Patents by Inventor Naoto SAKATA

Naoto SAKATA 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: 11915495
    Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Tetsuro Murakami, Naoto Sakata
  • Publication number: 20220219699
    Abstract: A possibility that driving assistance suitable for a road environment will be not provided is reduced. An on-board apparatus, which navigates a vehicle based on the map information including information indicating a road network including a plurality of links respectively corresponding to a plurality of roads and a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to a plurality of intersections and information indicating road attributes in the road network, includes an image capturing unit and a support control unit. The image capturing unit captures an image of at least a part around the vehicle. The support control unit associates supplementary information, which is information including recognition result information indicating a result of image recognition of the captured image, with link information of a target link, which is a link corresponding to a point related to the image capturing of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.,
    Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Tetsuro MURAKAMI, Naoto SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220172493
    Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Tetsuro MURAKAMI, Naoto SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220027445
    Abstract: A first server apparatus is communicably connected to each of a second server apparatus having a server-less function and a vehicle and includes an obtaining unit obtaining, from the vehicle, start position information indicating a start position of the vehicle, start date-and-time information indicating a start date and time of the vehicle, parking position information indicating a parking position of the vehicle, and parking date-and-time information indicating a parking date and time of the vehicle, an estimating unit estimating a date and time at which the vehicle is started based on the start position, the start date and time, the parking position and the parking date and time, and an instructing unit instructing the second server apparatus to activate a personal authentication program in accordance with an estimation result by the estimating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Naoto SAKATA, Tetsuro MURAKAMI