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: 10516576
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling smooth execution of a plurality of pieces of application software which perform communication via a communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima, Ryo Shimizu, Motohiro Fuji, Kiminori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190360837
    Abstract: In a navigation system including a mobile terminal and an in-vehicle apparatus mounted on a vehicle, the in-vehicle apparatus includes a vehicle navigation unit to guide the vehicle from a vehicle navigation starting point to a vehicle navigation destination, and the mobile terminal includes: a display unit to present image information; a walking navigation unit to guide a route for movement on foot from a walking navigation starting point to a walking navigation destination; and a starting point output unit to output, to the display unit, a photographed image of surrounding of the vehicle navigation destination, and auxiliary information indicating the walking navigation starting point by combining with the photographed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUMOTO, Yasushi NAGAI, Tsuyoshi HANO
  • Publication number: 20190323854
    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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TAMAI, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Yasushi NAGAI, Megumi TSUCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10437695
    Abstract: A fault information providing server which is connected to a processing server group configured from a plurality of servers, and which provides information related to a fault that occurred in the processing server group to a user of a service provided by the processing server group, comprises: a fault occurrence/recovery management unit which manages fault occurrence of the processing server group; a log management unit which manages log information related to a history of service provided by each server of the processing server group; a rule management unit which manages rules related to a service impact representing an impact on the service caused by the fault; a service impact calculation unit which calculates the service impact based on the log information and the rules; and a service impact notification unit which notifies the service impact calculated by the service impact calculation unit to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Sobue, Yasushi Nagai, Hiroyoshi Endou, Kyousuke Tsurusu, Tatsuaki Osafune
  • Patent number: 10337878
    Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a spoken voice as a voice signal to a relay server, and the relay server includes a voice recognition unit which converts the received voice signal into a string, and a control unit which searches for information stored in a main database or a temporary storage database by using the string and sends a search result to the in-vehicle terminal, and, upon searching for information stored in the main database, stores the search result in the temporary storage database. Upon receiving a voice signal, when the search result is stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the temporary storage database by using the string converted from the received voice signal, and, when the search result is not stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the main database by using the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Takashi Yamaguchi, Hideki Takano, Yasushi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20190196898
    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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Megumi TSUCHIYAMA, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Patent number: 10326842
    Abstract: A terminal connection device includes: a storage unit configured to store a priority based on a type of processing information for performing input or output of information; a communication unit configured to receive from another device a processing request in which the processing information is identified; and an input and output path assignment unit configured to acquire, when the communication unit has received the processing request, the type of the processing information identified in the processing request, to identify, by using an external processing information priority, which is a priority based on the type, and candidates of usable input and output paths for each piece of the processing information, the input and output path for executing the processing information relating to the processing request, and to assign the processing information to the identified input and output path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Obata, Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190182275
    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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Eriko ANDO, Yasushi NAGAI, Nobuyoshi MORITA
  • Publication number: 20180376309
    Abstract: Information is transferred from a device to which the information is temporarily provided to another more suitable device as required, and hence it is possible to continue usage of a service or content comfortably on the device to which the information is transferred. Provided is an information transfer system including: an in-vehicle terminal; an information terminal; and a server, wherein the in-vehicle terminal includes a transfer information extraction module configured to extract, as transfer information, a part of acquired notification information that is to be transferred to the information terminal, wherein the server includes a notification information extraction module configured to transmit the transfer information acquired from the in-vehicle terminal to the information terminal at a predetermined timing, and wherein the information terminal includes a transfer information display module configured to display the transfer information acquired from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Akihiro KONDO, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Patent number: 10116325
    Abstract: When compressing an arrangement of fixed-length records in a columnar direction, a data compression device carries out data compression aligned with the performance of a data decompression device by computing a number of rows processed with one columnar compression from the performance on the decompression device side, such as the memory cache capacity of the decompression device or the capacity of a primary storage device which may be used by an application, and the size of one record. Thus, while improving compression ratios of large volumes of data, including an alignment of a plurality of fixed-length records, decompression performance is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Yasushi Nagai, Tatsuaki Osafune, Ryoichi Fukunaga, Takahiro Okubo, Taiki Imai
  • Publication number: 20180304901
    Abstract: A driver can be presented with a route option giving high driving comfort. A receiver receives a plurality of route options from a terminal device mounted on a vehicle. A driving plan generation module sets, for each of the plurality of received route options, a traveling time of a section in which automatic driving of the vehicle is to be used and a traveling time of a section in which the vehicle is to be manually driven. A comfort calculation module calculates driving comfort of a driver for each of the plurality of route options based on the traveling time of the section in which automatic driving of the vehicle is to be used and the traveling time of the section in which the vehicle is to be manually driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingzhu DUAN, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20180211662
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique for easily performing accurate voice recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Patent number: 10009220
    Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal and a mobile terminal receive a request and a first identifier for identifying the request and store the first identifier in a buffer, the mobile terminal sends the request to a server, which stores the first identifier in a buffer when the request includes the first identifier and generates a second identifier when the request does not include the first identifier. When an event occurs, the mobile terminal generates and stores a message and a message code related to the second identifier together with the second identifier, transfers a response including the first identifier, the message and the message code to the mobile terminal when the first identifier exists in the buffer, and transfers a response including the message and the message code to the mobile terminal when the first identifier does not exist in the buffer. The mobile terminal displays the message and the message code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gen Tsuchida, Daisuke Matsubara, Kyousuke Tsurusu, Yasushi Nagai, Haruhiko Sawajiri
  • Publication number: 20180167789
    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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gen TSUCHIDA, Daisuke MATSUBARA, Yasushi NAGAI, Kyousuke TSURUSU
  • Patent number: 9948751
    Abstract: A first apparatus inquires the second apparatus about whether a first data can be transmitted, in a case where the transmission is approved by the second apparatus, transmits the data to the second apparatus, and in a case where the transmission is not approved by the second apparatus, receives data from the second apparatus and outputs the data with its own data to a storage medium, and the second apparatus determines that a data is transmitted from the first apparatus on the basis of a condition pertaining to a second data communications channel, and upon having determined to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, receives the data from the first apparatus and transmits the data with its own data to a server via the second data communications channel, and upon having determined not to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, transmits its own data to the first apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gen Tsuchida, Daisuke Matsubara, Hideki Takano, Haruhiko Sawajiri, Yasushi Nagai, Kyosuke Tsurusu
  • Publication number: 20170323641
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling an operation to be conducted through use of words shortened more for an operation item estimated to be desired stronger. A voice input assistance device includes: a shortened-phrase storing unit configured to store an operation item and a shortened phrase corresponding to a desirability of the operation item in association with each other; a desirability estimation unit configured to estimate the desirability of each operation item through use of a predetermined index, and to identify the shortened phrase from the shortened-phrase storing unit based on the desirability; and an output processing unit configured to present the shortened phrase identified by the desirability estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIMIZU, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Patent number: 9804821
    Abstract: An interaction history management device includes an interaction control unit configured to accept an input of an operation by audio and generate a reply by audio in response to the operation, an interaction history storage unit configured to store information that identifies an audio content of the accepted operation and information that identifies an audio content of the reply, an execution unit configured to store an identifier to the interaction history storage unit as associating with the reply when a predetermined process related to the accepted operation is executed normally, and an external data deletion unit configured to, when an instruction to delete information used in the predetermined process is accepted, delete the information, identify an identifier of the predetermined process in which the information to be deleted is used, and delete at least the audio content of the reply associated with the identifier from the interaction history storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CLARION, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingzhu Duan, Takaaki Sekiguchi, Yasushi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20170292852
    Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a spoken voice as a voice signal to a relay server, and the relay server includes a voice recognition unit which converts the received voice signal into a string, and a control unit which searches for information stored in a main database or a temporary storage database by using the string and sends a search result to the in-vehicle terminal, and, upon searching for information stored in the main database, stores the search result in the temporary storage database. Upon receiving a voice signal, when the search result is stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the temporary storage database by using the string converted from the received voice signal, and, when the search result is not stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the main database by using the string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Susumu KOJIMA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Hideki TAKANO, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20170269986
    Abstract: A fault information providing server which is connected to a processing server group configured from a plurality of servers, and which provides information related to a fault that occurred in the processing server group to a user of a service provided by the processing server group, comprises: a fault occurrence/recovery management unit which manages fault occurrence of the processing server group; a log management unit which manages log information related to a history of service provided by each server of the processing server group; a rule management unit which manages rules related to a service impact representing an impact on the service caused by the fault; a service impact calculation unit which calculates the service impact based on the log information and the rules; and a service impact notification unit which notifies the service impact calculated by the service impact calculation unit to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneo SOBUE, Yasushi NAGAI, Hiroyoshi ENDOU, Kyousuke TSURUSU, Tatsuaki OSAFUNE
  • Publication number: 20170180546
    Abstract: An input/output limitation information storage unit stores input/output limitation information in which limitation processing for limiting operation input to the application and display output from the application is prescribed by associating the limitation processing with the application. A determination unit acquires a vehicle state of a vehicle, and determines the limitation processing to be applied to the operation input to the application and the display output from the application on the basis of the application running on the terminal device, the vehicle state, and the input/output limitation information. The limitation unit performs the limitation processing determined by the determination unit for the operation input detected by the input control unit and transmitted to the communication control unit, and the display output received by the communication control unit and transmitted to the output control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi NAGAI, Atsushi SHIMIZU, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Takayuki HIROTA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Yuji OOHARA