Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Saikawa

Yoshinori Saikawa 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: 20230105537
    Abstract: A special car operation system includes a passenger prediction unit that predicts the number of passengers on a train scheduled to operate and outputs passenger count information indicating the predicted number of passengers, and a car-count determination unit that determines the number of special cars in the train on the basis of the passenger count information output by the passenger prediction unit and outputs car count information indicating the determined number of special cars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230070414
    Abstract: A facility presentation device includes: a departure place acquiring unit to acquire departure place information; an available facility acquiring unit to search for an available facility on the basis of the departure place information and to acquire available facility information for each facility, the available facility information including facility name information corresponding to the available facility information; a guidance basics acquiring unit to acquire guidance basic information regarding a facility that a business operator wants to guide to; a priority determining unit to determine a priority of the facility that the business operator wants to guide to on the basis of the guidance basic information; an available facility list acquiring unit to acquire available facility list information in which one or more pieces of available facility information are arranged on the basis of the priority; and an available facility list outputting unit to output the available facility list information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230046952
    Abstract: A guidance system includes: a station congestion estimating unit to estimate congestion situations in respective areas in a station and to output station congestion information indicating the estimated congestion situations in the respective areas in the station; a guidance determining unit to determine a mode of guiding station users on the basis of the station congestion information output by the station congestion estimating unit and to output guidance information indicating the mode that has been determined; and an output generation unit to generate an output signal for guiding the station users on the basis of the guidance information output by the guidance determining unit, to output the output signal that has been generated to an output device, and to cause the output device to provide output corresponding to the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Sayaka KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11277743
    Abstract: A pass determination device includes: a receiving unit for receiving authentication information from an authentication device of a user; a determining unit for determining whether or not to permit the user to pass on the basis of the authentication information received by the receiving unit; and a display unit for displaying a position of an authentication area in a first display mode from before the user enters the authentication area, the authentication area being an area through which the user having the authentication device is to pass so that an authentication process based on the authentication information of the authentication device is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sempuku, Yoshinori Saikawa, Hisataka Kizu
  • Patent number: 11087564
    Abstract: A determination unit (6) determines whether a user having entered an authentication area (102) provided on a floor surface is an action-required person. A management unit (12) associates a determination result with respect to an action-required person produced by the determination unit (6) with location information of the user, and records resultant data in a person information database (13). A display control unit (14) controls a display unit (15) to display an image showing a location of an action-required person using the person information database (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Tsuyoshi Sempuku, Hisataka Kizu
  • Publication number: 20200242851
    Abstract: A determination unit (6) determines whether a user having entered an authentication area (102) provided on a floor surface is an action-required person. A management unit (12) associates a determination result with respect to an action-required person produced by the determination unit (6) with location information of the user, and records resultant data in a person information database (13). A display control unit (14) controls a display unit (15) to display an image showing a location of an action-required person using the person information database (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Tsuyoshi SEMPUKU, Hisataka KIZU
  • Publication number: 20200245145
    Abstract: A pass determination device includes: a receiving unit for receiving authentication information from an authentication device of a user; a determining unit for determining whether or not to permit the user to pass on the basis of the authentication information received by the receiving unit; and a display unit for displaying a position of an authentication area in a first display mode from before the user enters the authentication area, the authentication area being an area through which the user having the authentication device is to pass so that an authentication process based on the authentication information of the authentication device is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SEMPUKU, Yoshinori SAIKAWA, Hisataka KIZU
  • Publication number: 20200055446
    Abstract: A light emitting unit for irradiating a road surface on a side of a rear wheel of a vehicle with light is included. A light irradiation area by the light emitting unit is at least a planar area extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. This allows a driver to visually recognize the position of the rear wheel of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayuri FUKANO, Yoshinori SAIKAWA
  • Patent number: D705687
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Toshihisa Ogura, Hiroshi Okuda, Eiji Yuasa
  • Patent number: D705688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Toshihisa Ogura, Eiji Yuasa, Hiroshi Okuda
  • Patent number: D705689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Toshihisa Ogura, Eiji Yuasa, Hiroshi Okuda
  • Patent number: D705723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Toshihisa Ogura, Eiji Yuasa, Hiroshi Okuda
  • Patent number: D710722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Toshihisa Ogura, Eiji Yuasa
  • Patent number: D732695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Saikawa, Toshihisa Ogura, Eiji Yuasa
  • Patent number: D801941
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Hikima, Yoshinori Saikawa, Eiji Yuasa, Takeyuki Hori
  • Patent number: D867311
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Hikima, Yoshinori Saikawa, Eiji Yuasa, Takeyuki Hori
  • Patent number: D978699
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Yoshinori Saikawa
  • Patent number: D978700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Yoshinori Saikawa
  • Patent number: D979438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Yuki Iida, Yoshinori Saikawa
  • Patent number: D979439
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Yuki Iida, Yoshinori Saikawa