency of a known psychosomatic state exponent corresponding to a psychosomatic state to thereby predict the psychosomatic state of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, an Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Michiko Takaoka, Kakuichi Shiomi
  • Patent number: 7719463
    Abstract: The reflectarray comprises an array of patch elements (10-13). Each patch element has a cut ring shape formed of a conductive ring with at least one crossing gap. The outer diameter and inner diameter and crossing gap are adjusted so that a phase shift ? defined by the following relations is different from zero: ?(Eox)=?(Eix)+? (1) ?(Eoy)=?(Eiy)+?+? (2) where: ??(Eox) and ?(Eoy) are the phases of the orthogonal components and of the reflected wave, respectively, ??(Eix) and ?(Eiy) are the phases of orthogonal components and of the incident wave, respectively, ?? is a phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Electronic Navigation Research Institute Independent Administrative Institution, Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis
    Inventors: Claire Blandine Migliaccio, Binh Duong Nguyen, Christian Yves Dominique Pichot Du Mezeray, Kazuo Yamamoto, Naruto Yonemoto, Kimio Yamada
  • Patent number: 7678047
    Abstract: In an apparatus for diagnosing a brain function of a subject 20 by giving a load to a functional site of a living organism of the subject 20, receiving reactions emitted from the living organism of the subject 20 as an electric signal 40, 50, 60 or 70 and analyzing the electric signal 40, 50, 60 or 70, the electric signals 40, 50, 60 and 70 are a voice signal 40, an nystagmus signal 50, a pulse wave signal 60 and a gravity center swinging signal 70. The apparatus selects at least two from among them, calculates chaos theoretical indexes such as Lyapunov exponents according to a chaos theoretical technique, detects changes in the chaos theoretical indexes with passage of time, and collectively evaluates and diagnoses the brain function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kakuichi Shiomi, Naritomo Meguro, Hideyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7640014
    Abstract: When emergency communication etc. is sent, it aims at preferentially dealing with the emergency communication etc. by a simple and effective method. It is a communication system in which a base station 100 and a mobile station 200a establish communication for emergency situation, in time of emergency, wherein the mobile station 200a switches an output adjustment from the normal mode to the emergency mode and sends the communication for emergency situation at the largest output possible. The base station 100 receives a strong radio wave from the mobile station 200a which sent the communication for emergency situation. The base station 100 continues to output suppression signals for suppressing signal intensity to the other mobile stations. The other mobile stations are suppressed by the near-far effect, and it becomes impossible for the base station 100 to receive communication except for the communication for emergency situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kanada, Kakuichi Shiomi, Atsushi Yamagishi, Naritomo Meguro
  • Publication number: 20090153391
    Abstract: The reflectarray comprises an array of patch elements (10-13). Each patch element has a cut ring shape formed of a conductive ring with at least one crossing gap. The outer diameter and inner diameter and crossing gap are adjusted so that a phase shift ? defined by the following relations is different from zero: ?(Eox)=?(Eix)+? (1) ?(Eoy)=?(Eiy)+?+? (2) where: ??(Eox) and ?(Eoy) are the phases of the orthogonal components and of the reflected wave, respectively, ??(Eix) and ?(Eiy) are the phases of orthogonal components and of the incident wave, respectively, ?? is a phase angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S.), ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INDEPENDE NT ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTION, UNIVERSITE DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
    Inventors: Claire Blandine Migliaccio, Binh Duong Nguyen, Christian Yves Dominique Pichot Du Mezeray, Kazuo Yamamoto, Naruto Yonemoto, Kimio Yamada
  • Patent number: 7446730
    Abstract: In the case of the electromagnetic waves of a band with a short wavelength, in an antenna opening, the technical subject which conflicts between loss of electromagnetic waves and the mechanical strength of a member exists. This invention was made in view of such a problem, and aims at offering a radome with little cover of electromagnetic waves, absorption of electromagnetic waves, and dispersion of electromagnetic waves by the member of a radome. It aims at offering a strong and lightweight radome cheaply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Lenstar Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Naruto Yonemoto, Motoharu Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 7392178
    Abstract: The present invention is a preprocessing apparatus including a voice input apparatus for acquiring an uttered voice, an analog-digital conversion apparatus for converting the acquired uttered voice to digital voice data, and a comparator for selecting voice data, having a level which is equal to or higher than a certain level, from the digital voice data and for outputting the selected voice data. The preprocessing apparatus also includes a voice data cutout apparatus capable of cutting out voice data having a level which is equal to or higher than a certain level output from the comparator, while taking a phoneme as a unit, and a voice data output apparatus for outputting voice data of the phoneme unit output from the voice data cutout apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, An Independent Administration Institution, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kakuichi Shiomi, Naritomo Meguro, Tomoya Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7321842
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for analyzing a time series signal by a method of Chaos Theory and calculating a chaos theoretical exponent value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, an Independent Admiinistrative Institution
    Inventors: Kakuichi Shiomi, Susumu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070197208
    Abstract: It aims at preferentially dealing with emergency communication etc. by a simple and effective method when emergency communication etc. is initiated. In emergency situation, at a mobile station 200, a special call part 206 is switched from a normal mode to an emergency mode, and a mobile station side communication part 206 transmits a radio wave with a transmitted signal of high power (power spectrum density) at the center frequency f0 of a carrier wave. A base station 100 receives the radio wave with the transmitted signal of high power (power spectrum density) at the center frequency f0 of the carrier wave, from the mobile station 200 which output communication for emergency situation. The base station 100 outputs suppression signals for suppressing signal intensity to the other mobile stations. Only the mobile station 200 which transmitted the communication for emergency situation establishes a channel to the base station 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicants: ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, MITSUBISHI SPACE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Kanada, Kakuichi Shiomi, Atsushi Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20070174377
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for analyzing a time series signal by a method of Chaos Theory and calculating a chaos theoretical exponent value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicants: ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, AN INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTION (25%)
    Inventors: Kakuichi SHIOMI, Susumu KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 7091994
    Abstract: A plurality of windows are contracted in scale and presented on the same display without interfering with a main display window. By dragging and dropping any contracted window with a mouse, the contracted window is displayed on a sub display in an expanded scale. Functions such as voice recognition are assigned to any contracted window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignees: NEC Corporation, Electronic Navigation Research Institute
    Inventors: Keiko Hayashi, Kakuichi Shiomi, Shoichi Kagayama
  • Patent number: 7030780
    Abstract: There is provided a method for displaying aircraft positions, which is capable of effectively avoiding the occurrence of near miss or collision. The method displays the terrain of an air space under air traffic control apparently in three dimensions on a display screen, displays aircraft marks at positions on the display screen so as to correspond to the three-dimensional positions of the respective aircraft, and displays a warning mark when a distance between two aircraft is shorter than a threshold value, wherein the warning mark comprises a triangle having three apexes, which comprise the aircraft marks, and a position that is apart from the aircraft mark of one of the aircraft along a vertical line extending perpendicular to the one aircraft toward a ground surface of the terrain by a distance corresponding to an altitude difference between both aircrafts on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignees: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Realviz, Inc.
    Inventors: Kakuichi Shiomi, Masanori Saito
  • Publication number: 20050108014
    Abstract: A preprocessing apparatus includes a voice input apparatus 2 for acquiring uttered voice; an analog-digital conversion apparatus 3 for converting the uttered voice acquired by the voice input apparatus 2 to digital voice data; a comparator 4 for selecting voice data having a level which is equal to or higher than a certain level, from the digital voice data output from the analog-digital conversion apparatus 3 and outputting the voice data thus selected; a voice data cutout apparatus 11 capable of cutting out voice data having a level which is equal to or higher than a certain level output from the comparator 4, while taking a phoneme as unit; and a voice data output apparatus 10 for outputting voice data of phoneme unit output from the voice data cutout apparatus 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicants: Electronic Navigation Research Institute, An Independent Administrative Institution, MITSUBISHI SPACE SOFTWARE CO. LTD
    Inventors: Kakuichi Shiomi, Naritomo Meguro, Tomoya Maruyama