Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakamura

Hiroshi Nakamura 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: 11938970
    Abstract: A control device that is mounted in a second vehicle which a first vehicle having a following travel function is detachably connected to or loaded on is provided. The control device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting another vehicle that is within a predetermined range from the second vehicle in a state in which the second vehicle has the first vehicle connected thereto or loaded thereon and of which some or all of a scheduled travel route is the same as some or all of a scheduled travel route of the first vehicle after the first vehicle has been disconnected from the second vehicle; and transmitting following instruction information to the first vehicle and disconnecting the first vehicle from the second vehicle such that the first vehicle travels with the detected other vehicle as a preceding vehicle by the following travel function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Harada, Teppei Nishiguchi, Kazuki Komoriya, Tomoaki Ihara, Miyu Higashimura, Toshihiro Nakaichi, Kazunobu Okasaka, Ryo Hattori, Yohei Tanigawa, Ryohei Kimbara, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240092399
    Abstract: A motion prediction device detecting, from surrounding data representing a situation in a predetermined range of surroundings of a vehicle, a traffic participant existing in the predetermined range, determining whether there is a blind area not represented in the surrounding data in the predetermined range, when it is determined that there is a blind area presuming that there is a virtual traffic participant in the blind area, and predicting motion of the traffic participant caused by the presence of the virtual traffic participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ray KAWANISHI, Katsuhiro SAKAI, Taisuke SUGAIWA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Naoki NAGASAKA
  • Patent number: 11936976
    Abstract: A vibration apparatus includes a vibrating unit, and a control unit configured to control vibration of the vibrating unit. The control unit changes a vibration pattern of the vibrating unit by controlling the vibrating unit so as to change at least one of a vibration amplitude, a vibration frequency, and a vibration time according to at least one of a detection result of an offset amount from an in-focus position and a detection result of a predetermined object image in a mode that continuously performs autofocus processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240081661
    Abstract: Provided is a health evaluation system that includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a blood pressure value of a target person; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a health condition of the target person based on the acquired blood pressure value. The evaluation unit evaluates the health condition of the target person based on: a standing-state blood pressure value that is a blood pressure value measured when the target person is heading toward a moving body in a standing state; and a seated-state blood pressure value that is a blood pressure value of the target person measured after boarding the moving body and seated on a seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hideki Sakai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Keisuke Nakamura, Hiroshi Ono
  • Publication number: 20240081745
    Abstract: A driver support system includes a processor that acquires a heart rate of a target person; evaluates a health condition of the target person based on the heart rate of the target person; and performs an operation setting of a moving object into which the target person gets as a driver. The processor evaluates the health condition of the target person based on an ordinary heart rate, which is a heart rate of the target person during an ordinary period, and a pre-driving heart rate which is a heart rate of the target person when the target person arrives at the moving object, performs the operation setting of the moving object based on a result of the health condition of the target person evaluated when the target person gets into the moving object as a driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hideki Sakai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Keisuke Nakamura, Hiroshi Ono
  • Publication number: 20240081749
    Abstract: A health assessment system includes a processor that acquires biometric measurement data measured by a wearable terminal worn by a target person, the biometric measurement data being biometric data of the target person; generates complementary biometric data for complementing the biometric measurement data in a missing period in which the acquisition unit is not able to acquire the biometric measurement data from the wearable terminal; and assesses a health condition of the target person based on the biometric measurement data and the complementary biometric data, the processor acquires exercise information, which is information about exercise of the target person, from a mobile terminal carried by the target person, generates the complementary biometric data in the missing period, based on the exercise information of the target person which is obtained from the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakamura, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240087711
