Patents by Inventor Yosuke Ohashi

Yosuke Ohashi 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: 12248083
    Abstract: A communication unit includes: a plurality of wireless communication units configured to perform wireless communication with another communication device; and a control unit configured to estimate a relative position of the other communication device relative to the communication unit, wherein the control unit estimates the relative position of the other communication device on the basis of a plurality of distance measurement values indicating a distance between each of the plurality of wireless communication units and the other communication device obtained by each of the plurality of wireless communication units performing wireless communication with the other communication device, and a position characteristic including a position of each of the plurality of wireless communication units in the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Publication number: 20250065845
    Abstract: A system is mounted on a vehicle and includes a sensor configured to perform a detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger touching the sensor in order to perform a fingerprint authentication process, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) control a power supply of the vehicle to be ON when a predetermined authentication process through a predetermined communication with another device other than the sensor is successful, the predetermined authentication process being different from the fingerprint authentication process, and (ii) suppress the detection process that detects the fingerprint in response to the power supply of the vehicle being ON and the predetermined authentication process being successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yasuhisa OHTA, Yuya GOTO, Naoyuki TAKADA, Takahiko ANDO, Yosuke OHASHI, Rijin OWAKI, Daisuke OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20250042362
    Abstract: A master communication device causes a slave communication device connected to the master communication device to perform a distance measurement communication for measuring a distance between a terminal and a vehicle that wirelessly communicates with the terminal. The master communication device notifies a controller connected to the master communication device of a first result of the distance measurement communication performed by the slave communication device. The master communication device further notifies the controller of a second result of the distance measurement communication performed by the master communication device. The vehicle is permitted to be actuated in response to any one of the first result or the second result indicating that the distance is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Masateru FURUTA, Yosuke OHASHI, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI, Yuya GOTO, Satoshi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 12207088
    Abstract: A control device comprising, a control section configured to control an authentication process of performing a process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device, wherein the control section performs control in such a manner that a signal including authentication information that is information to be used for the authentication process is transmitted to the communication device through the wireless communication, the authentication information varying depending on signal types, which are types of roles of signals to be transmitted to the communication device in the authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Patent number: 12187227
    Abstract: A system is mounted on a vehicle and includes a sensor configured to perform a detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger touching the sensor in order to perform a fingerprint authentication process, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) control a power supply of the vehicle to be ON when a predetermined authentication process through a predetermined communication with another device other than the sensor is successful, the predetermined authentication process being different from the fingerprint authentication process, and (ii) suppress the detection process that detects the fingerprint in response to the power supply of the vehicle being ON and the predetermined authentication process being successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Ohta, Yuya Goto, Naoyuki Takada, Takahiko Ando, Yosuke Ohashi, Rijin Owaki, Daisuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12185105
    Abstract: A control device controls an authentication process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device. The control device performs the control in such a manner that authentication information is changed for each process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once. Signals transmitted or received in the authentication process include a trigger signal, a request signal, and a response signal. The control device executes the process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once for the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal, and changes the authentication information to be used for each of the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal each time the process group is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta, Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta
  • Publication number: 20240427145
    Abstract: An image projecting device for emitting a projection image on a display unit configured to display a virtual image. The image projecting device includes an image irradiation unit configured to emit an image, a light branching unit configured to branch light for emitting the image into at least first image light and second image light, a first optical unit configured to emit, as the projection image, the first image light in a viewpoint direction, via the display unit, and a second optical unit configured to emit the second image light in the viewpoint direction, without passing through the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamamoto, Yosuke Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240406675
    Abstract: A communication device that includes a communication control section configured to control wireless communication with another communication device that is different from the communication device, in conformity with a designated communication standard, wherein, in a case where a trigger signal received from the other communication device includes unique information that is necessary to identify a mobile object, the communication control section starts a process of estimating a positional relation between the communication device and the other communication device by using a wireless signal communicated between the communication device and the other communication device in conformity with the designated communication standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yosuke OHASHI
  • Patent number: 12151647
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology capable of performing control such that ranging is performed more reliably in a mobile object and a portable device which is a regular communication partner. Provided is a communication device mounted on a mobile object including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a ranging trigger signal for starting measurement of a distance between the communication device and a portable device carried by a person and a communication control unit configured not to start ranging communication for measurement of the distance based on a fact that first specific information defined in advance and necessary for determination of the mobile object does not match second specific information included in the acquired ranging trigger signal and necessary for determination of the mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yosuke Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12151646
    Abstract: A communication system that performs first communication and second communication, which differs from the first communication, through wireless connection between a terminal and a communication peer, is provided. The communication system includes communication devices arranged in the communication peer. At least one of the communication devices performs the second communication. The communication devices include a first communication device and a second communication device, which differs from the first communication device. The first communication device is connected to a controller that controls the communication devices, and the second communication device is connected to the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Masateru Furuta, Yosuke Ohashi, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Yuya Goto, Satoshi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 12143489
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system including: a first device configured to transmit encrypted information that is encrypted by using a first encryption key; and a second device configured to execute a predetermined process based on the encrypted information obtained from the first device, and a second encryption key that is common to the first encryption key. The first device includes a first change section configured to change the first encryption key in the case where a first condition is satisfied. The second device includes a second change section configured to change the second encryption key in the case where a second condition is satisfied, the second condition being common to the first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta
  • Patent number: 12137392
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a first wireless communication device configured to transmit a first wireless signal and receive a second wireless signal in conformity with a designated communication standard; and at least one second wireless communication device configured to transmit the second wireless signal and receive the first wireless signal in conformity with the designated communication standard. The first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device perform a designated process more than once on a basis of transmission and reception of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. Each of the designated processes includes at least any of transmission and reception of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. Moreover, the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal used in the designated processes include secure information for identifying a transmission source of the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yosuke Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12096212
    Abstract: An unauthorized communication prevention system includes a communication device that is arranged in an operation subject and configured to wirelessly communicate with a terminal. The system further includes a notification unit that transmits unique authentication information of the operation subject when the terminal and the communication device establish communication; a checking unit that checks, with the authentication information, whether the terminal and the operation subject are a proper pair; and an actuation unit that performs a process for determining a positional relationship of the terminal relative to the operation subject in accordance with a check result of the checking unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yosuke Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12075383
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved technology capable of improving the accuracy of processing in accordance with distance measurement results between each of at least two communication devices and a terminal. Provided is a control device including: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information associating a first distance measurement result between a terminal and a first communication device and first identification information of the first communication device, from the first communication device, and to acquire second information associating a second distance measurement result between the terminal and a second communication device and second identification information of the second communication device, from the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Hasegawa, Masateru Furuta, Yosuke Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240273880
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor, in which the processor acquires a plurality of breast images, displays, according to any one mammary gland volume type among a plurality of mammary gland volume types assigned to each of the plurality of acquired breast images based on a mammary gland volume of a breast, a plurality of selection candidate images corresponding to each of the plurality of breast images for each mammary gland volume type, and extracts a breast image selected for each mammary gland volume type from the plurality of breast images based on the plurality of selection candidate images displayed for each of the mammary gland volume types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yosuke OHASHI, Kota KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240259802
    Abstract: A control device controls an authentication process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device. The control device performs the control in such a manner that authentication information is changed for each process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once. Signals transmitted or received in the authentication process include a trigger signal, a request signal, and a response signal. The control device executes the process group in which the authentication process is repeated more than once for the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal, and changes the authentication information to be used for each of the trigger signal, the request signal, and the response signal each time the process group is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke OHASHI, Masateru FURUTA, Yuki KONO, Shigenori NITTA
  • Patent number: 12050826
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions executed by a computer included in an information processing device. The set of program instructions includes: acquiring first print data representing a first image; acquiring second print data representing a second image; outputting a first print instruction to print the first image on a first print medium; outputting a second print instruction to print the second image on a second print medium; and outputting, to a display, a display signal to display a multilayer illustrating image illustrating that the first image and the second image are arranged in layers after the outputting the first print instruction and the outputting the second print instruction are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Fukui, Ryuichi Kanda, Yosuke Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12024125
    Abstract: A control device including a control section configured to cause a ranging process of measuring a distance between communication devices to be executed a designated number of times, and control a subsequent process that is a process of using a ranging value that satisfies a designated allowable value, on a basis of whether or not at least any of a plurality of ranging values that have been acquired satisfies the designated allowable value. The control section controls start of the subsequent process when the ranging value that satisfies the designated allowable value is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yuki Kono, Shigenori Nitta, Masateru Furuta, Yosuke Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20240214806
    Abstract: A control device comprising, a control section configured to control an authentication process of performing a process related to device authentication together with at least one communication device on a basis of information included in a signal received through wireless communication with the communication device, wherein the control section performs control in such a manner that a signal including authentication information that is information to be used for the authentication process is transmitted to the communication device through the wireless communication, the authentication information varying depending on signal types, which are types of roles of signals to be transmitted to the communication device in the authentication process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke OHASHI, Masateru FURUTA, Yuki KONO, Shigenori NITTA
  • Patent number: 12003962
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a novel and improved communication system and communication device that make it possible to reduce an amount of time from when communication with an external device is completed to when communication data corresponding to a communication result is output to another device. [Solution] Provided is a communication system including: a communication device configured to transmit a selection solution that is selected depending on a result of first communication with an external device; and a control device configured to receive the selection solution from the communication device through second communication between the communication device and a communication partner that is different from the external device serving as a communication partner in the first communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Ohashi, Masateru Furuta