Patents by Inventor Masashi Okano

Masashi Okano 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: 11962605
    Abstract: A storage processing unit configured to store, in a storage unit, first data output by a device or any one of multiple devices in association with first context information related to the first data, and a determining unit configured to obtain second context information related to second data in a case where the second data is received from the device or any one of the multiple devices, and determine whether an analysis of the received second data is necessary based on the received second data and the obtained second context information and based on the first data and the first context information stored in the storage unit, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Koyama, Keita Hasegawa, Yasushi Okano, Masashi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240034321
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes: an environment information acquisitor that acquires environment information in front of the vehicle; a target route setter that sets a target route; and a controller that causes the vehicle to travel along the target route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki UMEZAWA, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Satoshi NAKANO, Masashi OKANO, Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Motohiro HIDAKA, Tatsuro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240034320
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes an environment information acquisitor, a vehicle position estimator, a target route setter, and a controller. The environment information acquisitor acquires environment information in front of the vehicle. The vehicle position estimator estimates a position of the vehicle on a road. The target route setter sets a target route of the vehicle. The controller causes the vehicle to travel along the target route. The controller includes an intersection determiner, a right-left turn determiner, a route generator, and an intervention controller. The intersection determiner determines whether an intersection is in front of the vehicle based on the environment information. The right-left turn determiner determines whether the vehicle turns right or left at the intersection. The route generator generates correct and erroneous routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohiro HIDAKA, Katsuyuki UMEZAWA, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Satoshi NAKANO, Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Masashi OKANO
  • Publication number: 20240034319
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes: an environment information acquisitor that acquires environment information ahead of the vehicle; a vehicle position estimator that estimates a vehicle's position; a target route setter that sets a target route; and a controller that causes the vehicle to travel along the target route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki UMEZAWA, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Satoshi NAKANO, Masashi OKANO, Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Motohiro HIDAKA, Tatsuro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240017662
    Abstract: A vehicle light distribution control apparatus includes a first surrounding environment recognition device configured to recognize a surrounding environment around a vehicle and detect first object information in the recognized surrounding environment, and a second surrounding environment recognition device configured to acquire map information in a predetermined range based on the positional information of the vehicle, and second object information included in the acquired map information, and an illumination device configured to radiate illumination light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Masashi OKANO, Satoshi NAKANO, Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Motohiro HIDAKA, Katsuyuki UMEZAWA, Tatsuro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230311979
    Abstract: A vehicle lane keep control apparatus includes a steering control processor. the steering control processor is configured to, upon detection of a skid of a vehicle during control, switch modes from a lane keeping mode to a slip-handling mode, perform a steering control to allow the vehicle to have a stable attitude, and restart the lane keeping mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Satoshi NAKANO, Masashi OKANO, Motohiro HIDAKA, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Katsuyuki UMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230227055
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support apparatus includes a forward environment recognizing device configured to recognize a traveling environment forward of a vehicle, a control device configured to perform adaptive cruise control and active lane keep centering control based on the recognized traveling environment, an electric power steering device configured to control a turning angle of wheels in a ganged manner in accordance with a steering angle received from a steering handle, and a driver monitoring system configured to detect changes in biological information of a driver who drives the vehicle. When the driver monitoring system detects a drop in alertness of the driver, the control device is configured to perform the adaptive cruise control and the active lane keep centering control and execute a steering handle idle mode that stops the electric power steering device from controlling the turning angle in the ganged manner in accordance with the steering angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Satoshi NAKANO, Masashi OKANO, Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Motohiro HIDAKA, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Katsuyuki UMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230227100
