Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Mutoh
Katsuhiko Mutoh 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).
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Publication number: 20130080047Abstract: A present position candidate in a reverse run state of a vehicle and a present position candidate in a normal run state of the vehicle are clarified to be coexisting. When a collision buffer object peculiar to a branch point of a highway is detected by an image recognition from a vehicle front image captured by a front camera of the vehicle, the vehicle is determined to be in the reverse run state, thereby enabling a more accurate determination of the reverse run in the highway.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomokazu KOBAYASHI, Katsuhiko MUTOH
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Patent number: 8233868Abstract: A radio receiver device includes a radio signal processing section and a digital processing section. The radio signal processing section converts a received radio signal into a digital signal, demodulates the digital signal and detects a S/N ratio of the radio signal. The digital processing section digitally processes digital signals and switches over its operation mode based on the detected S/N ratio, thereby controlling a digital noise generated in the digital processing. The radio processing section checks whether the S/N ratio is lowered by a digital noise of the digital processing section or a shielding body external to the radio receiver device. The digital processing section switches over its operation mode to reduce the digital noise only when the cause of the fall of the S/N ratio is caused by the digital noise.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Takagi, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Patent number: 7711481Abstract: A navigation system for use in a vehicle receives a GPS signal for having a GPS time data that rolls over at an interval of 19.7 years with a start time of 0 a.m. Jan. 6th, 1980 from a GPS satellite, and acquires map generation date information that specifies map data generation time from map database in the navigation system. The GPS time data and the map data generation time information are utilized for calculating an accurate current date and time.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Publication number: 20090054024Abstract: A radio receiver device includes a radio signal processing section and a digital processing section. The radio signal processing section converts a received radio signal into a digital signal, demodulates the digital signal and detects a S/N ratio of the radio signal. The digital processing section digitally processes digital signals and switches over its operation mode based on the detected S/N ratio, thereby controlling a digital noise generated in the digital processing. The radio processing section checks whether the S/N ratio is lowered by a digital noise of the digital processing section or a shielding body external to the radio receiver device. The digital processing section switches over its operation mode to reduce the digital noise only when the cause of the fall of the S/N ratio is caused by the digital noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Takagi, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Patent number: 7392134Abstract: A navigation device changes a position determination accuracy of a receiver for satellite navigation to a higher accuracy in the following cases: when the subject vehicle approaches a destination, the subject vehicle runs on a road not described in map information, when the subject vehicle approaches an intersection at which the road is branched at a narrow angle within a predetermined distance, when the subject vehicle is running on a narrow street, when the subject vehicle is running on one of adjacent parallel roads, when self-contained sensors are calibrated, and other like occasions. In the other cases, the navigation device changes the position determination accuracy of the receiver to a low accuracy. When the receiver is caused to execute low-accuracy position determination, power supply to receiver's operation required only for high-accuracy position determination is prohibited.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Nobutaka Tauchi, Katsuhiko Mutoh, Hideki Tanino
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Publication number: 20070276593Abstract: A navigation system for use in a vehicle receives a GPS signal for having a GPS time data that rolls over at an interval of 19.7 years with a start time of 0 a.m. Jan. 6, 1980 from a GPS satellite, and acquires map generation date information that specifies map data generation time from map database in the navigation system. The GPS time data and the map data generation time information are utilized for calculating an accurate current date and time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2007Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Patent number: 7031834Abstract: A vehicle navigation system has a plurality of maps, measurement modes, and operation modes. When the measurement mode is a standard in an accuracy priority mode, low detail rate map is used to display a current position. When the measurement mode is a precise measurement in the accuracy priority mode, a city map is used to display the current position. When the low detail rate map is used in a map priority mode, the measurement mode is set to the standard. When the city map is used in the map priority mode, the measurement mode is set to the precise measurement.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Ito, Katsuhiko Mutoh, Hedeki Tanino, Kohji Katoh
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Patent number: 7024307Abstract: A map evaluation system is equipped with a car navigation device and a map evaluation device. The car navigation system generates difference data indicating a location where a difference is present between a vehicle position path and a road location obtained from a map database. The car navigation device then sends the difference data along with additional data relating to accuracy of the difference data. The map evaluation device determines accuracy for the difference data based on the additional data. When the accuracy degree of the difference data is determined to be proper, the map evaluation device increments by one a determining count of a group including the difference data. When the determining count exceeds a given count, a portion to be amended on the map database is displayed on a monitor based on the difference data stored in a difference database.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Ito, Katsuhiko Mutoh, Kohji Katoh, Hideki Tanino
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Patent number: 7002515Abstract: A GPS receiver includes a CPU for synchronously acquiring the GPS satellites by using software correlating and a hardware section composed of multiple hardware correlating units that execute a correlating process for tracking the GPS satellites synchronously acquired by the CPU. Increase in a product size due to tracking can be thereby suppressed in the GPS receiver that synchronously acquires the GPS satellites by the software correlating.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2005Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: DENSO CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Ito, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Publication number: 20050222768Abstract: A navigation device changes a position determination accuracy of a receiver for satellite navigation to a higher accuracy in the following cases: when the subject vehicle approaches a destination, the subject vehicle runs on a road not described in map information, when the subject vehicle approaches an intersection at which the road is branched at a narrow angle within a predetermined distance, when the subject vehicle is running on a narrow street, when the subject vehicle is running on one of adjacent parallel roads, when self-contained sensors are calibrated, and other like occasions. In the other cases, the navigation device changes the position determination accuracy of the receiver to a low accuracy. When the receiver is caused to execute low-accuracy position determination, power supply to receiver's operation required only for high-accuracy position determination is prohibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2005Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventors: Nobutaka Tauchi, Katsuhiko Mutoh, Hideki Tanino
