Patents by Inventor Natsumi YOKOYAMA

Natsumi YOKOYAMA 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: 20250196690
    Abstract: Attained is an object to better control an amount of electric power stored in a target area in which an electric vehicle is electrically charged and discharged. An electric power management apparatus (10) includes: a management section (11) that manages an amount of electric power stored in a target area; and a changing section (12) that causes a parameter associated with a user of an electric vehicle in the target area to undergo a change in accordance with the amount of electric power stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki AMINAKA, Masaru Yanai, Motoharu Ohtake, Hideki Muramatsu, Yoshikatsu Niwa, Noritsugu Yamanaka, Natsumi Yokoyama, Kosei Kobayashi, Hideki Kikkawa, Sawaka Seki
  • Publication number: 20250133530
    Abstract: To determine the environment of a radio channel even in a case where the distance between wireless communication apparatuses varies, an information processing system (1) includes: obtaining means (11) for obtaining distance information that indicates a distance between a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus that directly perform communication with each other through a radio channel, and quality information that is information associated with quality of the communication; decision means (12) for deciding an algorithm for determining the environment of the radio channel with reference to the distance information; and determination means (13) for determining the environment of the radio channel by using the quality information and the algorithm decided by the decision means (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Sawaka SEKI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Masaru YANAI, Motoharu OHTAKE, Hideki MURAMATSU, Yoshikatsu NIWA, Noritsugu YAMANAKA, Natsumi YOKOYAMA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Hideki KIKKAWA
  • Patent number: 12266193
    Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Natsumi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20250042289
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: an extraction section that, on the basis of an electric power quantity of each of the plurality of electric vehicles, the electric power quantity being indicated by electric power quantity information, extracts at least one of the electric vehicles that is among the plurality of electric vehicles and that corresponds to an electric power state of one or more of the plurality of charging facilities, the one or more being included in a target area; and a transmission section that transmits information pertaining to the target area to at least one of the at least one of the electric vehicles that has been extracted by the extraction section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki MURAMATSU, Masaru YANAI, Motoharu OHTAKE, Sawaka SEKI, Noritsugu YAMANAKA, Natsumi YOKOYAMA, Yoshikatsu NIWA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Hideki KIKKAWA, Hiroaki AMINAKA
  • Publication number: 20240175680
    Abstract: A road inspection system includes: an inspection determination part that determines, regarding road segments, each of which is a unit obtained by dividing an inspection target road, a need for inspection for the individual road segment; a control part that controls, based on the need for inspection for the individual road segment, measurement of a road surface state(s) of the road performed by a measurement vehicle that is capable of measuring the road surface state(s) or transmission of measured data obtained by the measurement; and a road surface inspection part that analyzes measured data received from the measurement vehicle and performs inspection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Natsumi YOKOYAMA, Shintaro CHIKU, Yoko TANAKA, Yuki TSUJI, kazuki OGATA, Kei YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240179096
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus comprises a measurement part capable of measuring, by means of a sensor, a road surface state in which a vehicle travels, a band evaluation part that evaluates a network band between it and a server at a transmission destination of measurement data of the road surface state, an importance calculation part that calculates importance of the measurement data based on a predetermined importance determination policy, a transmission part capable of transmitting the measurement data to the server, and a control part that controls transmission of the measurement data to the server by the transmission part based on evaluation of the network band and the importance of the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Shintaro CHIKU, Yoko TANAKA, Yuki TSUJI, Kazuki OGATA, Kei YANAGISAWA, Natsumi YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240096110
    Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Ogata, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Natsumi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240092366
    Abstract: An on-vehicle apparatus includes an abnormal section determination part that determines a road section having a road surface on which an abnormality is probably present, based on an output value of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, an image selection part that selects an image(s) including the determined road section from a plurality of images shot at predetermined time intervals by a camera mounted on the vehicle, and a transmission part that is able to transmit the selected image(s) to a predetermined server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Ogata, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kei Yanagisawa, Natsumi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240035239
    Abstract: A road inspection system comprises: a means that creates a road inspection route including a first road managed by a first road manager and a second road managed by a second road manager which is different from the first road manager; a means that receives inspection data from a vehicle that has traveled along a road inspection route, in which the inspection data is obtained by measurement of pre-set items along the road inspection route; a means that diagnoses a first inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the first road, using first diagnosis criteria of the first road manager; and a means that diagnoses a second inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the second road, using second diagnosis criteria of the second road manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi YOKOYAMA, Shintaro Chiku, Yoko Tanaka, Yuki Tsuji, Kosei Kobayashi, Kazuki Ogata, Kei Yanagisawa