Mitsuru AMBAI, Nugraha P. UTAMA and Yuichi YOSHIDA (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented “Dimensionality Reduction for Histogram Features Based on Supervised Non-negative Matrix Factorization” at IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E94-D No10.

Shinichiro Sega, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Hironori Hiraishi(Akita National College of Technology), Fumio Mizoguchi(an Emeritus Professor at Science University of Tokyo, the representative director president of WisdomTex, Inc.) presented ”Applying qualitative reasoning to a driver’s cognitive mental load” at The 10th IEEE International Conference on COGNITIVE INFORMATICS & COGNITIVE COMPUTING（ICCI*CC2011). This paper won Best Paper Award.

Yuichi Yoshida and NaviCon developer team won “mobile project awards 2011” of provisional the mobile platforms Division at Wireless Japan 2011

Mitsuru Anbai, Hideki Nihara, Yuichi Yoshida presented “Compact And Real-time Descriptors for Low-end CPU” at SSII2011. This paper won Best Audience Award.

Yuku Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hiroaki Ohshima (Kyoto Univ.), Mitsuo Yamamoto (DENSO IT Lab.), Hirotoshi Iwasaki (DENSO IT Lab.), Satoshi Oyama (Hokkaido Univ.), and Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.) presented ”Evaluating Significance of Historical Entities Based on Tempo-Spatial Impacts Analysis Using Wikipedia Link Structure” at hypertext 2011.

“Neighbor-food G” iPhone Application Software for Restaurant Search, which cooperate with a car navigation system, has released.

Yuichi Yoshida and Mitsuru Ambai presented ”Realtime mobile AR with fast object recognition framework” at INTERACTION 2011.

Mitsuo Yamamoto (DENSO IT Lab.), Yuku Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hirotoshi Iwasaki (DENSO IT Lab.), , Satoshi Oyama (Hokkaido Univ.), Hiroaki Ohshima (Kyoto Univ.), and Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.) won best paper award at W2GIS. Their paper title is ”Extraction and Geographical Navigation of Important Historical Events in the Web”.

Mitsuo Yamamoto (DENSO IT Lab.), Yuku Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), Hirotoshi Iwasaki (DENSO IT Lab.), , Satoshi Oyama (Hokkaido Univ.), Hiroaki Ohshima (Kyoto Univ.), and Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.) presented “Extraction and Geographical Navigation of Important Historical Events in the Web” at W2GIS.

Yuichi Yoshida presented ”Smart Phone and Car Navigation” at SSII2011.

Yuichi Yoshida presented ”Smart Phone and Car Navigation” at GIFU Information technology & manufacturing network.

Yuichi Yoshida (DENSO IT Laboratory), Motohiro Takayama, and UICoderz, “iOS SDK Hacks” (ISBN-13: 978-4873114729) was published by O’Reilly Japan.

Takayuki Mita, Tatsuru Daimon, YongWook Jeon (Keio University), Ari Widodo, and Hirotoshi Iwasaki (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented ”The fundamental study of influence on useful visual field when using car navigation while driving” at JASE Annual Congress (Autumn).

Mitsuru Ambai and Yuichi Yoshida(DENSO IT Laboratory) presented ”Generic Object Recognition Based on Rough Segmentation Data
Given by a User” at PRMU.

Ikuro Sato, Chiharu Yamano (DENSO IT Laboratory), and Hirohiko Yanagawa (DENSO) presented ”Crossing Obstacle Detection with a Vehicle-Mounted Camera” at MIRU2010.

Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Nobuhiro Mizuno, Kousuke Hara (DENSO IT Laboratory) and, Yoichi Motomura(AIST) presented ”User-Adapted Recommendation of Content on Mobile Devices Using Bayesian Networks” at IEICE Trans. Inf.&Syst. Vol.E93-D No.5

“Shibuya-go-round” will be exhibited at a expo called “Shibuya 1000“.

Yuichi Yoshida and Mitsuru Ambai (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented ”Labeling method using co-occurance model between visual word and word” at PRMU.

Yuichi Yoshida and Mitsuru Ambai (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented ”Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Prior Knowledge” at PRMU.

Osamu MASUTANI and Hirotoshi IWASAKI (Denso IT Laboratory)  presented ” An event detection method using floating car data” at The 16th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services.

“Neighbor-Food“:iPhone Application Software for Restaurant Search has renewed.

Mitsuru AMBAI and Yuichi YOSHIDA (Denso IT Laboratory) presented ”Multiclass VisualRank: image ranking method in clustered subsets based on visual features” at the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval.

“Neighbor-Food“:iPhone Application Software for Restaurant Search is released.

Osamu MASUTANI, Hirotoshi IWASAKI (Denso IT Laboratory) presented “BEIRA: An Area-based User Interface for Map Services ” at World Wide Web Volume 12, Number 1.

"BEIRA –Bird’s Eye Information Retrieval Application" appeared on case study of ArcGISvol.5 of ESRI Japan.

AriWidodo, Akira Yoshizawa, Yasutaka Yamauchi, Takeru(DENSO IT Laboratory): METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAZE TRACKING , No.4231884, Japan.

Mitsuru Ambaiand Yuichi Yoshida (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented “MulticlassVisualRank: Image Ranking Method in Clustered Subsets Based on Visual Features” at PRMU.

Yuichi Yoshida and Mitsuru Ambai(DENSO IT Laboratory) presented “Annotation method of segmented regions using a number of featurepoints shared among different images” at PRMU.

Hiroshi Tsukaharaand HirotoshiIwasaki (Denso IT Laboratory) presented “Extracting Knowledge from experiences while driving Using video drive recorders and driver monitoring systems” at ITS World Congress 2008.

“UIMA SenWrapper” component for Apache UIMA is released. [ detail ].

Masanobu Oumi, Takamitsu Suzuki(DENSO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki、Kosuke Hara, Nobuhiro Mizuno(DENSO IT Laboratory): NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, US7,437,240B2, United States.

Yasushi Toda, Tatsuya Hiramatsu, ToyoakiNishida, SumiYasuyuki(Kyoto Univ.), Hiroshi Tsukahara, HirotoshiIwasaki (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented “Presentation and Acquisition of In-vehicle Conversation Quanta by Gaze and Gesture” at The 22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. [ Abstract ]

Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Shinichiro Sega(DEMSO IT LABORATORY), Hironori Hiraishi, Fumio Mizoguchi(Wisdomtex, Inc.) presented "Design and Evaluation of the User-Adapted Program Scheduling system based on Bayesian Network and Constraint Satisfaction" at Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
[ Abstract ]

Kazuma Natsume, Yasuyuki Miyake, Koichi Hoshino(DENSO), Chiharu Yamano(DENSO IT Laboratory) were awarded a prize "2006 Arch T. Colwell Merit Award" at SAE(Society of Automotive Engineers).
[ SAE Press release ]

Hideki Shirai(DENSO IT Laboratory), Kaduma Natsume(DENSO): APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL WAVE, US7,372,404B2, United States.

Osamu MASUTANI (Denso IT Laboratory) presented "BEIRA - Map interface with area extraction and summarization from web contents. " at GIS Community Forum 2008.

Takeshi Okamura, HidekazuKubota, Tatsuya Hiramatsu, YasuyukiSumi, ToyoakiNishida (Kyoto Univ.), Hiroshi Tsukahara, HirotoshiIwasaki (DENSO IT Laboratory) presented “Quantization and Reuse of DrivingConversations” at Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan. [ Abstract ]

Satoshi KOMURO, Chiharu YAMANO(Denso IT Laboratory) presented "Surveillance System for Vehicle Periphery Using In-vehicle Image Recognition Processor" at ViEW2007.

Osamu MASUTANI, Hirotoshi IWASAKI(Denso IT Laboratory) presented "BEIRA: A Geo-semantic Clustering Method for Area Summary" at The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2007).

Ho Thi Minh Anh , Akira Yoshizawa, Shinya Nakamura, Jyun Ogata(DENSO IT Laboratory): “Collision　determination system and method for determining risk collision risk.” No.4764278 Japan.

Akira Yoshizawa: ”Mobile object enbarkation apparatus.” No.4747125, Japan.

Yasuhiro Shimizu (DENSO), Hiroaki Sekiyama, Kazutaka Yoshikawa (TOYOTA), Asashi Shibata, Takamitsu Sakai (Aishin AW), and Nobuhiro Mizuno(DENSO IT Laboratory) : ”Car navigation system.” No.4733165, Japan.

Kosuke Hara, Hirotoshi Iwasaki　(DENSO IT Laboratory), Noriyasu Sakashita(MEITEC), and Tetsunari Hara(DENSO) : ”Controll apparatus for car-mounted device.” No.4728839, Japan.

Osamu Masutani, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Hiroshi Sasaki(DENSO IT Laboratory), Shinichi Honiden, and Yashushi Ando(NII) : ”Traffic jam prediction apparatus, method, and path search system.” No.4729411, Japan.

Hiroshi Tsukahara, Osamu Masutani, Mitsuo Yamamoto(DENSO IT Laboratory) , Hirohumi Kiyohara, Yuji Matsumoto, and Makiko Tauchi(DENSO): “Drive support apparatus.” No.4757824

Hideki Shirai, Chiharu Yamano(DENSO IT Laboratory), Kazuma Natsume and Yasuyuki Miyake(Denso): ”Arrival direction estimation unit.” No.4757629, Japan.

Chiharu Yamano(DENSO IT Laboratory): ”Automotive Radar.” No.4754856, Japan.

Hiroshi Tsukahara, Osamu Masutani, Mitsuo Yamamoto (DENSO IT Laboratory), Hirohumi Kiyohara, Yuji Matsumoto, and Makiko Tauchi : ”Drive support apparatus ” No.4707639, Japan.

Sivakumar Swaminasan and Shinya Nakamura : ”Object imaging apparatus and method.” No.4701116, Japan.

Osamu Masutani : ”Map display apparatus,method, and Program.” No.4685049, Japan.

Jingo Adachi : ”Information input apparatus.” No.4676408, Japan.

Masaro Kogure and Masatoshi Yamamoto : ”Information presentation apparatus.” No.4674156, Japan.

Yuji Tsukahara and Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”Information Recoding recording apparatus, method and program.” No.4669448, Japan.

Mate Szarvas and Akira Yoshizawa : ”Object recognizing apparatus and method.” No.4652101, Japan.

Yuji Tsukahara and Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”Navigation system and method.” No.4653684, Japan.

Hideki Shirai, Chiharu Yamano (DENSO IT Laboratory), Kazuma Natsume, and Yasuyuki Miyake (DENSO) : ”ARRIVAL DIRECTION ESTIMATION APPARATUS.” US7.843.388, United States.

Rie Minamikawa and Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”Navigation apparatus, method, and program.” No.4646937, Japan.

Nobuhiro Mizuno, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, and Youichi Motomura : ”Information processing system, method, and program for vehicle.” No.4639296, Japan.

Shinichiro Sega and Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”Navigation apparatus, method, and program.” No.4637073, Japan.

Satoshi Komuro: ”Image Correction method.” No.4632992, Japan.

Tomokatsu Okuya, Ari Widodo, and Koichiro Suzuki: ”Landscape Inference apparatus.” No.4634842, Japan.

Ari Widodo, Satoshi Komuro, and Munetaka Yamamoto : ”Own shadow detection method.” No.4625418, Japan.

Goro Otsubo : ”Map display apparatus and method.” No.4629635, Japan.

Shinya Nakamura : ”Feature point movement detecting apparatus and method.” No.4621171, Japan.

Hiroshi Doi: ”Information provision apparatus.” No.4616786, Japan.

Hironobu Mizuno, Hirotoshi Iwasaki (DENSO IT Laboratory), and Youichi Motomura (AIST) : ”VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM”, US7,797,266, United States.

Chiharu Yamano (DENSO IT Laboratory), Kazuma Natsume, Yuu Watanabe, and Mai Sakamoto (DENSO) : ”Electronically scanned rader apparatus”, No.4602267, Japan.

Seiji Kato, Takamitsu Suzuki, Masanori Oumi(DNESO), Nobuhiro Mizuno, Kousuke Hara, and Hirotoshi Iwasaki(DENSO IT Laboratory):”Navigation system.” US7.788.030B2, United States.

Kousuke Hara, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, and Motoyasu Sakashita : ”Navigation apparatus and method.” No.4580357, Japan.

Tomokatsu Okuya and Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”Data sharing system, data communication terminal, and data sharing method” No.4568576, Japan.

Takamitsu Suzuki, Masanori Oumi(DNESO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Kousuke Hara, and Nobuhiro Mizuno(DENSO IT Laboratory) : ”Navigation system and storage for the navigation system” No.4566844, Japan.

Hiroshi Sasaki and Hirotoshi Iwasaki: ”Service composition apparatus, computer program, and service provision system for vehicles”, No.4554569, Japan.

Masanori Oumi,Takamitsu Suzuki(DNESO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Kousuke Hara, and Nobuhiro Mizuno: ”Navigation system”, US7,734,415, US.

Masanori Oumi, Takamitsu Suzuki(DNESO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Kousuke Hara, and Nobuhiro Mizuno(DENSO IT Laboratory) : ”Navigation system and coefficient determination program for the navigation system” No.4531646, Japan.

Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”User support apparatus and method” No.4531556, Japan.

Masanori Oumi, Takamitsu Suzuki,(DNESO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Kousuke Hara, and Nobuhiro Mizuno(DENSO IT Laboratory) : ”Navigation apparatus” No.4527644, Japan.

Takamitsu Suzuki, Masanori Oumi (DNESO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Kousuke Hara, and Nobuhiro Mizuno (DENSO IT Laboratory) : ”Navigation system and storage for the navigation system” No.2006 1 0100765.8, China.

Prochazka Zdenek : ”Region segmentation apparatus and method” No.4516448, Japan.

Seiji Kato, Takamitsu Suzuki, Masanori Oumi(DNESO), Nobuhiro Mizuno, Kousuke Hara, and Hirotoshi Iwasaki : ”Navigation apparatus” No.4511426, Japan.

Ari Widodo : ”A preprocessing apparatus of an object prediction and a preorocesing method of an object prediction” No.4508926, Japan.

Keisuke Uto : ”Information browsing apparatus and information browsing method” No.4498892, Japan.

Gaku Takano, Chiharu Yamano (DENSO IT Laboratory), Kazuma Natsume, and Yasuyuki Miyake (DENSO) : ”Rader signal Processor ” No.4498269, Japan.

Nobuhiro Mizuno, Hirotoshi Iwasaki (DENSO IT Laboratory), and Motomura Yoichi (AIST) : ”Information presentation system, method, and program” No.4477439, Japan.

Koichiro Suzuki, Chiharu Yamano, Gaku Takano (DENSO IT Laboratory), and Kazuma Natsume (DENSO):”ELECTRONIC SCANNING RADAR APPARATUS”, US 7,688,255 B2, United States.

Hiroshi Tsukahara and Hiroshi Doi: Image segmentation system, No.4477439, Japan.

Tomokatsu Okuya : ”Voice data output controlling apparatus”, No.4468716, Japan.

Akira Yoshizawa : ”Object detecting apparatus”, No.4445311, Japan.

Hiroshi Tsukahara and Hiroshi Doi: Image segmentation system , No.4434868, Japan.

Osamu Masutani : ”Navigation system”, No.4391108, Japan.

Nobuhiro Mizuno: ”Contents delivery system and contents receiveing/playing apparatus”, No.4387148, Japan.

Tomokatsu Okuya, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Yasutaka Yamauchi (DENSO IT Laboratory), Kunio Ohno, Masato Yoshida, and Youta Shinzato (Docomo Systems): Navigation apparatus, No.4381829, Japan.

Hiroshi Tsukahara and Hiroshi Doi: Image classification learning and identification systems , No.4376145, Japan.

Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki: Optimum route search system and server at the intersection, No.4272073, Japan.

Tomokatsu Okuya, Hirotoshi Iwasaki: Navigation apparatus, No.4272073, Japan.

Gaku Takano, Chiharu Yamano(DENSO IT Laboratory), Kazuma Natsume, Yasuyuki Miyake, Yasushi Sakuma(DENSO): RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSOR, No.US7,525,478 B2, United States.

Tomokatsu Okuya, Hirotoshi Iwasaki: Method to decide on a gathering spot with a car navigation system, No.4272073, Japan.

AriWidodo, Akira Yoshizawa, Yasutaka Yamauchi, Takeru(DENSO IT Laboratory): METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAZE TRACKING , No.4231884, Japan.

Nobuhiro Mizuno: Apparatus and method for vehicle headlight brightness control, No.4233906, Japan.

Masanobu Oumi, Takamitsu Suzuki(DENSO), Hirotoshi Iwasaki、Kosuke Hara, Nobuhiro Mizuno(DENSO IT Laboratory): NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, US7,437,240B2, United States.

Hideki Shirai(DENSO IT Laboratory), Kaduma Natsume(DENSO): APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL WAVE, US7,372,404B2, United States.

Gorou Ootsubo(DENSO IT Laboratory), Hidehiko Kawakami(DENSO): The instrument for car navigation system, No.4040937, Japan.

Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Osamu Masutani(DENSO IT Laboratory), Shinichi Honiden, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Yasushi Ando(NII): INFORMATION-SHARING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-SHARING SERVER, INFORMATION-SHARING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-SHARING PROGRAM, US7,248,947B2, United States.

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