Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kawana

Hiroshi Kawana 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).

  • Publication number: 20230316934
    Abstract: An operation plan management device includes a plan information acquisition unit that acquires operation plan information, and scheduled operation range information, a base station specifying unit that specifies a base station that performs wireless communication with the flight device on the basis of the scheduled operation range, an interference amount acquisition unit that acquires an estimated value of the interference amount of radio waves that the flight device imparts to the wireless communication performed by nearby base stations when the flight device performs the wireless communication while flying in the scheduled operation range, a determination unit that determines whether the estimated value does not exceed a predetermined allowable range of interference amount of radio waves, and an operation permission unit that permits operation of the flight device indicated by the operation plan information upon determining that the estimated value does not exceed the allowable range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke TSUGANE, Tomohiro OOHASHI, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230306854
    Abstract: An operation plan management device includes a storage unit that associates and stores notification destination information indicating a notification destination of a manager, and area information indicating; a specifying unit that, upon acquiring operation plan information including a flight device ID of a flight device scheduled to fly, scheduled operation date and time information, and movement range information indicating the scheduled operation range, specifies the notification destination information in association with the area at least partially overlapping with the scheduled operation range indicated by the movement range information included in the operation plan information; and a notification unit that notifies the notification destination indicated by the specified notification destination information of plan notification information, which is at least one of at least partial information included in the acquired operation plan information and first access destination information for accessing tha
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou YAMAZAKI, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230297124
    Abstract: An operation management device includes: a condition storage unit that stores a performance condition required for a mobile object that moves at each of the plurality of positions; an application acceptance unit that accepts application data for requesting permission for an applying mobile object to move, and movement range data indicating an area in which the applying mobile object is desired to move; and a movement permission unit that executes processing of permitting a movement corresponding to the application data if performance of the applying mobile object included in the application data or performance of the applying mobile object stored in a mobile object information storage unit in association with a flight vehicle ID satisfies the performance condition stored in the condition storage unit in association with one or more positions included in a desired movement area indicated by the movement range data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230116839
    Abstract: A management system provided with an acquisition unit that acquires machine identification information for identifying an unmanned moving apparatus, operation data indicating positions of the unmanned moving apparatus corresponding to the machine identification information, and action states of the unmanned moving apparatus; a storage control unit that stores the machine identification information in association with the operation data and the action states acquired by the acquisition unit; and an output control unit that outputs, in display forms corresponding to the action states, a path over which the unmanned movement apparatus moved, based on the operation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230105379
    Abstract: A flight route selection device includes a storage unit that stores three-dimensional communication quality information in which a communication quality of wireless communication is associated with a three-dimensional position, a scheduled flight route acquisition unit that acquires a scheduled flight route indicating a latitude and a longitude of a flight device, a route generation unit that generates a plurality of routes having the same latitude and longitude as the scheduled flight route and having a different altitude from the scheduled flight route, a communication quality specifying unit that specifies a communication quality when the flight device flies along each route by acquiring a communication quality corresponding to a three-dimensional position of each route from the three-dimensional communication quality information, and a route selection unit that selects one route in which the specified communication quality is higher than those of other routes from among the plurality of routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou YAMAZAKI, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230100982
    Abstract: An information output apparatus provided with an acquisition unit that acquires machine identification information and information indicating an operation amount; an identification unit that identifies at least one of a model type of the unmanned moving apparatuses, a purpose of use of the unmanned moving apparatuses, an operation region of the unmanned moving apparatus or component information indicating a component included in the unmanned moving apparatuses, which are associated with the machine identification information; a selection unit that selects an inspection threshold value corresponding to the attribute, as an attribute of the unmanned moving apparatus; a determination unit that determines whether or not a cumulative operation amount calculated by cumulating the operation amount is greater than the inspection threshold value; and an output unit that outputs determination results from the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220246045
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage unit configured to store setting information representing an association between port identification information, a use condition to use the port, and an available duration to use the port. The information processing device includes a reception unit configured to receive from a user terminal user information relating to the flight vehicle and/or the user and a date and time of use, a determination unit configured to determine that the port identified by the port identification information is available to the flight vehicle when the user information satisfies the use condition while the date and time of use are included in the available duration, and an output unit configured to output to the user terminal the information about the port which the determination unit determines to be available to the flight vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya TANAKA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220229450
    Abstract: A flight management apparatus includes a condition information acquisition unit that acquires condition information including a weather condition for flight of a flight apparatus, the weather condition being associated with a position provided on a flight path or in a flight range in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information including weather at a current position at which the flight apparatus is positioned, or a scheduled position at which the flight apparatus is scheduled to be positioned, a determination unit that determines whether or not the weather satisfies the weather condition associated with the current position or the scheduled position in the condition information, and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masayuki TACHIIWA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220215763
    Abstract: A flight management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives, from a user's terminal, flight schedule information including user identification information for identifying the user, a flight path or a flight range in which a flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, and a flight schedule period in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, an aircraft identification unit that identifies aircraft information related to the flight apparatus and associated with the user identification information, a carrier identification unit that identifies a communication carrier providing a communication service available to the flight apparatus on the basis of the aircraft information, a determination unit that determines whether the flight apparatus is communicable during flight using the communication service on the basis of the communication carrier and the flight path or the flight range, and a transmission unit that transmits a determination result to the user's terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masayuki TACHIIWA, Hiroshi KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20220207476
    Abstract: A user can receive an article even when the user of a delivery destination is absent. An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to store article identification information, article name information, delivery destination user identification information, delivery destination information, and arrival date and time information in association with each other; a notification unit configured to notify a delivery destination information terminal used by the delivery destination user of an arrival date and time before the moving body starts to move to deliver the delivery target article to the delivery destination; and an information receiving unit configured to store housing place identification information in the storage unit when the housing place identification information and information are received, in which the notification unit notifies the delivery destination information terminal of the article name of the delivery target article and the housing place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Tachiiwa, Tomoaki Matsuki, Hiroshi Kawana