Patents by Inventor Kei Kasuga

Kei Kasuga 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: 11518300
    Abstract: There are included a vehicle behavior estimating unit (10) that estimates behavior of a vehicle (1); pattern illuminating units (4a to 4d) that illuminate a projection pattern onto ground around the vehicle (1); and an illumination control unit (11). The illumination control unit (11) controls the pattern illuminating units (4a to 4d) to illuminate a projection pattern, on the basis of the behavior of the vehicle (1) estimated by the vehicle behavior estimating unit (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara, Reiko Sakata, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Takaaki Kase, Hiroshi Yano, Ryutaro Morisono, Naoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11318879
    Abstract: When information regarding a situation inside and outside a vehicle is determined to match a display change condition, a control unit (32) changes a display mode of information displayed outside the vehicle by controlling a projector device (4a) or a body light device (4b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku Fukutaka, Akiko Imaishi, Munetaka Nishihira, Tsutomu Matsubara, Kei Kasuga, Reiko Sakata
  • Publication number: 20220076598
    Abstract: A pairing display device includes a detection processing unit for detecting a user who is paired with a movable object having a display unit and a detection unit, by using the detection unit, and an output processing unit for, when the user is detected by the detection processing unit, displaying information showing that the user is paired with the movable object on a floor in the vicinity of the movable object, by using the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miki ARAI, Kei KASUGA, Takayasu HASHIMOTO, Thibaud GENTIL
  • Publication number: 20210403282
    Abstract: A passenger guidance device is configured to include: a passenger detection unit for detecting a passenger who has entered a boarding waiting area which is an area in front of an entrance door of an elevator; a position detection unit for detecting a position of a passenger detected by the passenger detection unit; a number assignment unit for assigning a number indicating a boarding order to the elevator to the passenger detected by the passenger detection unit every time the passenger detection unit detects a passenger; and a number display unit for displaying the number assigned by the number assignment unit on a floor surface around the position detected by the position detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miki ARAI, Kei KASUGA, Takayasu HASHIMOTO, Thibaud GENTIL
  • Publication number: 20210188159
    Abstract: When information regarding a situation inside and outside a vehicle is determined to match a display change condition, a control unit (32) changes a display mode of information displayed outside the vehicle by controlling a projector device (4a) or a body light device (4b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsaku FUKUTAKA, Akiko IMAISHI, Munetaka NISHIHIRA, Tsutomu MATSUBARA, Kei KASUGA, Reiko SAKATA
  • Patent number: 10960813
    Abstract: A second light device (4b) starts emission of a light pattern B after a first light device (4a) has started emission of a light pattern A. Elements included in the light pattern B and an element included in the light pattern A are arranged on the same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20200164794
    Abstract: There are included a vehicle behavior estimating unit (10) that estimates behavior of a vehicle (1); pattern illuminating units (4a to 4d) that illuminate a projection pattern onto ground around the vehicle (1); and an illumination control unit (11). The illumination control unit (11) controls the pattern illuminating units (4a to 4d) to illuminate a projection pattern, on the basis of the behavior of the vehicle (1) estimated by the vehicle behavior estimating unit (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei KASUGA, Tsutomu MATSUBARA, Reiko SAKATA, Shinsaku FUKUTAKA, Takaaki KASE, Hiroshi YANO, Ryutaro MORISONO, Naoyuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200114812
    Abstract: A second light device (4b) starts emission of a light pattern B after a first light device (4a) has started emission of a light pattern A. Elements included in the light pattern B and an element included in the light pattern A are arranged on the same straight line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko IMAISHI, Shinsaku FUKUTAKA, Munetaka NISHIHIRA, Reiko SAKATA, Kei KASUGA, Tsutomu MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 10065557
    Abstract: A rear-road surface illumination apparatus is provided which includes: an avoidance determiner 30 to determine whether to provide a display to induce a following vehicle to avoid a vehicle, on the basis of vehicle information; and a controller 9 to cause an illumination light 10 to illuminate a rear road surface with light having illumination information that induces the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle when the avoidance determiner 30 determines to provide a display to induce the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle. Therefore, the rear-road surface illumination apparatus can indicate the existence of the vehicle to the following vehicle, to give the existence of the vehicle prominence, and can also make it easy to notify the driver of the following vehicle about what the driver of the vehicle desires the driver of the following vehicle to do.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Masami Aikawa, Masato Hirai, Reiko Sakata, Hidebumi Arai, Kei Kasuga, Yumiko Ochiai
  • Patent number: D869697
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Akiko Imaishi
  • Patent number: D869698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Akiko Imaishi
  • Patent number: D877367
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Akiko Imaishi
  • Patent number: D887442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Sakata, Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Kei Kasuga
  • Patent number: D891282
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Munetaka Nishihira, Kei Kasuga, Reiko Sakata, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Patent number: D898076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Kei Kasuga, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Patent number: D905747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Kei Kasuga, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Patent number: D905748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Kei Kasuga, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Patent number: D913831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka, Munetaka Nishihira, Kei Kasuga, Reiko Sakata, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Patent number: D921937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka
  • Patent number: D1010865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kasuga, Tsutomu Matsubara, Munetaka Nishihira, Reiko Sakata, Akiko Imaishi, Shinsaku Fukutaka