Patents by Inventor Satoshi Tanabe
Satoshi Tanabe 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).
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Patent number: 12315372Abstract: A control unit of a server is a device that adjusts a parking position of a vehicle in a parking lot, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive a package in the parking lot, and an adjustment information generation unit that generates adjustment information for adjusting parking of another vehicle in a parking slot adjacent to the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive the package in the parking lot such that a space is secured around the vehicle scheduled to receive the package.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano, Satoshi Omi
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Patent number: 12260754Abstract: A parking management device includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire user identification data for identifying the position of a user moving in a parking lot; a movement route estimating unit configured to estimate a movement route based on the user identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot; and a running route deciding unit configured to decide a running route of a vehicle so as to avoid the movement route estimated by the movement route estimating unit, the vehicle being a vehicle running in the parking lot.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Patent number: 11922523Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire renewable power generation information from a renewable energy power generation server; acquire at least one of hydrogen power generation information from a hydrogen power generation server and fuel cell information; acquire grid power generation information from a grid power generation server; acquire electric power information from each of a plurality of consumer facilities in a predetermined area, the electric power information being regarding an amount of electric power consumed by the consumer facility; and generate proposal information including information on a type of electric power supplied to a predetermined consumer facility based on at least one of the renewable power generation information, the hydrogen power generation information, and the fuel cell information, the grid power generation information, and a plurality of pieces of the electric power information, and output the proposal information to the predetermined conType: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masato Ehara, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Satoshi Tanabe, Nanae Takada, Naohiro Seo
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Patent number: 11904847Abstract: An automatic parking system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a state of a parking lot. A blind spot area that does not allow the state of the parking lot to be detected by the infrastructure sensor is identified in the parking lot, and the state of the parking including the blind spot area, the state of the parking lot being detected by an on-board sensor of a vehicle in the parking lot, is acquired. Based on the state of the parking lot detected by the infrastructure sensor and the state of the parking lot that includes the blind spot area and that is detected by the on-board sensor of the vehicle in the parking lot, a travel route for the vehicle traveling in the parking lot is generated.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Patent number: 11810458Abstract: A parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a sunlight state of a parking space in a parking lot, and a notification device that notifies at least one of a vehicle including a solar power generation function and a user of the parking lot of the sunlight state of each parking space detected by the infrastructure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku Honda, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Publication number: 20230326214Abstract: A device that monitors an abnormal situation that has occurred in a region inside or around a parking lot using a vehicle in the region includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires state information representing a state within the region; an abnormality detection unit that detects the abnormal situation and specifies an occurrence location of the detected abnormal situation based on the state information; and a command transmission unit that transmits a command for activating a vehicle exterior monitoring sensor provided in the vehicle parked around the occurrence location specified by the abnormality detection unit and causing the vehicle exterior monitoring sensor to detect the occurrence location to the parked vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisaku HONDA, Hiroya Matsubayashi, Ryota Tomizawa, Satoshi Tanabe, Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Yasuhiro Kobatake, Hiroki Awano
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Patent number: 11532088Abstract: An arithmetic processing apparatus, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: estimate an optical flow between consecutive frames of a moving image, and generate a sound wave corresponding to a target moving image, based on an optical flow estimated for the target moving image, and a deep neural network that generates a sound wave corresponding to an input optical flow and that has performed learning, by associating with time, an optical flow estimated for a moving image with sound wave and a sound wave of the moving image with sound wave.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Patent number: 11157796Abstract: A joint position estimation device including a memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor executes a process including estimating, by a first DNN for which a first parameter determined by learning of the first DNN has been set, a body part region of the animal with respect to input image to be processed; and estimating, by the second DNN for which a second parameter determined by learning of the second DNN has been set, a first joint position and a second joint position in each of the body part region estimated by the first DNN and a plural body parts region in which a plurality of the body part regions are connected.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Tanabe, Ryosuke Yamanaka, Mitsuru Tomono
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Patent number: 11093817Abstract: An information processing device includes, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to, acquire a neural network, divide the neural network into divided neural networks, identify, based on input-output characteristics of the divided neural networks, parameters of each of polynomial neural networks corresponding to each of the divided neural networks, and output another neural network generated by linking the identified polynomial neural networks.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20210056711Abstract: An arithmetic processing apparatus, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: estimate an optical flow between consecutive frames of a moving image, and generate a sound wave corresponding to a target moving image, based on an optical flow estimated for the target moving image, and a deep neural network that generates a sound wave corresponding to an input optical flow and that has performed learning, by associating with time, an optical flow estimated for a moving image with sound wave and a sound wave of the moving image with sound wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Patent number: 10872234Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an information processing program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: calculating, by using an image including an object having a plurality of joints and having a plurality of frames consecutive in time, a probability distribution of a joint position of the object in each frame; calculating a transition score by evaluating a consistency of a transition of a joint of the plurality of joints using transition information of the joint among different frames; and estimating a pose of the object from a score of the probability distribution and the transition score.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Mitsuru Tomono, Ryosuke Yamanaka, Satoshi Tanabe
