Patents by Inventor Kosuke TSUKAO

Kosuke TSUKAO 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: 20240093545
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging unit provided in a hinge door of a vehicle and a door opening angle indicating an angle at which the hinge door is opened from a closed state when the image is captured; a correction unit configured to correct an error of the door opening angle acquired by the acquisition unit; and a specification unit configured to specify a three-dimensional position of an obstacle with respect to the vehicle using corresponding points of the obstacle present around the hinge door, which are determined based on a plurality of images captured by the imaging unit from a plurality of viewpoints with different door opening angles acquired by the acquisition unit, and the door opening angles corrected by the correction unit and associated with the respective plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin-ichi KOJIMA, Kosuke TSUKAO
  • Publication number: 20230251374
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes a first and second transmission and reception units which are away from each other and transmit a probe wave and receive the probe wave reflected by an object, and a processing unit configured to calculate a position of the object based on a reception result. The processing unit includes a distance processing unit configured to calculate a first point based on a reception result when the first transmission and reception unit transmits the probe wave, calculate a second point based on a reception result when the second transmission and reception unit transmits the probe wave, and calculate a separation distance between the first and second points, a position calculation unit configured to calculate the position of the object based on the first and second points, and a position correction unit configured to correct the position with a correction amount corresponding to the calculated position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke TSUKAO
  • Publication number: 20220259914
    Abstract: An obstacle detection device includes: an ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit detecting at least a distance to an obstacle among the distance and a shape of the obstacle based on an output of an ultrasonic sensor, the ultrasonic sensor being disposed on a door of a vehicle and detecting the distance within a predetermined detection range by an ultrasonic wave; a camera image processing unit detecting the distance and the shape based on an output of a camera of the vehicle, the camera capturing an image of an area including a trajectory range when the door is opened and a detection range of the ultrasonic sensor; and a controller performing open operation control of the door based on detection results of the ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit and the camera image processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke TSUKAO, Nobuyasu Miwa, Tatsuma Fujita
  • Patent number: 11294053
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: first and second transmission/reception units spaced apart from each other and configured to transmit an exploration wave and receive the exploration wave reflected by an object; and a processing unit configured to calculate a position of the object based on reception results by the first and second transmission/reception units. The processing unit includes: a distance processing unit configured to calculate first and second points based on the reception results, and calculates a separation distance between the first and second points; a position calculation unit configured to calculate the position based on the first and second points; a reflection intensity processing unit configured to calculate a reflection intensity indicating an intensity of the exploration wave received by the first and second transmission/reception units; and a position correction unit configured to correct the position based on the separation distance and the reflection intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Miwa, Kosuke Tsukao, Kaoru Nakagaki, Tsubasa Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20200256989
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: first and second transmission/reception units spaced apart from each other and configured to transmit an exploration wave and receive the exploration wave reflected by an object; and a processing unit configured to calculate a position of the object based on reception results by the first and second transmission/reception units. The processing unit includes: a distance processing unit configured to calculate first and second points based on the reception results, and calculates a separation distance between the first and second points; a position calculation unit configured to calculate the position based on the first and second points; a reflection intensity processing unit configured to calculate a reflection intensity indicating an intensity of the exploration wave received by the first and second transmission/reception units; and a position correction unit configured to correct the position based on the separation distance and the reflection intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyasu MIWA, Kosuke TSUKAO, Kaoru NAKAGAKI, Tsubasa KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20200132837
    Abstract: An obstacle recognition device for a vehicle door, includes: a sensor unit including a pair of transducers of an ultrasonic wave suitable for provision on a door that is opened by moving outward from a vehicle body; and a position recognition unit configured to recognize a relative position of an obstacle with respect to the door based on a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave transmitted from the sensor unit and reflected by the obstacle. The pair of transducers are arranged at a predetermined interval, the sensor unit receives, by the pair of transducers, a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave transmitted from at least one of the transducers toward a predetermined wave transmission area outside the vehicle body, and the position recognition unit recognizes the relative position of the obstacle with respect to the door based on respective reflected waves received by the pair of transducers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsubasa KAMIYA, Masato SUGIYAMA, Moritaka MIWA, Nobuyasu MIWA, Kosuke TSUKAO
  • Patent number: 10632912
    Abstract: An alarm device includes: a host vehicle information acquisition unit; a vehicle external information acquisition unit; a visual attention target calculation unit calculating a target to which attention of a driver is required based on host vehicle information and vehicle external information; a sight line information acquisition unit acquiring sight line information about the driver; an eyeball position information acquisition unit acquiring eyeball position information about the driver; a visual attention point calculation unit calculating a point to which the driver pays attention, based on the sight line information and the eyeball position information; a determination unit determining whether the driver pays attention to the target, based on the target and the point; and a notification unit notifying the driver of a determination result when determined that the driver does not pay attention to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Tsukao, Hironobu Tsukazaki
  • Publication number: 20190308554
    Abstract: An alarm device includes: a host vehicle information acquisition unit; a vehicle external information acquisition unit; a visual attention target calculation unit calculating a target to which attention of a driver is required based on host vehicle information and vehicle external information; a sight line information acquisition unit acquiring sight line information about the driver; an eyeball position information acquisition unit acquiring eyeball position information about the driver; a visual attention point calculation unit calculating a point to which the driver pays attention, based on the sight line information and the eyeball position information; a determination unit determining whether the driver pays attention to the target, based on the target and the point; and a notification unit notifying the driver of a determination result when determined that the driver does not pay attention to the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke TSUKAO, Hironobu TSUKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10404254
    Abstract: A vehicular door operation detecting apparatus includes a first electrode and a second electrode mounted at a vehicle and positioned away from each other, a switch member switching the first electrode and the second electrode between a conductive state and an open state, and a control portion controlling the switch member and detecting an operation of the user relative to a door for the vehicle by sensing a total capacitance obtained by the first electrode and the second electrode in a first mode where the total capacitance is sensed each predetermined intermittent time and by sensing an individual capacitance of each of the first electrode and the second electrode in a second mode where the individual capacitance is sensed each detection time shorter than the predetermined intermittent time in a case where a presence of the user is determined because the total capacitance exceeds a detection threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Tsukao, Takehiko Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20180109259
    Abstract: A vehicular door operation detecting apparatus includes a first electrode and a second electrode mounted at a vehicle and positioned away from each other, a switch member switching the first electrode and the second electrode between a conductive state and an open state, and a control portion controlling the switch member and detecting an operation of the user relative to a door for the vehicle by sensing a total capacitance obtained by the first electrode and the second electrode in a first mode where the total capacitance is sensed each predetermined intermittent time and by sensing an individual capacitance of each of the first electrode and the second electrode in a second mode where the individual capacitance is sensed each detection time shorter than the predetermined intermittent time in a case where a presence of the user is determined because the total capacitance exceeds a detection threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke TSUKAO, Takehiko SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 9725943
    Abstract: A control device includes: an input unit to which a first signal is input from a detection unit detecting an operation for an opening-closing body; and a control unit generates a second signal for operating the opening-closing body, based on the first signal, wherein the control unit can be switched between a first power consumption mode and a second power consumption mode in which less power is consumed, and the control unit can be switched between a first state where the second power consumption mode is switched to the first power consumption mode, based on a first condition, and a second state where the second power consumption mode is switched to the first power consumption mode, based on a second condition on which the second power consumption mode is less likely to be switched to the first power consumption mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seika Matsui, Kosuke Tsukao, Takeshi Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20160208540
    Abstract: A control device includes: an input unit to which a first signal is input from a detection unit detecting an operation for an opening-closing body; and a control unit generates a second signal for operating the opening-closing body, based on the first signal, wherein the control unit can be switched between a first power consumption mode and a second power consumption mode in which less power is consumed, and the control unit can be switched between a first state where the second power consumption mode is switched to the first power consumption mode, based on a first condition, and a second state where the second power consumption mode is switched to the first power consumption mode, based on a second condition on which the second power consumption mode is less likely to be switched to the first power consumption mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seika MATSUI, Kosuke TSUKAO, Takeshi KATSUDA