Patents by Inventor Kenichi Takasu

Kenichi Takasu 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: 9213104
    Abstract: In a positioning system, an arithmetic processor analyzes positioning data acquired by a receiving terminal and determines a positioning target location. Upon reception of positioning data, the arithmetic processor accumulates the positioning data on analysis data stored in a storage section prior to the reception, stores an accumulated data as new analysis data, and transmits an analysis result to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal transmits positioning data, acquired for a predetermined time, to the arithmetic processor and continues to acquire positioning data. Upon reception of the analysis result, the receiving terminal determines whether the analysis result is good or poor. When the analysis result is poor and the positioning data is stored for the predetermined time from a last transmission of the positioning data, the receiving terminal transmits the positioning data to the arithmetic processor and continues to acquire positioning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogawa, Kenichi Takasu, Shigeyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7482974
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an RTK-GPS survey system. The survey system includes a server (9) in an IP-VPN communication network 10 for establishing communications between base stations (16 and 17) that transmit correction data and a rover station 15 that receives the correction data. Each satellite positioning device constituting a base station and a rover station includes at least a satellite positioning unit (11) that receives radio waves from artificial satellites, a communication unit (12) that performs a communication between the satellite positioning device, and a control unit (13) that controls the satellite positioning unit (11) and the communication unit (12). The control unit (13) of the rover station 15 can receive interference information registered in the control unit (13) of each satellite positioning device of the base stations (16 and 17), and select a base station that transmits most appropriate correction data among the plural base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogawa, Kenichi Takasu, Shigeyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7460065
    Abstract: An RTK-GPS surveying system for surveying an object includes at least one satellite positioning device as a base station configured to send correction data, a plurality of satellite positioning devices as rover stations configured to receive the correction data, and a server provided in an IP-VPN communication network for establishing communication between the satellite positioning device as the base station and the plurality of satellite positioning devices as the rover stations, each of the satellite positioning devices has a satellite positioning part for receiving radio wave from a satellite, a communication part for performing communication between each of the satellite positioning devices, and a control part for controlling the satellite positioning part and the communication part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogawa, Kenichi Takasu, Mitsuru Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20080281520
    Abstract: In a positioning system, an arithmetic processor analyzes positioning data acquired by a receiving terminal and determines a positioning target location. Upon reception of positioning data, the arithmetic processor accumulates the positioning data on analysis data stored in a storage section prior to the reception, stores an accumulated data as new analysis data, and transmits an analysis result to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal transmits positioning data, acquired for a predetermined time, to the arithmetic processor and continues to acquire positioning data. Upon reception of the analysis result, the receiving terminal determines whether the analysis result is good or poor. When the analysis result is poor and the positioning data is stored for the predetermined time from a last transmission of the positioning data, the receiving terminal transmits the positioning data to the arithmetic processor and continues to acquire positioning data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogawa, Kenichi Takasu, Shigeyuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070268179
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an RTK-GPS survey system. The survey system includes a server (9) in an IP-VPN communication network 10 for establishing communications between base stations (16 and 17) that transmit correction data and a rover station 15 that receives the correction data. Each satellite positioning device constituting a base station and a rover station includes at least a satellite positioning unit (11) that receives radio waves from artificial satellites, a communication unit (12) that performs a communication between the satellite positioning device, and a control unit (13) that controls the satellite positioning unit (11) and the communication unit (12). The control unit (13) of the rover station 15 can receive interference information registered in the control unit (13) of each satellite positioning device of the base stations (16 and 17), and select a base station that transmits most appropriate correction data among the plural base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogawa, Kenichi Takasu, Shigeyuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070241961
    Abstract: An RTK-GPS surveying system for surveying an object includes at least one satellite positioning device as a base station configured to send correction data, a plurality of satellite positioning devices as rover stations configured to receive the correction data, and a server provided in an IP-VPN communication network for establishing communication between the satellite positioning device as the base station and the plurality of satellite positioning devices as the rover stations, each of the satellite positioning devices has a satellite positioning part for receiving radio wave from a satellite, a communication part for performing communication between each of the satellite positioning devices, and a control part for controlling the satellite positioning part and the communication part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogawa, Kenichi Takasu, Mitsuru Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6882305
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first time by a first determining system. The method also includes determining a second time and a spatial position of a terminal receiving the second time, by a second determining system which is different from and independent of the first determining system. The terminal stores, in combination, the first time determined by the first determining system and the second time and the position determined by the second determining system, at each time of determining the spatial position of the terminal, in such a manner that the first time, the second time and the position are arranged in a row when they are outputted, wherein the first and second times are independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu
  • Patent number: 6865484
    Abstract: A GPS positioning system that has: at least one mobile station to measure a positional coordinate by receiving radio wave from a satellite; a plurality of fixed stations that have predetermined positional coordinates and receive radio wave from the satellite; and arithmetic processing means, which is connected with at least one mobile station and a plurality of fixed stations via communication, and that transmits correction data suitable for the mobile station to the mobile station based on positioning data transmitted from the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu, Yuji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6791492
    Abstract: A GPS positioning system comprises a fixed station and a mobile station. The mobile station has: positional positioning means; imaging means; direction detecting means; and arithmetic processing means. The positional positioning means measures positional coordinates by receiving radio weve from a satellite. The imaging means is arranged in a predetermined position for the GPS positional positioning means. The direction detecting means detects a photographing direction during photographig by the imaging means. The arithmetic processing means forms landscape data in which imaging data that is an output from the imaging means is associated with orientation data that is an output from the direction detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignees: Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu
  • Publication number: 20040044474
    Abstract: A GPS positioning system has: at least one mobile station to measure a positional coordinate by receiving radio wave from a satellite; a plurality of fixed stations that have predetermined positional coordinates and receive radio wave from the satellite; and arithmetic processing means, which is connected with at least one mobile station and a plurality of the fixed stations by communication, that selects an appropriate fixed station based on positioning data transmitted from at least one mobile station, and transmits reference positioning data of the fixed station selected to the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu, Yuji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20030154026
    Abstract: A GPS positioning system that has: at least one mobile station to measure a positional coordinate by receiving radio wave from a satellite; a plurality of fixed stations that have predetermined positional coordinates and receive radio wave from the satellite; and arithmetic processing means, which is connected with at least one mobile station and a plurality of fixed stations via communication, and that transmits correction data suitable for the mobile station to the mobile station based on positioning data transmitted from the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu, Yuji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20030090415
    Abstract: A GPS positioning system comprises a fixed station and a mobile station. The mobile station has: positional positioning means; imaging means; direction detecting means; and arithmetic processing means. The positional positioning means measures positional coordinates by receiving radio wave from a satellite. The imaging means is arranged in a predetermined position for the GPS positional positioning means. The direction detecting means detects a photographing direction during photographing by the imaging means. The arithmetic processing means forms landscape data in which imaging data that is an output from the imaging means is associated with orientation data that is an output from the direction detecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUI & CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu
  • Publication number: 20030016171
    Abstract: Two independent determining systems are used, wherein time or a point of time is determined by one determining system and the spatial position is determined by the other determining system, and wherein the time or the point of time and the position thus determined by the determining systems are stored in a terminal. A position determining apparatus comprises a GPS antenna for receiving the radio wave from a GPS satellite and a GPS receiver for receiving the data from the GPS antenna to determine the position, wherein the GPS receiver includes a processing unit, and thereby the processing unit processes the position coordinate data by the GPS position determination and the time data in another independent time system by correlating them with each other (FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUI & CO., LTD. & KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Masakazu Mori, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Sakaki, Kenichi Takasu