Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Nagatomo

Hideyuki Nagatomo 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: 9047772
    Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle device which can build a charge system which can charge in accordance with use of advertisement information. The on-vehicle device stores uplink information including some or all of information indicating whether the advertisement information is received, information indicating whether the received advertisement information is displayed, and information indicating whether a vehicle (C) has stopped before reaching an advertisement object point indicated by the advertisement information. Each of the information is made to be a charging object for advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventors: Souju Goto, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 9002878
    Abstract: A roadside device is provided with a corresponding table where an item of a new version of a taste data table assumed user taste information from an item of an old version of the taste data table. Item numbers “52”, “53”, “62” and “63” in the old version of the taste table, for example, are made to correspond to item numbers “52”, “53” and “63” in the new version of the taste table. An ITS vehicle-mounted device sets user taste data in the updated item numbers to default values of the items in the new version for a transmitting-destination user of the taste data table of the new version and transmits the default data to an ITS vehicle-mounted device of the transmitting-destination user. Thereby, a proper default value is set for a version change of the taste data table in the roadside apparatus, reducing user's input trouble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nagatomo, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Nobuyuki Hotta, Hideo Shimoshimano, Takuya Ogura
  • Patent number: 8903642
    Abstract: A vehicle (12) starts from the front of a home (11a) and moves to a destination (11b). An area (area—1) with the home (11a) at the center is an area where the position of the home (11a) is estimated to be easily specified, and a road (13a) to be searched is a road required for searching a moving route of the vehicle (12). An in-vehicle device (200) does not transmit position information or the like acquired in the area (area—1) in response to a request of position information from a road side device (100). The in-vehicle device (200) transmits the position information or the like on the vehicle (12) acquired after the vehicle (12) moves out of the area (area—1) to the road side device (100). The position information on the vehicle is transmitted to the road side device by protecting personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventors: Souju Goto, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8903600
    Abstract: An ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) sends/receives data in multi-content form. As a vehicle enters the communication area of a roadside apparatus (11), past drop-in place information is sent to the device (17) so that the driver can receive beneficial advertisement information. Places where the power of the ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) is turned off may be registered as past drop-in places contained in said past drop-in place information, and places of an idling stop may also be registered in the past drop-in place information. Highly accurate past drop-in place information can be produced by not registering when the stop time is short at a place where the power of the ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) is turned off or when a place is on the road right before an intersection as indicated by comparison with map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8706057
    Abstract: When notification information about a company code is received from a center device, a control unit of an in-vehicle device refers to uplink information which is generated for each qualified delivery company and stored in a storage unit and cross-checks the company code included in the uplink information with the received company code (step S8). Only when those are identical, the uplink information corresponding to the company code to which it is judged that those are identical is read out from the storage unit and written in an uplink information storage area of the storage unit of a DSRC unit (step S9). Security on content information delivery is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8571792
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation device which can automatically display on a map screen, an icon of a facility, information of which is not held in the navigation device. According to the navigation device (2), when it is judged that content information received from a roadside radio device (1) contains “object facility coordinate information” and “icon image information”, these information are written into a facility information table (252). When displaying a map screen and an existing facility icon on a display unit (22), it is judged whether the facility information table (252) contains facility icon information having coordinate information contained within a range indicated by the map screen. If YES, the corresponding facility icon is overlay-displayed on the map screen and the existing facility icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Souju Goto, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8471729
    Abstract: A road-vehicle communication system enabling resumption of the transmission/reception from the rest of data between the vehicle and the road if the transmission/reception is interrupted. Specifically, the road-vehicle communication system includes a roadside apparatus for distributing a content and a vehicle-mounted device which can play a distributed content, the roadside apparatus is connected communicatively with the vehicle-mounted device, and a series of contents are distributed from the roadside apparatus to the vehicle-mounted device. The roadside apparatus includes a control unit for determining a content which the roadside apparatus starts transmitting to the vehicle-mounted device, which is a communication party, from among the series of contents and distributing the other contents succeeding the determined transmission start content. Thus, if the transmission/reception of data between the road and vehicle is interrupted, the transmission/reception can be resumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Kouji Kuga, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8432295
    Abstract: A utterance type road traffic information providing system comprises a roadside apparatus (100) installed along a road where vehicles travel, in a parking lot, or near a parking lot and adapted for transmitting alarm information by wireless communication, a utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) adapted for receiving the alarm information by wireless communication from the roadside apparatus (100) and outputting the alarm information and mounted in the vehicle, and a administration server (300) for communicating various information with the roadside apparatus (100). The utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) has a predetermined operating unit and a control unit. The control unit provides again a utterance type output from the beginning by sound according to the alarm information supplied from the roadside apparatus (100) when a predetermined operation of the operating unit is made. By a simple method, the alarm information is again confirmed (re-outputted).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Masahiro Ueno, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8400331
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device (10) which receives and outputs a radio wave containing at least direction information as information includes: detection means which detects the radio wave; and control means which compares the detection direction received from the direction detection means which detects the direction of the vehicle head to the direction information so as to judge whether the information is to be outputted. Thus, it is possible to provide a vehicle-mounted device which can provide only the information required by a user, a method for outputting the information, and an information providing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20130009794
    Abstract: A vehicle (12) starts from the front of a home (11a) and moves to a destination (11b). An area (area—1) with the home (11a) at the center is an area where the position of the home (11a) is estimated to be easily specified, and a road (13a) to be searched is a road required for searching a moving route of the vehicle (12). An in-vehicle device (200) does not transmit position information or the like acquired in the area (area—1) in response to a request of position information from a road side device (100). The in-vehicle device (200) transmits the position information or the like on the vehicle (12) acquired after the vehicle (12) moves out of the area (area—1) to the road side device (100). The position information on the vehicle is transmitted to the road side device by protecting personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KENWOOD
    Inventors: Souju GOTO, Hideyuki NAGATOMO
  • Patent number: 8319661
    Abstract: An information distribution system includes a roadside apparatus which transmits an utterance type provided information containing audio instruction information based on a traveling direction to be provided by the utterance type provided information. When an vehicle-mounted device receives an utterance type provided information via a communication unit from the roadside apparatus, the vehicle-mounted device outputs different utterance type provided information by an audio in accordance with the audio instruction in-formation contained in the received utterance type provided information, so that a vehicle driver can judge whether the information provided from the roadside apparatus is significant information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8316042
    Abstract: A roadside device (15) is provided with a corresponding table in the case where there is an item of a new version of a taste data table to take over from user taste information in an item of an old version of the taste data table. In the corresponding table, item numbers “52”, “53”, “62” and “63” in the old version of the taste table, for example, are made to correspond to item numbers “52”, “53” and “63” in the new version of the taste table. An ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) sets user taste data in the item numbers of the old version corresponding to the item numbers of the new version to default values of the items in the new version for a transmitting-destination user of the taste data table of the new version and transmits the default data to an ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) of the transmitting-destination user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nagatomo, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Nobuyuki Hotta, Hideo Shimoshimano, Takuya Ogura
  • Patent number: 8296057
    Abstract: A vehicle (12) starts from the front of a home (11a) and moves to a destination (11b). An area (area—1) with the home (11a) at the center is an area where the position of the home (11a) is estimated to be easily specified, and a road (13a) to be searched is a road required for searching a moving route of the vehicle (12). An in-vehicle device (200) does not transmit position information or the like acquired in the area (area—1) in response to a request of position information from a road side device (100). The in-vehicle device (200) transmits the position information or the like on the vehicle (12) acquired after the vehicle (12) moves out of the area (area—1) to the road side device (100). The position information on the vehicle is transmitted to the road side device by protecting personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Souju Goto, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8289188
    Abstract: An utterance type road traffic information providing device (system) provided with a roadside apparatus (100) set on a road where a vehicle travels, at a parking lot or a place adjacent to the parking lot for transmitting alarm information by wireless communication, an utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) mounted on a vehicle for receiving the alarm information from the roadside apparatus by wireless communication and outputting the alarm information, a administration server (300) that exchanges various information with the roadside apparatus (100). The utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) is comprised of a predetermined operation unit and a control unit. The control unit cancels a part or all of the utterance voice output of the alarm information supplied from the roadside apparatus (100) in accordance with a predetermined operation of the operation unit. An output of the same alarm information or alarm information irrelevant to its own vehicle is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Masahiro Ueno, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8165748
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device (200) includes a self-position detection unit (254), a position match judgment unit (255), an advance direction detection unit (256), and a direction match judgment unit (257). At the moment when a mobile body such as a vehicle having the on-vehicle device passes through an intended point of a data distribution side in an intended direction, a data reproduction unit (253) starts reproduction of content data associated with creation of the data distribution side acquired by a data acquisition unit (251). When there a plurality of content data intended to be simultaneously reproduced by the data distribution side, it is judged by a parallel reproduction judgment unit (252), and the data reproduction unit (253) reproduces the content data in parallel. The data is reproduced according to the intention of the data distribution side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Souju Goto, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110148659
    Abstract: An utterance type road traffic information providing device (system) provided with a roadside apparatus (100) set on a road where a vehicle travels, at a parking lot or a place adjacent to the parking lot for transmitting alarm information by wireless communication, an utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) mounted on a vehicle for receiving the alarm information from the roadside apparatus by wireless communication and outputting the alarm information, a administration server (300) that exchanges various information with the roadside apparatus (100). The utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) is comprised of a predetermined operation unit and a control unit. The control unit cancels a part or all of the utterance voice output of the alarm information supplied from the roadside apparatus (100) in accordance with a predetermined operation of the operation unit. An output of the same alarm information or alarm information irrelevant to its own vehicle is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KENWOOD
    Inventors: Masahiro Ueno, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110133953
    Abstract: An information distribution system includes a roadside apparatus which transmits an utterance type provided information containing audio instruction information based on a traveling direction to be provided by the utterance type provided information. When an vehicle-mouned device receives an utterance type provided information via a communication unit from the roadside apparatus, the vehicle-mounted device outputs different utterance type provided information by an audio in accordance with the audio instruction in-formation contained in the received utterance type provided information, so that a vehicle driver can judge whether the information provided from the roadside apparatus is significant information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110035098
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device (200) includes a self-position detection unit (254), a position match judgment unit (255), an advance direction detection unit (256), and a direction match judgment unit (257). At the moment when a mobile body such as a vehicle having the on-vehicle device passes through an intended point of a data distribution side in an intended direction, a data reproduction unit (253) starts reproduction of content data associated with creation of the data distribution side acquired by a data acquisition unit (251). When there a plurality of content data intended to be simultaneously reproduced by the data distribution side, it is judged by a parallel reproduction judgment unit (252), and the data reproduction unit (253) reproduces the content data in parallel. The data is reproduced according to the intention of the data distribution side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KENWOOD
    Inventors: Souju Goto, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110029232
    Abstract: In a distribution system comprising a center device for distributing, content information and an vehicle-mounted device, when information on a parking lot that is a distribution destination exists, the center device transmits content information including the information on the parking lot to the vehicle-mounted device (step S9). This constitution enables the accurate and rapid provision of parking lot information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KENWOOD
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hattori, Hideyuki Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110010443
    Abstract: An information provision system (10) includes a vehicle-mounted DSRC device (20) which is a terminal to be mounted on a vehicle (100) and capable of receiving contents for the members and contents for the nonmembers distributed by a predetermined communication system, a roadside apparatus (40) which is a base station capable of transmitting contents to the vehicle-mounted DSRC device (20), and an information providing server (60) capable of providing contents to the roadside apparatus (40). The information providing server (60) includes a control unit for checking the communication environment which the vehicle-mounted DSRC device (20) or the roadside apparatus (40) has.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KENWOOD
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nagatomo