Patents by Inventor Naoya Yosoku

Naoya Yosoku 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: 20240012096
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Patent number: 11822002
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Publication number: 20230314555
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Patent number: 10854992
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Patent number: 10788567
    Abstract: A radar apparatus is provided which includes a counter which counts a transmission count of pulse codes from start of measurement, a pulse code generator which selects a complementary group from among a plurality of complementary groups obtained by grouping a plurality of pulse codes generated by at least one code coupling process on at least one basic code pair as complementary codes every time the transmission count is an integral multiple of a code count in the plurality of complementary groups, and a transmitter which transmits the pulse codes belonging to the selected complementary group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Yosoku, Takaaki Kishigami
  • Publication number: 20200251832
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Patent number: 10673149
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Patent number: 10647325
    Abstract: A determination device includes: route detection circuitry which detects, a first continuous body as a first part of a one or more first direction distance information with respect to a first object, and a second continuous body as a second part of the one or more first direction distance information with respect to a second object, in a first direction along a first route on which the moving body moves, and a third continuous body as the second part, in a second direction; route determination circuitry which determines presence or absence of a second route along the third continuous body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Hirai, Hirofumi Nishimura, Naoya Yosoku
  • Patent number: 10615516
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Publication number: 20200044361
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Patent number: 10325162
    Abstract: There is provided a detection device that includes: a position estimator that estimates a candidate position of a crosswalk in a movement direction of a vehicle and estimates a length of the crosswalk and an intersecting angle between the crosswalk and a roadway using the candidate position; a corrector that corrects the numbers of periods and widths of two basis functions based on the estimated length of the crosswalk and the estimated intersecting angle, the two basis functions corresponding to intervals of white lines of the crosswalk and are orthogonal to each other; and a crosswalk detector that detects whether or not the crosswalk is present using both image data which include the candidate position and the two corrected basis functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Maeda, Hirofumi Nishimura, Takahiro Shima, Naoya Yosoku, Yoshito Hirai
  • Publication number: 20190067835
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Patent number: 10141657
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Patent number: 9912786
    Abstract: A demodulation section demodulates a received signal. A decoding section decodes an output from the demodulation section. A buffer temporarily stores a portion of the received signal. A header analyzing section gives the buffer timing at which demodulation and decoding of a payload of the received signal are initiated, on the basis of a result of combination of a plurality of header sequences included in a header of the received signal and results of processing of the demodulation section and the decoding section. An improved SNR is achieved by means of combination of the plurality of header sequences, so that an iterative decoding count used for decoding the header become smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Yosoku, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Naganori Shirakata
  • Publication number: 20170356991
    Abstract: There is provided a radar device including: a transmitter including a first antenna which, in operation, transmits a radar signal; a receiver including a second antenna which, in operation, receives an echo signal that is the radar signal reflected from an object; a stationary object boundary detector which, in operation, detects a boundary of a first region in which a stationary object exists by using the echo signal; and a stationary object boundary variations detector which, in operation, detects a second region in which temporal changes are observed in the boundary of the first region and detects a third region that is the region moving in a cross-range direction, as a first moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: NAOYA YOSOKU, HIROFUMI NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170337432
    Abstract: There is provided a detection device that includes: a position estimator that estimates a candidate position of a crosswalk in a movement direction of a vehicle and estimates a length of the crosswalk and an intersecting angle between the crosswalk and a roadway using the candidate position; a corrector that corrects the numbers of periods and widths of two basis functions based on the estimated length of the crosswalk and the estimated intersecting angle, the two basis functions corresponding to intervals of white lines of the crosswalk and are orthogonal to each other; and a crosswalk detector that detects whether or not the crosswalk is present using both image data which include the candidate position and the two corrected basis functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: MASAKATSU MAEDA, HIROFUMI NISHIMURA, TAKAHIRO SHIMA, NAOYA YOSOKU, YOSHITO HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20170269191
    Abstract: A radar apparatus is provided which includes a counter which counts a transmission count of pulse codes from start of measurement, a pulse code generator which selects a complementary group from among a plurality of complementary groups obtained by grouping a plurality of pulse codes generated by at least one code coupling process on at least one basic code pair as complementary codes every time the transmission count is an integral multiple of a code count in the plurality of complementary groups, and a transmitter which transmits the pulse codes belonging to the selected complementary group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: NAOYA YOSOKU, TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI
  • Publication number: 20170240180
    Abstract: A determination device includes: route detection circuitry which detects, a first continuous body as a first part of a one or more first direction distance information with respect to a first object, and a second continuous body as a second part of the one or more first direction distance information with respect to a second object, in a first direction along a first route on which the moving body moves, and a third continuous body as the second part, in a second direction; route determination circuitry which determines presence or absence of a second route along the third continuous body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: YOSHITO HIRAI, HIROFUMI NISHIMURA, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Publication number: 20160285172
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Patent number: 9369220
    Abstract: A receiving device that receives a signal in a receiving antenna. The receiving device includes a gain controller that adjusts a gain in the receiving device in response to information related to power of the signal, and a signal detector that determines whether, within a predetermined period after the information related to the power of the signal exceeds a first threshold value, the information related to the power of the signal exceeds a second threshold value which is larger than the first threshold value. The gain controller adjusts a search range of the gain in the receiving device based on a determination result of the signal detector with respect to the information related to the power of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Tanaka, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Naoya Yosoku