Patents by Inventor Kousuke Mitani

Kousuke Mitani 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).

  • Following vehicle detection and alarm device
    Patent number: 10589669
    Abstract: A following vehicle detection and alarm device comprises a tail camera for shooting an area behind a vehicle of interest at a predetermined frame rate, a frame quantity count unit for counting the number of frames after a following vehicle is shot in a shooting range of the tail camera until the following vehicle reaches a first position behind the vehicle of interest, an alarm instruction output unit for outputting an alarm instruction of notifying the driver of the vehicle of interest that the other vehicle is approaching at a timing set based on the number of frames counted by the frame quantity count unit, and an alarm processing unit for performing a predetermined alarm operation on the driver when the alarm instruction is output by the alarm instruction output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tatsumi, Kousuke Mitani, Tetsu Kanamori
  • FOLLOWING VEHICLE DETECTION AND ALARM DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170088050
    Abstract: A following vehicle detection and alarm device comprises a tail camera for shooting an area behind a vehicle of interest at a predetermined frame rate, a frame quantity count unit for counting the number of frames after a following vehicle is shot in a shooting range of the tail camera until the following vehicle reaches a first position behind the vehicle of interest, an alarm instruction output unit for outputting an alarm instruction of notifying the driver of the vehicle of interest that the other vehicle is approaching at a timing set based on the number of frames counted by the frame quantity count unit, and an alarm processing unit for performing a predetermined alarm operation on the driver when the alarm instruction is output by the alarm instruction output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tatsumi, Kousuke Mitani, Tetsu Kanamori