Patents by Inventor Kensuke Ueda

Kensuke Ueda 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: 12286123
    Abstract: An estimation device is provided with a braking-driving force acquiring unit that acquires, based on a signal from a sensor that detects a force, braking-driving force information as information indicating a braking force or a driving force applied to wheels of the vehicle; a wheel load acquiring unit that acquires, based on the braking-driving force information, a wheel load received by the wheels from a road surface; and an estimation unit that estimates, based on a value of the wheel load of each wheel included in the vehicle, a gravity center position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Ueda, Takuto Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20250074206
    Abstract: The motor control unit reduces the drive braking torque for applying the braking force to the drive wheel by the reverse rotation timing predicted by the reverse rotation prediction unit at the latest, and the friction braking unit increases a friction braking force applied to the drive wheel by the friction braking device so that the friction braking force exceeds the braking force provided by the drive braking torque by the reverse rotation timing predicted by the reverse rotation prediction unit at the latest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakatsu SHIGYOH, Takashi SATOU, Takuto SUZUKI, Kensuke UEDA, Yoshitaka FUJITA, Tomohiro YAMASHITA, Masao YANO, Sota UKAI
  • Patent number: 12243239
    Abstract: A projection controlling apparatus includes a determiner configured to determine whether a hand-held object that is an object held by a hand is present in a captured image represented by captured image data generated by capturing a projection region onto which a projector projects a projected image; and a projection controller configured to prohibit the projected image from being projected onto the hand-held object in the projection region in response to a determination by the determiner that the hand-held object is present in the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ueda, Nobutaka Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20250069251
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquirer configured to acquire (i) captured image information indicating an image captured by an image capture device, (ii) image capture position information indicating a position of the image capture device, and (iii) provisional position information indicating a position of a wearable device; an identifier configured to identify, based on the captured image information and the provisional position information, a person wearing the wearable device, from among persons indicated by one or more person images included in the captured image; a calculator configured to calculate self-position information indicating a position of the wearable device worn by the person identified by the identifier, using the image capture position information; and a transmitter configured to supply the self-position information to the wearable device. The image capture position information is higher in accuracy than the provisional position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke UEDA, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA, Yuuichi MIZUKOSHI
  • Patent number: 12211227
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first detector configured to detect an object based on captured image information generated by an image capturing apparatus; a second detector configured to, in response to the object being detected by the first detector, detect a user operation carried out with regard to the object, the user operation involving a change in a state of the object; and a display controller configured to, in response to the user operation being detected by the second detector, generate an image that is associated with the object and the user operation, to display the generated image on a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ueda, Nobutaka Matsushima
  • Patent number: 12200411
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognizer, based on captured image information generated by capturing a region on which a first image including an individual image is projected from a projector, to recognize an obstacle between the region and the projector, an identifier, when the obstacle is recognized, to identify, based on first image information indicating the first image and a recognition result by the recognizer, the individual image of which projection is blocked by the obstacle as a specific image, a decider to decide changing a first position in the region on which the specific image is projected to a second position in the region toward which projection of the specific image is not blocked by the obstacle, and a generator to generate second image information indicating a second image including an auxiliary image teaching association between the specific image located at the second position and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ueda, Nobutaka Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20240378746
    Abstract: To provide a video generation device or the like which generates a video allowing an acquirer to obtain an ideal posture of a presenter from any viewpoint in real-time without fixing a self-position, while at the same time, allowing confirmation of a self-posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi MIZUKOSHI, Kensuke UEDA, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 12108892
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes, when a first determiner determines the amount of food or beverage in a platter being decreased, a second determiner to determine whether food or beverage on the platter was consumed by one person of multiple people, or the food or beverage was moved onto one small plate of small plates, a consumption information generator to generate, when the food or beverage on the platter was consumed by the one person, consumption information in which an amount of food or beverage consumed by the one person, the one person, and the type of the food or beverage are associated with each other, and an estimator to increase, when the food or beverage was moved to one small plate, the amount of food or beverage on the one small plate by an amount of decrease in the food or beverage in the platter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ueda, Nobutaka Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20240012406
    Abstract: A failure indication notification system includes an information collection device and an indication notification device. The information collection device collets device information, attribute information, and service information. The indication notification device includes an indication level computation unit that computes an indication level of failure of a device on the basis of the device information, the attribute information, and prediction model information; a notification level computation unit that computes a notification level on the basis of the attribute information and the service information; a determination unit that determines whether or not the notification about the indication of the device failure is to be provided on the basis of comparison between the indication level and the notification level; and a notification unit that notifies an outside of the failure indication notification system of indication information indicating the indication of the device failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Takuma ORIMOTO, Kensuke UEDA, Yuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230092314
    Abstract: An estimation device is provided with a braking-driving force acquiring unit that acquires, based on a signal from a sensor that detects a force, braking-driving force information as information indicating a braking force or a driving force applied to wheels of the vehicle; a wheel load acquiring unit that acquires, based on the braking-driving force information, a wheel load received by the wheels from a road surface; and an estimation unit that estimates, based on a value of the wheel load of each wheel included in the vehicle, a gravity center position of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke UEDA, Takuto SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220400239
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognizer, based on captured image information generated by capturing a region on which a first image including an individual image is projected from a projector, to recognize an obstacle between the region and the projector, an identifier, when the obstacle is recognized, to identify, based on first image information indicating the first image and a recognition result by the recognizer, the individual image of which projection is blocked by the obstacle as a specific image, a decider to decide changing a first position in the region on which the specific image is projected to a second position in the region toward which projection of the specific image is not blocked by the obstacle, and a generator to generate second image information indicating a second image including an auxiliary image teaching association between the specific image located at the second position and the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke UEDA, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220386797
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes, when a first determiner determines the amount of food or beverage in a platter being decreased, a second determiner to determine whether food or beverage on the platter was consumed by one person of multiple people, or the food or beverage was moved onto one small plate of small plates, a consumption information generator to generate, when the food or beverage on the platter was consumed by the one person, consumption information in which an amount of food or beverage consumed by the one person, the one person, and the type of the food or beverage are associated with each other, and an estimator to increase, when the food or beverage was moved to one small plate, the amount of food or beverage on the one small plate by an amount of decrease in the food or beverage in the platter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke UEDA, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220383534
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first detector configured to detect an object based on captured image information generated by an image capturing apparatus; a second detector configured to, in response to the object being detected by the first detector, detect a user operation carried out with regard to the object, the user operation involving a change in a state of the object; and a display controller configured to, in response to the user operation being detected by the second detector, generate an image that is associated with the object and the user operation, to display the generated image on a display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke UEDA, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220277460
    Abstract: A projection controlling apparatus includes a determiner configured to determine whether a hand-held object that is an object held by a hand is present in a captured image represented by captured image data generated by capturing a projection region onto which a projector projects a projected image; and a projection controller configured to prohibit the projected image from being projected onto the hand-held object in the projection region in response to a determination by the determiner that the hand-held object is present in the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kensuke UEDA, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220258618
    Abstract: The motor control unit reduces the drive braking torque for applying the braking force to the drive wheel by the reverse rotation timing predicted by the reverse rotation prediction unit at the latest, and the friction braking unit increases a friction braking force applied to the drive wheel by the friction braking device so that the friction braking force exceeds the braking force provided by the drive braking torque by the reverse rotation timing predicted by the reverse rotation prediction unit at the latest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakatsu SHIGYOH, Takashi SATOU, Takuto SUZUKI, Kensuke UEDA, Yoshitaka FUJITA, Tomohiro YAMASHITA, Masao YANO, Sota UKAI
  • Publication number: 20220236397
    Abstract: The system includes: a controlling device (140); a transmitting device (110) to transmit a wireless signal; a receiving device (120) to detect a reception intensity of the wireless signal and to sequentially output reception intensity information indicating the detected reception intensity to the controlling device (140); and a person detecting device (130) to detect that a person exists in a predetermined range and to sequentially output predetermined person detection information to the controlling device (140), wherein the controlling device (140) specifies a signal pattern indicating a transition of the reception intensity during a predetermined period by using the reception intensity indicated by the reception intensity information input during the predetermined period, and estimates, to be the position where a person exists, the position of the person detecting device (130) in the specified signal pattern when the person detection information is input within the predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Jun YUKAWA, Satoko MIKI, Kensuke UEDA
  • Patent number: 11332022
    Abstract: A travel control device includes: a first planning unit that, in response to the automobile being predicted to enter a restricted section in which a traveling condition is restricted, plans a traveling mode satisfying the restricted traveling condition as a first traveling mode in the restricted section; a second planning unit that plans a second traveling mode in a preparation section so as to perform the first traveling mode planned by the first planning unit, the preparation section being defined as a section extending to the restricted section before the automobile enters the restricted section, the second traveling mode adjusting a value of at least one parameter related to the first traveling mode to a preparation value appropriate for the first traveling mode; a control unit that controls travel of the automobile in the preparation section so as to perform the second traveling mode planned by the second planning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Ueda, Yutaro Ito, Noriaki Ikemoto, Youhei Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11306792
    Abstract: An automatic transmission is provided, which includes a transmission case having a vertical wall part, a clutch disposed on a first side of the vertical wall part in an axial direction, a given component disposed on the second side of the vertical wall part, and a sleeve having a cylindrical body and a flange part coupled to the second side of the vertical wall part and disposed radially inward of the given component. The hydraulic fluid is supplied to the clutch from radially inward of the clutch through the vertical wall part. An oil supply passage is configured to supply the hydraulic fluid to the radially inward of the clutch through a first oil passage extending in the axial direction via a coupling part between the vertical wall part and the flange part, a second oil passage inside the flange part, and a third oil passage inside the cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Ishizaka, Norio Iwashita, Kensuke Ueda, Masanori Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11149847
    Abstract: A power transmission device in an automatic transmission includes a friction tightening element (a second brake) having a drum member, and a transmission path constituent member (a third ring gear) coupled to the drum member via a coupling part extending circumferentially along the drum member, the drum member having low-rigidity parts (long holes) provided at a plurality of circumferential positions on the drum member in at least one of portions radially outside and inside the coupling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Sasaki, Masamichi Fujikawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Kensuke Ueda, Sayaka Katayama, Yasuo Miura, Takeyuki Tanaka, Hirokazu Kouno, Takashi Miyamoto, Ryohei Hanamure, Siyuan Tao
  • Publication number: 20210131513
    Abstract: An automatic transmission is provided, which includes a transmission case having a vertical wall part, a clutch disposed on a first side of the vertical wall part in an axial direction, a given component disposed on the second side of the vertical wall part, and a sleeve having a cylindrical body and a flange part coupled to the second side of the vertical wall part and disposed radially inward of the given component. The hydraulic fluid is supplied to the clutch from radially inward of the clutch through the vertical wall part. An oil supply passage is configured to supply the hydraulic fluid to the radially inward of the clutch through a first oil passage extending in the axial direction via a coupling part between the vertical wall part and the flange part, a second oil passage inside the flange part, and a third oil passage inside the cylindrical body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Tomotaka Ishizaka, Norio Iwashita, Kensuke Ueda, Masanori Sasaki