Patents by Inventor Hisashi Sugawara

Hisashi Sugawara 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: 9501929
    Abstract: A movement assistance device includes a provided information acquirer that acquires, traffic signal cycle data in which traffic signal data comprised of identification information of a traffic light, which is stored in an SNS server, and an image capture date and time and a lighting duration time of the traffic light is organized for each light color pattern of the traffic light, and that specifies, from the identification information of the traffic light of the traffic signal cycle data, a traffic light which a moving object will pass, and calculates a remaining lighting time which will elapse until the lighting of each light color of the specified traffic light is ended from both the time difference between the image capture date and time of each light color of the traffic signal cycle data and the current time, and the lighting duration time of the traffic signal cycle data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20160229402
    Abstract: A travel control device 10 includes: an intersection stopped vehicle determining unit 12 that determines whether or not a forward vehicle is a stopped vehicle that is stopped at an intersection, based on distance information from the own vehicle to each forward vehicle acquired by a forward vehicle detection device 1, and distance information to the intersection existing ahead of the own vehicle acquired by a forward intersection distance acquisition device 2; and a vehicle stop position prediction unit 13 that predicts a stop position of the own vehicle at the intersection based on distance information of the stopped vehicle, when the forward vehicle is determined as the stopped vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki MORITA, Hisashi SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 9165020
    Abstract: A method includes: unifying plural types of substitution tables in each of which a substitution source string and a substitution destination string are mapped to each other into a single substitution table; constructing a prefix tree to incorporate the substitution source string registered in the single substitution table, a string in the prefix tree represented by characters of a label assigned to plural branches on route from a root node to a certain node is identical to the substitution source string mapped to the substitution source string; performing addition of a link failure directing from a first node to a second node for all nodes included in the prefix tree under a certain condition; and searching the substitution source string included in the target string by repeating migration between nodes in the prefix tree based on a certain condition to record identification information assigned to a node before migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hisashi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 9142124
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted communication device that carries out radio communications with a communication device for pedestrians which is carried by a pedestrian, the vehicle-mounted communication device including: a receiver that receives pedestrian information showing whether the pedestrian belongs to a pedestrian group formed of the pedestrian and a plurality of pedestrians in the vicinity of the pedestrian from the communication device for pedestrians; a controller that judges the pedestrian information received by the receiver and issues a command to present pedestrian attention information when the pedestrian information shows that the pedestrian does not belong to a pedestrian group; and an information outputter that presents the pedestrian attention information according to the command from the controller. Therefore, the vehicle-mounted communication device enables the driver to certainly recognize the existence of a pedestrian not belonging to a pedestrian group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Maeda, Yuji Igarashi, Yuji Hamada, Hisashi Sugawara, Takatoshi Tosa
  • Publication number: 20150262483
    Abstract: A movement assistance device includes a provided information acquirer that acquires, traffic signal cycle data in which traffic signal data comprised of identification information of a traffic light, which is stored in an SNS server, and an image capture date and time and a lighting duration time of the traffic light is organized for each light color pattern of the traffic light, and that specifies, from the identification information of the traffic light of the traffic signal cycle data, a traffic light which a moving object will pass, and calculates a remaining lighting time which will elapse until the lighting of each light color of the specified traffic light is ended from both the time difference between the image capture date and time of each light color of the traffic signal cycle data and the current time, and the lighting duration time of the traffic signal cycle data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20150180861
    Abstract: Information processing system includes a first certification device which executes a first temporary certification, creates a first temporary certificate, transmits it to an external device, carries out a first formal certification and creates the first formal certificate, a second certification device which executes a second temporary certification based on the first temporary certification, creates a second temporary certificate, transmits it to the external device, carries out a second formal certification and creates the second formal certificate, and a processing device which verifies a validity of the first formal certificate corresponding to the first temporary certificate and a validity of the second formal certificate corresponding to the second temporary certificate from the user, in response to a information processing request from the user and determines to execute the information processing corresponding to the information processing request based on the verification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Omori, SHINICHIRO NISHIZAWA, Yasushi Toriwaki, Takashi YOSHINO, Hisashi Sugawara, Masaki Nagao, Kosuke Tao, KEIKO ISHII, TSUYOSHI TANEISHI, Kenichi Yamashita, Mitsuhiro SATO, Atsushi Wataki
  • Patent number: 8924141
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus makes a decision, when an information providing deciding unit decides that driving support information is to be provided, as to whether the output of the voice information about the driving support information responding to a command from the information providing deciding unit and the output of the voice information about route guidance info nation responding to a command from a route guidance unit overlap each other or not, and controls, when they overlap each other, the output of voice information by an information providing output unit in such a manner as to prevent the output of the voice information about the driving support information from overlapping with the output of the voice information about the route guidance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Sugawara, Masayoshi Ono, Shigeki Morita
  • Publication number: 20140372353
