Patents by Inventor Hidehiko Ohki
Hidehiko Ohki 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).
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Patent number: 9797741Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a technique capable of appropriately determining whether a vehicle has entered a facility range. A navigation apparatus includes a storage, a position detector, and an entry determining unit. The storage stores map information including a facility range. The position detector detects a position of an own vehicle. The entry determining unit determines that, in a case where the position of the own vehicle detected by the position detector has entered an entry determination range associated with the facility range, the own vehicle has entered the facility range.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Nakae, Makoto Mikuriya, Hidehiko Ohki
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Patent number: 9478127Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of estimating a waiting time at an energy refilling facility for each of drive types. A center-side system includes a center-side receiver that receives, from a vehicle-side system, probe vehicle position information and drive type information that is information regarding a drive type of a probe vehicle. Then, the center-side system includes: a traffic condition estimation unit that estimates a traffic condition, which includes a drive type-classified number of vehicles, based on the probe vehicle position information and the drive type information, which are received by the center-side receiver; and a center-side transmitter that transmits, to an outside, the traffic condition estimated by the traffic condition estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki, Makoto Mikuriya
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Patent number: 9396658Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an on-vehicle information processing device that is capable of sufficiently calling attention of a driver of an own vehicle. The on-vehicle information processing device according to the present invention includes: an other-vehicle position detector that detects a position of another vehicle existing in a vicinity of an own vehicle; a communication unit that acquires, via communication, other-vehicle information including driver dynamic information from the other vehicle whose position is detected by the other-vehicle position detector, the driver dynamic information indicating a current state of activity of a driver of the other vehicle; and a controller that controls calling attention of a driver of the own vehicle or traveling of the own vehicle based on the driver dynamic information acquired by the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki, Makoto Mikuriya
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Publication number: 20160003638Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a technique capable of appropriately determining whether a vehicle has entered a facility range. A navigation apparatus includes a storage, a position detector, and an entry determining unit. The storage stores map information including a facility range. The position detector detects a position of an own vehicle. The entry determining unit determines that, in a case where the position of the own vehicle detected by the position detector has entered an entry determination range associated with the facility range, the own vehicle has entered the facility range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro NAKAE, Makoto MIKURIYA, Hidehiko OHKI
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Publication number: 20150206434Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an on-vehicle information processing device that is capable of sufficiently calling attention of a driver of an own vehicle. The on-vehicle information processing device according to the present invention includes: an other-vehicle position detector that detects a position of another vehicle existing in a vicinity of an own vehicle; a communication unit that acquires, via communication, other-vehicle information including driver dynamic information from the other vehicle whose position is detected by the other-vehicle position detector, the driver dynamic information indicating a current state of activity of a driver of the other vehicle; and a controller that controls calling attention of a driver of the own vehicle or traveling of the own vehicle based on the driver dynamic information acquired by the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki, Makoto Mikuriya
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Publication number: 20140207362Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of estimating a waiting time at an energy refilling facility for each of drive types. A center-side system includes a center-side receiver that receives, from a vehicle-side system, probe vehicle position information and drive type information that is information regarding a drive type of a probe vehicle. Then, the center-side system includes: a traffic condition estimation unit that estimates a traffic condition, which includes a drive type-classified number of vehicles, based on the probe vehicle position information and the drive type information, which are received by the center-side receiver; and a center-side transmitter that transmits, to an outside, the traffic condition estimated by the traffic condition estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2011Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki, Makoto Mikuriya
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Publication number: 20140207357Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a vehicle-side system capable of enhancing convenience for drivers who are driving vehicles having an auto-cruise function. A vehicle-side system of the present invention is mounted on a vehicle having an auto-cruise function and is capable of receiving traffic conditions from outside the vehicle. The vehicle-side system includes a position detector that detects vehicle position information that is information regarding the position of the vehicle, a receiver that receives traffic conditions, an auto-cruise setting unit that makes settings including a setting of a predetermined speed at which the auto-cruise function causes the vehicle to travel, and a controller that performs control to change the settings made by the auto-cruise setting unit on the basis of the traffic conditions received by the receiver, the settings in the auto-cruise setting unit, and the vehicle position information detected by the position detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki, Makoto Mikuriya
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Patent number: 7526492Abstract: For map data, a road system is represented by using node data, which is information concerning nodes representing points along a road, and link data, which is information concerning a link representing a road between the points. A link row is a series of links representing a series of roads in a road system, and as link row data, link data for the links that constitute the link row are arranged in the order in which the links are connected. The node data for the individual nodes of the road system are provided separately from the link row data, and to identify nodes, node identifiers are provided for the nodes of the road system. The link data includes information indicating a node identifier for a node that is located at one link end defined in the direction of the link row.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2004Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Mikuriya, Masaharu Umezu, Tomoya Ikeuchi, Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki
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Publication number: 20050058155Abstract: For map data, a road system is represented by using node data, which is information concerning nodes representing points along a road, and link data, which is information concerning a link representing a road between the points. A link row is a series of links representing a series of roads in a road system, and as link row data, link data for the links that constitute the link row are arranged in the order in which the links are connected. The node data for the individual nodes of the road system are provided separately from the link row data, and to identify nodes, node identifiers are provided for the nodes of the road system. The link data includes information indicating a node identifier for a node that is located at one link end defined in the direction of the link row.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Makoto Mikuriya, Masaharu Umezu, Tomoya Ikeuchi, Mitsuo Shimotani, Hidehiko Ohki
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Patent number: 6282493Abstract: Using a stored data in a map information storage section which is a storage medium such as a CD-ROM or the like, a vehicle navigation device comprises a schematic map calculation section which performs calculations of a schematic map of roads, a distance calculation section which calculates a distance from an arbitrary geographical point to a facility, a display selection section which selects a facility within a fixed distance from an arbitrary geographical point based on a calculation result in a distance calculation section, and a display control section which displays facilities selected from the display selection section and a schematic map obtained from the schematic map calculation section on a schematic map on a display section.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takakiyo Kitagawa, Hidehiko Ohki
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Patent number: 5908464Abstract: A traffic information display device including a current position detecting unit for detecting the current position of a vehicle in which the traffic information display device is mounted, a road map storing unit for storing road map data, a map display control unit for displaying a road map image associated with an area in the vicinity of the current position of the vehicle on the screen of a display device on the basis of the current position from the current position detecting unit and road map data from the road map storing unit, a traffic information receiving unit for receiving traffic information, a traffic information display control unit for displaying traffic information from the traffic information receiving unit on the road map image displayed on the screen of the display device, and a traffic information display restricting unit for restricting a display of traffic information about a predetermined area of the on-screen road map image so as to emphasize traffic information about the remaining areType: GrantFiled: April 30, 1997Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiju Kishigami, Katsuro Hayami, Hidehiko Ohki