Patents by Inventor Kazuomi Kato

Kazuomi Kato 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: 20230294517
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device provided in a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry recognizes a traffic regulation mark indicating a traffic regulation provided on a traveling route of the vehicle. The processing circuitry controls a display device to display first content information and second content information in a display area in front of a driver's seat of the vehicle. The first content information indicates content of a regulation in an effective range indicated by the traffic regulation mark in a case where the vehicle enters the effective range of the regulation. The second content information indicates content other than the first content information. The processing circuitry controls display of the first content information and the second content information in the display area on the basis of priorities set for the first content information and the second content information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki ITO, Kazuomi KATO, Isao NOGUCHI, Nobutoshi HIGAKI, Tetsuji YAMAMOTO, Kenya MATSUSHITA, Tomonori UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20220317443
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: recognize a traffic regulation mark provided on a traveling path of a car, the traffic regulation mark indicating traffic regulation; specify a valid regulation range used as a valid range of regulation indicated by the traffic regulation mark based on the recognized traffic regulation mark; and control a display device mounted on the car to display regulations information on a display area, the regulations information including contents of regulation indicated by the recognized traffic regulation mark. The processor is configured to switch displaying the regulations information into another upon satisfying a predetermined condition in a case where the valid regulation range is not specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji MATSUI, Masato NOGUCHI, Nobutoshi HIGAKI, Kazuomi KATO, Tetsuji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210232340
    Abstract: A drive recorder transmits, to a server device, a moving image file showing status of surroundings of a vehicle at the time of generation of a large acceleration. The server device determines whether overwrite prohibition is to be designated for the moving image file that shows surroundings of the vehicle at the time of an occurrence of an event, based on the moving image file. The drive recorder designates, based on a determination result, overwrite prohibition for a piece of video data showing surroundings of the vehicle at the time of and/or before and after the occurrence of the event, and counts the number of pieces of video data for which overwrite prohibition is designated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki ITO, Kenji MATSUI, Seigo TAKADA, Kazuomi KATO
  • Patent number: 9304789
    Abstract: A pseudo task generation requester 200 generates a request for generating a pseudo task 283 indicating that a certain one of CPUs is in an use state, and notifies a second OS 125 of the generation request, in the case where a task to be processed by a first virtual machine 110 is assigned to the one CPU, but a task to be processed by a second virtual machine 120 is not assigned to the one CPU. A pseudo task finishing requester 206 finishes the pseudo task 283 when a task in the first virtual machine 110 is finished with respect to the CPU to which the pseudo task 283 is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Masahiko Saito
  • Patent number: 9026738
    Abstract: To aim to provide a cache memory device that performs a line size determination process for determining a refill size, in advance of a refill process that is performed at cache miss time. According to the line size determination process, the number of reads/writes of a management target line that belongs to a set is acquired (S51), and in the case where the numbers of reads completely match one another and the numbers of writes completely match one another (S52: Yes), the refill size is determined to be large (S54). Otherwise (S52: No), the refill size is determined to be small (S55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Patent number: 8984509
    Abstract: A dummy layer generating/finishing section 1301 generates a dummy layer, in the case where a screen layer of a secure virtual machine 101 is generated. In the case where at least one dummy layer is generated, a display driver switching section 1322 switches the display control to the secure virtual machine 101 for causing a screen data combining section 1331 to combine screen layers. On the other hand, in the case where a dummy layer is not generated, the display driver switching section 1322 switches the display control to a non-secure virtual machine 102 for causing a screen data combining section 1321 to combine screen layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Patent number: 8601232
    Abstract: Available capacity of a specific memory block is secured as much as possible. A termination candidate process selection unit (204) selects, for each of a plurality of memory blocks, a plurality of processes as a termination candidate process group, a termination process decision unit (206) determines whether or not the selected termination candidate process group is to be terminated with priority over a currently held termination candidate process group, a process group termination possibility determination unit (205) determines whether of not the termination candidate process group determined to be terminated can be terminated, and the termination process decision unit (206) rewrites the currently held termination candidate process group to the termination candidate process group determined to be able to be terminated, and decides the currently held termination candidate process group as a process to be terminated when selection of a termination candidate process group is ended for all the memory blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Publication number: 20130232493
    Abstract: A pseudo task generation requester 200 generates a request for generating a pseudo task 283 indicating that a certain one of CPUs is in an use state, and notifies a second OS 125 of the generation request, in the case where a task to be processed by a first virtual machine 110 is assigned to the one CPU, but a task to be processed by a second virtual machine 120 is not assigned to the one CPU. A pseudo task finishing requester 206 finishes the pseudo task 283 when a task in the first virtual machine 110 is finished with respect to the CPU to which the pseudo task 283 is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Masahiko Saito
  • Patent number: 8468533
    Abstract: In a case where a task execution unit of a first virtual machine executes a dummy task according to task scheduling by an operating system, it notifies a virtual machine control unit of a priority acquired by a priority acquisition unit and a switching indication to switch the first virtual machine currently in operation to a second virtual machine. The virtual machine control unit receives the priority and the switching indication notified by the task execution unit and switches the first virtual machine currently in operation to the second virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Miyazaki, Masahiko Saito, Kazuomi Kato
  • Publication number: 20130031552
    Abstract: A dummy layer generating/finishing section 1301 generates a dummy layer, in the case where a screen layer of a secure virtual machine 101 is generated. In the case where at least one dummy layer is generated, a display driver switching section 1322 switches the display control to the secure virtual machine 101 for causing a screen data combining section 1331 to combine screen layers. On the other hand, in the case where a dummy layer is not generated, the display driver switching section 1322 switches the display control to a non-secure virtual machine 102 for causing a screen data combining section 1321 to combine screen layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Patent number: 8281289
    Abstract: An execution binary image creating device includes an execution binary reading section (1) reading configuration information representing an internal configuration of an execution binary program to be executed on a computer and includes a deletable area detecting section (2) acquiring the configuration information of the execution binary program, analyzing information to be used in performing address resolution at a time of execution, and detecting a deletable area in the execution binary program, when the address resolution is not performed. Further, the device includes an execution binary rewriting section (3) rewriting the deletable area in the execution binary program into specific data and using an execution binary image creating section (4) reducing the data amount of the specific data included in the execution binary program, and converting the execution binary program into an execution binary image in a format recognizable on the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Teruto Hirota, Tetsuji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120124320
    Abstract: Available capacity of a specific memory block is secured as much as possible. A termination candidate process selection unit (204) selects, for each of a plurality of memory blocks, a plurality of processes as a termination candidate process group, a termination process decision unit (206) determines whether or not the selected termination candidate process group is to be terminated with priority over a currently held termination candidate process group, a process group termination possibility determination unit (205) determines whether of not the termination candidate process group determined to be terminated can be terminated, and the termination process decision unit (206) rewrites the currently held termination candidate process group to the termination candidate process group determined to be able to be terminated, and decides the currently held termination candidate process group as a process to be terminated when selection of a termination candidate process group is ended for all the memory blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Publication number: 20120096213
    Abstract: To aim to provide a cache memory device that performs a line size determination process for determining a refill size, in advance of a refill process that is performed at cache miss time. According to the line size determination process, the number of reads/writes of a management target line that belongs to a set is acquired (S51), and in the case where the numbers of reads completely match one another and the numbers of writes completely match one another (S52: Yes), the refill size is determined to be large (S54). Otherwise (S52: No), the refill size is determined to be small (S55).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Patent number: 7930710
    Abstract: A program start-up unit is provided which is capable of starting up a program at high speed and reducing the consumption of a memory. This program start-up unit analyzes the link relation between an application program and a shared library in the whole system, specifies a combination in which the management structure of a load state can be used in common to the utmost among application programs, and uses this management structure as a reference in the whole system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Masashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20100333100
    Abstract: In a case where a task execution unit (100) of a first virtual machine (10) executes a dummy task (110) according to task scheduling by an operating system, it notifies a virtual machine control unit (30) of a priority acquired by a priority acquisition unit (122) and a switching indication to switch the first virtual machine (10) currently in operation to a second virtual machine (20). The virtual machine control unit (30) receives the priority and the switching indication notified by the task execution unit (100) and switches the first virtual machine (10) currently in operation to the second virtual machine (20). According to this configuration, it becomes possible to reduce overheads needed to switch virtual machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Ryota Miyazaki, Masahiko Saito, Kazuomi Kato
  • Publication number: 20100131932
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a data amount of an execution binary image. An execution binary reading section (1) reads configuration information representing the internal configuration of an execution binary program to be executed on a computer. A deletable area detecting section (2) acquires the configuration information of the execution binary program, analyzes the information to be used in performing address resolution at the time of execution, and detects a deletable area in the execution binary program, if the address resolution is not performed. An execution binary rewriting section (3) rewrites the deletable area in the execution binary program into specific data. An execution binary image creating section (4) reduces the data amount of the specific data included in the execution binary program, and converts the execution binary program into an execution binary image in a format recognizable on the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Teruto Hirota, Tetsuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7478072
    Abstract: An information terminal device and an operation supporting method for enhancing operability by anticipating, based on a history of previous operations performed by a user, a next operation to be performed after a specific operation input by the user, and supporting a user's operation input based on the anticipation. An operation history storing section stores information about an operation input by the user to an input section. Based on the operation history information, an operation anticipating section anticipates a next operation likely to be executed by the user. An operation supporting section supports execution of a function corresponding to the operation anticipated by the operation anticipating section. In the operation supporting section, an anticipated operation executing section 15 automatically executes the anticipated operation, or a user notification section notifies the user if an operation subsequently input to the input section does not coincide with the anticipated operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuomi Kato
  • Patent number: 7360106
    Abstract: A power-saving processing unit is provided which is capable of realizing proper mode switching by taking into account a power consumption as well in a shift processing and a return processing for switching an operation mode. In a power-consumption information table 170, there are recorded a power consumption (mJ) which is required for a processing for shifting into a power-saving mode, a consumed power (mW) when an operation is executed in the power-saving mode and a power consumption (mJ) which is required for a processing for returning to an ordinary mode. A time prediction section 102 refers to a timer-list management queue 201 and predicts a period of time until the power-saving mode is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Tetsuji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7346791
    Abstract: A clock controller controls a clock generated by a clock generator to determine a clock frequency. A computing device executes software obtained from a storage in accordance with the clock supplied via the clock controller. An exclusive processing section detector detects the start and end of an exclusive processing section which is a section during which an exclusive processing is executed. A clock control judging device commands the clock controller to decrease the clock frequency if the exclusive processing section detector has detected the start of a specific processing section, while commanding the clock controller to decrease the clock frequency if the exclusive processing section detector has detected the end of the specific processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Masashige Mizuyama
  • Publication number: 20070288944
    Abstract: A program start-up unit is provided which is capable of starting up a program at high speed and reducing the consumption of a memory. This program start-up unit analyzes the link relation between an application program and a shared library in the whole system, specifies a combination in which the management structure of a load state can be used in common to the utmost among application programs, and uses this management structure as a reference in the whole system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuomi Kato, Masashi Sugiyama