Patents by Inventor Takuya Homma

Takuya Homma 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: 11956547
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes an imaging device and circuitry. The imaging device captures an image. The circuitry defines a point of interest in the image, converts the defined point of interest in accordance with attitude information of the image capturing device, and cuts out a viewable area from the image. The viewable area includes the converted point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Shiro, Kenichiro Morita, Hidekuni Annaka, Takeshi Homma, Takuya Soneda, Tomonori Aikawa, Takafumi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20240109396
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an information receiver, an estimator, and a processor. The information receiver is configured to communicate with a mobile terminal of an occupant of the vehicle, and acquire information related to an action performed by the occupant outside a vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The estimator is configured to estimate a fatigue state including a fatigue degree of the occupant, based on a place identified from the acquired information related to the action. The processor is configured to execute, based on a result of estimating the fatigue state, air conditioning control including setting of a temperature and setting of an air volume on an air conditioning device configured to air condition the vehicle compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240101140
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a fatigue state detector, an information provider, and a processor. The fatigue state detector is configured to detect a fatigue degree of an occupant of the vehicle. The information provider is configured to provide various pieces of information related to traveling of the vehicle to the occupant. The processor is configured to change a frequency of providing the various pieces of the information by the information provider, depending on the fatigue degree of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Yuta GOTO, Takuya KANETA
  • Publication number: 20240105185
    Abstract: An agent system includes a microphone, a speaker, an interpretation unit, a memory, and a control processor. The microphone collects voices of occupants in the interior of a vehicle compartment of a vehicle. The speaker outputs a voice sound to the interior of the vehicle compartment. The interpretation unit acquires the voices of the occupants collected by the microphone and interprets contents of utterances of the occupants included in the voices acquired. The memory stores data on the utterances interpreted by the interpretation unit and data on the respective occupants who are utterers of the utterances associated with each other. The control processor designates an occupant who has uttered most frequently among the occupants as a listener based on the data stored in the memory, determines topics to be outputted to the listener, and performs control to output the topics as the voice sound via the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240101139
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a social media information acquisition unit, a collector, a browsing time acquisition unit, an extractor, and a control processor. The social media information acquisition unit communicates with portable devices of occupants in the vehicle to acquire social media information of the occupants from the portable devices. The collector collects search keywords from the social media information of the occupants. The browsing time acquisition unit acquires information on browsing time for each of the search keywords from the social media information. The extractor extracts a common subject based on the search keywords collected from all of the portable devices of the occupants in a communicable state, and the information on the browsing time. The control processor determines content of a proposal to be provided to the occupants in the vehicle based on the common subject, and notifies the occupants of the content of the proposal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240100908
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an estimator and a control processor. The estimator is configured to perform estimation of an emotion that an occupant has had since before boarding the vehicle. The control processor is configured to make a comprehensive evaluation of a result of the estimation performed by the estimator to determine the emotion, and perform control of an operation mode of an in-vehicle device based on the emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11940523
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the reflected transmission wave, and a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The electronic device transmits, to an information processing apparatus, sensing information based on the transmission signal and the reception signal at a location of the electronic device along with location information of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masamitsu Nishikido, Tooru Sahara, Youhei Murakami, Satoshi Kawaji, Masayuki Sato, Takuya Homma
  • Publication number: 20240089700
    Abstract: A server apparatus determines whether a vehicle without an emergency notification system is included in accident vehicles based on image data received from peripheral vehicles or peripheral portable devices. When the vehicle without the emergency notification system is included, the server acquires position data on a vehicle having issued an emergency notification. The server requests a base station covering the acquired position to send an information provision request to vehicles and portable devices present in a set target area. The server collects accident information from the peripheral vehicles and the peripheral portable devices, and collects information from the vehicles and the portable devices present in the set target area. The extractor extracts accident information from the information collected from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area based on the position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240089717
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a determination unit, an authentication unit, a collector, an information generator, and a control processor. The determination unit determines whether multiple persons have been involved in an accident. The authentication unit performs vehicle-side possessor authentication to authenticate whether a portable device authenticated by portable device-side possessor authentication as is portable device owned by a driver. When the multiple persons have been involved in the accident and the portable device authenticated by the portable device-side possessor authentication corresponds to a portable device that is to send accident information to an emergency notification center, the collector collects information relevant to the accident from other vehicles involved in the accident. The information generator sorts out the information relevant to the accident to generate the accident information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240087449
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a collection unit, an identification unit, an ID information generation unit, a storage, a determination unit, and a notification unit. The collection unit performs, when an accident occurs, communication connection with a surrounding vehicle including an accident vehicle or a portable device and collect accident information therefrom. The identification unit identifies the accident vehicle based on the collected accident information. The ID information generation unit generates ID information for the accident associated with information regarding the identified accident vehicle. The storage holds a database in which the ID information and the accident information are associated with each other. The determination unit determines that the accident involves multiple vehicles when the database includes multiple pieces of the identical ID information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240083035
