Patents by Inventor Atsushi Fukuzato

Atsushi Fukuzato 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: 20240060338
    Abstract: A first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a door lock control apparatus (10) including an on-site image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an on-site image generated by a camera for capturing a site where a reserved vehicle is present, an on-site sensing unit (12) that senses that a reserving person is present on the site, based on the on-site image, and a release command output unit (13) that outputs, when it is sensed that the reserving person is present on the site, a command of releasing a door lock of the reserved vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuki AKUTSU, Atsushi Fukuzato, Daisuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11783602
    Abstract: An object recognition system 80 includes: a recognition device 30 that recognizes an object in an image; and a server 40 that generates a learning model. The recognition device 30 includes: a first object recognition unit 310 that determines a type of the object in the image using the learning model; and an image transmission unit 320 that transmits a type-indeterminable image, which is an image in which the type has not been determined, to the server 40 when an object included in the type-indeterminable image is an object detected as a three-dimensional object. The server 40 includes: a learning device 410 that generates the learning model based on training data in which a teacher label is assigned to the type-indeterminable image; and a learning model transmission unit 420 that transmits the generated learning model to the recognition device 30. The first object recognition unit 310 determines the type of the object in the image using the transmitted learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Futatsugi, Yoshihiro Mishima, Atsushi Fukuzato, Jun Nakayamada, Kenji Sobata
  • Publication number: 20230091500
    Abstract: An image generation apparatus (20) includes an acquisition unit (210) and a data processing unit (220). The acquisition unit (210) repeatedly acquires analysis data from at least one sending apparatus (10). The analysis data include at least type data and relative position data. The data processing unit (220) generates, each time analysis data are acquired, a reconfigured image by using the analysis data, and causes a display (230) to display the reconfigured image. Further, the data processing unit (220) requests the sending apparatus (10) for a captured image, when a criterion is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki ITSUKAICHI, Atsushi FUKUZATO, Yasunori FUTATSUGI, Daisuke WATANABE, Yuichi YANAGIHARA, Nobuo FUWA
  • Patent number: 11586856
    Abstract: An object recognition device 80 includes a scene determination unit 81, a learning-model selection unit 82, and an object recognition unit 83. The scene determination unit 81 determines, based on information obtained during driving of a vehicle, a scene of the vehicle. The learning-model selection unit 82 selects, in accordance with the determined scene, a learning model to be used for object recognition from two or more learning models. The object recognition unit 83 recognizes, using the selected learning model, an object in an image to be photographed during driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Futatsugi, Yoshihiro Mishima, Atsushi Fukuzato, Jun Nakayamada, Kenji Sobata
  • Publication number: 20220349219
    Abstract: A first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a door lock control apparatus (10) including an on-site image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an on-site image generated by a camera for capturing a site where a reserved vehicle is present, an on-site sensing unit (12) that senses that a reserving person is present on the site, based on the on-site image, and a release command output unit (13) that outputs, when it is sensed that the reserving person is present on the site, a command of releasing a door lock of the reserved vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuki AKUTSU, Atsushi Fukuzato, Daisuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220001858
    Abstract: A dangerous scene prediction device 80 for predicting a dangerous scene occurring during driving of a vehicle includes a learning model selection/synthesis unit 81 and a dangerous scene prediction unit 82. The learning model selection/synthesis unit 81 selects, from two or more learning models, a learning model used for predicting the dangerous scene, depending on a scene determined based on information obtained during the driving of the vehicle. The dangerous scene prediction unit 82 predicts the dangerous scene occurring during the driving of the vehicle, using the selected learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori FUTATSUGI, Yoshihiro MISHIMA, Atsushi FUKUZATO, Jun NAKAYAMADA, Kenji SOBATA, Yuki CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20210390283
    Abstract: An object recognition system 80 includes: a recognition device 30 that recognizes an object in an image; and a server 40 that generates a learning model. The recognition device 30 includes: a first object recognition unit 310 that determines a type of the object in the image using the learning model; and an image transmission unit 320 that transmits a type-indeterminable image, which is an image in which the type has not been determined, to the server 40 when an object included in the type-indeterminable image is an object detected as a three-dimensional object. The server 40 includes: a learning device 410 that generates the learning model based on training data in which a teacher label is assigned to the type-indeterminable image; and a learning model transmission unit 420 that transmits the generated learning model to the recognition device 30. The first object recognition unit 310 determines the type of the object in the image using the transmitted learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori FUTATSUGI, Yoshihiro MISHIMA, Atsushi FUKUZATO, Jun NAKAYAMADA, Kenji SOBATA
  • Publication number: 20210390353
    Abstract: An object recognition device 80 includes a scene determination unit 81, a learning-model selection unit 82, and an object recognition unit 83. The scene determination unit 81 determines, based on information obtained during driving of a vehicle, a scene of the vehicle. The learning-model selection unit 82 selects, in accordance with the determined scene, a learning model to be used for object recognition from two or more learning models. The object recognition unit 83 recognizes, using the selected learning model, an object in an image to be photographed during driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori FUTATSUGI, Yoshihiro MISHIMA, Atsushi FUKUZATO, Jun NAKAYAMADA, Kenji SOBATA
  • Patent number: 9107024
    Abstract: A device control middleware 130 in a mobile terminal 10 converts ability information and input information (for example, pressing of a key) of various input devices of the mobile terminal 10 into an analyzable form, and transmits the converted information to a PC 20. A virtual device middleware 230 in the PC 20 analyzes the information received from the device control middleware 130 and supplies the information extracted by the analysis as input information of a JAVA application 250.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NEC MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Publication number: 20140099937
    Abstract: A device control middleware 130 in a mobile terminal 10 converts ability information and input information (for example, pressing of a key) of various input devices of the mobile terminal 10 into an analyzable form, and transmits the converted information to a PC 20. A virtual device middleware 230 in the PC 20 analyzes the information received from the device control middleware 130 and supplies the information extracted by the analysis as input information of a JAVA application 250.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi FUKUZATO
  • Patent number: 8615558
    Abstract: An e-mail reception control system is provided for improving a convenience during international roaming and reducing unnecessary communication charges. The e-mail reception control system includes an e-mail reception control system including a mobile terminal which transmits filter information which is set in an own terminal and is referred to for determining whether to permit or reject a reception of an e-mail to a server in response to detecting international roaming and a server which controls a distribution of the e-mail to the mobile terminal based on the filter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Publication number: 20110219092
    Abstract: An e-mail reception control system is provided for improving a convenience during international roaming and reducing unnecessary communication charges. The e-mail reception control system includes an e-mail reception control system including a mobile terminal which transmits filter information which is set in an own terminal and is referred to for determining whether to permit or reject a reception of an e-mail to a server in response to detecting international roaming and a server which controls a distribution of the e-mail to the mobile terminal based on the filter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Patent number: 7584300
    Abstract: An information processing server includes a server storage device in which plural objects are stored. Each object includes the unique information and the URL for accessing to an information processing server for updating. A mobile terminal transmits an install request including an install list. In the install list, the information unique to an object, as needed for installation, among plural objects, and the URL, are stated by the mobile terminal. The information processing server refers to the install list to select objects to be transmitted, from the plural objects stored in a server storage device, and transmits the selected object to the mobile terminal. Thus, the user only has to select the URL and the information unique to the needed object, as an object desired to be actually used, with the aid of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Patent number: 7313522
    Abstract: A system for providing a particular voice to a received e-mail includes a portable terminal and a server. The portable terminal attaches a voice sampling name to the text data and transmits it to a server. The server receives the text data and the voice sampling name from the portable terminal, converts the received text data into voice synthesis data by using voice sampling data corresponding to the voice sampling name, and transmits the voice synthesis data to the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Patent number: 7187919
    Abstract: A backup method of applications of a portable cellular phone is provided which is capable of preventing the applications from being copied by a person being not an owner of the portable cellular phone. The application of the portable cellular phone to be backed up is saved in the backup device and, when the application saved in the backup device is used as backup data for the portable cellular phone, a manufacture serial number and/or a phone number of the portable cellular phone are compared and, only when these numbers match each other, the application for the backup is copied in the portable cellular phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Patent number: 6915115
    Abstract: A character inputting method for a handy phone or similar terminal unit uses a first and a second button capable of being pressed or shifted independently of each other. The user of the terminal unit operates the first button and/or second button to scroll characters appearing on a display either in the forward direction or in the backward direction, selects desired one of the characters, and fixes it. When the user presses the two buttons at the same time, the existing one of the vertical and horizontal scroll directions is replaced with the other direction. The user selects the desired character by the forward or backward scroll and then shifts the first or the second button to fix the character. A device for practicing the character inputting method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Publication number: 20040205147
    Abstract: A client terminal, which is specifically a mobile terminal, receives shared data from a server terminal and issues a request for receiving the data. The shared data in the server terminal can be obtained by the client terminal, and the shared data can be regarded as data virtually held in the client terminal. The server terminal releases shared data to the client terminal and functions as hardware of any type (including a mobile terminal) having a radio communication unit. In this way, by sharing data, a mobile terminal data memory sharing system, in which a data area in a mobile terminal can be effectively used, can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Publication number: 20040147253
    Abstract: An information processing server includes a server storage device in which plural objects are stored. Each object includes the unique information and the URL for accessing to an information processing server for updating. A mobile terminal transmits an install request including an install list. In the install list, the information unique to an object, as needed for installation, among plural objects, and the URL, are stated by the mobile terminal. The information processing server refers to the install list to select objects to be transmitted, from the plural objects stored in a server storage device, and transmits the selected object to the mobile terminal. Thus, the user only has to select the URL and the information unique to the needed object, as an object desired to be actually used, with the aid of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Publication number: 20030088419
    Abstract: The present invention provides a voice synthesis system comprising a portable terminal and a server to enhance reality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato
  • Publication number: 20030040301
    Abstract: A transmitting side terminal records voice data, and transmits the recorded voice data together with a control signal for controlling the operation of the receiving side terminal. The receiving side terminal does storage and reproduction of the voice data on the basis of the received control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventor: Atsushi Fukuzato