Patents by Inventor Hirokazu NARUI

Hirokazu NARUI 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: 12696872
    Abstract: This animal behavior recording device is provided with a processing unit which acquires animal behavior information, that is, information indicating the behavior of an animal, acquires animal position information, that is, information indicating the positions where the animal is present, estimates the behavior of the animal on the basis of the animal behavior information and the animal position information, and records the behavior in time series. Acceleration data acquired from an acceleration sensor disposed on the animal and/or angular velocity data acquired from an angular velocity sensor disposed on the animal can be used as the animal behavior information, and the processing unit is capable of estimating the behavior of the animal on the basis of one of the animal behavior information and the animal position information and correcting the estimated behavior by using the other information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukako Nakai, Kunio Odaka, Tomofumi Kise, Masayuki Fukushima, Hirokazu Narui, Takayuki Ishii, Miku Yamasaki, Koichiro Ueda
  • Publication number: 20250212848
    Abstract: An animal appearance determination device comprises: an image data analysis unit which acquires a captured image including cattle being raised in a cattle barn and acquires, as first positional information, a position of an individual cattle in the cattle barn calculated on the basis of an image of the individual cattle in the captured image; a positional data analysis unit which acquires identification information obtained from a sensor device attached to the individual cattle and second positional information indicative of the position of the individual cattle in the cattle barn; and an individual recognition unit which, if the difference between the first positional information and the second positional information is determined to be not more than a predetermined threshold, records the first positional information and the identification information on the second positional information in association with the each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Miku YAMASAKI, Kunio ODAKA, Tomofumi KISE, Masayuki FUKUSHIMA, Hirokazu NARUI, Yukako NAKAI, Takayuki ISHII
  • Publication number: 20250212842
    Abstract: This animal behavior recording device is provided with a processing unit which acquires animal behavior information, that is, information indicating the behavior of an animal, acquires animal position information, that is, information indicating the positions where the animal is present, estimates the behavior of the animal on the basis of the animal behavior information and the animal position information, and records the behavior in time series. Acceleration data acquired from an acceleration sensor disposed on the animal and/or angular velocity data acquired from an angular velocity sensor disposed on the animal can be used as the animal behavior information, and the processing unit is capable of estimating the behavior of the animal on the basis of one of the animal behavior information and the animal position information and correcting the estimated behavior by using the other information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Yukako NAKAI, Kunio ODAKA, Tomofumi KISE, Masayuki FUKUSHIMA, Hirokazu NARUI, Takayuki ISHII, Miku YAMASAKI, Koichiro UEDA
  • Publication number: 20250194561
    Abstract: A data collection device comprises: a data acquisition unit that continuously acquires position information indicating an activity amount of a cow; an identification unit that analyzes the position information of a prescribed time zone and identifies a trend pertaining to changes over time in the activity amount; and a data acquisition amount adjustment unit that adjusts the amount of acquired position information on the basis of the identified trend pertaining to changes over time in the activity amount. The data acquisition unit acquires the position information in line with the acquisition amount adjusted by the data acquisition amount adjustment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Takayuki ISHII, Kunio ODAKA, Tomofumi KISE, Masayuki FUKUSHIMA, Miku YAMASAKI, Yukako NAKAI, Hirokazu NARUI
  • Publication number: 20220371597
    Abstract: A driving support system uses information related to objects acquired by a sensor disposed external to a subject vehicle and position information of the subject vehicle to calculate information related to objects in a periphery of the subject vehicle, and provides a warning, position information or distance information to an autonomous driving control unit or a driver of the subject vehicle. A road side information processing unit or a vehicle control unit calculates vehicle periphery information related to objects in the periphery of the subject vehicle, using the information related to objects acquired from the sensor and the position of the subject vehicle detected by the first position detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu NARUI, Kazuhiro FUNAKOSHI, Noriyuki YOKOUCHI, Jun MIURA
  • Patent number: 11143710
    Abstract: A secondary battery deterioration estimation device includes receiving a first signal representing a discharging voltage; receiving a second signal representing a discharging current from a current sensor; calculating values of elements forming an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery based on the first and second signals; calculating a state of health (SOH) of the secondary battery based on the values of the elements forming the equivalent circuit; generating history information showing history of a use state of the secondary battery; calculating the SOH of the secondary battery based on the history information; determining a deterioration state of the secondary battery with reference to at least one of the SOH calculated by the values of the elements or the SOH calculated by the history information by the processor in accordance with a state of the secondary battery; and outputting data representing the deterioration state of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Taiji Mitsuyama, Etsuzo Sato, Noriyasu Iwane, Naotaka Uchino, Hirokazu Narui, Akira Oono, Takayuki Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20190033392
    Abstract: A secondary battery deterioration estimation device estimating deterioration of the secondary battery, includes a memory; and a processor which executes the following processes based on executable programs stored in the memory, receiving a first signal representing a discharging voltage from a voltage sensor; receiving a second signal representing a discharging current from a current sensor; calculating values of elements forming an equivalent circuit of the secondary battery based on the first and second signals; calculating a state of health (SOH) of the secondary battery based on the values of the elements forming the equivalent circuit; generating history information showing history of a use state of the secondary battery; calculating the SOH of the secondary battery based on the history information; determining a deterioration state of the secondary battery with reference to at least one of the SOH calculated by the values of the elements or the SOH calculated by the history information by the processor
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Taiji MITSUYAMA, Etsuzo SATO, Noriyasu IWANE, Naotaka UCHINO, Hirokazu NARUI, Akira OONO, Takayuki MORIKAWA