Patents by Inventor Kosuke Watanabe

Kosuke Watanabe 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: 12513556
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes communication equipment configured to transmit a plurality of signals to a vehicle using a plurality of communication paths, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a communication latency for each of the communication paths, and determine a communication path to allocate to each of the signals based on the communication latency that is acquired. The communication equipment is configured to execute transmission of each of the signals to the vehicle using the communication path that is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masataka Okuda, Kanade Kuriyama, Masatoshi Kakutani, Kaoru Yoshida, Hiroki Maki, Kosuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12499765
    Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a moving object in the surrounding image of the vehicle based on a chronological change of the surrounding image of the vehicle and the information related to the behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Yoshida, Masatoshi Kakutani, Masataka Okuda, Hiroki Maki, Kosuke Watanabe, Kanade Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 12328235
    Abstract: An information processing device that performs communication via a network includes: a storage unit that stores a receiving unit that receives data acquired by a device; the data; and past data received by the receiving unit before the data; a calculating unit that calculates a delay time in the network; a determination unit that determines, based on the calculated delay time, one or more past data used for prediction of future data that is not received by the receiving unit from the past data stored in the storage unit; and a predicting unit that predicts the future data using the determined past data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanade Kuriyama, Kaoru Yoshida, Masataka Okuda, Hiroki Maki, Kosuke Watanabe, Masatoshi Kakutani
  • Patent number: 12313863
    Abstract: An image sensor includes an optical system including a liquid lens, a nonvolatile memory that stores property information about an amount of change in a refractive power of the liquid lens in response to an application voltage, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, and a body module. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from the body module that includes a controller that performs image processing on image data received from a imaging device and performs liquid lens control for determining the application voltage to be applied to the liquid lens based on the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, the temperature of the liquid lens detected by the temperature sensor, and a target value for the refractive power of the liquid lens and applying the application voltage to the liquid lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Yasuhito Uetsuji
  • Publication number: 20250126165
    Abstract: A voice quality information collection device includes a SIP server log collection unit for collecting a SIP server log including an incoming call number, identification information of a destination carrier, and a line number, from a SIP server, an MG log collection unit for collecting an MG log including a TerminationID allocated by a predetermined logic and a delay time calculated by an RTCP report, from an MG, and a data generation unit for converting a line number included in the SIP server log into a TerminationID and integrating the post-conversion SIP server log and the MG log by using a TerminationID, to generate log integration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Kosuke WATANABE, Takashi NAMBU
  • Patent number: 12089362
    Abstract: A blank panel of the present disclosure includes a partial panel and a partial panel, in which the partial panel includes an attachment portion attached to a rack and a link portion linked to the partial panel, and the partial panel includes an attachment portion attached to the rack and a link portion linked to the partial panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Mineki Ogata, Kosuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12052842
    Abstract: In the case in which a blank panel having holes is mounted obliquely on a rack having holes, the blank panel includes an alignment mechanism for aligning the holes with the holes having a misalignment. For example, the alignment mechanism is a mechanism which causes the blank panel to have a shape in which corners of the blank panel are cut out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Kosuke Watanabe, Mineki Ogata
  • Patent number: 11985008
    Abstract: [Problem] To reduce a setting burden on a media path in a media gateway. [Solution] A MG (1) includes a first interface for connecting to a first network among a plurality of communication networks, a second interface for connecting to a second network among a plurality of communication networks, and a test command issuing unit (13) configured to establish, when a mapping between the first interface and the second interface is set by first setting data for associating a media path ID in the first interface with a termination ID in the first interface and second setting data for associating a media path ID in the second interface with a termination ID in the second interface, a test call for a media path passing through the first interface and the second interface based on the mapping and test, by assigning a resource to the media path that is established, whether data transmission and reception are possible on the media path that is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Shintaro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240106921
    Abstract: The quality of a communication cable can be efficiently determined. Therefore, a protocol conversion device includes a protocol converter for mutually converting between a message transfer part 2 message input/output from a public switched telephone network (PSTN) connector and an user peer-to-peer adaptation (M2PA) message input/output from an IP connector, a test signal output unit for outputting a test signal from the PSTN connector when a test instruction command is received, and a determination unit for outputting a determination result on the basis of whether or not the test signal has been received from the PSTN connector within a predetermined time from an output timing of the test signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Kosuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240071227
    Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a moving object in the surrounding image of the vehicle based on a chronological change of the surrounding image of the vehicle and the information related to the behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Kanade KURIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11902473
    Abstract: A link management device with a special function is connected to the IP network, and the link management device controls a process of establishing a link between an IP converter device and a signal transfer point. The IP converter device transmits a request including a point code to the link management device, and the link management device determines the IP address and the like of the signal transfer point as a connection destination from the received point code. The link management device transmits information for identifying the signal transfer point to the IP converter device, and also transmits information for identifying the IP converter device to the signal transfer point as the connection destination. The port number of the IP converter device is determined by the link management device. The port number of the signal transfer point is determined by the link management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240010214
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing system includes a vehicle information processing device mounted on a vehicle, a first external information processing device provided outside the vehicle, a plurality of vehicle control applications configured to output control commands to control target devices of the vehicle, and an arbitration unit provided in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The vehicle control applications are installed in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The arbitration unit is configured to arbitrate the control commands for a predetermined one of the control target devices to determine one control command. The control commands for the predetermined one of the control target devices are obtained by the vehicle control applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki MAKI, Kanade KURIYAMA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kosuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240015078
    Abstract: An information processing device that performs communication via a network includes: a storage unit that stores a receiving unit that receives data acquired by a device; the data; and past data received by the receiving unit before the data; a calculating unit that calculates a delay time in the network; a determination unit that determines, based on the calculated delay time, one or more past data used for prediction of future data that is not received by the receiving unit from the past data stored in the storage unit; and a predicting unit that predicts the future data using the determined past data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanade KURIYAMA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Masatoshi KAKUTANI
  • Patent number: 11833543
    Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus includes a transmitting circuit, an ultrasonic transducer, a receiving circuit, and a capacitance measuring circuit. The ultrasonic transducer is a three-terminal ultrasonic transducer that includes a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode, and a common electrode. The transmitting circuit outputs a driving signal to the transmitting electrode to cause the ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic waves. The receiving circuit receives a receive signal from the receiving electrode. The capacitance measuring circuit is electrically connected to the receiving electrode to measure the electrostatic capacitance of the ultrasonic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakao, Kosuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230373472
    Abstract: To effectively prevent a driver from being annoyed, provided is a driving assistance device (1) including: a target acquisition unit (30) configured to acquire a target existing in a periphery of an own vehicle; and a control unit (10) configured to execute, when the target acquired by the target acquisition unit (30) is determined as an object to be avoided which is highly likely to collide with the own vehicle, collision avoidance control of controlling travel of the own vehicle such that the collision between the own vehicle and the object to be avoided is avoided. The control unit (10) is configured to suppress the collision avoidance control when a specific target (ST) is detected between the own vehicle and the object to be avoided, and a positional relationship among the specific target (ST), the object to be avoided, and the own vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHJIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kosuke WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11825192
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a body module including a refractive power controller that adjusts an application voltage applicable to a liquid lens in a lens module to control a refractive power of the liquid lens, a recognition processor that analyzes, after a preset period elapses from when the refractive power controller changes the application voltage to the liquid lens, image data from an imaging device in an imaging module, and an adjuster that reads first information from a memory in the lens module and second information from a memory in the imaging module and adjusts, based on the first and second information, the preset period to a period corresponding to a combination of the lens module and the imaging device. The first information indicates a specification for or a type of the lens module. The second information indicates a specification for or a type of the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Yasuhito Uetsuji
  • Patent number: 11772129
    Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus includes an ultrasonic transducer, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit, a Q-factor measuring circuit, and a frequency measuring circuit. The ultrasonic transducer is a three-terminal ultrasonic transducer that includes a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode, and a common electrode. The transmitting circuit outputs a driving signal to the transmitting electrode to cause the ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic waves. The receiving circuit receives a receive signal from the receiving electrode. The frequency measuring circuit measures a resonant frequency of the ultrasonic transducer from a reverberation signal in the receive signal. The Q-factor measuring circuit measures a Q factor of the ultrasonic transducer from the reverberation signal in the receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakao, Kosuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11750902
    Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, a heater that heats the liquid lens, a temperature adjuster that controls the heater to adjust the temperature of the liquid lens to a predetermined temperature, a nonvolatile memory storing property information about the liquid lens, a refractive power controller that determines, based on a target refractive power and the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens adjusted to have the predetermined temperature and applies the application voltage to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens to match the target refractive power, and an image processor. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from a body module including the refractive power controller and the image processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Yasuhito Uetsuji, Yutaka Kato
  • Publication number: 20230254725
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes communication equipment configured to transmit a plurality of signals to a vehicle using a plurality of communication paths, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a communication latency for each of the communication paths, and determine a communication path to allocate to each of the signals based on the communication latency that is acquired. The communication equipment is configured to execute transmission of each of the signals to the vehicle using the communication path that is allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Masataka OKUDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11689804
    Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens to form an image of a subject on an imaging surface of the imaging device, and a controller that performs a refractive power control process of adjusting an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens, and a recognition process of analyzing image data from the imaging device to recognize predetermined information about the subject. The controller is operable in a plurality of operation modes each with a different wait period from a change in the application voltage to the liquid lens in response to the refractive power control process to a start of the recognition process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Yasuhito Uetsuji