Patents by Inventor Koji Morishita

Koji Morishita 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: 20240367517
    Abstract: The action schedule item creation ECU creates action schedule items demanded of an ego vehicle capable of switching between autonomous driving and manual driving. The HUD and the meter display are provided inside a cabin of the ego vehicle. The display control ECU displays the action schedule items created by the action schedule item creation ECU on the HUD and the meter display, and emphasizes display of action schedule items to be performed by manual driving compared to display of action schedule items to be performed by autonomous driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki TAKABATAKE, Junji MIYAZAKI, Koji KIMURA, Yuki YOSHIDA, Ryo OGATA, Tadashi MORISHITA
  • Patent number: 12114241
    Abstract: A display control ECU includes an information acquisition section and a display control section. The information acquisition section acquires information relating to a peripheral target object that is present ahead of the vehicle and in a subject vehicle lane in which the vehicle is currently traveling, and information relating to an object requiring caution that is present outside of the subject vehicle lane and having implications for control during the autonomous driving. The display control section displays an image of the peripheral target object, regarding which information has been acquired by the information acquisition section on a heads-up display provided inside a cabin of the vehicle, and additionally displays on the heads-up display an image of the object requiring caution in a case in which information relating to the object requiring caution has been acquired by the information acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Yuki Yoshida, Ryo Ogata, Tadashi Morishita
  • Publication number: 20240317056
    Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to display an object display and a lane display at a display section provided in a cabin of the vehicle. The object display depicts an object located in front of the vehicle, the lane display depicts a lane extending in front of the vehicle, and the object display and lane display are each displayed as a view thereof from the side of the object at which the vehicle is disposed. The processor is also configured to, in accordance with a distance between the object and the vehicle, alter a display ratio of the object display relative to a width of the lane display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Ryo Ogata, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
  • Patent number: 12090852
    Abstract: The action schedule item creation ECU creates action schedule items demanded of an ego vehicle capable of switching between autonomous driving and manual driving. The HUD and the meter display are provided inside a cabin of the ego vehicle. The display control ECU displays the action schedule items created by the action schedule item creation ECU on the HUD and the meter display, and emphasizes display of action schedule items to be performed by manual driving compared to display of action schedule items to be performed by autonomous driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Junji Miyazaki, Koji Kimura, Yuki Yoshida, Ryo Ogata, Tadashi Morishita
  • Patent number: 12093505
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor being configured to: receive proposal information relating to a proposal that requests an instruction from a vehicle occupant of a vehicle; receive an operation signal that is outputted in accordance with an operation of the vehicle occupant; and in a case of receiving the proposal information, change display of a display device provided within the vehicle from a usual image to an image that includes a proposal image relating to the proposal, and, during a predetermined time period from start of display of the proposal image, prohibit reflection of the operation signal in the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Ogata, Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
  • Patent number: 12084078
    Abstract: A vehicle reducing unease of a driver during driver assistance, provided with a display device configured to display a surrounding vehicle together with a host vehicle at a relative position calculated by an object recognition device, display a mark showing that a lane change is planned to be performed at a predetermined space for performing a lane change in a destination driving lane which is a destination for a lane change when an automatic lane change is planned to be performed, and make a position of the mark change in accordance with the relative position of the surrounding vehicle when there is a surrounding vehicle present having an effect on a lane change in the destination driving lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Kimura, Satoaki Takabatake, Junji Miyazaki, Yuki Yoshida, Ryo Ogata, Tadashi Morishita, Takamitsu Toyoura, Atsuki Kinoshita, Yuki Mori
  • Patent number: 12043900
    Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Tokuda, Mamoru Saito, Takuya Mitsunobu, Tetsuya Toba, Yasuto Goto, Atsushi Morishita, Yasuaki Kawamura, Fumiaki Nakamura, Koji Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 11882122
    Abstract: A creation device includes processing circuitry configured to collect pieces of information about IoT (Internet of Things) apparatuses connected to IoT gateways, and white lists stored in the IoT gateways, the white lists specifying content of communication allowed for each of the IoT apparatuses, calculate a feature value showing communication features of IoT apparatuses for each of the IoT gateways, and degrees of similarity in the feature value among the IoT gateways, based on the collected pieces of information about the IoT apparatuses, and extract, if any of the calculated similarity degrees is equal to or above a predetermined threshold, pieces of white list information about IoT apparatuses to mutually complement white lists stored in IoT gateways, from pieces of white list information about IoT apparatuses included in the white lists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Nomura, Yukio Nagafuchi, Iifan Tyou, Tetsuhiko Murata, Koji Morishita, Kenji Ota, Akio Mukaiyama, Takahiro Nukushina, Hiroki Nagayama, Masaki Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11765047
