Patents by Inventor Takuya Taniguchi

Takuya Taniguchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240102825
    Abstract: An own-vehicle position integration processing apparatus calculates with a prediction circuitry, based on own-vehicle movement information u(m) obtained from an own-vehicle movement information observation device and an observation time point tego(m) thereof and on own-vehicle position information z(n) obtained from a plurality of own-vehicle position observation devices and an observation time point tobs(n) thereof, an own-vehicle position prediction value xpred(n) at the observation time point tobs(n), acquires a previous observation time point tobs(n?1) and an own-vehicle position estimation value xest(n?1) thereat from an updating circuitry, sequentially updates using them the own-vehicle position prediction value xpred(n) at the observation time point tobs(n) per item of own-vehicle position information z(n), and calculates an own-vehicle position xout(n) at a target output time point tout from an own-vehicle position estimation value xest(n). Thereby, a precise own-vehicle position can be estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji IIDA, Takuya TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11940174
    Abstract: A heat-exchanger fixing plate fixes a side portion of a heat exchanger to a housing panel of an air-conditioning apparatus, the heat exchanger including a heat radiation fin and a heat transfer tube. The heat-exchanger fixing plate includes a heat-exchanger support portion facing the side portion of the heat exchanger, and having an insertion hole through which a hairpin portion of the heat transfer tube of the heat exchanger is inserted; and a housing-panel fixing portion separate from and fitted to the heat-exchanger support portion fastened with a screw to the housing panel such that the heat exchanger is fixed to the housing panel. The housing-panel fixing portion is made of material having a higher mechanical strength than that of the heat-exchanger support portion, and the heat-exchanger support portion is made of the material having a lower friction coefficient than that of the housing-panel fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mizuki Yada, Hisanori Ikeda, Takuya Niimura, Ryosuke Taoka, Yosuke Katayama, Yusuke Tatara, Yuto Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20240090538
    Abstract: The invention provides a thawing device including a power and a pair of electrodes connected with the power, and thawing a frozen food disposed between the pair of electrodes through electric heating. The thawing device includes a cooling device configured to cool a temperature of a periphery of the frozen food to a predetermined temperature equal to or higher than a temperature of the frozen food before thawing and equal to or lower than 0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi OKIYAMA, Takuya TANIGUCHI, Akinori NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11805980
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for endoscope includes: a coupler configured to hold an endoscope for capturing an image of a subject, and emit the image of the subject; an imaging apparatus main body connected to the coupler so as to be relatively rotatable with respect to the coupler around an optical axis of the endoscope, the imaging apparatus main body being configured to capture the image of the subject emitted from the endoscope; and a posture keeping member configured to maintain a posture of the imaging apparatus main body with respect to the optical axis of the endoscope by generating a desired physical quantity between the coupler and the imaging apparatus main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Atsuomi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11767055
    Abstract: Provided are a lane separation line detection correcting device/method and an automatic driving system for stabilizing the behavior of a vehicle by correcting overestimated curvature information resulting from an erroneous detection of a curvature of a lane separation line. A travel speed detecting circuit detects, for example, a target travel speed as vehicle sensor information. A maximum curvature estimating circuit estimates, based on the target travel speed, a maximum curvature of a road along which an own vehicle is traveling. A curvature correcting circuit corrects a curvature of a lane separation line input thereto based on the maximum curvature. A control unit controls steering of the own vehicle based on the lane separation line having a corrected curvature. As a result, vehicle steering can be automatically controlled so as to prevent the own vehicle while traveling from departing from a driving lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Noritaka Kokido, Koji Iida
  • Publication number: 20230289994
    Abstract: To provide an object position detection apparatus which can calculate a position of object in the real world with good accuracy from the image imaged by the roadside monitoring camera, while suppressing erroneous detection, even for geographical feature where height of floor changes variously. An object position detection apparatus acquires the coordinate transformation equation of the image area corresponding to the position in image of the object, from the map data; and transforms the position in image of the object into the position of the real world coordinates the coordinate transformation equation; acquires information on size limitation and information on existence possibility and the object type from the map data; determines a presence or absence of erroneous detection of the object; and distributes outside a position of real world coordinates of the object with no erroneous detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Genki TANAKA, Takuya Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230281683
    Abstract: An information processing device is an information processing device that outputs a fee plan indicating a fee required to use a vehicle or battery selected by a user, the information processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires selection information specifying a selected object selected by the user; and a processing unit that outputs the fee plan, wherein when the selected object is eligible for a subsidy, the processing unit outputs an eligible plan as the fee plan, and in the eligible plan, the fee is set to a fixed amount of money in an initial predetermined period, and the fee is set to be lower than the fixed amount of money and to be decreased with passage of time after the predetermined period has passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya KOTERA, Yu HAMADA, Shohei MANABE, Kazuyuki SAKUMA, Yuri SONEHARA, Shunichi SUZUKI, Takuya TANIGUCHI, Kenta KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11740675
