Patents Assigned to Micware Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12288266
    Abstract: A content server (250) for managing a digital content item (80) sold in a content market (65) includes a content communication device (52) that communicates with a member terminal (40) including a display (40a) and a content control device (251) that causes the display (40a) to display an analytical graph (201a) through the content communication device (52). The analytical graph (201a) includes two or more nodes (202) representing different entities extracted from sales data and contract information and an edge (203) representing a relationship between the two or more nodes (202). The analytical graph (201a) includes the edge (203) extending from a node (202), as a center, representing identification information of the digital content item (80) to a node (202) representing an entity different from an entity for the digital content item (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanako Hirose, Sumito Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 12266024
    Abstract: A content server (250) for managing a digital content item (80) sold in a content market (65) includes a content communication device (52) that communicates with a member terminal (40) including a display (40a) and a content control device (251) that causes the display (40a) to display an analytical graph (201a) through the content communication device (52). The analytical graph (201a) includes two or more nodes (202) representing different entities extracted from sales data and contract information and an edge (203) representing a relationship between the two or more nodes (202). The analytical graph (201a) includes the edge (203) extending from a node (202), as a center, representing identification information of the digital content item (80) to a node (202) representing an entity different from an entity for the digital content item (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanako Hirose, Sumito Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 12092477
    Abstract: A display device includes a display that displays a map based on map data and Hypertext Markup Language data, a communicator that obtains the map data through Hypertext Transfer Protocol communication, and a display controller that updates, based on the map data obtained by the communicator and corresponding to location data obtained at predetermined time intervals, the map displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Fujiyoshi
  • Patent number: 12061095
    Abstract: A processing device and an information processing system included in a network can select a device to be connected. A processing device includes a controller and a communicator. Software includes a first implementation program to cause the controller to implement a predetermined function. First use-data is used to execute the first implementation program. The controller included in a logical network connects with, of other processing devices with each of which the controller can communicate, a processing device that implements, based on a second implementation program or second use-data, the same function as the function implemented when the first implementation program is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Fujiyoshi
  • Patent number: 12013254
    Abstract: An object is to display an image related to transportation guidance in a way easily viewable to a driver. A control section controls a projection device configured to project an image onto a windshield of a vehicle so that the image is displayed superimposed on a real view. The control section includes a projection control section configured to cause, in a case where a driving lane of the vehicle is a reduced lane, the projection device to project a guidance image for prompting a lane change. The reduced lane is a lane on which it becomes impossible for the vehicle to run within a predetermined distance ahead of a current location of the vehicle on a traveling route of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: MICWARE CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroto Nishida, Kanon Suzuki, Taiki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11946765
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a map information storage, a charging record information storage, and a processor. The map information storage is configured to store map information including a location of a charging station to charge a battery of an electric vehicle. The charging record information storage is configured to store charging record information indicating whether or not it has been possible to charge the battery. The processor is programed to calculate an evaluation value based on the charging record information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma Naito
  • Publication number: 20240012949
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a recording medium having a recording area in which content information indicating a content and security information for security for the content information are recorded. In the recording area, medium specifying information for uniquely identifying the recording medium itself is recorded in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: MICWARE CO., LTD., ATP ELECTRONICS TAIWAN INC.
    Inventors: Kenta IMAIDA, Takuma SEGAWA, Eishin HIROKAWA, Chien-Pao LEE, Hsiu-Hui HUANG
  • Patent number: 11828616
    Abstract: To provide a user with more appropriate information on the spot around the route. A search system includes an acquisition unit, a determining unit, a search unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a current position of a moving body and information on a route from the current position to a position of a destination. The determining unit determines a width of a search range dynamically changed along the route, based on the current position and the information on the route. The search unit searches for a spot present within the search range. The output unit outputs information on a searched spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumito Yoshikawa, Michihiro Nishida
  • Patent number: 11644318
    Abstract: A navigation system and a computer program are capable of changing the role of an apparatus that implements navigation in accordance with its performance and circumstances, and achieving single navigation, in a coordinated fashion, with multiple apparatuses to which their roles are appropriately distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Makino, Takuma Segawa, Yasuhito Kawase, Kenta Imaida
  • Patent number: 11614339
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display configured to display a mesh of mesh information based on longitude and latitude. A mesh is composed of a plurality of blocks. The mesh information includes area information about a traveling area where a moving body can travel. The area information is the additional information added to each of the plurality of blocks. The additional information is the display information that is weighted and sorted, based on the number of overlapping points of the plurality of locus logs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Michihiro Nishida
  • Publication number: 20230066144
    Abstract: A server collects image pickup data picked up by an image pickup device that is held by a moving body. The server generates spot information in which information regarding a spot specified based on a post in a social networking service is associated with position information indicating a position of the spot and transmits the spot information to an information display device. The information display device displays a screen including first information for receiving a request for image pickup data regarding the spot information, and transmits request information including the position information of the spot information to the server when the first information is selected by a user. The server collects image pickup data picked up by the image pickup device in a region that satisfies a condition for the position indicated by the position information in the request information and transmits the collected data to the information display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumito YOSHIKAWA, Shigehiko MIURA