    Abstract: Provided is an IoT GW (10), including a learning unit (131) configured to create, for each IoT device connected to the IoT GW (10), a normal communication model (122) that has learned a normal communication pattern of the IoT device; and a determination unit (132) configured to: determine, for learning by the learning unit (131), whether to interrupt, finish, continue, and resume learning based on a load of a learning environment; and control learning processing by the learning unit (131) based on a result of determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Nomura, Iifan Tyou, Tetsuhiko Murata, Koji Morishita, Kenji Ota, Akio Mukaiyama, Takahiro Nukushina, Hiroki Nagayama, Yukio Nagafuchi, Masaki Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11467572
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new system that allows an easier operation of a moving object. The present invention provides a moving object operation system including: a moving object; and an operation signal transmitter. The moving object includes a signal receipt unit that receives an operation signal. The transmitter includes: an auxiliary tool; a storage unit that contains conversion information; a movement information acquisition unit that acquires auxiliary tool movement information; a conversion unit that converts the acquired movement information into the operation signal based on the conversion information; and a signal transmission unit that transmits the operation signal. The conversion information includes auxiliary tool movement information and operation signal information for instructing the moving object in how to move, and those are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovations, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yanagisawa, Koji Morishita, Hisashi Noda
  • Publication number: 20220311677
    Abstract: Provided is an IoT GW (10), including a learning unit (131) configured to create, for each IoT device connected to the IoT GW (10), a normal communication model (122) that has learned a normal communication pattern of the IoT device; and a determination unit (132) configured to: determine, for learning by the learning unit (131), whether to interrupt, finish, continue, and resume learning based on a load of a learning environment; and control learning processing by the learning unit (131) based on a result of determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki NOMURA, Iifan TYOU, Tetsuhiko MURATA, Koji MORISHITA, Kenji OTA, Akio MUKAIYAMA, Takahiro NUKUSHINA, Hiroki NAGAYAMA, Yukio NAGAFUCHI, Masaki TANIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11415980
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new system that allows an easier operation of a moving object. The present invention provides a moving object operation system (1) including a moving object (20) and an operation signal transmitter (10) for the moving object (20). The moving object (20) includes a signal receipt unit (201) that receives an operation signal from the operation signal transmitter (10). The operation signal transmitter (10) includes a storage unit (101) that contains conversion information, a motion information acquisition unit (102) that acquires motion information of an operator, a conversion unit (103) that converts the acquired motion information into the operation signal to the moving object (20) based on the conversion information, and a signal transmission unit (104) that transmits the operation signal to the moving object (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Morishita, Hiroaki Yanagisawa, Hisashi Noda
  • Publication number: 20220141185
    Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to collect communication of an application and control the communication of the application based on a first control condition, analyze the communication collected to determine whether the application is a communication control target, and generate the first control condition based on a normal communication range of the application that is the communication control target, and transmit at least a part of first shared information including identification information about the application and the first control condition to a second communication terminal apparatus that is different from the communication terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iifan TYOU, Takahiro NUKUSHINA, Masaki TANIKAWA, Yukio NAGAFUCHI, Shingo KASHIMA, Tetsuhiko MURATA, Kenji OTA, Tsuyoshi KONDO, Koki NOMURA, Akio MUKAIYAMA, Hiroki NAGAYAMA, Koji MORISHITA
  • Publication number: 20220094687
    Abstract: A creation device includes processing circuitry configured to collect pieces of information about IoT (Internet of Things) apparatuses connected to IoT gateways, and white lists stored in the IoT gateways, the white lists specifying content of communication allowed for each of the IoT apparatuses, calculate a feature value showing communication features of IoT apparatuses for each of the IoT gateways, and degrees of similarity in the feature value among the IoT gateways, based on the collected pieces of information about the IoT apparatuses, and extract, if any of the calculated similarity degrees is equal to or above a predetermined threshold, pieces of white list information about IoT apparatuses to mutually complement white lists stored in IoT gateways, from pieces of white list information about IoT apparatuses included in the white lists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki NOMURA, Yukio NAGAFUCHI, Iifan TYOU, Tetsuhiko MURATA, Koji MORISHITA, Kenji OTA, Akio MUKAIYAMA, Takahiro NUKUSHINA, Hiroki NAGAYAMA, Masaki TANIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11215531
    Abstract: A voltage application detection unit detects an impedance of an oxygen sensor, which outputs a signal corresponding to a concentration of oxygen, based on a current change amount in the oxygen sensor caused by application of a voltage to the oxygen sensor. A current application detection unit detects the impedance based on a voltage change amount generated across the oxygen sensor caused by application of a current to the oxygen sensor. A detection switching unit switches between the voltage application detection unit and the current application detection unit to detect the impedance based on a state of the oxygen sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Morishita
  • Patent number: 11209835
    Abstract: A drone maneuvering system includes a drone and a maneuvering signal transmitter set. The maneuvering signal transmitter set includes a first transmitter that controls at least forward, reverse, left, and right movement of the drone, and a second transmitter that controls vertical movement and rotational movement of the drone. The first transmitter includes a first auxiliary tool and transmits to the drone a maneuvering signal including tilt information of the first auxiliary tool that accompanies the actions of a pilot, in which the forward, reverse, left, and right movements of the drone are imaged. The second transmitter includes a second auxiliary tool and transmits to the drone a maneuvering signal including rotation information of the second auxiliary tool that accompanies the actions of the pilot, in which the vertical movements and rotational movements of the drone are imaged. The drone operates in accordance with the received maneuvering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yanagisawa, Koji Morishita, Hisashi Noda
  • Publication number: 20210318679
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new system that allows an easier operation of a moving object. The present invention provides a moving object operation system (1) including a moving object (20) and an operation signal transmitter (10) for the moving object (20). The moving object (20) includes a signal receipt unit (201) that receives an operation signal from the operation signal transmitter (10). The operation signal transmitter (10) includes a storage unit (101) that contains conversion information, a motion information acquisition unit (102) that acquires motion information of an operator, a conversion unit (103) that converts the acquired motion information into the operation signal to the moving object (20) based on the conversion information, and a signal transmission unit (104) that transmits the operation signal to the moving object (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji MORISHITA, Hiroaki YANAGISAWA, Hisashi NODA
  • Publication number: 20210286352
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new system that allows an easier operation of a moving object. The present invention provides a moving object operation system including: a moving object; and an operation signal transmitter. The moving object includes a signal receipt unit that receives an operation signal. The transmitter includes: an auxiliary tool; a storage unit that contains conversion information; a movement information acquisition unit that acquires auxiliary tool movement information; a conversion unit that converts the acquired movement information into the operation signal based on the conversion information; and a signal transmission unit that transmits the operation signal. The conversion information includes auxiliary tool movement information and operation signal information for instructing the moving object in how to move, and those are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki YANAGISAWA, Koji MORISHITA, Hisashi NODA
  • Patent number: 10803762
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a body motion grading system that allows the grading less likely to be affected by the difference among the builds of target persons subjected to grading. The present invention provides body motion grading system (1) including body position information acquisition unit (11) configured to acquire body position information of a target person subjected to grading in time series, body part recognition unit (12) configured to recognize a position of each part in the acquired body position information in time series and relatively recognize positions of body parts with reference to a certain body part, body motion grading unit (13) configured to conduct grading by comparing a position of a body part recognized by the body part recognition unit with a preliminarily prepared comparison condition in time series, and grading result display unit (14) configured to display a grading result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS, LTD
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Nagai, Koji Morishita, Hisashi Noda
  • Patent number: 10744418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new system that allows a safer operation of a moving object. The present invention provides a moving object operation system (1) including: a moving object (11); a plurality of operation signal transmitters (12A, 12B) for the moving object; and a synchronization unit (13). The moving object (11) includes: a signal receipt unit (111) that receives operation signals from the operation signal transmitters (12A, 12B). The operation signal transmitters (12A, 12B) include signal transmission units (121A, 121B) that transmit the operation signals to the moving object (11), respectively. The synchronization unit (13) is a unit that synchronizes the operation signal transmitters (12A, 12B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yanagisawa, Koji Morishita, Hisashi Noda