Patents by Inventor Hiroaki SAWATO

Hiroaki SAWATO 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: 10380894
    Abstract: Provided is an information notification device (10) utilizing presence information which includes a processing unit (11) to generate, according to trigger information, at least one presence information (MESSAGE 10, MESSAGE 20, MESSAGE 30) between a first moving body (a four-wheeled vehicle (200)), and a second moving body (a two-wheeled vehicle (300) or a riding electric cart (300)), and a transmitting unit (16) which transmits the presence information to both of the four-wheeled vehicle (200) and the two-wheeled vehicle or the electric cart (300). The presence information is, for example, first presence information (MESSAGE 20) and second presence information (MESSAGE 30). The second presence information (MESSAGE 30) can cause a second processing unit (31) of the electric cart (300) to identify another presence information (34-5) representing the presence of the four-wheeled vehicle (200) around the electric cart (300) based on the second presence information (MESSAGE 30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sawato, Atsuki Kakinuma, Takeo Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 9608956
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that easily performs message exchange that exploits the relative position relationship with other vehicles while traveling. The electronic device (2) includes a display unit (11), a wireless communication unit (20) that receives information including positional information of a sender and message information desired by the sender to be transmitted to a correspondence party, a relative position calculation unit (41) that calculates relative position information of the sender relative to an own device based on the positional information, and a display control unit (43) that provides a first display region (111) to the display unit (11) and display message information in the first display region (111), as well as displaying relative position information without displaying a map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sawato
  • Patent number: 9571539
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that, while traveling, easily performs message exchange exploiting unit information. An electronic device includes: a display unit; a wireless communication unit that receives information including user information related to a sender and message information desired by the sender to be transmitted to a correspondence party which are sent and received, the user information including identification information for identifying the sender and unit information for identifying an affiliation of the sender; and a display mode control unit that provides a first display position associated with the attribute information in the display unit, and displays at least either of the identification information or unit information by arranging at the first display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sawato
  • Publication number: 20160253905
    Abstract: Provided is an information notification device (10) utilizing presence information which includes a processing unit (11) to generate, according to trigger information, at least one presence information (MESSAGE 10, MESSAGE 20, MESSAGE 30) between a first moving body (a four-wheeled vehicle (200)), and a second moving body (a two-wheeled vehicle (300) or a riding electric cart (300)), and a transmitting unit (16) which transmits the presence information to both of the four-wheeled vehicle (200) and the two-wheeled vehicle or the electric cart (300). The presence information is, for example, first presence information (MESSAGE 20) and second presence information (MESSAGE 30). The second presence information (MESSAGE 30) can cause a second processing unit (31) of the electric cart (300) to identify another presence information (34-5) representing the presence of the four-wheeled vehicle (200) around the electric cart (300) based on the second presence information (MESSAGE 30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sawato, Atsuki Kakinuma, Takeo Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20160021155
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that, while traveling, easily performs message exchange exploiting unit information. An electronic device includes: a display unit; a wireless communication unit that receives information including user information related to a sender and message information desired by the sender to be transmitted to a correspondence party which are sent and received, the user information including identification information for identifying the sender and unit information for identifying an affiliation of the sender; and a display mode control unit that provides a first display position associated with the attribute information in the display unit, and displays at least either of the identification information or unit information by arranging at the first display position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sawato
  • Publication number: 20160021047
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that easily performs message exchange that exploits the relative position relationship with other vehicles while traveling. The electronic device (2) includes a display unit (11), a wireless communication unit (20) that receives information including positional information of a sender and message information desired by the sender to be transmitted to a correspondence party, a relative position calculation unit (41) that calculates relative position information of the sender relative to an own device based on the positional information, and a display control unit (43) that provides a first display region (111) to the display unit (11) and display message information in the first display region (111), as well as displaying relative position information without displaying a map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sawato
  • Publication number: 20150256506
    Abstract: A method and electronic device are provided for easily performing message exchange with other vehicles while travelling. An electronic device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of stylized (and fixed) phrase messages in a first display region of a display unit, and displays a second icon corresponding to a communication destination in a second display region of the display unit; and a message processing unit that, in response to at least one first icon being designated in a state in which a plurality of first icons is being displayed in the first display region, sends the stylized (and fixed) phrase message corresponding to the first icon designated to the communication destination corresponding to the second icon displayed in the second display region, via a wireless communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sawato
  • Publication number: 20150094878
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling operation of a vehicle that is communicable with a moving object through a portable terminal carried by the moving object, comprising: a receiving unit adapted to receive a moving plan of the moving object to be sent from the portable terminal, a driving plan preparing unit adapted to prepare a driving plan of the vehicle based on the received moving plan of the moving object, and an informing unit adapted to inform a driver of the vehicle of the prepared driving plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIURA, Hiroaki SAWATO