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).

  • Patent number: 11958494
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Osawa, Daisuke Fushiki, Takuji Morimoto, Takumi Sato, Hiroyoshi Shibata, Tetsuro Nishioka, Mizuki Higuchi, Shogo Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20230399017
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuro NISHIOKA
  • 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: 20220410940
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuro NISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20210394776
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo OKAMOTO, Gentaro WASHIO, Kimika IKEGAMI, Takumi SATO, Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Mizuki HIGUCHI, Masanobu OSAWA
  • Patent number: 11206303
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Nishioka, Yoshihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20210146946
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu OSAWA, Daisuke FUSHIKI, Takuji MORIMOTO, Takumi SATO, Hiroyoshi SHIBATA, Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Mizuki HIGUCHI, Shogo OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200366729
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro NISHIOKA, Yoshihiko MORI