Patents by Inventor Takeshi Suehiro

Takeshi Suehiro 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: 12230133
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Takeyasu, Mari Ochiai, Shusaku Umeda, Takeshi Suehiro, Takashi Asahara, Teruko Fujii
  • Publication number: 20250016047
    Abstract: An edge orchestrator is an orchestrator apparatus for dynamically deploying, to at least one edge server and at least one cloud server, one or more applications that provide one or more services to at least one user equipment. The edge orchestrator includes an app deployment determination unit that determines, upon detection of a state in which a determination of deployment of the one or more applications is necessary, the deployment of the one or more applications on the basis of: a location of each user equipment that uses the one or more services; the maximum number of sessions that is the upper limit of the number of sessions allowed to be simultaneously set for each one user equipment that uses the one or more services; and a requirement of the service provided by each application to be deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SUEHIRO, Takashi Asahara, Shingo Ryu, Tatsuya Yokoyama, Shusaku Umeda, Mari Ochiai, Kenichi Nakura
  • Publication number: 20250016606
    Abstract: An associating unit associates area identification information for identifying each of a plurality of monitoring areas with collected data obtained within each of the plurality of monitoring areas. A converting unit converts a set of a plurality of the collected data associated with the identical area identification information into traffic flow information indicating a traffic situation for each of the plurality of monitoring areas as a unit. A calculating unit calculates a priority for allocating a communication resource for each of the plurality of monitoring areas by using the traffic flow information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya YOKOYAMA, Takahisa YAMAUCHI, Masaaki TAKEYASU, Shingo RYU, Takashi ASAHARA, Shusaku UMEDA, Mari OCHIAI, Takeshi SUEHIRO
  • Patent number: 12119876
    Abstract: A network control device for generating a slice by dividing a network and allocating communication resources to the slice, the slice being a virtual network, the network control device including: a processor; and a memory to store a program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: obtaining and holding resource information from a network device included in the network, the resource information including information on a maximum usage rate of communication resources allocated to a previously generated slice in at least one predetermined period; and determining, upon receiving a request for generating a new slice, whether or not the requested slice can be generated on the basis of the resource information held, wherein the resource information includes information on a maximum usage rate of communication resources, which are allocated to the previously generated slice, depending on a request delay concerning the slice in the predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakura, Takeshi Suehiro, Akiko Iwasaki, Jun Mizuguchi
  • Publication number: 20240275739
    Abstract: A resource allocation device includes a slice request acquisition unit that receives a slice request including information indicating a request value range and a priority level for each of plural attributes of a slice; a request value selection unit that holds a request value selection policy table showing how to select a request value for each of the plural attributes from the request value range on the basis of the priority level and selects the request value for each of the plural attributes of the slice on the basis of request value selection policy indicated by the request value selection policy table; and a resource allocation unit that allocates a resource to the slice on the basis of the request value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko IWASAKI, Kenichi NAKURA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Fumihiko TANO
  • Publication number: 20240267659
    Abstract: An ONU operating virtual DBAs that, according to a transmission request, calculate bandwidth to be allocated to a transmission request source and output a transmission grant, and includes a service control unit that generates virtual DBAs according to service requests, a transfer control unit that, when receiving the transmission request, selects the virtual DBA that is a transfer destination of the received transmission request, based on a transfer rule table as transfer rule information indicating the correspondence relationship between the transmission request source and the virtual DBA that is the transfer destination, and transfers the transmission request to the selected virtual DBA, and an aggregation control unit that aggregates the transmission grants output by the virtual DBAs, based on an aggregation rule table as aggregation rule information indicating the correspondence relationships between destinations of the transmission grants and the virtual DBAs that can be transmission sources of the trans
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakura, Takeshi SUEHIRO
  • Patent number: 12008894
    Abstract: A roadside information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of roadside devices installed on a roadside of a road and capable of communicating with a vehicle travelling on the road, and a plurality of sensors installed on the roadside to perform sensing on the road and its periphery, wherein at least one of the roadside devices includes an edge-server processing unit to obtain first information from in-vehicle devices included in the vehicles and from some of the plurality of the sensors, the first information indicating information about a periphery of the vehicles and about the road and its periphery, and to generate second information by using the first information, the second information indicating a position of the vehicles, a movement direction of the vehicles, and traffic jam conditions on the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kozaki, Kenichi Nakura, Takeshi Suehiro
  • Patent number: 11985455
    Abstract: An OLT connected with a controller managing slices includes a bandwidth allocating unit capable of allocating bandwidths in a PON system to ONUs through allocation methods, a slice managing unit that calculates a guaranteed delay time for each allocation method, receives, from the controller, a resource reservation request including a bandwidth requested to be reserved in the PON system for a slice and a requested delay time, and determines an allocation method associated with the request based on the requested delay time and the guaranteed delay time for each allocation method, and a resource information generating unit that holds, as abstract resource information, an available bandwidth for the guaranteed delay times of each ONUs, calculates an available bandwidth in the allocation method of the associated ONU based on the allocation method associated with the request and the requested bandwidth, and updates and transmits the abstract resource information, to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Suehiro, Kenichi Nakura, Akiko Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11979335
