Patents by Inventor Masaru OTAKA

Masaru OTAKA 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: 11324067
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information indicating an operation state of a user equipment, and a determining unit configured to determine, based on the operation state of the user equipment, a change time taken by a changing unit to change communication between the user equipment and a wireless base station to an idle state after a predetermined condition has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Yasuhiro Konno
  • Patent number: 11307573
    Abstract: A communication terminal is provided, the communication terminal including: a candidate presenting unit that presents candidates of a remote driving apparatus user who is to remotely drive a vehicle; a request information sending unit that sends, to a communication terminal of the remote driving apparatus user selected from the candidates, request information indicating a request for remote driving of the vehicle; a response receiving unit that receives, from the communication terminal of the remote driving apparatus user, an acknowledgement of the request information; and a generation requesting unit that: sends first user identification information identifying a user of the vehicle, and second user identification information identifying the remote driving apparatus user to a server; and requests the server to generate key data for enabling a remote driving apparatus corresponding to the second user identification information to remotely drive the vehicle corresponding to the first user identification inform
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20220086101
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control apparatus comprising a processor. The processor receives, from a first mobile communication apparatus, a request for permission of data transmission to a second mobile communication apparatus, the second mobile communication apparatus including a buffer memory to store received data. The processor determines whether to permit the data transmission based on a free capacity of the buffer memory and a reserved capacity indicated by a reservation setting of the buffer memory. The processor updates, when the data transmission is determined to be permitted, the reservation setting such that a capacity for received data corresponding to the data transmission is added to the reserved capacity. The processor transmits, when the data transmission is determined to be permitted, a response indicating that the data transmission is permitted to the first mobile communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Shohei TSUKAHARA, Ryo SAIKI, Naoko IMAI, Takahiro IIJIMA, Yusuke OI
  • Publication number: 20220061114
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless base station including a connection establishment unit configured to establish a communication connection with a wireless communication device, and a connection control unit configured to control in a manner that, in a case where the wireless communication device is a wireless relay device having a relay function for relaying a communication between the wireless base station and a communication terminal, a connection with the wireless communication device is not released even when a time during which a communication is not performed with the wireless communication device has passed a first time, and in a case where the wireless communication device is not the wireless relay device, the connection with the wireless communication device is released in response to a state where the time during which the communication is not performed with the wireless communication device has passed the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Kosei TSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220060657
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus executing an information processing method comprising: receiving a request of image data from an external terminal; specifying, based on the request, a vehicle that provides image capturing data to generate the image data; specifying a parameter concerning a communication path to be used by the specified vehicle to transmit the image capturing data to the information processing apparatus; and transmitting the specified parameter to the specified vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Takahiro YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220038992
    Abstract: There is provided a network management apparatus comprising a processor. In a network constituted by a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of mobile terminals having wireless communication functions, a processor detects a vehicle and a mobile terminal which can be used as a next hop of a predetermined vehicle among the plurality of vehicles. The next hop is for predetermined communication originating from or relayed by the predetermined vehicle. When a vehicle which can be used as the next hop is detected, the processor preferentially selects the vehicle that has been detected as the next hop. When a vehicle which can be used as the next hop is not detected and a mobile terminal which can be used as the next hop is detected, the processor selects the mobile terminal that has been detected as the next hop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Takahiro IIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11240862
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device capable of performing Internet communication by any of a first wireless communication method and a second wireless communication method. The communication device comprises a communication performing unit for performing the Internet communication by combined communication in combination of the first wireless communication method and the second wireless communication method, in accordance with establishment of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Hiroyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220014999
    Abstract: A base station notifies a terminal apparatus of information on a communication delay predicted for communication via the base station. The terminal apparatus acquires, from the base station, information on the communication delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220014977
    Abstract: A base station acquires information of a communication delay predicted in communication carried out by a terminal apparatus via another base station, and notifies the terminal apparatus of the acquired information of the communication delay. The terminal apparatus acquires this information of the communication delay from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220009511
    Abstract: A control device of a mobile object includes a control unit configured to restrict, based on information specifying a suppression area where occurrence of a communication delay is to be suppressed, the mobile object from performing an operation that induces a communication delay in the suppression area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Masaru OTAKA, Toshiaki TAKANO, Satoshi ONODERA
  • Patent number: 11204604
    Abstract: A remote driving managing apparatus is provided, including a request information receiving unit configured to receive, from a communication terminal of a user of a vehicle, request information for requesting for remote driving of the vehicle, a determining unit configured to associate the vehicle with a user of the remote driving apparatus that is to remotely drive the vehicle based on the request information, a key data generating unit configured to generate, based on vehicle identification information for identifying the vehicle, key data for enabling to remotely drive the vehicle via a remote driving apparatus of a user associated with the vehicle by the determining unit, and a key data sending unit configured to send the key data to a communication terminal of the user associated with the vehicle by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20210321242
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor executing a communication control process of performing vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a data reception process of receiving and saving, in a storage unit, file data transmitted from a communication destination vehicle by the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and an incompletely received file data management process of, in a case where the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is disconnected after reception of the file data by the data reception process is started and before the reception of the file data completes, setting, in accordance with a state of a predetermined parameter, at least one of an upper limit of a period for saving in the storage unit and a priority level for deleting from the storage unit for partial data of the file data saved in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Shohei Tsukahara, Ryo Saiki, Takahiro Iijima, Yusuke Oi, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210297831
    Abstract: A TCU includes: a wide-area communication section that performs wireless communication with a base station; a short-range communication section that performs wireless communication with an access point; a vehicle-to-vehicle communication section that performs wireless communication with a relay vehicle; and a communication control section that transmits upload data by using any one of the wide-area communication section, the short-range communication section, and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section, wherein the communication control section transmits the upload data more preferentially by using the short-range communication section or the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section than by using the wide-area communication section when an upload deferment condition is met, and transmits the upload data more preferentially by using the wide-area communication section than by using the short-range communication section and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section when the upload deferment condition is
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Shohei Tsukahara, Ryo Saiki, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210274123
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including: a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire moving object location information on a current location of a first moving object on which the communication device is mounted; a receiving unit configured to receive distribution information including advertisement-related location information which indicates a location relating to an advertisement; a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by an image capturing unit capturing the location relating to the advertisement, the image capturing unit being installed in the first moving object; and a transmission unit configured to transmit outside, image information which includes at least any of the captured image and image-related information relating to the captured image, and the distribution information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Ryo SAIKI, Yusuke OI, Takahiro IIJIMA, Naoko IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210272160
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including: a receiving unit configured to receive distribution information; a transmission unit configured to transmit the distribution information to a second moving object that is different from a first moving object on which the communication device is mounted; and a communication relay unit configured to relay a communication between an external terminal located outside the first moving object, and an external network, in which the distribution information includes saving location information which indicates a location where an advertising content is saved, and after at least any of the transmission unit and the communication relay unit transmits the distribution information to the external terminal, when the communication relay unit receives a transmission request for the advertising content from the external terminal, at least any of the transmission unit and the communication relay unit transmits the transmission request based on the saving location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Ryo SAIKI, Yusuke OI, Takahiro IIJIMA, Naoko IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210272162
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including: a first receiving unit configured to receive distribution information from a second moving object that is different from a first moving object on which the communication device is mounted; a storage unit configured to store the distribution information; a transmission unit configured to transmit the distribution information to a third moving object that is different from the first moving object; and a communication relay unit configured to relay a communication between an external terminal located outside the first moving object, and an external network, in which the distribution information includes a restriction condition for restricting the transmission of the distribution information, and when the transmission unit determines that the transmission of the distribution information to the third moving object is not restricted based on the restriction condition, the transmission unit transmits the distribution information to the third moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Ryo SAIKI, Yusuke OI, Takahiro IIJIMA, Naoko IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210272157
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including: a receiving unit configured to receive distribution information from a second moving object that is different from a first moving object on which the communication device is mounted; a first transmission unit configured to transmit the distribution information to a third moving object that is different from the first moving object; a communication relay unit configured to relay a communication between an external terminal existing outside the first moving object, and an external network; and a second transmission unit configured to transmit, to an external device via the external network, report information which reports that the distribution information has been received, in which the distribution information includes advertisement identification information, and the report information includes the advertisement identification information, and moving object identification information for identifying the first moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Ryo SAIKI, Takahiro IIJIMA, Yusuke OI, Naoko IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210272158
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including: a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire moving object location information on a current location of a moving object on which the communication device is mounted; a storage unit configured to store distribution information; a communication relay unit configured to relay a communication between an external terminal located outside the moving object, and an external network; and a communication control unit configured to control communication settings for communicating with the external terminal, in which the distribution information includes advertisement-related location information which indicates a location relating to an advertisement, and the communication control unit controls the communication settings based on the advertisement-related location information and the moving object location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Ryo SAIKI, Yusuke OI, Takahiro IIJIMA, Naoko IMAI
  • Patent number: 11109296
    Abstract: A control device is provided, including: a relative-speed acquiring unit for acquiring relative speeds of a movable first mobile relaying apparatus and a movable second mobile relaying apparatus, which are camped on a cell of a wireless base station to relay communications between the wireless base station and a wireless communication terminal; and a determination unit for determining, based on the relative speeds, whether the second mobile relaying apparatus becomes a handover destination, from the first mobile relaying apparatus, of the wireless communication terminal camped on the first mobile relaying apparatus, or becomes a carrier-aggregation destination of the first mobile relaying apparatus for the wireless communication terminal camped on the first mobile relaying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20210258750
    Abstract: A communication control device includes an acquisition part configured to acquire vehicle information, which is information related to a vehicle and which is to be transmitted to an external device outside the vehicle from one or more on-vehicle instrument mounted on the vehicle, a determination part configured to determine a first communication priority level of the vehicle information on the basis of at least the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition part for each vehicle information, a first controller configured to cause a communication part to transmit information showing the first communication priority level determined by the determination part to a radio base station to which the communication part accesses to communicate with the external device, and a second controller configured to cause the communication part to perform communication of the vehicle information with the radio base station with a second communication priority level received from the radio base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai