Patents by Inventor Akinori Suyama

Akinori Suyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20250078637
    Abstract: A pedestrian detection unit receives a captured image transmitted from a vehicle and detects a pedestrian from the captured image. A pedestrian attribute estimation unit estimates an attribute of the pedestrian from the captured image. A pedestrian travel area estimation unit estimates a pedestrian travel area where the pedestrian will walk based on the captured image. A vehicle traffic quantity calculation unit calculates a vehicle traffic quantity in the pedestrian travel area. A risk level calculation unit calculates a risk level of the pedestrian being targeted in a crime, based on the attribute of the pedestrian and the vehicle traffic quantity in the pedestrian travel area. A patrol instruction unit transmits to a mobile body, a patrol instruction instructing the mobile body to patrol the pedestrian travel area, when the risk level is greater than a preset threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Maki TAKAMI, Akinori SUYAMA, Teruaki KANIWA, Yoshimi ENOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11580751
    Abstract: A drive recorder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an imaging unit that is mounted on a vehicle and captures a video of the surroundings of the vehicle; a video recording unit that has, recorded therein, video data captured; a network connecting unit that receives accident information including a time and date when an accident occurred and a place where the accident occurred; and a video retrieving unit that determines whether any video data captured in a predetermined time period and in a predetermined region are available in the video data recorded in the video recording unit, the predetermined time period including the time and date when the accident occurred, the predetermined region including the place where the accident occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Manamu Takahashi, Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose, Takeshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11363217
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a text information extraction unit that extracts character information from a video including characters, a text coincidence detection unit that detects character information included in dialogue information that is data of a dialogue associated with the video data from the extracted character information, a text translation unit that translates the character information, a display position calculation unit that calculates a display position of translated text information in the video data on the basis of a text region information that indicates a region in which a video corresponding to the character information is displayed in the video data and on the basis of the translated text information, and a subtitle synthesizing unit that adds, as a subtitle, the translated text information on the basis of display position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Akinori Suyama
  • Patent number: 11277477
    Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle communication device that includes a vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle speed information on a vehicle capable of performing self-driving and/or current location information on the vehicle. The on-vehicle communication device also includes a self-driving level acquiring unit that acquires self-driving level information indicating a self-driving level of the vehicle. Further, the on-vehicle communication device includes a controller that determines whether to enable or disable a connection to a high-confidential communication channel based on the self-driving level information and the vehicle speed information and/or the current location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose, Takeshi Aoki, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210206394
    Abstract: A work assist system includes an automatic driving information acquisition unit configured to acquire automatic driving information containing automatic driving level information representing automatic driving levels from a vehicle capable of automatic driving; a task information storage configured to store task information containing unprocessed tasks to be processed by a driver of the vehicle, groups that classify the tasks according to functions required for processing the tasks, and the automatic driving levels necessary for processing the tasks using the functions corresponding to the groups; and a task extractor configured to extract a task that is processable by the driver in the vehicle based on the automatic driving information acquired by the automatic driving information acquisition unit and the task information stored in the task information storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Akinori Suyama, Hideki Takehara, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose, Takeshi Aoki, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11010019
    Abstract: A camera thumbnail image acquisition unit acquires a first thumbnail image from a camera. A distribution server thumbnail image acquisition unit acquires a second thumbnail image from a distribution server. A thumbnail image selection unit selects one of the first thumbnail image and the second thumbnail image as a thumbnail image that should be displayed. A camera information acquisition unit acquires camera information including streaming execution information indicating whether the camera is streaming. The thumbnail image selection unit refers to the streaming execution information to select the second thumbnail image as the thumbnail image that should be displayed when the camera is streaming and to select the first thumbnail image as the thumbnail image that should be displayed when the camera is not streaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose
  • Publication number: 20210089789
    Abstract: A drive recorder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an imaging unit that is mounted on a vehicle and captures a video of the surroundings of the vehicle; a video recording unit that has, recorded therein, video data captured; a network connecting unit that receives accident information including a time and date when an accident occurred and a place where the accident occurred; and a video retrieving unit that determines whether any video data captured in a predetermined time period and in a predetermined region are available in the video data recorded in the video recording unit, the predetermined time period including the time and date when the accident occurred, the predetermined region including the place where the accident occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Manamu Takahashi, Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose, Takeshi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20200412979
