Patents by Inventor Kyoji Oda
Kyoji Oda 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).
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Patent number: 8527144Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus changes icon appearance of gadget-associated icons according to travel impediment information associated with respective gadgets during the travel of a vehicle. The icon appearance has an improved recognizability if the icon is associated with a gadget that does not impede the travel of the vehicle, or has a worsened recognizability if the icon is associated with a gadget that impedes the travel of the vehicle. As a result, the in-vehicle apparatus allows a user to easily recognize whether a gadget-associated icon has impeding operation steps or non-impeding operation steps for the execution of the respective gadgets, thereby enabling a safer travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoji Oda, Kenji Miyake, Hideo Miyauchi
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Patent number: 8452491Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus is disclosed. The in-vehicle apparatus is configured to perform a timer operation, acquire vehicle state information, and control the timer operation of the timer means in such manner that: the in-vehicle apparatus starts the timer operation when determining based on the vehicle state information that a condition for starting the timer operation is satisfied; and the in-vehicle apparatus stops the timer operation when determining based on the vehicle state information that a condition for stopping the timer operation is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Miyauchi, Kyoji Oda, Kenji Miyake
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Publication number: 20110106367Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus changes icon appearance of gadget-associated icons according to travel impediment information associated with respective gadgets during the travel of a vehicle. The icon appearance has an improved recognizability if the icon is associated with a gadget that does not impede the travel of the vehicle, or has a worsened recognizability if the icon is associated with a gadget that impedes the travel of the vehicle. As a result, the in-vehicle apparatus allows a user to easily recognize whether a gadget-associated icon has impeding operation steps or non-impeding operation steps for the execution of the respective gadgets, thereby enabling a safer travel of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoji Oda, Kenji Miyake, Hideo Miyauchi
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Publication number: 20110106377Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus is disclosed. The in-vehicle apparatus is configured to perform a timer operation, acquire vehicle state information, and control the timer operation of the timer means in such manner that: the in-vehicle apparatus starts the timer operation when determining based on the vehicle state information that a condition for starting the timer operation is satisfied; and the in-vehicle apparatus stops the timer operation when determining based on the vehicle state information that a condition for stopping the timer operation is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Miyauchi, Kyoji Oda, Kenji Miyake
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Publication number: 20110106379Abstract: An in-vehicle system is disclosed. The in-vehicle system includes a display unit, a navigation apparatus storing therein a first flash player, and an in-vehicle apparatus storing therein a second flash player. The navigation apparatus and the in-vehicle apparatus are provided separately from each other. The first flash player and the second flash player are respectively operable to play back display data so that the display unit displays a display screen made by the play back. The navigation apparatus and the in-vehicle apparatus can respectively perform a process of starting the first flash player and a process of starting the second flash player, independently of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Fujii, Kyoji Oda, Kenji Miyake
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Patent number: 7715840Abstract: A vehicular wireless apparatus continues a standby state even after an ACC switch of the vehicle is turned off. In the vehicular wireless apparatus, when it is determined that the ACC switch is turned from on to off, paging area information stored in a RAM (volatile memory) is stored in an EEPROM (nonvolatile memory). When the ACC switch is then turned from off to on, a power-on-reset is done for the whole of the vehicular wireless apparatus and paging area information stored in the RAM is reset. The paging area information stored in the EEPROM is then read. Whether a location registration should be newly done is determined based on the read paging area information.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Koji Shinoda, Kyoji Oda
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Patent number: 7355995Abstract: A mobile communications terminal has a transmitter for transmitting a specific identification code of a reference base station as a time reference for network position determination. Therefore, a position server connected with a CDMA network can distinguish the reference base station from the other base stations regardless of positioning relationship between the mobile terminal and the base stations.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Ogino, Michio Shamoto, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai
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Publication number: 20070010294Abstract: A vehicular wireless apparatus continues a standby state even after an ACC switch of the vehicle is turned off. In the vehicular wireless apparatus, when it is determined that the ACC switch is turned from on to off, paging area information stored in a RAM (volatile memory) is stored in an EEPROM (nonvolatile memory). When the ACC switch is then turned from off to on, a power-on-reset is done for the whole of the vehicular wireless apparatus and paging area information stored in the RAM is reset. The paging area information stored in the EEPROM is then read. Whether a location registration should be newly done is determined based on the read paging area information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: DENSO CorporationInventors: Koji Shinoda, Kyoji Oda
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Patent number: 7031723Abstract: A wireless terminal is designed to prevent the user from having to wait a long time in case fetching of search data takes a long time. The wireless terminal, if it determines the need of long time for the search of GPS satellites by a GPS transceiver, inhibits the GPS transceiver from searching GPS satellites and operates on a CDMA transceiver to search for CDMA base stations. The wireless terminal fetches only CDMA base station data pertinent to the CDMA base stations and sends to a position data server, and the position data server points the location of the wireless terminal based solely on the CDMA base station data provided by the wireless terminal. Based on the inhibition of search of GPS satellites by the GPS transceiver, the time needed until the reception of positioning result can be reduced, and the user is prevented from being subjected to long time waiting.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Michio Shamoto, Hiroyasu Ogino, Kyoji Oda, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Tatsuya Shintai
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Patent number: 6999776Abstract: In a mobile station, a period for receiving a GPS signal from a predetermined satellite based on data for satellite reception is set up by a timer, and the GPS signal whose reception level is higher than a threshold value is awaited. Until elapsed time reaches a preset time, indoor counter is incremented if the GPS signal is unable to be received or outdoor counter is incremented if the GPS signal is able to be received. When each counter reaches a specified value, each mode is determined. If the mode is different from a previous mode, a mode shift is executed and setups of user interfaces, display, speaker and others, are altered for the updated mode, indoor or outdoor.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2002Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Ogino, Michio Shamoto, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai
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Patent number: 6947729Abstract: A mobile communication terminal stores positioning information including global positioning system signals and base station information required by a position server in a communication network to calculate the terminal position. When the position server calculates the terminal position based on these positioning unit information, the position information is not reported to the user if the indefinite information equivalent to a positioning error contained in the average value calculated for the terminal position information exceeds a predetermined threshold value. When the average processing count exceeds a maximum positioning count, that average value is reported to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Takeuchi, Michio Shamoto, Hiroyasu Ogino, Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai, Atsushi Hayashida
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Patent number: 6937867Abstract: A mobile station requests a start of positioning and receives a response of positioning from a positioning server, following which it informs the positioning server of its own station information and neighboring base station information gathered through searching the neighboring base stations. Thereby, the mobile station receives assistant information regarding GPS satellites to be captured based on a station location designated by the positioning server and then it measures a GPS signal and a base station signal such as an apparent signal delay. In the case that the positioning information collected as described above is sufficient for location computing, it displays the location computed by the positioning server. In contrast, in the case that the positioning information is insufficient, it displays “positioning impossible” without sending the positioning information to the positioning server.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai, Atsushi Hayashida, Hiroyasu Ogino, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Michio Shamoto
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Patent number: 6690322Abstract: A cellular phone receives a position measurement result, which indicates a position of the cellular phone determined based on both GPS satellite information and CDMA base station information, from a location information server. Then, when a value indicated by uncertainty information of the position measurement result is greater than a first threshold value, the cellular phone receives another position measurement result, which indicates the position of the cellular phone determined based only on the CDMA base station information, from the location information server and displays it on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Michio Shamoto, Hiroyasu Ogino, Kyoji Oda, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Tatsuya Shintai
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Publication number: 20030050077Abstract: A mobile communication terminal stores positioning information including global positioning system signals and base station information required by a position server in a communication network to calculate the terminal position. When the position server calculates the terminal position based on these positioning unit information, the position information is not reported to the user if the indefinite information equivalent to a positioning error contained in the average value calculated for the terminal position information exceeds a predetermined threshold value. When the average processing count exceeds a maximum positioning count, that average value is reported to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Applicant: Denso CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Takeuchi, Michio Shamoto, Hiroyasu Ogino, Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai, Atsushi Hayashida
