Patents by Inventor Kazuki OGATA

Kazuki OGATA 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: 20240083443
    Abstract: A driving-state monitoring system includes a driving-state monitoring device and a driving-state sensing device. The driving-state sensing device captures an image of a driver of a vehicle to thereby generate driving-state data. The driving-state monitoring device acquires the driving-state data and the captured image of a driver of a vehicle from the driving-state sensing device. An authentication process is made to determine whether or not a driver matches a pre-registered driver based on the information of a driver included in the captured image, thus determining the identification information of the driver successfully authenticated. The driving-state data is recorded on a database in association with the identification information of the driver. Accordingly, it is possible for the driving-state monitoring device to monitor a plurality of vehicles using a plurality of driving-state sensing devices, thus precisely managing a plurality of vehicles in terms of their driving states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki INAGAKI, Hidenori Tsukahara, Nana Sakuma, Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20240062257
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a parking management apparatus and the like that appropriately determine a fee or a free parking period of a parking lot according to a congestion condition in an external vicinity of the parking lot. The parking management apparatus according to the present disclosure may include: an external condition measuring unit that measures a congestion condition in an external vicinity of a parking lot, based on an image acquired from an imaging unit; and a determining unit that determines a fee or a free parking period of the parking lot, based on a measured congestion condition in the external vicinity of the parking lot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kei YANAGISAWA, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kosei Kobayashi, Kazuki Ogata, Tetsuro Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240054888
    Abstract: An information provision system connected to a fixed point camera installed in an area to be serviced includes: using an image captured by the fixed-point camera(s), and identifying passenger vehicles passing on a road, distinguishing whether the passenger vehicle is empty or not using the image captured by the fixed-point camera(s), generating a map including a distribution of passenger vehicles in state by state within the service-target area using the results of the identification by the first and second identification part; and transmitting the map to a predetermined terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki OGATA, Tetsuro HASEGAWA, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Kei YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240049112
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a part for acquiring a number of moving bodies which travel between check points installed along a road; a part for selecting one or more sections of the road based on the number of moving bodies which travel between the check points; and a part for instructing the one or more base stations corresponding to the selected one or more sections of the road to execute one or more service restrictions at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20240038062
    Abstract: An information provision apparatus includes: a data acquisition part that acquires data from a sensor(s) installed to grasp movement of a vehicle(s) traveling on a road; a database that accumulates primary data acquired by the sensor(s); a user-specific processing content storage part that stores a user-specific processing content(s) defining a processing content(s) on the primary data for each data user; a data processing part that reads out the user-specific processing content(s) stored in the user-specific processing content storage part and creates secondary data for the data user(s) from the primary data; and a data transmission part that transmits the secondary data to the data user(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro HASEGAWA, Takayuki SASAKI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kazuki OGATA, Kei YANAGISAWA, Kosei KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240035239
    Abstract: A road inspection system comprises: a means that creates a road inspection route including a first road managed by a first road manager and a second road managed by a second road manager which is different from the first road manager; a means that receives inspection data from a vehicle that has traveled along a road inspection route, in which the inspection data is obtained by measurement of pre-set items along the road inspection route; a means that diagnoses a first inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the first road, using first diagnosis criteria of the first road manager; and a means that diagnoses a second inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the second road, using second diagnosis criteria of the second road manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi YOKOYAMA, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kazuki Ogata, Kei Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11847562
    Abstract: An obstacle recognition assistance device includes: a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire a first recognition result and sensing information. The first recognition result is a result based on a first recognition process performed using the sensing information acquired by an obstacle sensing device. The first recognition result indicates whether or not an obstacle is present. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to verify whether the first recognition result is incorrect based on the first recognition result and a second recognition result. The second recognition result is a result based on a second recognition process performed using the sensing information. The second recognition process indicates whether or not the obstacle is present. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to record a verification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20230394971
    Abstract: Maintaining the detection accuracy of a mobile object(s) around a vehicle(s) and efficient information notification are both achieved. An information provision server includes: determination means for determining, based on primary information acquired from an individual one of a plurality of sensors, each of which senses a predetermined range of a road, whether or not to provide secondary information created by using the primary information acquired from the plurality of sensors to a first mobile object running on the road; information creation means for creating, if the determination means determines to provide the secondary information to the first mobile object, the secondary information by using the primary information acquired from the plurality of sensors; and transmission means for transmitting the secondary information to the first mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Tetsuro HASEGAWA, Takayuki SASAKI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kei YANAGISAWA, Kazuki OGATA
  • Patent number: 11823576
    Abstract: A vehicle management device including request information reception means for receiving request information for platooning multiple vehicles; implementation feasibility assessment means for assessing an implementation feasibility of a platoon based on the request information; and implementation permission means for permitting implementation of the platoon based on a result of assessing of the implementation feasibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20230308739
    Abstract: This recording mode changing device is provided with: a means for determining, according to the lighting status of the lamps of a prescribed traffic signal, whether or not it is necessary to change the data recording mode of a prescribed camera; and a means for changing the data recording mode of the prescribed camera in accordance with the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OGATA
  • Publication number: 20230306130
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an event analyzer that detects an occurrence of an event on a basis of data measured by a predetermined sensor; a storage that stores a security policy that defines a user attribute allowed to access to each type of the event; and an access controller that controls whether or not an access from a user to data on which the event is occurring is permitted on a basis of the security policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki SASAKI, Nobuyuki TOZAWA, Tetsuya TANABKI, Yasuhiko OCHIAI, Ayumi NISHIJIMA, Naoki SUGAYA, Kazuki OGATA, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kei YANAGISAWA, Kosei KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230298463
    Abstract: [Problem] To set an important region appropriately in an image obtained using a camera. [Solution] This important region setting device is provided with: a means for changing an important region within a region that can be imaged by a predetermined camera, in accordance with the illumination state of a lamp in a predetermined traffic signal; and a means for notifying the important region to the camera or to a device which transmits images captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20230254910
    Abstract: A base station device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive a connection request from a terminal, monitor a predetermined area and estimate a state of a transmission source of the connection request, determine whether to allow the connection request from the terminal based on the state of the transmission source, and provide a service to the terminal for which the connection request has been allowed by the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OGATA
  • Patent number: 11643012
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: a line-of-sight direction detection unit that detects a direction of a line of sight of a driver of a moving body; an obstacle detection unit that detects a position of an obstacle in environs of the moving body; an assessment criteria determination unit that determines assessment criteria of a look at the obstacle by the driver based on at least one of time, location, weather, a state of the moving body, and a state of the driver; and a warning processing unit that obtains an assessment result by applying, to the assessment criteria, a score computed based on the direction of the line of sight of the driver and the position of the obstacle, the warning processing unit determining at least one of whether or not a warning needs to be issued to the driver and a level of the warning, based on the assessment result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20230134029
    Abstract: To facilitate an operation check of a traffic signal. Provided is a monitoring device comprising: a control information acquisition unit that acquires control information transmitted from a control center with respect to a traffic signal; a checking unit that checks whether the state of a lighting face of a lamp of the traffic signal captured by a camera is consistent with the control information; and a notification unit that transmits a notification to a predetermined apparatus if an abnormality is detected as a result of the checking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OGATA
  • Publication number: 20230110089
    Abstract: To make it easier to grasp a road condition. This information collection device is provided with: a recording instruction unit capable of requesting a passing vehicle to start recording of sensor data; a data request unit capable of requesting, via a first roadside device, the passing vehicle to transmit the sensor data recorded by the passing vehicle, the first roadside device being located on the downstream side of a section in which the sensor data is recorded; and a data reception unit capable of receiving the sensor data from the passing vehicle via the first roadside device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OGATA
  • Publication number: 20220327329
    Abstract: An obstacle recognition assistance device includes: a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire a first recognition result and sensing information. The first recognition result is a result based on a first recognition process performed using the sensing information acquired by an obstacle sensing device. The first recognition result indicates whether or not an obstacle is present. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to verify whether the first recognition result is incorrect based on the first recognition result and a second recognition result. The second recognition result is a result based on a second recognition process performed using the sensing information. The second recognition process indicates whether or not the obstacle is present. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to record a verification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OGATA
  • Patent number: 11427206
    Abstract: A vehicle operation assistance device is provided with: a visual line range determination unit that determines whether a recognition range including a visual line range of an operator of a mobile body corresponds to either an operation panel range to be operated or an external-environment checking range; a vigilance calculation unit that calculates alertness and attentiveness of the operator on the basis of at least movement of the operator's visual line; and a control unit that controls on-board devices of the mobile body on the basis of the recognition range and at least one of the alertness and attentiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Inagaki, Hideki Amemiya, Norimasa Tamura, Kazuki Ogata
  • Patent number: 11403494
    Abstract: An obstacle recognition assistance device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a first recognition result and sensing information, the first recognition result being a result based on a first recognition process performed using the sensing information acquired by an obstacle sensing device, the first recognition result indicating whether or not an obstacle is present, the first recognition result being determined to be incorrect; and a recording unit that verifies whether the first recognition result is incorrect based on the first recognition result and a second recognition result, the second recognition result being a result based on a second recognition process performed using the sensing information, the second recognition process indicating whether or not the obstacle is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20220198809
    Abstract: A vehicle speed acquiring unit acquires a vehicle speed. A moving range calculating unit calculates, based on the vehicle speed, a pre-stop moving range within which the vehicle may cover before coming to a stop. A sensor information acquiring unit acquires object detection information indicating a detected object, detected by a sensor, in the surroundings of the vehicle. An image superposing unit superposes the pre-stop moving range and the position of the detected object included in the object detection information on top of each other on a screen. In addition, the image superposing unit generates a superposed image that displays the position of a detected object estimated, based on position information of the detected object included in the object detection information, to have a possibility of overlapping the pre-stop moving range, more saliently than the positions of other detected objects. An image presenting unit presents the generated superposed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoma OAMI, Hideki AMEMIYA, Kazuki OGATA, Koyo SHIBATA