Patents by Inventor Yuki Minase
Yuki Minase 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: 20240067221Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to perform a deviation control including at least one of a first notification control and a stop control when the parking assist apparatus determines that a vehicle that is performing an automatic parking deviates from a learned route. The parking assist apparatus is configured to learn, as the learned route, a position of the vehicle in each of multiple learned images that an outside-vehicle camera captures a space including the vehicle and the parking space multiple times while the vehicle is performing a manual parking or the automatic parking; and perform the deviation control when the parking assist apparatus determines that the vehicle deviates based on a position of the vehicle in a comparative image and a position of the vehicle in the learned image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki MINASE, Tsutomu MOCHIDA, Keisuke OYAMA, Daiki MARUKI, Yu HIEI
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Publication number: 20240067162Abstract: A parking assistance system includes: a non-on-board sensor that is able to acquire first information that is three-dimensional information of a first area including a target parking space being a target area in which an own vehicle is parked; an on-board sensor that is able to acquire second information that is three-dimensional information of a second area being a surrounding area of the own vehicle and constituting a part of the first area; and a control device configured to determine a route along which the own vehicle moves to the target parking space based on the first information and the second information and to control the own vehicle such that the own vehicle moves along the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki MINASE, Tsutomu MOCHIDA, Keisuke OYAMA, Daiki MARUKI, Yu HIEI
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Patent number: 11884262Abstract: Provided is a parking assist apparatus for a vehicle, the parking assist apparatus including a first module configured to set, as a movement path, a path along which the vehicle is movable to a target position, and determine movement assist information for moving the vehicle along the movement path; and a second module configured to execute parking assist control such that the vehicle moves in accordance with the determined movement assist information, the second module being further configured to, when an occupant performs a first operation before the vehicle has reached the target position, stop the vehicle, and execute pause processing for maintaining the movement assist information.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Minase, Kota Inoue, Takuya Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Norio Imai, Nozomu Maeda
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Patent number: 11872982Abstract: A parking assistance device performs parking assistance control including steering angle control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle, driving force control for controlling a driving force of the vehicle, and braking force control for controlling a braking force of the vehicle. The parking assistance device notifies an occupant of a driving operation to be performed by the occupant, including a moving operation on a shift lever and an operation on a brake pedal when the vehicle reaches a switching position where a traveling direction of the vehicle is to be switched during performing the parking assistance control. When the driving operation is performed by the occupant, the parking assistance device restarts the parking assistance control at a timing when the occupant stops the operation on the brake pedal.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kota Inoue, Yuki Minase, Takuya Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Norio Imai, Nozomu Maeda
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Publication number: 20230382370Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an image pickup device, a three-dimensional object information acquisition device, and a control unit which executes parking assist control. The control unit registers in a storage device a path along which the vehicle has traveled when the driver has driven the vehicle from a start position to a parking position as a registered path together with a feature point extracted from a surrounding of the path and a three-dimensional object included in the three-dimensional object information, calculates, when a feature point and a three-dimensional object are detected, the registered path based on the positions of the feature point and the three-dimensional object, and notifies the driver, by display or a sound, of a first section in which the parking assist control can be started when a start condition which is satisfied when it is determined that the parking assist control can be started is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei MAEJIMA, Daiki MARUKI, Yuki MINASE, Yu HIEI
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Publication number: 20230382369Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus sets a reference moving route, based on route information when a feature point corresponding to a registered start feature point is detected, automatically parking an own vehicle at a parking space is not requested, and a driver of the own vehicle starts manually parking the own vehicle at the parking space. After the driver starts manually parking the own vehicle at the parking space, the parking assistance apparatus executes an automatic parking control when automatically parking the own vehicle at the parking space is requested, and a positional relationship between the own vehicle and the reference moving route satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiki Maruki, Yu Hiei, Yuki Minase, Shinji Kitaura
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Publication number: 20230347980Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya SANNODO, Yuki MINASE
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Publication number: 20230294668Abstract: A parking control apparatus includes a control unit capable of executing backward parking assist control based on surrounding information. In a case when a parking space is detected, when a specific condition to be satisfied when the parking space has a relatively narrow width is satisfied, the control unit executes guidance control as the backward parking assist control. The guidance control is control for moving a vehicle from a current position to a guidance target position in front of the parking space, so that the vehicle stops at the guidance target position in a posture in which: a vehicle’s longitudinal axis is parallel to a long-side direction of the parking space; a vehicle’s width is included in the width of the parking space when viewed from front; and the parking space is in closer proximity to a rear end portion than to a front end portion of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki MINASE, Motonari OBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11731702Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Patent number: 11685312Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Takuya Nakagawa, Yuki Minase
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Patent number: 11511804Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus obtains a target travelling route from a present position of a vehicle to a target parking position and controls the vehicle such that the vehicle moves along the target travelling route. The target travelling route is obtained such that the vehicle moves backward to reach the target parking position and the vehicle is moves in a region on the target parking position side of a travelling boundary line. The travelling boundary line is a straight line which is in front of the vehicle located at the target parking position and which is away from a reference position by a boundary distance. The reference position is a position at a front end and at a center in a lateral direction of the vehicle located at the target parking position. The boundary distance is a configurable value changed by a driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Minase, Takuya Nakagawa, Junji Horiguchi, Norio Imai
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Patent number: 11485355Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises a first vehicle stop apparatus operated for a purpose of stopping a vehicle, a controller configured to be capable of performing parking assist control for parking a vehicle in a parking position and to finish the parking assist control by performing control for instructing a driver of the vehicle to operate the first vehicle stop apparatus or by controlling the first vehicle stop apparatus, and a second vehicle stop apparatus operated for a purpose of stopping the vehicle. When it is determined while the parking assist control is being performed that there is a malfunction in an apparatus for detecting whether or not operation of the first vehicle stop apparatus has been performed, the controller is configured to finish the parking assist control by performing control for instructing the driver to operate the second vehicle stop apparatus or by controlling the second vehicle stop apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Nakagawa, Yuki Minase, Junji Horiguchi, Norio Imai
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Patent number: 11420679Abstract: A steering assist apparatus is configured to, when performing a steering assist control for parking, perform one or both of the following processes (a) and (b): (a) a first setting process for setting a movement path when an oncoming lane is present, the first setting process being a process for setting the movement path in such a manner that a vehicle body does not enter the oncoming lane side from an own lane across a center line or a predetermined line obtained by translating the center line; and (b) a second setting process for setting the movement path when a following vehicle is present, the second setting process being a process for setting the movement path in such a manner that a distance between the vehicle body and a parking-possible region is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20220176954Abstract: In a vehicle collision determination apparatus, a position calculation unit calculates a trajectory of a target that is a movement trajectory of the target, and calculates an entrainment trajectory of the vehicle that is a movement trajectory of the vehicle during a turn, and calculate a position of collision where a collision is likely to occur between the vehicle and the target based on the trajectory of the target and the entrainment trajectory of the vehicle. A time calculation unit calculates a time to collision (TTC) that is a time it takes for the target to reach the position of collision. In response to the time to collision being equal to or less than a predefined determination threshold, a risk determination unit determines that there is a risk of collision between the vehicle and the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Yuki MINASE, Motonari OHBAYASHI, Masumi FUKUMAN
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Publication number: 20220111793Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: MASAHIRO IINO, MICHIHIRO TAKADA, MAYUKO MAEDA, YASUTAKA MATSUNAGA, TOSHIHIRO TAKAGI, TAKUYA NAKAGAWA, YUKI MINASE
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Publication number: 20220097686Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a central processing unit. The central processing unit detects the size of a parking space. The central processing unit sets the size of an extra space to be secured at a minimum between a vehicle and an object around the parking space while changing that size according to the detected size of the parking space. Based on the set size of the extra space, the central processing unit provides assistance in parking the vehicle into the parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke KIYOKAWA, Norio IMAI, Yuki MINASE, Takuya NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11273822Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to execute parking assist control including steering angle automatic control, driving force automatic control and braking force automatic control, the parking assist apparatus being programmed to notify an occupant of an operation request requesting a driving operation of the vehicle to be performed for the parking assist control; and terminate the parking assist control and notify the occupant that the parking assist control is terminated when the driving operation corresponding to the operation request has not been performed by the occupant within a predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Oyama, Yuki Minase, Shinya Sannodo, Miyuki Omori, Norio Imai
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Publication number: 20210370919Abstract: An information processing device for a vehicle includes an object detecting unit, an object information storage unit, and an object information management unit. The object detecting unit detects, based on an output of a sensor mounted on the vehicle, an object located around the vehicle. The object information storage unit stores, as object information, information about the object detected by the object detecting unit. The object information management unit is configured to: receive, from a travelling assistance unit that performs an assistance operation of assisting travelling of the vehicle based on the object information, related information, the related information being related to the assistance operation performed by the travelling assistance unit; determine storage priority of the object information in the object information storage unit based on the related information; and manage a storage state of the object information in the object information storage unit based on the storage priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Shunsuke KUSUHARA, Yuki MINASE, Motonari OHBAYASHI, Yutaka HAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210356583Abstract: An object detection apparatus is mounted to a moving body to which a plurality of distance measurement sensors are mounted, and detects an object that is present in a vicinity of the moving body. In response to direct waves and indirect waves being received, the object detection apparatus acquires a relative position of an object to a moving body based on principles of triangulation using distance measurement information based on the direct waves and distance measurement information based on the indirect waves. In response to the received waves being reflected waves from an object of which the relative position has been already acquired and only either of the direct waves and the indirect waves being received as received waves, the object detection apparatus estimates the relative position of the object to the moving body based on a reference position that is the relative position that has been already acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Shinji KUTOMI, Yuki MINASE, Motonari OHBAYASHI, Masumi FUKUMAN
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Publication number: 20210316788Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase