Patents by Inventor Shigenori Hiruta
Shigenori Hiruta 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).
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Patent number: 11970134Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a processing device provided in a vehicle, an application unit (app unit) implemented by execution of an application program by the processing device, a function restriction determining unit determining whether function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a used key code, and a function restriction applying unit instructing the app unit to apply a determination result of the determination. The function restriction determining unit determines whether the function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a key code of the used electronic key at a plurality of predetermined times, and the function restriction applying unit instructs the app unit to apply the determination result upon activation of the application unit and when a notification of the determination result is received from the function restriction determining unit after the activation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Takashi Mori, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11951942Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a key authentication unit for permitting use of a vehicle in a portable key ride mode when an authentication with a portable key is successful, and permitting use of the vehicle in an electronic key ride mode when an authentication with an electronic key is successful; a power state recognition unit for recognizing a state of power of the vehicle; a door opening and closing recognition unit for recognizing an open and closed state of a door of the vehicle, a notification control unit for issuing a first notification in the portable key ride mode and issuing a second notification in the electronic key ride mode, when the door opening and closing recognition unit recognizes that the driver's seat door of the vehicle is switched from a closed state to an open state while the power state recognition unit recognizes that the power is on.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11860624Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle control unit that remotely controls a PW, which is a control object, based on a signal from a mobile device; a mobile-side stop processing unit that performs stop process for stopping the PW upon transition to a predetermined operation state in which user operations are restricted while the PW is in operation by the remote control.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Shigenori Hiruta
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Patent number: 11792484Abstract: An information providing system includes: a memory unit configured to store an image data acquired by an imaging unit a robot in association with a position data and a time data acquired by an information acquisition portion; a data extraction portion configured to extract an image data corresponding to a time and a position instructed by the user from among the stored image data; and a display unit configured to display an image based on the extracted image data. The memory unit stores the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a first robot moving with a first user and the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a second robot moving with a second user.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shiro Kitamura, Shuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 11578984Abstract: A vehicle control device is provided. The vehicle control device includes a terminal device authentication unit that determines whether a terminal device of a user registered as a user of a vehicle, in advance, is present around or within the vehicle. The vehicle control device also includes a communication unit that communicates with the terminal device. Also included in the vehicle control device is a control unit that causes a display device provided in the vehicle to output a screen for setting communication between the communication unit and the terminal device. The display device outputs the screen in a case where it is determined by the terminal device authentication unit that the terminal device is present and the display device is started up.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Takashi Mori, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11518036Abstract: A service providing system including: a mobile robot configured to act in response to an instruction from a user through wireless communication and including a sensor having a capability corresponding to a human sensing capability to perceive an external world; a target identifying unit configured to identify whether an action target of the robot is a human being or another robot; an user apparatus control portion configured to output the signal detected by the sensor in a first manner when the action target is identified to be a human being and output the signal detected by the sensor in a second manner when the action target is identified to be the other robot; and a user apparatus configured to act in a manner perceivable by the user based on a output signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 11479209Abstract: An input information management system for a vehicle that can be used by using each of a plurality of electronic keys, the system managing input information that is input by a user, where the system includes a key information acquisition unit that acquires and stores key information of an electronic key, when an operation is performed on the vehicle using the electronic key, and an input information erasure unit that erases the input information that is stored in a storage device, where, when the key information is acquired by the key information acquisition unit, the input information erasure unit compares current key information that is acquired with last key information that is last stored by the key information acquisition unit before acquisition of the current key information, and erases the input information that is stored in the storage device on a basis of a result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Yuji Nishikawa, Takuya Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20210347331Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a processing device provided in a vehicle, an application unit (app unit) implemented by execution of an application program by the processing device, a function restriction determining unit determining whether function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a used key code, and a function restriction applying unit instructing the app unit to apply a determination result of the determination, The function restriction determining unit determines whether the function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a key code of the used electronic key at a plurality of predetermined times, and the function restriction applying unit instructs the app unit to apply the determination result upon activation of the application unit and when a notification of the determination result is received from the function restriction determining unit fte the activation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Takashi Mori, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11135725Abstract: A robot control system, including: a mobile robot having a situation-detecting unit detecting surrounding situations; a user apparatus operating in a manner recognizable by a user based on signals detected by the situation-detecting unit; an action-detecting unit detecting a predetermined action of the user; a brain-activity-detecting unit detecting a brain activity of the user; and a robot-controlling unit controlling the robot. The user apparatus has a computing unit analyzing the brain activity of the user detected by the brain-activity-detecting unit to output a first-action instruction from the user to the robot. The robot controlling unit further controlling the robot in accordance with the first-action instruction output by the computing unit and controlling, when the predetermined action is detected by the action-detecting unit during operation of the user apparatus, the robot in accordance with a second-action instruction different from the first-action instruction output by the computing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 11068529Abstract: An information output system includes a storage device and a processing device. Content information including information of video, sound, and the like is stored in the storage device in association with personal identification information and position identification information indicating a person and a geographical position related to the content information.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaichi Sano, Shigenori Hiruta
