Patents by Inventor Hirofumi TANIYAMA

Hirofumi TANIYAMA 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: 11978255
    Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a recording control unit for storing photographing data corresponding to an event of a mobile object as event record data in a recording unit, a distance calculation unit for calculating a distance between a recording apparatus including at least the recording unit and the mobile object, and a communication control unit for transmitting the event record data stored in the recording unit when the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined distance within a predetermined time period after the event detection unit detects the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Hayashi, Yasutoshi Sakai, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Patent number: 11917285
    Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a recording control unit for storing photographing data corresponding to an event of a mobile object as event record data in a recording unit, a removal detection unit for detecting that a recording apparatus is removed from the mobile object by acquiring a signal indicating that the recording apparatus including at least the recording unit is removed from the mobile object, a location information acquisition unit for acquiring location information of the recording apparatus, and a communication control unit for transmitting the location information acquired by the location information acquisition unit to another apparatus when the removal of the recording apparatus is detected by the removal detection unit within a predetermined time period after the event detection unit detects the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taniyama, Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11908254
    Abstract: A recording control unit stores photographing data for a predetermined time period previously set based on detection of an event in a recording unit as event record data. A location information acquisition unit acquires location information of a recording apparatus. A communication control unit performs transmits transmission target information to an external apparatus, which is another apparatus, when it is detected that a location of the recording apparatus is separated from a location where the event is detected by a predetermined distance or more within a predetermined time period after the event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taniyama, Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20230391192
    Abstract: A warning apparatus includes a first image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image photographed by a far-infrared camera which performs photographing in an advancing direction of a vehicle, a second image acquisition unit configured to acquire a second image photographed by a visible light camera which performs photographing in a direction agreeing with a direction of the far-infrared camera, a range specification unit configured to specify a first object range in the first image and to specify a second object range, which corresponds to the first object range and indicates the detected object in the second image, when the object as the warning targeted are detect, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit, by which the driver of the vehicle is capable of visual observation of the second image, to display the second image in which the second object range is drawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yasutoshi SAKAI, Keita HAYASHI, Hirofumi TANIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11812192
    Abstract: A recording and reproducing control device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data imaged by an imager for at least one of a front view and a rear view of a vehicle; a detector configured to detect that another vehicle gets close in a distance smaller than a predetermined distance to the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling at a predetermined speed or higher; a point-of-view conversion processor configured to perform a point-of-view conversion process for a bird's-eye view on the acquired video data; a recording controller configured to record the acquired video data; a reproduction controller configured to, when reproducing the video data of a period during which the another vehicle getting close in the predetermined distance or smaller to the vehicle is detected, reproduce the converted video data; and a display controller configured to cause a display to display the reproduced video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Hayashi, Yasutoshi Sakai, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Patent number: 11785177
    Abstract: A record-and-replay control device includes a video data acquiring unit, an event detecting unit, a replay control unit, an event detection direction acquiring unit, a recording control unit, and a display control unit. The video data acquiring unit is configured to acquire video data from an imaging unit to capture an image of outside of a vehicle. The event detecting unit is configured to detect an event of the vehicle. The event detection direction acquiring unit is configured to acquire an event detection direction of the vehicle. The recording control unit is configured to store video data caused by the detected event as event recording data with a first angle of view. The replay control unit is configured to replay the event recording data. The display control unit is configured to display the event recording data by adopting a second angle of view with enlargement in the event detection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taniyama, Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11710314
    Abstract: A record-and-replay control device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data from an imaging unit to capture an image of outside of a vehicle; an event detector configured to detect an event of the vehicle; an event detection direction acquisition unit configured to acquire an event detection direction of the event; a recording controller configured to store video data caused by the detected event as event recording data with a first angle of view; a replay controller configured to replay selected event recording data; and a display controller configured to control a display unit to display, out of thumbnail images of the stored event recording data, a thumbnail image indicating the event recording data to which the event detection direction is correlated, as a thumbnail image obtained by adopting a second angle of view with enlargement in the event detection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20230196789
    Abstract: An object recognition control device includes an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data captured by a camera that images a periphery of a vehicle; a traveling speed information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a traveling speed of the vehicle; a recognition processing unit configured to recognize, as a specific object, the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit in a case in which a score indicating a likelihood of the specific object is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold; and a presentation processing unit configured to present, to a driver of the vehicle, information on the specific object recognized by the recognition processing unit. The recognition processing unit is further configured to lower the predetermined threshold when the information about the traveling speed acquired by the traveling speed information acquisition unit indicates that the traveling speed of the vehicle is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20230107465
    Abstract: An on-vehicle recording apparatus includes a captured image data acquiring unit that acquires captured image data of surroundings of a vehicle; an event detecting unit that detects an event occurred with respect to the vehicle; a recording control unit that stores the captured image data as normal recording data that is not based on the event and as event recording data that is based on the event; a communication control unit that establishes a connection with a communication terminal; and an access control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Patent number: 11580750
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a captured data acquisition unit configured to acquire captured data captured by a camera that captures an image of an outside of a vehicle; an event detection unit configured to detect an event with respect to the vehicle; an attachment/detachment detection unit configured to detect an attachment/detachment state of the recording apparatus with respect to the vehicle; and a recording controller configured to store, when the event detection unit has detected the event, captured data for a predetermined period of time due to the detected event as first event recording data, invalidate, when it is detected by the attachment/detachment detection unit that the recording apparatus has been detached from the vehicle, the detection of the event by the event detection unit after the detection of the detachment, and store captured data after the detection of the detachment as second event recording data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Hayashi, Toshitaka Murata, Yasutoshi Sakai, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20230018277
