Patents by Inventor Keiichiro Kojima

Keiichiro Kojima 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: 11373531
    Abstract: An attention attracting device that effectively attracts attention and has improved versatility over a conventional technology, a mobile body including this attention attracting device, and a method for controlling the attention attracting device are provided. A predetermined area including a gazing point of a viewer is set as a central visual field at a time of the viewer directing a visual line, and an area other than the central visual field is set as a peripheral visual field. The attention attracting device includes a light source set to such a frequency F [Hz] that the light source is seen to be turned on in a case in which the light source is present in the central visual field and is seen to be blinking in a case in which the light source is present in the peripheral visual field. The mobile body includes the attention attracting device as a lamp body of a vehicle and emits light from the light source to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Tanaka, Keiichiro Kojima
  • Publication number: 20210407296
    Abstract: An attention attracting device that effectively attracts attention and has improved versatility over a conventional technology, a mobile body including this attention attracting device, and a method for controlling the attention attracting device are provided. A predetermined area including a gazing point of a viewer is set as a central visual field at a time of the viewer directing a visual line, and an area other than the central visual field is set as a peripheral visual field. The attention attracting device includes a light source set to such a frequency F [Hz] that the light source is seen to be turned on in a case in which the light source is present in the central visual field and is seen to be blinking in a case in which the light source is present in the peripheral visual field. The mobile body includes the attention attracting device as a lamp body of a vehicle and emits light from the light source to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiro Tanaka, Keiichiro Kojima