    Abstract: An arithmetic operation unit receives a request to update a first data group during restoration using first history information and generates second history information indicating a history of updates. The arithmetic operation unit predicts a time taken until completion of restoration using the second history information on the basis of an amount of the second history information. The arithmetic operation unit compares the predicted time with a threshold and limits at least part of updates of the first data group during the restoration using the second history information on the basis of the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Akinori Yamamoto, Kouji Takahashi, KOHSHI YAMAMOTO, Hisashi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8902080
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted narrow-band wireless communication apparatus includes: information storing/managing section 905 for storing and managing roadside information from a wireless communication unit and operating condition information from an operating condition detection unit 903; an information provision determination unit 904 for determining whether or not information can be provided on the basis of the roadside information and the operating condition information; an HMI output control unit 906 for controlling HMI output on the basis of a determination result from the information provision determination unit 904 and environment information relating to a junction neighborhood obtained from a parameter management unit 907 for managing parameters relating to an HMI; and an information provision output apparatus 901 for performing information provision on the basis of an HMI output request transmitted from the HMI output control unit 906.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Sugawara, Shigeki Morita, Takashi Maeda, Hiroshi Araki, Yukio Goto, Yuji Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20140191884
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted communication device that carries out radio communications with a communication device for pedestrians which is carried by a pedestrian, the vehicle-mounted communication device including: a receiver that receives pedestrian information showing whether the pedestrian belongs to a pedestrian group formed of the pedestrian and a plurality of pedestrians in the vicinity of the pedestrian from the communication device for pedestrians; a controller that judges the pedestrian information received by the receiver and issues a command to present pedestrian attention information when the pedestrian information shows that the pedestrian does not belong to a pedestrian group; and an information outputter that presents the pedestrian attention information according to the command from the controller. Therefore, the vehicle-mounted communication device enables the driver to certainly recognize the existence of a pedestrian not belonging to a pedestrian group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Maeda, Yuji Igarashi, Yuji Hamada, Hisashi Sugawara, Takatoshi Tosa
  • Patent number: 8700299
    Abstract: Disclosed is a navigation device including a traveling route estimating unit 1 for estimating a route along which a moving object will travel and which falls within a predetermined region from a current position, a first recommended speed arithmetic unit 10 for computing a recommended speed in each of road sections on the route estimated by the traveling route estimating unit 1 on the basis of road state information showing a road state, and a second recommended speed arithmetic unit 20 for computing a recommended speed in a road section between the road sections for each of which the recommended speed is computed by the first recommended speed arithmetic unit 10 according to a predetermined speed variation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Morita, Takashi Maeda, Hisashi Sugawara, Takatoshi Tosa, Yuji Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20140067769
    Abstract: A method includes: unifying plural types of substitution tables in each of which a substitution source string and a substitution destination string are mapped to each other into a single substitution table; constructing a prefix tree to incorporate the substitution source string registered in the single substitution table, a string in the prefix tree represented by characters of a label assigned to plural branches on route from a root node to a certain node is identical to the substitution source string mapped to the substitution source string; performing addition of a link failure directing from a first node to a second node for all nodes included in the prefix tree under a certain condition; and searching the substitution source string included in the target string by repeating migration between nodes in the prefix tree based on a certain condition to record identification information assigned to a node before migration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hisashi Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20130245945
    Abstract: Disclosed is a navigation device including a traveling route estimating unit 1 for estimating a route along which a moving object will travel and which falls within a predetermined region from a current position, a first recommended speed arithmetic unit 10 for computing a recommended speed in each of road sections on the route estimated by the traveling route estimating unit 1 on the basis of road state information showing a road state, and a second recommended speed arithmetic unit 20 for computing a recommended speed in a road section between the road sections for each of which the recommended speed is computed by the first recommended speed arithmetic unit 10 according to a predetermined speed variation function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki Morita, Takashi Maeda, Hisashi Sugawara, Takatoshi Tosa, Yuji Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20120232781
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus makes a decision, when an information providing deciding unit decides that driving support information is to be provided, as to whether the output of the voice information about the driving support information responding to a command from the information providing deciding unit and the output of the voice information about route guidance info nation responding to a command from a route guidance unit overlap each other or not, and controls, when they overlap each other, the output of voice information by an information providing output unit in such a manner as to prevent the output of the voice information about the driving support information from overlapping with the output of the voice information about the route guidance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Hisashi Sugawara, Masayoshi Ono, Shigeki Morita
  • Publication number: 20110254699
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted narrow-band wireless communication apparatus includes: information storing/managing section 905 for storing and managing roadside information from a wireless communication unit and operating condition information from an operating condition detection unit 903; an information provision determination unit 904 for determining whether or not information can be provided on the basis of the roadside information and the operating condition information; an HMI output control unit 906 for controlling HMI output on the basis of a determination result from the information provision determination unit 904 and environment information relating to a junction neighbourhood obtained from a parameter management unit 907 for managing parameters relating to an HMI; and an information provision output apparatus 901 for performing information provision on the basis of an HMI output request transmitted from the HMI output control unit 906.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Hisashi Sugawara, Shigeki Morita, Takashi Maeda, Hiroshi Araki, Yukio Goto, Yuji Igarashi