    Abstract: A control device includes a video data acquisition unit, an orientation detection unit that determines whether a first condition that the driver faces a direction other than a traveling direction of the vehicle is met, an event detection unit, and a recording control unit that, if an event is detected, stores first video data including at least an event detection time point as event recording data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20220301368
    Abstract: A recording control unit stores photographing data for a predetermined time period previously set based on detection of an event in a recording unit as event record data. A location information acquisition unit acquires location information of a recording apparatus. A communication control unit performs transmits transmission target information to an external apparatus, which is another apparatus, when it is detected that a location of the recording apparatus is separated from a location where the event is detected by a predetermined distance or more within a predetermined time period after the event is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hirofumi TANIYAMA, Yasutoshi SAKAI, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220295010
    Abstract: A recording and reproducing control device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data imaged by an imager for at least one of a front view and a rear view of a vehicle; a detector configured to detect that another vehicle gets close in a distance smaller than a predetermined distance to the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling at a predetermined speed or higher; a point-of-view conversion processor configured to perform a point-of-view conversion process for a bird's-eye view on the acquired video data; a recording controller configured to record the acquired video data; a reproduction controller configured to, when reproducing the video data of a period during which the another vehicle getting close in the predetermined distance or smaller to the vehicle is detected, reproduce the converted video data; and a display controller configured to cause a display to display the reproduced video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Keita Hayashi, Yasutoshi Sakai, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Patent number: 11348341
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a recording apparatus including: a capture-data acquisition unit configured to acquire capture-data items obtained by a camera configured to capture surroundings of a vehicle; an event detection unit configured to detect an event for the vehicle; a user-change determination unit configured to determine whether or not a change of users of the vehicle has occurred; and a recording control unit configured to record the capture-data items acquired by the capture-data acquisition unit into a recording unit, configured to store one of the capture-data items as an event-record data item into the recording unit when the event detection unit has detected the event, the one corresponding to the event, and configured to delete the capture-data items recorded in the recording unit when the user-change determination unit determines that the change of the users of the vehicle has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taniyama, Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220076505
    Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a recording control unit for storing photographing data corresponding to an event of a mobile object as event record data in a recording unit, a distance calculation unit for calculating a distance between a recording apparatus including at least the recording unit and the mobile object, and a communication control unit for transmitting the event record data stored in the recording unit when the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined distance within a predetermined time period after the event detection unit detects the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Keita HAYASHI, Yasutoshi SAKAI, Hirofumi TANIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220078355
    Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a recording control unit for storing photographing data corresponding to an event of a mobile object as event record data in a recording unit, a removal detection unit for detecting that a recording apparatus is removed from the mobile object by acquiring a signal indicating that the recording apparatus including at least the recording unit is removed from the mobile object, a location information acquisition unit for acquiring location information of the recording apparatus, and a communication control unit for transmitting the location information acquired by the location information acquisition unit to another apparatus when the removal of the recording apparatus is detected by the removal detection unit within a predetermined time period after the event detection unit detects the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Hirofumi TANIYAMA, Yasutoshi SAKAI, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210360188
    Abstract: A record-and-replay control device includes a video data acquiring unit, an event detecting unit, a replay control unit, an event detection direction acquiring unit, a recording control unit, and a display control unit. The video data acquiring unit is configured to acquire video data from an imaging unit to capture an image of outside of a vehicle. The event detecting unit is configured to detect an event of the vehicle. The event detection direction acquiring unit is configured to acquire an event detection direction of the vehicle. The recording control unit is configured to store video data caused by the detected event as event recording data with a first angle of view. The replay control unit is configured to replay the event recording data. The display control unit is configured to display the event recording data by adopting a second angle of view with enlargement in the event detection direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hirofumi Taniyama, Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210319224
    Abstract: A record-and-replay control device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data from an imaging unit to capture an image of outside of a vehicle; an event detector configured to detect an event of the vehicle; an event detection direction acquisition unit configured to acquire an event detection direction of the event; a recording controller configured to store video data caused by the detected event as event recording data with a first angle of view; a replay controller configured to replay selected event recording data; and a display controller configured to control a display unit to display, out of thumbnail images of the stored event recording data, a thumbnail image indicating the event recording data to which the event detection direction is correlated, as a thumbnail image obtained by adopting a second angle of view with enlargement in the event detection direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Sakai, Keita Hayashi, Hirofumi Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20210295064
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a recording apparatus including: a capture-data acquisition unit configured to acquire capture-data items obtained by a camera configured to capture surroundings of a vehicle; an event detection unit configured to detect an event for the vehicle; a user-change determination unit configured to determine whether or not a change of users of the vehicle has occurred; and a recording control unit configured to record the capture-data items acquired by the capture-data acquisition unit into a recording unit, configured to store one of the capture-data items as an event-record data item into the recording unit when the event detection unit has detected the event, the one corresponding to the event, and configured to delete the capture-data items recorded in the recording unit when the user-change determination unit determines that the change of the users of the vehicle has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Hirofumi TANIYAMA, Yasutoshi SAKAI, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200387721
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a captured data acquisition unit configured to acquire captured data captured by a camera that captures an image of an outside of a vehicle; an event detection unit configured to detect an event with respect to the vehicle; an attachment/detachment detection unit configured to detect an attachment/detachment state of the recording apparatus with respect to the vehicle; and a recording controller configured to store, when the event detection unit has detected the event, captured data for a predetermined period of time due to the detected event as first event recording data, invalidate, when it is detected by the attachment/detachment detection unit that the recording apparatus has been detached from the vehicle, the detection of the event by the event detection unit after the detection of the detachment, and store captured data after the detection of the detachment as second event recording data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Keita HAYASHI, Toshitaka MURATA, Yasutoshi SAKAI, Hirofumi TANIYAMA