Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Kondo

Katsuhiko Kondo 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: 12235099
    Abstract: This axial deviation estimating device estimates an axial deviation angle of a radar device mounted on a mobile body, and includes an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, a device-system coordinates unit, and an estimating unit. The estimating unit estimates an axial deviation angle using a relational expression. The relational expression is an expression that holds between at least one unknown parameter, which includes an axial deviation angle of a coordinate axis of the radar device about a target axis which is at least one of a horizontal axis and a traveling direction axis constituting the coordinate axes of the mobile body, and at least one element included in the device-system coordinates of a road surface reflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
  • Patent number: 12228681
    Abstract: An axis deviation angle estimation device estimates a vertical axis deviation angle of a radar device based on roadside object information including information on a plurality of reflection points on a roadside object and road surface information including information on a plurality of reflection points on a road surface. The vertical axis deviation angle is an angle of deviation of an actual mounting direction from a reference mounting direction in a vertical direction. The actual mounting direction is an actual direction of the radar device, and the reference mounting direction is a direction of the radar device when the radar device is mounted in a reference state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
  • Patent number: 12222439
    Abstract: An information acquisition section repeatedly acquires observation point information including an observation direction from a radar device. An axial misalignment acquisition section acquires an axial misalignment amount of an actual mounting direction representing the actual orientation of the radar device with respect to a reference mounting direction of the radar device. An aliasing calculation section calculates an aliasing direction of the observation direction included in the observation point information. An instantaneous determination section determines, as an actual direction, one of the observation direction and the aliasing direction that is closer to the reference mounting direction, which is estimated from the axial misalignment amount and the actual mounting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
  • Publication number: 20240333550
    Abstract: An integrated terminal includes: a use history managing unit to manage use history of an electronic device for each user; a turn-on receiving unit to receive a turn-on signal to turn on the electronic device together with a user ID from a user terminal; a turn-on transmitting unit to transmit a turn-on signal to the electronic device upon receiving the turn-on signal; and a setting transmitting unit to transmit a setting signal based on the use history associated with the user ID to the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Patent number: 12099139
    Abstract: An axial misalignment estimation apparatus estimates an axial misalignment angle of a radar apparatus mounted in a moving body. The estimation apparatus repeatedly acquires, for each reflection point detected by the radar apparatus, reflection point information including at least a relative speed and an orientation angle. The estimation apparatus acquires a speed of the moving body and extracts a stationary reflection point estimated to be a stationary object from the reflection points based on the speed of the moving body. The estimation apparatus selects, for each divided region, the stationary reflection point included in the divided region such that a predetermined condition is met. The divided region is a detection region of the radar apparatus that is divided into a plurality of parts in at least either of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The estimation apparatus determines the axial misalignment angle using the stationary reflection point selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
  • Publication number: 20240273466
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided. The device acquires, from a recording medium added to a product, a first address indicating a first storage location on a network related to production record data of the product. The device accesses the first address to receive the production record data of the product. The device obtains, from the received production record data of the product, a second address indicating a second storage location on the network related to production record data of a raw material or a component. The device accesses the second address to receive the production record data of the raw material or the component. The device outputs a part or all of the production record data of the product and the production record data of the raw material or the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Akihiko Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20240161069
    Abstract: When a user purchases a product at a shop, the user entirely or partly pays a price in support currency issued by an operation company. The support currency is digital money, and is stored on a communication terminal. During a transaction, the communication terminal adds transaction information indicating transaction details to the support currency. The shop that has received the support currency can also use the support currency to purchase a product. At this time, a communication terminal used by the shop adds the transaction information indicating transaction details of a new transaction to the support currency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Akihiko MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 11983937
    Abstract: An intersecting road estimation device includes an object detection unit that detects an object existing around an own vehicle and a position of the object, an object extraction unit that extracts a stationary object and a position of the stationary object from an object detection result, a first estimation unit that estimates a road edge of a traveling road on which the own vehicle is traveling based on the position of the stationary object, a candidate extraction unit that extracts a stationary object existing outside the road edge of the traveling road estimated by the first estimation unit as a candidate for an outside stationary object representing a road edge of an intersecting road intersecting the traveling road, and a second estimation unit that estimates the road edge of the intersecting road based on a position of the outside stationary object extracted by the candidate extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Akamine, Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20240054172
    Abstract: A server obtains a partial ID assigned to a partial region selected by a user on a web page including a plurality of partial regions, updates user characteristic information indicating interests of the user on the basis of the partial ID, changes a structure of a web page on the basis of the user characteristic information of the user to which the web page is to be provided, and transmits the web page to a user terminal of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Publication number: 20240047294
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor device capable of reducing damage on a resin case by heating during manufacture and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of reducing damage on a resin case by heating during manufacture. A semiconductor device includes a base plate, an insulating substrate, a semiconductor element, and a resin case. The base plate includes first and second regions whose positions differ from each other in a plan view. The insulating substrate is bonded on an upper surface of the second region. The insulating substrate includes a circuit pattern on an upper surface. The semiconductor element is bonded on the circuit pattern. The resin case is bonded on an upper surface of the first region. Thermal resistance between the upper surface and a lower surface of the first region is higher than thermal resistance between the upper surface and a lower surface of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya SHIRATSURU
  • Patent number: 11892536
    Abstract: An object-detecting device includes a first detector, an object tracker, a second detector, and an axial misalignment determiner. The first detector detects a distance between a moving body and an object and an orientation of the object relative to the moving body based on detection information acquired from detection sensors including a search wave sensor that searches a detection region with a search wave. The object tracker tracks the same object passing through a different detection region based on the detection information. The second detector detects at least either one of a height of the object or a lateral distance of the object as object information based on the detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11885902
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system includes at least one radar, a detection section, an extraction section, a pair determination section, and a target position determination section. The extraction section extracts at least one observation point pair from a plurality of detected observation points. The observation point pair is a pair of the observation points located in the same direction. The target position determination section calculates a surface direction of a reflection surface from a reflection surface observation point of the observation point pair and observation points around the reflection surface observation point, and determines a position of the target from the calculated surface direction and the at least one observation point pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230352354
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the first disclosure includes a base plate that has an upper surface and a back surface on a side opposite the upper surface and at the back surface of which an annular groove is formed, a substrate provided on the upper surface of the base plate and a semiconductor chip provided on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the base plate has a convex warping part that warps in a convex shape toward the upper surface side, and a part of the groove, which is formed at the convex warping part is deeper at a position farther away from a maximum warping part having a largest warp in the convex warping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Taishi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11802952
    Abstract: The position detecting apparatus repeatedly acquires, from a radar apparatus, object information including at least an object distance as a distance between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object and a relative speed between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object. The position detecting apparatus calculates a speed ratio as a ratio between the relative speed and the travelling speed. The position detecting apparatus calculates, based on the speed ratio, a projection distance between a projected position of the reflecting object projected onto a projection plane and a position of the radar apparatus on the projection plane, the projection plane having a predetermined angle with respect to a center axis indicating a direction along which the radar waves are transmitted by the radar apparatus and including the radar apparatus. The position detection apparatus calculates the position of the reflecting object based on the calculated projection distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
  • Publication number: 20230244850
    Abstract: A program is added to a browser for displaying a web page, and when an attached URL is included in an image file included in the web page, the program causes a computer to perform a function to access the attached URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Katsuhiko KONDO
  • Publication number: 20230195930
    Abstract: A user terminal 100a stores therein user's personal information I1. The user terminal 100a limits the range of information that can be provided to a user terminal 100b in the personal information I1 to personal information I1b and limits the range of information that can be provided to a user terminal 100c in the personal information I1 to personal information I1c. Similarly, each of the user terminals 100b and 100c also limits the range of information that can be provided in accordance with a partner. Each user terminal 100 may limit the range of information that can be transmitted or received by an output filter or an input filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
  • Publication number: 20230196006
    Abstract: A document generation device includes a receiving unit that receives data assigned a tag from a user terminal, a checking unit that refers to a first filter indicating tags necessary for a document in a predetermined format to determine whether or not the tag assigned to the received data meets the first filter, and a document generating unit that generates a document on the basis of data that meet the first filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
  • Publication number: 20230176186
    Abstract: An axial misalignment estimation apparatus calculates a first estimated speed ratio that is an estimated speed ratio calculated using an orientation angle that is corrected based on an axial misalignment angle estimated in measurement cycles up to a previous measurement cycle, and calculates at least one second estimated speed ratio that is the first estimated speed ratio presuming aliasing is present at the orientation angle. The axial misalignment estimation apparatus determines, for each stationary reflection point, whether aliasing is present at the orientation angle of the stationary reflection point based on the first estimated speed ratio and the at least one second estimated speed ratio, and corrects the orientation angle of the stationary reflection point in which aliasing is determined to be present, and estimates the axial misalignment angle based on the corrected orientation angle for the stationary reflection point of which the orientation angle is corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Takuya TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230170719
    Abstract: A battery unit includes a power storage unit for supplying power to an external device, a communication unit for performing communication with the external device, and a processor for performing a control process on the external device on the basis of a power storage status of the power storage unit or information obtained from the external device. For example, when the state of charge (SOC) of the power storage unit has lowered, the processor limits the operation of a household electric appliance with a low priority level in the control process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Raymond P. JOHNSON, III
  • Patent number: 11614536
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus detects a target object present in a periphery of a moving body. The object detection apparatus derives recognition information indicating a state of a target object, and predicts a state of the target object at a next second observation timing, based on the recognition information derived at a first observation timing. The object detection apparatus derives a score based on a degree of difference between a state of the target object observed at the second observation timing and a next state of the target object predicted at the first observation timing. The object detection apparatus derives a reliability level by statistically processing scores related to the target object derived at a plurality of observation timings from past to present. In response to the reliability level satisfying a predetermined reference, the object detection apparatus determines that the target object related to the reliability level is actually present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake