Patents by Inventor Yamato YORIFUJI
Yamato YORIFUJI 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: 11830409Abstract: A peripheral image display device is configured to: acquire wheel speeds of a vehicle; determine a slip state or a non-slip state of a wheel of the vehicle based on the acquired wheel speeds; acquire multiple camera images from respective cameras; store, as a past image, the camera image indicating a range in a traveling direction of the vehicle; generate a peripheral image indicating a periphery of the vehicle by synthesizing the camera images, display the peripheral image on a display. In the non-slip state, the peripheral image display device displays a transparent image showing, in a transparent manner, a portion under a floor of the vehicle using the past image selected based on current wheel speeds is. In the slip state, the peripheral image display device deactivates the display of the transparent image.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Aoki, Yoshitsugu Yamashita, Akira Sugie, Tomoki Miyata, Jun Kamishima, Yamato Yorifuji, Kohei Maejima
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Publication number: 20230242137Abstract: A notification device is applied to a vehicle including one or more cameras that captures an image of at least an area forward of the vehicle and an human machine interface device that performs notification to alert a driver of the vehicle. The notification device includes a processor. The processor controls the human machine interface device such that the human machine interface device notifies the driver that a u-turn is not allowed when the one or more cameras detects a no u-turn sign forward of the vehicle and the one or more cameras detects a right-turn road surface marking in a travel lane of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yamato YORIFUJI
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Publication number: 20230222813Abstract: A road surface marking detection device is applied to a vehicle that includes a first camera that captures an image of at least an area forward of the vehicle, and a second camera that captures an image of at least an area forward of the vehicle and is able to capture a road surface region closer to the vehicle than a road surface region of which the image captured by the first camera. The road surface marking detection device includes a processor that, when a temporary stop sign forward of the vehicle is detected by the first camera, executes a process of detecting a road surface marking corresponding to the detected temporary stop sign by the second camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yamato YORIFUJI
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Patent number: 11636630Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a locus determination unit determining a predicted locus of a wheel of a subject vehicle according to a steering angle of the subject vehicle; and a display processing unit displaying an image of a field view of the subject vehicle including a vehicle body of the subject vehicle on a display device, and the display processing unit superimposes the guide line indicating the predicted locus determined by the locus determination unit on the image of the field view regardless of the steering angle of the subject vehicle, while semi-transparently displaying a portion of the guide line which overlaps with the vehicle body, thereby allowing visibility of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Miki Murasumi, Shogo Kida, Tomoki Miyata, Jun Kamishima, Yamato Yorifuji, Kohei Maejima
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Patent number: 11634074Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires camera images obtained by cameras, which are configured to photograph a periphery of the vehicle. An image synthesizing unit projects data of the camera images on a virtual projection surface, which corresponds to the periphery of the vehicle, and forms a synthetic image showing the periphery of the vehicle, which is viewed from a virtual view point, by using the data projected on the projection surface. A travelling-environment determination unit determines whether a travelling environment of the vehicle is an off-road or an on-road based on a signal from an other on-board device of the vehicle. The image synthesizing unit is configured to change a shape of the projection surface, which is for forming the synthetic image, according to whether the travelling-environment determination unit determines that the travelling environment is an off-road.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi Moriyama, Yasuyoshi Sawada, Yamato Yorifuji, Jun Kamishima
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Patent number: 11458957Abstract: A vehicle surrounding display apparatus comprises a display control means for displaying images, each of which corresponding to each of a plurality of display modes on a display screen. The display control means, when at a first mode, generates a first bird's-eye view image of a vehicle and a first surrounding region thereof seen from a bird's-eye view to display this image in a first display area with a fixed size on the display screen and generates a first another image to display this image in a second display area with a fixed size on the display screen, and when at a second mode, generates a second bird's-eye view image of a vehicle and a second surrounding region thereof wider than the first surrounding region to display this image in the first display area and generates a second another image to display this image in the second display area.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CorporationInventors: Yamato Yorifuji, Kohei Maejima, Takuya Itoh, Eriko Yamazaki, Kouei Kiyo, Yukiko Hatakeyama
