Patents by Inventor Koji Sengoku

Koji Sengoku 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: 11455428
    Abstract: Provided is a data registration system capable of efficiently registering data related to a vehicle while enhancing confidentiality. The data registration system includes an integration processing server and an integrated database server. The integration processing server creates a data mart having weather data, vehicle condition data, vehicle movement status data, fuel economy data, navigation data, a vehicle ID, and a user ID which are linked to one another and creates an encrypted data mart by encrypting the vehicle ID and the user ID in the data mart. The integrated database server stores the encrypted data mart as registered data in a storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Kawasaki, Koji Sengoku
  • Patent number: 11182985
    Abstract: Provided is a data registration system capable of efficiently registering highly effective data related to a vehicle or the like. The data registration system includes an integration processing server and an integrated database server. The integration processing server creates a data mart having an FCD, weather data, vehicle condition data, fuel economy data, navigation data, a vehicle ID, and a user ID which are linked to one another and creates an encrypted data mart by compressing the data mart by the Lzo algorithm and encrypting the compressed data mart. The integrated database server stores the encrypted data mart in a storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD, JAPAN SYSTEM TECHNIQUES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Sengoku, Shunsuke Kawasaki, Kosuke Arima, Hisao Shukuya, Tomoya Morita
  • Patent number: 11027623
    Abstract: Provided is a system and the like which further improves the user-friendliness of checking the amount of energy charge (e.g., amount of refuelling) for a mobile body (e.g., a vehicle) by effectively utilizing a function of a mobile terminal (e.g., a smartphone). A present amount of refuelling ?Fa(i) (present amount of energy charge) is estimated based on a deviation ?D(i) and a fuel consumption Fe(i) (travel efficiency) when the deviation ?D(i) of a present drivable distance D(i) from a last drivable distance D(i?1) of a vehicle X becomes a threshold ?Dth (>0) or higher. Accordingly, without the inconvenience that the user of the vehicle X inputs the fuelling amount into a mobile terminal 2 every time of refuel to the vehicle X, the estimation result of the fuelling amount can be automatically accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Takeuchi, Koji Sengoku
  • Patent number: 10824668
    Abstract: An information processing server and the like are provided that can generate information in a more meaningful manner for a user on the basis of multiple images taken by a client. In response to a start of an ON period of a mobile station X, the taken image registered in a client 2 and “designated point” are associated with each other, are transmitted to an information processing server 1, and registered in a database 10. An editing policy is determined on the basis of the image registered in the database 10, or the editing policy is designated in the client 2. The images taken in a travel period of the client 2 and registered in the database 10 are edited according to the editing policy, thereby generating an “image library” in the travel period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Takeuchi, Koji Sengoku, Takamichi Shimada
  • Patent number: 10586107
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing server and the like, in which in response to the start of an “on” period of the movable body V, imaged images that are registered at the client 2 and a “designated location” are associated and transmitted to an information processing server 1. An image corresponding to a “first designated location” that is a designated location that is outside a “base area” that is specific to the client 2 is registered as a “first image” in the information processing server 1. Further, an “image library” with respect to a trip period of the client 2 is generated based on a plurality of first images that are registered in the information processing server 1 in response to the start of an “off” period of the movable body V that occurs one or a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Takeuchi, Koji Sengoku, Takamichi Shimada
  • Patent number: 10508927
    Abstract: A navigation server and the like are provided which can provide to a user more meaningful information that takes into consideration a movement history of the user. Positions of a moving body X at time points of switching between an operation ON state and an operation OFF state are extracted as “first designated locations” from among a chronological order of positions (probe information) of the moving body X transmitted from a navigation client 2. A designated location is extracted from among the first designated locations of the moving body X based on a requirement that the designated location is outside a base area of the moving body X. The designated location is then stored and held in, or registered in, a server storage device 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Sengoku, Yuji Takeuchi, Shunsuke Hazama
  • Publication number: 20190266356
    Abstract: Provided is a data registration system capable of efficiently registering data related to a vehicle while enhancing confidentiality. The data registration system includes an integration processing server and an integrated database server. The integration processing server creates a data mart having weather data, vehicle condition data, vehicle movement status data, fuel economy data, navigation data, a vehicle ID, and a user ID which are linked to one another and creates an encrypted data mart by encrypting the vehicle ID and the user ID in the data mart. The integrated database server stores the encrypted data mart as registered data in a storage region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Shunsuke KAWASAKI, Koji SENGOKU
