Patents by Inventor Kenji Kohara

Kenji Kohara 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).

  • Publication number: 20240409113
    Abstract: By a vehicle control device or a vehicle control method, whether a following vehicle, which is a different vehicle in rear of a subject vehicle and traveling in a same lane as the subject vehicle, is about to perform lane change based on a signal from a rear monitoring sensor that outputs information regarding an object existing behind the subject vehicle, and notification that the following vehicle is about to perform the lane change or cancellation or postponement of the lane change is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: SHINYA AOKI, RIE HABUTA, KENJI KOHARA, HIDEAKI FURUSE
  • Publication number: 20240295944
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a plurality of capturing sections, a combining section, a virtual viewpoint image generation section, a display section, a touch panel configured to receive input for changing a setting condition related to the virtual viewpoint on a virtual viewpoint image on the display section, and an image adjustment section configured to enable the virtual viewpoint to be set in the vehicle exterior or the vehicle interior and to move between the vehicle exterior and the vehicle interior, to adjust the virtual viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: AKIRA SUGIE, NAOYUKI OKADA, KENJI KOHARA, HIDEAKI FURUSE, YUKI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230017805
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to: detect a level difference existing around the vehicle; determine whether the detected level difference is a passing target level difference required to be passed without avoidance or an avoidance target level difference required to be avoided; and control a notification apparatus to output, toward an inside of a compartment of the vehicle, a notification indicating a passing plan of the passing target level difference in response to the detected level difference, which exists on a traveling route to be traveled by the vehicle within a parking area for parking purpose, being determined as the passing target level difference. The notification apparatus is controlled to output the notification indicating the passing plan of the passing target level difference in a notification mode that distinguishes the passing target level difference from the avoidance target level difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: KENJI KOHARA
  • Patent number: 10873725
    Abstract: An image processing unit repeatedly acquires a captured bird's-eye image which is obtained by bird's-eye conversion of a captured image of the surroundings of a vehicle. An image processing unit acquires a history image that is a bird's-eye image corresponding to a predetermined area in front in the traveling direction at each timing determined according to a predetermined condition. The image processing unit acquires a history image at every predetermined first cycle if an unstable condition related to a behavior of the vehicle is not satisfied. If an unstable condition is satisfied, the history image is acquired at a later timing than the first cycle. The image processing unit creates a bird's-eye image for display by extracting an area corresponding to a non-imaging area of the latest captured bird's-eye image from among the accumulated history images, and combining the extracted area with the non-imaging area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kohara, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Akihiro Sunasaka, Satoshi Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20200231099
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, a boundary setting unit, a display image generating unit, and a direction change acquiring unit. The display image generating unit generates a display image by synthesizing a plurality of images at the boundaries. The direction change acquiring unit acquires a direction of change from a straight traveling direction of the vehicle, and a change amount. The display image generating unit sets a display range of the display image closer to the direction of change from the straight traveling direction as the change amount from a traveling direction increases. The boundary setting unit sets a position of at least a part of a boundary existing closer to the direction of change among boundaries within the display image closer to the direction of change as the change amount increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Kenji KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20190246068
    Abstract: An image processing unit repeatedly acquires a captured bird's-eye image which is obtained by bird's-eye conversion of a captured image of the surroundings of a vehicle. An image processing unit acquires a history image that is a bird's-eye image corresponding to a predetermined area in front in the traveling direction at each timing determined according to a predetermined condition. The image processing unit acquires a history image at every predetermined first cycle if an unstable condition related to a behavior of the vehicle is not satisfied. If an unstable condition is satisfied, the history image is acquired at a later timing than the first cycle. The image processing unit creates a bird's-eye image for display by extracting an area corresponding to a non-imaging area of the latest captured bird's-eye image from among the accumulated history images, and combining the extracted area with the non-imaging area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji KOHARA, Hirohiko YANAGAWA, Akihiro SUNASAKA, Satoshi HOSHI
  • Patent number: 9638881
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the apparatus of the present invention, wind generated by a cooling fan blows in a housing, and a port is optically connected with an optical module via an optical fiber. Further, a shielding wall is provided to an optical fiber arranging member, which supports and guides the optical fiber, so as to prevent the optical fiber from being exposed to the wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Nishimura, Kenji Kohara
  • Publication number: 20150086164
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the apparatus of the present invention, wind generated by a cooling fan blows in a housing, and a port is optically connected with an optical module via an optical fiber. Further, a shielding wall is provided to an optical fiber arranging member, which supports and guides the optical fiber, so as to prevent the optical fiber from being exposed to the wind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Akito NISHIMURA, Kenji KOHARA
  • Patent number: 8676450
    Abstract: A steering wheel position control system includes a head position acquisition part for acquiring a position of a head part of a driver, a seat movement detection part for detecting movement of a seat, on which the driver is seated, a steering wheel position calculation part for calculating a position of a steering wheel based on the position of the head part acquired by the head position acquisition part when the movement of the electric power seat is detected by the seat movement detection part, and a steering wheel position change part for moving the steering wheel to the position of the steering wheel calculated by the steering wheel position calculation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kohara
  • Patent number: 4675773
    Abstract: A transmission line protection system arranged such that a leakage current detector is provided at an end of an insulating device such as an insulator connected at one end to a corresponding one of arms of a steel tower and connected at the other end to a transmission line of each phase, thereby detecting an arrester leakage current flowing in the transmission line of each phase, an output signal of the leakage current detector being led to a repeater through an optical fiber cable, an output of the repeater being transferred to a control/supervisory board in a substation through an optical fiber cable. In the control/supervisory board, preferably, a received digital signal which was converted from an analog signal at said leakage current detector is displayed on a cathode ray tube. In such an arrangement, it is possible to smoothly perform supervision of the status of the transmission lines without causing maloperations due to influences from the transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Shirakawa, Seiichi Maruyama, Seizo Nakano, Eichi Okamoto, Kenji Kohara