Patents by Inventor Makoto Oi
Makoto Oi 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: 9465868Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that can facilitate setting of an object, such as a favorite team. An information output device includes a database that associates and stores a region on a map and a sport team related to the region, a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a self-vehicle, and a favorite team setting processing unit that sets a favorite team from among sport teams. Moreover, the information output device includes a determination processing unit that specifies the region corresponding to the self-vehicle position acquired by the position acquisition unit and determines the sport team associated with the specified region in the database as an object to be set by the favorite team setting processing unit or a candidate for the object.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Uotani, Masahito Matsumoto, Makoto Oi, Mitsuo Shimotani
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Patent number: 9396654Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an in-vehicle traffic information notification device which, even when it is difficult to specify a traveling route of an own car, can notify adequate traffic information to users. A passage probability calculator of the traffic information notification device calculates a passage probability which is a probability that the own car passes an occurrence position of each traffic hazard obtained by a traffic information receiver, based on a current position of the own car detected by a current position detector and traveling history data stored in a traveling history data storage. A display unit and a sound output unit notify occurrence information of the traffic hazard to the user by a mode corresponding to the passage probability of the traffic hazard.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shotaro Yoshioka, Makoto Oi, Mitsuo Shimotani
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Patent number: 9344632Abstract: An AV system that executes image recognition of an identification mark 9 provided on headphones 8 in a seat side shot image taken with a camera 2,calculates the coordinate position of the identification mark 9 in the shot image, decides from the coordinate position of the identification mark 9 as to which one of a plurality of seats a user wearing the headphones 8 sits on, and transmits audio data which corresponds to video data to be displayed on the display screen facing the seat, as to which a decision is made that the user sits on, to the headphones 8 to be produced as audio output.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kanehide Arai, Yasushi Fujii, Makoto Oi
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Patent number: 9250095Abstract: An onboard display device includes multiple screen data that define plural types of screen designs including a character string display frame with equal size; plural types of font data; and multiple character string tables which record character strings to be displayed on a screen with one of the screen designs defined by the plural types of screen data, are each provided for one of the plural types of font data, and include character strings whose written forms are altered according to character size defined by the font data so that the character strings can be contained in the display frame, wherein the decision unit 12 decides a display type to be used for screen display on a display unit, and the display unit 6 displays the screen using the screen data, font data and character string corresponding to the display type decided by the decision unit 12.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Oi
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Publication number: 20150243166Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an in-vehicle traffic information notification device which, even when it is difficult to specify a traveling route of an own car, can notify adequate traffic information to users. A passage probability calculator of the traffic information notification device calculates a passage probability which is a probability that the own car passes an occurrence position of each traffic hazard obtained by a traffic information receiver, based on a current position of the own car detected by a current position detector and traveling history data stored in a traveling history data storage. A display unit and a sound output unit notify occurrence information of the traffic hazard to the user by a mode corresponding to the passage probability of the traffic hazard.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shotaro Yoshioka, Makoto Oi, Mitsuo Shimotani
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Publication number: 20150066354Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that can facilitate setting of an object, such as a favorite team. An information output device includes a database that associates and stores a region on a map and a sport team related to the region, a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a self-vehicle, and a favorite team setting processing unit that sets a favorite team from among sport teams. Moreover, the information output device includes a determination processing unit that specifies the region corresponding to the self-vehicle position acquired by the position acquisition unit and determines the sport team associated with the specified region in the database as an object to be set by the favorite team setting processing unit or a candidate for the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Uotani, Masahito Matsumoto, Makoto Oi, Mitsuo Shimotani
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Patent number: 8762402Abstract: A control unit in a first playback system connected to a musical piece searching unit via a path having the highest data transfer rate includes a determining unit for discriminating between a request for musical piece information from the first playback system and a request for musical piece information from a second playback system, a temporary storage unit for holding data information acquired in response to the request from the second playback system, and a musical piece information transmitting unit for transferring the musical piece information read from the temporary storage unit to the second playback system according to the data transfer rate of a path connecting with the second playback system, and each of the first and second playback systems makes a request of the musical piece searching unit for musical piece information via the control unit, and acquires the data information satisfying the request.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Makoto Oi, Masaharu Tamanaha
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Publication number: 20130297202Abstract: There is provided a device that receives a broadcast providing a data distribution service from a broadcast station, registers data related to facilities acquired through the data distribution service in a primary database, extracts from the primary database data related to facilities near the position of the host vehicle every time a host vehicle has run a predetermined distance, registers the extracted data in a secondary database, and presents data for presentation extracted from the secondary database to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Tamiya, Yasuhiro Monde, Masahito Matsumoto, Makoto Oi
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Publication number: 20130088581Abstract: An AV system that executes image recognition of an identification mark 9 provided on headphones 8 in a seat side shot image taken with a camera 2, calculates the coordinate position of the identification mark 9 in the shot image, decides from the coordinate position of the identification mark 9 as to which one of a plurality of seats a user wearing the headphones 8 sits on, and transmits audio data which corresponds to video data to be displayed on the display screen facing the seat, as to which a decision is made that the user sits on, to the headphones 8 to be produced as audio output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2010Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kanehide Arai, Yasushi Fujii, Makoto Oi
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Publication number: 20120105472Abstract: An onboard display device includes multiple screen data that define plural types of screen designs including a character string display frame with equal size; plural types of font data; and multiple character string tables which record character strings to be displayed on a screen with one of the screen designs defined by the plural types of screen data, are each provided for one of the plural types of font data, and include character strings whose written forms are altered according to character size defined by the font data so that the character strings can be contained in the display frame, wherein the decision unit 12 decides a display type to be used for screen display on a display unit, and the display unit 6 displays the screen using the screen data, font data and character string corresponding to the display type decided by the decision unit 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventor: Makoto Oi
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Publication number: 20120059835Abstract: A control unit in a first playback system connected to a musical piece searching unit via a path having the highest data transfer rate includes a determining unit for discriminating between a request for musical piece information from the first playback system and a request for musical piece information from a second playback system, a temporary storage unit for holding data information acquired in response to the request from the second playback system, and a musical piece information transmitting unit for transferring the musical piece information read from the temporary storage unit to the second playback system according to the data transfer rate of a path connecting with the second playback system, and each of the first and second playback systems makes a request of the musical piece searching unit for musical piece information via the control unit, and acquires the data information satisfying the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Makoto Oi, Masaharu Tamanaha
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Patent number: 6194320Abstract: In a method for preparing a semiconductor device wherein a first silicon oxide film, a second silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film are sequentially deposited on a silicon substrate, and both silicon oxide films and the silicon nitride film are patterned, a patterned resist 45 is formed on the silicon nitride film, the silicon nitride film is etched with phosphoric acid the resist serving as a mask, and both silicon oxide films are etched with hydrofluoric acid the resist serving as a mask.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1997Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makoto Oi
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Patent number: 5847995Abstract: The inventive DINOR flash memory includes a plurality of blocks, a spare block and a spare word line block, which are formed on a plurality of electrically isolated P-type wells. When a word line-to-well short-circuit takes place in a certain block and another block is selected, the block causing the word line-to-well short-circuit is brought into a non-selected state. Thus, no leakage takes place in the block causing the word line-to-well short-circuit, to exert no bad influence on the selected block.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1997Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Shinji Kawai, Tadashi Omae, Makoto Oi, Akinori Matsuo, Masashi Wada, Kenji Kozakai