Patents by Inventor Shusaku Umeda
Shusaku Umeda 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: 20240098684Abstract: A master device that is a fixed device belongs to any of a plurality of areas, and includes: a notification information generation unit that generates notification information including position information of a plurality of fixed devices installed in the area to which the fixed device belongs; and a communication unit that transmits a notification signal including the notification information to a mobile device at a timing different from a timing of transmission of the notification signal from another area, the mobile device being configured to estimate a position based on the notification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Hiroyasu SANO, Mari OCHIAI
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Patent number: 11930434Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus that allocates radio resources is a base station or a mobile station that transmits a data series on a frequency channel in a frequency hopping pattern corresponding to a radio resource time slot. The apparatus includes a transmission quality measurement unit that measures radio waves in a frequency band used in the transmission of the data series and evaluates transmission quality, and the radio resources including a reserved resource and spare resources, a resource allocation unit that allocates, to the mobile station lower than or equal to a threshold value in transmission quality of a frequency channel used in a reserved resource time slot, a time slot that improves frequency channel transmission quality, of spare resource time slots.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Suzuki, Shusaku Umeda
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Publication number: 20240005791Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a roadside server connected to a roadside sensor and a roadside device. The roadside server includes a sensor information processing unit, an assistance information generation unit, and a roadside device interface. Using information indicating a state in the detection range of the roadside sensor from the roadside sensor, the sensor information processing unit generates sensing information of a first dynamic object within the detection range. The assistance information generation unit generates driving assistance information by combining surrounding object information and the sensing information. The roadside device interface transmits the driving assistance information to the roadside device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mari OCHIAI, Shusaku UMEDA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU
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Publication number: 20230388867Abstract: An application server delivers dynamic map information to a mobile object that receives the dynamic map information, the dynamic map information being information of a dynamic map that is used for execution of fully automated driving under a specific condition. When the mobile object executes a handover from a base station capable of transmitting the dynamic map information in a first area to a base station capable of transmitting the dynamic map information in a second area, in a case where the mobile object is in fallback operation in which simultaneous communication with the base stations is unavailable, the application server delivers the dynamic map information to the mobile object via the base station and a mobile object capable of receiving the dynamic map information from the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Mari OCHIAI, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU
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Publication number: 20230326340Abstract: A virtual map generation unit (112) generates a virtual map of a subjected area by dividing the subjected area into role areas each of which corresponds to each of a plurality of roles, based on the number of vehicles scheduled to travel in the subjected area specified from work plan information on a transportation work of loads by a vehicle and based on the number of loads scheduled to be placed in the subjected area specified from the work plan information. A distribution unit (115) distributes to the vehicle traveling in the subjected area, the virtual map generated by the virtual map generation unit (112).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaaki TAKEYASU, Mari OCHIAI, Shusaku UMEDA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Takashi ASAHARA, Teruko FUJII
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Publication number: 20230311941Abstract: A server device includes a support information generation unit, a condition determination unit, and a resource calculation unit. The support information generation unit generates support information for each support-provided area using information from a communication terminal. The condition determination unit determines a support information generation condition being a condition concerning the support information to be generated by the support information generation unit, based on area situation information representing a situation thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeshi SUEHIRO, Kenichi NAKURA, Shusaku UMEDA, Mari OCHIAI, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU, Akiko IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20230319579Abstract: A communication resource allocation device (10) identifies a hazardous behavior that may cause a traffic accident and has occurred in each of monitoring target areas included in a communication area of a base station (20) in a past reference period, so as to determine a hazard level for each of the monitoring target areas. The communication resource allocation device (10) allocates communication resources to each of the monitoring target areas based on the determined hazard level. The communication resource allocation device (10) distributes information to a roadside device (30) and an in-vehicle device (40) in each of the monitoring target areas, using the allocated communication resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU, Teruko FUJII, Shusaku UMEDA, Mari OCHIAI, Takeshi SUEHIRO
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Publication number: 20230305559Abstract: A communication management device (10) estimates communication quality between a control device (30) mounted on a moving object (70) and a driving assistance device (20) to provide a driving assistance service for the control device (30), at a scheduled time when the moving object (70) passes through a communication area, which includes a scheduled path where the moving object (70) passes. The communication management device (10) notifies the driving assistance device (20) when the communication quality is outside a range of quality being a standard. When it is notified, the driving assistance device (20) changes the driving assistance service to be provided for the control device (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki TAKEYASU, Mari OCHIAI, Shusaku UMEDA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Takashi ASAHARA, Teruko FUJII
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Publication number: 20230092604Abstract: A processing device that is an edge computer connected to a base station communicatable with a vehicle in a service area includes: a request generation unit generating a first request including location information and a range from the location information specifying a region in which information sharing is requested, and an identifier from which a demander that requests the information sharing is identifiable; an accepted request holding unit holding a second request based on an information sharing demand from another processing device when shared information regarding the region is sendable in response to the second request; and a request location information inquiry unit generating the shared information including a cognitive event and the identifier held in the accepted request holding unit when location information indicating a cognitive event occurrence point acquired from the vehicle via the base station is included in a region specified by the second request information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasunori KATO, Yasushi MATSUTAKA, Toshinori HORI, Koshiro ISHIHARA, Takashi ASAHARA, Kenichi NAKURA, Shusaku UMEDA
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Publication number: 20220351612Abstract: A control apparatus (10) generates probe data from sensing data obtained by sensing objects in a mobile object's surroundings. The control apparatus (10) selects at least some pieces of probe data as transmission data from the probe data generated, according to a communication resource determined according to a role of the mobile object. The control apparatus (10) transmits the transmission data selected to a management server (20). The management server (20) updates management data such as a dynamic map based on the transmission data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takashi ASAHARA, Yasushi MATSUTAKA, Toshinori HORI, Koshiro ISHIHARA, Yasunori KATO, Shusaku UMEDA, Kenichi NAKURA
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Publication number: 20220342064Abstract: A wireless ranging system includes a ranging terminal that transmits a wireless signal including a ranging signal and a communication signal indicating an order of ranging with respect to a first ranging target terminal and a second ranging target terminal, and a first ranging target terminal and a second ranging target terminal that, when receiving the wireless signal, respectively transmits a first response signals and a second response signals consecutively a plurality of times to the ranging terminal. For each time the ranging terminal receives each of the plurality of response signals, the ranging terminal measures an elapsed time from transmission of the wireless signal, and calculates a relative distance between the ranging terminal and the ranging target terminals from a propagation time of each of the plurality of response signals calculated using the elapsed time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Hiroyasu SANO
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Publication number: 20220311132Abstract: A communication device (201) receives internal electric waves (302) emitted toward inside a vehicle (100) by an internal communicator (102) mounted in the vehicle (100), and receives external electric waves (303) emitted toward outside the vehicle (100) by an external communicator (103) mounted in the vehicle (100). The communication device (201) determines whether the communication device (201) is inside the vehicle (100) or outside the vehicle (100), from a reception intensity of the received internal electric waves (302) and from a reception intensity of the received external electric waves (303).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasushi MATSUTAKA, Takashi ASAHARA, Toshinori HORI, Koshiro ISHIHARA, Yasunori KATO, Shusaku UMEDA, Kenichi NAKURA
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Patent number: 11343132Abstract: A radio transmission device includes: a known signal generating unit that generates a first known signal and a second known signal mapped in such a manner that subcarriers for transmitting a first signal not being 0 do not overlap with each other in symbols of one time band; an IDFT unit that converts the first known signal and the second known signal from a frequency domain signal into a time domain signal; a GI inserting unit that inserts a guard interval into the first known signal and the second known signal converted into time domain signals; a transmission antenna that transmits the first known signal in which the guard interval is inserted; and a transmission antenna that transmits the second known signal in which the guard interval is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shusaku Umeda, Shinji Masuda, Kazumasa Suzuki
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Publication number: 20210329433Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus that allocates radio resources is a base station or a mobile station that transmits a data series on a frequency channel in a frequency hopping pattern corresponding to a radio resource time slot. The apparatus includes a transmission quality measurement unit that measures radio waves in a frequency band used in the transmission of the data series and evaluates transmission quality, and the radio resources including a reserved resource and spare resources, a resource allocation unit that allocates, to the mobile station lower than or equal to a threshold value in transmission quality of a frequency channel used in a reserved resource time slot, a time slot that improves frequency channel transmission quality, of spare resource time slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumasa SUZUKI, Shusaku UMEDA
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Publication number: 20210083920Abstract: A radio transmission device includes: a known signal generating unit that generates a first known signal and a second known signal mapped in such a manner that subcarriers for transmitting a first signal not being 0 do not overlap with each other in symbols of one time band; an IDFT unit that converts the first known signal and the second known signal from a frequency domain signal into a time domain signal; a GI inserting unit that inserts a guard interval into the first known signal and the second known signal converted into time domain signals; a transmission antenna that transmits the first known signal in which the guard interval is inserted; and a transmission antenna that transmits the second known signal in which the guard interval is inserted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Shinji MASUDA, Kazumasa SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10880134Abstract: A reception device includes: a reception unit receiving transmission signals; a splitting unit splitting received signals into real component and imaginary component; a narrowing unit narrowing down possible signal point candidates of real component of the signal and imaginary component of the signal to signal point candidates based on the real component and the imaginary component of the split received signal; a signal point candidate hypothesizing unit hypothesizing one signal point candidate of real component from the signal point candidates of real component obtained by narrowing-down and hypothesizing one signal point candidate of imaginary component from the signal point candidates of imaginary component obtained by narrowing-down; and a signal estimation value calculating unit estimating real component of the signal based on the one hypothesized real component signal point candidate and estimating imaginary component of the signal based on the one hypothesized imaginary component signal point candidateType: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kanako Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Nishimoto, Kaoru Tsukamoto, Shusaku Umeda
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Patent number: 10873487Abstract: A communication device includes a signal determiner determining whether there is a reception signal, and a period estimator estimating an interruption period of interruption of a signal transmitted from a device as a source of the reception signal, using a determination result from the signal determiner.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akinori Ohashi, Masatsugu Higashinaka, Shusaku Umeda
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Publication number: 20200382350Abstract: A communication device includes a signal determiner determining whether there is a reception signal, and a period estimator estimating an interruption period of interruption of a signal transmitted from a device as a source of the reception signal, using a determination result from the signal determiner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akinori OHASHI, Masatsugu HIGASHINAKA, Shusaku UMEDA
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Publication number: 20200322192Abstract: A reception device includes: a reception unit receiving transmission signals; a splitting unit splitting received signals into real component and imaginary component; a narrowing unit narrowing down possible signal point candidates of real component of the signal and imaginary component of the signal to signal point candidates based on the real component and the imaginary component of the split received signal; a signal point candidate hypothesizing unit hypothesizing one signal point candidate of real component from the signal point candidates of real component obtained by narrowing-down and hypothesizing one signal point candidate of imaginary component from the signal point candidates of imaginary component obtained by narrowing-down; and a signal estimation value calculating unit estimating real component of the signal based on the one hypothesized real component signal point candidate and estimating imaginary component of the signal based on the one hypothesized imaginary component signal point candidateType: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kanako YAMAGUCHI, Hiroshi NISHIMOTO, Kaoru TSUKAMOTO, Shusaku UMEDA
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Patent number: 10686514Abstract: A wireless receiving device includes a signal measurement unit; a weighting factor generation unit that generates weighting factors each for suppression of the received signals, based on measurement results of the received signals; interference suppression units that each perform, in a parallel manner, interference suppression processing on the received signals, using, one of the weighting factors; arrival detection units that are connected in one-to-one to the interference suppression units, the arrival detection units each detecting arrival of a desired signal; an arrival determination unit that determines whether the desired signal has arrived; and a demodulation processing unit that demodulates the received signals when the arrival determination unit determines that the desired signal has arrived.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shusaku Umeda, Kazumasa Suzuki, Hiroyasu Sano