Patents by Inventor Kazunobu Konishi

Kazunobu Konishi 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: 10497265
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an obtainment unit that obtains first blind spot information from an infrastructure system having an infrastructure sensor detecting a surrounding object, the first blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from the infrastructure sensor, and a detection recognizer that generates second blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from an in-vehicle sensor detecting the object. The detection recognizer has a combination unit that outputs common blind spot information indicating a first common blind spot region common to the blind spot regions based on the first blind spot information and the second blind spot information to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Yuta Shimotsuma, Akira Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10397861
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus that is capable of wireless connection with a roadside device is provided. The roadside device is on, above, or below a road. The vehicle-mounted apparatus is on a vehicle and acquires position information broadcast from the roadside device by wireless communication. The position information is about a position of the roadside device. The vehicle-mounted apparatus decides whether individual wireless connection is performed between the roadside device and the vehicle-mounted apparatus based on roadside device information. The roadside device information includes the position information about the position of the roadside device. Connection or disconnection of individual wireless connection is performed between the vehicle-mounted apparatus and the roadside device based on the decision. Periphery information of the roadside device is acquired from the roadside device during the individual wireless connection in response to the individual wireless connection being connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Ryota Ohnishi, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Patent number: 10299154
    Abstract: A communication method includes acquiring information relating to a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, deciding priority of data based on information relating to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, generating a packet including the data regarding which the priority has been decided, acquiring channel-used time, calculating channel-usable time based on the channel-used time, calculating a first channel usage estimated time, calculating a wireless transmission rate to be applied when the wireless base station transmits the packet to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, based on the priority of the data included in the packet, to where the first channel usage estimated time is within the channel-usable time, and transmitting the packet, and information indicating the wireless transmission rate, to the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Akira Ishikawa, Ryota Ohnishi, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Publication number: 20190106204
    Abstract: An unmanned flying object, capable of suppressing an increase in overall size while having a configuration to reduce noise, is provided. The unmanned flying object includes a duct that corresponds to: at least one generator that generates airflow; at least one microphone; and at least one speaker. The duct covers the at least one generator in a direction perpendicular to an airflow direction, passes the airflow in the airflow direction, includes a space between inner and outer peripheral surfaces, and defines an opening at the end of the space in the airflow direction. A shape of the inner peripheral surface is tapered in the airflow direction. The at least one microphone is positioned in the space. The at least one speaker is positioned closer to the at least one generator than the at least one microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, STEPHEN WILLIAM JOHN, KATSUHIKO ASAI, KO MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20190106205
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle capable of employing active noise cancelling without being influenced by wind from a rotor is provided. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a processor and at least one speaker. The processor acquires operational information regarding each of at least one generator and generates an opposite phase signal having an opposite phase relative to a signal corresponding to the operational information. The at least one generator generates a force to fly the unmanned aerial vehicle. The operational information correlates with noise generated by each of the at least one generator. The at least one speaker outputs sound based on the opposite phase signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, STEPHEN WILLIAM JOHN, KATSUHIKO ASAI, KO MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20190108827
    Abstract: A control apparatus, that can expand a range in which noise generated in an unmanned flying object is reduced, is provided. The control apparatus acquires position information of one or more unmanned flying objects and noise information concerning first noises generated by the one or more unmanned flying objects. The control apparatus also acquires output region information indicating an output region of sound output from a speaker. The control apparatus calculates, using the position information, the output region information, and the noise information, second noises that reach the output region. The second noises are caused by the first noises which are generated by the one or more unmanned flying objects. The control apparatus generates opposite phase signals for outputting opposite phase sounds with respect to the calculated second noises, and causes the speaker to output sound on a basis of the generated opposite phase signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Stephen William John, Katsuhiko Asai, Ko Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20190039725
