Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Haga

Tomoyuki Haga 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: 11546298
    Abstract: An information processing method of processing data frames flowing over an onboard network includes a frame collecting step of obtaining, from each of received data frames, a payload included in the data frame and configured of at least one field, and recording in a reception log as one record, and a field extracting step of calculating, regarding each of a plurality of payload splitting pattern candidates indicating different regions within payloads of the plurality of data frames, one or more features relating to time-sequence change of values of the payload in the region, from the plurality of records, selecting a payload splitting pattern indicating a region of a field within the payload, based on the features, and outputting field extracting results indicating the region indicated by the selected payload splitting pattern candidate, and a category of the field based on the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Manabu Maeda, Tomoyuki Haga
  • Patent number: 11546363
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device for detecting anomaly in frames flowing through an in-vehicle network system includes: an obtainer that obtains one or more frames; a first holder holding a first rule defining a rule indicating that when a frame satisfies a first condition based on a source or a destination, the frame is to be transferred; a first frame controller that transfers the one or more frames in accordance with the first rule; a second holder holding a second rule defining a rule indicating that a frame satisfying a second condition is to be determined as being anomalous; and a second frame controller that performs, in accordance with the second rule, an anomaly detection process on each of the one or more frames transferred by the first frame controller. When an anomalous frame is detected, the second frame controller provides or stores a detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Yuishi Torisaki, Hiroyasu Terazawa, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 11538344
    Abstract: An anomaly handling method using a roadside device is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a vehicle, an anomaly detection notification, which includes level information indicating a level affecting safety, and a location of the vehicle. The method also includes obtaining a location of the roadside device and determining whether a distance between the location of the vehicle and the location of the roadside device is within a predetermined range. When the distance is within the predetermined range and is shorter than a first predetermined distance, not changing the level information and transmitting the received anomaly detection notification externally from the one vehicle. When the distance is within the predetermined range and is longer than or equal to the first predetermined distance, changing to decrement a level indicated by the level information, and transmitting changed anomaly detection notification externally from the one vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11539727
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus for a mobility entity and for detecting an abnormality in a network system is provided. The network system includes a first network and a second network that use different communication protocols. A first communication circuit receives state information indicating a state of the mobility entity. The state information is acquired from the second network. A second communication circuit transmits and receives a first frame according to a communication protocol used in the first network. A memory stores an abnormality detection rule. A processor detects, based on the state information and the abnormality detection rule, whether a control command included in the first frame received by the second communication circuit is abnormal. In a case where the control command is abnormal, the processor prohibits the control command from being transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Masato Tanabe, Yuishi Torisaki, Hiroyasu Terazawa, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 11529914
    Abstract: A gateway connected to a bus, a bus, and the like used by a plurality of electronic control units for communication includes a frame communication unit that receives a frame, a transfer control unit that removes verification information used to verify a frame from the content of the frame received by the frame communication unit and transfers the frame to a destination bus or that adds verification information to the content of the frame and transfers the frame to the destination bus, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Toshihisa Nakano, Jun Anzai, Hideki Matsushima, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Yuji Unagami
  • Patent number: 11522733
    Abstract: A gateway device for a vehicle network system installed in a vehicle is provided. The vehicle network system includes a network, an electronic control unit connected to the network, and the gateway device connected to the first network and configured to communicate outside the vehicle. The gateway device receives a first frame from outside the vehicle; determines whether or not the first frame is appropriate; generates a second frame when the first frame is not determined to be appropriate; and transmits the second frame to the network. The second frame includes control information and additional information based on content of the first frame. The control information restricts processing of the additional information included in the second frame by the electronic control unit, after the second frame is received by the electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Toshihisa Nakano, Tohru Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Tomoyuki Haga, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11496491
    Abstract: A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a fraud-sensing electronic control unit connected to the network between a first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed and a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC IN TEI IECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220338013
