Patents by Inventor Noritaka Kokido

Noritaka Kokido 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: 20170345159
    Abstract: To perform an ideal calibration operation, a start switch started manually or by an on-vehicle camera calibration device, a start switching device started by an operation of the start switch and projection devices installed in an outer periphery of a vehicle body, including at least one or more light sources irradiating the surroundings of the vehicle body with light are provided, in which whether a calibration operation is possible or not is determined based on references on a road surface projected by the projection devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa AOYAGI, Koji IIDA, Noritaka KOKIDO
  • Publication number: 20170113673
    Abstract: Provided is a driving assistance apparatus configured to determine whether or not an own vehicle driving lane is a merging lane based on a result of identifying the merging lane from a lane reduction sign detected in a vehicle front image and a result of identifying a merged lane direction with respect to the own vehicle driving lane from separation lines on both sides of the own vehicle driving lane that are detected in the vehicle front image, and to control driving of an own vehicle in accordance with the determination result and vehicle condition information of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Noritaka KOKIDO
  • Patent number: 9162619
    Abstract: A notification sound control unit of an approaching vehicle audible system includes a first rotation speed calculation section that calculates a first rotation speed, based on an accelerator opening degree signal of an electric vehicle, a second rotation speed calculation section that calculates a second rotation speed, based on a vehicle speed signal of the electric vehicle, a rotation speed synthesis section that synthesizes the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed, a virtual engine rotation speed calculation section that applies filtering processing to a synthesis rotation speed synthesized by the rotation speed synthesis section so as to calculate a virtual engine rotation speed, and a notification sound signal generation processing section that changes a pitch and a volume of a phoneme signal outputted from a phoneme, based on the virtual engine rotation speed, so as to generate a notification sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyagi, Asako Omote, Youichi Kato, Noritaka Kokido, Satoru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140375443
    Abstract: A notification sound control unit of an approaching vehicle audible system includes a first rotation speed calculation section that calculates a first rotation speed, based on an accelerator opening degree signal of an electric vehicle, a second rotation speed calculation section that calculates a second rotation speed, based on a vehicle speed signal of the electric vehicle, a rotation speed synthesis section that synthesizes the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed, a virtual engine rotation speed calculation section that applies filtering processing to a synthesis rotation speed synthesized by the rotation speed synthesis section so as to calculate a virtual engine rotation speed, and a notification sound signal generation processing section that changes a pitch and a volume of a phoneme signal outputted from a phoneme, based on the virtual engine rotation speed, so as to generate a notification sound signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyagi, Asako Omote, Youichi Kato, Noritaka Kokido, Satoru Inoue
  • Patent number: 8644495
    Abstract: An echo canceler 10 generates an echo elimination signal by filtering through adaptive filters 101 and 102 reference signals input from sound sources causing echoes. It includes a sound source number detecting unit 103 for detecting the number of the sound sources causing echoes from the reference signals, and a control unit 105 for making the number of taps of the adaptive filters 101 and 102 variable in accordance with the number of the sound sources detected by the sound source number detecting unit 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Shin Kato, Noritaka Kokido
  • Patent number: 8644494
    Abstract: An echo canceler 10 generates an echo elimination signal by filtering through adaptive filters 101 and 102 reference signals input from sound sources causing echoes. It includes a sound source number detecting unit 103 for detecting the number of the sound sources causing echoes from the reference signals, and a control unit 105 for making the number of taps of the adaptive filters 101 and 102 variable in accordance with the number of the sound sources detected by the sound source number detecting unit 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Shin Kato, Noritaka Kokido
  • Publication number: 20120166042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sound output device for electric vehicle including a sound producing unit 11 for producing a sound, an information acquiring unit 12 for acquiring state information about the state of a vehicle or surroundings information about surroundings of the vehicle, and a control unit 13 for controlling a sound volume and an output direction of the sound produced by the sound producing unit 11 according to the vehicle state information or the surroundings information acquired by the information acquiring unit 12 to output the sound to outside the vehicle. Therefore, the sound output device for electric vehicle makes it easy for pedestrians and passengers each riding on a vehicle, such as a light vehicle or a motorbike, to hear the sound produced thereby, or can prevent neighboring residents from being put into an unpreferable situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Noritaka Kokido, Takahisa Aoyagi, Takuya Taniguchi, Asako Omote
  • Publication number: 20120099722
    Abstract: An echo canceler 10 generates an echo elimination signal by filtering through adaptive filters 101 and 102 reference signals input from sound sources causing echoes. It includes a sound source number detecting unit 103 for detecting the number of the sound sources causing echoes from the reference signals, and a control unit 105 for making the number of taps of the adaptive filters 101 and 102 variable in accordance with the number of the sound sources detected by the sound source number detecting unit 103.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: TAKUYA TANIGUCHI, SHIN KATO, NORITAKA KOKIDO
  • Publication number: 20120099723
    Abstract: An echo canceler 10 generates an echo elimination signal by filtering through adaptive filters 101 and 102 reference signals input from sound sources causing echoes. It includes a sound source number detecting unit 103 for detecting the number of the sound sources causing echoes from the reference signals, and a control unit 105 for making the number of taps of the adaptive filters 101 and 102 variable in accordance with the number of the sound sources detected by the sound source number detecting unit 103.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: TAKUYA TANIGUCHI, SHIN KATO, NORITAKA KOKIDO
  • Patent number: 8130941
    Abstract: An echo canceler 10 generates an echo elimination signal by filtering through adaptive filters 101 and 102 reference signals input from sound sources causing echoes. It includes a sound source number detecting unit 103 for detecting the number of the sound sources causing echoes from the reference signals, and a control unit 105 for making the number of taps of the adaptive filters 101 and 102 variable in accordance with the number of the sound sources detected by the sound source number detecting unit 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Shin Kato, Noritaka Kokido
  • Patent number: 8121755
    Abstract: A sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device includes a storage unit 2-A for storing criteria by each of which to determine whether or not a running zone is a high-risk zone, each of the criteria describing a status of the vehicle, and a navigation device 1-A for acquiring information showing a status of the vehicle. The sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device compares the information acquired by the navigation device 1-A with the criteria stored in the storage unit 2-A to determine whether the above-mentioned vehicle is running through a high-risk zone, and does not stop the output of a warning sound when determining that the vehicle is running through a high-risk zone even if a switch 4 for commanding a stop of the output of the warning sound is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Asako Omote, Takahisa Aoyagi, Takuya Taniguchi, Noritaka Kokido
  • Publication number: 20110313617
    Abstract: A sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device includes a storage unit 2-A for storing criteria by each of which to determine whether or not a running zone is a high-risk zone, each of the criteria describing a status of the vehicle, and a navigation device 1-A for acquiring information showing a status of the vehicle. The sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device compares the information acquired by the navigation device 1-A with the criteria stored in the storage unit 2-A to determine whether the above-mentioned vehicle is running through a high-risk zone, and does not stop the output of a warning sound when determining that the vehicle is running through a high-risk zone even if a switch 4 for commanding a stop of the output of the warning sound is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Asako Omote, Takahisa Aoyagi, Takuya Taniguchi, Noritaka Kokido
  • Publication number: 20110091031
    Abstract: An echo canceler 10 generates an echo elimination signal by filtering through adaptive filters 101 and 102 reference signals input from sound sources causing echoes. It includes a sound source number detecting unit 103 for detecting the number of the sound sources causing echoes from the reference signals, and a control unit 105 for making the number of taps of the adaptive filters 101 and 102 variable in accordance with the number of the sound sources detected by the sound source number detecting unit 103.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Shin Kato, Noritaka Kokido