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).

  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VEHICLE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20210252981
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit which controls a display unit which can display an image of a character and a graphical user interface (GUI) which accepts an operation instruction for an apparatus. The information processing device includes an obtaining unit which obtains information indicating an operation content of an apparatus intended by a user. The display control unit determines the presentation duration for which a presentation image of the character operating the GUI is displayed based on the operation content and causes a display unit to display the presentation image for the presentation duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Nanami TSUKAMOTO, Misako YOSHIMURA, Kentaro YAMADA, Hisashi ISHIMATSU
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING A TARGET WITHIN A CAPTURED IMAGE
    Publication number: 20210224554
    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: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Tokitomo ARIYOSHI, Hideki MATSUNAGA
  • Event vehicle dispatch device, event vehicle dispatch method, program, and management system
    Patent number: 11069239
    Abstract: An event vehicle dispatch device includes: an event notifier configured to notify a plurality of vehicles or owners of the vehicles of an event held in an area in which the plurality of vehicles are able to park; and an adjuster configured to adjust the number of vehicles corresponding to vehicle attributes of vehicles arriving at the area based on the vehicle attribute of each of the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and program
    Patent number: 11017666
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control system including an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a situation of a transit point of autonomous driving, and a determination unit that determines whether an autonomously driven vehicle will pass the transit point based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • EXPERIENCE PROVIDING SYSTEM, EXPERIENCE PROVIDING METHOD, AND EXPERIENCE PROVIDING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20210150772
    Abstract: An experience providing system includes: a passenger information detector configured to detect information regarding a passenger of a vehicle; an outside information detector configured to detect information outside the vehicle; an output section configured to output sound; a virtual image generator configured to output display; and a provider configured to dynamically provide an interaction to the passenger of the vehicle by causing the sound output from the output section to be synchronized with the display output from the virtual image generator on the basis of detection results of the passenger information detector and the outside information detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada
  • VEHICLE ALLOCATION SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE, VEHICLE ALLOCATION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20210148720
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation service providing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire a use request of a main user; an instructor configured to instruct an automated driving vehicle of a route in response to the use request acquired by the acquirer; a route setter configured to set the route of the automated driving vehicle based on the use request and a use request of a user different from the main user; and a service manager configured to allocate a plurality of automated driving vehicles as relays to the main user based on one of a joining plan for the main user and a user different from the main user to use the same vehicle on the route or a branching plan for the main user and the user different from the main user to ride separately into a plurality of vehicles on the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • SERVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20210150656
    Abstract: Provided is a service management device (300, 700) including an acquisitor (320, 720, 722, 724) that acquires a riding-together request (service use request information) for a service user U to request riding together with a service provider S within a moving vehicle (200, 500), and a plan decider (330, 740) that decides a riding-together plan of the service user and the service provider in response to the riding-together request acquired by the acquisitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20210146955
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detector configured to detect objects around a vehicle; a predictor configured to predict the extent of stress caused to an occupant by the objects according to a distribution of the objects detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate a trajectory when the vehicle is traveling by automated driving according to the extent of stress predicted by the predictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • ASSISTANCE DEVICE, ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210142797
    Abstract: An assistance device (100 or 500) includes an acquisitor (110 or 510) configured to acquire user-side information including input information input using voice or text by a user from a terminal device (200) of the user, an interface (160 or 540) configured to perform an operation for a work reservation, and an intermediary unit (120, 140, 520, or 560) configured to perform intention estimation of input information included in the user-side information acquired by the acquisitor, to control the interface on the basis of a result of the intention estimation, and to realize work reservation intended by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF VEHICLE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210039638
    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: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventor: Yuji YASUI
  • Vehicle controller, vehicle control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10913457
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a recognizer (121,122) configured to recognize a distance to a stop position as a first distance on the basis of an image captured by an imaging unit that images the front of a vehicle; and a braking distance estimator (123B) configured to estimate a braking distance to the stop position on the basis of the first distance recognized by the recognizer at a predetermined time point and a second distance acquired on the basis of a speed of the vehicle and to adjust a degree of reflection of the second distance in the braking distance on the basis of the first distance recognized by the recognizer after the predetermined time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga
  • EGR control apparatus and EGR control method for internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10883430
    Abstract: An EGR control apparatus for the engine includes an ECU. The ECU calculates a LP-side correction coefficient Kcor_LP and a HP-side correction coefficient Kcor_HP such that they include a LP-side FB correction value Dfb_LP and a HP-side FB correction value Dfb_HP that are calculated using equations (9) and (17) such that an absolute value of an EGR amount error E_egr is reduced, and a LP-side learned value CorMAP_LP/HP-side learned value CorMAP_HP learned when a LP ratio R_LP=1/R_LP=0 holds, calculates a target LP opening ?_LP_dmd and a target HP opening ?_HP_dmd using the LP-side correction coefficient Kcor_LP and the HP-side correction coefficient Kcor_HP, and controls a LP opening ?_LP and a HP opening ?_HP such that they become equal to the target LP opening ?_LP_dmd and the target HP opening ?_HP_dmd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Toshiharu Takahashi
  • VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20200385017
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an obstacle recognizer configured to recognize an obstacle which is located near a vehicle and a target trajectory generator configured to generate a target trajectory in which the vehicle is to travel repeatedly with a predetermined cycle. The target trajectory generator is configured to generate the target trajectory such that a first change which is an amount of change in a road width direction from the target trajectory which is generated in a previous cycle during repeated execution and a second change which is an amount of change of a direction with respect to a direction directed from the vehicle to a point a predetermined distance away on the target trajectory between the previous cycle and a current cycle are decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Ichiro Baba, Yuji Yasui
  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING SMART DRIVING, MEDIUM AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200327690
    Abstract: A 3D object detection method includes: obtaining two-dimensional (2D) coordinates of at least one predetermined key point of a target object in an image to be processed; constructing a pseudo 3D detection body of the target object in a 2D space according to the 2D coordinates of the at least one predetermined key point; obtaining depth information of a plurality of vertices of the pseudo 3D detection body; and determining a 3D detection body of the target object in a 3D space according to the depth information of the plurality of vertices of the pseudo 3D detection body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicants: SENSETIME GROUP LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yingjie CAI, Shinan LIU, Xingyu ZENG, Junjie YAN, Xiaogang WANG, Atsushi Kawamura, Yuji Yasui, Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Yuji Kaneda, Yuhi Goto
  • TRAVELING CONTROL APPARATUS, TRAVELING CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200307598
    Abstract: An estimation unit, if an acquisition unit acquires, as information outside a vehicle, information of a following other vehicle that is a vehicle traveling on a lane different from a traveling lane of the vehicle and is traveling behind the vehicle and information of a preceding other vehicle that is traveling ahead the vehicle and the following other vehicle, estimates, based on a behavior of the following other vehicle to the preceding other vehicle and a behavior of the following other vehicle to the vehicle, whether the behavior of the following other vehicle allows a lane change of the vehicle to enter between the preceding other vehicle and the following other vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Takayasu KUMANO, Yuji YASUI
  • VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200307569
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to perform driving control according to speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The recognizer includes a physical object recognizer configured to recognize a physical object present on a route of the vehicle on the basis of an image acquired from an imaging unit configured to image a space in a traveling direction of the vehicle and an obstacle determiner configured to determine whether or not the physical object recognized by the physical object recognizer is a specific obstacle that hinders traveling in a lane where the vehicle is currently traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Umiaki Matsubara
  • EGR CONTROL APPARATUS AND EGR CONTROL METHOD FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20200300187
    Abstract: An EGR control apparatus for the engine includes an ECU. The ECU calculates a LP-side correction coefficient Kcor_LP and a HP-side correction coefficient Kcor_HP such that they include a LP-side FB correction value Dfb_LP and a HP-side FB correction value Dfb_HP that are calculated using equations (9) and (17) such that an absolute value of an EGR amount error E_egr is reduced, and a LP-side learned value CorMAP_LP/HP-side learned value CorMAP_HP learned when a LP ratio R_LP=1/R_LP=0 holds, calculates a target LP opening ?_LP_dmd and a target HP opening ?_HP_dmd using the LP-side correction coefficient Kcor_LP and the HP-side correction coefficient Kcor_HP, and controls a LP opening ?_LP and a HP opening ?_HP such that they become equal to the target LP opening ?_LP_dmd and the target HP opening ?_HP_dmd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Delphi Technologies IP Limited
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Toshiharu Takahashi
  • Running track determining device and automatic driving apparatus
    Patent number: 10775798
    Abstract: A running track determining device capable of appropriately determining a running track of a subject vehicle in the future in a speedy manner and an automatic driving apparatus including the running track determining device is provided. A running track determining device (1) includes an ECU (2). The ECU (2) calculates a risk potential (Prisk) representing an area having a possibility of the presence of a traffic participant from the present to the future in surroundings of the subject vehicle (3) in accordance with surrounding status data (D_info) detected by a status detecting device (4), calculates a benefit potential (Pbnf) representing an ideal running area in the future in which the subject vehicle (3) should run, and determines a running track (Tr_sk) of the subject vehicle (3) in the future by using the risk potential (Prisk) and the benefit potential (Pbnf).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Yasui
  • Recognition processing device, vehicle control device, recognition control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10759449
    Abstract: A recognition processing device includes a peripheral situation recognition unit configured to recognize a type of object around a vehicle and a positional relationship with the vehicle, an object recognition unit configured to select a word indicating the type of object recognized by the peripheral situation recognition unit and a word indicating a positional relationship between the vehicle and the object, and a text generation unit configured to generate text for describing a peripheral situation recognized by the peripheral situation recognition unit, wherein the text includes the word indicating the type of object selected by the object recognition unit and the word indicating the positional relationship between the vehicle and the object selected by the object recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingmei Li, Yuji Yasui, Tokitomo Ariyoshi
  • Travel control apparatus, travel control method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10732642
    Abstract: A travel control apparatus (140) includes a acquisition unit (141), which acquires information on a target track through which a vehicle (M) will pass in the future, a parameter determiner (142), which determines a parameter by which a track model defined by one or more parameters coincides with a track acquired by the acquisition unit, and a steering controller (143), which feedforward-controls steering of the vehicle on the basis of at least the track model defined by the parameter determined by the parameter determiner, wherein the parameter determiner determines the parameter on the basis of a direction of a change in the degree of separation between the track model and the target track with respect to a change in the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga