Patents by Inventor Toshinobu Watanabe

Toshinobu Watanabe 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: 20220321841
    Abstract: The on-board information processing apparatus executes: detecting an object ahead of the vehicle from an image acquired by an on-board camera; compressing the image to generate a compressed image; transmitting first data including the compressed image and an image acquisition time of the image before compression; and transmitting second data including an object detection result and an image acquisition time of the image used for object detection. The remote monitoring server executes: receiving the first data to store it in a memory; receiving the second data to store it in the memory; extracting the compressed image and the object detection result whose image acquisition times are the same time from the memory in time series; and superimposing an extracted object detection result on a restored image acquired by restoring an extracted compressed image to display the restored image on which the object detection result is superimposed on a monitoring screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Woven Planet Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshinobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220317685
    Abstract: A remote driving system for a vehicle comprises a remote driving device. The remote driving device comprises a driving operation device configured to receive input of driving operation, a display device, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process of calculating a delay time relating to communication and processing between the vehicle and the remote driving device, a process of calculating a predictive driving operation, a process of generating a first estimate traveling path and a second estimate traveling path, and a display process of displaying the traveling video on the display device. The display process includes superimposing the first estimate traveling path and the second estimate traveling path on the traveling video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: WOVEN PLANET HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Toshinobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220321497
    Abstract: A communication device is installed on a moving body and capable of communicating with an external device via a plurality of communication lines. The communication device includes a controller. The controller acquires a plurality of streaming data to be transmitted to the external device and dynamically controls an allocation relationship between the plurality of streaming data and the plurality of communication lines. The plurality of communication lines include a first communication line and a second communication line having a lower priority than the first communication line. The controller dynamically controls the allocation relationship based on a first communication rate being a communication rate of the first communication line while preferentially allocating the plurality of streaming data to the first communication line in preference to the second communication line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: WOVEN PLANET HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Toshinobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220317686
    Abstract: A remote assistance system comprises a remote facility configured to assist an operation of a vehicle. A processor of the vehicle executes data processing of surrounding environment data of the vehicle, and transmission processing to transmit data for communication indicating the processed data by the data processing to the remote facility. The surrounding environment data includes sound data of the surrounding environment of the vehicle. In the data processing of the surrounding environment data, a type of a sound source included in sound data is estimated by an acoustic analysis of the said sound data. Subsequently, identification data corresponding to the estimated type is specified by referring to a database of the vehicle using the estimated type, and this is added to the data for communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Woven Planet Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshinobu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210245769
    Abstract: A driver assistance control device includes a detection part detecting a degree of concentration of a driver; an acquisition part acquiring assistance levels set by the driver; a driver assistance control part performing a plurality of the functions; and a changing part automatically changing setting of the plurality of the functions in accordance with the degree. The changing part automatically changes the settings of first driver assistance functions including one of a plurality of the functions so that the assistance levels become higher than the levels set by the driver when the degree becomes lower than a first value, and automatically changes the settings of second driver assistance functions including at least another of a plurality of the functions so that the assistance levels become higher than the levels set by the driver when the degree becomes lower than a second value different from the first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Masaaki YAMAOKA, Florin BAIDUC, Yuki YOSHIHAMA, Masayasu TANASE, Toshinobu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 5909343
    Abstract: A magnetic head reduces a slant of a magnetic head chip in comparison with a conventional case. The magnetic head is produced by a manufacturing method. A ridge on a back surface side of a magnetic chip is brought into contact with a chip attachment surface of a chip attachment base. A height of the magnetic head chip is adjusted by using the ridge as a fulcrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kyu Kanno, Kumi Takahashi, Toshinobu Watanabe, Shinji Takahashi, Tadashi Saito, Seiichi Ogata, Yoshito Ikeda, Katsuya Tanba
  • Patent number: 5519556
    Abstract: A magnetic head capable of preventing erosion of the magnetic metal film despite the absence of a protective film and preventing a decrease in the playback output due to decrease of the track width while preventing cracking from being initiated and developed in the ferrite substrate is disclosed. The magnetic head is prepared by forming magnetic core half blocks and by bonding the core half blocks via gap bonding, each of the magnetic core half blocks being previously formed by stacking a ferrite substrate on another ferrite substrate having magnetic metal films via glass films and forming track width adjustment grooves. The glass transition temperature Tg of the glass employed for stacking the ferrite substrates is set so as to be higher than the glass yield point Tc of the fusion glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Saito, Shinji Takahashi, Toshinobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: D777214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Moritaka, Yukihiro Komatsu, Hiromu Kadowaki, Koji Nakashima, Satoshi Tamura, Yasuhiro Kodama, Keiichi Baba, Toshinobu Watanabe, Kenshiro Yakushiji, Hirotaka Yato, Akira Kurisu
  • Patent number: D777215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Moritaka, Yukihiro Komatsu, Hiromu Kadowaki, Koji Nakashima, Satoshi Tamura, Yasuhiro Kodama, Keiichi Baba, Toshinobu Watanabe, Kenshiro Yakushiji, Hirotaka Yato, Akira Kurisu
  • Patent number: D918969
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MAHINDRA AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Naoki Kamada, Hidetomo Watanabe, Toshinobu Watanabe