Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Uchida

Yoshitaka Uchida 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: 20230373723
    Abstract: A pallet conveying device includes a circulating belt provided to extend along a conveying path so as to be capable of being circulated, the circulating belt being configured to convey a pallet, a driving mechanism configured to circulate the circulating belt, and a stopper mechanism configured to stop conveying of the pallet regardless of the circulation of the circulating belt. The circulating belt has a free flow belt capable of stopping the conveying of the pallet by the stopper mechanism, and a conveying belt provided continuously to the free flow belt. A circulating speed of the conveying belt is different from a circulating speed of the free flow belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NITTOKU Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ZEMBUTSU, Yoshitaka UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11812577
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a substrate at which an electronic component is mounted; and a resin case configured to accommodate the substrate internally, in which: the case has an attachment portion configured to attach the case to a flat plate-shaped fixing portion of a fixture target by the fixing portion being inserted into the attachment portion and the attachment portion engaging with the fixing portion; the attachment portion has a first pressing portion having a convex portion that is inserted into a concave portion of the inserted fixing portion, and a pair of second pressing portions that hold between them respective side faces of the inserted fixing portion; and leading end sides of the pair of second pressing portions abut on the inserted fixing portion and are resiliently deformed in directions away from each other, holding between them the respective side faces of the fixing portion in a state in which the leading end sides have been resiliently deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Patent number: 11514683
    Abstract: An on-board outside recognition apparatus extracts a feature point from an image including an environment around a user's own vehicle, measures a three-dimensional position of the feature point based on movement of the feature point tracked in time series on the image and calculates a foot position of the feature point on the image from the three-dimensional position of the feature point is performed. Then, the on-board outside recognition apparatus extracts a road surface area where the user's own vehicle can travel, from the image using a degree of similarity of a texture of the image, and judges a feature point the foot position of which is judged not to be included in the road surface area to be highly reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehito Ogata, Toshihisa Kuwahara, Masahiro Kiyohara, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Publication number: 20220295656
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a substrate at which an electronic component is mounted; and a resin case configured to accommodate the substrate internally, in which: the case has an attachment portion configured to attach the case to a flat plate-shaped fixing portion of a fixture target by the fixing portion being inserted into the attachment portion and the attachment portion engaging with the fixing portion; the attachment portion has a first pressing portion having a convex portion that is inserted into a concave portion of the inserted fixing portion, and a pair of second pressing portions that hold between them respective side faces of the inserted fixing portion; and leading end sides of the pair of second pressing portions abut on the inserted fixing portion and are resiliently deformed in directions away from each other, holding between them the respective side faces of the fixing portion in a state in which the leading end sides have been resiliently deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11143511
    Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle processing device that can estimate the position of a vehicle with higher accuracy. A storage unit stores a parking lot point group including a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of an object in a parking lot coordinate system. A sensor input unit acquires peripheral information from a camera. A movement information acquisition unit acquires movement information. A local peripheral information creation unit generates local peripheral information expressing second point group data including a position of the vehicle in a local coordinate system and a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of the object in the local coordinate system on the basis of the peripheral information and the movement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Takehito Ogata, Shinya Tagawa, Masahiro Kiyohara, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Patent number: 11051420
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a board having a mounting surface for an electronic component, a case having an opening for insertion of the board into the case and configured to house the board inserted through the opening, and a cover fixed to the case so as to close the opening. The board also has at least one deformable device formed on an end side of the board and configured to be elastically deformable in a direction orthogonal to the mounting surface. The deformable device comes into contact with the case or the cover in a state of being elastically deformed to hold the board in a fixed state in a storage space formed through fixation of the cover to the case when the board is housed in the storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Publication number: 20210176883
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a board having a mounting surface for an electronic component, a case having an opening for insertion of the board into the case and configured to house the board inserted through the opening, and a cover fixed to the case so as to close the opening. The board also has at least one deformable device formed on an end side of the board and configured to be elastically deformable in a direction orthogonal to the mounting surface. The deformable device comes into contact with the case or the cover in a state of being elastically deformed to hold the board in a fixed state in a storage space formed through fixation of the cover to the case when the board is housed in the storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Patent number: 10977504
