Patents by Inventor Akinori Sugata

Akinori Sugata 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: 11700358
    Abstract: A drive recorder includes: an imaging unit, an image processing unit, a position information acquisition unit, a communication unit, and a function control processing unit. The imaging unit captures an image of a neighborhood of a vehicle. The image processing unit records the image captured by the imaging unit in a recording medium. The position information acquisition unit acquires position information on the vehicle. The communication unit communicates with a server apparatus to deliver information including the position information. The function control processing unit acquires area information transmitted from the server apparatus based on the position information, the area information relating to an area in which the vehicle is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Kojima, Akinori Sugata, Yukihiko Murakami
  • Publication number: 20220392223
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an imaging data acquisition unit, a movement information acquisition unit, an inter-vehicle detection unit and a recording control unit. The imaging data acquisition unit acquires imaging data and voice data. The movement information acquisition unit acquires movement information including a moving speed of the vehicle. The inter-vehicle detection unit detects an inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and the other vehicle. The recording control unit determines that a voice recording condition is established when the moving speed of the vehicle is equal to or higher than a preset speed and the inter-vehicle distance is less than a preset distance, and causes the recording unit to record a first imaging data including the video data and the voice data when the voice recording condition is established or a second imaging data including the video data but not the voice data when the condition is not established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuyuki NAGAI, Takayuki ARASE, Akinori SUGATA
  • Publication number: 20220232194
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic device includes a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of a current position of a vehicle; a map information storage unit configured to store map information presenting a map for identifying an area corresponding to the current position of the vehicle on the map; and an area identification unit configured to identify the area corresponding to the current position of the vehicle based on the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit and the map information stored in the map information storage unit. The map information is information for identifying a border of an area containing a country, a prefecture, a municipality, a state or a district. The border of the area is specified as a set of points representing the border.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Akinori Sugata, Yukihiko Murakami, Tomoki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20220217309
    Abstract: A drive recorder includes: an imaging unit, an image processing unit, a position information acquisition unit, a communication unit, and a function control processing unit. The imaging unit captures an image of a neighborhood of a vehicle. The image processing unit records the image captured by the imaging unit in a recording medium. The position information acquisition unit acquires position information on the vehicle. The communication unit communicates with a server apparatus to deliver information including the position information. The function control processing unit acquires area information transmitted from the server apparatus based on the position information, the area information relating to an area in which the vehicle is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoki KOJIMA, Akinori SUGATA, Yukihiko MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220191437
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic device control device includes a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of a current position of a vehicle; an area identification unit configured to identify an area corresponding to the current position of the vehicle based on the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit and map information including information for identifying a border of a given area on a map; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a determination table in which control on a function of a vehicle electronic device is specified for each area, control on a function of the vehicle electronic device in the area of the vehicle identified by the area identification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Akinori Sugata, Yukihiko Murakami, Tomoki Kojima
  • Patent number: 11146755
    Abstract: A dashcam serving as an on-vehicle image capturing and recording apparatus includes: a cancellation processing unit configured to perform cancellation processing for reducing an electronic device sound on a sound acquired by a surrounding image/sound acquisition unit based on the characteristics of an electronic device sound acquired by an electronic device sound acquisition unit; and an abnormality detection unit configured to detect an abnormality of a vehicle, in which the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle and a cancel sound are temporality recorded, a recording control unit is configured to discard the cancel sound and integrate only the sound of the surroundings of the vehicle with the image and record the integrated data when the abnormality detection unit does not detect an abnormality and otherwise records the cancel sounds and the sounds of the surroundings of the vehicle along with the image as overwriting prohibited data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Mori, Katsuyuki Nagai, Akinori Sugata, Takayuki Arase, Hitoshi Sunohara
  • Publication number: 20200412999
    Abstract: A dashcam serving as an on-vehicle image capturing and recording apparatus includes: a cancellation processing unit configured to perform cancellation processing for reducing an electronic device sound on a sound acquired by a surrounding image/sound acquisition unit based on the characteristics of an electronic device sound acquired by an electronic device sound acquisition unit; and an abnormality detection unit configured to detect an abnormality of a vehicle, in which the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle and a cancel sound are temporality recorded, a recording control unit is configured to discard the cancel sound and integrate only the sound of the surroundings of the vehicle with the image and record the integrated data when the abnormality detection unit does not detect an abnormality and otherwise records the cancel sounds and the sounds of the surroundings of the vehicle along with the image as overwriting prohibited data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio MORI, Katsuyuki NAGAI, Akinori SUGATA, Takayuki ARASE, Hitoshi SUNOHARA
  • Patent number: 10868997
    Abstract: A recording control device includes: a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire data on a video obtained by shooting an outside of a vehicle; a buffer memory configured to temporarily store the data on the video; an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a predetermined event; a traveling information acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information on the vehicle; and a recording control unit configured to determine a first period based on the traveling information and to record the data on the video, among the data on the video stored in the buffer memory, obtained from a time point as far back as the first period before the time point of detection of the event until a time point at which a second period has passed since the time point of detection of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Teruuchi, Akinori Sugata, Tsuneo Satomi, Toshio Mori
  • Patent number: 10723266
    Abstract: An on-vehicle display control device includes a video data acquiring unit that acquires video data from multiple bird's-eye view video cameras for videos of a front, a rear, a left side, and a right side of a vehicle, and video data from rear side cameras for videos of rear left-side and rear right-side views of the vehicle; a bird's-eye view video generating unit that generates a bird's-eye view video by performing a viewpoint conversion and synthesizing processes on the videos of the bird's-eye view video cameras; a confirmation request detecting unit that detects a left-right situation confirmation request; and a display controller that displays, when the confirmation request is detected, on a display in a direction of the confirmation request, the video from the rear side camera in the confirmation request direction and the video in a direction corresponding to the confirmation request direction in the bird's-eye view video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Mori, Takuji Teruuchi, Manabu Asayama, Tsuneo Satomi, Akinori Sugata
  • Publication number: 20190222797
    Abstract: A recording control device includes: a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire data on a video obtained by shooting an outside of a vehicle; a buffer memory configured to temporarily store the data on the video; an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a predetermined event; a traveling information acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information on the vehicle; and a recording control unit configured to determine a first period based on the traveling information and to record the data on the video, among the data on the video stored in the buffer memory, obtained from a time point as far back as the first period before the time point of detection of the event until a time point at which a second period has passed since the time point of detection of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Takuji TERUUCHI, Akinori SUGATA, Tsuneo SATOMI, Toshio MORI
  • Publication number: 20190100143
    Abstract: An on-vehicle display control device includes a video data acquiring unit that acquires video data from multiple bird's-eye view video cameras for videos of a front, a rear, a left side, and a right side of a vehicle, and video data from rear side cameras for videos of rear left-side and rear right-side views of the vehicle; a bird's-eye view video generating unit that generates a bird's-eye view video by performing a viewpoint conversion and synthesizing processes on the videos of the bird's-eye view video cameras; a confirmation request detecting unit that detects a left-right situation confirmation request; and a display controller that displays, when the confirmation request is detected, on a display in a direction of the confirmation request, the video from the rear side camera in the confirmation request direction and the video in a direction corresponding to the confirmation request direction in the bird's-eye view video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Toshio Mori, Takuji Teruuchi, Manabu Asayama, Tsuneo Satomi, Akinori Sugata