  • Publication number: 20190266816
    Abstract: Provided is a data registration system capable of efficiently registering highly effective data related to a vehicle or the like. The data registration system includes an integration processing server and an integrated database server. The integration processing server creates a data mart having an FCD, weather data, vehicle condition data, fuel economy data, navigation data, a vehicle ID, and a user ID which are linked to one another and creates an encrypted data mart by compressing the data mart by the Lzo algorithm and encrypting the compressed data mart. The integrated database server stores the encrypted data mart in a storage region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Koji SENGOKU, Shunsuke KAWASAKI, Kosuke ARIMA, Hisao SHUKUYA, Tomoya MORITA
  • Patent number: 10237737
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation server and a navigation client capable of protecting information specific to each user that is transmitted from the navigation client to the navigation server securely without degrading user-friendliness. A navigation server 100 is configured to, prohibit the navigation client 200 from accessing the navigation server 100 when a navigation client 200 meets a second condition that is determined from past communication contents with the navigation client 200. The navigation server 100 is configured to, make the navigation client 200 output a message urging to input a new authentication code based on a communication with a navigation client 200 that is prohibited by the server arithmetic processing element 110 from accessing the navigation server 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Sengoku
  • Publication number: 20180232369
    Abstract: An information processing server and the like are provided that can generate information in a more meaningful manner for a user on the basis of multiple images taken by a client. In response to a start of an ON period of a mobile station X, the taken image registered in a client 2 and “designated point” are associated with each other, are transmitted to an information processing server 1, and registered in a database 10. An editing policy is determined on the basis of the image registered in the database 10, or the editing policy is designated in the client 2. The images taken in a travel period of the client 2 and registered in the database 10 are edited according to the editing policy, thereby generating an “image library” in the travel period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji TAKEUCHI, Koji SENGOKU, Takamichi SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180202826
    Abstract: Provided is a system and the like which further improves the user-friendliness of checking the amount of energy charge (e.g., amount of refuelling) for a mobile body (e.g., a vehicle) by effectively utilizing a function of a mobile terminal (e.g., a smartphone). A present amount of refuelling ?Fa(i) (present amount of energy charge) is estimated based on a deviation ?D(i) and a fuel consumption Fe(i) (travel efficiency) when the deviation ?D(i) of a present drivable distance D(i) from a last drivable distance D(i-1) of a vehicle X becomes a threshold ?Dth (>0) or higher. Accordingly, without the inconvenience that the user of the vehicle X inputs the fuelling amount into a mobile terminal 2 every time of refuel to the vehicle X, the estimation result of the fuelling amount can be automatically accumulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji TAKEUCHI, Koji SENGOKU
  • Publication number: 20170308752
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing server and the like, in which in response to the start of an “on” period of the movable body V, imaged images that are registered at the client 2 and a “designated location” are associated and transmitted to an information processing server 1. An image corresponding to a “first designated location” that is a designated location that is outside a “base area” that is specific to the client 2 is registered as a “first image” in the information processing server 1. Further, an “image library” with respect to a trip period of the client 2 is generated based on a plurality of first images that are registered in the information processing server 1 in response to the start of an “off” period of the movable body V that occurs one or a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yuji TAKEUCHI, Koji SENGOKU, Takamichi SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20170115128
    Abstract: A navigation server and the like are provided which can provide to a user more meaningful information that takes into consideration a movement history of the user. Positions of a moving body X at time points of switching between an operation ON state and an operation OFF state are extracted as “first designated locations” from among a chronological order of positions (probe information) of the moving body X transmitted from a navigation client 2. A designated location is extracted from among the first designated locations of the moving body X based on a requirement that the designated location is outside a base area of the moving body X. The designated location is then stored and held in, or registered in, a server storage device 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Koji SENGOKU, Yuji TAKEUCHI, Shunsuke HAZAMA
  • Patent number: 9460603
