Patents by Inventor Harumasa Hojo

Harumasa Hojo 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: 8912949
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a system with which 3-dimensional position can be accurately measured. Plural UWB transmitter-receivers (1), periodically transmitting PN codes of M system and preliminarily disposed on known positions are provided, a server (3) to synchronize the plural UWB transmitter-receivers (1) is provided, an RF tag (T), attached to a moving object (20) as to receive signals (I0) synchronously and periodically transmitted from the UWB transmitter-receivers (1) and reflect the signals (I0) adding inherent tag recognition signal, is provided, and the UWB transmitter-receiver (1) is composed as to obtain the distance to the moving object (20) attached with the RF tag (T) by synchronous summation and correlative calculation of the PN codes of M system reflected by the RF tag (T).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, Git Japan Incorporated, Sensorcomm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Hirata, Nobuo Nakajima, Shogo Ida, Harumasa Hojo
  • Publication number: 20120176272
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a system with which 3-dimensional position can be accurately measured. Plural UWB transmitter-receivers (1), periodically transmitting PN codes of M system and preliminarily disposed on known positions are provided, a server (3) to synchronize the plural UWB transmitter-receivers (1) is provided, an RF tag (T), attached to a moving object (20) as to receive signals (I0) synchronously and periodically transmitted from the UWB transmitter-receivers (1) and reflect the signals (I0) adding inherent tag recognition signal, is provided, and the UWB transmitter-receiver (1) is composed as to obtain the distance to the moving object (20) attached with the RF tag (T) by synchronous summation and correlative calculation of the PN codes of M system reflected by the RF tag (T).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Seiichiro Hirata, Nobuo Nakajima, Shogo Ida, Harumasa Hojo
  • Patent number: 4903212
    Abstract: In a global positioning system (GPS)/self-contained combination type navigation system for a vehicle, the GPS navigation data are received by the GPS antenna of the navigation system which are simultaneously transmitted from more than 3 pieces of satellites inclusively. From the GPS navigation data, GPS type velocity data is calculated, whereas self-contained type velocity data is calculated from self-contained type navigation data such as azimuth data and drive-distance data of the vehicle. Only when a difference between the self-contained type velocity data and the GPS type velocity data exceeds a threshold velocity, the GPS type velocity data is voided so as to determine the present position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Radio Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yokouchi, Tatsumi Kageyama, Chogo Sekine, Harumasa Hojo, Koji Yamada, Makoto Mikuriya, Seiichiro Hirata