Patents by Inventor Yu Tanaka

Yu Tanaka 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: 20200233093
    Abstract: [Problem] To reduce the implementation costs of a satellite positioning system. [Solution] A communication device includes a plurality of antenna units that are arranged in an array-like arrangement. Each of the antenna units includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element that are arranged in a first direction, a first receiving unit that receives a first wireless signal used in satellite positioning, via the first antenna element, and a second receiving unit receives a second wireless signal used in the satellite positioning, via the second antenna element. Among the antenna units, a first and a second antenna units that are positioned adjacently to each other in a second direction being perpendicular to the first direction are arranged in such a manner that the first antenna element in one of the first and the second antenna units is positioned adjacently to the second antenna element in the other antenna unit in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: YU TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200125761
    Abstract: A configuration is realized that calculates a data processing result by using confidential information and presents the processing result without disclosing the confidential information such as personal information and the like. A user device that transmits concealment data of user input data and a server that executes data processing based on received data from the user device are provided. The user device executes data generalization processing for converting the input data into generalized data including the input data and data other than the input data as concealment processing of the input data and transmits the generalized data to the server. The server develops the input generalized data into a plurality of pieces of individual data including the user input data, executes data processing to which each of the plurality of pieces of data is applied, calculates a data processing result corresponding to each piece of the individual data, and returns the result to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200108836
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, by way of example, a vehicle control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire map data indicating an absolute azimuth of a linear road surface sign disposed on a road surface on which a vehicle travels, and image data obtained by imaging surroundings of the vehicle with a vehicle-mounted camera included in the vehicle; and a correction unit configured to detect the road surface sign from the acquired image data, calculate a relative azimuth of the road surface sign with respect to the vehicle on the image data, calculate a shift of an azimuth in which the vehicle moves based on the calculated relative azimuth and the absolute azimuth of the detected road surface sign indicated by the map data, and correct the azimuth in which the vehicle moves based on the calculated shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu TANAKA, Toyoji HIYOKAWA
  • Patent number: 10587607
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a memory that retains a first secret key corresponding to a first public key, and a processor that requests a change of a usage state of a second public key registered by a second apparatus in a first apparatus that retains a public key corresponding to a secret key from the first apparatus according to authentication using the first public key associated with the second public key and the first secret key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Tanaka, Taizo Shirai, Yohei Kawamoto, Koichi Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20190354491
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device that is adapted to be capable of transmitting/receiving data with smaller amounts of processing and data, and a method, and a program. The information processing device is provided with: a control unit that subjects information related to a collection target user to computation using one or more predetermined functions, and generates collected data on the basis of a result of the computation; and a communication unit that transmits the collected data. The present technology can be applied to a statistical information-sharing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: KENTA TADA, YU TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10467789
    Abstract: An image processing device for a vehicle includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a captured image of a periphery of a vehicle, which is captured by an imaging unit provided in the vehicle; a bird's eye view image generating unit generating a bird's eye view image in which the captured image is projected to a 3D virtual projection plane provided at a side opposite to the vehicle with reference to a ground and separated from the ground with distance from the vehicle; a guide line generating unit generating a guide line indicating a predicted course of the vehicle; a conversion unit converting the guide line into a virtual guide line indicating the predicted course on the virtual projection plane; and a superimposing unit superimposing the virtual guide line on the bird's eye view image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10447673
    Abstract: To be capable of guaranteeing security without dependency on a distance of wireless communication while maintaining convenience of a key apparatus, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a key storage unit configured to retain one or more secret keys corresponding to one or more respective public keys; and a key use permission state storage unit configured to store presence or absence of use permission of each of the one or more secret keys. For at least any of the one or more secret keys, a switch between the presence and absence of the use permission stored by the key use permission state storage unit is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Sakumoto, Taizo Shirai, Yohei Kawamoto, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10401821
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor control device, a control method, an information processing program and a recording medium, even though the network for receiving an output permission signal is not connected, the test run of the motor can be safely performed. Even though a signal generating element (104) of a servo driver (10) does not receive the output permission signal through a field network (30), if the connection to the field network (30) is determined to be not required, the signal generating element (104) does not generate the safety command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Ushiyama, Satoshi Yamawaki, Masakazu Matsugami, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10379039
    Abstract: An NDIR gas sensor has high responsiveness and less noise and includes a radiating section arranged to radiate an infrared ray, a detecting section arranged to detect the infrared ray radiated by the radiating section, and a sample cell extending between the radiating section and the detecting section along a route of the infrared ray and covering the entire circumference of the route of the infrared ray. The sample cell includes a plurality of cell elements extending along the route of the infrared ray. Side portions of the cell elements adjacent to each other overlap at an interval from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: Kyoto University, Masa International Corp.