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Publication number: 20210149388Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle control unit that remotely controls a PW, which is a control object, based on a signal from a mobile device; a mobile-side stop processing unit that performs stop process for stopping the PW upon transition to a predetermined operation state in which user operations are restricted while the PW is in operation by the remote control.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventor: Shigenori Hiruta
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Publication number: 20210114555Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a key authentication unit for permitting use of a vehicle in a portable key ride mode when an authentication with a portable key is successful, and permitting use of the vehicle in an electronic key ride mode when an authentication with an electronic key is successful; a power state recognition unit for recognizing a state of power of the vehicle; a door opening and closing recognition unit for recognizing an open and closed state of a door of the vehicle, a notification control unit for issuing a first notification in the portable key ride mode and issuing a second notification in the electronic key ride mode, when the door opening and closing recognition unit recognizes that the driver's seat door of the vehicle is switched from a closed state to an open state while the power state recognition unit recognizes that the power is on.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 10883837Abstract: A map generating server capable of bidirectional communication with multiple vehicles having a database configured to store vehicle type identifiers assigned to the vehicles and map data regarding roads usable by the vehicles and cultivated land area near the roads. In the server, a vehicle position data tagged with vehicle type identifier is successively written to location concerned of the map data when each vehicle transmits the position data tagged with the vehicle type identifier. The vehicle position data writing number is incremented if the written vehicle position data is that of a vehicle assigned a specified vehicle type identifier, and the location concerned of the cultivated land area is determined to be cultivated land area road and to update the map data stored in the database when the writing number is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Minowa, Shigenori Hiruta, Kimiyoshi Kusaka, Shiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 10850706Abstract: A control system for a vehicle used by a plurality of users determines, in response to a request for unlocking vehicle doors, whether to permit vehicle door unlocking depending on whether or not another booked usage time range is registered after one booked usage time range in which a usage end procedure has been performed, or whether vehicle door unlocking that does not use an electronic key for the one booked usage time range was performed during the time from the end of the usage end procedure to the current time.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Naoki Kato, Yuji Saito, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 10807566Abstract: A parking system which communicates with a communication terminal of a parking staff Ps who takes charge of deadheading vehicles between a loading space and an unloading space of vehicles and a vehicle storage space by valet parking includes a loading vehicle recognition unit which recognizes that a target vehicle for the valet parking is parked in the loading space, and an electronic key management unit which transmits an electronic key for enabling an operation of the target vehicle to the communication terminal of the parking staff when the loading vehicle recognition unit recognizes that the target vehicle is parked in the loading space.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoko Imai, Takashi Mori, Shigenori Hiruta, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Tomoko Shintani
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Publication number: 20200307516Abstract: An input information management system for a vehicle that can be used by using each of a plurality of electronic keys, the system managing input information that is input by a user, where the system includes a key information acquisition unit that acquires and stores key information of an electronic key, when an operation is performed on the vehicle using the electronic key, and an input information erasure unit that erases the input information that is stored in a storage device, where, when the key information is acquired by the key information acquisition unit, the input information erasure unit compares current key information that is acquired with last key information that is last stored by the key information acquisition unit before acquisition of the current key information, and erases the input information that is stored in the storage device on a basis of a result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Yuji Nishikawa, Takuya Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20200307515Abstract: A use control ECU is provided with an ECU storage section that stores wireless communication terminal information, an ECU wireless communication section that communicates with the portable terminal based on the wireless communication terminal information, an authentication information generation section that generates start authorization authentication information for authorizing the vehicle to start, an authentication information notification section that notifies within the vehicle the start authorization authentication information generated by the authentication information generation section, a vehicle start authentication section that performs, when the ECU wireless communication section receives the start authorization authentication information notified from the authentication information notification section from the portable terminal, authentication related to starting the vehicle based on the received start authorization authentication information, and a vehicle start authorization section that authType: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Takashi Mori, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20200238529Abstract: A service providing system including: a mobile robot configured to act in response to an instruction from a user through wireless communication and including a sensor having a capability corresponding to a human sensing capability to perceive an external world; a target identifying unit configured to identify whether an action target of the robot is a human being or another robot; an user apparatus control portion configured to output the signal detected by the sensor in a first manner when the action target is identified to be a human being and output the signal detected by the sensor in a second manner when the action target is identified to be the other robot; and a user apparatus configured to act in a manner perceivable by the user based on a output signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20200234046Abstract: An information providing system includes: a memory unit configured to store an image data acquired by an imaging unit a robot in association with a position data and a time data acquired by an information acquisition portion; a data extraction portion configured to extract an image data corresponding to a time and a position instructed by the user from among the stored image data; and a display unit configured to display an image based on the extracted image data. The memory unit stores the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a first robot moving with a first user and the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a second robot moving with a second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shiro Kitamura, Shuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 10680459Abstract: A non-contact charging system includes a power receiving device including a secondary coil, and a non-contact charger including a primary coil and a controller. The primary coil performs charging of the power receiving device through the secondary coil in a non-contact manner. Upon receiving a signal representing an abnormality of the power receiving device or detecting an abnormality of the charging in the non-contact charger, the controller stops the charging temporarily and executes procedures for restarting the charging when a first predetermined time has lapsed from the reception of the signal representing the abnormality or the detection of the abnormality of the charging.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Kanahara, Shigenori Hiruta, Toshihiro Kojima, Masayuki Yamazaki