Patents by Inventor Shinya Aizawa

Shinya Aizawa 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: 20240320702
    Abstract: An information providing method includes: acquiring, from a first server, a point ID corresponding to a user who is on a vehicle parked in a parking lot and parking position distance information indicating a distance from a parking position to an entrance connecting the parking lot and a commercial facility; and when the distance from the parking position to the entrance is equal to or larger than a predetermined value based on purchase information and the parking position distance information of the user corresponding to the point ID, transmitting, to the first server, first coupon information representing a coupon available in at least one store among a plurality of stores where a use frequency by the user is equal to or larger than a certain value in order to display the first coupon information on an information terminal of the user corresponding to the point ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Fumio KOSUGE, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240296738
    Abstract: An information provision method includes: acquiring request information inquiring about a substitute parking lot of a first parking lot from an information terminal of a user; acquiring vacancy information indicating availability of a second parking lot when the request information is acquired, from a second parking lot management system that manages availability of the second parking lot managed by a second operator different from a first operator of the use facility and existing outside an area of the use facility; generating map information indicating the second parking lot having a vacancy; and transmitting the map information to the information terminal to display the map information on the information terminal. The map information includes a message indicating that second incentive for encouraging the user to use the second parking lot is larger than first incentive for encouraging the user to use the first parking lot of the use facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Fumio KOSUGE, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240280374
    Abstract: An information provision method is implemented by an information management system performing communication with a parking lot management system. According to the information provision method, a point ID and parking time information are acquired from the parking lot management system. The point ID corresponds to a user riding on a vehicle parked in the parking lot. The parking time information indicates parking time at which the user parks the vehicle in a predetermined position in the parking lot. When the parking time is included in a meal time period, recommendation information is transmitted to the parking lot management system to cause an information terminal of the user who corresponds to the point ID to display the recommendation information. The recommendation information represents one or more stores each of whose frequency of use by the user is equal to or higher than a given level, and at least one restaurant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Fumio KOSUGE, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240257641
    Abstract: An information providing method according to the present disclosure is executed in a parking lot management system including a management server that communicates with operation terminals of users and manages information related to a vehicle status in a parking lot, and includes: acquiring a first image captured by a first camera that captures an entrance of the parking lot and position/operation information indicating positions and operations of vehicles present in the parking lot; specifying an inbound vehicle moving to a parking section provided in the parking lot based on the first image; and transmitting, based on a position of the inbound vehicle and vacancy information of the parking section specified based on the position/operation information, first navigation information necessary for guiding a route to the parking section in a vacant state to an operation terminal of a user associated with registration information of a vehicle specified as the inbound vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko IGUCHI, Fumio KOSUGE, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230400322
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores programmed instructions. The instructions, when executed by a computer of an information display device that is able to communicate via a network with a navigation device configured to guide a vehicle to a parking location and includes a display, cause the computer to perform: acquiring, as parking location information, a current location of the vehicle transmitted from the navigation device that has detected parking of the vehicle; and causing the display to display a parking location in accordance with the acquired parking location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya NAKAGAWA, Fumio KOSUGE, Masao IKEDA, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230401959
    Abstract: An information presentation method incldues: acquiring full/vacancy information regarding a parking lot located at a facility set as a goal by a user; generating a route from a current location of a vehicle to the facility, based on road network data on a road from the current location of the vehicle to the facility; selecting, as a destination, a parking space based on parking lot network data on parking spaces and a roadway in the parking lot, and full/vacancy information indicating unoccupied parking spaces in the parking lot, and generating a route from an entrance of the parking lot to the selected parking space; and outputting guidance information for guiding the vehicle according to the generated routes, based on the current location of the vehicle both while reaching the facility from the current location and while reaching the destination from the entrance of the parking lot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya NAKAGAWA, Fumio KOSUGE, Masao IKEDA, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200119655
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply apparatus including: a housing sectioned by a partition member and a voltage converter circuit, in which: a primary-side circuit is stored in a first space; a secondary-side circuit is stored in a second space; and the primary-side circuit and the secondary-side circuit are electrically connected through an opening part provided in the partition member within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi ICHINOSE, Junji MINATO, Masato SUGAHARA, Shinya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20120105642
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted video display device that allows a vehicle occupant to intuitively ascertain the orientation of the video being displayed on a display in the vehicle among multiple videos of the vehicle perimeter captured by multiple cameras, was captured a video displayed in the vehicle interior, and thereby allowing the vehicle occupant to ascertain the situation around the vehicle at a glance. A central processing device (6) displays a video on a display device (4), changing the viewpoint of the video continuously or in stages from the viewpoint of a video created by a video processing device (5) and displayed on the display device (4), to the viewpoint of a video of a specific direction from among videos of the vehicle perimeter captured by a video capture means (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Nojiri, Ryo Mochizuki, Yashio Kishi, Shinya Aizawa