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).

  • Publication number: 20220314978
    Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling steering and braking of a vehicle: determines, based on prediction of movement of an object detected on a road and prediction of a traveling trajectory of the vehicle, whether collision between the vehicle and the object will occur; determines whether it is possible to avoid the collision by braking without steering when it is determined that the collision will occur; and performs braking control for avoiding the collision and assists the steering such that the vehicle remains in a lane in which the vehicle is traveling when it is determined that it is possible to avoid the collision by braking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220315026
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire information indicating a road situation in a traveling direction of a mobile object; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on a roadway or a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the sidewalk and the predetermined region in the traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least partially, and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the roadway to a first speed and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on a sidewalk to a second speed slower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object closer to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and the road situation is in a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220319147
    Abstract: An object detection device includes a storage device which has stored a program, and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device, thereby acquiring a captured image in which a road is captured, generating a low-resolution image in which an image quality of the captured image is lowered, defining one or more partial area sets with each of the one or more partial area sets defined by cutting out a plurality of partial areas from the low-resolution image, deriving an aggregated value obtained by aggregating differences in feature amount between the partial areas included in each of the one or more partial area set and the peripheral partial areas, and extracting a point of interest based on the aggregated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20220315006
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire a state of at least one occupant getting on a mobile object capable of moving on both a roadway and a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on the roadway or the predetermined region; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the predetermined region and the roadway in a traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least partially, and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the roadway to a first speed and limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the predetermined region to a second speed slower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object closer to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and the state of the occupant is a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220319326
    Abstract: An information supply method is a method of causing a computer of a terminal device equipped with a camera and mounted in a mobile object to execute: a process of acquiring images captured at different times; a process of predicting whether the mobile object has an intention to turn right or left based on the images captured at the different times; and a process of displaying an image for an alarm about presence of a traffic participant on a display provided on a casing in which the camera of the terminal device is provided based on a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20220319325
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20220314977
    Abstract: This invention provides a vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, which comprises a first detection unit configured to detect an out-of-lane region outside a lane in which the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit configured to detect an obstacle; a guiding unit configured to start guiding the vehicle to the out-of-lane region in a case where the first detection unit detects the out-of-lane region and the second detection unit detects the obstacle; and a steering control unit configured to determine excess or deficiency of avoidance steering by a driver for avoiding a collision with the obstacle in response to the guidance by the guiding unit and perform steering assist on the basis of a degree of the excess or deficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220315015
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire reference information with which a facility where an occupant is likely to stop by is identifiable; to recognize whether a mobile object is moving on a roadway or a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the predetermined region and the roadway in a traveling direction of the mobile object; to partially control a speed of the mobile object; to limit a speed of the mobile object moving on the roadway to a first speed; to limit a speed of the mobile object moving on the predetermined region to a second speed lower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and it is determined with reference to the reference information that there is a facility where the occupant is likely to stop
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220314981
    Abstract: A trajectory generation device 1 determines first to third predicted trajectories by using model formulas (1) to (20) that model a trajectory of a host vehicle 3 on the basis of peripheral information of an information detection device 4, calculates a risk potential R_p_mi_vj_v_r by using the first to third predicted trajectories, and determines moving average values P_c1 to P_c3 so that the risk potential R_p_mi_vj_v_r decreases. In a case where the moving average values P_c1 and P_c2 have the same sign, the first predicted trajectory is determined while reflecting the moving average value P_c2 for correcting the second predicted trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20220314976
    Abstract: This invention provides a vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, which comprises a first detection unit configured to detect an out-of-lane region outside a lane in which the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit configured to detect an obstacle; and a determination unit configured to determine that performing steering control in the out-of-lane region is approved by a driver when the vehicle enters the out-of-lane region in response to a steering operation by the driver in a case where the second detection unit detects the obstacle, the first detection unit detects the out-of-lane region, and the vehicle and the obstacle have a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220318972
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit that acquires time-series images by an imaging unit; and a processing unit that performs image processing, generates a plurality of shifted images obtained by shifting a reference image acquired before a target image among the time-series images in an up-down direction by a plurality of types of different shift amounts, and specifies a correction amount by a pitch of the imaging unit on the basis of a difference between each of the plurality of shifted images and the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20220314987
    Abstract: A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire information indicating a behavior of a mobile object which is capable of moving on both a roadway and a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on the roadway or the predetermined region; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the predetermined region and the roadway in a traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least partially; to limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the roadway to a first speed; to limit a speed at which the mobile object is moving on the predetermined region to a second speed slower than the first speed; and to bring a speed of the mobile object closer to the second speed when the mobile object is moving on the roadway, the contact portion is recognized within a predetermined range from the mobile object, and a behavior of the mobile object satisfies a predeterm
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Yuji Yasui, Takashi Matsumoto, Gakuyo Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20220319037
    Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit that acquires time-series images by an imaging unit, and a processing unit that performs image processing. The processing unit generates a plurality of enlarged images obtained by enlarging a reference image acquired before a target image among the time-series images at a plurality of types of different enlargement rates. The processing unit obtains a difference between each of the plurality of enlarged images and the target image, detects a target object that is a subject from the target image, and specifies a distance to the detected target object on the basis of the enlargement rate of the enlarged image with which the difference is minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220314985
    Abstract: This invention provides a vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, which comprises a first detection unit that detects an out-of-lane region outside a lane in which the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit that detects an obstacle; a notification unit that issues a notification to prompt a driver to perform a steering operation toward the out-of-lane region in a case where the first detection unit detects the out-of-lane region, the second detection unit detects the obstacle, and the vehicle and the obstacle have a predetermined relationship; and a determination unit that determines that steering control in the out-of-lane region is approved in a case where, after the notification unit starts to issue the notification, the vehicle enters the out-of-lane region in response to a steering operation by the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220309624
    Abstract: A control device for a mobile object includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of an external environment from 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 images acquired from the 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. When a first region that is an imaging region in a specific direction with respect to the mobile object in an image acquired from a first imaging device is set as a target of the distortion reduction processing, a second region that is an imaging region in the specific direction in an image acquired from a second imaging device is set as a target of the distortion reduction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Publication number: 20220311936
    Abstract: A control device that controls imaging with fisheye cameras disposed on front and rear portions and right and left side portions of a vehicle, the control device comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a speed of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control a conversion center position for converting a fisheye image of each of the fisheye cameras into a planar image based on the speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20220309798
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle including an image capturing device periodically acquires an image of an external environment of the vehicle from the image capturing device and recognizes a target object in the external environment of the vehicle based on the acquired image. The apparatus controls setting of a predetermined region for the acquired image and performs distortion reduction processing for reducing distortion of the image for the set predetermined region. In a case where a particular target object that is recognized is included in the predetermined region, the apparatus changes the predetermined region such that a region other than the particular target object included in the predetermined region increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Gakuyo FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220309796
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit; and a processing unit configured to process an image acquired by the image acquisition unit, wherein the processing unit recognizes a moving object from the image acquired by the image acquisition unit, performs masking processing on the moving object recognized in the image; and estimates spatial motion of the image processing apparatus based on the image subjected to the masking processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Akira KANEHARA
  • Publication number: 20220309625
    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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Akira KANEHARA, Kenji GOTO, Aya MIURA, Ichiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20220309797
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to execute an inference operation in an execution cycle. The inference operation is executed by inputting input data including time series data to a neural network. An interval of acquiring constituting data of the time series data to be input in a single time of the inference operation is longer than the execution cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI