Patents by Inventor Takashi Tajima

Takashi Tajima 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).

  • Patent number: 8115625
    Abstract: A system is provided including a first detection unit detecting a position of a first terminal, a second detection unit detecting a position of a second terminal, and a notification area determination unit determining a notification area based on the detected position of the second terminal, wherein, within the notification area, position information regarding the position of the first terminal is not notified. The system also includes a first route prediction unit predicting a route from a position of the first terminal to the notification area, a time calculation unit calculating a time period required for arriving at the notification area when the first terminal travels along the predicted route, and a notification unit permitting the notification when the first terminal does not arrive at the notification area after the time period elapses from the current time, and suppressing the notification while the time period does not elapse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mototaka Yoshioka, Jun Ozawa, Takashi Tajima
  • Patent number: 8068977
    Abstract: To provide a destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination more accurately than before. A destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination of a mobile object includes: a stay characteristic accumulating unit in which stay characteristic information indicating a time period when the mobile object will likely stay at a predetermined point is accumulated; a travel time calculating unit which calculates a travel time in the case where the mobile object heads from a current location obtained by a current point obtaining unit to the point; and a destination predicting unit which calculates an estimated arrival time based on a current time obtained by a current time obtaining unit and the calculated travel time and predicts the point as a destination only when a condition that the calculated estimated arrival time and a time period indicated by the stay characteristic information is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Ozawa, Takashi Tajima, Mototaka Yoshioka, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Patent number: 7885761
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7885762
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7869942
    Abstract: A travel plan presenting apparatus includes: a travel history accumulation unit (109) which accumulates, in association with a date and time, pieces of travel history information regarding a travel of the mobile object from a departure place to an arrival place; a travel pattern extracting unit (112) which extracts at least one travel pattern from the pieces of travel history information and generates travel patterns in each of which an order of arrival places other than the final arrival place included in a corresponding one of the extracted travel patterns; a travel plan calculating unit (113) which calculates estimated arrival times at each of the arrival places in the travel patterns extracted and generated by the travel pattern extracting unit (112); and a display processing unit (114) which generates display information for displaying the estimated arrival time for each travel pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Naito, Takahiro Kudoh, Takashi Tajima
  • Publication number: 20100262362
    Abstract: A travel plan presenting apparatus includes: a travel history accumulation unit (109) which accumulates, in association with a date and time, pieces of travel history information regarding a travel of the mobile object from a departure place to an arrival place; a travel pattern extracting unit (112) which extracts at least one travel pattern from the pieces of travel history information and generates travel patterns in each of which an order of arrival places other than the final arrival place included in a corresponding one of the extracted travel patterns; a travel plan calculating unit (113) which calculates estimated arrival times at each of the arrival places in the travel patterns extracted and generated by the travel pattern extracting unit (112); and a display processing unit (114) which generates display information for displaying the estimated arrival time for each travel pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Eiichi Naito, Takahiro Kudoh, Takashi Tajima
  • Publication number: 20100225469
    Abstract: Conventional notification systems have a poor operability since a notification is transmitted every time a child moves outside a predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Mototaka Yoshioka, Jun Ozawa, Takashi Tajima
  • Publication number: 20100161213
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100042317
    Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100036601
    Abstract: To provide a destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination more accurately than before. A destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination of a mobile object includes: a stay characteristic accumulating unit (103) in which stay characteristic information indicating a time period when the mobile object will likely stay at a predetermined point is accumulated; a travel time calculating unit (104) which calculates a travel time in the case where the mobile object heads from a current location obtained by a current point obtaining unit (101) to the point; and a destination predicting unit (106) which calculates an estimated arrival time based on a current time obtained by a current time obtaining unit (105) and the calculated travel time and predicts the point as a destination only when a condition that the calculated estimated arrival time and a time period indicated by the stay characteristic information is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Jun Ozawa, Takashi Tajima, Mototaka Yoshioka, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Patent number: 7636629
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7636627
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Patent number: 7636628
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7630828
    Abstract: A destination prediction device having a map information accumulation unit that accumulates map information including at least positions of a plurality of points on a map and routes between the plurality of points; a start position acquisition unit that acquires a start position of the mobile body; a current position acquisition unit that acquires a current position of the mobile body; a destination candidate position acquisition unit that acquires positions of a plurality of destination candidates that may potentially become destinations of the mobile body; a circuitousness calculation unit that calculates a circuitousness which is a deviation of a route from the start position to the position of the destination candidate and a destination prediction unit that predicts, as a destination, a destination candidate whose calculated circuitousness is the smallest among the destination candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20090105934
    Abstract: To provide a destination prediction device that predicts a destination of a mobile body without being dependent on the availability of a history of the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20080272938
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Jun OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20080275634
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Jun OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20080262713
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (113) that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, at most a predetermined number of points as points for displaying estimated transit times, the predetermined number being equal to or larger than 1; a time calculation unit (114) that calculates the estimated transit times of the selected points; and the map display unit (115) that displays an image including the map and the estimated transit times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Ozawa, Takahiro Kudoh
  • Publication number: 20020084878
    Abstract: A common mode choke coil adapted for surface mount applications is provided which is minimized in overall size (particularly in height), and has an improved bonding coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Manabu Takayama, Takashi Tajima, Nobuyasu Shiba, Kinya Iri, Hidenori Aoki
  • Patent number: 6348850
    Abstract: A common mode choke coil adapted for surface mount applications minimized in overall size (particularly in height), with an improved bonding coefficient. This common mode choke coil has a structure comprising a ferrite core consisting of a winding core and two square planar flanges with recesses formed therein, the square planar flanges being formed integrally on each end of a winding core thereof, a pair of external electrodes disposed on the square planar flanges, a plurality of windings wound about the winding core of the ferrite core and connected by thermal bonding to the external electrodes at the recesses provided in the left and right sides of each flange, and a ferrite plate adhesively bonded to the outermost surface of the windings to join the two flanges at both ends of the ferrite core, without an adhesive bonding to the flanges themselves. As a result, a closed magnetic circuit structure of a cubic component having a high rate of bonding coefficient is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kimura, Manabu Takayama, Takashi Tajima, Nobuyasu Shiba, Kinya Iri, Hidenori Aoki