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support apparatus includes a forward environment recognizing device configured to recognize a traveling environment forward of a vehicle, a control device configured to perform active lane keep centering control based on the traveling environment, an electric power steering device configured to apply an assist torque to control a turning angle of wheels in accordance with a steering angle received from a steering handle, and a driver monitoring system configured to detect biological information of a driver who drives the vehicle. During execution of the active lane keep centering control, the control device is configured to count the number of times a driver's line-of-sight direction in the biological information has deviated from a target route direction of the vehicle and if the counted number of times is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold count, reduce the assist torque stepwise as the counted number of times increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuro SUZUKI, Hiroaki KURAMOCHI, Satoshi NAKANO, Masashi OKANO, Shuhei DAIROKUNO, Motohiro HIDAKA, Katsuyuki UMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230029842
    Abstract: A surrounding situation information acquisition device acquires surrounding situation information of a vehicle. A steering angle sensor detects a steering angle and a steering direction of the vehicle. A steering assist controller executes traveling control involving steering assist control based on information output from the surrounding situation information acquisition device and information output from the steering angle sensor. The steering assist controller recognizes, based on the information output from the surrounding situation information acquisition device, an oncoming vehicle in an oncoming lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the vehicle and an avoidance target on a road shoulder side of the traveling lane of the vehicle, estimates an avoidance priority level of the oncoming vehicle and an avoidance priority level of the avoidance target, and sets a new target lane keeping traveling path of the vehicle based on the avoidance priority levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masashi OKANO, Kazuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230031839
    Abstract: Surrounding situation information of a vehicle is acquired. A steering torque applied by using a steering mechanism of the vehicle is detected. A steering angle and a steering direction of the vehicle are detected. Traveling control involving steering assist control is executed based on those pieces of information. In a case where a steering torque amount or the steering angle is detected, a new target lane keeping traveling path or a predetermined target lane departure prevention traveling path of the vehicle is created based on the steering torque amount, the steering angle, and the steering direction of the vehicle. In a case where the steering torque amount or the steering angle is detected again within a predetermined period, the new target lane keeping traveling path or the predetermined target lane departure prevention traveling path is set and traveling control is executed along the set traveling path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masashi OKANO, Kazuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220063604
    Abstract: A travel control device includes a travel environment recognizer recognizing travel environment information around a vehicle, an obstacle recognizer recognizing an obstacle possibly colliding with the vehicle, and a travel controller performing emergency braking when a first parameter becomes a first threshold value or smaller and causing the vehicle to start moving again when a second parameter reaches a second threshold value or larger. The obstacle recognizer recognizes a group of moving objects expressing similar behaviors based on the travel environment information, and recognizes the moving-object group as an obstacle if located closer to the vehicle than other objects. The travel controller calculates an expectation value based on each moving-object's behavior when the vehicle makes an emergency stop, and allows the vehicle to start moving again when the expectation value reaches a threshold value or larger even if the second parameter is smaller than the second threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Masashi OKANO
  • Patent number: 11173901
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes an automatic steering control device. The automatic steering control device includes an override determiner, a target steering angle setter, and a target torque setter. The target steering angle setter sets a target steering angle in automatic steering control, based on surrounding information and running condition information. The target torque setter sets a target torque for making the vehicle turn so that a steering angle of the vehicle becomes the target steering angle set by the target steering angle setter. If a steering intention has been detected by the override determiner, during the steering intention being detected, the target steering angle setter sets the steering angle a predetermined length of time before, as the target steering angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Okano, Sogo Kanai, Jun Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20200103954
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information about a power consumption associated with an execution of a program; a determination unit that determines, on a basis of a power-supplying performance of a power supply device and the power consumption information acquired by the information acquisition unit, whether or not the power consumption during the execution of the program according to current operating settings of the information processing device itself exceeds the power-supplying performance of the power supply device; and a setting unit that, in a case in which the determination unit determines that the power-supplying performance of the power supply device is exceeded, adjusts operating settings of a central processing unit (CPU) during the execution of the program such that the power consumption during the execution of the program comes within a range of the power-supplying performance of the power supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NIINA, Masashi OKANO
  • Publication number: 20200031344
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes an automatic steering control device. The automatic steering control device includes an override determiner, a target steering angle setter, and a target torque setter. The target steering angle setter sets a target steering angle in automatic steering control, based on surrounding information and running condition information. The target torque setter sets a target torque for making the vehicle turn so that a steering angle of the vehicle becomes the target steering angle set by the target steering angle setter. If a steering intention has been detected by the override determiner, during the steering intention being detected, the target steering angle setter sets the steering angle a predetermined length of time before, as the target steering angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Masashi OKANO, Sogo KANAI, Jun MORIWAKI
  • Patent number: 10455104
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a print data acquisition unit that acquires print data; a layout information acquisition unit that acquires layout information concerning plural image forming parts that are aligned from an upstream side toward a downstream side in a moving direction of a transfer target that moves and form images of respective different colors on the transfer target; and an image information generation unit that generates pieces of image information for the respective colors used by the plural image forming parts from the print data during a generation period and generates image information used by an image forming part located on an upstream side in the moving direction more in a former half of the generation period than in a latter half of the generation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Okano, Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Hiroshi Niina, Hiroshi Hayashi, Junichi Shimizu, Tetsuya Wakiyama
  • Patent number: 10419638
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first memory, a transfer unit, a second memory, and a processor. The first memory retains image data. The transfer unit reads from the first memory and transfers the image data for each area having a predetermined size. The second memory retains the image data of each area transferred by the transfer unit and allows random reading on a per address basis. The processor reads the image data from the second memory and performs a process for rotating an image for the read image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Masashi Okano, Junichi Shimizu, Hiroshi Niina, Tetsuya Wakiyama
  • Patent number: 10419637
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section that acquires pieces of image data acquired by performing image reading in a sub scan direction in a unit of a line extending in a main scan direction, an orientation changing section that changes an orientation of each of data images represented by the respective pieces of image data acquired by the image acquisition section, and an image processing section that performs image processing serially on the pieces of image data acquired by the image acquisition section. The image processing section performs the image processing every predetermined number of pieces of image data serving as a predetermined processing unit. The image processing section changes the predetermined processing unit for the image processing to a processing unit different from the predetermined processing unit in a case where the orientation is changed by the orientation changing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Wakiyama, Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Junichi Shimizu, Hiroshi Niina, Masashi Okano, Hiroshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10180813
    Abstract: A processing device includes a reception unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The reception unit receives a process designated by a user. The processing unit performs the process received by the reception unit. The output unit outputs the process to an external apparatus capable of executing the process received by the reception unit. When the reception unit receives multiple processes, a process that is included in the multiple processes and in which an output from the processing device has to be obtained is performed in the processing device, and at least a part of a process that is included in the multiple processes and in which an output from the processing device does not have to be obtained is output to the external apparatus by the output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Niina, Tetsuya Wakiyama, Masashi Okano, Junichi Shimizu, Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Hiroshi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180278798
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section that acquires pieces of image data acquired by performing image reading in a sub scan direction in a unit of a line extending in a main scan direction, an orientation changing section that changes an orientation of each of data images represented by the respective pieces of image data acquired by the image acquisition section, and an image processing section that performs image processing serially on the pieces of image data acquired by the image acquisition section. The image processing section performs the image processing every predetermined number of pieces of image data serving as a predetermined processing unit. The image processing section changes the predetermined processing unit for the image processing to a processing unit different from the predetermined processing unit in a case where the orientation is changed by the orientation changing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya WAKIYAMA, Kiyotaka TSUCHIBUCHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi NIINA, Masashi OKANO, Hiroshi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180278799
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first memory, a transfer unit, a second memory, and a processor. The first memory retains image data. The transfer unit reads from the first memory and transfers the image data for each area having a predetermined size. The second memory retains the image data of each area transferred by the transfer unit and allows random reading on a per address basis. The processor reads the image data from the second memory and performs a process for rotating an image for the read image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka TSUCHIBUCHI, Hiroshi HAYASHI, Masashi OKANO, Junichi SHIMIZU, Hiroshi NIINA, Tetsuya WAKIYAMA