Patents by Inventor Yu MAEDA
Yu MAEDA 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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Publication number: 20240155084Abstract: A building entrance device (10B) of an intercom device includes a touch operable aerial display (100) for displaying an aerial image (G1, G2) toward a visitor (W1, W2), and a control unit (110). The touch operable aerial display (100) includes: a display device (101) for emitting light; an optical member (102) for reflecting and transmitting light so as to form the aerial image (G1, G2) in a predetermined space; and a detection unit (103) for detecting an operation input of the visitor (W1, W2) to the aerial image (G1, G2). The control unit (110) changes at least one from among a display position, a display angle of the aerial images (G1, G2), and a display mode of a call operation acceptance unit included in the aerial images (G1, G2).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kazuyuki MORITA, Yuya HINO, Hirokazu KUSUNOKI, Takayuki GOTO, Yu SHIMIZU, Ryoji MAEDA
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Patent number: 11972246Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that: receives, from a user terminal, a request for first update regarding a first vehicle, notifies the user terminal that the first update is to be performed at a shop, when the first update is update of hardware, and notifies the user terminal that the first update is to be performed through wireless communication, when the first update is update of software.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Tone, Yukinori II, Tadayuki Tanaka, Naoki Ishizuka, Yuichiro Yano, Nariaki Amano, Yusuke Maeda, Kei Yazaki, Yu Hamada
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Patent number: 11939015Abstract: By an offset amount being calculated based on a lateral position deviation from a target travel path at a forward point-of-gaze of a host vehicle at a time of a driver steering state, a series of vehicle control operations until switching back from the driver steering state to an automatic steering control, and traveling along an offset travel path, becomes smoother, whereby comfort when riding in a vehicle is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yu Takeuchi, Shuuhei Nakatsuji, Fumiaki Kadoya, Kazuo Hitosugi, Yuki Yoshida, Kazushi Maeda
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Patent number: 11750768Abstract: An image processing unit identifies the shape of an obstacle that is identified from an area that appears in a peripheral image based on an image captured by a camera. The shape of the obstacle includes at least a tilt of a section of the obstacle in a road-surface direction. The section of the obstacle faces a vehicle. The image processing unit generates a superimposed image in which a mark image that is generated as a pattern that indicates the identified obstacle is superimposed onto a position that corresponds to the obstacle in the peripheral image. At this time, the image processing unit variably changes properties of the mark image based on the tilt of the obstacle identified by an obstacle identifying unit. The image processing unit then displays the generated superimposed image on display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Muneaki Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20230196400Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a special gift granting system capable of granting a special gift to a user on the basis of a history of browsing store information by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: Yu MAEDA
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Patent number: 11545285Abstract: A soft magnetic powder of the invention has a composition represented by Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-fCuaSibBcMdM?eXf (at %) [wherein M is Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti, or Mo, M? is V, Cr, Mn, Al, a platinum group element, Sc, Y, Au, Zn, Sn, or Re, X is C, P, Ge, Ga, Sb, In, Be, or As, and a, b, c, d, e, and f are numbers that satisfy the following formulae: 0.1?a?3, 0<b?30, 0<c?25, 5?b+c?30, 0.1?d?30, 0?e?10, and 0?f?10], wherein a crystalline structure having a particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 30 nm or less is contained in an amount of 40 vol % or more, and the difference in the coercive force of the powder after classification satisfies predetermined conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Inventors: Yasuko Kudo, Toshiki Akazawa, Yu Maeda
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Publication number: 20220144257Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is mounted in a subject vehicle provided with a running planning unit configured to calculate one or more candidate routes on which the subject vehicle is to travel. The vehicle control apparatus predicts an action of a prediction target moving body that includes the subject vehicle and at least one moving body present in a vicinity of the subject vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: YU MAEDA, ATSUSHI BABA
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Publication number: 20220139128Abstract: A travel storage system includes: a target vehicle behavior determination unit that is configured to: acquire a sensor value indicative of a behavior of each of surrounding vehicles around the host vehicle; and sequentially determine a relative behavior of a target vehicle with respect to the host vehicle based on the sensor value; a rule acquisition unit that acquires an accident liability rule in a current position of the host vehicle; a potential accident liability information determination unit that sequentially determines, using liability determination information, potential accident liability information indicative of whether the host vehicle is liable for a potentially assumed accident between the target vehicle and the host vehicle; and a storage unit that stores the potential accident liability information and the liability determination information in association with each other or in associable with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Yotaro MOTEGI, Jingyu XIANG, Yu MAEDA, Taiki KAWANO, Hiroyuki OSAWA
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Publication number: 20210306590Abstract: An image processing unit identifies the shape of an obstacle that is identified from an area that appears in a peripheral image based on an image captured by a camera. The shape of the obstacle includes at least a tilt of a section of the obstacle in a road-surface direction. The section of the obstacle faces a vehicle. The image processing unit generates a superimposed image in which a mark image that is generated as a pattern that indicates the identified obstacle is superimposed onto a position that corresponds to the obstacle in the peripheral image. At this time, the image processing unit variably changes properties of the mark image based on the tilt of the obstacle identified by an obstacle identifying unit. The image processing unit then displays the generated superimposed image on display apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu MAEDA, Taketo HARADA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Hirohiko YANAGAWA, Muneaki MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 11097724Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling travel of an own vehicle which is a vehicle carrying the apparatus, an information acquirer is configured to acquire information regarding a target around the own vehicle from a target detector. A controller is configured to, if determining, using the target information acquired by the information acquirer, that if travel of the own vehicle is continued in accordance with a collision avoidance trajectory determined to avoid a collision with an object located on a roadway ahead of the own vehicle, the own vehicle is likely to collide with the object or another object, change a setting of a driving state of the own vehicle so as to avoid or reduce a likelihood of the collision.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Shunya Kumano, Masaya Okada, Takaharu Oguri, Keiji Matsuoka
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Patent number: 11064151Abstract: An image processing unit identifies the shape of an obstacle that is identified from an area that appears in a peripheral image based on an image captured by a camera. The shape of the obstacle includes at least a tilt of a section of the obstacle in a road-surface direction. The section of the obstacle faces a vehicle. The image processing unit generates a superimposed image in which a mark image that is generated as a pattern that indicates the identified obstacle is superimposed onto a position that corresponds to the obstacle in the peripheral image. At this time, the image processing unit variably changes properties of the mark image based on the tilt of the obstacle identified by an obstacle identifying unit. The image processing unit then displays the generated superimposed image on display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Muneaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11014566Abstract: An object detection apparatus is provided with a distance measurement sensor that measures a distance to an object which exists in a surrounding area of a vehicle, by transmitting scanning waves to the surrounding of the vehicle and receiving reflection waves of the scanning waves, and an image acquiring section that is adopted to the vehicle, and is provided with an on-vehicle camera that captures images in the surrounding of the vehicle, the imaging acquiring section acquiring an image that is captured by the camera. The apparatus includes a determination section that determines whether, a predetermined object that is difficult to detect by the reflection waves of the distance measurement sensor is included in the object image, and a sensitivity control section that increases a sensitivity of the object detection by the distance measurement sensor and a vehicle control that is executed relative to the predetermined object as a target object.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Mitsuyasu Matsuura
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Patent number: 10986286Abstract: An image creation device is provided with an image acquisition unit acquiring multiple captured images of a peripheral area, a detection unit detecting a three-dimensional object present in the peripheral area, a first conversion unit converting the multiple captured images into multiple individual overhead images to create a first conversion image by means of an overall overhead image, a second conversion unit creating a second conversion image in which an image captured from a virtual camera is converted in accordance with the conversion rule, the virtual camera being virtually arranged at a virtual position set on the vehicle such that a virtual optical axis direction faces the direction of the three-dimensional object, and a synthesis unit synthesizes the second conversion image on the first conversion image to create a synthesis image.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Hiroaki Takeda, Hirohiko Yanagawa
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Patent number: 10885356Abstract: A parking assisting apparatus includes an imaging unit acquiring image information corresponding to an image of surroundings of a vehicle, an image processing section recognizing a feature shape in the image by processing the image information, an obstacle detecting section acquiring positional-relationship information corresponding to a positional relationship between the vehicle and an obstacle present around a parking space, and a manner-of-parking selecting section selecting a manner of parking the vehicle in the parking space from manner candidates including perpendicular parking and parallel parking based on the feature shape and the positional-relationship information.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa, Hideki Otsuka
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Patent number: 10885354Abstract: A perimeter monitoring device is applied to a vehicle comprising a distance measuring sensor for transmitting a probing wave and receiving a reflected wave of the probing wave and an imaging device for capturing an image of the surroundings of the vehicle. The perimeter monitoring device comprises: an information acquisition unit for acquiring distance information, directional information, and object width information of an object existing in the vicinity of the vehicle as detection information of the object provided by the distance measuring sensor; an area setting unit for setting an image processing area on which image processing is performed in the image captured by the imaging device based on the distance information, the directional information, and the object width information acquired by the information acquisition unit; and an object recognition unit for performing the image processing on the image processing area set by the area setting unit to recognize the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa
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Publication number: 20200258665Abstract: A soft magnetic powder of the invention has a composition represented by Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-fCuaSibBcMdM?eXf (at %) [wherein M is Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti, or Mo, M? is V, Cr, Mn, Al, a platinum group element, Sc, Y, Au, Zn, Sn, or Re, X is C, P, Ge, Ga, Sb, In, Be, or As, and a, b, c, d, e, and f are numbers that satisfy the following formulae: 0.1?a?3, 0<b?30, 0<c?25, 5?b+c?30, 0.1?d?30, 0?e?10, and 0?f?10], wherein a crystalline structure having a particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 30 nm or less is contained in an amount of 40 vol % or more, and the difference in the coercive force of the powder after classification satisfies predetermined conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Yasuko KUDO, Toshiki AKAZAWA, Yu MAEDA
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Publication number: 20200210722Abstract: A perimeter monitoring device is applied to a vehicle comprising a distance measuring sensor for transmitting a probing wave and receiving a reflected wave of the probing wave and an imaging device for capturing an image of the surroundings of the vehicle. The perimeter monitoring device comprises: an information acquisition unit for acquiring distance information, directional information, and object width information of an object existing in the vicinity of the vehicle as detection information of the object provided by the distance measuring sensor; an area setting unit for setting an image processing area on which image processing is performed in the image captured by the imaging device based on the distance information, the directional information, and the object width information acquired by the information acquisition unit; and an object recognition unit for performing the image processing on the image processing area set by the area setting unit to recognize the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2017Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Yu MAEDA, Taketo HARADA, Mitsuyasu MATSUURA, Hirohiko YANAGAWA
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Patent number: 10672547Abstract: A soft magnetic powder of the invention has a composition represented by Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-fCuaSibBcMdM?eXf (at %) [wherein M is Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti, or Mo, M? is V, Cr, Mn, Al, a platinum group element, Sc, Y, Au, Zn, Sn, or Re, X is C, P, Ge, Ga, Sb, In, Be, or As, and a, b, c, d, e, and f are numbers that satisfy the following formulae: 0.1?a?3, 0<b?30, 0<c?25, 5?b+c?30, 0.1?d?30, 0?e?10, and 0?f?10], wherein a crystalline structure having a particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 30 nm or less is contained in an amount of 40 vol % or more, and the difference in the coercive force of the powder after classification satisfies predetermined conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasuko Kudo, Toshiki Akazawa, Yu Maeda
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Publication number: 20200112693Abstract: An image creation device is provided with an image acquisition unit acquiring multiple captured images of a peripheral area, a detection unit detecting a three-dimensional object present in the peripheral area, a first conversion unit converting the multiple captured images into multiple individual overhead images to create a first conversion image by means of an overall overhead image, a second conversion unit creating a second conversion image in which an image captured from a virtual camera is converted in accordance with the conversion rule, the virtual camera being virtually arranged at a virtual position set on the vehicle such that a virtual optical axis direction faces the direction of the three-dimensional object, and a synthesis unit synthesizes the second conversion image on the first conversion image to create a synthesis image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Yu MAEDA, Hiroaki TAKEDA, Hirohiko YANAGAWA
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Patent number: 10576967Abstract: A parking assistance device is applied to a vehicle equipped with a camera for capturing an image of an area in front of the vehicle and is configured to assist forward parking of the vehicle in a parking space. The parking assistance device includes: a position estimation unit which, in a situation where the vehicle is advancing toward the parking space in a lateral passage of the parking space, estimates, based on an image captured by the camera, at least one of a first corner position, which is a near-side corner position at a vehicle entrance part of the parking space, and a second corner position, which is a far-side corner position at the vehicle entrance part, before the vehicle passes by the parking space; and a space recognition unit which recognizes the parking space for forward parking based on the at least one estimated corner position.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Maeda, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa