Patents by Inventor Mika SUNAGAWA

Mika SUNAGAWA 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: 11576597
    Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device including an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by a person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person; and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika Sunagawa, Nawatt Silawan, Kunihiro Imamura, Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame
  • Publication number: 20220287608
    Abstract: An inattentive state determination device includes: a drowsiness predictor that derives drowsiness prediction data for predicting an occurrence of drowsiness in a person; a drowsiness and inattentiveness deriver that derives a degree of drowsiness and inattentiveness of the person; and an inattentiveness determiner that determines whether the person is in an inattentive state, based on the drowsiness prediction data and a current degree of drowsiness and inattentiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Mika SUNAGAWA, Shinichi SHIKII, Yoshihiro KOJIMA, Daisuke WAKUDA, Koki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220165073
    Abstract: A state detection device (100) detects a state of a driver driving an automobile (300), and includes: a first camera (110) that captures a face of the driver at a first frame rate; a. second camera. (120) that captures an environment in a forward direction of the automobile at a second frame rate; and a. processor (130) that processes images obtained from the first and second cameras (110, 120). The processor (130) calculates a :line-of-sight direction of both. eyes of the driver based on a face image obtained from. the first camera (110) and calculates a focal position of the driver based on the hue-of-sight direction. of both. eyes of the driver, and detects the state of the driver by determining the state of the driver based on the focal position and a forward image obtained from the second camera (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichi SHIKII, Mika SUNAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220087585
    Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device including an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by a person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person; and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the auxiliary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Mika SUNAGAWA, Nawatt SILAWAN, Kunihiro IMAMURA, Shinichi SHIKII, Koichi KUSUKAME
  • Patent number: 11219395
    Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device includes a biometric information acquirer that acquires biometric information of a person, an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by the person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person, and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the biometric information and the auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mika Sunagawa, Nawatt Silawan, Kunihiro Imamura, Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame
  • Publication number: 20200359954
    Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device includes a biometric information acquirer that acquires biometric information of a person, an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by the person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person, and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the biometric information and the auxiliary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mika SUNAGAWA, Nawatt SILAWAN, Kunihiro IMAMURA, Shinichi SHIKII, Koichi KUSUKAME