Patents by Inventor Kei KAMIYA

Kei KAMIYA 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: 11004341
    Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance supporting apparatus may include a situation determination unit configured to determine whether it is a situation that there exists no moving object proceeding in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle; a first sensor and configured to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision in accordance with a detection result of the first sensor in a determination region ahead of the vehicle. The avoidance operation controller uses a region which is narrower in a direction perpendicular to the travelling direction and parallel to a horizontal direction as the determination region when it is the situation that there exists no moving object than when it is not the situation that there exists no moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20210114591
    Abstract: In a driving assistance control apparatus for a vehicle, an acquirer acquires a detected traveling state of the vehicle and a detected traveling state of another vehicle. A controller determines whether to perform braking assistance using a deterministic indicator for collision including at least one of a time, a distance, and a required deceleration to collision with the other vehicle and a deterministic indicator for crossing including at least one of a time, a distance, and a required deceleration to reaching a path of travel of the other vehicle. The deterministic indicator for collision and the deterministic indicator for crossing are acquired using the acquired traveling state of the vehicle and the acquired traveling state of the other vehicle. Further, in response to determining to perform the braking assistance, the controller causes a driving assistance unit to perform the braking assistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Toshinori OKITA, Tasuku USUI
  • Patent number: 10977944
    Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance support apparatus includes a state determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is a state where a moving object proceeding in a direction intersecting with a traveling direction of a vehicle may exist; a first sensor configured to detect an object in front of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation control unit configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision according to a detection result of the first sensor within a determination region in front of the vehicle. The avoidance operation control unit uses a region that is wider in a direction perpendicular and horizontal to the travelling direction as the determination region when it is determined that there is a state where the moving object may exist in comparison with when it is determined that there is no state where the moving object may exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20210070287
    Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus controls a safety apparatus for avoiding collision between an own vehicle and an object, based on detection information from an object detection apparatus. The assistance apparatus calculates a predicted time to collision of a target object and the own vehicle, and operates the safety apparatus in response to the predicted time to collision being equal to or less than a predetermined operation timing. In response to a steering operation by a driver for collision avoidance of the own vehicle being performed, the assistance apparatus performs operation-stop in which operation of the safety apparatus is stopped or operation-delay in which the operation timing is delayed. The assistance apparatus suppresses the operation-stop or the operation-delay in response to a target object serving as a collision avoidance target being recognized in a path of the own vehicle after the steering operation by the driver, based on the detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Toru TAKAHASHI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Ryo TAKAKI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20210039636
    Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Toru TAKAHASHI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI
  • Publication number: 20200406891
    Abstract: In a driving assistance control apparatus for a vehicle, an acquisition unit is configured to acquire a detected traveling state of the vehicle and a detected traveling environment of the vehicle. A control unit is configured to, when a curvature radius of a travel trajectory of the vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined radius threshold, cause a driving assistance unit to perform collision avoidance assistance using, as an activation area of the collision avoidance assistance, a reduced activation area obtained by reducing a reference activation area, and when determining that the vehicle is making a constant turn, cause the driving assistance unit to perform the collision avoidance assistance by using the traveling state of the vehicle and the traveling environment of the vehicle and the reference activation area even if the curvature radius of the travel trajectory is equal to or less than the radius threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Atsushi ITO
  • Publication number: 20200398858
    Abstract: A driving support control device of a vehicle is provided including an acquiring unit configured to acquire a traveling state of the vehicle which is detected and a traveling environment of the vehicle, and a control unit, configured to, in a case where zero-point learning of a yaw rate sensor has not been completed, cause a driving support unit to execute collision avoidance support using a reduced operational area reduced from a reference operational area which becomes a reference in view of an error of the yaw rate sensor as an operational area of collision avoidance support, and the traveling state of the vehicle and the traveling environment of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Atsushi ITO
  • Patent number: 10850729
    Abstract: A collision determination device for determining the probability of a collision between an own vehicle and a target in the predetermined determination area surrounding the own vehicle includes an orientation detection unit for detecting the orientation of the target relative to the own vehicle, an image sensor for capturing images surrounding the own vehicle, an angle calculation unit for calculating an angle ?0 formed by the movement direction of the own vehicle and the movement direction of the target, and a collision determination unit which uses image data acquired from the image sensor to calculate the state of a lane compartment line, and determines the probability of a collision between the own vehicle and the target based on the angle ?0 and the calculation result of the lane compartment line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya, Takahiro Baba, Kouichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20200361454
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result by internal field sensors, a second determination section that determines a probability that the vehicle changes course, by using information related to a traveling situation output, a decision section that decides an operation mode of collision avoidance assistance using a collision avoidance assistance mechanism, by using a combination of a determination result of the first determination section and a determination result of the second determination section, and an assistance section that performs a process for controlling the collision avoidance assistance mechanism in the operation mode that has been decided by the decision section, upon detection of a collision probability with an obstacle using the information output by information output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo TAKAKI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20200262421