    Inventors: Yu Tanaka, Shigeyuki Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20190243001
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus intended to address problems in which positioning devices simply equipped with a plurality of antennas will fail to perform the carrier positioning. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit having a plurality of antennas located at second positions (Pa, Pb) and capable of receiving a carrier wave transmitted from a satellite, and a processing unit configured to perform positioning of a set first position (Po) on the basis of second phase information obtained by correcting first phase information of carrier waves respectively received by a plurality of the antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: MASASHI OOKUBO, TOMOHISA TAKAOKA, HARUTO TAKEDA, YU TANAKA, TAKAHIRO TSUJII
  • Publication number: 20190135561
    Abstract: The paper stacking unit includes a paper stacking section on which the paper is stacked, a paper stacking mechanism which carries the paper to the paper stacking section on which the paper is stacked, and an abutment surface on which an end of the paper is abutted. The paper stacking mechanism includes a gripper member for holding the paper and a gripper moving mechanism. The gripper member holds the paper under the first holding force in a moving range from a holding position to a stacking position, and holds the paper under the second holding force upon the abutment of the end of the paper on the abutment surface from the stacking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Yu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10108650
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a query generation unit configured to generate, on the basis of a table in a database and any query with regard to the table, one or more different queries, and a table search unit configured to search for the number of tables that are different from the table and in which a result of the different query generated by the query generation unit is not in conflict with a result of the any query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Tanaka, Taizo Shirai, Yohei Kawamoto, Kazuya Kamio, Koichi Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 10051577
    Abstract: A communication apparatus detects a communication partner apparatus and transmits a first signal. Then, in the case where the partner apparatus is detected and a response to the transmitted first signal has not been received from the partner apparatus, the communication apparatus transmits a second signal having a higher power level than the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180188162
    Abstract: An NDIR gas sensor has high responsiveness and less noise and includes a radiating section arranged to radiate an infrared ray, a detecting section arranged to detect the infrared ray radiated by the radiating section, and a sample cell extending between the radiating section and the detecting section along a route of the infrared ray and covering the entire circumference of the route of the infrared ray. The sample cell includes a plurality of cell elements extending along the route of the infrared ray. Side portions of the cell elements adjacent to each other overlap at an interval from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Yu TANAKA, Shigeyuki AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9929455
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes: a substrate having an electromagnetic band gap structure formed including a ground conductor and a first conductor that includes multiple conductor plates, the conductor plates being arranged on a first surface, and at least a portion of the ground conductor being arranged on a second surface; and a second conductor that is arranged at a distance from and rearward of the conductor plates in a view from the second surface of the substrate, is connected to the ground conductor, and is electromagnetically coupled to at least a portion of the conductor plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9882721
    Abstract: An information processing system comprising interface circuitry configured to receive message-independent information, the message-independent information having been generated by another apparatus and transferred to the interface in advance of a digital signature being generated, send message-dependent information to an external device, and receive a digital signature from the external device; and processing circuitry configured to generate the message-dependent information from a message and at least a part of the message-independent information, and associate the digital signature with the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Kawamoto, Yu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170352176
    Abstract: An image processing device for a vehicle includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a captured image of a periphery of a vehicle, which is captured by an imaging unit provided in the vehicle; a bird's eye view image generating unit generating a bird's eye view image in which the captured image is projected to a 3D virtual projection plane provided at a side opposite to the vehicle with reference to a ground and separated from the ground with distance from the vehicle; a guide line generating unit generating a guide line indicating a predicted course of the vehicle; a conversion unit converting the guide line into a virtual guide line indicating the predicted course on the virtual projection plane; and a superimposing unit superimposing the virtual guide line on the bird's eye view image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Yu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9769135
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a public key setter that sets a public key corresponding to a public-key authentication scheme in an access area defined as a given area of an object of access, and a device authentication processor that authenticates access to the access area against a secret key paired with the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taizo Shirai, Yu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170259850
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a detection unit that detects a parkable area in a surrounding area of a vehicle, a route calculation unit that calculates a parking guidance route for guiding the vehicle from the current position of the vehicle to a parking target position contained in the parkable area, and a control unit that guides the vehicle to the parking target position according to the parking guidance route, completes the guidance when the vehicle has fit into the parkable area with a certain attitude and has reached the parking target position, and varies a completion extension period until the guidance of the vehicle is completed according to the stop mode of the vehicle when the vehicle has entered the parkable area with the certain attitude and the vehicle has stopped before reaching the parking target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Masaya KATO, Hiroyuki TACHIBANA, Hidehiko MIYOSHI, Yu TANAKA, Takatomo ASAI, Motonari OBAYASHI, Hironobu ISHIJIMA, Keisuke OYAMA, Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170261960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor control device, a control method, an information processing program and a recording medium, even though the network for receiving an output permission signal is not connected, the test run of the motor can be safely performed. Even though a signal generating element (104) of a servo driver (10) does not receive the output permission signal through a field network (30), if the connection to the field network (30) is determined to be not required, the signal generating element (104) does not generate the safety command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takao USHIYAMA, Satoshi YAMAWAKI, Masakazu MATSUGAMI, Yu TANAKA