Patents by Inventor Sho Nakamura
Sho Nakamura 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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Publication number: 20240149891Abstract: A vehicle includes: a travel state sensor configured to acquire information about a travel state of the vehicle; one or more processors; and a memory connected to the one or more processors and storing a plurality of instructions to be executed by the one or more processors. The instructions are configured to cause the one or more processors to: communicate with an autonomous driving device configured to calculate a target track for the vehicle; subject the vehicle to automated travel in accordance with the target track received from the autonomous driving device; and calculate an evaluation value of performance of the autonomous driving device based on the information acquired by the travel state sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sei MIYAZAKI, Sho HASHIMOTO, Kazunori NAKANO, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Noriaki HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20240140493Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle capable of autonomous driving. When an operation condition is satisfied, the vehicle control system performs driving support control that controls at least one of steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle for improving travel safety of the vehicle or for stabilizing behavior of the vehicle. When receiving an autonomous driving start request to start the autonomous driving during operation of the driving support control, the vehicle control system unexceptionally prohibits starting the autonomous driving or permits starting the autonomous driving only when a permission condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi NAKAMURA, Sho HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240130204Abstract: A display device with both high display quality and high resolution is provided. The display device includes a light-emitting element and a connection portion. The connection portion is provided along an outer periphery of a display region where the light-emitting element is provided. The light-emitting element includes a pixel electrode, a first EL layer over the pixel electrode, a second EL layer over the first EL layer, and a common electrode over the second EL layer. The connection portion includes a connection electrode, a second EL layer over the connection electrode, and the common electrode over the second EL layer. The second EL layer includes a first region in contact with the connection electrode and a second region in contact with the common electrode. The area of a region where the first region and the second region overlap with each other in a top view is greater than or equal to 40000 square micrometers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Daiki NAKAMURA, Sho KATO, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Updating system, electronic control unit, updating management device, and updating management method
Patent number: 11960877Abstract: An updating system includes a plurality of electronic control units and an updating management device. The updating management device is configured to request that the electronic control units respectively update programs and store update results of the programs transmitted from the electronic control units. The electronic control unit has a first storage region and a second storage region, and is configured to store an updated program in the second storage region and notify the updating management device of the update results according to a request from the updating management device, and is configured to start a predetermined control using the updated program stored in the second storage region when the update results stored in the updating management device indicate that the updating of the programs in the electronic control units is completed.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Sho Nakamura -
Publication number: 20240082740Abstract: Exemplary communication system 1 includes game devices 10, communication terminals 20, and game support server 30. Game devices 10 enable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminals 20 runs an application associated with corresponding game device 10. Game support server 30 divides communication terminals 20 into separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devices 10 so that communication terminals 20 belonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Masashi SEIKI, Yosuke FUJINO, Miki MURAKAMI, Hideaki TANABE, Sho ONUMA, Naoya HIROTA, Kojiro TAGUCHI, Daisuke TSUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20240086174Abstract: A vehicular electronic control device installed in a vehicle capable of switching between a chargeable state and an unchargeable state performs activation acceptance for inquiring of a user whether to accept activation processing of activating updated software after completion of installation processing of writing update data in an update target node to generate the updated software, transmits during the chargeable state a switching instruction that executes the activation processing during the chargeable state to the update target node, and transmits during the chargeable state a switching setting instruction that executes the activation processing during the unchargeable state to the update target node.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Sho NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro Uehara, Hideo Yoshimi, Tomoya Ogawa
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Publication number: 20240081481Abstract: An upper includes an upper body covering the instep of a foot. An upper body includes a first layer, a second layer disposed with a gap from the first layer, and a third layer connecting the first layer and the second layer. A part of the upper body is disposed with a low stiffness region having lower stiffness than an adjacent region. At least a part of the low stiffness region has a point in which the third layer is not disposed. A plurality of holes is disposed in at least a part of a portion of the first layer and the second layer of the low stiffness region corresponding to the point in which the third layer is not disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Chihaya SUZUKI, Seiji YANO, Hiroki NAKAMURA, Satoru ABE, Sho TAKAMASU
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Patent number: 11905000Abstract: A flying device includes a flight unit; and a flight control unit that performs, in a case where a flight position by the flight unit is out of a predetermined range, a control that is different from a control in a case where the flight position is within the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuki Ohata, Takanori Shioda, Marie Shimoyama, Toru Kijima, Shinichi Miyauchi, Sho Nakamura, Ryo Tsubata, Masaki Kaneko
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Patent number: 11889974Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an endoscope having a lens, an actuator, and an endoscope memory, and a processor having a driving circuit and a processor memory and connected to the endoscope. The processor judges whether there is abnormality or not in at least one of the actuator or the driving circuit by using information on a signal transmitted from the driving circuit to the actuator, first judgement information read from the endoscope memory, and second judgement information read from the processor memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Sho Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230414077Abstract: A rigidity control apparatus includes a processor and controls a variable-rigidity apparatus. The variable-rigidity apparatus includes a variable-rigidity member, flexural rigidity of which increases when the variable-rigidity member is heated, and a heater configured to be able to heat the variable-rigidity member. The processor calculates information about temperature of the heater, and estimates information about temperature of the variable-rigidity member based on the information about the temperature of the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Sho NAKAMURA, Sayuri YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11740937Abstract: A parallel process apparatus connecting electronic controllers via buses includes: a process request acceptance section that accepts process requests to the electronic controllers; and a process execution section that, while multiple process requests are simultaneously accepted, arbitrates the multiple process requests being accepted, and parallelizes multiple processes in accordance with the multiple process requests.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Nakamura, Yuzo Harata, Kazuaki Hayakawa, Tatsuya Sato, Yasuo Morita
