Patents by Inventor Hideki Fukuhara
Hideki Fukuhara 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: 12235114Abstract: A routine-run-vehicle determination unit determines a route from a departure place to a destination of a following vehicle, and a plurality of routine-run vehicles in charge of a plurality of routine-run areas overlapping the route. For each of the routine-run vehicles, a route determination unit determines a routine-run route on which the following vehicle and another following vehicle that are going to travel in a routine-run area in charge can follow, and determines a portion of the routine-run route overlapping an adjacent routine-run area as a takeover position at which the following vehicle is taken over to the next routine-run vehicle. A reservation management unit transmits routine-run-vehicle reservation data including identification information of the following vehicle, and the routine-run route and the takeover position to each of the routine-run vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideki Fukuhara, Yoshihiro Nakai
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Publication number: 20240233388Abstract: A data extraction device, which extracts an image for transmission from images obtained by capturing surroundings outside a vehicle with an imaging device mounted on the vehicle each time the vehicle travels an extraction distance, includes: processing circuitry configured to acquire an image obtained by capturing the surroundings outside the vehicle; determine, as an object to be analyzed, an image captured at a position advanced by the extraction distance from a position at which a previously extracted image has been captured, and calculate an obstruction distance which indicates an actual distance from an imaging start position of the image having been determined as the object to be analyzed to a position of an obstruction included in the determined image; output the calculated obstruction distance as a next extraction distance; and extract the image that has been determined as the object to be analyzed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei KAMADA, Hideki FUKUHARA, Masahiro NAKATSUKASA
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Patent number: 12034818Abstract: The in-vehicle information processing device includes: a vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information including update information of software mounted in a vehicle and charge information of a battery, from an associated ECU, and determining a process not allowing the vehicle to travel and a recommended return time which is time when the vehicle is allowed to travel; a user action state estimation unit for acquiring a position of the vehicle and a user operation condition from an associated ECU, and estimating a user action state; and a user notification information generation unit for generating user notification information including information for assisting the user in action determination, on the basis of the process not allowing the vehicle to travel and the recommended return time, and the user action state.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Higashino, Ayako Inoue, Tsubasa Morita, Masahiro Nakatsukasa, Hideki Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20240135717Abstract: A data extraction device, which extracts an image for transmission from images obtained by capturing surroundings outside a vehicle with an imaging device mounted on the vehicle each time the vehicle travels an extraction distance, includes: processing circuitry configured to acquire an image obtained by capturing the surroundings outside the vehicle; determine, as an object to be analyzed, an image captured at a position advanced by the extraction distance from a position at which a previously extracted image has been captured, and calculate an obstruction distance which indicates an actual distance from an imaging start position of the image having been determined as the object to be analyzed to a position of an obstruction included in the determined image; output the calculated obstruction distance as a next extraction distance; and extract the image that has been determined as the object to be analyzed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei KAMADA, Hideki FUKUHARA, Masahiro NAKATSUKASA
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Patent number: 11854274Abstract: An in-vehicle monitoring information generation control device includes: an image acquisition unit acquiring an image generated by capturing the inside of an unmanned vehicle; an abnormality determination unit determining whether or not an abnormality is occurring in the unmanned vehicle; an in-vehicle monitoring information generating unit generating in-vehicle monitoring information, with which no passenger in the unmanned vehicle who is captured in the image can be identified, on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquisition unit; and a transmission control unit transmitting the in-vehicle monitoring information generated by the in-vehicle monitoring information generating unit to the outside of the unmanned vehicle in a case where it is determined that no abnormality is occurring in the unmanned vehicle on the basis of a determination result determined by the abnormality determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideki Fukuhara, Yoshitaka Wakisaka
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Publication number: 20230344911Abstract: The in-vehicle information processing device includes: a vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information including update information of software mounted in a vehicle and charge information of a battery, from an associated ECU, and determining a process not allowing the vehicle to travel and a recommended return time which is time when the vehicle is allowed to travel; a user action state estimation unit for acquiring a position of the vehicle and a user operation condition from an associated ECU, and estimating a user action state; and a user notification information generation unit for generating user notification information including information for assisting the user in action determination, on the basis of the process not allowing the vehicle to travel and the recommended return time, and the user action state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tetsuya HIGASHINO, Ayako INOUE, Tsubasa MORITA, Masahiro NAKATSUKASA, Hideki FUKUHARA
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Patent number: 11640728Abstract: A transmission determination unit determines whether or not transmission of common information is impossible, by using a throughput that is required when the common information is transmitted, a throughput that is estimated from a communication state with a vehicular server, and a processing load of an in-vehicle information device. A transmission unit transmits vehicle-side information to the vehicular server at a set transmission timing, and, when the above transmission is determined to be impossible by the transmission determination unit, transmits a transmission impossible message to the vehicular server.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideki Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20230069005Abstract: A convoy forming unit uses driving control information collected from vehicles to determine a traveling order in a convoy of the vehicles so that vehicles that can be leading vehicles are disposed at a head of the convoy and an inside of the convoy. When notified of occurrence of a cut-in vehicle from any of the vehicles performing convoy travel in accordance with the traveling order, a convoy managing unit uses the driving control information to determine a new leading vehicle from among following vehicles, and divides the convoy into a first convoy ahead of the cut-in vehicle and a second convoy behind the cut-in vehicle. A convoy control unit notifies the new leading vehicle of traveling control information including an instruction to cause the cut-in vehicle to cut in front of the new leading vehicle and an instruction to be a leading vehicle of the second convoy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ayako OYANAGI, Yoshihiro NAKAI, Masao IWATA, Hideki FUKUHARA
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Publication number: 20220357164Abstract: A routine-run-vehicle determination unit (302) determines a route from a departure place to a destination of a following vehicle, and a plurality of routine-run vehicles in charge of a plurality of routine-run areas overlapping the route. For each of the routine-run vehicles determined by the routine-run-vehicle determination unit (302), a route determination unit (303) determines a routine-run route on which the following vehicle and another following vehicle that are going to travel in a routine-run area in charge can follow, and determines a portion of the routine-run route overlapping an adjacent routine-run area as a takeover position at which the following vehicle is taken over to the next routine-run vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideki FUKUHARA, Yoshihiro NAKAI
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Publication number: 20210209384Abstract: An in-vehicle monitoring information generation control device includes: an image acquisition unit acquiring an image generated by capturing the inside of an unmanned vehicle; an abnormality determination unit determining whether or not an abnormality is occurring in the unmanned vehicle; an in-vehicle monitoring information generating unit generating in-vehicle monitoring information, with which no passenger in the unmanned vehicle who is captured in the image can be identified, on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquisition unit; and a transmission control unit transmitting the in-vehicle monitoring information generated by the in-vehicle monitoring information generating unit to the outside of the unmanned vehicle in a case where it is determined that no abnormality is occurring in the unmanned vehicle on the basis of a determination result determined by the abnormality determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideki FUKUHARA, Yoshitaka WAKISAKA
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Publication number: 20200160621Abstract: A transmission determination unit determines whether or not transmission of common information is impossible, by using a throughput that is required when the common information is transmitted, a throughput that is estimated from a communication state with a vehicular server, and a processing load of an in-vehicle information device. A transmission unit transmits vehicle-side information to the vehicular server at a set transmission timing, and, when the above transmission is determined to be impossible by the transmission determination unit, transmits a transmission impossible message to the vehicular server.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki FUKUHARA
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Patent number: 10091624Abstract: Each of data receiving devices 20 includes a receiver 22 configured to receive data from a data providing device 10, and a transmitter 21 configured to transmit throughput information indicating a current position and a throughput, to the data providing device 10. The data providing device 10 includes: a receiver 11 configured to receive pieces of the throughput information; a planning unit 12 configured to, on the basis of the received pieces of throughput information, determine preceding data receiving devices 20 existing at positions preceding the current position of a target data receiving device 20 on the same route, and generate a data providing plan for the target data receiving device 20 on the basis of the throughputs of the preceding data receiving devices 20; and a transmitter 13 configured to provide data to the target data receiving device 20 in accordance with the generated data providing plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20170339532Abstract: Each of data receiving devices 20 includes a receiver 22 configured to receive data from a data providing device 10, and a transmitter 21 configured to transmit throughput information indicating a current position and a throughput, to the data providing device 10. The data providing device 10 includes: a receiver 11 configured to receive pieces of the throughput information; a planning unit 12 configured to, on the basis of the received pieces of throughput information, determine preceding data receiving devices 20 existing at positions preceding the current position of a target data receiving device 20 on the same route, and generate a data providing plan for the target data receiving device 20 on the basis of the throughputs of the preceding data receiving devices 20; and a transmitter 13 configured to provide data to the target data receiving device 20 in accordance with the generated data providing plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2014Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideki FUKUHARA
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Patent number: 9792081Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, in a display device having a plurality of displays arranged therein and causing a whole of said plurality of displays to display a single display screen, a plurality of typical small-size displays can be cascaded even on a portion where their shapes and the number of displays are arbitrary, and the whole of the displays can be caused to produce a single screen display while synchronization is achieved among the display timings.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20170238196Abstract: The network connection information about a mobile communication terminal 30 is notified from a tablet terminal 20 joining a network B provided by the mobile communication terminal 30 to an HU 10 via short-range wireless communications. The dual-mode HU 10 uses the network connection information, notified from the tablet terminal 20, to configure anew a network C which the HU 10, the tablet terminal 20 and the mobile communication terminal 30 join.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiro NAKATSUKASA, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Hideki FUKUHARA, Takehisa MIZUGUCHI
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Patent number: 9686754Abstract: An onboard wireless communication apparatus 10 includes an in-vehicle informing processor that transmits information that enables a wireless set 20 to recognize that it is located inside a vehicle 100 to the wireless set 20 which is about to carry out wireless communication with a first wireless communication apparatus 11a serving as a communication partner, and which controls, when the wireless set 20 recognizes that it is located inside the vehicle 100, its transmit power in a manner preventing an excessive receiving power level of a second communication apparatus 11b that is carrying out, besides the first wireless communication apparatus 11a, wireless communication inside the vehicle 100 by a wireless communication technique using the same frequency band as the first wireless communication apparatus 11a.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Fukuhara, Takeshi Mitsui, Yoshihiro Nakai, Hiroyuki Yokota
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Publication number: 20160124699Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, in a display device having a plurality of displays arranged therein and causing a whole of said plurality of displays to display a single display screen, a plurality of typical small-size displays can be cascaded even on a portion where their shapes and the number of displays are arbitrary, and the whole of the displays can be caused to produce a single screen display while synchronization is achieved among the display timings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2013Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki FUKUHARA
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Publication number: 20160078664Abstract: An image synthesizing apparatus, when synthesizing graphic images a plurality of apparatuses draw, transmits timing request information from the image synthesizing apparatus to the individual drawing apparatuses to fix the timing. Thus, even when graphic images the plurality of apparatuses draw and transmit continuously have a different number of frames, the image synthesizing apparatus can synthesize and display them while synchronizing so far as the timing of changes in an animation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takehisa MIZUGUCHI, Takeshi MITSUI, Hideki FUKUHARA, Yasuaki TAKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20150208364Abstract: An onboard wireless communication apparatus 10 includes an in-vehicle informing processor that transmits information that enables a wireless set 20 to recognize that it is located inside a vehicle 100 to the wireless set 20 which is about to carry out wireless communication with a first wireless communication apparatus 11a serving as a communication partner, and which controls, when the wireless set 20 recognizes that it is located inside the vehicle 100, its transmit power in a manner preventing an excessive receiving power level of a second communication apparatus 11b that is carrying out, besides the first wireless communication apparatus 11a, wireless communication inside the vehicle 100 by a wireless communication technique using the same frequency band as the first wireless communication apparatus 11a.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Fukuhara, Takeshi Mitsui, Yoshihiro Nakai, Hiroyuki Yokota
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Publication number: 20130103781Abstract: A mobile communication device is mounted on a vehicle, and has a reception unit for receiving a distributed cache that is data having divided information, a distributed cache restoration unit for restoring the distributed cache into original information, a data dividing unit for producing the distributed cache by dividing the information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the distributed cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Mori, Takeshi Mitsui, Hideki Fukuhara, Yoshio Todoroki