Patents by Inventor Kazuya Watanabe
Kazuya Watanabe 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: 20210262821Abstract: From among pieces of referral information recorded in a points of interest (POI) information recording unit concerning POI extracted in accordance with a specific term which is set based on an input from a user, the referral information that includes related terms of the specific term is used to create referral text of the extracted POI.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Tomoaki HAGIHARA, Satoshi KAMATANI, Mitsuki KIMURA, Yuiko KUMAGAI, Kazuya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210262822Abstract: A server is equipped with a POI information recording unit in which identification information of POI is recorded in association with referral information of the POI, a referral text creation unit which creates referral text concerning the POI using the referral information associated with the POI, and a user condition acquisition unit which acquires user conditions. The referral text creation unit creates the referral text of the POI by determining, based on the acquired user condition, which referral information among pieces of the referral information is to be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Tomoaki HAGIHARA, Satoshi KAMATANI, Mitsuki KIMURA, Yuiko KUMAGAI, Kazuya WATANABE
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Patent number: 11091096Abstract: A periphery monitoring device according to an embodiment includes, as an example, a processor that generates a display image obtained by viewing, from a virtual viewpoint, a point of gaze in a virtual space including a model obtained by pasting a captured image obtained by imaging a surrounding area of a vehicle using an imaging unit provided on the vehicle to a three-dimensional plane around the vehicle, and including a three-dimensional vehicle image; and outputs the display image to a display. The processor changes a height of the virtual viewpoint in conjunction with a movement including a directional component in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle image when an instruction is made through an operation input unit to move the virtual viewpoint.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11082631Abstract: An image processing device includes a hardware processor configured to: acquire items of image information; determine lateral image information as a particular state of luminance when a first region of interest exhibits luminance of a first given value or more and a difference in luminance between the first region of interest and a second region of interest is a second given value or more, the first region of interest and the second region of interest being included in a vehicular front region and a vehicular rear region of the lateral image information, respectively; set, in the particular state of luminance, a first correction value in accordance with luminance of the vehicular front region and set a second correction value in accordance with luminance of rear image information; and set, according to the first second correction values, an individual correction value for correcting luminance of a region between the first and second regions of interest.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji Yamamoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Itsuko Fukushima, Tetsuya Maruoka
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Patent number: 11077794Abstract: A vehicle periphery display device includes: an acquisition portion acquiring a captured image obtained by imaging a periphery of a vehicle with an imaging portion; and a display processing portion causing a display image including a vehicle image and a periphery image of the vehicle to be displayed on a display portion on the basis of the captured image. The display processing portion causes at least one of a contour guide line representing a contour of the vehicle image and having a first margin in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle image and a second margin in an advancing direction of the vehicle image, and a predicted course guide line that is a trajectory drawn by the contour guide line according to movement of the vehicle to be displayed in the display image, and changes at least one of the first and second margins when the vehicle is turned.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji Yamamoto, Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11073578Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a base material, a plurality of magnets provided at predetermined spacing on the base material, and a plurality of magnetic detection parts respectively provided close to the plurality of magnets. Each of the plurality of magnetic detection parts outputs a signal in accordance with change in the magnetic field accompanying deformation of the base material.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Naoki Ohta, Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11054283Abstract: A magnetic sensor according to the invention comprises at least an element portion that is elongate and that has a magnetoresistive effect; and a soft magnetic body that sandwiches the element portion on both sides with regard to a short axis direction of the element portion. A width of at least one of both end portions of the element portion with regard to a long axis direction of the element portion gradually decreases as a distance in the long axis direction from a central portion of the element portion with regard to the long axis direction increases.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 11054490Abstract: A magnetic field detection device includes a base, a first yoke, and a magneto-resistive effect element. The first yoke is provided on the base, and includes first and second principal surfaces each extending along a first plane, and a first end surface coupling the first and second principal surfaces. The magneto-resistive effect element is provided on the base, and includes a magnetization free layer disposed at a position overlapped with the first yoke in a first direction along the first plane. The first end surface includes an inverted tapered surface inclined relative to the first plane and extending closer to a center point of the magnetization free layer as being away from the base in a second direction orthogonal to the first plane. A distance from the center point to a first edge is shorter than a distance from the center point to a second edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Tanaka, Tetsuya Hiraki, Kazuya Watanabe, Suguru Watanabe
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Patent number: 11035914Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes first to third detection units for detecting components in X, Y, and Z directions of an external magnetic field. A reference plane orthogonal to the Z direction includes first to third regions formed by vertically projecting the first to third detection units thereonto. The first region includes two partial regions located on opposite sides of the third region in a direction parallel to a first straight line, and the second region includes two partial regions located on opposite sides of the third region in a direction parallel to a second straight line, the first and second straight lines being two mutually orthogonal straight lines that pass through the centroid of the third region and are perpendicular to the Z direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuya Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210165057Abstract: The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axis thereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Keisuke UCHIDA, Kazuya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210165056Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes first, second, and third detection units for detecting components in X, Y, and Z directions of an external magnetic field. The third detection unit includes a soft magnetic structure. The first detection unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The