Patents by Inventor Yasushi Nagai

Yasushi Nagai 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: 11944997
    Abstract: A surface decoration structure includes an undercoat film, a silver mirror film layer, and a topcoat film formed on a surface of a substrate. The silver mirror film layer includes a film of stacked nanometer-sized silver particles having surfaces coated with a polymer dispersing agent, and the topcoat film includes, as a solvent, at least one member selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic hydrocarbon compound, an aliphatic hydrocarbon compound solution including 10% by mass or less of an aromatic compound, and diisobutyl ketone. The undercoat film and/or the topcoat film may include a corrosion inhibitor. The silver mirror film layer may further include a corrosion inhibitor. The surface decoration structure includes the silver mirror film layer with improved luster and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Nishimura, Akio Nagai, Wataru Yamauchi, Kazumi Yasuda, Hiroyuki Arimoto, Mai Ooe
  • Patent number: 11415429
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a user action estimation unit that estimates an expected passage route of a user based on a current position and an action history of the user; a sound signal input unit to which a sound signal based on the utterance of the user is input; a storage unit that stores a keyword and a POI related to the keyword; a keyword extraction unit that extracts the keyword from the sound signal; and a POI selection unit that selects a candidate POI as a candidate for a destination based on the expected passage route estimated by the user action estimation unit and the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tamai, Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Megumi Tsuchiyama
  • Patent number: 11388059
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling smooth execution of a plurality of pieces of application software which perform communication via a communication path. A connection device includes: a storage unit which stores type priority level information for specifying a priority level assigned in advance for each type of a process, usable communication system information for specifying a usable communication system for each process, and sharing propriety information for specifying whether or not the communication system is sharable among a plurality of processes during the same period of time; a plurality of communication units which communicate to and from another device with use of the communication systems different from one another; and a communication system allocation control unit configured to identify the usable communication system and allocate, when the identified communication system is not sharable, the process to use the communication system based on the priority levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima, Ryo Shimizu, Motohiro Fuji, Kiminori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11381602
    Abstract: A security design planning support device which supports planning of a security design of an in-vehicle network, includes: a strategy policy creation unit which creates first strategy policy information representing a plurality of control strategies corresponding respectively to threats against the in-vehicle network; a merge processing unit which merges control strategies of a same type among the plurality of control strategies represented by the first strategy policy information created by the strategy policy creation unit and groups the plurality of control strategies; and a communication unit which externally outputs second strategy policy information representing a relationship of the threats and the plurality of control strategies grouped by the merge processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawauchi, Eriko Ando, Chinatsu Yamauchi, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 11332163
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle capable of automated driving, and comprises an incident detection processing unit which acquires vehicle information representing a control state of the vehicle, and detects an incident that occurred in the vehicle based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawauchi, Yasushi Nagai, Nobuyoshi Morita, Makoto Kayashima
  • Patent number: 11285971
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle capable of automated driving, and comprises an incident detection processing unit which acquires vehicle information representing a control state of the vehicle, and detects an incident that occurred in the vehicle based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawauchi, Yasushi Nagai, Nobuyoshi Morita, Makoto Kayashima
  • Patent number: 11204753
    Abstract: A server which communicates with an in-vehicle terminal, a communication terminal, or a vehicle communication device, upon receiving at least one of either configuration information of in-vehicle terminal software or configuration information of vehicle software from any information source among the in-vehicle terminal, the communication terminal, or the vehicle communication device, generates, based on the received information and identification information for identifying the communication path used by the information source, at least one among software to be distributed for distributing the information source as a communication target and which includes update information of the vehicle software or update information of the in-vehicle terminal software, a list of vehicle software to be updated or a list of in-vehicle terminal software to be updated as information which was excluded from the software to be distributed, and sends at least one among the generated software to be distributed, the list of vehicl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Hano, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 11163632
    Abstract: A log transmission apparatus is a log transmission apparatus connected to a log collection apparatus via a communication network, and includes an application execution unit which outputs a log, an environment change management unit which generates an environment code as information indicating a change in a state of the log transmission apparatus, and a transmission unit which transmits the log and the environment code to the log collection apparatus, in which the environment change management unit generates the environment code indicating a change in the state during a period from a previous output to present output of the log by the application execution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Megumi Tsuchiyama, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 11115425
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus is an in-vehicle apparatus connected to a server via a network and mounted on a vehicle. The in-vehicle apparatus includes: a log collection unit configured to collect a log; a log storage unit for accumulation of at least a part of the log; a log priority information storage unit storing log priority information indicating a priority of a log to be accumulated in the log storage unit; an accumulation log determination unit configured to determine a log to be accumulated in the log storage unit based on the log priority information; a communication unit configured to transmit the log accumulated in the log storage unit to the server; and a log priority table management unit configured to update the log priority information stored in the log priority information storage unit based on an update command from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eriko Ando, Yasushi Nagai, Nobuyoshi Morita
  • Publication number: 20210044612
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle equipped with a network configured of a plurality of pieces of equipment includes an incident detection processing unit that: acquires vehicle information indicating a control status of the vehicle; detects an incident which has occurred at the vehicle on the basis of the vehicle information: identifies equipment with vulnerability related to the detected incident within the network; and performs tentative handling with respect to the identified equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi KAWAUCHI, Makoto KAYASHIMA, Kota SEKI, Yasushi NAGAI, Eriko ANDO
  • Publication number: 20200361493
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle capable of automated driving, and comprises an incident detection processing unit which acquires vehicle information representing a control state of the vehicle, and detects an incident that occurred in the vehicle based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi KAWAUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI, Nobuyoshi MORITA, Makoto KAYASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200327179
    Abstract: It is possible to generate history information for performing destination estimation with higher accuracy. There are provided an information providing apparatus having a voice recognition unit configured to output a speech sentence for asking a user about a destination and acquire a response voice of a user indicating the destination, and an behavior history generation unit configured to perform a search request for a destination responded by a user and generate behavior history information including a destination specified based on a search result; and a server having a destination specification unit configured to perform the search request acquired from the information providing apparatus to a search engine configured to perform an information search, and transmit a search result to the information providing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Akihiro Kondo, Yasuyuki Tamai, Yasushi Nagai, Megumi Tsuchiyama
  • Publication number: 20200311284
    Abstract: A test scenario generation device generates a test scenario related to an attack against an in-vehicle device, and includes a storage unit which stores information indicating a plurality of constituent elements equipped in the in-vehicle device and, among the constituent elements, assets that may become an attack target, an element connection which indicates a connection of the constituent elements, vulnerability information, and attack classification information, an assignment unit which creates attack classification information, which has identified the attack classification of each of the constituent elements, by using the hierarchy information, the vulnerability information, and the attack classification information, and a scenario creation unit which generates an entry route up to each of the constituent elements as the assets based on the element connection, and generates test scenarios in which a combination of the constituent elements and the attack classification is arranged in an order of the entry
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Chinatsu SATO, Takeshi KAWAUCHI, Yiwen CHEN, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20200274901
    Abstract: A security design planning support device which supports planning of a security design of an in-vehicle network, includes: a strategy policy creation unit which creates first strategy policy information representing a plurality of control strategies corresponding respectively to threats against the in-vehicle network; a merge processing unit which merges control strategies of a same type among the plurality of control strategies represented by the first strategy policy information created by the strategy policy creation unit and groups the plurality of control strategies; and a communication unit which externally outputs second strategy policy information representing a relationship of the threats and the plurality of control strategies grouped by the merge processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi KAWAUCHI, Eriko ANDO, Chinatsu YAMAUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20200233654
    Abstract: A server which communicates with an in-vehicle terminal, a communication terminal, or a vehicle communication device, upon receiving at least one of either configuration information of in-vehicle terminal software or configuration information of vehicle software from any information source among the in-vehicle terminal, the communication terminal, or the vehicle communication device, generates, based on the received information and identification information for identifying the communication path used by the information source, at least one among software to be distributed for distributing the information source as a communication target and which includes update information of the vehicle software or update information of the in-vehicle terminal software, a list of vehicle software to be updated or a list of in-vehicle terminal software to be updated as information which was excluded from the software to be distributed, and sends at least one among the generated software to be distributed, the list of vehicl
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUMOTO, Tsuyoshi HANO, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20200097663
    Abstract: A storage unit of a computer includes: a product configuration information holding unit; a component-vulnerability correspondence holding unit indicating security holes; an asset information holding unit that stores asset values of the respective component of the product; a security countermeasure classification holding unit that stores defense target components for the respective security countermeasures and coefficients of countermeasure effects; and an attack map holding unit that stores attack maps indicating attack paths. A processing unit executes a program, to form: an information collection processing unit; an attack map creation processing unit that creates an attack map for each product; and a vulnerability evaluation processing unit that calculates priority order among countermeasures from threat levels of security holes of the respective components on the basis of the asset values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chinatsu SATO, Takashi KAWAUCHI, Eriko ANDO, Yasushi NAGAI, Tetsuhei YONEYAMA, Yiwen CHEN
  • Patent number: 10602312
    Abstract: Provided is a content delivery system which includes an in-vehicle terminal and a content delivery server connected via wireless communication. The content delivery server includes a pre-sending unit which identifies a content that is likely to be used by the in-vehicle terminal in a dead spot where a communication status of the wireless communication is inferior, and sends the identified content to the in-vehicle terminal before a vehicle mounted with the in-vehicle terminal reaches the dead spot. The in-vehicle terminal includes an in-vehicle terminal storage unit which stores the content sent from the pre-sending unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gen Tsuchida, Daisuke Matsubara, Yasushi Nagai, Kyousuke Tsurusu
  • Publication number: 20200084111
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling smooth execution of a plurality of pieces of application software which perform communication via a communication path. A connection device includes: a storage unit which stores type priority level information for specifying a priority level assigned in advance for each type of a process, usable communication system information for specifying a usable communication system for each process, and sharing propriety information for specifying whether or not the communication system is sharable among a plurality of processes during the same period of time; a plurality of communication units which communicate to and from another device with use of the communication systems different from one another; and a communication system allocation control unit configured to identify the usable communication system and allocate, when the identified communication system is not sharable, the process to use the communication system based on the priority levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima, Ryo Shimizu, Motohiro Fuji, Kiminori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200059383
    Abstract: An in-vehicle gateway device connected to a plurality of networks, each connected with a plurality devices mounted on a vehicle, the in-vehicle gateway device including: an incident detection processor which detects an incident occurring in any one of the plurality of networks; and a communication controller which determines, in a case where the incident is detected, a restriction target network from among the plurality of networks on the basis of a place where the incident has occurred and a control state of the vehicle and restricts communication in the restriction target network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KAWAUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Patent number: 10540969
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique for easily performing accurate voice recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Yasushi Nagai