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted image processing device 1000 acquires an image around a host vehicle 10, senses a feature amount of a target object present on a road surface from the image, and relative position coordinates with respect to the host vehicle 10, acquires information of a three-dimensional object around the host vehicle 10 and relative position coordinates of the three-dimensional object, distinguishes whether the feature amount is a feature amount of a feature on the road surface or a feature amount of a feature on the three-dimensional object by using a positional relationship between the feature amount and the three-dimensional object, and recognizes the target object by using a feature on the road surface. As a result, a vehicle-mounted image processing device, which is capable of avoiding misrecognition of a part of a three-dimensional object as a target object when sensing the target object present on a road surface such as a parking bay by using a camera image, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehito Ogata, Masahiro Kiyohara, Daisuke Fukuda, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Publication number: 20200302192
    Abstract: A subject of the present invention is to obtain an outside recognition apparatus for vehicle making it possible to improve accuracy of a distance measurement method based on tracking of a feature point on a camera image. An on-board outside recognition apparatus of the present invention extracts a feature point from an image including an environment around a user's own vehicle, measures a three-dimensional position of the feature point based on movement of the feature point tracked in time series on the image and calculates a foot position of the feature point on the image from the three-dimensional position of the feature point is performed. Then, the on-board outside recognition apparatus extracts a road surface area where the user's own vehicle can travel, from the image using a degree of similarity of a texture of the image, and judges a feature point the foot position of which is judged not to be included in the road surface area to be highly reliable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Takehito OGATA, Toshihisa KUWAHARA, Masahiro KIYOHARA, Yoshitaka UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200292320
    Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle processing device that can estimate the position of a vehicle with higher accuracy. A storage unit stores a parking lot point group including a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of an object in a parking lot coordinate system. A sensor input unit acquires peripheral information from a camera. A movement information acquisition unit acquires movement information. A local peripheral information creation unit generates local peripheral information expressing second point group data including a position of the vehicle in a local coordinate system and a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of the object in the local coordinate system on the basis of the peripheral information and the movement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Morihiko SAKANO, Takehito OGATA, Shinya TAGAWA, Masahiro KIYOHARA, Yoshitaka UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 10755384
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an object detection method such that an object such as a vehicle can be detected from an image captured by an on-board camera even when a lens of the on-board camera is dirty. In order to achieve the objective, in this object detection method for detecting an object included in a captured image, an original image including the object to be detected is prepared from the captured image, a processed image is generated from the prepared original image by applying predetermined processing to the original image, and learning regarding restoration of an image of the object to be detected is performed using the original image and the processed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Akiyama, Koichi Hamada, Yoshitaka Uchida, Takehito Ogata
  • Publication number: 20200074192
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted image processing device 1000 acquires an image around a host vehicle 10, senses a feature amount of a target object present on a road surface from the image, and relative position coordinates with respect to the host vehicle 10, acquires information of a three-dimensional object around the host vehicle 10 and relative position coordinates of the three-dimensional object, distinguishes whether the feature amount is a feature amount of a feature on the road surface or a feature amount of a feature on the three-dimensional object by using a positional relationship between the feature amount and the three-dimensional object, and recognizes the target object by using a feature on the road surface. As a result, a vehicle-mounted image processing device, which is capable of avoiding misrecognition of a part of a three-dimensional object as a target object when sensing the target object present on a road surface such as a parking bay by using a camera image, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Takehito OGATA, Masahiro KIYOHARA, Daisuke FUKUDA, Yoshitaka UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 10449900
    Abstract: A video display system performs a video conversion process on a video of a camera mounted on a vehicle and displays a resulting video, and includes a plurality of cameras, a detecting unit that detects an object of interest around the vehicle based on information or the like acquired through the plurality of cameras, other sensors, or a network, a transforming/synthesizing unit that transforms and synthesizes the videos photographed by the plurality of cameras using a shape of a virtual projection plane, a virtual viewpoint, and a synthesis method which are decided according to position information of the object of interest detected by the detecting unit, and a display unit that displays the video that is transformed and synthesized by the transforming/synthesizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Kenta Takanohashi, Mitsuo Nakajima, Hidenori Sakaniwa, Yoshitaka Uchida, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Katsuo Onozaki, Takayuki Shioya
  • Patent number: 10354358