second detection unit includes a third portion and a fourth portion. The first portion and the fourth portion are located on opposite sides of the third detection unit in the X direction. The second portion and the third portion are located on opposite sides of the third detection unit in the Y direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Hiraku HIRABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210160432Abstract: An image processing device includes a hardware processor configured to: acquire items of image information; determine lateral image information as a particular state of luminance when a first region of interest exhibits luminance of a first given value or more and a difference in luminance between the first region of interest and a second region of interest is a second given value or more, the first region of interest and the second region of interest being included in a vehicular front region and a vehicular rear region of the lateral image information, respectively; set, in the particular state of luminance, a first correction value in accordance with luminance of the vehicular front region and set a second correction value in accordance with luminance of rear image information; and set, according to the first second correction values, an individual correction value for correcting luminance of a region between the first and second regions of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji YAMAMOTO, Kazuya WATANABE, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA, Tetsuya MARUOKA
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Publication number: 20210129905Abstract: A towing assistance device includes an acquirer, a determiner, and a notifier. The acquirer acquires a coupling angle between a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle. The determiner determines whether the towed vehicle is movable backward in a coupling posture with the coupling angle maintained, when the towing vehicle is moved backward at a current steering angle. The notifier issues information on a steering angle at which the towed vehicle is movable backward in the coupling posture, among selectable steering angles of the towing vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Takayuki NAKASHO, Masahiko SAKABE, Kazunori ONO
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Patent number: 10976383Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes three magnetic sensors for detecting components of an external magnetic field that are in three directions, a magnetic field generation section, and a correction processor. The magnetic field generation section generates additional magnetic field components in three directions used for measurements of main- and cross-axis sensitivities of the three magnetic sensors. The correction processor corrects respective detection signals of the three magnetic sensors on the basis of the measurement results of the main- and cross-axis sensitivities of the magnetic sensors.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignees: TDK CORPORATION, ASAHI KASEI MICRODEVICES CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Yoshitaka Okutsu, Masanori Yoshida
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Patent number: 10976530Abstract: The present invention provides a zoom lens which is the zoom lens that includes a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, and a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power in order from an object side, and changes focal length by changing an air interval between the respective lens groups, the zoom lens including a focus group F constituted from one lens in or after the third lens group G3, moving only the focus group F along an optical axis direction when focusing from an infinity object to a proximity object, and satisfying specific conditional expressions, and an imaging apparatus including the zoom lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshito Iwasawa, Kazuya Watanabe, Wataru Kusaka
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Publication number: 20210105402Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor configured to: acquire a plurality of pieces of image information including image-capturing regions overlapping partially; to set first and second correction values with a predetermined value, the first correction value being used for correction of luminance of a first region of interest included in a first overlap region in which a first image-capturing region overlaps an adjacent second image-capturing region, the second correction value being used for correction of luminance of a second region of interest included in a second overlap region in which the first image-capturing region overlaps an adjacent third image-capturing region; and to set with the first and second correction values an individual correction value used for correction of luminance of a region between the first region of interest and the second region of interest in the first image-capturing region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji YAMAMOTO, Kazuya WATANABE, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20210081684Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: an acquisition section acquiring a steering angle of a vehicle; an image acquisition section acquiring a captured image from an image capturing section that captures an image of a periphery of the vehicle; a detection section acquiring detection information of an object around the vehicle; and a control section causing a display section to display a synthesized image including a vehicle image showing the vehicle and a periphery image showing the periphery of the vehicle based on the captured image. When the object is detected on a course of the vehicle traveling at the steering angle by a predetermined distance, the control section causes a virtual vehicle image to be displayed in the synthesized image to be superimposed on a course to the object with a position of the vehicle as a reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji YAMAMOTO, Kazuya Watanabe, Makoto Hirata
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Publication number: 20210078496Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image captured by an image capturing unit that images a periphery of a vehicle; a position acquisition section that acquires a current position of the vehicle and a target position to which the vehicle moves; and a control section that causes a display unit to display a synthesized image including a vehicle image showing the vehicle, and a periphery image representing the periphery of the vehicle based on the captured image. In accordance with at least one of a distance between the current position of the vehicle and the target position, or a period until the vehicle reaches the target position, the control section causes the synthesized image to be displayed by being enlarged more than when the target position is acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji YAMAMOTO, Kazuya WATANABE
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Patent number: 10948316Abstract: The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axisthereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Keisuke Uchida, Kazuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 10930070Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image from an imaging unit that captures an image of a periphery of a vehicle; a generation unit configured to generate a vehicle surrounding image indicating a situation around the vehicle in a virtual space based on the captured image; and a processing unit configured to display, on a display device, an image in which an own vehicle image is overlapped on the vehicle surrounding image, the own vehicle image indicating the vehicle in which a transmissive state of a constituent plane representing a plane constituting the vehicle is determined according to a direction of the constituent plane, and the vehicle surrounding image being represented based on a virtual viewpoint facing the vehicle in the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Maruoka