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Publication number: 20230234549Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a reprogramming slave device that is an electronic control unit (hereinafter, referred to as ECU) to be a target of updating an update file of a program stored among a plurality of the ECUs; a reprogramming master device that transmits the update file to the reprogramming slave device in response to a request from a terminal operable by a vehicle user to control updating of the program stored in the reprogramming slave device; and a determination unit that determines traveling propriety of a vehicle when the update file is rewritten in the reprogramming slave device. The vehicle device functions as the reprogramming master device, and includes: an obtaining unit that obtains the traveling propriety determined by the determination unit; and a notification command unit that commands a notification medium to notify information of the traveling propriety obtained by the obtaining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Yuzo HARATA, Sho NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro UEHARA
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Publication number: 20230205515Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a plurality of in-vehicle devices, and a server provided outside the vehicle. Each of the in-vehicle devices of the vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store one or more programs, an in-vehicle device communication unit configured to perform communication with the server, and an update execution unit configured to update the programs stored in the storage unit. The server includes a server communication unit configured to perform communication with each of the in-vehicle devices, and an update management unit configured to specify the in-vehicle device to be updated in a set of the in-vehicle devices and a program to be updated and execute update processing that makes the server communication unit transmit update data for updating the program to be updated to the in-vehicle device to be updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyasu ISHIKAWA, Sho Nakamura
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Patent number: 11685359Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a reprogramming slave device that is an electronic control unit (hereinafter, referred to as ECU) to be a target of updating an update file of a program stored among a plurality of the ECUs; a reprogramming master device that transmits the update file to the reprogramming slave device in response to a request from a terminal operable by a vehicle user to control updating of the program stored in the reprogramming slave device; and a determination unit that determines traveling propriety of a vehicle when the update file is rewritten in the reprogramming slave device. The vehicle device functions as the reprogramming master device, and includes: an obtaining unit that obtains the traveling propriety determined by the determination unit; and a notification command unit that commands a notification medium to notify information of the traveling propriety obtained by the obtaining unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzo Harata, Sho Nakamura, Kazuhiro Uehara
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Patent number: 11625233Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a plurality of in-vehicle devices, and a server provided outside the vehicle. Each of the in-vehicle devices of the vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store one or more programs, an in-vehicle device communication unit configured to perform communication with the server, and an update execution unit configured to update the programs stored in the storage unit. The server includes a server communication unit configured to perform communication with each of the in-vehicle devices, and an update management unit configured to specify the in-vehicle device to be updated in a set of the in-vehicle devices and a program to be updated and execute update processing that makes the server communication unit transmit update data for updating the program to be updated to the in-vehicle device to be updated.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Sho Nakamura
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Patent number: 11617494Abstract: An endoscope system includes an endoscope having a position/angle sensor and an amplifying circuit, a memory configured to store output error sensitivity data and a first wiring resistance value, and a processor including a signal processing circuit configured to process an output signal from the amplifying circuit. The signal processing circuit corrects an error of the output signal based on a value obtained by multiplying a difference between the first wiring resistance value and a processor wiring resistance value by the output error sensitivity data.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Shimoyama, Rintaro Nishihara, Sho Nakamura
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Patent number: 11573414Abstract: An endoscope system includes an endoscope in which an actuator moves a movable lens and a position sensor outputs a position detection signal, and a processor including a driver circuit configured to drive the actuator and a driving control circuit configured to subject a deviation of the position detection signal to first correction based on individual processor correction data stored in a processor memory and controls the driver circuit based on a target position and the position detection signal subjected to the first correction.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Rintaro Nishihara, Sho Nakamura
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Patent number: 11567288Abstract: An endoscope apparatus has an endoscope and a video processor. The endoscope has a magnet and a coil, the magnet has a voice coil motor configured to be movable with respect to the coil and a Hall device disposed in the vicinity of the coil and configured to detect a magnetic field of the magnet in order to detect a position of the magnet. The video processor includes a position detection circuit configured to detect the position of the magnet from an outputted signal of the Hall device, an arithmetic operation section configured to correct a sensor output signal indicating the position of the magnet detected by the position detection circuit using correction information and output the sensor output signal, and a drive control circuit configured to control a current or a voltage to the coil based on an arithmetic operation result of the arithmetic operation section.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiko Iguchi, Sho Nakamura
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Publication number: 20220214914Abstract: A parallel process apparatus connecting electronic controllers via buses includes: a process request acceptance section that accepts process requests to the electronic controllers; and a process execution section that, while multiple process requests are simultaneously accepted, arbitrates the multiple process requests being accepted, and parallelizes multiple processes in accordance with the multiple process requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Sho NAKAMURA, Yuzo HARATA, Kazuaki HAYAKAWA, Tatsuya SATO, Yasuo MORITA
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Updating system, electronic control unit, updating management device, and updating management method
Patent number: 11354114Abstract: An updating system includes a plurality of electronic control units and an updating management device. The updating management device is configured to request that the electronic control units respectively update programs and store update results of the programs transmitted from the electronic control units. The electronic control unit has a first storage region and a second storage region, and is configured to store an updated program in the second storage region and notify the updating management device of the update results according to a request from the updating management device, and is configured to start a predetermined control using the updated program stored in the second storage region when the update results stored in the updating management device indicate that the updating of the programs in the electronic control units is completed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Sho Nakamura