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Patent number: 10839526Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: estimate a first position of a first joint in a two-dimensional plane based on a color image, and estimate a first positional relationship between the first joint and a second joint coupled to the first joint via a portion in the two-dimensional plane; estimate a second position of the first joint in the two-dimensional plane based on a depth image indicating respective depths of the first joint and the second joint, and estimate a second positional relationship between the first joint and the second joint in a three-dimensional space; and estimate a third position of the first joint in the two-dimensional plane and posture of the portion in the three-dimensional space based on the first position, the first positional relationship the second position, and the second positional relationship.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Ryosuke Yamanaka, Mitsuru Tomono, Satoshi Tanabe
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Patent number: 10805399Abstract: A data server includes a controller, a memory that stores first information collected from devices, and master-slave management circuitry that sets whether the data server operates according to one of a master function for managing a data server and a slave function for being managed by the data server. In a case where the master function is set by the master-slave management circuitry, the controller sends to an external client, in response to receiving a data collection request from the external client, information corresponding to the data collection request that is one of data stored in the memory and data received from the other data server. In a case where the slave function is set by the master-slave management circuitry, the controller sends the first information to the other data server in which the master function is set.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Tanabe, Osamu Nasu
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Patent number: 10796186Abstract: A part recognition method includes: cutting, by a computer, out a plurality of partial images having different sizes using each of positions of an input image as a reference; calculating a probability that each of the partial images is an image indicating a part; calculating, for each of the positions, a score by integrating the probability for each of the partial images; and recognizing, based on the score for each of the positions, the part from the input image.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20200012922Abstract: A joint position estimation device including a memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor executes a process including estimating, by a first DNN for which a first parameter determined by learning of the first DNN has been set, a body part region of the animal with respect to input image to be processed; and estimating, by the second DNN for which a second parameter determined by learning of the second DNN has been set, a first joint position and a second joint position in each of the body part region estimated by the first DNN and a plural body parts region in which a plurality of the body part regions are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Tanabe, Ryosuke YAMANAKA, Mitsuru Tomono
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Publication number: 20190266734Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: estimate a first position of a first joint in a two-dimensional plane based on a color image, and estimate a first positional relationship between the first joint and a second joint coupled to the first joint via a portion in the two-dimensional plane; estimate a second position of the first joint in the two-dimensional plane based on a depth image indicating respective depths of the first joint and the second joint, and estimate a second positional relationship between the first joint and the second joint in a three-dimensional space; and estimate a third position of the first joint in the two-dimensional plane and posture of the portion in the three-dimensional space based on the first position, the first positional relationship the second position, and the second positional relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Ryosuke Yamanaka, Mitsuru Tomono, Satoshi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20190012530Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an information processing program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: calculating, by using an image including an object having a plurality of joints and having a plurality of frames consecutive in time, a probability distribution of a joint position of the object in each frame; calculating a transition score by evaluating a consistency of a transition of a joint of the plurality of joints using transition information of the joint among different frames; and estimating a pose of the object from a score of the probability distribution and the transition score.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Mitsuru Tomono, Ryosuke YAMANAKA, Satoshi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20190005344Abstract: A part recognition method includes: cutting, by a computer, out a plurality of partial images having different sizes using each of positions of an input image as a reference; calculating a probability that each of the partial images is an image indicating a part; calculating, for each of the positions, a score by integrating the probability for each of the partial images; and recognizing, based on the score for each of the positions, the part from the input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Patent number: 10168224Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a frequency analysis processing includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a fast Fourier transform process that includes performing a fast Fourier transform operation on data of two groups into which sensor data sensed at a first sampling frequency by a sensor is divided, and execute a change process that includes changing, in a case where results of butterfly operations of the fast Fourier transform operation are similar between the two groups, a sampling frequency at which the sensor operates to a second sampling frequency lower than the first sampling frequency.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Tanabe
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Patent number: 10157302Abstract: A symbol detector includes a binarization processor configured to read a symbol image in a uniaxial direction and output a first pixel value or a second pixel value obtained by binarization of a pixel value of each pixel of the symbol image, a calculator configured to calculate a second ratio of a first consecutive value and a second consecutive value obtained before and after the first consecutive value in a case where the first consecutive value and the second consecutive value are switched alternately, and a transmitter configured to output the symbol image in a case where a difference between the calculated second ratio and the first ratio is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, and stop outputting the symbol image in a case where the difference is higher than the predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Satoshi Tanabe