Patents by Inventor Kazutada Yamauchi

Kazutada Yamauchi 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).

  • Moving obstacle deciding apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8498958
    Abstract: A moving obstacle deciding apparatus includes a search signal transmitting and receiving section 1 for transmitting a search signal, and for receiving the search signal reflected from a search target as a detection signal; a decision reference value calculating section 6 for calculating a decision reference value based on the detection signal received by the search signal transmitting and receiving section 1; and a moving obstacle deciding section 10 for making a decision as to whether the search target is a moving obstacle or not in accordance with a compared result of a difference value between decision reference values obtained by the decision reference value calculating section 6 in time-series searches with a prescribed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Inoue, Yukio Nishimoto, Kazutada Yamauchi
  • MOVING OBSTACLE DECIDING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20100268683
    Abstract: A moving obstacle deciding apparatus includes a search signal transmitting and receiving section 1 for transmitting a search signal, and for receiving the search signal reflected from a search target as a detection signal; a decision reference value calculating section 6 for calculating a decision reference value based on the detection signal received by the search signal transmitting and receiving section 1; and a moving obstacle deciding section 10 for making a decision as to whether the search target is a moving obstacle or not in accordance with a compared result of a difference value between decision reference values obtained by the decision reference value calculating section 6 in time-series searches with a prescribed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Satoru Inoue, Yukio Nishimoto, Kazutada Yamauchi