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Publication number: 20030050089Abstract: In a mobile station, a period for receiving a GPS signal from a predetermined satellite based on data for satellite reception is set up by a timer, and the GPS signal whose reception level is higher than a threshold value is awaited. Until elapsed time reaches a preset time, indoor counter is incremented if the GPS signal is unable to be received or outdoor counter is incremented if the GPS signal is able to be received. When each counter reaches a specified value, each mode is determined. If the mode is different from a previous mode, a mode shift is executed and setups of user interfaces, display, speaker and others, are altered for the updated mode, indoor or outdoor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyasu Ogino, Michio Shamoto, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai
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Publication number: 20030045302Abstract: In a mobile communication system, a terminal unit makes access to surrounding base stations to get base station information and sends the information together with self terminal information to a location server. The terminal unit receives assistant information for the reception of GPS satellite signals from the location server and measures the GPS signals and signal delay values of base stations. The terminal unit location is computed based on the signal delay value data selected as being smaller than a threshold value or as being smallest delay values.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai, Atsushi Hayashida, Hiroyasu Ogino, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Michio Shamoto
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Publication number: 20030045303Abstract: A mobile station requests a start of positioning and receives a response of positioning from a positioning server, following which it informs the positioning server of its own station information and neighboring base station information gathered through searching the neighboring base stations. Thereby, the mobile station receives assistant information regarding GPS satellites to be captured based on a station location designated by the positioning server and then it measures a GPS signal and a base station signal such as an apparent signal delay. In the case that the positioning information collected as described above is sufficient for location computing, it displays the location computed by the positioning server. In contrast, in the case that the positioning information is insufficient, it displays “positioning impossible” without sending the positioning information to the positioning server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai, Atsushi Hayashida, Hiroyasu Ogino, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Michio Shamoto
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Publication number: 20030045304Abstract: A wireless terminal is designed to prevent the user from having to wait a long time in case fetching of search data takes a long time. The wireless terminal, if it determines the need of long time for the search of GPS satellites by a GPS transceiver, inhibits the GPS transceiver from searching GPS satellites and operates on a CDMA transceiver to search for CDMA base stations. The wireless terminal fetches only CDMA base station data pertinent to the CDMA base stations and sends to a position data server, and the position data server points the location of the wireless terminal based solely on the CDMA base station data provided by the wireless terminal. Based on the inhibition of search of GPS satellites by the GPS transceiver, the time needed until the reception of positioning result can be reduced, and the user is prevented from being subjected to long time waiting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Michio Shamoto, Hiroyasu Ogino, Kyoji Oda, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Tatsuya Shintai
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Publication number: 20030043069Abstract: A cellular phone receives a position measurement result, which indicates a position of the cellular phone determined based on both GPS satellite information and CDMA base station information, from a location information server. Then, when a value indicated by uncertainty information of the position measurement result is greater than a first threshold value, the cellular phone receives another position measurement result, which indicates the position of the cellular phone determined based only on the CDMA base station information, from the location information server and displays it on a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Michio Shamoto, Hiroyasu Ogino, Kyoji Oda, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Tatsuya Shintai
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Publication number: 20030026225Abstract: A mobile communications terminal has a transmitter for transmitting a specific identification code of a reference base station as a time reference for network position determination. Therefore, a position server connected with a CDMA network can distinguish the reference base station from the other base stations regardless of positioning relationship between the mobile terminal and the base stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyasu Ogino, Michio Shamoto, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Atsushi Hayashida, Kyoji Oda, Tatsuya Shintai