Patents by Inventor Hideaki MISAWA

Hideaki MISAWA 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: 20230406357
    Abstract: In an autonomous driving control device, a collection unit collects from an autonomous driving vehicle, driving data including own-state quantities representing a state of the autonomous driving vehicle. A determination unit compares a driving trajectory under evaluation for the autonomous driving vehicle with a reference driving trajectory acquired from a driving trajectory model representing specific values of the own-state quantities in a time series, and determines an abnormality level indicating a degree of deviation between the driving trajectory under evaluation and the reference driving trajectory. Upon the determination unit determining that the abnormality level indicates presence of an abnormality, a presentation unit presents to an operator the image data, based on which the abnormality level was determined to indicate the presence of an abnormality, and receive a confirmation of presence or absence of an abnormality and its factor as input from the operator. An output unit outputs report data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: Hideaki MISAWA
  • Publication number: 20230401870
    Abstract: An autonomous driving system includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an obstacle based on image data obtained by imaging a predetermined region including a road on which an autonomous vehicle travels, the imaging being performed by an imaging device installed at a specific location in the external environment of the autonomous vehicle, a feature quantity distribution creation unit configured to create a feature quantity distribution expressing a distribution of features related to obstacles recognized in the past, and an erroneous recognition judgement unit configured to compare the created feature quantity distribution with a feature quantity of an obstacle recognized as an evaluation subject, to thereby judge whether the obstacle recognized as the evaluation subject is erroneously recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Hideaki MISAWA
  • Patent number: 11423772
    Abstract: A center device is used in a probe center that collects information from a plurality of vehicles, and functions as an anomaly detector detecting anomaly of travel environment caused on a road. The center device obtains drive data from a vehicle, and determines a probability of anomaly resolution regarding anomaly in a travel environment caused on the road, based on the obtained drive data. The center device, upon determining that anomaly may possibly be resolvable, obtains image data used for a situation determination of an abnormal area, and also obtains a determination result of anomaly resolution based on the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Takenaka, Hideaki Misawa, Daisuke Hirano
  • Patent number: 11361555
    Abstract: A server device includes: a data collection unit that collects vehicle behavior data; a scene extraction unit that extracts, from the collected vehicle behavior data, driving scenes corresponding to the behavior of the vehicle and a scene feature amount of each of the driving scenes; an abnormality detection unit that calculates a degree of abnormality which represents an extent of deviation of the scene feature amount of each of the extracted driving scenes relative to a driving model, and detects a driving scene including a location of an abnormality using the calculated degree of abnormality; a section determination unit that extracts driving scenes satisfying a predetermined condition from among the detected driving scene and a plurality of driving scenes continuous to the driving scene, and determines, as an abnormal behavior section, a time range defined by the total continuation time of the extracted driving scenes; an image request unit that requests, from the vehicle, one or more captured images acco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Misawa, Kenji Muto
  • Patent number: 11061911
    Abstract: In a driving data analyzer, a data collector collects, from at least one vehicle, driving data sequences while each of the driving data sequences is correlated with identification data. Each driving data sequence includes sequential driving data items, and each driving data item represents at least one of a driver's operation of at least one vehicle and a behavior of the at least one vehicle based on the at least one of a driver's operation. The identification data represents a type of at least one external factor that contributes to variations in the driving data items. A feature extractor applies a data compression network model to the driving data sequences to thereby extract, from the driving data sequences, at least one latent feature independently from the type of the at least one external factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST
    Inventors: Hideaki Misawa, Kazuhito Takenaka, Tadahiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20210004612
    Abstract: A server device includes: a data collection unit that collects vehicle behavior data; a scene extraction unit that extracts, from the collected vehicle behavior data, driving scenes corresponding to the behavior of the vehicle and a scene feature amount of each of the driving scenes; an abnormality detection unit that calculates a degree of abnormality which represents an extent of deviation of the scene feature amount of each of the extracted driving scenes relative to a driving model, and detects a driving scene including a location of an abnormality using the calculated degree of abnormality; a section determination unit that extracts driving scenes satisfying a predetermined condition from among the detected driving scene and a plurality of driving scenes continuous to the driving scene, and determines, as an abnormal behavior section, a time range defined by the total continuation time of the extracted driving scenes; an image request unit that requests, from the vehicle, one or more captured images acco
