Patents by Inventor Yuji Yasui

Yuji Yasui 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: 11964621
    Abstract: A vehicle seatbelt device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes circumstances around a vehicle, a steering operator that is able to adjust steering of the vehicle, a vibrator that causes a portion of the steering operator to vibrate, a seatbelt that restrains a portion of the body of an occupant of the vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust the tension of the seatbelt, and a controller that controls the vibrator and the tension adjustment mechanism on the basis of the circumstances recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Odai, Yuji Yasui, Kenji Komori, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yosuke Koike, Kenshi Torikai
  • Patent number: 11968352
    Abstract: Provided is a display method, which is executed by a display device capable of forming an image in both of an inside of a lens area and an outside of the lens area and enabling a user to visually recognize the image, the display method including displaying, by the display device, one or more objects from a predetermined area inside the lens area toward the outside of the lens area so that an object near the predetermined area is displayed in a different display mode relating to at least one of a density, a color strength, a luminance, and a size compared to an object away from the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20240112575
    Abstract: Area monitoring system includes a plurality of sensor devices each installed in a monitoring target area and configured to detect a mobile object moving in the monitoring target area and a determiner configured to determine whether or not mobile objects detected by the plurality of sensor devices are the same physical object on the basis of detection results of the plurality of sensor devices. The plurality of sensor devices include at least a radio wave sensor and an optical sensor. The determiner determines whether or not mobile objects detected by the radio wave sensor and the optical sensor are the same physical object on the basis of information of at least one of feature quantities regarding movements of the mobile objects and reflection intensities corresponding to attributes of the mobile objects when the mobile objects have been detected by the radio wave sensor and the optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji Komori, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20240110794
    Abstract: A route guidance device that guides a user along a movement route, the route guidance device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a communication device, location information including a departure location and a destination location of the user, a search unit configured to search for a plurality of movement routes from the departure location to the destination location, based on the location information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a provision unit configured to provide the communication device with the plurality of movement routes searched for by the search unit, wherein the plurality of movement routes includes a first movement route using a first moving body of a riding type capable of traveling on a roadway, and a second movement route using a second moving body of a self-propelled type capable of traveling on a sidewalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuma TAMAKI, Yuji YASUI, Tokitomo ARIYOSHI, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Ken IINUMA
  • Publication number: 20240109552
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a driving assistance device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object, a decider configured to decide whether or not to prompt a driver of the mobile object to perform acceleration or deceleration on the basis of the surrounding situation, and a notification controller configured to cause a speaker to output a notification sound for prompting the driver of the mobile object to perform the acceleration or deceleration on the basis of a decision result. The notification sound is a notification sound obtained by continuously changing a structure of a sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kosuke Toda, Yuji Yasui, Takeru Goto, Aya Miura, Kenjiro Torii, Keming Ding
  • Publication number: 20240112149
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an area monitoring system includes a sensor device installed at a position where a monitoring target area can be imaged, an analyzer configured to analyze an image captured by the sensor device, a manager configured to manage a situation of the monitoring target area on the basis of an analysis result of the analyzer, and a provider configured to provide information about the monitoring target area. The manager causes the provider to provide information for promoting maintenance regarding at least one of the monitoring target area or the sensor device when a degree of deviation between a state of a road included in the image and a state of the road based on a predetermined reference image of the sensor device is greater than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji Komori, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20240112104
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire physical strength information related to physical strength and time information related to a scheduled farm work time of a work group including at least one worker who performs farm work; a determination unit configured to determine a work ability of the work group based on the physical strength information; and a crop type selection unit configured to select a crop type to be proposed to the work group based on the work ability determined by the determination unit and the time information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma TAMAKI, Yuji YASUI, Tokitomo ARIYOSHI, Ken IINUMA, Hideki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20240112572
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an area monitoring system includes a sensor device installed at a position where a monitoring target area can be imaged, an analyzer configured to analyze an image captured by the sensor device, a manager configured to manage a movement situation of a mobile object moving on a road included in the monitoring target area on the basis of an analysis result of the analyzer, and a provider configured to provide prescribed information to the mobile object. The provider provides an action instruction for the mobile object to the mobile object when the mobile object is likely to depart from the road on the basis of the movement situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji Komori, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20240101152
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object; set, based on the recognized surrounding situation, a risk area in which positions of the surrounding situation are associated with risk values that are indicator values indicating degrees to which the mobile object is to avoid traveling; generate a target trajectory indicating a route along which the mobile object is to travel in future; cause the mobile object to travel along the generated target trajectory; and set at least one observation point in each of three or more provisional trajectories branching at a specific location ahead of the mobile object, and generate the target trajectory based on the risk area and the at least one observation point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kotaro Fujimura, Atsushi Kato, Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 11935412
    Abstract: An information supply method causes a computer of a terminal device equipped with a camera and mounted in a mobile object to execute: a process of acquiring an image; a process of determining an alert level for an operator of the mobile object is a first alert level or a second alert level that is a level lower than the first alert level based on a surrounding situation of the mobile object obtained from the image; and a process of displaying information appropriate to the alert level on a display provided on a casing in which the camera of the terminal device is provided in accordance with a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20240083417
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device including: a storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored therein; and a processor connected to the storage medium, wherein the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to recognize an object which is located near a mobile object, set a risk which is an index value indicating a degree to which the mobile object should avoid entry on the basis of a position of the object, and generate a target trajectory for the mobile object to travel along so as to pass through a point at which the risk is low, and generating the target trajectory includes setting a plurality of first observation points at intervals in a traveling direction of the mobile object, setting one or more second observation points in each of a left direction and a right direction as seen from the mobile object for each of the plurality of first observation points, and searching for a point at which the risk is low on the basis of the risk at an observation point group including
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi Kato, Kotaro Fujimura, Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 11914386
    Abstract: A mobile object control device includes a first controller that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile object based on an output of a detection device having a space around the mobile object as a detection range and generates a first movement plan for the mobile object in a first period based on the recognized surrounding situation of the mobile object, and a second controller that generates a second movement plan for the mobile object in a second period shorter than the first period, and when the second controller generates label data in which label information indicating different values depending on at least the presence or absence of a moving object is imparted to each of division elements obtained by dividing the space around the mobile object into a finite number, and generates the second movement plan based on the label data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20240051526
    Abstract: An information processing device for generating a trajectory of a moving object includes a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium. The processor executes the computer-readable instructions to recognize a travel environment around the moving object, calculate a risk value to be set for a region surrounding a target located in the recognized travel environment, and generate a travel trajectory of the moving object as a travel trajectory along which a plurality of trajectory points are arranged. The trajectory is generated by executing an iterative process and a current travel trajectory is generated by designating a previous travel trajectory generated at a processing timing before a current processing timing as a reference line and offsetting each of the plurality of trajectory points constituting the reference line in a direction normal to the reference line on the basis of the risk value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ichiro Baba, Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 11897464
    Abstract: A vehicle control method includes recognizing a vicinity of a vehicle, setting a risk index for a traffic participant, and controlling a vehicle-mounted instrument of the vehicle based on the risk index which is set by the setter, and setting a risk index for a position at which the traffic participant will be present in the future based on ease of entry of the traffic participant from a sidewalk to a roadway adjacent to the sidewalk in a region that the traffic participant traveling on the sidewalk will enter in the future, and increasing a risk index to be set on the roadway side as there is a greater tendency for the traffic participant to enter the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Patent number: 11893715
    Abstract: A control device for a mobile object including one or more imaging devices, the control device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of an external environment of the mobile object from the one or more imaging devices, a correction unit configured to perform distortion reduction processing for reducing distortion of an image for each of one or more regions included in an image acquired from the one or more imaging devices, and a recognition unit configured to recognize the external environment of the mobile object based on an image on which the distortion reduction processing has been performed. The correction unit is configured to determine the one or more regions to be a target of the distortion reduction processing in accordance with a predetermined rule according to a moving scene of the mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Akira Kanehara, Kenji Goto, Aya Miura, Ichiro Baba
  • Patent number: 11881035
    Abstract: A calibration device for calibrating detection processing of a line of sight of a user can perform first calibration processing in which an instruction to look at each of a plurality of positions by moving the face is given and second calibration processing in which an instruction to look at each of the plurality of positions without moving the face is given. The calibration device executes both the first calibration processing and the second calibration processing when it is determined that an eye of the user can be detected, and executes the first calibration processing and cease to execute the second calibration processing when it is determined that an eye of the user cannot be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20240013348
    Abstract: An image generation method includes the following steps. Illumination lamps on a target object in an original image are detected; the original image is converted into an image to be processed that is in a specific scene; in the image to be processed, at least one illumination lamp of which operation state does not match scene information of the specific scene is determined as an object to be replaced; a replacement image including the object to be replaced of which operation state matches the scene information is determined according to the scene information and the object to be replaced; and the image in a region occupied by the object to be replaced in the image to be processed is replaced with the replacement image to generate a target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: SENSETIME GROUP LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangliang CHENG, Jianping SHI, Yuji YASUI, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Kaname TOMITE
  • Publication number: 20240013453
    Abstract: An image generation method includes: an original image is converted into an image to be processed under a specific scenario; in the image to be processed, a region to be adjusted of which image rendering state does not match scenario information of the specific scenario is determined; the image rendering state of the region to be adjusted is related to light illuminated on a target object in the original image, and the target object includes a vehicle; a target rendering state in the region to be adjusted is determined; the target rendering state matches the scenario information; and in the image to be processed, the image rendering state of the region to be adjusted is adjusted to the target rendering state, to obtain a target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: SENSETIME GROUP LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangliang CHENG, Jianping SHI, Yuji YASUI, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Kaname TOMITE
  • Patent number: 11860627
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus applies predetermined image processing to an actual image captured by an image capturing device and recognizes a target within the captured image with use of the image which the predetermined image processing has been applied to. The image processing apparatus applies, to tones of the actual image, the predetermined image processing for reducing a difference from tones of a CG image which shows the same scene and which is presented through computer graphics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Hideki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20230415735
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus in a vehicle, includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire peripheral information of the vehicle; a risk prediction unit configured to predict a risk region on the periphery of the vehicle using the peripheral information; a sight line specifying unit configured to specify a position of a sight line of a driver of the vehicle in the peripheral information; and a control unit configured to switch driving support control based on a degree of deviation between the risk region predicted by the risk prediction unit and the position of the sight line specified by the sight line specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI