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).

  • Publication number: 20210258982
    Abstract: A communication device, comprising: communication-part communicates with external device by first-communication-system provided at first-access-point or by second-communication-system provided at second-access-point, determination-part dynamically determines communication priority level of host device with respect to each of first and/or second-access-point; and communication controller transmits information including communication priority level and moving body information with respect to each of first and second-access-points, communication controller communicates with external device through first-communication-system in accordance with communication priority level determined at first-access-point or second-communication-system in accordance with communication priority level determined at second-access-point, communicates in accordance with communication priority level determined at second-access-point when the communication is switched from first-access-point to second-access-point, and communicates in ac
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210258845
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is provided that can increase the probability of handover success between a mobile station and a base station and can enhance the merchantability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Patent number: 11096110
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system comprising a wireless base station and a communication apparatus capable of wirelessly communicating with the wireless base station. The wireless base station comprises a regulatory-signal informing unit that informs the communication apparatus of type information indicating a type of the communication apparatus and a regulatory signal for restricting transmission to the wireless base station, in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied. The communication apparatus comprises a communication-controlling unit that restricts transmission to the wireless base station based on the regulatory signal, when the type of the communication apparatus and the type indicated by the type information are matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20210241628
    Abstract: A management apparatus for managing a communication group composed of a plurality of vehicles that each include a communication apparatus is provided. The management apparatus obtains vehicle information related to two or more vehicles included in one communication group, and based on the vehicle information related to the two or more vehicles, reorganizes each of the two or more vehicles into one of two or more communication groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210219114
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an in-vehicle communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit own vehicle notification information generated by an own vehicle to a nearby area, a receiver configured to receive other vehicle notification information transmitted by each of one or more other vehicles, a storage device storing a program; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device to determine the other vehicle which is to communicate with the own vehicle based on one or both of the own vehicle notification information transmitted by the transmitter and the other vehicle notification information received by the receiver. The own vehicle notification information includes identification information of the own vehicle and indicator values associated with communication with the one or more other vehicles acquired by the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20210219379
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a communication device includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a base station and a plurality of access points having narrower communication ranges than the base station, a first acquirer configured to acquire vehicle information from in-vehicle equipment, a second acquirer configured to acquire information about communication quality for each of the plurality of access points, and a connection adjuster configured to release a connected state associated with a determined access point when the access point whose connected state is released is determined on the basis of the information about the communication quality acquired by the second acquirer if communication with the plurality of access points by the communicator is in the connected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210219227
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a communication device includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a base station and a plurality of access points having narrower communication ranges than the base station, a first acquirer configured to acquire vehicle information from equipment mounted in a vehicle, a second acquirer configured to acquire information about communication quality for each of the plurality of access points, a third acquirer configured to acquire a communication requirement for each piece of the vehicle information acquired by the first acquirer, and a selector configured to select an access point that transmits the vehicle information acquired by the first acquirer on the basis of the information about the communication quality acquired by the second acquirer and the communication requirement acquired by the third acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210209889
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communicator controller. The communication controller configured to cause a communicator to communicate with a terminal device in a first mode or a second mode, in which the first mode is a mode in which communication conditions are better than in the second mode, and, when the communication controller has acquired permission information indicating that communication in the first mode is permitted according to completion of processing of a first procedure different from a second procedure required for communication in the second mode in response to a request from the terminal device, the communication controller causes the communicator to communicate with a terminal device associated with the permission information in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210206289
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communicator that is mounted in a mobile body and functions as a wireless access point, a power supplier configured to supply electric power at least to a driver that causes the mobile body to travel, a detector configured to detect the electric energy of the power supplier, and a controller configured to control at least one of communication strength and communication quality of the communicator based on the electric energy detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Yusuke Oi, Takahiro Iijima, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20210195688
    Abstract: A communication system comprises a communication device; an access point (AP); and a communication server is provided. The communication system performs a method comprising: acquiring first information including movement information of the communication device; acquiring second information including position information of the AP; determining a connectable time corresponding to a length of time the communication device moves within a communicable range of the AP on the basis of the first information and the second information; and controlling a connection between the communication device and the AP on the basis of the connectable time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Ryusuke TAMANAHA, Takahiro IIJIMA, Yusuke OI, Naoko IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210181353
    Abstract: A vehicle is a movable vehicle and includes an access point function unit having an antenna and configured to function as an access point by wirelessly communicating with a terminal device located near the antenna and a control unit configured to control a directivity direction of radio waves transmitted through the antenna so that a radio wave intensity of radio waves transmitted to a predetermined first region set on the basis of a surrounding environment of the antenna is less than a radio wave intensity of radio waves transmitted to a second region other than the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru Otaka, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Takahiro Iijima, Yusuke Oi, Naoko Imai
  • Patent number: 11039087
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided, the image processing apparatus including: a vehicle image information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle image information including at least one captured image captured by a vehicle, and an image-capturing position of the captured image; a road image acquiring unit that acquires at least one road image corresponding to the image-capturing position from a plurality of road images captured by a vehicle; and a superimposed image generating unit that generates a superimposed image in which the road image is superimposed on the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20210176722
    Abstract: A base station that includes a memory for storing computer readable code and a processor operatively coupled to the memory is provided herein. The processor is configured to transmit, to a terminal apparatus, information associated with communication delays predicted for communication between the base station and the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus acquires the information associated with the communication delays from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210176721
    Abstract: A base station that includes a memory for storing computer readable code and a processor operatively coupled to the memory is described herein. The processor is configured to acquire other base station delay information, which is information associated with communication delays predicted for communications between the other base stations and a terminal apparatus. The processor is further configured to notify the terminal apparatus of the acquired other station delay information. The terminal apparatus acquires the other station delay information from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210176689
    Abstract: A base station, a terminal device, a control method, and a program for communication handover are provided. First information indicating one or more base stations which are candidates for a handover destination of a terminal device in connection from a base station, is acquired. Second information regarding communication quality predicted in a communication through a candidate base station for each of the candidate base stations is acquired based on the first information. Third information regarding the communication quality for at least one of the candidate base stations is notified to the terminal device based on the second information. The third information is used to handover of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Kosei TSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210167846
    Abstract: There is provided a relay device for relaying communication between a radio base station and a communication terminal, the relay device including a relay function management switch that switches on and off a relay function for relaying communication between a radio base station and a communication terminal of a relay means; and a change command transmitter that transmits, to the communication terminal, a change command of a handover threshold for the communication terminal establishing a wireless communication connection with the relay device when the relay function management switch switches the relay function off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Masaru OTAKA
  • Publication number: 20210168664
    Abstract: A communication device, user terminal, communication system, notification method, and program for handover connections is provided. The communication device may specify a type of handover used to request a communication handover executed by a user terminal, and may notify a user terminal of information related to a specified interface handover type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210168190
    Abstract: A communication system includes a communication device that may transmit a command for requesting a response about communication quality to a specific type of user terminal, and a user terminal that may transmit the communication quality in response to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaru OTAKA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210168709
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may acquire first information on communication status of a fixed terminal device and second information on communication status of a mobile terminal device, and may determine which of the first information and the second information is preferentially used to execute predetermined control processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaru OTAKA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210168687
    Abstract: A controller, terminal device, control method, and program for handover connections is provided. A controller may acquire estimated communication delay information regarding communication via base stations. A terminal device connected to another base station different from the base station above may acquire requested delay information regarding allowable delay. The terminal device may be notified of settings regarding cells that should be measured for wireless quality by the terminal device based on communication delay information of the base station and requested delay information. Handover control of the terminal device may be performed based on the terminal device reporting the measured wireless quality based on these settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Masaru OTAKA