    Abstract: A medication management system, method, and related medicine packaging device and packaged medicine are provided. The exemplary system includes a medication device including a memory unit that stores ID information and an ID transmission unit that transmits the ID information stored in the memory unit. A processing device that has correspondence information in which the ID information is associated with prescription information of a plurality of medicines to be taken together with one medication device and personal information about a patient who takes the plurality of medicines. A detector detects the ID information transmitted from the ID transmission unit and transmits the ID information that has been detected to the processing device, which manages medication based on the ID information that has been received and the correspondence information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Takanori NAKAMURA, Shohei MORIKAWA, Kosuke HAMADA, Hiroshi TAKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240083245
    Abstract: A driver support system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires biometric data of a driver of a moving object; an evaluation unit that evaluates a health condition of the driver; and an interactive response unit that executes an interaction operation for interactive response with the driver using an HMI device mounted on the moving object, the evaluation unit being configured to; when estimating based on the biometric data for the driver that the health condition of the driver is poor, instruct the interactive response unit to execute the interaction operation, thereby acquiring a response input, which is a response of the driver to a response facilitating output that facilitates the driver to respond in the interaction operation; and determine the health condition of the driver based on a degree of suitability of the response input to the response facilitating output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakamura, Satoru Shinkawa, Tomohiro Imai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240090309
    Abstract: A semiconductor material of the present disclosure is represented by formula (I) below, in which R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R4 represents an aryl group, an amino group, a hydroxy group, or an alkoxy group, and n represents an integer greater than or equal to 2; and a photoelectric conversion element of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, a hole transport layer, and a second electrode in this order, in which the hole transport layer includes the semiconductor material of the present disclosure:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: TORU NAKAMURA, MAKI HIRAOKA, HIROSHI HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240085198
    Abstract: A navigation system includes an evaluation unit for evaluating a degree of a health state quality for a driver of a moving body, and a route guidance unit for searching a route from a current position of the moving body to a destination, and for performing guidance of the searched route, the route guidance unit determines a search condition of a route to the destination based on an evaluation result of a health state of the driver in the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro Imai, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Keisuke Nakamura, Satoru Shinkawa, Hideki Sakai, Hiroshi Ono
  • Patent number: 11929649
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Publication number: 20240081120
    Abstract: A first color electrodes and a third color electrodes may be arrayed in an alternating manner following a first direction, and may also be arrayed in an alternating manner following a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. A first color electrodes that are situated in a first display region and a second display region may be arrayed at a first pitch following each of the first direction and the second direction. The first color electrodes and the third color electrodes that are situated in the second display region may be arrayed so as to alternate between a second pitch and a third pitch, following each of the first direction and the second direction. The second pitch may differ from the third pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAMURA, Naoki NISHIMURA, Isao MIYATANI, Hiroshi YANO
  • Publication number: 20240081114
    Abstract: A display device includes a planarization layer on a substrate, a pixel with an organic electroluminescence element on the planarization layer, a sealing layer covering the pixel, a terminal electrode arranged at an edge of the substrate, and a first wiring arranged over the sealing layer and electrically connected to the terminal electrode. The planarization layer has an outer edge that forms a step over the substrate between the pixel and the terminal electrode. The first wiring extends from above the sealing layer to intersect with the step. In a plan view, the step has a first protrusion of the planarization layer protruding in a direction of the terminal electrode, a second protrusion adjacent to the first protrusion and protruding in a direction of the terminal electrode, and an intermediate region between the first protrusion and the second protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki TAKAHASHI, Kazuyuki HARADA, Hiroshi TABATAKE, Masato NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11919541
    Abstract: Automated drive system comprises a control device. The control device executes run control processing of the automated drive vehicle provided to a driverless transportation service. The run control processing includes carriage porch control processing. The carriage porch control processing is performed when a PUDO position of a user corresponds to a carriage porch of a facility including a zone for run and a zone for PUDO. In the carriage porch control processing, it is judged whether or not there is an empty space in the zone for PUDO. If it is judged that there is no empty space, it is judged whether or not a quick PUDO of the user in the carriage porch is expected. If it is judged that the quick PUDO is expected, a target PUDO position to perform a PUDO action of the automated drive vehicle is set to any position in the zone for run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihide Tachibana, Katsuhiro Sakai, Kentaro Ichikawa, Taisuke Sugaiwa
  • Publication number: 20240025535
    Abstract: To provide a flying object including a lift generating member deployment device that makes it easier than before to automatically avoid collision with an obstacle. A flying object 30 includes an obstacle detecting unit 5, a control unit 6, a battery 7, a storage unit 8 that stores information transmitted from the control unit 6, a transmitting/receiving unit 9 that receives an operation signal from a controller 40 and transmits information regarding the flying object 30 to the controller 40, and others. The obstacle detecting unit 5 is to detect the altitude of the flying object 30 and outputs an altitude detection signal, which represents the detected altitude information, to the control unit 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Yasuhiko YAGIHASHI, Akihiro TAMASHIRO
  • Patent number: 11876022
    Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes: generating, for each of layers constituting a stacked film on a substrate, a captured image of the substrate after a treatment regarding a relevant layer; and acquiring information indicating a feature amount estimated based on the captured image for each of a plurality of layers including an outermost layer of the stacked film on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Masashi Enomoto, Hiroshi Nakamura, Toyohisa Tsuruda
  • Patent number: 11876575
    Abstract: Electric field communication that adopts a metal as a communication medium is performed. An electric field communication system communicating through an electric field, includes: a communication medium made of a material capable of transmitting the electric field; a first transmitter that generates an electric field dependent on a potential difference between a first electrode, which is disposed on a side of the communication medium and is connected to the communication medium via a coupling capacitance, and a second electrode connected to an earth ground via a coupling capacitance, with the first electrode being connected on a signal side of the transmitter, and the second electrode being connected on a ground side of the transmitter; and a first receiver disposed in contact with the communication medium, wherein the first transmitter and the first receiver communicate with each other through the electric field via the communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: NEXTY ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, HOSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mitsuru Shinagawa, Kohei Hamamura, Hiroshi Nakamura, Naohiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11858534
    Abstract: A pick-up and drop-off area, which is a predetermined area in which an automated driving vehicle stops to pick up or drop off a user, includes a downstream area existing downstream of a standard stop space and an upstream area existing upstream of the standard stop space. An automated driving system controls the automated driving vehicle so as to stop in a target stop space in the pick-up and drop-off area. When the standard stop space is available, the standard stop space is set as the target stop space. When the standard stop space is not available for the automated driving vehicle to stop to drop off the user, the automated driving system searches for an upstream available space in the upstream area and preferentially sets the upstream available space as the target stop space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihide Tachibana, Katsuhiro Sakai, Kentaro Ichikawa, Taisuke Sugaiwa
  • Publication number: 20230410658
    Abstract: The driver assistance system of the present disclosure is configured to execute processing comprising following four processes. The first process is to extract risk target information related to a risk target that causes a collision risk to a vehicle from information related to a peripheral situation of the vehicle. The second process is to obtain natural phenomenon information related to a natural phenomenon that affects the risk target. The third process is to determine a risk parameter that quantifies the collision risk based on the risk target information and the natural phenomenon information. The fourth process is to determine a manipulated variable of an actuator for controlling movement of the vehicle to reduce the collision risk based on the risk parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ray KAWANISHI, Katsuhiro SAKAI, Taisuke SUGAIWA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Naoki NAGASAKA
  • Patent number: 11814068
    Abstract: An automated driving system controls an automated driving vehicle. A plurality of stop lots are virtually arranged in a pick-up and drop-off area in which the automated driving vehicle stops to pick up or drop off a user. An order of priority of the plurality of stop lots is set. The automated driving system selects a stop lot one by one in the order of priority and determines whether or not the selected stop lot is available for the automated driving vehicle to stop. When the selected stop lot is available for the automated driving vehicle to stop, the selected stop lot is set as a target stop lot. The automated driving system controls the automated driving vehicle so as to stop in the target stop lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihide Tachibana, Katsuhiro Sakai, Kentaro Ichikawa, Taisuke Sugaiwa