    Abstract: An unauthorized communication detection method detects an unauthorized communication message on an in-facility network over which at least two devices including a first device and a second device are communicably connected, and includes: receiving, from the first device, a communication message transmitted from the first device to the second device; obtaining, when the communication message is received from the first device, first information indicating a state of at least one of (a) a person in a facility and (b) the at least two devices, and determining whether to execute processing pertaining to a device control command that controls the second device when the communication message received from the first device is a communication message including the device control command, the determining being performed based on the first information; and executing the processing pertaining to the device control command when the determining determines to execute the processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Manabu MAEDA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Naohisa NISHIDA, Masashi HISAI, Hitoshi TAHARA, Kenji HARADA, Takashi KURANO
  • Publication number: 20220321649
    Abstract: In a data distribution method according to the disclosure, first authentication servers and a first data server belong to a first group, and second authentication servers and a second data server belong to a second group different from the first group. A first authentication server obtains first transaction data that includes a data obtaining request indicating a request for obtaining or referring to data pertaining to an apparatus, and records a block including the first transaction data into its distributed ledger belonging to the first group. A second authentication server obtains the first transaction data, and records the block including the first transaction data into a distributed ledger belonging to the second group. The first authentication server causes the first data server to transfer the data pertaining to the apparatus held therein to the second data server or to make such data available for reference by the second data server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji UNAGAMI, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Manabu MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11463275
    Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) is provided. The ECU is connected to a first network in an onboard network system. The onboard network system includes the first network and a second network. In the first network, first-type frames are transmitted following a first communication protocol. In the second network, second-type frames are transmitted following a second communication protocol. The first-type frame includes first information serving as a base for the second-type frame to be transmitted to the second network, and second information indicating that the first-type frame includes information that is to be transmitted to the second network. The ECU includes a generator that generates the first-type frame following the first communication protocol, and a transmitter that transmits, to the first network, the first-type frame generated by the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Tomoyuki Haga, Takamitsu Sasaki, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11438355
    Abstract: An anomaly detection system is on an in-vehicle network including: a first network connected to first devices that communicate using a first protocol; and a second network connected to second devices that includes a driving assistance controller communicates using a second protocol. The system includes: a communicator receiving, through the first network, first unit data including (i) source information indicating a source first device and (ii) second unit data including a data identifier; a database storing rule; and an anomaly determiner that determines whether the first unit data has anomaly by comparing the source information and the data identifier with the rule. Based on the rule, the first unit data is determined to have anomaly when the source first device is a sensing device and, according to the identifier, the second unit data is to be received by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Terazawa, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuishi Torisaki, Ryo Kato
  • Publication number: 20220279005
    Abstract: A vehicle anomaly detection server includes: a communicator that communicates with a vehicle to receive a log of an in-vehicle network in the vehicle; a processor; and a memory including at least one set of instructions that, when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations including: selecting, when information indicating that an anomaly is occurring to a first vehicle among vehicles is obtained by the processor, an anomaly-related vehicle from among the vehicles based on the anomaly, the first vehicle being the vehicle that communicates with the communicator; transmitting, to the anomaly-related vehicle via the communicator, a first request to transmit a log of an in-vehicle network in the anomaly-related vehicle; and determining whether an anomaly is occurring to the anomaly-related vehicle, based on information indicated by the log transmitted from the anomaly-related vehicle and received by the communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yuishi TORISAKI, Tomoyuki HAGA, Takamitsu SASAKI, Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Hideki MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220263849
    Abstract: An anomaly detection method in an in-vehicle network system in which a plurality of ECUs are connected. Among the plurality of ECUs, at least one ECU includes a detector which determines whether a received message satisfies a predetermined rule, and the at least one ECU transmits the detection result determined to a network. The anomaly detection method includes (i) receiving the detection result from the network, and storing the detection result received in a memory, (ii) determining whether the detection result is received within a predetermined time, and storing a determination result in the memory in association with the detection result, and (iii) outputting a message to the outside, the message including the detection result in association with the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Ryo HIRANO, Tomoyuki HAGA
  • Publication number: 20220254198
