Patents by Inventor Gaku SHIMAMOTO

Gaku SHIMAMOTO 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: 20220306090
    Abstract: A stop assist system for moving a moving body to a stop position and making the moving body stop at the stop position includes: an external environment recognizing unit that recognizes an external environment of the moving body; and a moving body control unit that executes a driving process to make the moving body travel to the stop position based on a recognition result of the external environment recognizing unit. The moving body control unit suspends the driving process when, while the moving body is traveling to the stop position, the moving body control unit determines, based on the recognition result, that there is an object within a range of a prescribed lateral threshold value on a lateral outside of the moving body and the object extends over a prescribed longitudinal threshold value or more along a travel direction within the range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Takuma SEKINO, Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Akiko NAKAMURA, Kazuya KOBAYASHI, Masafumi SAGARA, Takeshi SASAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11455162
    Abstract: A software rewriting device, configured to rewrite software of a moving body, includes: a required time acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a required time for rewriting the software; a scheduled stop time acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a scheduled stop time at a predetermined position of the moving body; and a rewriting processing unit configured to execute a rewriting process of rewriting the software. When the required time is shorter than the scheduled stop time based on the information regarding the required time and the information regarding the scheduled stop time, the rewriting processing unit executes the rewriting process at the predetermined position, and when the required time is longer than the scheduled stop time based on the information regarding the required time and the information regarding the scheduled stop time, the rewriting processing unit does not execute the rewriting process at the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11449334
    Abstract: A software rewriting device, configured to rewrite software of a moving body, includes: a rewriting processing unit configured to execute a rewriting process of rewriting the software; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an accommodation area management device managing an accommodation area for accommodating the moving body. When the moving body executes the rewriting process in the accommodation area, the communication unit notifies execution of the rewriting process to the accommodation area management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Hidekazu Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 11443630
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined accommodation position in the parking lot, includes a priority assigning unit which assigns a priority to each of a plurality of moving bodies traveling in the parking lot according to an order in which each vehicle is traveled. The priority assigning unit assigns the priority to each vehicle according to a moving destination of each vehicle in the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11420619
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined parking space in the parking lot includes an acquisition unit which acquires position information of the vehicle in the parking lot, a determination unit which determines whether it is necessary to change a target parking space in which the vehicle should be stopped to a second parking space different from a first parking space in the parking lot when the vehicle is stopped in the first parking space in the parking lot based on the position information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a processing unit which performs a process of changing the target parking space subject to permission of a user of the vehicle when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to change the target parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11372401
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an operation screen including a contact sensor and remotely issues an instruction to move a vehicle, wherein output of the instruction to move the vehicle is started based on a reciprocating operation on the operation screen in a case in which the reciprocating operation has satisfied a predetermined condition, and the predetermined condition includes a condition related to at least one of a cumulative distance and a count of a stroke of the reciprocating operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Rikuro Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11347216
    Abstract: A remote parking system includes: a control device mounted on a vehicle and configured to execute remote parking processing; an operation terminal configured to be carried by a user; and a position determination unit mounted on the vehicle and/or the operation terminal and configured to determine a terminal position which is a position of the operation terminal. The control device is configured to calculate a first traveling route and a first recommended area. The first traveling route is a traveling route of the vehicle from an alighting position to a parking position. The first recommended area is an area where the user should be present when the vehicle moves along the first traveling route. The control device calculates a second traveling route on determining that the terminal position is not present within the first recommended area set for the first traveling route that has already been calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11318839
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a vehicle controller that, if a predetermined state transition condition is satisfied, makes a state transition of a vehicle from a drive possible state to a drive impossible state. The vehicle control device includes a vehicle occupant detection unit that detects a vehicle occupant in the vehicle. The vehicle controller makes the state transition to the drive impossible state that is different depending on a detection result from the vehicle occupant detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kojima, Katsuyasu Yamane, Tomonori Watanabe, Gaku Shimamoto
  • Publication number: 20220030384
    Abstract: The vehicle control system includes a first position measuring unit measuring a position of a mobile terminal by performing first position measuring processing, a second position measuring unit measuring a position of the mobile terminal by performing second position measuring processing having less power consumption in a vehicle by wireless communication than that of the first position measuring processing, and a position measurement control unit handling, as monitoring areas, a first area outside the vehicle and a second area outside the first area and, if the position of the mobile terminal is within the second area, continuing measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the second position measuring unit, and, after the position of the mobile terminal comes into the first area, switching to measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the first position measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Fumiaki Yamaguchi, Yusuke Takahashi, Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto
  • Publication number: 20210303002
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle, includes a specification unit which specifies a movement direction or target position of the vehicle moving in the parking lot, and a processor which groups a vehicle group consisting of a plurality of moving bodies moving in the same movement direction or a plurality of moving bodies moving toward the same target position when there are a plurality of moving bodies moving in the parking lot. The processor sets a leading vehicle which should be a head from the grouped vehicle group and moves the moving group with the set leading vehicle at the head while maintaining a constant interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI, Hidekazu OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20210302172
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle, includes a route generation unit which generates a traveling route for guiding the vehicle to a target position, and a processor which guides the vehicle to the target position based on the generated traveling route. The route generation unit generates a first traveling route and a second traveling route whose traveling direction or traveling method is different from that of the first traveling route. The processor selects the first traveling route or the second traveling route based on a traveling environment from a current position of the vehicle to the target position and guides the vehicle to the target position based on the selected traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210302978
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a moving body which includes information indicating an autonomous movement performance of the moving body, and a control unit which causes a first moving body to enter an accommodation area after notifying the first moving body of a first route which is a movement route of the first moving body in the accommodation area when the first moving body having a predetermined level of the autonomous movement performance enters the accommodation area, and causes a second moving body to enter the accommodation area after notifying the second moving body of a second path which is a movement path of the second moving body in the accommodation area when the second moving body having the autonomous movement performance higher than the predetermined level enters the accommodation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI, Hidekazu OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20210300339
    Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot, includes a determination unit which determines whether to restrict exit of the vehicle from the parking lot based on an entry traveling state which is a traveling state of the vehicle to be a target of exit when entering the parking lot and an exit traveling state which is a traveling state of the vehicle to be a target of exit when exiting from the parking lot when there is a request to make the vehicle exit from the parking lot, and a processor which restricts the exit of the vehicle from the parking lot based on a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210300395
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device that manages an accommodation area capable of accommodating a moving body includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an operation state of a user in the moving body, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an operation change, in which the operation of the moving body is replaced to be performed by the user, is performed, based upon the information indicating the operation state acquired before the moving body exits from the accommodation area, and a processing unit configured to allow the moving body to exit from the accommodation area when it is determined that the operation change is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210300338
    Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a terminal device of a user of a vehicle and the vehicle, a determination unit for determining whether user information for identifying the user and vehicle information for identifying the vehicle correspond to each other when the communicator receives information for moving the vehicle from the terminal device, and a permission unit which allows the vehicle to move to a target position based on a determination result of the determination unit. When the communicator receives information from the terminal device to move vehicles including a user vehicle and another vehicle different from the user vehicle, the determination unit determines an association degree indicating a relationship between the user vehicle and the another vehicle and the permission unit permits movement of the vehicles to respective target positions based on a determination result regarding the association degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210304606
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device which manages an accommodation area capable of accommodating a moving body includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the moving body, a determination unit configured to determine whether the moving body satisfies a condition of not allowing entry into the accommodation area based on the information on the moving body, and a processing unit configured to instruct the outside of the accommodation area as a destination when it is determined that the moving body satisfies the condition of not allowing entry into the accommodation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210304519
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device includes: a reception unit configured to receive from a user of a moving body an instruction that a task is to be executed for the moving body; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of generating an accommodation plan for the moving body when the moving body is accommodated in an accommodation area. Before the moving body approaches the accommodation area and when the moving body approaches the accommodation area, the reception unit can receive from the user the instruction that the task is to be executed for the moving body. The processing unit generates the accommodation plan including the execution of the task if the instruction that the task is to be executed for the moving body is received before the moving body approaches the accommodation area and the instruction is received again when the moving body approaches the accommodation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210300340
    Abstract: A predetermined area management device, configured to manage a predetermined area into which a moving body can enter, the predetermined area being an area in which the entering moving body automatically moves, the predetermined area management device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating the operation state of an automatic moving function of the moving body; an operation state determination unit configured to determine whether the automatic moving function of the moving body is in operation or in non-operation based upon the operation state; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of allowing or restricting the entry of the moving body into the predetermined area based upon the determination result of the operation state determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210304082
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device is configured to manage an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body and includes a reservation reception unit configured to receive a use reservation related to use of the accommodation area of the moving body, and an entry determination unit configured to determine permission or non-permission of entry of the moving body into the accommodation area. The reservation reception unit is configured to acquire information on a size of the moving body when receiving the use reservation. The entry determination unit is configured to compare the size of the moving body when the moving body enters the accommodation area with the size of the moving body acquired when the use reservation is received and determine whether to permit the entry of the moving body into the accommodation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210304081
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device is configured to manage an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body and includes a reservation reception unit configured to receive a use reservation when the moving body uses the accommodation area, and an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine an accommodation position of the moving body. The reservation reception unit is configured to acquire information on the moving body when receiving the use reservation. The accommodation position determination unit is configured to set the accommodation position based on the information at the time of receiving the use reservation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI, Shogo KOBAYASHI