Patents by Inventor Takeshi Nagasaki

Takeshi Nagasaki 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: 11656825
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 11509793
    Abstract: A server registers, into a first memory, user identification information and service information in a condition where a connection between the server and a target device via the Internet has not been established. The server registers, into a second memory, first device identification information in association with the user identification information and the service information registered in the first memory after receiving the first device identification information. After the connection between the server and the target device via the Internet has been established for a first time, the server causes a service providing server to provide the service to the user using the user identification information and the service information in the first memory in response to receiving the device identification information from a target device matching the first device identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20220366700
    Abstract: Provided is an object recognition device capable of accurately estimating a distance from an own vehicle to an object such as a pedestrian.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi ENDO, Haruki MATONO, Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220318734
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a management program causing a controller to execute a process for controlling a management device of a management system in which a printer to which a cartridge containing a color material is mountable and the management device are communicable with each other. The process includes receiving a service start request, receiving, from the printer, cartridge type information and cartridge remaining amount information, determining whether the cartridge mounted in the printer is a service available cartridge, shipping a service available cartridge in a case where it is determined that the mounted cartridge is not the service available cartridge, further determining whether a shipping condition is satisfied based on the received cartridge remaining amount information, and shipping a service available cartridge in a case where it is determined that the shipping condition is satisfied in the further determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 11379701
    Abstract: A server registers a user ID for identifying a user and consumable component information corresponding to a consumable component selected by the user in a condition where a connection between the server and a device via the Internet has not been established. The server registers a device ID for identifying the device after the connection between the server and the device via the Internet has been established for the first time. In response to receiving related information related to the service, the server communicates with a service providing server using the user ID and the consumable component information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 11271913
    Abstract: A terminal device may execute a communication of authentication information with a communication device, the authentication information being prepared by the terminal device or the communication device without being inputted in the terminal device or the communication device by a user; send the authentication information to a first sever; and send specific information to the first server. The communication device may execute the communication of the authentication information with the terminal device; and send the authentication information to the first server. The first server may register the service information in the memory of the first server in a case where the authentication information is received from both of the terminal device and the communication device, and the specific information is received from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotaka Asakura, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 11259001
    Abstract: In order to improve parallax accuracy and output an accurate distance, this stereo image processing device is provided with: a stereo image capture unit that captures a plurality of images with different viewpoints; a synchronization unit that synchronizes image capture times when the plurality of images are captured; image correction units that parallelize and output the plurality of images captured by the stereo image capture unit; a parallax measurement unit that detects parallax on the basis of the images outputted by the image correction units; and an object detection unit that detects an object on the basis of the parallax measured by the parallax measurement unit, and is further provided with delay amount holding units that each hold, pixel by pixel, delay times from the image capture times synchronized by the synchronization unit, and an object parallax correction unit that corrects the parallax of the object detected by the object detection unit on the basis of the delay times held by the delay amoun
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kido, Takeshi Nagasaki, Toshiyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 11249699
    Abstract: A sever configured to execute communication with a printer may include a controller. The controller may be configured to: in a case where a first predetermined condition is satisfied, execute a first delivering process for delivering a new first consumable article to a user of the printer; and in a case where the first delivering process is executed, send an initialization instruction to the printer, wherein the initialization instruction is a command instructing the printer to initialize first count information, wherein the first count information is stored in the printer and related to a used amount of a first consumable article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 11240386
    Abstract: A server is configured to perform: receiving, from a printer, an initiation request for initiating a service, the service being for dispatching a color material cartridge to be installed to the printer; receiving, from the printer, cartridge information indicating a color material cartridge currently installed to the printer; determining whether a first type of color material cartridge is currently installed to the printer, the first type of color material cartridge being used at the service; and in a case where it is determined that the first type of color material cartridge is not currently installed to the printer, outputting a dispatching request causing a dispatching process for dispatching the first type of color material cartridge, wherein the dispatching request is not outputted in a case where it is determined that the first type of color material cartridge is currently installed to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 11223611
    Abstract: A relay apparatus is connected to a communication apparatus, a service providing apparatus and a browser-equipped apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hirokazu Banno, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11176397
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain reliable recognition performance even in a lens which is capable of long-distance and close proximity photography. This object recognition device 1 comprises an image acquisition unit which acquires an image 1000 which includes a plurality of image regions 1001, 1002, 1003 which have differing resolutions, and a recognition processing unit which carries out a recognition process upon an object within the screen 1000. One image region 1003, among the plurality of image regions 1001, 1002, 1003 of the screen 1000, has a lower resolution than the other image regions 1001, 1002. The recognition processing unit carries out the recognition process of the object on the basis of assessment references which differ among the one image region 1003 and the other image regions 1001, 1002.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruki Matono, Takeshi Nagasaki, Yuhi Shiina
  • Publication number: 20210306480
    Abstract: A server is configured to perform: receiving, from a printer, an initiation request for initiating a service, the service being for dispatching a color material cartridge to be installed to the printer; receiving, from the printer, cartridge information indicating a color material cartridge currently installed to the printer; determining whether a first type of color material cartridge is currently installed to the printer, the first type of color material cartridge being used at the service; and in a case where it is determined that the first type of color material cartridge is not currently installed to the printer, outputting a dispatching request causing a dispatching process for dispatching the first type of color material cartridge, wherein the dispatching request is not outputted in a case where it is determined that the first type of color material cartridge is currently installed to the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Patent number: 11108668
    Abstract: A server may include: a processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the server to: receive operation information of a communication device and setting information from the communication device repeatedly, the setting information indicating a setting for the communication device to communicate with the server; and in a case where the server is not capable of receiving the operation information and the setting information from the communication device, send an execution instruction for executing a specific process to a terminal device being different from the communication device, the specific process including the terminal device receiving, from the server, first setting information which the server most recently received from the communication device, and sending the first setting information to the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20210240401
    Abstract: A sever configured to execute communication with a printer may include a controller. The controller may be configured to: in a case where a first predetermined condition is satisfied, execute a first delivering process for delivering a new first consumable article to a user of the printer; and in a case where the first delivering process is executed, send an initialization instruction to the printer, wherein the initialization instruction is a command instructing the printer to initialize first count information, wherein the first count information is stored in the printer and related to a used amount of a first consumable article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210192250
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain reliable recognition performance even in a lens which is capable of long-distance and close proximity photography. This object recognition device 1 comprises an image acquisition unit which acquires an image 1000 which includes a plurality of image regions 1001, 1002, 1003 which have differing resolutions, and a recognition processing unit which carries out a recognition process upon an object within the screen 1000. One image region 1003, among the plurality of image regions 1001, 1002, 1003 of the screen 1000, has a lower resolution than the other image regions 1001, 1002. The recognition processing unit carries out the recognition process of the object on the basis of assessment references which differ among the one image region 1003 and the other image regions 1001, 1002.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruki MATONO, Takeshi NAGASAKI, Yuhi SHIINA
  • Patent number: 10937321
    Abstract: In the present invention, sign information displayed on road signs installed above a road are associated with lanes more accurately. This vehicle control device 1 acquires the number of lanes, in the direction of movement of a host vehicle, on a road on which the host vehicle is traveling, and assigns a lane sequence code indicating the layout sequence to each of the lanes indicated by the number of lanes. The vehicle control device 1 acquires the position of a road sign installed above the road and sign information displayed on the road sign from a captured image of the road sign, and, if there are two or more items of sign information, assigns a sign information sequence code indicating the layout sequence to each of the items of sign information on the basis of the position of the road sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20200403895
    Abstract: A server may include: a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the server to: receive operation information of a communication device and setting information from the communication device repeatedly, the setting information indicating a setting for the communication device to communicate with the server; and in a case where the server is not capable of receiving the operation information and the setting information from the communication device, send an execution instruction for executing a specific process to a terminal device being different from the communication device, the specific process including the terminal device receiving, from the server, first setting information which the server most recently received from the communication device, and sending the first setting information to the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Patent number: 10836303
    Abstract: A vehicle detection apparatus includes: a specific color region detection unit that detects a specific color region from an image photographed by a camera provided in a vehicle; a processing target range calculation unit that calculates a processing target range in which the other vehicle is detected in the image on the basis of the specific color region detected by the specific color region detection unit; and a vehicle region detection unit that detects a region of the other vehicle from the image within the processing target range calculated by the processing target range calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hiramatsu, Mayumi Suzuki, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 10832061
    Abstract: The present invention provides a traveling road boundary estimation apparatus that is capable of estimating the position and shape of a traveling road boundary highly reliably, and a traveling assistance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kakegawa, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 10803510
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, a storage, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire consumable item information including remaining amount information about a remaining amount of a consumable item, determine whether an order condition for ordering a new consumable item is met on the basis of the remaining amount information, determine whether the consumable item has been used in rapid pace on the basis of the remaining amount information, receive a user instruction whether an order of the new consumable item is placed when determining that the consumable item currently in use has been used in rapid pace, and transmit order information including information about the order of the new consumable item to a server when determining that the order condition is met or in response to receipt of the user instruction to place the order of the new consumable item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Nagasaki