    Abstract: A vehicle log transmission device includes: an anomaly detector that obtains a vehicle log from at least one electronic control unit, detects an anomaly based on log information in the vehicle log, and extracts log information in which the anomaly is detected as an anomaly log; an anomaly notifier that transmits the anomaly log to a server; a change instructor that, based on a vehicle state extracted from the vehicle log, transmits, to the at least one electronic control unit, a change instruction to change a save priority level of the log information included in the vehicle log; and a vehicle log request responder that, when a vehicle log request is received, obtains the vehicle log including log information saved based on the save priority level changed in response to the change instruction, and transmits the vehicle log obtained to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryo HIRANO, Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Tomoyuki HAGA
  • Patent number: 11381420
    Abstract: An in-vehicle relay device prevents an anomaly of a control command exchanged over networks having different transmittable data sizes in a frame. The in-vehicle relay device relays communication between multiple control devices in a vehicle over the networks to which the control devices are connected. The in-vehicle relay device receives control data from a first control network. The control data includes, in a frame, a plurality of control commands to be executed by at least one of the control devices. The in-vehicle relay device determines, as a first determination, whether types of the control commands included in the frame form a first combination that is preset as a combination of control commands that are executable simultaneously. The in-vehicle relay device thereafter determines, as a second determination, whether the control data is anomalous by using the result of the first determination, and outputs the result of the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuishi Torisaki, Hiroyasu Terazawa, Tomoyuki Haga, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Ryo Kato
  • Patent number: 11368338
    Abstract: A network system includes a first network through which a frame of a first type is transmitted in accordance with a first communication protocol and includes a second network in which a frame of a second type is transmitted in accordance with a second communication protocol. A gateway device is connected to the first network and the second network. The gateway device sequentially receives frames of the first type from the first network and determines whether to transmit data regarding the received frames of the first type to the second network. The gateway device transmits, to the second network, a frame of the second type including data regarding a plurality of the frames of the first type determined to be transmitted to the second network when a condition relating to a number of frames of the first type received by the gateway device is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Manabu Maeda, Takamitsu Sasaki, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11363045
    Abstract: A vehicle anomaly detection server includes: a communicator that communicates with a vehicle to receive a log of an in-vehicle network in the vehicle; a processor; and a memory including at least one set of instructions that, when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations including: selecting, when information indicating that an anomaly is occurring to a first vehicle among vehicles is obtained by the processor, an anomaly-related vehicle from among the vehicles based on the anomaly, the first vehicle being the vehicle that communicates with the communicator; transmitting, to the anomaly-related vehicle via the communicator, a first request to transmit a log of an in-vehicle network in the anomaly-related vehicle; and determining whether an anomaly is occurring to the anomaly-related vehicle, based on information indicated by the log transmitted from the anomaly-related vehicle and received by the communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuishi Torisaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Takamitsu Sasaki, Takeshi Kishikawa, Hideki Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20220182404
    Abstract: The control network system is connected to electronic control unit(s) and a communication device, and includes security sensor(s) that transmits a security alert indicating that an indication of a security breach is detected to the network, if the indication is detected in at least one of the network, the electronic control unit(s), or the communication device. The intrusion path analysis device includes: an alert obtainer that obtains the security alert from the security sensor(s); an event obtainer that obtains an event history of an event that occurs in the control network system; and an intrusion path analyzer that performs an analysis on an intrusion path of an attack on the basis of the security alert, the event history, and an intrusion depth indicating an intrusion level to be assumed in a case the security alert occurs, and that outputs a result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Ryo HIRANO, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yoshihiro UJIIE
  • Patent number: 11356475
    Abstract: A frame transmission prevention apparatus connected to a network of a network system including a plurality of electronic control units communicating with one another via the network is provided. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes at least one set of instructions that causes the processor to perform processes when executed by the processor. The processes include receiving a first frame from the network and switching whether to perform a first process for preventing transmission of the first frame on the basis of management information indicating whether prevention of transmission of a frame is permitted if the first frame satisfies a first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Jun Anzai, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga
  • Patent number: 11310070
    Abstract: A network hub is provided for an onboard network system. The onboard network system includes first and second networks for transmission of first-type and second-type frames following first and second communication protocols. The network hub includes a receiver that receives a first-type frame. A processor determines whether or not the first-type frame received by the receiver includes first information that is a base for a second-type frame to be transmitted to the second network, to obtain a determination result, and selects a port to send a frame based on the first-type frame based on the determination result. A transmitter sends the frame based on the first-type frame to a wired transmission path connected to the port selected by the processor based on the first-type frame received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Takamitsu Sasaki, Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima