Patents by Inventor MOTONOBU UCHIMURA

MOTONOBU UCHIMURA 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: 20180037165
    Abstract: An object sensor senses that an object has come near the vehicle by sensing that the object is within a predetermined range behind a vehicle. When the object sensor senses that the object has come near the vehicle by sensing that the object is within the predetermined range behind the vehicle, a compressor creates a compressed image obtained by compressing a part of a display target range in a rearward image. When the object having come near is sensed, the display target range is changed to a second display target range obtained by moving down a lower end of a first display target range; the first display target range is the display target range when the object is out of the predetermined range. The compressor compresses a part of the rearward image in a vertical direction; the rearward image is present within the second display target range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: TERUMITSU SUENAGA, TAKASHI OKOHIRA, MOTONOBU UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170313252
    Abstract: An electronic mirror device includes a display, a controller that controls the display, a switching portion, and a preliminary starter. The display includes a main case having an opening, a video display portion, and a semi-transparent mirror. The video display portion includes a display screen and displays camera images captured by a camera. The semi-transparent mirror is provided between the display screen of the video display portion and the opening of the main case and displays a mirror reflection. The switching portion causes the display to switch between displaying the camera images and the mirror reflection. The preliminary starter preliminarily starts up the controller and the display before the switching portion causes the display to display the camera images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: MOTONOBU UCHIMURA, WATARU NAKAI, TAKASHI OKOHIRA
  • Publication number: 20170259743
    Abstract: An electronic mirror device includes: a display that is mounted on an installation position of a rear-view mirror in an interior of a vehicle; and a controller that controls the display. The display includes: a body case having an opening on a side of a driver seat of the vehicle; an image display unit that is mounted to the body case and displays the camera image; and a half mirror disposed at a side of the driver seat of the image display unit. The controller identifies an object moving in a direction toward the vehicle in the camera image, and displays a camera image in which a size of the identified object in a display image on the image display unit is magnified or reduced to a size of the object reflected in the half mirror viewed from the driver seat, on the image display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: MOTONOBU UCHIMURA, HITOAKI AKAHORI, MASANOBU KANAYA