Patents by Inventor Toshio Kawagishi
Toshio Kawagishi 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: 10290212Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a drive control apparatus and a drive control method for reducing time and effort of parking. A drive control apparatus according to the present invention includes a processor to execute a program and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: acquiring a traveling information; detecting a stop position of a vehicle, which is manually driven, based on the traveling information and determining whether or not the stop position is included in a no-parking area with reference to a map data in which information of the no-parking area is described; searching for a parking area including an empty space when it is determined that the stop position is included in the no-parking area; and instructing the vehicle to perform an automatic driving from the stop position to the parking area including the empty space.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshio Kawagishi
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Publication number: 20190101637Abstract: To provide a technique to simplify a configuration of a wireless communication apparatus that determines a position of a communication terminal. The wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communication unit and a controller. The wireless communication unit is mounted on a vehicle. The controller switches, in stages, a strength level of a sending signal transferred by the wireless communication unit by radio. In addition to this, the controller determines, based on the strength level and the presence or absence of an answering signal transferred from a communication terminal that has received the sending signal to the wireless communication unit by radio, the position of the communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2016Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshio KAWAGISHI
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Publication number: 20180270344Abstract: The present information has been conceived in view of the problems, and has an object of controlling, in an in-vehicle unconfirmed-information output apparatus, output timing of unconfirmed information. An unconfirmed-information output apparatus according to the present invention is an apparatus mounted on a vehicle, and includes: a communication unit that communicates with a carry-in terminal brought into the vehicle to obtain unconfirmed information from the carry-in terminal; a driving state obtaining unit that obtains a driving state of the vehicle; and an output controller that controls output of the unconfirmed information on the basis of the driving state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshio KAWAGISHI
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Patent number: 9900846Abstract: A communication manager acquires, through a communication controller, a voluntary notification given by a mobile device. The communication manager issues automatically, to the mobile device, an information acquisition command as a response to the voluntary notification when the voluntary notification indicates that a single-call state is formed by the mobile device, to thereby acquire information on communication between the mobile device and the phone communication party. The communication manager issues automatically and intermittently, to the mobile device, the information acquisition command when the voluntary notification indicates that the state of the mobile device is changed into a multiple-call state, to thereby acquire intermittently information on communication between the mobile device and the phone communication parties.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Kawagishi, Jun Katada
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Publication number: 20170270796Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a drive control apparatus and a drive control method for reducing time and effort of parking. A drive control apparatus according to the present invention includes a processor to execute a program and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: acquiring a traveling information; detecting a stop position of a vehicle, which is manually driven, based on the traveling information and determining whether or not the stop position is included in a no-parking area with reference to a map data in which information of the no-parking area is described; searching for a parking area including an empty space when it is determined that the stop position is included in the no-parking area; and instructing the vehicle to perform an automatic driving from the stop position to the parking area including the empty space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshio KAWAGISHI
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Publication number: 20160353395Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a technique capable of appropriate communications with various communication terminals. An on-board device includes a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit is capable of communication with a communication terminal using a plurality of profiles including an HFP and an AVP while assuming the role of a master. The controller inhibits a switch of the role of the communication unit from a master to a slave when no extended synchronization packet is included in packet information transmitted to the communication unit from the communication terminal communicating with the communication unit using the HFP.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshio KAWAGISHI, Jun KATADA, Shingo HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160270002Abstract: A communication manager acquires, through a communication controller, a voluntary notification given by a mobile device. The communication manager issues automatically, to the mobile device, an information acquisition command as a response to the voluntary notification when the voluntary notification indicates that a single-call state is formed by the mobile device, to thereby acquire information on communication between the mobile device and the phone communication party. The communication manager issues automatically and intermittently, to the mobile device, the information acquisition command when the voluntary notification indicates that the state of the mobile device is changed into a multiple-call state, to thereby acquire intermittently information on communication between the mobile device and the phone communication parties.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio KAWAGISHI, Jun KATADA
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Patent number: 9400185Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to predict a destination easily, and a destination display method for displaying a predicted destination. The destination prediction apparatus of the present invention includes: a behavior history acquiring unit that acquires, the behavior history; a visit history acquiring unit that acquires the visit history; a similar behavior date-and-time extractor that performs a similarity determination between a behavior within a predetermined period prior to a present date and time and a behavior in another period with reference to the behavior history and that extracts a date and time of the behavior in another period determined to be similar as a similar behavior date and time from the behavior history; and a destination candidate extractor that extracts, as a destination candidate, a location visited within a predetermined period before or after the similar behavior date and time from the visit history.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kouhei Tanaka, Masaya Akihara, Mitsuo Shimotani, Toshio Kawagishi, Naoki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20150345970Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to predict a destination easily, and a destination display method for displaying a predicted destination. The destination prediction apparatus of the present invention includes: a behavior history acquiring unit that acquires, the behavior history; a visit history acquiring unit that acquires the visit history; a similar behavior date-and-time extractor that performs a similarity determination between a behavior within a predetermined period prior to a present date and time and a behavior in another period with reference to the behavior history and that extracts a date and time of the behavior in another period determined to be similar as a similar behavior date and time from the behavior history; and a destination candidate extractor that extracts, as a destination candidate, a location visited within a predetermined period before or after the similar behavior date and time from the visit history.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kouhei TANAKA, Masaya AKIHARA, Mitsuo SHIMOTANI, Toshio KAWAGISHI, Naoki SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20150172434Abstract: An object is to provide a technology with which the number of passengers can be obtained and presence or absence of a fellow passenger can thus be determined, at high precision and with a simple configuration. An on-vehicle device is an on-vehicle device installed on a vehicle and includes a wireless communication unit, a communication quality management unit, and a controller. The communication quality management unit measures communication quality of wireless communication for communication devices which are capable of wireless communication with the wireless communication unit. The controller obtains, among the communication devices capable of wireless communication with the wireless communication unit, the number of communication devices whose communication quality is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshio Kawagishi
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Publication number: 20140269602Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication device capable of obtaining an idle communication channel with a simple configuration, and to provide a wireless communication method thereof. In the present invention, wireless communication is performed with a counterpart device by using Bluetooth. A communication status to the counterpart device in this wireless communication, for example, a packet type of a communication packet being used is acquired by status acquisition unit. A usable idle communication channel is calculated by channel calculation unit based on the acquired packet type. Notification information including idle communication channel information related to the calculated idle communication channel is outputted, for example, by display output unit or voice output unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 8478337Abstract: A navigation device (a vehicle-mounted navigation device 1) is connected, via a mobile communication network 3, to a server 5 by way of a telephone 2 connected thereto via cable 1a or radio 1b, and includes a communication control unit 12 for communicating with the server 5 by using the telephone 2 to measure parameter information about a command support status of the telephone 2 or a communication connection environment, and a main control unit 10 for transmitting the parameter information measured by the communication control unit 12 to an external storage medium 21 or the server 5, and for controlling subsequent communications according to the parameter information transmitted to the external storage medium 21 or the server 5.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshio Kawagishi
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Publication number: 20110014946Abstract: A navigation device (a vehicle-mounted navigation device 1) is connected, via a mobile communication network 3, to a server 5 by way of a telephone 2 connected thereto via cable 1a or radio 1b, and includes a communication control unit 12 for communicating with the server 5 by using the telephone 2 to measure parameter information about a command support status of the telephone 2 or a communication connection environment, and a main control unit 10 for transmitting the parameter information measured by the communication control unit 12 to an external storage medium 21 or the server 5, and for controlling subsequent communications according to the parameter information transmitted to the external storage medium 21 or the server 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventor: Toshio Kawagishi
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Publication number: 20080063977Abstract: A method of increasing speed of a silver halide color photosensitive material. The photosensitive material has, on a support, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a nonsensitive layer. The method comprises adding, to the emulsion layer or the nonsensitive layer, a compound represented by formula (M) or (C): in the formula (M), R1 represents H or a substituent, Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form a 5-membered azole ring containing 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms, and X represents H or a substituent, and in the formula (C), Za represents —NH— or —CH(R3)—, Zb and Zc represent —C(R4)? or —N?, R1, R2 and R3 represent an electron attractive group having a Hammett constant ?p of 0.2 to 1.0, R4 represents H or substituent, and X represents H or a substituent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Yasuhiro Shimada, Osamu Uchida, Yasuhiro Ishiwata, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 7198651Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to achieve a reversible change of the colour of hair dyed with an azo dye wherein the change of the colour can be effected by, for example, the salonist or the consumer in a simple manner. The colour of the hair thus dyed may be changed simply by treating the dyed hair with an acid treatment composition at any time after the first dyeing treatment. If desired by the consumer, the colour may be returned to substantially the original post dye colour by treating the hair further with an alkaline treatment composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2004Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignees: Kao Corporation, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Masayoshi Nojiri, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 7083655Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hair dyeing composition comprising at least one azo dye of the following general formula (1): A—N=N—B??(1) where A=monovalent, optionally substituted heterocyclic group binding via the carbon atom to the azo group, that does not contain carboxy (—CO2H) or sulfo groups (SO3H) or quaternary ammonium groups and B=heterocyclic, aromatic or alkyl group containing a dissociative proton and, which is free of carboxy (—CO2H) or sulfo groups (—SO3H) or quaternary ammonium groups. Additionally, the present invention describes a method of dyeing human or animal hair by using such a dye and the use of this direct azo dye for dyeing human or animal hair. The use of this direct azo dye can impart the hair with an extremely vivid colour and has a less colour fade over the time.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignees: Kao Corporation, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 7060424Abstract: A method of increasing speed of a silver halide color photosensitive material. The photosensitive material has, on a support, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a nonsensitive layer. The method comprises adding, to the emulsion layer or the nonsensitive layer, a compound represented by formula (M) or (C): in the formula (M), R1 represents H or a substituent, Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form a 5-membered azole ring containing 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms, and X represents H or a substituent, and in the formula (C), Za represents —NH— or —CH(R3)—, Zb and Zc represent —C(R4)? or —N?, R1, R2 and R3 represent an electron attractive group having a Hammett constant ?p of 0.2 to 1.0, R4 represents H or substituent, and X represents H or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Yasuhiro Shimada, Osamu Uchida, Yasuhiro Ishiwata, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 7056355Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hair dyeing composition containing a dissociative azo dye of the following general formula (1) A-N?N—B??(1) wherein “A” represents a phenyl or naphthyl group which may be substitued; “B” represents an atomic group containing a dissociative proton, with the proviso “A” and “B” are free of sulfo, carboxyl and quaternary ammonium groups. Additionally, the present invention describes a method of dyeing human or animal hair by using such a dye and the use of this direct azo dye for dyeing human or animal hair. The use of this direct azo dye can impart the hair with an extremely vivid color and has less color fading over time.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignees: Kao Corporation, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 7029501Abstract: Provided is a hair dye composition containing a dissociative direct dye represented by the following formula (1): wherein, R1 to R4 each represents H or substituent, X represents OH or —NHSO2R5 (R5 representing an alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group) and A represents a group of any one of formulas (Cp-1) through (Cp-12). The hair dye composition of the present invention is capable of strongly dyeing the hair with a vivid color tone without causing decomposition of the dye during the dyeing process, exhibits excellent resistance against sunlight, hair washing, perspiration, friction and heat, has a high stability against an alkali agent and an oxidizing agent, has a high dyeing property, and shows less color fade over time.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignees: Kao Corporation, Fuji Photo Film, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 6962610Abstract: Provided is a hair dye composition containing a dissociative direct dye represented by the following formula (1): wherein, R1 to R4 each represents H or substituent, X represents OH or —NHSO2R5, R5 represents an alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group, and A represents a divalent group capable of forming a methine dye as a whole compound, together with the portion other than A. The hair dye composition of the present invention is capable of strongly dyeing the hair with a vivid color tone without causing decomposition of the dye during the dyeing process, exhibits an excellent resistance against sunlight, hair washing, perspiration, friction and heat, has a high stability against an alkali agent and an oxidizing agent, has a high dyeing property, and has less color fade after the passage of time.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignees: Kao Corporation, Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dominic Pratt, Toshio Kawagishi