    Abstract: A network controller is configured to perform, to a new slice request, resource allocation from a resource of unallocated resource information managed by a resource information management unit, and to reallocate the resource to an existing slice request so that an unallocated resource increases based on unallocated resource information managed by the resource information management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Suehiro, Yukio Hirano, Kenichi Nakura, Akiko Iwasaki, Hiromu Sato
  • Patent number: 11884299
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control device includes: a communicator periodically receiving a dynamic map; a sensor management circuit collecting, from one or more sensors measuring a state of objects around a vehicle, a result of measurement representing the state of objects around the vehicle; a surrounding information comparator comparing object data represented by the dynamic map with object data represented by the result of measurement, and in response to finding mismatching object data, detecting, from the mismatching object data, data of the dynamic map representing an object within a specified range from the vehicle; and a proximity information processor setting, from the data of the dynamic map detected by the surrounding information comparator, data representing the vehicle as an avoidance non-target object in traveling control, and setting data representing an object other than the vehicle as an avoidance target object in traveling control or the avoidance non-target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Hosoi, Kenichi Nakura, Takeshi Suehiro, Takashi Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20240005791
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari OCHIAI, Shusaku UMEDA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU
  • Publication number: 20230421935
    Abstract: An optical line terminal includes: one or more optical line termination units to which an optical network unit of an optical communication system is connected, the one or more optical line termination units acquiring an allocation requested bandwidth from the optical network unit connected; a slice management unit that manages slice configuration information indicating which slice each of the optical network unit connected to the optical line termination unit is included in, and manages a limitation on allocation of bandwidth for the optical network unit as a parameter for allocating bandwidth; and a bandwidth allocation unit that determines, for each of the slice, an allocated bandwidth for each of the optical network unit connected to the optical line termination unit on the basis of the allocation requested bandwidth, the slice configuration information, and the parameter for allocating bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SUEHIRO, Kenichi NAKURA, Akiko IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230388867
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Mari OCHIAI, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU
  • Publication number: 20230362735
    Abstract: A controller includes a physical network information acquisition unit obtaining information about resource of a device and information about connection between devices in a wireless access network, a physical path calculation unit calculating physical path resource information based on the information about resource of the device and the information about connection between the devices, an abstract path resource calculation unit calculating abstract path resource information based on the physical path resource information, an abstract path correlation calculation unit generating correlation information between abstract paths, a resource pool storing the abstract path resource information and the correlation information, a temporary resource pool temporarily storing the abstract path resource information and the correlation information, an abstract resource allocation unit determining whether a slice meeting a requirement of a slice request can be generated, and a temporary resource calculation unit updating i
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKURA, Takeshi SUEHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230354101
    Abstract: A resource allocation device includes: a required resource calculation unit that calculates, for each slice, a required occupation value and a required share value based on a predicted value and prediction accuracy of traffic generated in each of one or more slices generated between a host pair of a higher device and a lower device, and calculates a total required occupation value and a total required share value on a host pair basis based on the required occupation value and the required share value calculated; and a resource allocation unit that determines, for each host pair, whether the total required occupation value and the total required share value are allowed to be allocated to the host pair based on an available resource, and allocates the required occupation value and the required share value to each slice in a case where the allocation is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko IWASAKI, Kenichi NAKURA, Takeshi SUEHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230326340
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki TAKEYASU, Mari OCHIAI, Shusaku UMEDA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Takashi ASAHARA, Teruko FUJII
  • Publication number: 20230311941
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi SUEHIRO, Kenichi NAKURA, Shusaku UMEDA, Mari OCHIAI, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU, Akiko IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230319579
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU, Teruko FUJII, Shusaku UMEDA, Mari OCHIAI, Takeshi SUEHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230305559
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki TAKEYASU, Mari OCHIAI, Shusaku UMEDA, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Takashi ASAHARA, Teruko FUJII
  • Patent number: 11533627
    Abstract: A management device for managing a radio access network includes: a RAN slice management unit configured to manage a slice of the radio access network; a radio resource management unit configured to abstract and manage a radio resource possessed by a radio base station included in a radio network; an optical resource management unit configured to abstract and manage an optical resource possessed by an optical communication device included in an optical network; and a base station resource management unit configured to abstract and manage a base station resource possessed by a base station device included in a base station network. When a slice generation request is received from a higher-level management device, the RAN slice management unit determines an abstracted radio resource, an abstracted optical resource and an abstracted base station resource to be assigned to a slice, based on requested performance of the slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Hirano, Kenichi Nakura, Akiko Nagasawa, Takeshi Suehiro, Fumihiko Tano