Patents by Inventor Sho Tamura

Sho Tamura 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: 11938933
    Abstract: There is provided a travel control apparatus. A control unit performs, based on a recognition result of a recognition unit and map information of a periphery of the moving body, travel control of the moving body. A first determination unit determines whether a first state is set. A second determination unit determines whether a second state is set. In at least one of a case in which the first determination unit determines that the first state is set and a case in which the second determination unit has determined that the second state is set, the control unit performs travel control prioritizing the recognition result of the recognition unit over the map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240092376
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a first recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle including a first marking, a second recognizer configured to recognize a second marking relating to a lane near the vehicle from map information, a driving controller, and a mode decider. It is determined whether or not there is interference between a specific region set on the basis of the second marking and a position of the preceding vehicle when the first marking is not recognized and the preceding vehicle is recognized. A driving mode is changed from the first driving mode to the second driving mode when it is determined that the preceding vehicle interferes with the specific region. A width of the specific region is variably set in accordance with at least one of an inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle and a road's curvature where the vehicle travels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takao Tamura, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240067229
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Patent number: 11905233
    Abstract: A process for producing unsaturated nitrile comprising a reaction step of subjecting hydrocarbon to a vapor phase catalytic ammoxidation reaction in a fluidized bed reactor to produce the corresponding unsaturated nitrile, wherein, in the reaction step, a powder is fed to a dense zone in the fluidized bed reactor using a carrier gas, and a ratio of a linear velocity LV1 of the carrier gas at a feed opening to feed the powder to the fluidized bed reactor to a linear velocity LV2 of a gas in the dense zone (LV1/LV2) is not less than 0.01 and not more than 1200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eri Tateno, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240051529
    Abstract: A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a first recognizer that recognizes a first partition line partitioning a traveling lane, a second recognizer that recognizes a second partition line partitioning a lane around from map information, and a driving controller that executes driving control, and the driving controller executes driving control giving priority to the first partition line over the second partition line in a case in which the first partition line does not match the second partition line when a host vehicle travels in a lane change section and a case in which one of the two first partition lines is present in the lane partitioned, a distance between the two second partition lines and the first partition line present in the lane is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance, and another partition line is recognized in an extension direction of the second partition line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240051584
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle based on the recognized surrounding situation and map information; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode; change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode imposing a heavier task when the task of the determined driving mode is not performed by the driver; determine whether or not a determination angle is equal to or larger than a first threshold value, whether or not a determination distance is equal to or larger than a second threshold value, and whether or not a forward region of the vehicle corresponds to a predetermined region; and change the second driving mode to the first driving mode depending on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Takao Tamura, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240051531
    Abstract: A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a first recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation including a first partition line partitioning a traveling lane of a host vehicle and a front traveling vehicle present in front of the host vehicle; a second recognizer that recognizes a second partition line partitioning a lane around the host vehicle from map information; and a driving controller that executes driving control for controlling at least steering out of steering and speed of the host vehicle, and the driving controller executes first driving control based on partition lines matching when the host vehicle travels in a lane change section and the first partition line recognized matches the second partition line, and executes second driving control based on the first partition line and traveling position information of the front traveling vehicle when the first partition line does not match the second partition line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Patent number: 11827246
    Abstract: A vehicle control device recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation and map information, determines a driving mode of the vehicle to be one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode, determines whether there is an error in the map information based on the surrounding situation and the map information, and in a case where an error is determined in the map information while the vehicle is driving in the second driving mode, continues the second driving mode when a preceding vehicle is recognized within a first predetermined distance, or changes the second driving mode to the first driving mode when a preceding vehicle is not recognized within the first predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Takao Tamura, Daichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230303099
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to acquire a camera image obtained by capturing an image, control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, decide a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode, change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode with a heavier task when a task related to the decided driving mode is not executed by the driver, determine whether there is a deviation between a road division line shown in the camera image and a road division line shown in the map information, determine whether a preceding vehicle is present in front of the vehicle when it is determined that there is a deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230303126
    Abstract: A vehicle control device acquires a camera image obtained by capturing an image of surrounding circumstances of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, determines any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, judges whether or not a preceding vehicle is present in front of the vehicle when it is judged that an abnormality has occurred, calculates, when it is judged that the preceding vehicle is present, a margin for the vehicle to continue traveling in the second driving mode, and causes the vehicle to continue traveling in the second driving mode for a period of time indicated based on the margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Yoshihiro Mori, Takao Tamura, Daichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11728184
    Abstract: A drying module 300 according to the present disclosure includes a drying tank 320 having a wall 322, a liquid supply port 334 for supplying liquid to an inner surface of the wall 322 and an outlet 336, a plurality of nozzles 340 for spraying a gas to a substrate holder 200, a liquid supply system 312 which supplies the liquid from the liquid supply port 334 to the inside of the drying tank 320, a gas supply system 310 which supplies the gas to the plurality of nozzles 340, and a control module 380. The control module 380 controls the liquid supply system 312 and the gas supply system 310 such that the plurality of nozzles 340 sprays the gas to the substrate holder 200 or a substrate W while the liquid supply port 334 supplies the liquid to the inner surface of the wall 322.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220388533
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device including: a storage device storing a program; and a hardware processor executing the program stored in the storage device to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; determine whether or not the surrounding situation includes a road division line; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode; and set, when the vehicle is traveling in the second driving mode, the surrounding situation is determined not to include a road division line, and a preceding vehicle is recognized within a first predetermined distance in a traveling direction of the vehicle, a longer traveling continuation distance in the second driving mode using the map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Takao Tamura, Daichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220315043
    Abstract: A vehicle control device recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation and map information, determines a driving mode of the vehicle to be one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode, determines whether there is an error in the map information based on the surrounding situation and the map information, and in a case where an error is determined in the map information while the vehicle is driving in the second driving mode, continues the second driving mode when a preceding vehicle is recognized within a first predetermined distance, or changes the second driving mode to the first driving mode when a preceding vehicle is not recognized within the first predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Takao Tamura, Daichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220315044
    Abstract: A vehicle control device recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver, determines any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, changes the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode in which the task is heavier when a task is not executed by the driver, determines whether there is an error in the map information and determines whether there is a recognition error, and when an error is determined in the map information, there is a recognition error while the vehicle is traveling in the second driving mode, and a preceding vehicle is recognized within a first predetermined distance, sets a travel continuation distance in the second driving mode to be longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Takao Tamura, Daichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220315058
    Abstract: A vehicle control device recognizes surrounding circumstances of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle, determines any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, changes the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode in which the task is heavier when a task associated with the determined driving mode is not executed by the driver, determines whether or not the map information includes an error and determines whether or not a road division line is included in the surrounding circumstances, and sets a longer traveling continuation distance in the second driving mode in a case where it is determined that the map information includes an error, the road division line is not included in the surrounding circumstances, and a preceding vehicle has been recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Takao Tamura, Daichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220306150
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a control device includes a first recognizer configured to recognize a road marking for partitioning a traveling lane of a vehicle on the basis of an output of a detection device that has detected a surrounding situation of the vehicle, a second recognizer configured to recognize a road marking for partitioning the traveling lane on the basis of map information, and a determiner configured to determine whether or not there is misrecognition in the first recognizer on the basis of one or both of a curvature change quantity of a first road marking recognized by the first recognizer and an angle formed by the first road marking and a second road marking recognized by the second recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220309804
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a vehicle control device includes a first recognizer configured to recognize a first road marking for partitioning a traveling lane of a vehicle on the basis of an output of a detection device that has detected a surrounding situation of the vehicle, a second recognizer configured to recognize a second road marking for partitioning the traveling lane with a means different from the first recognizer, a comparator configured to compare the first road marking with the second road marking, and a determiner configured to perform any one of a plurality of misrecognition determination processes including a process of determining that there is misrecognition in the first recognizer and a process of determining that there is misrecognition in one or both of the first recognizer and the second recognizer when there is a difference between the first road marking and the second road marking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220306098
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a storage device configured to store a program, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle including a road division line and a surrounding vehicle, to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle based on at least the road division line without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle, and to determine whether occlusion, in which at least a part of the road division line is shielded, has occurred, based on the road division line and a position of the surrounding vehicle present in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Koichiro Wada, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220266857
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a first recognizer that recognizes a pair left and right road lane markings on the basis of an output from a detection device and outputs the left and right road lane markings as a first left road lane marking and a first right road lane marking, respectively, a second recognizer that recognizes a pair of left and right road lane markings on the basis of map information and outputs the left and right road lane markings as a second left road lane marking and a second right road lane marking, respectively, determiner that determines whether or not there is a deviation between the first left road lane marking and the second left road lane marking and a deviation between the first right road lane marking and the second right road lane marking, a setter that, in a case where the determiner determines that a deviation is present only in one of a pair of the first left road lane marking and the second left road lane marking and a pair of the first right road lane marking and the sec
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Takao Tamura, Sho Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220067398
    Abstract: A vehicle travel control apparatus configured to control a traveling operation of a vehicle including an actuator for traveling, the vehicle travel control apparatus including a sensor mounted on the vehicle to capture an image of a division line in a traveling direction of the vehicle or measure the division line and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling the actuator based on a position information of the division line obtained by the sensor and a reliability with respect to the position information of the division line obtained by the sensor, and setting the reliability based on a shape of a road surface or a road structure in the traveling direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sho Tamura, Takao Tamura, Shunya Takeda