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation system capable of, when an emergency situation occurs, immediately distributing, to a mobile terminal that is a client terminal located in a region impacted by the emergency situation, required information according to the terminal position in order of priority. During an emergency situation such as when a disaster or the like occurs, information on the emergency situation is distributed from a server, as a priority, simultaneously to each mobile terminal located in an area that is strongly impacted (for example, areas marked with a circled 1) immediately, regardless of when terminal position information is received from the mobile terminals, and the information on the emergency situation is displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal and a display device of a DA device to which same was distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hamano, Koji Sengoku, Takuro Masuda, Tadafumi Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20160027281
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation system capable of, when an emergency situation occurs, immediately distributing, to a mobile terminal that is a client terminal located in a region impacted by the emergency situation, required information according to the terminal position in order of priority. During an emergency situation such as when a disaster or the like occurs, information on the emergency situation is distributed from a server, as a priority, simultaneously to each mobile terminal located in an area that is strongly impacted (for example, areas marked with a circled 1) immediately, regardless of when terminal position information is received from the mobile terminals, and the information on the emergency situation is displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal and a display device of a DA device to which same was distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yusuke HAMANO, Koji SENGOKU, Takuro MASUDA, Tadafumi NOGAWA
  • Patent number: 9243919
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation system and the like capable of improving the utility value of the navigation route in response to a current request in consideration of a user position. In the navigation system of the present invention, when a current request Req(i)(i>1) including a current destination position p2(i) that is the same as a previous destination position p2(i?1), is made from a navigation device 200, a current support route R(i) is searched which has a location point p1(i) that is on a previous support route R(i?1) and distant from the user position p0(i) by a designated distance or more included in the request Req(i), as a starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Sengoku, Tadafumi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9037398
    Abstract: A navigation server is equipped with a support route searching element which searches for a support route from a departure position to a destination position, on the basis of a journey plan and a support map information of a support map information database, a support information retrieving element which retrieves discount information satisfying discount conditions of a toll of toll roads, on the basis of the departure time of the mobile body and the support route, and a support data creating element which transmits discount notice data which is capable of making the car navigation system output the discount information while omitting information arithmetic processing using navigation map information to the car navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Ishii, Koji Sengoku
  • Publication number: 20150121472
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation server and a navigation client capable of protecting information specific to each user that is transmitted from the navigation client to the navigation server securely without degrading user-friendliness. A navigation server 100 is configured to, prohibit the navigation client 200 from accessing the navigation server 100 when a navigation client 200 meets a second condition that is determined from past communication contents with the navigation client 200. The navigation server 100 is configured to, make the navigation client 200 output a message urging to input a new authentication code based on a communication with a navigation client 200 that is prohibited by the server arithmetic processing element 110 from accessing the navigation server 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Koji SENGOKU
  • Patent number: 8831865
    Abstract: Provided are a server, a system and a method by which a utility value of information relating to fuel efficiency of a vehicle can be improved. A fuel efficiency information management server (100) functions so that a driver of each vehicle or a third party is informed of a ranking corresponding to the fuel efficiency level of each vehicle, together with a travel state factor of each vehicle when the fuel efficiency is achieved, through a system of eco-information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Sengoku, Yuichiro Ishido
  • Patent number: 8788194
    Abstract: Disclosed is a navigation system which creates “environment contribution information” in accordance with a deviation (?(k)) between the total cost (C1(k)) of a first route (RT1(k)) which is searched by using a traffic information indicating the amount of cost required to pass through each link and the total cost (C2(k)) of a second route (RT2(k)) which is searched without using the traffic information. The traffic information used in searching the first route (RT1(k)) to a target position (TP(k)) of a vehicle (2) is used in searching a route to a shared target position by a navigation device (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Sengoku, Yuichiro Ishido, Tadafumi Nogawa