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a text information extraction unit that extracts character information from a video including characters, a text coincidence detection unit that detects character information included in dialogue information that is data of a dialogue associated with the video data from the extracted character information, a text translation unit that translates the character information, a display position calculation unit that calculates a display position of translated text information in the video data on the basis of a text region information that indicates a region in which a video corresponding to the character information is displayed in the video data and on the basis of the translated text information, and a subtitle synthesizing unit that adds, as a subtitle, the translated text information on the basis of display position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Akinori Suyama
  • Publication number: 20200106836
    Abstract: An on-vehicle communication device includes a vehicle information acquiring unit configured to acquire at least one of vehicle speed information on a vehicle capable of performing self-driving and current location information on the vehicle; a self-driving level acquiring unit configured to acquire self-driving level information indicating a self-driving level of the vehicle; and a controller configured to determine whether to enable or disable a connection to a high-confidential communication channel based on the self-driving level information and at least one of the vehicle speed information and the current location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose, Takeshi Aoki, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10477136
    Abstract: A display mode determining device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data of a video including a voice, a database referring unit configured to refer to a database of use frequency of words in which use frequency information indicating use frequency of each word is stored, and a determining unit configured to, based on the video data acquired by the video data acquisition unit and based on the use frequency information referred to by the database referring unit, obtain the use frequency of each word included in text data representing the voice included in the video to determine display mode of the word according to the use frequency thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi Naganuma, Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Satoru Hirose
  • Publication number: 20190098249
    Abstract: A display mode determining device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data of a video including a voice, a database referring unit configured to refer to a database of use frequency of words in which use frequency information indicating use frequency of each word is stored, and a determining unit configured to, based on the video data acquired by the video data acquisition unit and based on the use frequency information referred to by the database referring unit, obtain the use frequency of each word included in text data representing the voice included in the video to determine display mode of the word according to the use frequency thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tatsumi Naganuma, Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Satoru Hirose
  • Publication number: 20190095076
    Abstract: A camera thumbnail image acquisition unit acquires a first thumbnail image from a camera. A distribution server thumbnail image acquisition unit acquires a second thumbnail image from a distribution server. A thumbnail image selection unit selects one of the first thumbnail image and the second thumbnail image as a thumbnail image that should be displayed. A camera information acquisition unit acquires camera information including streaming execution information indicating whether the camera is streaming. The thumbnail image selection unit refers to the streaming execution information to select the second thumbnail image as the thumbnail image that should be displayed when the camera is streaming and to select the first thumbnail image as the thumbnail image that should be displayed when the camera is not streaming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki TAKEHARA, Akinori SUYAMA, Tatsumi NAGANUMA, Satoru HIROSE
  • Patent number: 6738444
    Abstract: A clock signal generating apparatus has a phase-lock loop circuitry. A phase comparator compares, in phase, an input digital signal with a clock signal that has already been generated. A differential amplifier amplifies the difference between the output of the phase comparator and a reference voltage. A clock signal generator generates a clock signal to be supplied to the phase comparator, based on the amplified difference. An accumulator accumulates an amount of errors of the input digital signal. A voltage generator generates a reference voltage to be supplied to the differential amplifier within a range from a predetermined minimum voltage to a predetermined maximum voltage. The level of the generated reference voltage is adjusted according to the output of the accumulator. The operating point of the clock signal generator is controlled by the level-adjusted reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akinori Suyama
  • Publication number: 20040073610
    Abstract: A network connects first, second, and third apparatuses. The first apparatus generates a first list of contents represented by data stored therein. The second apparatus generates a second list of contents represented by data stored therein. The first apparatus gets the second list of contents from the second apparatus, and combines the first list of contents and the second list of contents into a third list of contents. The second apparatus gets the first list of contents from the first apparatus, and combines the first list of contents and the second list of contents into a fourth list of contents which is equal to the third list of contents. The third apparatus refers to one of (1) the third list of contents which is generated by the first apparatus and (2) the fourth list of contents which is generated by the second apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Terada, Yoshiaki Kakimura, Ryo Hirayama, Akinori Suyama, Kazuyuki Miyauchi