    Abstract: When a vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking, secondary braking is prohibited in S305, a hazard lamp flashes in S310, and an idling stop is prohibited in S320. After it is determined in S325 that the vehicle is stopped, when it is determined in S330 that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, stop maintenance braking is released in S340.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Kei KAMIYA, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI, Tomoyuki DOI
  • Publication number: 20200262422
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI, Shinichi NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10679502
    Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus is provided with an intersection determination unit, a dead angle determination unit, a right-left turn determination unit and a collision avoidance control unit. The collision avoidance control unit is configured to relax, when the right-left turn determination unit determines that the own vehicle makes a right turn or a left turn and the dead angle determination unit determines presence of the dead angle region, an operational condition of a collision avoidance process compared to a case where the dead angle region is not present, in order to avoid a collision between the own vehicle and a straight-running vehicle running on the opposite lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Kei Kamiya, Yosuke Ito, Takaharu Oguri, Ryo Takaki
  • Publication number: 20200139944
    Abstract: A brake assistance apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The brake assistance apparatus includes a detecting unit and a brake assistance control unit. The detecting unit detects a state surrounding an own vehicle. The brake assistance control unit performs brake assistance to brake the own vehicle at a first brake timing, based on the detected state surrounding the own vehicle. In response to the own vehicle being determined to be advancing at an intersection based on the detected state surrounding the own vehicle, the brake assistance control unit performs the brake assistance at a second brake timing that is later than the first brake timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI
  • Publication number: 20200130683
    Abstract: The collision prediction apparatus is installed in a vehicle and predicts a collision between a moving object and the vehicle. The collision predict apparatus includes a vehicle path estimation section, a moving object path estimation section, an obstruction specifying section, a direction change information acquisition section, a moving object extraction area setting section, and a collision predict section. The moving object extraction area setting section sets, as a moving object extraction area, an area that is in the vicinity of an obstruction and is near an outer periphery of the obstruction facing a path of the vehicle after change of a traveling direction indicated by direction change information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takaharu OGURI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Ryo TAKAKI, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10576973
    Abstract: In a driving assistance device, a distance information is acquired based on an image acquired by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle. The distance information includes a relative distance of a preceding vehicle in a travelling direction of the own vehicle, relative velocity thereof, and acceleration information thereof including relative acceleration. A time required until the own vehicle collides with the preceding vehicle is calculated with consideration of the acceleration information as a predicted collision time. It is determined whether or not the preceding vehicle is in a deceleration state by using the relative velocity. Further it is determined whether or not a collision possibility between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle exists, and it is also determined to use the predicted collision time on the condition that the preceding vehicle is determined to be in the deceleration state and the collision possibility is determined to exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20190329745
    Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus includes a travelling state calculation section, a target detection section, a target state calculation section, a lateral moving object determination section, a collision determination section, and a collision avoidance control section. The collision avoidance control section calculates, based on (i) a passing-through period of the lateral moving object in which the lateral moving object passes through an own vehicle course that is a moving course of the own vehicle and (ii) a reaching time of the own vehicle that is a period remaining before the own vehicle reaching a lateral moving object course that is a moving course of the lateral moving object, an operation timing of the brakes for the lateral moving object passing through the own vehicle course before the own vehicle reaches the lateral moving object course, and operates the brakes at the calculated operation timing of the brakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20190291730
    Abstract: A collision avoidance device for a vehicle is provided. The collision avoidance device includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an attribute acquisition unit for using a sensing result from the object sensing unit to acquire an attribute of an oncoming vehicle, and a collision avoidance execution unit for executing at least one of a notification of a possibility of collision and a collision avoidance operation, if it is determined, based on the attribute acquired by the attribute acquisition unit, that the oncoming vehicle crosses a center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20190291729
    Abstract: A braking assistance device for a vehicle includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an intersection entry determination unit for determining entry of a host vehicle into an intersection, and a braking assistance execution unit for executing braking assistance by a braking device so as to avoid or mitigate collision with the object. If the host vehicle is determined to be entering the intersection, the braking assistance execution unit determines, based on a sensing result from the object sensing unit, a traffic environment at the intersection, and controls execution of the braking assistance in accordance with the determined traffic environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20190073903
    Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus is provided with an intersection determination unit, a dead angle determination unit, a right-left turn determination unit and a collision avoidance control unit. The collision avoidance control unit is configured to relax, when the right-left turn determination unit determines that the own vehicle makes a right turn or a left turn and the dead angle determination unit determines presence of the dead angle region, an operational condition of a collision avoidance process compared to a case where the dead angle region is not present, in order to avoid a collision between the own vehicle and a straight-running vehicle running on the opposite lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Kei Kamiya, Yosuke Ito, Takaharu Oguri, Ryo Takaki
  • Publication number: 20180182246
    Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance supporting apparatus may include a situation determination unit configured to determine whether it is a situation that there exists no moving object proceeding in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle; a first sensor and configured to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision in accordance with a detection result of the first sensor in a determination region ahead of the vehicle. The avoidance operation controller uses a region which is narrower in a direction perpendicular to the travelling direction and parallel to a horizontal direction as the determination region when it is the situation that there exists no moving object than when it is not the situation that there exists no moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Takahiro BABA, Takaharu OGURI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA