Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Yamane

Kenichiro Yamane 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: 6657558
    Abstract: To ensure that of all information transmitted through broadcast communications, only the information corresponding to the traveling route of a mobile body will be efficiently displayed at the information terminal of a car navigation system or the like, the information terminal is provided with: a means for receiving the spot or area information being transmitted, and receiving information that has been linked to the spot or area information being transmitted, a means for judging whether the spot or area information that has been received above is included in part of the spot or area information corresponding to the traveling route of the mobile body, and storage media for retaining the received spot or area information that the above-mentioned judgment means has judged to be included in the spot or area information corresponding to the traveling route of the mobile body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Horita, Takumi Fushiki, Kimiya Yamaashi, Takayoshi Yokota, Yukihiro Kawamata, Kenichiro Yamane
  • Publication number: 20030125874
    Abstract: A method of presuming traffic conditions for implementing a forecast and a presumption of traffic jam situation in an area where probe cars are not traveling currently, in which the probe cars send floating car data that is times and positions of traveled areas to center facilities, and the center accumulates the floating car data in a floating car data database by traffic conditions presumption means and also presumes forecast traffic jam information in the forward areas of the probe cars and presumed traffic jam information in the backward areas thereof by using the current floating car data and the floating car data database accumulated from the past to the present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Takumi Fushiki, Kenichiro Yamane, Takeshi Inoue, Takayoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 6546330
    Abstract: A method of presuming traffic conditions for implementing a forecast and a presumption of traffic jam situation in an area where probe cars are not traveling currently, in which the probe cars send floating car data that is times and positions of traveled areas to center facilities, and the center accumulates the floating car data in a floating car data database by traffic conditions presumption means and also presumes forecast traffic jam information in the forward areas of the probe cars and presumed traffic jam information in the backward areas thereof by using the current floating car data and the floating car data database accumulated from the past to the present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Fushiki, Kenichiro Yamane, Takeshi Inoue, Takayoshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20020120389
    Abstract: A method of presuming traffic conditions for implementing a forecast and a presumption of traffic jam situation in an area where probe cars are not traveling currently, in which the probe cars send floating car data that is times and positions of traveled areas to center facilities, and the center accumulates the floating car data in a floating car data database by traffic conditions presumption means and also presumes forecast traffic jam information in the forward areas of the probe cars and presumed traffic jam information in the backward areas thereof by using the current floating car data and the floating car data database accumulated from the past to the present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Fushiki, Kenichiro Yamane, Takeshi Inoue, Takayoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 6433704
    Abstract: Information requesting sides 2a˜2d request to a moving body information communication device 1 information, the moving body information communication device 1 transmits the information request to probe cars 3a˜3c of which existence in its managing area is confirmed by itself, the probe cars 3a˜3c return obtained moving body information meeting the information request to the moving body information communication device 1, and the moving body information communication device 1 transmits the received moving body information to the information requesting sides 2a˜2d. Thereby, a moving body information communication system is provided which permits to obtain moving body information in response to the request from the information requesting sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Fushiki, Takayoshi Yokota, Kenichiro Yamane, Seiji Ukai
  • Publication number: 20020059017
    Abstract: It is possible to control a car group having a probe car at the head thereof or a whole traffic flow including the car group, with due regard to the efficiency, safety and environment. A probe car system includes a device for inputting a control strategy and/or a car group strategy, based on a road map database or traffic data; a device for evaluating propriety of the strategy and determining a proper strategy; and a device for transmitting the proper strategy to the probe car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yamane, Takayoshi Yokota, Takumi Fushiki
  • Publication number: 20020027511
    Abstract: To ensure that of all information transmitted through broadcast communications, only the information corresponding to the traveling route of a mobile body will be efficiently displayed at the information terminal of a car navigation system or the like, the information terminal is provided with:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Horita, Takumi Fushiki, Kimiya Yamaashi, Takayoshi Yokota, Yukihiro Kawamata, Kenichiro Yamane
  • Publication number: 20020027512
    Abstract: To ensure that of all information transmitted through broadcast communications, only the information corresponding to the traveling route of a mobile body will be efficiently displayed at the information terminal of a car navigation system or the like, the information terminal is provided with:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Horita, Takumi Fushiki, Kimiya Yamaashi, Takayoshi Yokota, Yukihiro Kawamata, Kenichiro Yamane