Patents by Inventor Kentaro KUDO

Kentaro KUDO 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).

  • Aircraft for identifying a suspicious vessel
    Patent number: 11644563
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a vessel checker, an image generator, an appearance determining unit, and an information transmitter. The vessel checker identifies a suspicious vessel candidate by comparing a marine vessel detected by a marine search radar with a marine vessel transmitting data with an automatic identification system. The image generator generates an image by photographing the suspicious vessel candidate after the aircraft approaches the suspicious vessel candidate in accordance with a route for approaching the suspicious vessel candidate. The appearance determining unit determines whether the suspicious vessel candidate in the image has an appearance characteristic of a suspicious vessel. The information transmitter transmits, to an external apparatus, information indicating that the suspicious vessel candidate has the appearance characteristic of the suspicious vessel if the suspicious vessel candidate has the appearance characteristic of the suspicious vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko Kindaichi, Kentaro Kudo, Takayuki Oguri, Akihiro Yamane, Akitoshi Sakaguchi
  • AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20200202115
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a vessel checker, an image generator, an appearance determining unit, and an information transmitter. The vessel checker identifies a suspicious vessel candidate by comparing a marine vessel detected by a marine search radar with a marine vessel transmitting data with an automatic identification system. The image generator generates an image by photographing the suspicious vessel candidate after the aircraft approaches the suspicious vessel candidate in accordance with a route for approaching the suspicious vessel candidate. The appearance determining unit determines whether the suspicious vessel candidate in the image has an appearance characteristic of a suspicious vessel. The information transmitter transmits, to an external apparatus, information indicating that the suspicious vessel candidate has the appearance characteristic of the suspicious vessel if the suspicious vessel candidate has the appearance characteristic of the suspicious vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumiko KINDAICHI, Kentaro KUDO, Takayuki OGURI, Akihiro YAMANE, Akitoshi SAKAGUCHI