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Hideaki MISAWA, Kenji MUTO
  • Publication number: 20200226920
    Abstract: A center device is used in a probe center that collects information from a plurality of vehicles, and functions as an anomaly detector detecting anomaly of travel environment caused on a road. The center device obtains drive data from a vehicle, and determines a probability of anomaly resolution regarding anomaly in a travel environment caused on the road, based on the obtained drive data. The center device, upon determining that anomaly may possibly be resolvable, obtains image data used for a situation determination of an abnormal area, and also obtains a determination result of anomaly resolution based on the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhito TAKENAKA, Hideaki MISAWA, Daisuke HIRANO
  • Patent number: 10522032
    Abstract: In a driving-state data storage apparatus, a collector collects, from each of vehicles on a target travelling road, a value of data indicative of a driving state of the corresponding vehicle to correspondingly obtain driving-state data values for the target road. A data allocator divides, based on similarity among the driving-state data values, the target traveling road into a plurality of traveling segments, and extracts, from the driving-state data values, data values for each of the divided travelling segments. The data values extracted for each of the travelling segments are similar to each other. The data allocator allocates a distribution of the extracted data values for each of the divided travelling segments to the corresponding one of the divided travelling segments as a feature distribution. A storage unit stores the feature distribution allocated for each of the travelling segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Mori, Hideaki Misawa, Kazuhito Takenaka, Yuki Shinohara, Kentaro Hitomi, Utsushi Sakai, Masumi Egawa, Kenji Muto
  • Patent number: 10442444
    Abstract: A mobile network device is provided and includes a memory and a control module. The memory is configured to store a driver assistance application. The control module is configured to execute the driver assistance application and when executing the driver assistance application the control module is configured to: receive mobile sensor signals from a plurality of sensors in the mobile network device; normalize the mobile sensor signals to generate normalized signals; translate the normalized signals to a plurality of time sequences representing vehicle behavior; concatenate the plurality of time sequences to generate pseudo-vehicle behavior signals; and generate driver assistance signals based on the pseudo-vehicle behavior signals to assist a driver of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Bando, Hideaki Misawa
  • Patent number: 10415981
    Abstract: An anomaly estimation apparatus includes a collection section that collects vehicle data, a feature amount calculation section that calculates a feature amount from the vehicle data and stores the feature amount and a place corresponding thereto, an anomaly determination section that determines whether an anomaly occurrence point is present based on the feature amount, an accumulation section that, if the anomaly occurrence point is present, uses the vehicle data at the anomaly occurrence point and an anomaly periphery point to generate estimation data, an information generation section that uses the estimation data to generate causality information representing causality between an anomaly caused at the anomaly occurrence point and an anomaly caused at the anomaly periphery point, and an estimation section that, if the anomaly occurrence point is present, uses the causality information to estimate transition of the anomaly from the anomaly occurrence point to the anomaly periphery point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Misawa, Masumi Egawa, Utsushi Sakai, Kentaro Hitomi, Yuki Shinohara, Kazuhito Takenaka, Masataka Mori
  • Patent number: 10380887
    Abstract: In a driving assist system, a driving evaluator compares a driving feature data item sampled at each predetermined sampling point and obtained from a target vehicle with historical driving data items for the corresponding sampling point. The driving evaluator obtains, based on a result of the comparison, an evaluation value of the driving feature data item for the target vehicle at each predetermined sampling point. An unusual driving determiner obtains a cumulative sum of selected values in the evaluation values of the driving feature data items for the target vehicle. The unusual driving determiner determines whether the cumulative sum is larger than a predetermined threshold, and determines that driving of a driver of the target vehicle is unusual upon determining that the cumulative sum is larger than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Takenaka, Masumi Egawa, Utsushi Sakai, Kentaro Hitomi, Yuki Shinohara, Hideaki Misawa, Masataka Mori
  • Patent number: 10300922
    Abstract: A risk assessment system is provided and includes a behavior description generator, driving behavior comparator, and risk assessment modules and a transceiver. The behavior description generator module receives a set of driving features and topics corresponding to a driving behavior of a first driver in a location and under a set of driving conditions. The driving behavior comparator module: compares the set of driving features and the topics to other sets of features and topics, which correspond to driving behaviors of other drivers for the location and same or similar driving conditions as the set of driving conditions; and generates an anomaly score for the first driver based on results of the comparison. The risk assessment module calculates a risk assessment score for the driver based on the anomaly score, where the risk assessment score is indicative of a risk level of the first driver relative to the other drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haris Volos, Kenji Konishi, Kazuhito Takenaka, Yuki Shinohara, Hideaki Misawa
