Patents by Inventor Chikashi ITO

Chikashi ITO 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: 20250212846
    Abstract: A free-range livestock management server apparatus acquires information related to an individual animal or a location; identifies the individual animal based on acquired information; identifies location based on acquired information; grasps condition of individual animal or the location based on acquired information; monitors an abnormal condition of the individual animal or the location based on acquired information; sorts the information related to identified individual animal, identified location, grasped condition, and monitored abnormal condition for the identified individual animal or the identified location to associate each piece of the information with the identified individual animal or the identified location; stores the sorted and associated information; determines urgency of information related to abnormal condition of the individual animal or the location among the stored information based on a preset criterion; and creates notification information based on the information determined urgent to t
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicants: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTMES, LTD., SHINSHU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chikashi ITO, Kenichi ABE, Norihiko KAMATA, Tetsuya ITO, Akira MATSUMOTO, Momo SUTO, Satoki UENO, Masakazu KANEDA, Kenichi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20250111692
    Abstract: Images of a livestock are taken, identifiers of the livestock are acquired, and the identifiers acquired and the images taken are stored in association with one another in a storage part. The images of the livestock identified by the same identifier, which had taken at different time points, are compared. Replacement of the livestock identified by the same identifier is reported when a change in the livestock that cannot occur during a predetermined time span is detected as a result of comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systerns, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiko KAMATA, Masakazu Kaneda, Kenichi ABE, Akira MATSUMOTO, Satoki UENO, Tetsuya ITO, Chikashi ITO, Momo SUTO
  • Publication number: 20250040518
    Abstract: There is provided a health condition determination apparatus including: a behavior data acquisition part that acquires behavior data indicating a behavior of an animal acquired by executing at least one of monitoring and sensing on the animal; a behavior data accumulation part that accumulates the behavior data; and a health condition estimation part that estimates a health condition of the animal by using the behavior data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu KANEDA, Kenichi ABE, Momo SUTO, Chikashi ITO, Tetsuya ITO, Akira MATSUMOTO, Norihiko KAMATA, Satoki UENO
  • Publication number: 20250021917
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes: an evaluation method acquisition part configured to acquire evaluation method data from an evaluation method provision apparatus; an evaluation criteria creation part configured to create evaluation criteria information for evaluating collected information that integrates data collected from a field management system that manages field information based on the evaluation method data; an evaluation processing part configured to evaluate the collected information based on the evaluation criteria information and create an evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira MATSUMOTO, Momo Suto, Kenichi Abe, Chikashi Ito, Tetsuya Ito, Norihiko Kamata, Masakazu Kaneda, Satoki Ueno
  • Patent number: 12080027
    Abstract: Provided is an article position management apparatus that a receiver receives image data from a camera apparatus and that identifies a position of an article, based on an article marker attached to an article and a reference point marker whose coordinate information in an absolute coordinate system in a field is set in advance, the article marker and the reference point marker being included in the image data, when the camera apparatus is a mobile camera apparatus, and identifies the position of the article, based on the article marker included in the image, when the camera apparatus is a fixed camera apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Communication Systems, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hasegawa, Masahito Iwai, Kenichi Abe, Tetsuya Ito, Chikashi Ito
  • Patent number: 11380226
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of setting light emission control of each light emission tool in an area more easily. The method of setting light emission control of each tool in an area of the present invention includes: a light emitting step of transmitting a freely-selected ID signal (Sn) to a plurality of tools in an area and emit light in response to receipt of corresponding ID signals to cause a tool (En) that has received the signal (Sn) to emit light; an imaging step of acquiring a light emission image (En) of the area after the signal (Sn) has been transmitted; a determining step of determining a position of the tool (En) that emitted light in the area based on the image (En); and a storing step of storing the position of the tool (En) in the area and the corresponding signal (Sn).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Waga, Chikashi Ito, Tetsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20220058826
    Abstract: Provided is an article position management apparatus that a receiver receives image data from a camera apparatus and that identifies a position of an article, based on an article marker attached to an article and a reference point marker whose coordinate information in an absolute coordinate system in a field is set in advance, the article marker and the reference point marker being included in the image data, when the camera apparatus is a mobile camera apparatus, and identifies the position of the article, based on the article marker included in the image, when the camera apparatus is a fixed camera apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro HASEGAWA, Masahito IWAI, Kenichi ABE, Tetsuya ITO, Chikashi ITO
  • Publication number: 20210400452
    Abstract: An in-vehicle control apparatus controls a plurality of repeaters included in an in-vehicle network assembled in a vehicle, based on a control scenario(s) associated with states of the vehicle and control contents, each of which is set in a corresponding one of the plurality of repeaters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki BABA, Akira MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya ITO, Chikashi ITO, Tetsuji KAWATSU, Takurn NOMURA, Katsuyuki AKIZUKI, Yuji HARADA
  • Publication number: 20210282250
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of setting light emission control of each light emission tool in an area more easily. The method of setting light emission control of each light emission tool in an area of the present invention includes: a light emitting step of transmitting a freely-selected ID signal (Sn) to a plurality of light emission tools that are randomly disposed in an area and emit light in response to receipt of corresponding ID signals to cause a light emission tool (En) that has received the ID signal (Sn) to emit light; an imaging step of acquiring a light emission image (En) of the area after the ID signal (Sn) has been transmitted; a determining step of determining a position of the light emission tool (En) that emitted light in response to receipt of the ID signal (Sn) in the area based on the light emission image (En); and a storing step of storing the position of the light emission tool (En) in the area and the corresponding ID signal (Sn) in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao WAGA, Chikashi ITO, Tetsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20200342758
    Abstract: A drive assistance device includes: a collection unit that collects, from a sensor, own-vehicle-state-information representing a state related to a movement of an own vehicle and a position of the own vehicle; a communication unit that transmits the own-vehicle-state-information to another vehicle, and also receiving another-vehicle-state-information representing a state related to a movement of the another vehicle and a position of the another vehicle, from the another vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether a problem occurs in relation to the another vehicle, based on the another-vehicle-state-information being received; and a generation unit that generates, when the determination unit determines that the problem occurs in relation to the another vehicle, improvement operation information representing an operation of the own vehicle capable of improving the problem related to the another vehicle, based on the own-vehicle-state-information and the another-vehicle-state-information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: NEC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki BABA, Akira MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya ITO, Chikashi ITO