    Abstract: An image generation device performs coordinate transformation, based on a coordinate transformation table, to a two-dimensional first image having a span in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and acquired by overlooking and imaging an object from a first viewpoint at a first depression angle, and generates and outputs a second image which was obtained by overlooking the object from a second viewpoint which is different from the first viewpoint at a second depression angle which is different from the first depression angle. The coordinate transformation table is a table for transforming coordinates of a plurality of first selected pixels selected from a plurality of first pixels constituting the first image into coordinates of second selected pixels corresponding to a plurality of second pixels constituting the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Mitsuo Nakajima, Katsuo Onozaki, Yoshitaka Uchida, Takayuki Shioya
  • Patent number: 10242576
    Abstract: The obstacle detection device comprises: a first camera installed on a moving vehicle used for photographing a frontward or rearward view of the vehicle; a second camera installed on the vehicle used for photographing a sideward view of the vehicle; a parking space detection unit for detecting a parking space on the basis of an image obtained by photographing by the first camera; a memory unit for storing a real-space area of the parking space; a motion acquisition unit for acquiring information about behaviors of the vehicle; an obstacle calculation unit for calculating information about an obstacle present in the vicinity of the parking space on the basis of multiple images obtained by photographing by the second camera at different points in time; and a processing area setting unit for controlling, the calculation by the obstacle calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kume, Masahiro Kiyohara, Kimiyoshi Machii, Noriyasu Hasejima, Yoshitaka Uchida, Takehito Ogata, Yuta Ohizumi
  • Patent number: 10169667
    Abstract: A position of a moving object is reliably detected with high accuracy using only an image around a vehicle. A rear camera mounted on a vehicle obtains an original image around the vehicle, a movement region detector detects a moving object from the original image, and a difference calculator detects the moving object from a bird's-eye view image of the vehicle generated by a bird's-eye view image processor. A moving object position identifying part identifies a position of the moving object based on a distance from the vehicle to the moving object detected by the movement region detector or the difference calculator, a lateral direction position of the moving object, and an actual width of the moving object detected by the movement region detector when a detected object determination part determines that the moving objects detected by the movement region detector and the difference calculator are the same moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehito Ogata, Kenji Kato, Naoki Shimizu, Takafumi Hagi, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Publication number: 20180315167
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an object detection method such that an object such as a vehicle can be detected from an image captured by an on-board camera even when a lens of the on-board camera is dirty. In order to achieve the objective, in this object detection method for detecting an object included in a captured image, an original image including the object to be detected is prepared from the captured image, a processed image is generated from the prepared original image by applying predetermined processing to the original image, and learning regarding restoration of an image of the object to be detected is performed using the original image and the processed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuhiro AKIYAMA, Koichi HAMADA, Yoshitaka UCHIDA, Takehito OGATA
  • Publication number: 20180308364
    Abstract: The obstacle detection device comprises: a first camera installed on a moving vehicle used for photographing a frontward or rearward view of the vehicle; a second camera installed on the vehicle used for photographing a sideward view of the vehicle; a parking space detection unit for detecting a parking space on the basis of an image obtained by photographing by the first camera; a memory unit for storing a real-space area of the parking space; a motion acquisition unit for acquiring information about behaviors of the vehicle; an obstacle calculation unit for calculating information about an obstacle present in the vicinity of the parking space on the basis of multiple images obtained by photographing by the second camera at different points in time; and a processing area setting unit for controlling, the calculation by the obstacle calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki KUME, Masahiro KIYOHARA, Kimiyoshi MACHII, Noriyasu HASEJIMA, Yoshitaka UCHIDA, Takehito OGATA, Yuta OHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 9953227
    Abstract: An in-vehicle image processing device processes camera images to determine a parkable area and includes an overhead image generation section generating an overhead image relative to a road surface by converting the view point of an image of a nearby vehicle and the road surface taken by a vehicle-mounted camera; a tire recognition section recognizing the tires of the nearby vehicle; a three-dimensional object recognition section recognizing three-dimensional objects including the nearby vehicle; an area-under-vehicle recognition section calculating the ground contact position of the tire and the above-ground height from the ground contact position to the vehicle body and recognizing an area under the vehicle body on the road surface from the overhead image; and a parkable area recognition section for recognizing the area occupied by the vehicle body and the area under the vehicle body as a non-parking area and recognizing a parkable area on the road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Utagawa, Takeshi Shima, Shoji Muramatsu, Masao Sakata, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Publication number: 20170358056
    Abstract: An image generation device performs coordinate transformation, based on a coordinate transformation table, to a two-dimensional first image having a span in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and acquired by overlooking and imaging an object from a first viewpoint at a first depression angle, and generates and outputs a second image which was obtained by overlooking the object from a second viewpoint which is different from the first viewpoint at a second depression angle which is different from the first depression angle. The coordinate transformation table is a table for transforming coordinates of a plurality of first selected pixels selected from a plurality of first pixels constituting the first image into coordinates of second selected pixels corresponding to a plurality of second pixels constituting the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko HIGUCHI, Mitsuo NAKAJIMA, Katsuo ONOZAKI, Yoshitaka UCHIDA, Takayuki SHIOYA