Patents by Inventor Masaaki Amano
Masaaki Amano 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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Publication number: 20230406288Abstract: A vehicle departure control method by remote parking performed by a user operating a terminal device, the step of confirming that the delivery is a delivery from the mechanical multistory parking lot, a step of determining whether the vehicle to be delivered is moved in the mechanical multistory parking lot, when it is determined that the vehicle is moved, or when it is determined that the vehicle is not in the delivery preparation position, including a step of prohibiting the movement of the vehicle by the automatic driving of the remote parking.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaaki AMANO
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Patent number: 10897572Abstract: An imaging and display device for a vehicle includes: a display unit configured to display a captured image which is obtained through image capturing by an imaging unit that images a rear side of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform view angle switching control of switching an angle of view of the captured image displayed on the display unit to a wider angle than a current angle of view when a predetermined wide-angle condition is satisfied as a distance between an object on the rear side of the vehicle and the vehicle decreases and switching the angle of view to an original angle of view when a predetermined return condition for returning to the original angle of view is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Amano, Goro Asai, Tomoaki Okumura
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Publication number: 20180229660Abstract: An image display device includes: a camera mounted on a movable member of a vehicle to take an image representing a surrounding of the vehicle; a display that displays the taken image; a state detector that detects a state of the movable member; and a controller that controls the display to display the taken image. The state detector detects that the state of the movable member is a first state and detects that the state of the movable member is a second state different from the first state. The controller controls the display to display the taken image when the state detected by the state detector is the first state. The controller controls the display not to display the taken image when the state detected by the state detector is the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Ryosuke Sugano, Masaaki Amano
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Publication number: 20180126904Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle rear region image display device that may suppress a sense of incongruity to a displayed image, due to offset in timings between a timing at which a vehicle occupant sways due to vibrations and a timing at which the displayed image of a display section shakes. Namely, an acceleration sensor, which detects acceleration as a physical amount corresponding to an amount of displacement in a vehicle vertical direction of a rearview mirror monitor due to vibrations inputted to front wheels of a vehicle, is provided in a vicinity of the rearview mirror monitor. On the basis of results of detection of the acceleration sensor, a control device computes an amount of shake of a rear camera, and carries out shake correction so as match a timing at which vibrations are inputted to rear wheels of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI, Takumi KOCHIYA
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Publication number: 20180131877Abstract: An image display device for a vehicle, the device includes an imaging unit capturing images of a periphery of a vehicle; first display unit displaying captured images by the imaging unit; second display unit; detecting unit detecting brightness of the periphery of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to carry out display control, in a case in which brightness that is greater than or equal to a predetermined luminance raising threshold value is detected by the detecting unit, so as to simultaneously raise respective luminances of the first display unit and the second display unit, and to carry out display control, in a case in which brightness that is less than a predetermined luminance lowering threshold value, which is less than or equal to the luminance raising threshold value, is detected, so as to simultaneously lower the respective luminances of the first display unit and the second display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI
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Publication number: 20180115708Abstract: An imaging and display device for a vehicle includes: a display unit configured to display a captured image which is obtained through image capturing by an imaging unit that images a rear side of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform view angle switching control of switching an angle of view of the captured image displayed on the display unit to a wider angle than a current angle of view when a predetermined wide-angle condition is satisfied as a distance between an object on the rear side of the vehicle and the vehicle decreases and switching the angle of view to an original angle of view when a predetermined return condition for returning to the original angle of view is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI, Tomoaki OKUMURA
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Patent number: 9525829Abstract: A video display apparatus includes video output units to output signals representing first videos captured or received, respectively, and when a predetermined signal is input from an outside, only for a predetermined period, to output signals representing second videos having fixed images, instead of the signals representing the first videos, respectively; a display to display a video based on the signal output by one of the video output units; and a control apparatus to output the predetermined signal to the video output units, and after having output the predetermined signal, to execute switching a signal representing a video output to the display among the signals representing the videos output by the video output units, while the video output units having the signals representing the videos output to the display before and after the switching, respectively, output the signals representing the second videos, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Yamashita, Goro Asai, Makoto Nishida, Yohei Satomi, Masaaki Amano, Yuka Shidochi
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Publication number: 20150341568Abstract: A video display apparatus includes video output units to output signals representing first videos captured or received, respectively, and when a predetermined signal is input from an outside, only for a predetermined period, to output signals representing second videos having fixed images, instead of the signals representing the first videos, respectively; a display to display a video based on the signal output by one of the video output units; and a control apparatus to output the predetermined signal to the video output units, and after having output the predetermined signal, to execute switching a signal representing a video output to the display among the signals representing the videos output by the video output units, while the video output units having the signals representing the videos output to the display before and after the switching, respectively, output the signals representing the second videos, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Hiroaki YAMASHITA, Goro ASAI, Makoto NISHIDA, Yohei SATOMI, Masaaki AMANO, Yuka SHIDOCHI
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Patent number: 8749141Abstract: An elevator control device capable of carrying out proper control considering the energy saving and service life of lamp for various types of the lighting fixtures provided in an elevator car. The control device which controls the lighting fixture includes a storage which stores the type of the lighting fixture, a setting mechanism which sets transfer time for automatically pausing the car based on the type of the lighting fixture stored in the storage, and a detector which detects that the car is in a predetermined standby state. The control device turns off the lighting in the car when the standby state of the car continues for the transfer time set by the setting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 8490754Abstract: In an elevator control device in which, when a verified person is authenticated as a registered person by an person authentication device, a security gate is opened to enable the movement into an elevator hall, even when a user cannot ride on an assigned car for some reason after passing through the security gate, the user is enabled to use an elevator. For this purpose, a hall destination floor registration device is provided in the elevator hall so that the user who is present in the hall registers his/her destination floor. A destination call is always registered automatically interlocking with the security gate, and when a predetermined condition is met, the destination floor registration of user made using the hall destination floor registration device is validated.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Publication number: 20120223642Abstract: An elevator control device capable of carrying out proper control considering the energy saving and service life of lamp for various types of the lighting fixtures provided in an elevator car. The control device which controls the lighting fixture includes a storage which stores the type of the lighting fixture, a setting mechanism which sets transfer time for automatically pausing the car based on the type of the lighting fixture stored in the storage, and a detector which detects that the car is in a predetermined standby state. The control device turns off the lighting in the car when the standby state of the car continues for the transfer time set by the setting mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Publication number: 20120152660Abstract: An elevator system including a hall-installed call registration device installed in a hall of an elevator, and an automatic call registration device installed in a place more away from the hall than the hall-installed call registration device. In a case the same personal information as the personal information inputted to the hall-installed call registration device is inputted to the automatic call registration device within a given period of time before input to the hall-installed call registration device, a determination is made as to whether or not a destination floor of the automatically registered destination call and a destination floor of the manually registered destination call along with input of the personal information are in agreement with each other. If the two are not in agreement with each other, the destination call automatically registered from the automatic call registration device is canceled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji Fujihata, Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 8162109Abstract: In an elevator system, a group supervisory control apparatus selects a car responding to a destination call registration performed on a landing destination operating panel. A limit value of the number of destination call registrations for stop floors existing in the same direction from the same stop floor is set in the group supervisory control apparatus in a manner corresponding to the stop floor. The group supervisory control apparatus counts the number of destination call registrations for the stop floors existing in the same direction from the same stop floor in response to the destination call registration performed on the landing destination operating panel, and limits the number of destination call registrations to be allocated to the single car according to a limit value corresponding to the stop floor.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Publication number: 20110168498Abstract: Provided is an elevator group control device which enables any special operation to be selected from a plurality of kinds of special operations by an operation in an elevator hall or in a place distant from the elevator hall. For this purpose, special operation input means for inputting information to the effect that any special operation is to be performed in the hall or in a place distant from the hall, a notification device which provides prescribed information by indications or sounds are installed in the elevator hall or in a place distant from the elevator hall. An elevator group control panel is provided with special operation storage means in which a plurality of kinds of special operations are stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Publication number: 20110127117Abstract: In an elevator control device in which, when a verified person is authenticated as a registered person by an person authentication device, a security gate is opened to enable the movement into an elevator hall, even when a user cannot ride on an assigned car for some reason after passing through the security gate, the user is enabled to use an elevator, and convenience can be prevented from becoming poor. For this purpose, a hall destination floor registration device is provided in the elevator hall so that the user who is present in the hall registers his/her destination floor. A destination call is always registered automatically interlocking with the security gate, and when a predetermined condition is met, the destination floor registration of user made using the hall destination floor registration device is validated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2008Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 7943884Abstract: An object is to provide a gas container and a method of producing the gas container in which liner constituting members can appropriately be joined to each other and productivity can be improved. A gas container has a resin liner constituted by joining a plurality of liner constituting members, the liner constituting members each having at least a hollow cylindrical part, and a reinforcement layer arranged on an outer periphery of the resin liner. Joining portions of the liner constituting members are joined to each other over a circumferential direction by laser welding, and the joining portions are made of a laser transmitting resin and a laser absorbing resin, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Ishikawa, Masaaki Amano, Masahiko Ota
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Patent number: 7926620Abstract: When a long-period-earthquake occurs, an elevator is controlled to ensure that an abnormality is positively judged and that the elevator can be safely and promptly returned to a normal operation. For this purpose, by providing a usual seismic sensor and a long-period seismic sensor that detects long-period components of the shakes of a building, which are not detected by the usual seismic sensor, at two stages, an earthquake emergency return operation is performed when the seismic sensor has gone into action and when a first level has been detected by the long-period seismic sensor, a long-period-earthquake emergency return operation, which involves giving a notice to outside the elevator and inside a car, is performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 7837013Abstract: An image monitoring apparatus for an elevator includes an image recording section configured to record a sequence of images of an interior of a car photographed by a camera, with a delay between the recording of successive images in the sequence. The apparatus also includes a detecting section configured to detect, based on an image in the sequence of images of the interior of the car, a violent behavior of a passenger in the car, and a display unit arranged in the interior of the car and configured to display the sequence of images of the interior of the car when the violent behavior of the passenger in the car is detected. The image recording section is further configured to reduce the delay between the recording of the successive images in the sequence of images when the violent behavior of the passenger in the car is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 7832527Abstract: In an image monitoring apparatus for an elevator, image recording means records an image in a car photographed by a camera, and monitors based on the image in the car whether or not there is a violent behavior of a passenger in the car. The image recording means makes a recording density of the image in the car higher than usual when the violent behavior of the passenger in the car is detected. The operation control means homes the car on a predetermined floor when the violent behavior of the passenger in the car is detected by the image recording means.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 7823703Abstract: In an image monitoring apparatus for an elevator, an image recording unit records an image in a car photographed by a camera, and monitors based on the image in the car whether or not there is a violent behavior of a passenger in the car. The image recording unit makes a recording density of the image in the car higher than usual when the violent behavior of the passenger in the car is detected. The operation control unit homes the car on a predetermined floor when the violent behavior of the passenger in the car is detected by the image recording unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masaaki Amano