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).
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Publication number: 20240409113Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: SHINYA AOKI, RIE HABUTA, KENJI KOHARA, HIDEAKI FURUSE
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Publication number: 20240295944Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: AKIRA SUGIE, NAOYUKI OKADA, KENJI KOHARA, HIDEAKI FURUSE, YUKI YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230017805Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventor: KENJI KOHARA
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Patent number: 10873725Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Kohara, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Akihiro Sunasaka, Satoshi Hoshi
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Publication number: 20200231099Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventor: Kenji KOHARA
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Publication number: 20190246068Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Kenji KOHARA, Hirohiko YANAGAWA, Akihiro SUNASAKA, Satoshi HOSHI
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Patent number: 9638881Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Akito Nishimura, Kenji Kohara
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Publication number: 20150086164Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Akito NISHIMURA, Kenji KOHARA
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Patent number: 8676450Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Kohara
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Patent number: 4675773Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 5, 1985Date of Patent: June 23, 1987Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.Inventors: Shingo Shirakawa, Seiichi Maruyama, Seizo Nakano, Eichi Okamoto, Kenji Kohara