  • Publication number: 20190114345
    Abstract: In a driving data analyzer, a data collector collects, from at least one vehicle, driving data sequences while each of the driving data sequences is correlated with identification data. Each driving data sequence includes sequential driving data items, and each driving data item represents at least one of a driver's operation of at least one vehicle and a behavior of the at least one vehicle based on the at least one of a driver's operation. The identification data represents a type of at least one external factor that contributes to variations in the driving data items. A feature extractor applies a data compression network model to the driving data sequences to thereby extract, from the driving data sequences, at least one latent feature independently from the type of the at least one external factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hideaki MISAWA, Kazuhito TAKENAKA, Tadahiro TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190100216
    Abstract: A risk assessment system is provided and includes a behavior description generator, driving behavior comparator, and risk assessment modules and a transceiver. The behavior description generator module receives a set of driving features and topics corresponding to a driving behavior of a first driver in a location and under a set of driving conditions. The driving behavior comparator module: compares the set of driving features and the topics to other sets of features and topics, which correspond to driving behaviors of other drivers for the location and same or similar driving conditions as the set of driving conditions; and generates an anomaly score for the first driver based on results of the comparison. The risk assessment module calculates a risk assessment score for the driver based on the anomaly score, where the risk assessment score is indicative of a risk level of the first driver relative to the other drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Haris VOLOS, Kenji KONISHI, Kazuhito TAKENAKA, Yuki SHINOHARA, Hideaki MISAWA
  • Publication number: 20180023965
    Abstract: An anomaly estimation apparatus includes a collection section that collects vehicle data, a feature amount calculation section that calculates a feature amount from the vehicle data and stores the feature amount and a place corresponding thereto, an anomaly determination section that determines whether an anomaly occurrence point is present based on the feature amount, an accumulation section that, if the anomaly occurrence point is present, uses the vehicle data at the anomaly occurrence point and an anomaly periphery point to generate estimation data, an information generation section that uses the estimation data to generate causality information representing causality between an anomaly caused at the anomaly occurrence point and an anomaly caused at the anomaly periphery point, and an estimation section that, if the anomaly occurrence point is present, uses the causality information to estimate transition of the anomaly from the anomaly occurrence point to the anomaly periphery point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hideaki MISAWA, Masumi EGAWA, Utsushi SAKAI, Kentaro HITOMI, Yuki SHINOHARA, Kazuhito TAKENAKA, Masataka MORI
  • Publication number: 20180018871
    Abstract: In a driving assist system, a driving evaluator compares a driving feature data item sampled at each predetermined sampling point and obtained from a target vehicle with historical driving data items for the corresponding sampling point. The driving evaluator obtains, based on a result of the comparison, an evaluation value of the driving feature data item for the target vehicle at each predetermined sampling point. An unusual driving determiner obtains a cumulative sum of selected values in the evaluation values of the driving feature data items for the target vehicle. The unusual driving determiner determines whether the cumulative sum is larger than a predetermined threshold, and determines that driving of a driver of the target vehicle is unusual upon determining that the cumulative sum is larger than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhito TAKENAKA, Masumi EGAWA, Utsushi SAKAI, Kentaro HITOMI, Yuki SHINOHARA, Hideaki MISAWA, Masataka MORI
  • Publication number: 20170337812
    Abstract: In a driving-state data storage apparatus, a collector collects, from each of vehicles on a target travelling road, a value of data indicative of a driving state of the corresponding vehicle to correspondingly obtain driving-state data values for the target road. A data allocator divides, based on similarity among the driving-state data values, the target traveling road into a plurality of traveling segments, and extracts, from the driving-state data values, data values for each of the divided travelling segments. The data values extracted for each of the travelling segments are similar to each other. The data allocator allocates a distribution of the extracted data values for each of the divided travelling segments to the corresponding one of the divided travelling segments as a feature distribution. A storage unit stores the feature distribution allocated for each of the travelling segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Masataka MORI, Hideaki MISAWA, Kazuhito TAKENAKA, Yuki SHINOHARA, Kentaro HITOMI, Utsushi SAKAI, Masumi EGAWA, Kenji MUTO