    Abstract: An unmanned air vehicle includes a generator that generates a flying force and also generates an air flow, a structural component, a microphone that outputs a first signal, a speaker, and a processor. The processor generates a second signal according to the first signal. The structural component surrounds a noise source of the generator, and includes a through-hole extending in a direction of the air flow. The through-hole is in a direction opposite to the direction of the air flow. An end, in the opposite direction, of the structural component corresponds to an end, in the opposite direction, of the noise source of the generator. An end, in the direction of the air flow, of the structural component extends, in the direction of the air flow, beyond an end, in the direction of the air flow, of the noise source of the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, STEPHEN JOHN, KO MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20190039724
    Abstract: An unmanned air vehicle is provided. The unmanned air vehicle includes one or more generators, each of which generates a force that drives the unmanned air vehicle to fly and also generates an airflow. Each of one or more first microphones is located in an external region that is not included in any of one or more first airflow regions. Each of the one or more first airflow regions corresponds to the airflow generated by one of the one or more generators. Each of one or more second microphones is located in the external region between at least one of the one or more generators and the one or more first microphones. A processor performs processing on one or more first signals output from the one or more first microphones and one or more second signals output from the one or more second microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, STEPHEN JOHN, KO MIZUNO, TAKEO KANAMORI
  • Publication number: 20190041864
    Abstract: Various embodiments for controlling a state of an autonomous vehicle that is to meet a user are provided. A receiver receives location information indicating a current location of the user. A memory stores a plurality of states of the autonomous vehicle. Each of the states at least one of visually or audibly distinguishes the autonomous vehicle. A sensor senses an environment of the autonomous vehicle to obtain environment information. A distance from a place of meeting the user to the current location of the user is calculated based on the location information. A first state is selected in accordance with the environment information. The autonomous vehicle is caused to change from a second state to the first state when the distance from the place of meeting the user to the current location of the user becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, SHUHEI MATSUI, YUTA SHIMOTSUMA
  • Publication number: 20190011926
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for controlling an autonomous car. The embodiments acquire meeting information indicating a place of a meeting and a time of the meeting. A remaining time between the time of the meeting and a current time is calculated. A waiting time for waiting in a waiting place by the autonomous car and a traveling time for traveling to the place of the meeting by the autonomous car are determined. The waiting and traveling times are determined to minimize a total cost and to make a total time within the remaining time. The total cost includes a cost of the traveling and a cost of the waiting. The total time includes the waiting and traveling times. A route along which the autonomous car is to travel to the place of the meeting within the traveling time is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Shuhei Matsui, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Publication number: 20180347992
    Abstract: A communication method in a roadside unit that acquires first dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around the roadside unit and second dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around in-vehicle units includes: selecting at least one in-vehicle unit from among the plurality of in-vehicle units on a basis of a list in which the second dynamic information and the in-vehicle units having the second dynamic information are associated with each other; acquiring the first dynamic information indicative of a state around the roadside unit acquired by a sensor mounted in the roadside unit; configurating a dynamic map on a basis of the acquired first dynamic information, the second dynamic information acquired from the selected in-vehicle unit, and a static map indicative of a static object; and transmitting the dynamic map to one or more of the in-vehicle units that communicate with the roadside unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: YUTA SHIMOTSUMA, KAZUNOBU KONISHI, TAKAHIRO YONEDA, RYOTA OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20180336787
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an obtainment unit that obtains first blind spot information from an infrastructure system having an infrastructure sensor detecting a surrounding object, the first blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from the infrastructure sensor, and a detection recognizer that generates second blind spot information indicating a blind spot region due to the object observed from an in-vehicle sensor detecting the object. The detection recognizer has a combination unit that outputs common blind spot information indicating a first common blind spot region common to the blind spot regions based on the first blind spot information and the second blind spot information to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: RYOTA OHNISHI, TAKAHIRO YONEDA, KAZUNOBU KONISHI, YUTA SHIMOTSUMA, AKIRA ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180310242
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus that is capable of wireless connection with a roadside device is provided. The roadside device is on, above, or below a road. The vehicle-mounted apparatus is on a vehicle and acquires position information broadcast from the roadside device by wireless communication. The position information is about a position of the roadside device. The vehicle-mounted apparatus decides whether individual wireless connection is performed between the roadside device and the vehicle-mounted apparatus based on roadside device information. The roadside device information includes the position information about the position of the roadside device. Connection or disconnection of individual wireless connection is performed between the vehicle-mounted apparatus and the roadside device based on the decision. Periphery information of the roadside device is acquired from the roadside device during the individual wireless connection in response to the individual wireless connection being connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: KAZUNOBU KONISHI, RYOTA OHNISHI, YUTA SHIMOTSUMA
  • Patent number: 10053716
    Abstract: This 4-amino cinnamic acid production method using the enzyme ammonia lyase can efficiently convert 4-amino phenylalanine into 4-amino cinnamic acid. This 4-amino cinnamic acid production method is characterized by converting 4-amino phenylalanine into 4-amino cinnamic acid by using phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, which comprises the amino acid sequence represented in sequence number 2 derived from the Rhodotorula glutinis yeast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Naoki Takaya, Shunsuke Masuo, Shengmin Zhou
  • Patent number: 10019900
    Abstract: A method used in a server includes configurating a dynamic map by superimposing time-changing information on a road onto a static map based on first data indicative of surrounding information acquired by a first sensor mounted in a roadside unit; computing a first region that is incapable of being observed by the first sensor; receiving a plurality of attribute information items related to respective second sensors mounted in respective vehicles running on the road from the vehicles; selecting a specific second sensor from among the second sensors based on the attribute information items and the first region; receiving specific second data acquired by the specific second sensor among a plurality of pieces of second data acquired by the second sensors; reconfigurating the dynamic map by filling the first region by using the specific second data; and distributing the reconfigurated dynamic map to at least one of the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuta Shimotsuma, Eiichi Muramoto, Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Ryota Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20180181118
    Abstract: An operator uses a remote operation apparatus to remotely operate an operated vehicle. The remote operation apparatus includes a position information processor which, based on vehicle position information indicating a current position of the operated vehicle and delay information indicating a delay time required for information transmission between the operated vehicle and the remote operation apparatus, generates first position information indicating a first predicted position of the operated vehicle from the current position of the operated vehicle considering the delay time; based on obstacle position information indicating a current position of at least one obstacle around the operated vehicle acquired by the operated vehicle and the delay information, generates second position information indicating a second predicted position of the at least one obstacle from the time of the current position of the obstacle considering the delay time; and outputs the first and second position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Kazunobu Konishi, Akira Ishikawa, Yuta Shimotsuma
  • Patent number: 10000743
    Abstract: The disclosure provides 2-deoxy-scyllo-inosose reductases derived from a microorganism having the ability to utilize (?)-vibo-quercitol, recombinant vectors and transformants comprising genes encoding the same, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Nobuya Itoh, Junji Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 9994871
    Abstract: To impart significantly improved myo-inositol producing capability, suitable for use in recombinant DNA techniques and synthetic biology methods, to a host microorganism that does not possess an endogenous myo-inositol biosynthesis pathway, such as Escherichia coli. Inositol monophosphatase activity is strengthened in a transformant obtained by introducing a myo-inositol biosynthesis pathway into a host microorganism that does not possess an endogenous myo-inositol biosynthesis pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Shinichi Imazu, Mayumi Sato
  • Patent number: 9920343
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an aniline derivative by fermentation from a carbon source such as glucose. The method comprises the following steps: production of microorganisms capable of producing 1.8 g/L or more of 4-aminophenylalanine (4APhe) under prescribed culture conditions by introducing at least three exogenous genes into microorganisms having the ability to biosynthesize 4-aminophenylpyruvic acid from chorismic acid; and production of at least one aniline derivative selected from the group consisting of 4-aminophenylalanine (4APhe), 4-aminocinnamic acid (4ACA), 2-(4-aminophenyl)aldehyde, 4-aminophenylacetic acid, and 4-aminophenethylethanol (4APE) by bringing these microorganisms into contact with a carbon source under conditions suited to the growth and/or maintenance of these microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Kazunobu Konishi, Naoki Takaya, Shunsuke Masuo
  • Publication number: 20180077598
    Abstract: A communication method includes acquiring information relating to a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, deciding priority of data based on information relating to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, generating a packet including the data regarding which the priority has been decided, acquiring channel-used time, calculating channel-usable time based on the channel-used time, calculating a first channel usage estimated time, calculating a wireless transmission rate to be applied when the wireless base station transmits the packet to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, based on the priority of the data included in the packet, to where the first channel usage estimated time is within the channel-usable time, and transmitting the packet, and information indicating the wireless transmission rate, to the wireless base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO YONEDA, KAZUNOBU KONISHI, AKIRA ISHIKAWA, RYOTA OHNISHI, YUTA SHIMOTSUMA