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Publication number: 20050162313Abstract: A GPS receiver includes a CPU for synchronously acquiring the GPS satellites by using software correlating and a hardware section composed of multiple hardware correlating units that execute a correlating process for tracking the GPS satellites synchronously acquired by the CPU. Increase in a product size due to tracking can be thereby suppressed in the GPS receiver that synchronously acquires the GPS satellites by the software correlating.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2005Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Toshiyuki Ito, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Patent number: 6838743Abstract: This invention relates an optoelectronic material comprising a uniform medium with a controllable electric characteristic; and semiconductor ultrafine particles dispersed in the medium and having a mean particle size of 100 nm or less, and an application device using the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuka Yamada, Takehito Yoshida, Shigeru Takeyama, Yuji Matsuda, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Patent number: 6766246Abstract: Personal digital assistance (PDA) is set in a second low-power-consumption (LPC) mode if its power switch is OFF, while the PDA is set in a normal mode if its power switch is ON. If it is determined that the PDA is connected to navigation equipment when the PDA is in the second LPC mode, the PDA automatically switches to a first LPC mode in which the functional blocks used for receiving position data from the navigation equipment and storing the received position data are activated but the other functional blocks are not activated. Then the PDA automatically receives the position data from the navigation equipment and stores the received position data. Thus the PDA can receive the latest position data without wasting the power of the PDA, even when its power switch is OFF.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Publication number: 20040122588Abstract: A vehicle navigation system has a plurality of maps, measurement modes, and operation modes. When the measurement mode is a standard in an accuracy priority mode, low detail rate map is used to display a current position. When the measurement mode is a precise measurement in the accuracy priority mode, a city map is used to display the current position. When the low detail rate map is used in a map priority mode, the measurement mode is set to the standard. When the city map is used in the map priority mode, the measurement mode is set to the precise measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Ito, Katsuhiko Mutoh, Hedeki Tanino, Kohji Katoh
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Patent number: 6730934Abstract: This invention relates an optoelectronic material comprising a uniform medium with a controllable electric characteristic; and semiconductor ultrafine particles dispersed in the medium and having a mean particle size of 100 nm or less, and an application device using the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2000Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuka Yamada, Takehito Yoshida, Shigeru Takeyama, Yuji Matsuda, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Publication number: 20030216134Abstract: When a crew of a vehicle runs into a traffic accident or suffers sudden illness, a control circuit of a phone device in the vehicle releases prohibition of outputting an incoming ring in memory to set a ring volume to the maximum. Even if the incoming ring is previously set being prohibited from outputting while the driving, the incoming ring is thereby outputted at the maximum volume from a ringer when an incoming call is received after the emergency occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventor: Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Publication number: 20030181169Abstract: During an off-state of an ignition switch, a reception circuit and a transmission circuit of a station for telematics services in a vehicle are periodically shifted between an on-state and an off-state. As soon as a door knob of the vehicle is manipulated during the off-state of the ignition switch, the reception and transmission circuits along with a control circuit are shifted into the on-state even when staying in the off-state thereof. Thereby, a user can be, without waiting, provided with the telematics services associated with interface circuits for controlling operations relating to a vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventor: Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Publication number: 20030151107Abstract: This invention relates an optoelectronic material comprising a uniform medium with a controllable electric characteristic; and semiconductor ultrafine particles dispersed in the medium and having a mean particle size of 100 nm or less, and an application device using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuka Yamada, Takehito Yoshida, Shigeru Takeyama, Yuji Matsuda, Katsuhiko Mutoh
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Patent number: 6590527Abstract: A navigation system is constructed to set up navigation function of a GPS terminal by using radio signals of broadcast station before receiving GPS signals from GPS satellites. A GPS monitor server receives on the ground GPS signals transmitted from GPS satellites, a FM multiplex broadcast station transmits, using the radio signals, GPS supplementary information including the Almanac and Ephemeris data in a navigation message of the GPS signals received by the GPS monitor server. A GPS terminal starts, upon reception of the GPS supplementary information, reception of the GPS signals transmitted from the GPS satellites.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: DENSO CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Mutoh, Toshiyuki Ito, Hiroshige Asada
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Publication number: 20020143466Abstract: Personal digital assistance (PDA) is set in a second low-power-consumption (LPC) mode if its power switch is OFF, while the PDA is set in a normal mode if its power switch is ON. If it is determined that the PDA is connected to navigation equipment when the PDA is in the second LPC mode, the PDA automatically switches to a first LPC mode in which the functional blocks used for receiving position data from the navigation equipment and storing the received position data are activated but the other functional blocks are not activated. Then the PDA automatically receives the position data from the navigation equipment and stores the received position data. Thus the PDA can receive the latest position data without wasting the power of the PDA, even when its power switch is OFF.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2002Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventor: Katsuhiko Mutoh