Patents by Inventor Kengo NAIKI

Kengo NAIKI 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: 11542744
    Abstract: An agent device includes an agent functional controller configured to provide a service including causing an output device to output a response of voice in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle, and a controller configured to permit an operation of a power window of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a first threshold value and limit the operation of the power window of the vehicle when the speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than the first threshold value when the agent functional controller is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Kengo Naiki
  • Patent number: 11535115
    Abstract: An electric vehicle comprises: a plurality of charging ports, at least one of which is configured to provide power to another vehicle; and at least one processor or circuit configured to function as following units: an authentication unit configured to authenticate an electronic device associated with the other vehicle using an electronic key; and a control unit configured to control, in accordance with an authentication result of the authentication unit, power provision to the other vehicle using the charging port configured to provide the power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Takebayashi, Kengo Naiki
  • Patent number: 11518399
    Abstract: An agent device includes a display controller configured to cause a first display to display an agent image when an agent providing a service including causing an output device to output response of voice in response to an utterance of a user is activated, and a controller configured to execute particular control for causing a second display to display the agent image according to loudness of a voice received by an external terminal receiving a vocal input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Patent number: 11508370
    Abstract: An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Patent number: 11355114
    Abstract: An agent apparatus includes a plurality of agent function portions each providing a service including outputting a voice response from an output in response to an occupant's speech in a vehicle, and a selector referring to history information indicating a history of a quality of a service executed by each of the plurality of agent function portions with respect to a content of the occupant's speech, and selecting an agent function portion making a response to the occupant's speech in the vehicle from among the plurality of agent function portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Mototsugu Kubota, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 11325605
    Abstract: An information providing device of an embodiment is an information providing device including an acquirer that acquires personal information of a plurality of occupants in a moving body, a processor that generates integrated personal information by combining at least a part of the personal information of the plurality of occupants acquired by the acquirer, and an information provider that provides information to the plurality of occupants based on the integrated personal information processed by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota
  • Patent number: 11240342
    Abstract: A agent device includes a plurality of agent function parts configured to provide a service including causing an output section to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of an occupant in a vehicle, the plurality of agent function parts includes a first agent function part and a second agent function part having less dependence on a network connection than that of the first agent function part, a network observation part configured to recognize or predict a change in communication environment of the network connection is further provided, and the second agent function part stores a speech of the occupant in the vehicle in a storage when the first agent function part is under operation and deterioration of the communication environment of the network connection is recognized or predicted by the network observation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200317209
    Abstract: An information providing device of an embodiment is an information providing device including an acquirer that acquires personal information of a plurality of occupants in a moving body, a processor that generates integrated personal information by combining at least a part of the personal information of the plurality of occupants acquired by the acquirer, and an information provider that provides information to the plurality of occupants based on the integrated personal information processed by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20200322450
    Abstract: A agent device includes a plurality of agent function parts configured to provide a service including causing an output section to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of an occupant in a vehicle, the plurality of agent function parts includes a first agent function part and a second agent function part having less dependence on a network connection than that of the first agent function part, a network observation part configured to recognize or predict a change in communication environment of the network connection is further provided, and the second agent function part stores a speech of the occupant in the vehicle in a storage when the first agent function part is under operation and deterioration of the communication environment of the network connection is recognized or predicted by the network observation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200320996
    Abstract: An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200319634
    Abstract: An agent device includes an in-vehicle agent function unit mounted in a vehicle and configured to provide a service including causing an output unit to output a voice response in accordance with speech of a user, an in-vehicle communication unit configured to cause the in-vehicle agent function unit to be connected to a network via an in-vehicle communication device, and a terminal communication unit configured to cause the in-vehicle agent function unit to be connected to the network via a general-purpose terminal. A state in which the in-vehicle agent function unit is connected to the network is selected from a first connection state implemented via the in-vehicle communication unit and a second connection state implemented via the terminal communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20200321001
    Abstract: An agent apparatus includes a plurality of agent function portions each providing a service including outputting a voice response from an output in response to an occupant's speech in a vehicle, and a selector referring to history information indicating a history of a quality of a service executed by each of the plurality of agent function portions with respect to a content of the occupant's speech, and selecting an agent function portion making a response to the occupant's speech in the vehicle from among the plurality of agent function portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Mototsugu Kubota, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20200307620
    Abstract: An agent device includes a display controller configured to cause a first display to display an agent image when an agent providing a service including causing an output device to output response of voice in response to an utterance of an user is activated, and a controller configured to execute particular control for causing a second display to display the agent image according to loudness of a voice received by an external terminal receiving a vocal input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200308895
    Abstract: An agent device includes an agent functional controller configured to provide a service including causing an output device to output a response of voice in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle, and a controller configured to permit an operation of a power window of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a first threshold value and limit the operation of the power window of the vehicle when the speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than the first threshold value when the agent functional controller is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Kengo Naiki
  • Publication number: 20200302937
    Abstract: In an agent system, a first server device transmits information associated with a speech of a first user acquired from a first terminal device to a second server device, and the second server device transmits information associated with the speech of the first user acquired from the first server device to a second terminal device or an on-vehicle agent device on the basis of existence of a second user recognized by the second terminal device or the on-vehicle agent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Kengo Naiki, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
  • Publication number: 20200148070
    Abstract: An electric vehicle comprises: a plurality of charging ports, at least one of which is configured to provide power to another vehicle; and at least one processor or circuit configured to function as following units: an authentication unit configured to authenticate an electronic device associated with the other vehicle using an electronic key; and a control unit configured to control, in accordance with an authentication result of the authentication unit, power provision to the other vehicle using the charging port configured to provide the power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo TAKEBAYASHI, Kengo NAIKI