    Abstract: A power control apparatus for an in-vehicle camera includes a temperature sensor which measures the temperature in a camera unit; a temperature data acquisition section which acquires periodically measured temperature data; a predicted temperature calculation section which calculates a temperature gradient from the acquired temperature data group and, based on the temperature gradient, calculates a future predicted camera unit temperature; a power supply section which supplies power to an image processing section; a temperature determination section which determines whether predicted temperature is within an operation guarantee temperature of camera unit component parts; and a power supply control section which, based on a determination result, issues a control command to start or stop power supply to the component parts from the power supply section, the power supply being started or stopped with appropriate timing using the predicted temperature, thereby enabling expeditious protection of the component part
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Kato, Tetsuya Oba, Takuya Taniguchi, Takuto Yano
  • Publication number: 20230256962
    Abstract: The object characteristic determining device according to this application includes: an object position-information acquisition unit to acquire position information of an object on a road; a stop time calculation unit to calculate a stop time during which the object continues to stop, on the basis of the position information of the object acquired by the object position-information acquisition unit; an object characteristic determination unit to determine that a characteristic of the object is dynamic when the stop time calculated by the stop time calculation unit is less than a predetermined determination time, and determine that the characteristic of the object is semi-dynamic, meaning that its mobility is less than the mobility of the object that is dynamic, when the stop time is not less than the determination time; and an output unit to output a determination result determined by the object characteristic determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko KATAYAMA, Tetsuji Haga, Takuya Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11721005
    Abstract: In a video image recording device, when a scene outside of a vehicle is recorded through a wind shield, a scene on the inside of a vehicle room is reflected by the wind shield and reflection glare is produced. In order to reduce the influence of this reflection glare, the video image recording device is provided with a video image capture device which obtains a first data on a general video image and a second data on a predetermined part in a vehicle room, wherein the general video image is with a reflection video image, of the predetermined part and also with a transmission video image, a graphical image conversion device which converts the second data into a third data, the third data corresponding to a reflection video image by the wind shield, and a graphical image correction device which corrects the first data based on the third data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Kato, Nariaki Takehara, Takuya Taniguchi, Kunio Ueda
  • Patent number: 11708032
    Abstract: Provided is a driving support device configured to: generate a bird's-eye view image around an own vehicle from periphery images acquired from a plurality of periphery monitoring cameras, and generate a cropped bird's-eye view image by cropping an image of a cropping range including a blind spot range from the generated bird's-eye view image; generate a rear-lateral side converted image by converting a rear-lateral side direction image acquired from a rear-lateral side monitoring camera into an image in which left and right are inverted; and generate a combined image in which the generated cropped bird's-eye view image and the generated rear-lateral side converted image are arranged, and control a display device such that the generated combined image is displayed by the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Noritaka Kokido, Nariaki Takehara
  • Publication number: 20230222780
    Abstract: An object herein is to provide a vehicle identification device by which the relation of a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle is accurately determined and stored. A vehicle identification device includes: a vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information indicative of positions, traveling directions and traveling speeds of multiple vehicles; a towing relation determination unit for extracting, from the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit, a vehicle train that is a succession of vehicles, to thereby determine that a leading vehicle in the vehicle train is a towing vehicle and a portion of the vehicle train subsequent to the towing vehicle is at least one towed vehicle towed by the towing vehicle; and a towing relation storing unit for storing a towing relation represented by the towing vehicle and the at least one towed vehicle determined by the towing relation determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Takuya TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230219568
    Abstract: The present invention is configured to include an other-vehicle situation determination circuitry to estimate traveling situations of each of other vehicles traveling ahead of one's own vehicle and to determine that an alert situation is present when any of the other vehicles is estimated to be in a situation where a vehicle should slow down or change traffic lanes to a traffic lane in which one's own vehicle is traveling in order to avoid a collision with an object or a separate vehicle on a road; and a prediction function diagnosis circuitry, when receiving a determination result that the alert situation is present, diagnoses whether an other-vehicle behavior prediction function is sound or not based on whether or not an other-vehicle behavior prediction corresponding to the alert situation was able to be received from the other-vehicle behavior prediction function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230169865
    Abstract: If there is a detection point that is erroneously recognized as an obstacle even though the detection point indicates a control-target vehicle, an obstacle that does not exist has been detected near the control-target vehicle. Consequently, the control-target vehicle might become unable to autonomously travel in an attempt to avoid a collision with the erroneously recognized obstacle. Considering this, an object indicated by a detection point that is detected by a road-side sensor and that exists within a certain distance range from a position of a control-target vehicle specified by an own-position measurement device, is not regarded as an obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eri KUWAHARA, Takuya Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230169775
    Abstract: If there is a detection point that is erroneously recognized as an obstacle even though the detection point indicates a control-target vehicle, an obstacle that does not exist has been detected near the control-target vehicle. Consequently, the control-target vehicle might become unable to autonomously travel in an attempt to avoid a collision with the erroneously recognized obstacle. Considering this, an object indicated by a detection point that is detected by a road-side sensor and that exists within a certain distance range from a position of a control-target vehicle specified by an image recognition camera of a road-side unit, is not regarded as an obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya TANIGUCHI, Eri KUWAHARA, Genki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11634125
    Abstract: In a drive assistance device, a required space estimation unit estimates a required space which is a space required for a subject vehicle to complete a starting. A required time estimation unit calculates an estimated required time which is an estimate value of a time required to complete the starting at a time of starting the subject vehicle. A collision time estimation unit calculates an estimated collision time which is an estimate value of a time until when an obstacle reaches the required space. A start margin calculation unit calculates a start margin indicating a temporal margin for the subject vehicle to complete the starting until the obstacle reaches the required space based on the estimated required time and the estimated collision time. The notification processing unit notifies a driver of the subject vehicle of the start margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yata, Takuya Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11618469
    Abstract: An approaching moving object detecting unit that detects an approaching moving object existing within a predetermined range on a rear side of an own vehicle based on outputs of a periphery monitoring camera that acquires an image of the rear side of the own vehicle and a sensor that detects an approaching moving object, a relative speed detecting unit that detects relative speeds of an approaching moving object and the own vehicle, and a warning output determiner that, when an approaching moving object is detected and the own vehicle is attempting to change lane, causes a warning of a warning output unit to be generated when a relative speed detected by the relative speed detecting unit exceeds a reference relative speed with respect to which a lane change can be carried out, are provided with an object of restricting an excessive notification when notifying of the existence of an approaching moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noritaka Kokido, Takuya Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230092806
    Abstract: A wiring module includes: a functional sheet disposed between a panel and an interior member in a vehicle; a transmission member disposed on one surface side of the functional sheet; and a conductive sheet covering a part of the transmission member. The functional sheet includes a conductive layer and a layer having a function of at least one of a thermal adjustment function or a sound insulation function, and the conductive sheet is electrically connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuriya KATO, Kosuke SONE, Ai TAKEHISA, Takuya TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11607121
    Abstract: A mounting member includes: a body portion provided in a camera head including an image sensor, the body portion being rotatable about a first axis that passes through the body portion and connectable with an endoscope; a locking protrusion provided in the body portion and configured to lock with the endoscope; a detachable button configured to be movable with respect to the body portion and control attachment and detachment of the endoscope to and from the body portion; and a spring whose load applied to the locking protrusion changes according to an advancing/retreating operation of the detachable button with respect to the body portion. The detachable button includes a sliding portion extending in an advancing/retreating direction with respect to the body portion and configured to slide with respect to the body portion. The body portion includes a guide portion configured to guide a moving direction of the sliding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Takuya Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230057079
    Abstract: A conventional millimeter wave radar cannot detect a failure when there is not satisfied the condition that a road exists in front of a vehicle or that in two or more radar apparatuses, a leakage electric wave from another radar can be detected. A failure detection apparatus according to the present disclosure calculates reception power values from a reception processing signal for each antenna and compares the reception power value with a reference power value determined by a reference power calculation unit so as to perform a failure determination. There is provided a failure determination unit that compares the reference power value for a failure determination with the power value obtained from a reception processing signal outputted from each of receivers so as to perform a failure determination for each of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya TANIGUCHI, Yuichi GODA, Yukihiro TAHARA