  • Patent number: 11537149
    Abstract: A route generation device includes: an acquisition portion configured to acquire object data; and a controller configured to set a travel route of a moving body. The controller is configured to define a virtual space corresponding to a predetermined real space including a moving range for the moving body, manage a plurality of regions that the virtual space is divided into, the plurality of divided regions each having a predetermined three-dimensional shape, place the object in the virtual space, set a region that overlaps the object among the plurality of divided regions as a no-go zone where the moving body is not allowed to pass, and set a region that does not overlap the object among the plurality of divided regions as an available zone where the moving body is allowed to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: MICWARE CO., LTD., IMICS. INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sekiyama
  • Patent number: 11537640
    Abstract: A map output device is provided for preventing a storage medium from being sharedly used. The map output device comprises a connection unit; an output unit that outputs map data; and a control unit. The control unit is configured, when a storage medium is connected to the connection unit or when a movable body is used beyond a predetermined usage amount, to write a file containing information on a unique value related to the movable body into the storage medium connected to the connection unit, and to output, to the output unit, the map data read from the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Imaida, Takuma Segawa, Eishin Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 11481924
    Abstract: An acquisition circuit acquires first position information indicating a position and a first image captured by a camera at the position indicated by the first position information. A memory stores second position information indicating a prescribed position on a map and feature information extracted from a second image corresponding to the prescribed position. The second position information is associated with the feature information. A processor estimates the position indicated by the first position information on the basis of the second position information in the case that the position indicated by the first position information falls within a prescribed range from the prescribed position indicated by the second position information and the first image corresponds to the feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumito Yoshikawa, Shigehiko Miura
  • Patent number: 11341782
    Abstract: A navigation apparatus includes a log information acquisition portion acquiring log information including position information and time information at predetermined time intervals, a storage storing the log information, a transmitter transmitting the log information, and a transmitter controller transmitting to a server an excess piece of the log information exceeding a predetermined number in reverse chronological order of the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Makino
  • Patent number: 11294951
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first obtaining unit that obtains, from an external information processing device, image information added to a captured image published for external access by the external information processing device under a preset obtainment condition, a first storage that stores the image information obtained by the obtaining unit, and a first controller that categorizes the image information stored in the first storage under a preset attribute condition. The image information includes at least positional information and time information each added to the captured image. The first controller categorizes the image information at least based on the positional information and the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: MICWARE CO., LTD., KI PARTNERS INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Iwamoto, Makoto Ito, Sumito Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20220090929
    Abstract: An information processing device performs information processing on position coordinates of a moving body. The information processing device includes a storage and a controller. The storage stores travel history information including a series of position coordinates indicative of a travel history of the moving body. The controller performs map matching that corrects the position coordinates onto a road network of map information. The controller calculates a plurality of candidate coordinate sequences in which position coordinates as a result of the map matching are arranged, based on the travel history information stored in the storage. The controller generates position data indicative of a position where the moving body was traveling, based on the plurality of candidate coordinate sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicants: MICWARE CO.,LTD, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori SHIHOYA, Hiroyuki KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11216499
    Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus includes a retrieval phrase acquisition device and a controller. The retrieval phrase acquisition device acquires a retrieval phrase from outside. The controller is configured to generate a feature word from the retrieval phrase. The feature word is related to a word representing a retrieval target. The controller is configured to retrieve the retrieval target corresponding to the feature word based on the feature word from an accumulation database that accumulates the feature word and the retrieval target corresponding to the feature word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sumito Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210404838
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a map information storage, a charging record information storage, and a processor. The map information storage is configured to store map information including a location of a charging station to charge a battery of an electric vehicle. The charging record information storage is configured to store charging record information indicating whether or not it has been possible to charge the battery. The processor is programed to calculate an evaluation value based on the charging record information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuma NAITO
  • Patent number: 11200820
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the number of false detections of defects in a screen display test. A third control section includes: a first data acquiring section; a second data acquiring section; a comparing section configured to carry out a comparison between the first data and the second data; a searching section configured such that, in a case where there is a mismatch frame, the searching section carry out a search as to whether or not any of frame images matches up with the base image; and a third display control section configured such that, in a case where none of the frame images in the predetermined number of frames matches up with the base image, the display control section controls an output section to make an output indicating that there is a defect in the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hayato Nakamura