Patents by Inventor Norihisa HOTTA

Norihisa HOTTA 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: 20240003702
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a processor, the processor being configured to: acquire relay point information related to a plurality of relay points that have been set at intervals along a planned travel route of a vehicle; and display, so as to be superimposed on a foreground in a display region provided in front of an occupant, an image directed toward a planned path change point along an imaginary line connecting the relay points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Norihisa HOTTA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240003699
    Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle, includes: an intersection information acquiring section that acquires, from a planned travel route of a vehicle that is set in advance, information of an intersection through which passage is planned; and an image display section that, if the intersection is not an intersection satisfying a predetermined condition, in a case in which the vehicle approaches the intersection, causes display of an animation that heads toward the intersection in a display region provided in front of a vehicle occupant and in a manner of being superposed on a foreground, and, if the intersection is an intersection satisfying the predetermined condition, does not cause display of the animation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihisa HOTTA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240001762
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire an actual location of a vehicle, and change information displayed at a display region generated in front of an occupant, based on the actual location of the vehicle and based on a virtual location of the vehicle on a pre-generated map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihisa HOTTA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240003701
    Abstract: A vehicle display that is configured to: acquire a position of a vehicle, via a sensor; correct a positional relationship of a vehicle on a pre-generated map to an actual positional relationship of the vehicle as derived from the acquired position of the vehicle; and based on a result of correction, cause display of a direction image indicating a heading direction of the vehicle at a display area provided at a windshield glass in front of an occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norihisa HOTTA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230406338
    Abstract: A display control device comprises a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire positional information about a target based on detection information of a target detection section that detects the target in surroundings of a vehicle, set a virtual origin in an output range of an output section that outputs an image to a display area provided in a cabin of the vehicle, set a hypothetical line connecting the virtual origin to a position of the positional information, and generate, based on the hypothetical line, a mark that urges caution toward the target and that is overlay displayed on the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Norihisa HOTTA, Toshinori AOKI, Takahiro HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230410383
    Abstract: A display control device comprises a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire positional information related to a position of a target based on detection information of the target detected in surroundings of a vehicle, acquire velocity information related to a velocity of the vehicle, acquire an approach direction along which the target approaches the vehicle, offset the positional information in the approach direction based on the velocity information, and generate a mark urging caution with respect to the target for overlay display on a display area provided in a cabin of the vehicle based on the positional information that has been offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Toshinori AOKI, Norihisa HOTTA, Takahiro HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20160309023
    Abstract: An incoming call notification control system includes a call sending /receiving unit that sends and receives a phone call to and from an operator within a mobile object, a learning unit configured to analyze a content of a past phone call of the operator with a caller via the call sending/receiving unit, determine an attribute of the caller relevant to an importance of phone calls between the operator and the caller, based on a result of the analysis, and store the determined attribute of the caller in a storage unit, and an incoming call notification controller configured to control execution or non-execution of incoming call notification to the operator, according to the attribute of the caller stored in the storage unit, and a situation in which the operator is placed, when the call sending/receiving unit receives a phone call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Norihisa HOTTA, Toru FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160211767
    Abstract: An inverter controller is configured to control an inverter device. The inverter device is configured to generate a drive voltage of an AC load by a switching operation of a switching element that a reflux diode is connected to. The inverter controller is configured to perform a control of setting a switching speed of the switching element to be smaller on a lower level side of a magnitude of a current flowing in the AC load than on a higher level side of the magnitude of the current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norihisa HOTTA
  • Patent number: D809532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutomo Kato, Kei Yamamoto, Kenichiro Maeda, Norihisa Hotta, Yuji Kawahara, Chihiro Miyai, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D809533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutomo Kato, Kei Yamamoto, Kenichiro Maeda, Norihisa Hotta, Yuji Kawahara, Chihiro Miyai, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D809534
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutomo Kato, Kei Yamamoto, Kenichiro Maeda, Norihisa Hotta, Yuji Kawahara, Chihiro Miyai, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D810103
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutomo Kato, Kei Yamamoto, Kenichiro Maeda, Norihisa Hotta, Yuji Kawahara, Chihiro Miyai, Hiroshi Takahashi