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Patent number: 11458893Abstract: A monitoring device for a vehicle that, in a case in which it is determined, based on information captured by a towing information capture device, that the vehicle is not towing another vehicle, provides support for monitoring an area to a rear of the vehicle using images captured by a first capture device, and in a case in which it is determined, based on the information captured by the towing information capture device, that the vehicle is towing another vehicle, provides support for monitoring the area to the rear of the vehicle using images captured by a second capture device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yamato Yorifuji
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Publication number: 20220262297Abstract: A peripheral image display device is configured to: acquire wheel speeds of a vehicle; determine a slip state or a non-slip state of a wheel of the vehicle based on the acquired wheel speeds; acquire multiple camera images from respective cameras; store, as a past image, the camera image indicating a range in a traveling direction of the vehicle; generate a peripheral image indicating a periphery of the vehicle by synthesizing the camera images, display the peripheral image on a display. In the non-slip state, the peripheral image display device displays a transparent image showing, in a transparent manner, a portion under a floor of the vehicle using the past image selected based on current wheel speeds is. In the slip state, the peripheral image display device deactivates the display of the transparent image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: SHINYA AOKI, YOSHITSUGU YAMASHITA, AKIRA SUGIE, TOMOKI MIYATA, JUN KAMISHIMA, YAMATO YORIFUJI, KOHEI MAEJIMA
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Publication number: 20220203895Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires camera images obtained by cameras, which are configured to photograph a periphery of the vehicle. An image synthesizing unit projects data of the camera images on a virtual projection surface, which corresponds to the periphery of the vehicle, and forms a synthetic image showing the periphery of the vehicle, which is viewed from a virtual view point, by using the data projected on the projection surface. A travelling-environment determination unit determines whether a travelling environment of the vehicle is an off-road or an on-road based on a signal from an other on-board device of the vehicle. The image synthesizing unit is configured to change a shape of the projection surface, which is for forming the synthetic image, according to whether the travelling-environment determination unit determines that the travelling environment is an off-road.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Shinichi MORIYAMA, Yasuyoshi SAWADA, Yamato YORIFUJI, Jun KAMISHIMA
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Publication number: 20220185183Abstract: A synthetic-image formation unit forms a vehicle-inside view point image showing a periphery of a vehicle in such a way as to transparently pass through a portion or an entirety of the vehicle and taken from a vehicle-inside view point inside a vehicle room. The synthetic-image formation unit further forms an interior-added image including an image of an interior member viewed from the vehicle-inside view point using pre-stored data for drawing an image of the interior member. A display control unit temporarily displays the interior-added image and displays animation which gradually raises a transparency of the image of the interior member, before displaying the vehicle-inside view point image, when changing over a display screen of the display to the vehicle-inside view point image in response to a user's manipulation on the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Shogo KIDA, Shinichi MORIYAMA, Tomoki MIYATA, Jun KAMISHIMA, Yamato YORIFUJI, Kohei MAEJIMA
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Publication number: 20220189077Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a locus determination unit determining a predicted locus of a wheel of a subject vehicle according to a steering angle of the subject vehicle; and a display processing unit displaying an image of a field view of the subject vehicle including a vehicle body of the subject vehicle on a display device, and the display processing unit superimposes the guide line indicating the predicted locus determined by the locus determination unit on the image of the field view regardless of the steering angle of the subject vehicle, while semi-transparently displaying a portion of the guide line which overlaps with the vehicle body, thereby allowing visibility of the vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Miki Murasumi, Shogo Kida, Tomoki Miyata, Jun Kamishima, Yamato Yorifuji, Kohei Maejima
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Publication number: 20220041106Abstract: A monitoring device for a vehicle that, in a case in which it is determined, based on information captured by a towing information capture device, that the vehicle is not towing another vehicle, provides support for monitoring an area to a rear of the vehicle using images captured by a first capture device, and in a case in which it is determined, based on the information captured by the towing information capture device, that the vehicle is towing another vehicle, provides support for monitoring the area to the rear of the vehicle using images captured by a second capture device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yamato YORIFUJI
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Publication number: 20220024384Abstract: A vehicle monitoring device for installment in a vehicle in which a cargo bed is provided at a rear side of a cabin and a tailgate is provided at a rear end portion of the cargo bed. The vehicle monitoring device includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yamato YORIFUJI
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Patent number: 10882450Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus includes a camera, an electronic control unit and a display unit configured to display the display image. The ECU is configured to generate a display image of an external environment based on image information from the camera such that the display image includes a first display image from a first predetermined viewpoint from which one of right and left side surfaces of a host vehicle and a rear portion or a front portion of the host vehicle are obliquely seen from above. The ECU is configured to generate and output the display image including the first display image in at least any one of a predetermined first traveling status of the host vehicle, a predetermined periphery status of the area on either side of the host vehicle, and a state in which a turn signal lever is manipulated.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Kohei Maejima, Atsutoshi Sakaguchi, Yamato Yorifuji, Masahiro Takahashi, Yukiko Hatakeyama, Kouei Kiyo, Tomoyuki Sato
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Patent number: 10239453Abstract: A periphery image display control device displays an image of a periphery area photographed by a camera sensor 21, and predicts a travel path area which a vehicle-body of the own vehicle will pass through along a predicted travel path. The device detects locations of obstacle points and heights of the obstacle points. The heights of the obstacle points become higher as the obstacle points are farther from the own vehicle. When a gradient (GR=(YO?YB)/(XO?KB)) being a ratio of “a subtraction value obtained by subtracting a height of a first obstacle point which is nearer from the own vehicle from a height of a second obstacle point which is farther from the own vehicle” to “a distance between the two obstacle points along the predicted travel path” is greater than a threshold gradient GRth, the device displays an alert screen for the second obstacle point.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Takashi Kondo, Yamato Yorifuji, Yasuyoshi Sawada
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Publication number: 20190009719Abstract: A periphery image display control device displays an image of a periphery area photographed by a camera sensor 21, and predicts a travel path area which a vehicle-body of the own vehicle will pass through along a predicted travel path. The device detects locations of obstacle points and heights of the obstacle points. The heights of the obstacle points become higher as the obstacle points are farther from the own vehicle. When a gradient (GR=(YO?YB)/(XO?XB)) being a ratio of “a subtraction value obtained by subtracting a height of a first obstacle point which is nearer from the own vehicle from a height of a second obstacle point which is farther from the own vehicle” to “a distance between the two obstacle points along the predicted travel path” is greater than a threshold gradient GRth, the device displays an alert screen for the second obstacle point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Takashi KONDO, Yamato YORIFUJI, Yasuyoshi SAWADA
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Publication number: 20190001968Abstract: A vehicle surrounding display apparatus comprises a display control means for displaying images, each of which corresponding to each of a plurality of display modes on a display screen. The display control means, when at a first mode, generates a first bird's-eye view image of a vehicle and a first surrounding region thereof seen from a bird's-eye view to display this image in a first display area with a fixed size on the display screen and generates a first another image to display this image in a second display area with a fixed size on the display screen, and when at a second mode, generates a second bird's-eye view image of a vehicle and a second surrounding region thereof wider than the first surrounding region to display this image in the first display area and generates a second another image to display this image in the second display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Yamato YORIFUJI, Kohei MAEJIMA, Takuya ITOH, Eriko YAMAZAKI, Kouei KIYO, Yukiko HATAKEYAMA
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Publication number: 20180170259Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus includes a camera, an electronic control unit and a display unit configured to display the display image. The ECU is configured to generate a display image of an external environment based on image information from the camera such that the display image includes a first display image from a first predetermined viewpoint from which one of right and left side surfaces of a host vehicle and a rear portion or a front portion of the host vehicle are obliquely seen from above. The ECU is configured to generate and output the display image including the first display image in at least any one of a predetermined first traveling status of the host vehicle, a predetermined periphery status of the area on either side of the host vehicle, and a state in which a turn signal lever is manipulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LIMITEDInventors: Kohei MAEJIMA, Atsutoshi SAKAGUCHI, Yamato YORIFUJI, Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Yukiko HATAKEYAMA, Kouei KIYO, Tomoyuki SATO