Patents by Inventor Gakuyo Fujimoto

Gakuyo Fujimoto 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: 20240109549
    Abstract: A control device performs: setting a moving area including a trajectory along which a mobile object is scheduled to move with behavior of the mobile object and a surrounding area when the mobile object moves straight, turns right, or turns left; controlling an information provision device configured to provide a driver with information such that the driver is notified of presence of a first type of object when a first type of object is present in the surrounding area and the driver does not see the first type of object; and controlling the information provision device such that the driver is re-notified of the first type of object when the first type of object is present in the moving area and the driver does not see the first type of object after the driver has seen the first type of object through the notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura, Shigenobu Saigusa
  • Publication number: 20240109550
    Abstract: A control device of an embodiment is a control device that makes a proposal for steering to avoid a risk object present on a traveling direction side of a mobile object to a driver of the mobile object and includes a determiner configured to determine, when it is assumed that the mobile object is caused to travel straight from a current position of the mobile object in a current traveling direction for a predetermined time, whether an assumed reference position of the mobile object intersects a traveling road boundary, and a proposer configured to suppress the proposal when it is determined that the reference position intersects the traveling road boundary, and makes the proposal when it is determined that the reference position does not intersect the traveling road boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Atsushi Kato, Shigenobu Saigusa, Kotaro Fujimura, Misako Yoshimura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20240109551
    Abstract: A notification control device performs: detecting a sightline of a driver; causing an information output device to output a first warning when a first condition is satisfied; and causing the information output device to output a second warning when a second condition is satisfied. The first condition is a condition that the driver's sight line is out of a predetermined range in which the driver is considered to see a view in front of the mobile object and a state in which the sightline is out of the range is maintained for a first time. The second condition is a condition that the driver's sightline is out of the range, a risky object to be noticed is present in a reference area, and the state in which the sightline is out of the range is maintained for a second time shorter than the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Misako Yoshimura, Shigenobu Saigusa
  • Publication number: 20240109554
    Abstract: A control device is configured to perform: performing a first process when an index value indicating a degree of closeness to a risky object which is present in front of a mobile object is less than a first threshold value; performing a second process when the index value is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and less than a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value; and performing a third process and the second process when the index value is equal to or greater than the second threshold value. The third process includes a fourth process of proposing a driving operation for avoiding the risky object to a driver. The fourth process is not performed when the driver has performed an action for reducing or releasing an operation of an operator instructing an accelerating operation for accelerating the mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kotaro Fujimura, Atsushi Kato, Shigenobu Saigusa, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20240109583
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a storage medium configured to store computer-readable instructions, and a processor that is connected to the storage medium, in which the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to determine to prompt a driver of a mobile object to avoid contact with an object detected by an object detection device whose detection range is at least on a traveling direction side of the mobile object according to steering, and a steering direction for avoiding contact with the object, and when it is determined to prompt the driver of the mobile object to avoid contact with the object according to steering, cause an actuator capable of outputting force to a steering operator to execute outputting, first, a force to reach a first target force in the same direction as the steering direction in a first period to maintain the state, and causing, then, a force output in a second period longer than the first period to reach zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Misako Yoshimura, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11934951
    Abstract: A control apparatus for performing predetermined control for a predetermined system using reinforcement learning detects an event in a life cycle of the predetermined system and, in response to the detection of the event, set an exploration parameter specified in accordance with the detected event as a value for adjusting a ratio of exploration in the reinforcement learning. The control apparatus executes the predetermined control using the reinforcement learning in accordance with the set exploration parameter. When a first event is detected, the control apparatus sets the exploration parameter so that makes the ratio of the exploration set during a first period after the first event is smaller than the ratio of the exploration set during a second period before the first event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11914386
    Abstract: A mobile object control device includes a first controller that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile object based on an output of a detection device having a space around the mobile object as a detection range and generates a first movement plan for the mobile object in a first period based on the recognized surrounding situation of the mobile object, and a second controller that generates a second movement plan for the mobile object in a second period shorter than the first period, and when the second controller generates label data in which label information indicating different values depending on at least the presence or absence of a moving object is imparted to each of division elements obtained by dividing the space around the mobile object into a finite number, and generates the second movement plan based on the label data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20230258801
    Abstract: A control device includes: a distance measuring device that detects an object; a support device that supports the distance measuring device; and a controller configured to detect a prescribed object and to control a state of the support device. When the object has been detected, the controller is configured to cause the distance measuring device to emit electromagnetic waves in a state in which the distance measuring device is supported in a first posture or at a first position and then to cause the distance measuring device to emit electromagnetic waves in a state in which the distance measuring device is supported in a second posture or at a second position to which a direction or a position of the distance measuring device changes in at least one of an upward direction and a downward direction from the first posture or the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Hideki Matsunaga, Takashi Matsumoto, Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20230252675
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device comprising a storage medium storing computer-readable commands and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable commands to: acquire a subject bird's eye view image obtained by converting an image, which is photographed by a camera mounted in a mobile object to capture a surrounding situation of the mobile object, into a bird's eye view coordinate system; input the subject bird's eye view image into a trained model, which is trained to receive input of a bird's eye view image to output at least a three-dimensional object in the bird's eye view image, to detect a three-dimensional object in the subject bird's eye view image; detect a travelable space of the mobile object based on the detected three-dimensional object; and cause the mobile object to travel so as to pass through the travelable space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20230252804
    Abstract: A learning method includes steps of associating, with an extended area in a bird's-eye view image, an annotation indicating that the extended area is a three-dimensional object; and generating, based on training data in which a bird's-eye view image is associated with an annotated bird's-eye view image obtained by assigning an annotation to a three-dimensional object in the bird's-eye view image, a trained model by learning parameters of a machine learning model so that the trained model receives input of a bird's-eye view image to output a three-dimensional object in the bird's-eye view image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20230245325
    Abstract: Provided is a moving object detection device including a storage medium storing computer-readable commands and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable commands to: acquire image data including a plurality of frames representing a surrounding condition of a mobile object, which are photographed by a camera mounted in the mobile object in time series; calculate a difference image between the plurality of frames by calculating differences between the plurality of frames and binarizing the differences using a first value and a second value; extract a grid for which the density of pixels with the first value is equal to or larger than a first threshold value from among a plurality of grids set in the difference image; and detect the extracted grid as a moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Satoru Araki, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20230234566
    Abstract: A control system for a mobile object includes: a first sensor; a second sensor, different from the first sensor, that is mounted in the mobile object and is configured to detect an object by causing the mobile object to contact or approach the object; and a control device configured to recognize circumstances of the mobile object on the basis of a detection result from the first sensor and to control movement of the mobile object on the basis of the circumstances. The control device assumes that a second object which is not recognizable or hard to recognize is present at a reference position which is determined on the basis of a position of a prescribed first object when the first object has been recognized and causes the mobile object to move to a position at which the second sensor is able to detect the second object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Hideki Matsunaga, Takashi Matsumoto, Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20230234609
    Abstract: A control device mounted on a mobile object acquires surrounding situation information indicating a surrounding situation of a mobile object recognized by an object recognition device mounted on the mobile object, detects a predetermined reference object present in a traveling direction of the mobile object on the basis of the surrounding situation information, identifies a travelable area of the mobile object on the basis of the surrounding situation information, controls traveling of the mobile object such that the mobile object travels in the travelable area, causes the mobile object to move closer to the reference object when the reference object is detected, and detects an accompanying object accompanying the reference object on the basis of the surrounding situation information recognized by the object recognition device after the mobile object moves closer to the reference object, and identifying the travelable area by excluding the reference object and the accompanying object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Hideki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11584873
    Abstract: A sealing member according to the present invention is a sealing member against a synthetic oil containing an ester-type additive, and includes 95.0% by mass or more and 99.5% by mass or less of a para-phenylene diisocyanate-based polyurethane and 0.5% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less of a same compound as the ester-based additive. The sealing member according to the present invention has a smaller friction coefficient and more excellent deformability than conventional sealing members and that can inhibit swelling caused by a synthetic oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Komori, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220315015
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire reference information with which a facility where an occupant is likely to stop by is identifiable; to recognize whether a mobile object is moving on a roadway or a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the predetermined region and the roadway in a traveling direction of the mobile object; to partially control a speed of the mobile object; to limit a speed of the mobile object moving on the roadway to a first speed; to limit a speed of the mobile object moving on the predetermined region to a second speed lower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and it is determined with reference to the reference information that there is a facility where the occupant is likely to stop
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220318960
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs external recognition for driving assistance or automated driving of a vehicle based on a captured image obtained from a photographing apparatus capturing an image requiring distortion correction. The image processing apparatus: moves and sets a partial region to be a target of distortion correction processing according to a rule, and applies the distortion correction processing to the set partial region of the captured image to acquire a partial image corrected in distortion; detects a road mirror around the vehicle; and changes the rule so that a partial region corresponding to a predetermined direction of the vehicle is preferentially set as a target of the distortion correction processing when a road mirror is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Gakuyo FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220315026
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire information indicating a road situation in a traveling direction of a mobile object; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on a roadway or a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the sidewalk and the predetermined region in the traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least partially, and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the roadway to a first speed and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on a sidewalk to a second speed slower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object closer to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and the road situation is in a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220314987
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire information indicating a behavior of a mobile object which is capable of moving on both a roadway and a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on the roadway or the predetermined region; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the predetermined region and the roadway in a traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least partially; to limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the roadway to a first speed; to limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the predetermined region to a second speed slower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object closer to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and a behavior of the mobile object satisfies a predeterm
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220315006
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire a state of at least one occupant getting on a mobile object capable of moving on both a roadway and a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on the roadway or the predetermined region; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the predetermined region and the roadway in a traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least partially, and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the roadway to a first speed and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the predetermined region to a second speed slower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object closer to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and the state of the occupant is a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220309798
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle including an image capturing device periodically acquires an image of an external environment of the vehicle from the image capturing device and recognizes a target object in the external environment of the vehicle based on the acquired image. The apparatus controls setting of a predetermined region for the acquired image and performs distortion reduction processing for reducing distortion of the image for the set predetermined region. In a case where a particular target object that is recognized is included in the predetermined region, the apparatus changes the predetermined region such that a region other than the particular target object included in the predetermined region increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Gakuyo FUJIMOTO