Patents by Inventor Minoru Fukumori

Minoru Fukumori 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: 11605141
    Abstract: A highly reliable facility evaluation information (rating information) that is free of arbitrary ratings. A server system includes a facility rating information creation and updating unit that grants a rating with regard to a facility to be rated on the basis of parking information. The parking information is obtained by assessing whether the present position of a mobile body, which is being carried together with a vehicle, has been parked in the area of the facility to be rated whereat parking is possible. A facility rating provision unit that outputs the rating regarding to the facility to be rated, which has been granted by the facility rating information creation and updating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Hiroshi Inoue, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Satoru Minowa, Minoru Fukumori
  • Patent number: 11348457
    Abstract: The present invention performs analysis more appropriately on the basis of information such as location information for a plurality of moving objects. An analysis device 30 comprises: a 311 that receives changes in location information for a plurality of vehicles 50; a storage unit 32 that stores a road on which the plurality of vehicles 50 can travel, together with link information including an intersection; a link designation unit 312 that accepts a designation of the link information to be analyzed; and a control unit 313 that differentiates between respective routes of the plurality of vehicles 50 after passage through the link corresponding to the designated link information, totals the link passage times for each route, and specifies a cause of congestion on the basis of the separation between representative values for each route, said separation being based on the results of the totaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11302184
    Abstract: The present invention performs analysis more appropriately on the basis of information such as location information for a plurality of moving objects. An analysis device 30 comprises: a 311 that receives changes in location information for a plurality of vehicles 50; a storage unit 32 that stores a road on which the plurality of vehicles 50 can travel, together with link information including an intersection; a link designation unit 312 that accepts a designation of the link information to be analyzed; and a control unit 313 that differentiates between respective routes of the plurality of vehicles 50 after passage through the link corresponding to the designated link information, totals the link passage times for each route, and specifies a cause of congestion on the basis of the separation between representative values for each route, said separation being based on the results of the totaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11257376
    Abstract: Forecasting a mobile body distribution situation after a prescribed time by forecasting an excursion action of a mobile body on the basis of an inter-facility movement correlation of the mobile body. A server system includes an inter-facility movement computation part for computing a facility staying time estimate, an inter-facility movement time estimate, and an inter-facility movement correlation on the basis of a trend in past position information from the mobile body, a plurality of pieces of facility information, and map information wherein a road map is included; a receiving part for receiving present position information of a plurality of the mobile bodies; and a mobile body distribution situation forecast part for forecasting the distribution situation of the mobile bodies after a prescribed time on the basis of the inter-facility movement correlation and the present position information of the plurality of mobile bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20220028255
    Abstract: Provided are a traffic information analysis device and a traffic information analysis method with which the effectiveness of a sign can be analyzed from the number of passages of moving bodies along a road where the sign is positioned. A traffic information analysis device 30 comprises: a visit information database update unit 311 that receives changes in location information for a plurality of vehicles 60; a storage unit 32 that stores a road on which the plurality of vehicles 60 can travel; a number of passages tallying unit 313 that tallies the number of passages of the plurality of vehicles 60 within a prescribed period for a prescribed location or a prescribed section of the road; and an output unit 314 that outputs a unit number and/or a ratio for each number of passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Minoru FUKUMORI, Yoshiaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11227491
    Abstract: An information analysis device is provided with: a visit information database update unit that receives position information pertaining to a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit that stores map information including the position of a facility that the plurality of vehicles can visit, and a route on which the plurality of vehicles can travel; and a visit rate calculation unit that specifies information pertaining to a visit to the facility by the moving body and a number of moving bodies passing through a region that corresponds to the facility on the basis of the position information and the map information, and calculates the rate at which the moving body visits the facility on the basis of the result of specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori
  • Publication number: 20210398422
    Abstract: The present invention performs analysis more appropriately on the basis of information such as location information for a plurality of moving objects. An analysis device 30 comprises: a 311 that receives changes in location information for a plurality of vehicles 50; a storage unit 32 that stores a road on which the plurality of vehicles 50 can travel, together with link information including an intersection; a link designation unit 312 that accepts a designation of the link information to be analyzed; and a control unit 313 that differentiates between respective routes of the plurality of vehicles 50 after passage through the link corresponding to the designated link information, totals the link passage times for each route, and specifies a cause of congestion on the basis of the separation between representative values for each route, said separation being based on the results of the totaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru FUKUMORI, Yoshiaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11105647
    Abstract: To statistically analyze information on the path of ra movement of a moving body. An information analysis device includes a communication unit that receives position information for a vehicle, a memory unit that stores map information pertaining to roads over which the vehicle can travel and position information concerning facilities, a visit frequency calculator that calculates the frequency at which the vehicle visits a facility on the basis of facility information concerning the facility, and a travel path specification unit that specifies the vehicle that has made a plurality of visits to the facility on the basis of the results of calculations made by the visit frequency calculator and specifies the travel path to the facility for the specified vehicle from the position information and the map information pertaining to the roads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11081003
    Abstract: A map-providing server includes: a travel information database creation unit that receives position information of a vehicle and vehicle brake application information; a place of residence estimation unit that estimates the position of the place of residence of a vehicle; a sudden braking location identification unit that identifies a location of the occurrence of vehicle sudden braking from information from the travel information database creation unit; a unit for determining the cause of sudden braking, which determines whether the location where sudden braking has occurred locally, at a position within a predetermined range from the position of the place of residence of the user of the vehicle; and a unit for recording sudden braking information that records, on map information, the location where sudden braking has occurred, in association with information indicating whether the vehicle user is a local resident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20210125196
    Abstract: An information analysis device, provided with: a communication unit for receiving position information for a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit for storing map information including the positions of a plurality of facilities and customer visit data for customer visits to at least one or more facilities from among the plurality of facilities; a moving body visit determining unit for storing moving body visit data for visits by the plurality of vehicles to the facility, on the basis of the map information and the position information for the plurality of vehicles; a moving body visit ratio calculation unit for calculating the moving body visit ratio, which is the ratio between the number of moving body visits and the number of customer visits, for the facility; and a customer visit number calculation unit for calculating a hypothetical number of customer visits to the designated facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori
  • Publication number: 20210118297
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to set a more suitable region to carry out an analysis. Provided is an information analysis device including a communication unit, which receives position information of a plurality of vehicles, a storage unit, which stores map information that includes facility positions relating to a plurality of facilities, and segment line information, which has been created using identification factors that are included in the map information, and an analysis information generation unit, which, on the basis of the received position information, identifies, for each vehicle that has visited any of the plurality of facilities, the start position in the outbound route and/or the parking position in the return route when the facility in question has been visited, and generates analysis information for displaying the identified position overlaid with the map information for each region as segmented by the segment line information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Shunsuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20210027618
    Abstract: An information analysis device is provided with: a visit information database update unit that receives position information pertaining to a plurality of vehicles; a storage unit that stores map information including the position of a facility that the plurality of vehicles can visit, and a route on which the plurality of vehicles can travel; and a visit rate calculation unit that specifies information pertaining to a visit to the facility by the moving body and a number of moving bodies passing through a region that corresponds to the facility on the basis of the position information and the map information, and calculates the rate at which the moving body visits the facility on the basis of the result of specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori
  • Publication number: 20200410859
    Abstract: A map-providing server includes: a travel information database creation unit that receives position information of a vehicle and vehicle brake application information; a place of residence estimation unit that estimates the position of the place of residence of a vehicle; a sudden braking location identification unit that identifies a location of the occurrence of vehicle sudden braking from information from the travel information database creation unit; a unit for determining the cause of sudden braking, which determines whether the location where sudden braking has occurred locally, at a position within a predetermined range from the position of the place of residence of the user of the vehicle; and a unit for recording sudden braking information that records, on map information, the location where sudden braking has occurred, in association with information indicating whether the vehicle user is a local resident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20200342336
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to recommend a facility to visit, without requiring installation of special equipment in facilities. A visiting-facility recommending device is provided with: a communication unit that receives the current positions of a plurality of mobile bodies; a storage unit in which road map information and information about a plurality of facilities are saved; a staying-facility estimating unit that estimates a staying facility at which a target mobile body, which is a mobile body chosen as an estimation target, is staying; a movement-correlation calculating unit that calculates movement correlations among the plurality of facilities from past movement histories of the plurality of mobile bodies among the facilities; and a facility recommending unit that selects a facility recommended to be visited next on the basis of the estimated staying facility and the calculated movement correlations among the facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiaki SUGIMOTO, Tadashi KURIHARA, Minoru FUKUMORI
  • Publication number: 20200342765
    Abstract: Forecasting a mobile body distribution situation after a prescribed time by forecasting an excursion action of a mobile body on the basis of an inter-facility movement correlation of the mobile body. A server system includes an inter-facility movement computation part for computing a facility staying time estimate, an inter-facility movement time estimate, and an inter-facility movement correlation on the basis of a trend in past position information from the mobile body, a plurality of pieces of facility information, and map information wherein a road map is included; a receiving part for receiving present position information of a plurality of the mobile bodies; and a mobile body distribution situation forecast part for forecasting the distribution situation of the mobile bodies after a prescribed time on the basis of the inter-facility movement correlation and the present position information of the plurality of mobile bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Tadashi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10764711
    Abstract: A content distribution server is provided with: a storage unit, which stores a plurality of pieces of content related to a facility; an acquisition unit, which acquires, from an in-vehicle navigation device of the vehicle, any one or both of starting information on a vehicle and location information on the vehicle, as information for determination; and a content distribution unit, which distributes content stored in the storage unit to a mobile terminal. The content distribution unit determines, on the basis of the information for determination acquired by the acquisition unit, whether a user can visit the facility by the vehicle, and determines, on the basis of the determination result, which content in the plurality of pieces of content stored in the storage unit is distributed to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200132493
    Abstract: To statistically analyze information on the path of ra movement of a moving body. An information analysis device includes a communication unit that receives position information for a vehicle, a memory unit that stores map information pertaining to roads over which the vehicle can travel and position information concerning facilities, a visit frequency calculator that calculates the frequency at which the vehicle visits a facility on the basis of facility information concerning the facility, and a travel path specification unit that specifies the vehicle that has made a plurality of visits to the facility on the basis of the results of calculations made by the visit frequency calculator and specifies the travel path to the facility for the specified vehicle from the position information and the map information pertaining to the roads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20200092673
    Abstract: A content distribution server is provided with: a storage unit, which stores a plurality of pieces of content related to a facility; an acquisition unit, which acquires, from an in-vehicle navigation device of the vehicle, any one or both of starting information on a vehicle and location information on the vehicle, as information for determination; and a content distribution unit, which distributes content stored in the storage unit to a mobile terminal. The content distribution unit determines, on the basis of the information for determination acquired by the acquisition unit, whether a user can visit the facility by the vehicle, and determines, on the basis of the determination result, which content in the plurality of pieces of content stored in the storage unit is distributed to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200065917
    Abstract: A highly reliable facility evaluation information (rating information) that is free of arbitrary ratings. A server system includes a facility rating information creation and updating unit that grants a rating with regard to a facility to be rated on the basis of parking information. The parking information is obtained by assessing whether the present position of a mobile body, which is being carried together with a vehicle, has been parked in the area of the facility to be rated whereat parking is possible. A facility rating provision unit that outputs the rating regarding to the facility to be rated, which has been granted by the facility rating information creation and updating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Hiroshi Inoue, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Satoru Minowa, Minoru Fukumori
  • Publication number: 20180283893
    Abstract: Analysis information capable of informing an accurate analysis result is generated while individual information is protected. An information analysis device 30 includes a communication unit 33 receiving position information of a plurality of vehicles 60; a storage unit 32 storing map information 321 including a facility position relevant to a facility; and a control unit 31 generating analysis information for displaying the position information of the vehicle 60 visiting to the facility, which is time-discretely changed, to be superimposed on the map information 321 at a predetermined transmissivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Tadashi Kurihara, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Minoru Fukumori, Shunsuke Kawasaki