    Abstract: A robot system includes a control device configured or programmed to evaluate a plurality of generated holding posture candidates based on an index including difficulty of interference of at least one of a robot arm or a hand with a surrounding object at a time at which a workpiece is held and generate a movement path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya SHITAKA, Yuki TAKAYAMA, Shinpei ITO, Kippei MATSUDA, Toshiyuki HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240089701
    Abstract: A vehicle serving as a first vehicle includes a communicator, an identification unit, a collector, and a notification unit. The communicator communicates with one or more second vehicles upon occurrence of a multiple-vehicle accident involving multiple vehicles. The one or more second vehicles include the vehicles involved in the multiple-vehicle accident. The identification unit uniquely identifies a vehicle that is to issue an emergency notification by communicating with the one or more second vehicles. The collector collects accident information from the one or more second vehicles when the first vehicle corresponds to the vehicle that is to issue the emergency notification. The notification unit notifies an emergency notification center of the accident information collected by the collector as notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240043044
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a storage, an obtainer, an extractor, a comparator, and a notification processor. The storage is configured to store first vehicle data in association with first image data. The obtainer is configured to acquire second vehicle data and second image data. The extractor is configured to extract, from the first vehicle data and the first image data stored in the storage, the first vehicle data that is identical or similar to road data obtained from the second image data. The comparator is configured to compare the second vehicle data acquired by the obtainer with the first vehicle data extracted by the extractor, and obtain a difference value between the second vehicle data and the first vehicle data. The notification processor is configured to execute, when the difference value obtained by the comparator exceeds a predetermined value, a notification that the difference value exceeds the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Tsukasa MIKUNI, Takuya HOMMA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240040305
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an information collector, a detector, a setting unit, an accelerator position detector, and a control processor. The information collector collects information regarding an occupant of the vehicle to be used for determining a mood of the occupant. The detector detects the mood of the occupant based on the information. The setting unit performs setting of a sound quality parameter of a traveling sound to be outputted to an interior of a vehicle compartment of the vehicle based on the mood of the occupant. The accelerator position detector detects an accelerator position of the vehicle. The control processor generates the traveling sound based on the sound quality parameter and the accelerator position, and outputs the traveling sound to the interior of the vehicle compartment of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Takuya HOMMA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Yuta GOTO, Takuya KANETA
  • Publication number: 20240034324
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a mode transition determination unit, and a controller. The mode transition determination unit is configured to make a determination as to whether or not one or both of a driving mode and a travel mode have made a transition. The controller is configured to vary a speed of a state change of interior equipment, based on a result of the determination by the mode transition determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya HOMMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Ryota NAKAMURA, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA, Yuta GOTO, Takuya KANETA
  • Publication number: 20240034149
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a display unit, a monitoring unit, and a display controller. The display unit is configured to display data including a shared image shared with a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is configured to establish coupling by communication. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor a processing load state. The display controller is configured to control a display mode of the shared image in accordance with the processing load state and an amount of data regarding the shared image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya HOMMA, Tsukasa MIKUNI, Junichi MOTOYAMA, Ryota NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240027597
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, and a controller. The transmission antenna transmits a transmission wave. The reception antenna receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected. The controller detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The controller classifies a predetermined target, based on a probability density distribution calculated from a relative velocity of the object relative to the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru SAHARA, Jun KURODA, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Takuya HOMMA, Fangwei TONG
  • Publication number: 20230408668
    Abstract: An electronic device included in a mobility device includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, and a controller. The transmission antenna transmits a transmission wave. The reception antenna receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected. The controller detects an object, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The controller determines whether the mobility device is rearmost among multiple mobility devices traveling in a platoon, in accordance with whether an object having a relative velocity of a predetermined threshold or less relative to the mobility device is detected at a predetermined distance behind the mobility device in a traveling direction of the mobility device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tooru SAHARA, Jun KURODA, Takuya HOMMA, Fangwei TONG, Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230400553
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, and a signal processor. The transmission antenna is configured to transmit a transmission wave. The reception antenna is configured to receive a reflection wave resulting from reflection of the transmission wave. The signal processor is configured to detect an object based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflection wave. The signal processor classifies a point group representing the object in accordance with a prescribed parameter when performing clustering on detection results of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Fangwei TONG, Tooru SAHARA, Takuya HOMMA, Jun KURODA, Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11840186
    Abstract: A vehicle occupant notification apparatus provides a notification to a vehicle occupant by retracting a seatbelt of a vehicle and includes an operation-amount measuring instrument, an arithmetic controller, and a retraction device. The operation-amount measuring instrument measures a measurement seatbelt operation amount when the vehicle occupant sits on a seat of the vehicle and fastens the seatbelt. The measurement seatbelt operation amount is either one of a measurement seatbelt pull-out amount and a measurement seatbelt pull-out angle. The arithmetic controller determines whether the measurement seatbelt operation amount is larger than or equal to a predetermined value. The retraction device varies a retraction amount in the retraction of the seatbelt when the notification is to be provided by retracting the seatbelt based on a command from the arithmetic controller. The command indicates that the measurement seatbelt operation amount is larger than or equal to the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Homma, Kei Fuji, Shinichi Miyamoto, Atsuya Tanaka