Patents by Inventor Tetsuro NISHIOKA
Tetsuro NISHIOKA 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).
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Patent number: 11958494Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires pieces of information including information related to a vehicle, information related to the environment inside and outside the vehicle, and information related to a driver on board the vehicle. A determination unit determines priorities of the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of a service or the like used by the driver among services or the likes provided using information accumulated in a server device. A selection unit selects a piece of information to be transmitted to the server device from among the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of the priorities determined by the determination unit. A communication unit transmits the piece of information selected by the selection unit to the server device.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masanobu Osawa, Daisuke Fushiki, Takuji Morimoto, Takumi Sato, Hiroyoshi Shibata, Tetsuro Nishioka, Mizuki Higuchi, Shogo Okamoto
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Publication number: 20230399017Abstract: A motion prediction unit that predicts a motion of a mobile object on the basis of sensor information; a range prediction unit that predicts a virtual obstacle range in which a virtual obstacle is present on the basis of motion prediction information regarding the motion of the mobile object predicted by the motion prediction unit; and a map generation unit that generates a dynamic map reflecting the virtual obstacle range on the basis of information regarding the virtual obstacle range predicted by the range prediction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tetsuro NISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20230222780Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Takuya TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220410940Abstract: A first blind spot information acquisition unit inputs road geometry information and traveling environment information which are acquired by an information acquisition unit to a first blind spot inference model, and thereby acquires, using the first blind spot inference model, first blind spot information indicating a blind spot area of a road along which a vehicle is traveling, the first blind spot inference model being configured to output first blind spot information indicating a blind spot area of a road when receiving road geometry information about geometry of the road and traveling environment information about a traveling environment of the road. A parking position determination unit determines a parking position of the vehicle by using the first blind spot information acquired by the first blind spot information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tetsuro NISHIOKA
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Publication number: 20210394776Abstract: An information acquiring unit acquires information from a detection device mounted on a vehicle. A near accident determining unit determines whether or not a near accident has occurred at the vehicle using the information acquired by the information acquiring unit. A near accident cause classifying unit classifies the cause of the near accident determined by the near accident determining unit. A near accident level determining unit determines the level of the near accident determined by the near accident determining unit and also determines whether or not the level of the near accident exceeds a corresponding one of predetermined threshold levels. A notification destination determining unit determines a target individual to be notified of information regarding the near accident that is determined to exceed the corresponding threshold level by the near accident level determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shogo OKAMOTO, Gentaro WASHIO, Kimika IKEGAMI, Takumi SATO, Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Mizuki HIGUCHI, Masanobu OSAWA
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Patent number: 11206303Abstract: A first evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using data on a captured image outputted by an image-capturing unit, a first evaluation value related to an image quality of the captured image. An environment acquisition unit acquires environmental information indicating an image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A second evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using the environmental information acquired by the environment acquisition unit, a second evaluation value related to the image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A transmission determination unit determines, on the basis of at least one of the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value, whether or not the data on the captured image is to be transmitted to a server.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuro Nishioka, Yoshihiko Mori
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Publication number: 20210146946Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires pieces of information including information related to a vehicle, information related to the environment inside and outside the vehicle, and information related to a driver on board the vehicle. A determination unit determines priorities of the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of a service or the like used by the driver among services or the likes provided using information accumulated in a server device. A selection unit selects a piece of information to be transmitted to the server device from among the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of the priorities determined by the determination unit. A communication unit transmits the piece of information selected by the selection unit to the server device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masanobu OSAWA, Daisuke FUSHIKI, Takuji MORIMOTO, Takumi SATO, Hiroyoshi SHIBATA, Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Mizuki HIGUCHI, Shogo OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200366729Abstract: A first evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using data on a captured image outputted by an image-capturing unit, a first evaluation value related to an image quality of the captured image. An environment acquisition unit acquires environmental information indicating an image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A second evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using the environmental information acquired by the environment acquisition unit, a second evaluation value related to the image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A transmission determination unit determines, on the basis of at least one of the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value, whether or not the data on the captured image is to be transmitted to a server.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Yoshihiko MORI