Patents by Inventor Kanta Tsuji

Kanta Tsuji 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: 11919515
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle and a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and a speed of the host vehicle. The driving controller designates an inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle that travels in front of the host vehicle as a first inter-vehicle distance when the host vehicle is allowed to travel in a first driving mode, designates an inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle as a second inter-vehicle distance when the host vehicle is allowed to travel in a second driving mode, and designates the target inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle in the second driving mode as a longer distance between the first inter-vehicle distance and the second inter-vehicle distance when the driving mode is switched from the first driving mode to the second driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Takafumi Hirose, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20230391332
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle and a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and a speed of the host vehicle. The driving controller allows the host vehicle to travel in any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode in which the host vehicle is allowed to travel such that an inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle and the host vehicle becomes a target inter-vehicle distance and a second driving mode in which the host vehicle is decelerated and moved to a target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Takafumi Hirose, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20230322272
    Abstract: A vehicle control device of embodiments includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding status of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding status recognized by the recognizer or map information, a storage configured to store images of the surroundings of the vehicle captured by a peripheral camera mounted on the vehicle; and a storage controller configured to control the storage. The driving controller causes the vehicle to travel in one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode in which a task imposed on an occupant of the vehicle is greater than that in the first driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Noriyuki Imaeda, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Takashi Kishimoto, Daiki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11760366
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a first control unit and a second control unit each configured to perform travel control of a vehicle based on a recognition result of an external recognition device group configured to obtain external information of the vehicle and a detection result of a vehicle information detection unit configured to obtain state information of an actuator group of the vehicle. In a case in which functional degradation of at least one of the external recognition device group, the actuator group, and the vehicle information detection unit is detected, based on the recognition result and the detection result, the first control unit determines contents of vehicle control in fallback control for restricting a travel control function of the vehicle and determines whether to execute the fallback control by one of the first control unit and the second control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Aoyagi, Kanta Tsuji, Tadahiko Kanoh, Takuyuki Mukai, Jun Ochida, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Yuichi Komori, Takashi Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 11760380
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a control unit executes a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop position when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and, in the stop process, if a sidewalk or a road sign is recognized ahead of the vehicle according to a signal from an external environment recognition device, the control unit determines the stop position according to the recognized sidewalk or road sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Tadashi Naruse, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11554784
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; detect operation states of a plurality of external recognition sensors; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode, a second driving mode, and a third driving mode; change the third driving mode to either one of the first driving mode and the second driving mode when determining that a failure has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors that implement: a function of causing the vehicle to follow a preceding vehicle; and a function of assisting the vehicle in keeping a lane; and change the third driving mode to the second driving mode when determining that degradation in performance has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Akihiko Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 11524705
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1, 101), a control unit (15) is configured to execute a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop position located within a permitted distance when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and, in executing the stop process, the control unit computes an agreement between an object (X) contained in the map information based on an estimated position of the vehicle and an object (Y) on the road detected by an external environment recognition device (6), the permitted distance being smaller when the agreement is below a prescribed agreement threshold than when the agreement is equal to or above the agreement threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11511761
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first actuator that is configured to perform at least any of driving, braking, or steering of a host vehicle, a first controller that is configured to perform traveling control of the host vehicle by controlling the first actuator, a second actuator that is configured to perform at least any of driving, braking, or steering of the host vehicle, a second controller that is configured to perform traveling control of the host vehicle by controlling the second actuator, and a communication line that is interposed between the first controller and the second controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ochida, Tadahiko Kanoh, Takuji Hiroma, Kanta Tsuji, Takuyuki Mukai
  • Patent number: 11498563
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize situations around a vehicle; a determiner configured to determine any of lanes included in a road on which the vehicle travels as a reference lane; and a driving controller configured to control at least one of a speed and steering of the vehicle according to the situations recognized by the recognizer and the reference lane determined by the determiner, wherein the determiner is configured to, when the vehicle moves from a first road to a second road different from the first road, among a plurality of lanes included in the first road, according to a relative position of a first reference lane determined at a time before the vehicle moves to the second road with respect to the plurality of lanes, determine a second reference lane on the second road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirosawa, Tadahiko Kanoh, Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato, Katsuya Yashiro
  • Patent number: 11472409
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a controller that performs following control of following the preceding vehicle based on the peripheral information. The controller controls traveling of a self-vehicle by setting one of a first state which requires driving preparation by a driver and a second state which does not require the driving preparation by the driver, controls the self-vehicle by setting the first state if a behavior amount of the preceding vehicle exceeds a threshold; and controls the vehicle by setting the second state if the behavior amount of the preceding vehicle does not exceed the threshold, and changes the threshold based on the peripheral information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11440558
    Abstract: An automated driving control unit sets an automated driving state to a first automated driving state (step S3), in a case that an automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which a destination is set by a destination setting unit, sets the automated driving state to a second automated driving state (step S4), in a case that the automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which the destination is not set by the destination setting unit, and causes the automated driving state to transition from the first automated driving state to the second automated driving state (step S13), in a case that a current travel position lies outside of a travel route during the travel control in the first automated driving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kanta Tsuji, Daiki Nishida, Shigehiro Honda, Takafumi Hirose
  • Patent number: 11420631
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a transmission control unit that can select a restricted mode in which the range of a gear ratio of a transmission is restricted and an unrestricted mode in which the range of the gear ratio is not restricted, and controls the gear ratio in accordance with the selected transmission mode; and a lane change control unit that, if the unrestricted mode is selected in a case where a lane change request has been acquired, keeps the unrestricted mode and performs lane change control in which a host vehicle changes lanes, and if the restricted mode is selected in the case where the lane change request has been acquired, selects the unrestricted mode and performs the lane change control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20220234599
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle, a driving control unit configured to control at least one of acceleration and deceleration and steering of the host vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognition unit and to perform driving control of the host vehicle, and a driving request unit configured to execute a driving change request or a driving operation request based on the surrounding situation during execution of the driving control. The driving request unit is configured to output a first request and a second request different from the first request. The driving request unit comprises a first mode in which the first request is output, and the second request is output when the first request is not satisfied, and a second mode in which the second request is output without outputting the first request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta TSUJI, Yoshifumi NAKAMURA, Ayumu HORIBA, Akihiko AOYAGI, Yuichi KOMORI
  • Patent number: 11396296
    Abstract: A control system of a vehicle, comprises: a control unit that controls a lane change operation from a travel lane on which the vehicle is traveling to an adjacent lane; a detection unit that detects a driver's lane change intention; and a switching unit that switches between a first control state in which the lane change operation of the vehicle is restricted and a second control state in which the lane change operation of the vehicle is possible, wherein in a case in which the detection unit detects the driver's lane change intention when the state of the vehicle is in the first control state, the lane change operation by the control unit is performed after the switching unit has shifted the state of the vehicle from the first control state to the second control state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11396303
    Abstract: In a case where a first control device performs traveling control, an abnormality occurs in a first control target, and an abnormality further occurs in a first control target or a second control target, a vehicle control system executes the following processes: (A) in a case where no abnormality occurs in a first control target required for the traveling control, the first control device continues the traveling control; (B) in a case where an abnormality occurs in the first control target required for the traveling control and no abnormality occurs in the second control target required for the traveling control, the second control device executes the traveling control; and (C) in a case where an abnormality occurs in the first control target required for the traveling control and an abnormality occurs in the second control target required for the traveling control, the traveling control is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Seiji Watanabe, Akihiko Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20220227393
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1, 101, 201) configured for autonomous driving, a control unit executes a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop area when it is detected that the control unit or a driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and a stop maintaining process for keeping the vehicle parked following the vehicle coming to a stop in the stop process. The control unit keeps the brake lamp turned on while the stop maintaining process is being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Kanta TSUJI, Tadashi NARUSE, Daichi KATO
  • Patent number: 11383734
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, comprising, a setting unit that accepts setting of a destination; an acquisition unit that acquires peripheral information of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the vehicle based on the peripheral information, wherein the control unit executes, if the destination has been set, first control in which first assist for a course change is performed in accordance with a case in which the vehicle has entered a course change area from a first road existing on a traveling route to the destination to a second road connected to the first road, and executes, if the destination has not been set, second control in which second assist with an assist level lower than in the first assist is performed on a road existing on a current traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Nozomu Hirosawa, Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11377126
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1) configured for autonomous driving, a control unit (15) invokes an autonomous stopping mode when an intervention detection unit (10, 11, 13, 33) has failed to detect an acceptance of a driving intervention request by the driver when the driving intervention request is notified by a notification interface (31, 32), and the control unit restricts a functionality of the autonomous driving after the autonomous stopping mode has been invoked due to a driver's failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kanta Tsuji, Tadashi Naruse, Tadahiko Kanoh
  • Publication number: 20220204006
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; detect operation states of a plurality of external recognition sensors; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode, a second driving mode, and a third driving mode; change the third driving mode to either one of the first driving mode and the second driving mode when determining that a failure has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors that implement: a function of causing the vehicle to follow a preceding vehicle; and a function of assisting the vehicle in keeping a lane; and change the third driving mode to the second driving mode when determining that degradation in performance has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Akihiko Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20220204005
    Abstract: In a case where a first control device performs traveling control, an abnormality occurs in a first control target, and an abnormality further occurs in a first control target or a second control target, a vehicle control system executes the following processes: (A) in a case where no abnormality occurs in a first control target required for the traveling control, the first control device continues the traveling control; (B) in a case where an abnormality occurs in the first control target required for the traveling control and no abnormality occurs in the second control target required for the traveling control, the second control device executes the traveling control; and (C) in a case where an abnormality occurs in the first control target required for the traveling control and an abnormality occurs in the second control target required for the traveling control, the traveling control is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Seiji Watanabe, Akihiko Aoyagi