Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Watanabe

Nobuyuki Watanabe 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: 20210146955
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detector configured to detect objects around a vehicle; a predictor configured to predict the extent of stress caused to an occupant by the objects according to a distribution of the objects detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate a trajectory when the vehicle is traveling by automated driving according to the extent of stress predicted by the predictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210142797
    Abstract: An assistance device (100 or 500) includes an acquisitor (110 or 510) configured to acquire user-side information including input information input using voice or text by a user from a terminal device (200) of the user, an interface (160 or 540) configured to perform an operation for a work reservation, and an intermediary unit (120, 140, 520, or 560) configured to perform intention estimation of input information included in the user-side information acquired by the acquisitor, to control the interface on the basis of a result of the intention estimation, and to realize work reservation intended by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 10971174
    Abstract: An information-processing apparatus includes a display displaying an image; a memory recording voice data having a voice pronounced at each of plural observation points of the image; a gaze detector generating gaze data by detecting a gaze of a user; a voice input device generating voice data associated with a time axis identical to that of the gaze data by receiving a voice of the user; and a processor to analyze a attention period where a attention degree of the gaze to each of the plural observation points is a predetermined value or greater, based on the gaze data, set a period where the voice is pronounced with respect to the voice data as an important voice period, based on the voice data, and generate calibration data based on a time lag between the attention period and the important voice period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Horiuchi, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Yoshioki Kaneko, Hidetoshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10959601
    Abstract: For the purpose of improving the manipulability at the time of insertion and improving the ease of observation at the time of removal, according to the movement direction of an insertion portion with respect to a body cavity and a movement mode thereof, an endoscope system includes: an endoscope that is provided with an insertion portion that is inserted into a body cavity and an image acquisition part that acquires, at the distal end of the insertion portion, an image of the inside of the body cavity; an insertion/removal detector that detects a relative movement direction of the insertion portion with respect to the body cavity; an image generator that generates image information suitable for a movement mode of the insertion portion based on the relative movement direction detected by the insertion/removal detector; and an image display part that displays the image information generated by the image generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210086649
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a storage battery configured to store electric power used to drive a vehicle, a power reception unit configured to receive electric power supply from a moving body capable of supplying electric power stored in the storage battery, a communication unit configured to communicate with the moving body, a detection unit configured to detect a charge state of the storage battery, and a communication control unit configured to request the moving body to supply electric power using the communication unit on the basis of the charge state detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
  • Patent number: 10921813
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10754425
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a hardware processor configured to, analyze an attention degree of a gaze of a user, on the basis of gaze data in which the gaze of the user is detected, the gaze data being input externally, and assign an important degree according to the attention degree that is analyzed with respect to speech data of the user, the speech data being input externally, and is associated with a time axis that is a same as that of the gaze data to be recorded in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Horiuchi, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Yoshioki Kaneko, Hidetoshi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200209011
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an area indicator that specifies an operation area of an autonomous vehicle, a discriminator that discriminates a user with respect to the autonomous vehicle, and a use permitter that allows a user discriminated to be a user who is able to use the autonomous vehicle by the discriminator to occupy and use at least a portion of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Hisakazu Yamane, Masaaki Onoda
  • Publication number: 20200175432
    Abstract: A travel schedule determining device includes: an acquirer that acquires schedule information of a plurality of users and attribute information indicating a mutual relationship between some users out of the plurality of users; and a determiner that determines a travel schedule of an automated-driving vehicle on the basis of the information acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Hisakazu Yamane, Masaaki Onoda
  • Publication number: 20200169705
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving of a vehicle and an environment provider configured to provide an interior of the vehicle with state information indicating a state of external equipment operable using an operation interface in the interior of the vehicle when the vehicle travels or stops, the external equipment being external equipment outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Hisakazu Yamane, Masaaki Onoda
  • Publication number: 20200164899
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200158520
    Abstract: A map update apparatus includes: a storage part that stores map information; an acquisition part that acquires, from a vehicle, sensor detection information based on a detection result of a sensor that is provided on the vehicle; and an estimation part that estimates a position of an entrance of a facility of which a position of an entrance is unknown among facilities that are included in the map information based on the sensor detection information that is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200160335
    Abstract: A vehicle payment support device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire payment information of a fee which is able to be associated with identification information of a vehicle providing a service from a fee collection system; and an associator configured to associate the service from the vehicle and the payment information with identification information of the vehicle and determine a charged amount based on association of a price of the service by the vehicle and a price of a service or a product of which payment is confirmed by the fee collection system with the identification information of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200159251
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a communicator configured to receive driving information from a management server, a controller configured to drive the vehicle on the basis of the driving information from the communicator, a manager configured to manage a compartment of the vehicle in which a service user receives a service from a service provider, and an interface set up in association with service-related information provided by the service provider and the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Hisao Asaumi, Kentaro Ishisaka, Izumi Kondo, Satoshi Koike, Tomohisa Manabe, Yo Ito, Yuki Hayashi, Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada, Kovi Ahego, Liyan Liu, Hirotaka Uchitomi, Masashi Yuki, Takafumi Hirose, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Masaaki Onoda, Christopher Lang
  • Publication number: 20200125850
    Abstract: An information providing system includes an imager, a display which displays an image captured by the imager, an identifier which analyzes the image captured by the imager and identifies event types indicated by semantic information included in the image, and a display controller which causes the display to display an image corresponding to a predetermined event type from among the event types identified by the identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200126419
    Abstract: An event vehicle dispatch device includes: an event notifier configured to notify a plurality of vehicles or owners of the vehicles of an event held in an area in which the plurality of vehicles are able to park; and an adjuster configured to adjust the number of vehicles corresponding to vehicle attributes of vehicles arriving at the area based on the vehicle attribute of each of the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200116495
    Abstract: An information-processing device of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires sensor detection information indicating a detection result from a sensor mounted in a vehicle, a derivation unit that derives a plurality of indices for a surrounding environment based on the sensor detection information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an evaluation unit that evaluates attribute information of a point at which the sensor detection information is acquired based on the plurality of indices derived by the derivation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200104881
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an outside display provided on the exterior of a vehicle and configured to display content toward the outside of the vehicle, a vehicle environment acquirer configured to acquire an environment of the vehicle, and a display controller configured to control display of the content on the outside display on the basis of the environment of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle environment acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada
  • Publication number: 20200104964
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a pick-up/drop-off management device (400) including a vehicle allocation reserver (432) configured to create a pick-up/drop-off schedule on the basis of content of a reservation for a facility and reserve a vehicle, and a vehicle allocation manager (433) configured to allocate the vehicle reserved by the vehicle allocation reserver according to the pick-up/drop-off schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20190355382
    Abstract: An information-processing apparatus includes a display displaying an image; a memory recording voice data having a voice pronounced at each of plural observation points of the image; a gaze detector generating gaze data by detecting a gaze of a user; a voice input device generating voice data associated with a time axis identical to that of the gaze data by receiving a voice of the user; and a processor to analyze a attention period where a attention degree of the gaze to each of the plural observation points is a predetermined value or greater, based on the gaze data, set a period where the voice is pronounced with respect to the voice data as an important voice period, based on the voice data, and generate calibration data based on a time lag between the attention period and the important voice period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito HORIUCHI, Nobuyuki WATANABE, Yoshioki KANEKO, Hidetoshi NISHIMURA