Patents by Inventor Shu Murayama

Shu Murayama 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: 20220415086
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, an identification unit and an emotion estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires input information as information regarding a user in a certain situation. The identification unit identifies an object to which the user is paying attention and the user's appearance when the user is paying attention to the object based on the input information. The emotion estimation unit estimates emotion of the user based on object information indicating the identified object, appearance information indicating the identified appearance, and a predetermined method of estimating the emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sakiko NIHONYANAGI, Keigo KAWASHIMA, Shu MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11366477
    Abstract: A first image-data acquisition unit (101) acquires a plurality of pieces of image data in which different areas in a facility in which an autonomous driving vehicle conducts autonomous traveling are shown. A priority setting unit (102) analyzes a status shown in each of the plurality of pieces of image data and sets a priority to each image data. A first image-data display unit (103) decides a display mode at a time of displaying the plurality of pieces of image data according to the priority set by the priority setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takefumi Hasegawa, Masahiro Abukawa, Shu Murayama, Yohei Miki, Michinori Yoshida, Kentaro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11256932
    Abstract: An acquisition unit of a falling object detection apparatus installed and used in a first vehicle acquires a depth image of a second vehicle, on which a load is mounted and which is traveling in front of the first vehicle, and of the area around the second vehicle. A determination unit of the falling object detection apparatus determines whether the load has not made a movement different from that of the second vehicle, using the depth image acquired by the acquisition unit. A detection unit of the falling object detection apparatus detects a fall of the load based on a result of determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takefumi Hasegawa, Shu Murayama, Masahiro Abukawa
  • Publication number: 20210354737
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a monitoring device including: a front data acquisition unit to acquire, via a sensor installed in a front of a mobile object, data around its front area with respect to its traveling direction and status information of the mobile object; a rear data acquisition unit to acquire, via a sensor installed in a rear of the mobile object, data around its rear area with respect to the traveling direction and status information of the mobile object; a position identification unit to identify a position of the data around the front area and a position of the data around the rear area; and an object detection unit to compare the data around the front area with the data around the rear area of the same position as the data around the front area, detect an object, and warn of an anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshie IMAI, Shu MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210356283
    Abstract: A traveling situation extraction unit (120) extracts, from a traffic accident database in which traffic accident scene information expressing a situation of a traffic accident scene is accumulated, a traveling situation of a vehicle corresponding to a traffic accident scene. An avoidance route generation unit (130) generates a plurality of avoidance routes to avoid the traffic accident scene on the basis of the traveling situation. An effectiveness determination unit (140) determines, for each of the plurality of avoidance routes, a value that expresses effectiveness, as an effective evaluation value. An effective route selection unit (150) selects a most effective avoidance route as an effective route from among the plurality of avoidance routes on the basis of an effective evaluation value of each of the plurality of avoidance routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu MURAYAMA, Yi JING
  • Patent number: 11119200
    Abstract: A reception unit receives, with an ultrasonic sensor, received signals including a reflected wave obtained when an acoustic signal emitted from a mobile body is reflected by an object. A disturbance judgment unit judges whether a jamming attack in which a jamming signal is transmitted from outside is being made, on the basis of the received signals. An object detection unit detects an object in surroundings of the mobile body on the basis of the received signals if it is judged that no attack is being made and does not perform object detection if it is judged that an attack is being made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Ishikawa, Shu Murayama, Takefumi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20210197811
    Abstract: A course prediction device (1) includes a blind spot calculation unit (11) and a prediction unit (12). The blind spot calculation unit (11) acquires a sensing result sequentially from a sensor which is arranged in a mobile object and which detects whether an object exists, and calculates, based on sensor information, a blind spot area expressing such an area that an object existing therein cannot be detected by the sensor. The blind spot calculation unit (11) also detects an object entering the blind spot area based on the sensor information. The prediction unit (12) predicts a course in the blind spot area of the detected object based on the sensing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki TSUSHIMA, Yoshie IMAI, Shu MURAYAMA, Masahiro ABUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210173400
    Abstract: A first image-data acquisition unit (101) acquires a plurality of pieces of image data in which different areas in a facility in which an autonomous driving vehicle conducts autonomous traveling are shown. A priority setting unit (102) analyzes a status shown in each of the plurality of pieces of image data and sets a priority to each image data. A first image-data display unit (103) decides a display mode at a time of displaying the plurality of pieces of image data according to the priority set by the priority setting unit (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takefumi HASEGAWA, Masahiro ABUKAWA, Shu MURAYAMA, Yohei MIKI, Michinori YOSHIDA, Kentaro ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210056322
    Abstract: An acquisition unit of a falling object detection apparatus installed and used in a first vehicle acquires a depth image of a second vehicle, on which a load is mounted and which is traveling in front of the first vehicle, and of the area around the second vehicle. A determination unit of the falling object detection apparatus determines whether the load has not made a movement different from that of the second vehicle, using the depth image acquired by the acquisition unit. A detection unit of the falling object detection apparatus detects a fall of the load based on a result of determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takefumi HASEGAWA, Shu MURAYAMA, Masahiro ABUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210041565
    Abstract: An in-vehicle sensor (10) measures a distance by observing reflected waves of a plurality of signals having radiation angles that are different from each other at least in a perpendicular direction. In a sensor control apparatus (11), a ground detection unit (20) detects the ground based on a measurement result of the in-vehicle sensor (10). A sensor control unit (40), according to a relationship between radiation angles of a plurality of signals from the in-vehicle sensor (10), and the measurement result of the in-vehicle sensor (10), adjusts, of these plurality of signals, radiation angles of at least some signals next time when the at least some signals are radiated from the in-vehicle sensor (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu MURAYAMA, Yohei MIKI
  • Publication number: 20200125399
    Abstract: A process monitoring device has a sending process to send communication data periodically and has a receiving process to receive the sent communication data. The receiving process includes a monitoring thread to write monitoring data in a memory at every reference interval. The sending process includes an acquiring thread to acquire the monitoring data from the memory and a sending thread to send the monitoring data to the receiving process as additional data together with the communication data. The monitoring thread judges a state of the sending process depending on how many times ago the monitoring data, which the additional data is, was generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro DEGUCHI, Mitsuo SHIMOTANI, Tetsuji FUJISAKI, Shu MURAYAMA, Hirotaka MOTAI
  • Publication number: 20200116845
    Abstract: A reception unit receives, with an ultrasonic sensor, received signals including a reflected wave obtained when an acoustic signal emitted from a mobile body is reflected by an object. A disturbance judgment unit judges whether a jamming attack in which a jamming signal is transmitted from outside is being made, on the basis of the received signals. An object detection unit detects an object in surroundings of the mobile body on the basis of the received signals if it is judged that no attack is being made and does not perform object detection if it is judged that an attack is being made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro ISHIKAWA, Shu MURAYAMA, Takefumi HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10315516
    Abstract: A driving-support-image generation device of the present invention includes: a driving-support-image memory that stores a plurality of driving-support images each indicative of a message content of a messaging object posted on a road or around a road; and an image generator that selects from among the driving-support images stored in the driving-support-image memory, one or plural driving-support images on the basis of a pre-set order of priority, and generates using the thus-selected driving-support images, an image to be displayed on a display in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tsushima, Shu Murayama
  • Patent number: 10232772
    Abstract: A driver assistance system according to the present invention has an other-vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires travel direction information of an other-vehicle; a storage unit in which a spot where the visibility of a driver in a vehicle is reduced and information on a direction, associated with the spot, in which the visibility of the driver of the vehicle is reduced are stored in association with each other; a visibility determination unit that determines whether or not the visibility of a driver in the other-vehicle is reduced on the basis of the travel direction information acquired by the other-vehicle information acquisition unit and the information on the direction in which the visibility is reduced stored in the storage unit; and a warning processing unit that warns a driver of an own-vehicle that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced if the visibility determination unit determines that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke Yonezawa, Masahiro Abukawa, Naoyuki Tsushima, Michinori Yoshida, Shu Murayama
  • Publication number: 20180307640
    Abstract: A data transfer apparatus (10) performs data transfer between a main storage device (12) and a peripheral device (13) such as a secondary storage device (131). The data transfer apparatus (10) estimates the frequency of occurrence of the data transfer on the basis of information such as processing executed in a processor (11), sets a transfer length shorter as the frequency of occurrence of the data transfer is higher, and instructs data transfer between the main storage device (12) and the peripheral device (13) in accordance with the transfer length being set, the transfer length indicating the amount of data transferred in one execution of the data transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka MOTAI, Masahiro DEGUCHI, Akio IDEHARA, Mitsuo SHIMOTANI, Shu MURAYAMA, Tetsuji FUJISAKI
  • Patent number: 10061994
    Abstract: A driving-support-image generation device of the present invention comprises: a character recognizer that recognizes a character in an image indicative of a message content of a messaging object posted on a road or around a road; and an image processor that generates, based on the character recognized by the character recognizer and driving-support information related to the character, a driving-support image obtained by modifying the image of the messaging object into an image matched to the driving-support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tsushima, Shu Murayama
  • Publication number: 20180037162
    Abstract: A driver assistance system according to the present invention has an other-vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires travel direction information of an other-vehicle; a storage unit in which a spot where the visibility of a driver in a vehicle is reduced and information on a direction, associated with the spot, in which the visibility of the driver of the vehicle is reduced are stored in association with each other; a visibility determination unit that determines whether or not the visibility of a driver in the other-vehicle is reduced on the basis of the travel direction information acquired by the other-vehicle information acquisition unit and the information on the direction in which the visibility is reduced stored in the storage unit; and a warning processing unit that warns a driver of an own-vehicle that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced if the visibility determination unit determines that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke YONEZAWA, Masahiro ABUKAWA, Naoyuki TSUSHIMA, Michinori YOSHIDA, Shu MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9884588
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driver supporting device including: a warning timing control unit for setting a timing at which to output warning data in accordance with the existence or non-existence of a passenger when it is determined that a warning target which possibly collides with a driver's vehicle exists ahead of the driver's vehicle, and a warning data outputting unit for outputting the warning data in accordance with the timing set by the warning timing control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinyoung Park, Shu Murayama
  • Publication number: 20170225614
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driver supporting device including: a warning timing control unit for setting a timing at which to output warning data in accordance with the existence or non-existence of a passenger when it is determined that a warning target which possibly collides with a driver's vehicle exists ahead of the driver's vehicle, and a warning data outputting unit for outputting the warning data in accordance with the timing set by the warning timing control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinyoung PARK, Shu MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170219356
    Abstract: The present invention includes a route acquisition unit (210) that acquires moving route information indicating a moving route of a vehicle, an event acquisition unit (120) that acquires event information representing an event associated with the moving route, a situation acquisition unit (160) that acquires situation information representing a travelling situation of the vehicle, a notification-determination-condition information (180) representing whether or not to issue a warning with respect to a risk event in each case of a plurality of travelling situations, and a determination unit (170) that determines whether or not to issue the warning, based on the notification-determination-condition information (180) and the travelling situation acquired by the situation acquisition unit (160).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu MURAYAMA, Junya UJIIE