Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Hei

Yuichiro Hei 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: 11363210
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device comprises a direction controller configured to perform control of switching a direction of an in-vehicle camera that photographs an outside of a vehicle to acquire an image to a first direction which is a direction toward a side in front of the vehicle and a second direction which is a direction toward a lane opposite a lane along which the vehicle is traveling; a recognizer configured to periodically recognize license plate information included in the image acquired continuously from the in-vehicle camera; a transmitter configured to transmit data related to the recognized license plate information to a server device, wherein the direction controller switches the direction of the in-vehicle camera facing the first direction to the second direction when the recognizer has continuously recognized the same license plate information for a predetermined period or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hei
  • Publication number: 20210168295
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device comprises a direction controller configured to perform control of switching a direction of an in-vehicle camera that photographs an outside of a vehicle to acquire an image to a first direction which is a direction toward a side in front of the vehicle and a second direction which is a direction toward a lane opposite a lane along which the vehicle is traveling; a recognizer configured to periodically recognize license plate information included in the image acquired continuously from the in-vehicle camera; a transmitter configured to transmit data related to the recognized license plate information to a server device, wherein the direction controller switches the direction of the in-vehicle camera facing the first direction to the second direction when the recognizer has continuously recognized the same license plate information for a predetermined period or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro HEI
  • Patent number: 10979864
    Abstract: A data collection system includes a plurality of receiving-side devices configured to acquire predetermined data, a transmitting-side device configured to collect the predetermined data, and a message delivery control device. The message delivery control device includes at least one processor configured to: store, in a first storage, for each of a plurality of logical channels, information about a receiving-side device with respect to which a delivery request for a message is registered, among the plurality of receiving-side devices; receive, from the transmitting-side device, a message specifying a first logical channel among the plurality of logical channels and requesting for transmission of the predetermined data; extract a predetermined number of receiving-side devices from receiving-side devices with respect to which the delivery request is registered to the first logical channel; and transmit the message received from the transmitting-side device to the predetermined number of receiving-side devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hei
  • Patent number: 10979356
    Abstract: A communication method in which a first communication device that is a transmission source of data, a second communication device that is a destination of the data, and one or more relay devices that relay the data transmit and receive the data using Segment Routing, wherein the relay device is configured to, when relaying the data, detect whether congestion occurs in the relay device, and when congestion occurs, set a first flag indicating the occurrence of congestion in a segment ID corresponding the relay device out of a plurality of segment IDs contained in a routing header of the data, and the second communication device configured to, when there is a segment ID in which the first flag is set in a routing header of received data, determine that congestion occurs in the relay device corresponding to the segment ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hei
  • Patent number: 10951830
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device comprises a direction controller configured to perform control of switching a direction of an in-vehicle camera that photographs an outside of a vehicle to acquire an image to a first direction which is a direction toward a side in front of the vehicle and a second direction which is a direction toward a lane opposite a lane along which the vehicle is traveling; a recognizer configured to periodically recognize license plate information included in the image acquired continuously from the in-vehicle camera; a transmitter configured to transmit data related to the recognized license plate information to a server device, wherein the direction controller switches the direction of the in-vehicle camera facing the first direction to the second direction when the recognizer has continuously recognized the same license plate information for a predetermined period or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hei
  • Publication number: 20200044973
    Abstract: A communication method in which a first communication device that is a transmission source of data, a second communication device that is a destination of the data, and one or more relay devices that relay the data transmit and receive the data using Segment Routing, wherein the relay device is configured to, when relaying the data, detect whether congestion occurs in the relay device, and when congestion occurs, set a first flag indicating the occurrence of congestion in a segment ID corresponding the relay device out of a plurality of segment IDs contained in a routing header of the data, and the second communication device configured to, when there is a segment ID in which the first flag is set in a routing header of received data, determine that congestion occurs in the relay device corresponding to the segment ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro HEI
  • Publication number: 20200014857
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device comprises a direction controller configured to perform control of switching a direction of an in-vehicle camera that photographs an outside of a vehicle to acquire an image to a first direction which is a direction toward a side in front of the vehicle and a second direction which is a direction toward a lane opposite a lane along which the vehicle is traveling; a recognizer configured to periodically recognize license plate information included in the image acquired continuously from the in-vehicle camera; a transmitter configured to transmit data related to the recognized license plate information to a server device, wherein the direction controller switches the direction of the in-vehicle camera facing the first direction to the second direction when the recognizer has continuously recognized the same license plate information for a predetermined period or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichiro HEI
  • Publication number: 20190289434
    Abstract: A data collection system includes a plurality of receiving-side devices configured to acquire predetermined data, a transmitting-side device configured to collect the predetermined data, and a message delivery control device. The message delivery control device includes at least one processor configured to: store, in a first storage, for each of a plurality of logical channels, information about a receiving-side device with respect to which a delivery request for a message is registered, among the plurality of receiving-side devices; receive, from the transmitting-side device, a message specifying a first logical channel among the plurality of logical channels and requesting for transmission of the predetermined data; extract a predetermined number of receiving-side devices from receiving-side devices with respect to which the delivery request is registered to the first logical channel; and transmit the message received from the transmitting-side device to the predetermined number of receiving-side devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA INFOTECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichiro HEI
  • Patent number: 8014319
    Abstract: A path management device of the present invention manages information about communication paths in a communication network, the communication network including a plurality of routers mutually connected by means of a communication line, link states between the plurality of routers being shared among each of the plurality of routers by means of link state advertisement messages that are announced from each of the plurality of routers, and routing tables being created in each of the plurality of routers based on shortest path trees, and the path management device includes: a receiving unit that receives the link state advertisement messages; a routing table creation unit that reproduces the shortest path trees and the routing tables of each of the plurality of routers based on the link state advertisement messages; and a routing table recording unit that records the reproduced routing tables of each of the plurality of routers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hei, Tomohiko Ogishi
  • Publication number: 20090003367
    Abstract: A path management device of the present invention manages information about communication paths in a communication network, the communication network including a plurality of routers mutually connected by means of a communication line, link states between the plurality of routers being shared among each of the plurality of routers by means of link state advertisement messages that are announced from each of the plurality of routers, and routing tables being created in each of the plurality of routers based on shortest path trees, and the path management device includes: a receiving unit that receives the link state advertisement messages; a routing table creation unit that reproduces the shortest path trees and the routing tables of each of the plurality of routers based on the link state advertisement messages; and a routing table recording unit that records the reproduced routing tables of each of the plurality of routers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hei, Tomohiko Ogishi