Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ishioka

Atsushi Ishioka 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: 11919515
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle and a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and a speed of the host vehicle. The driving controller designates an inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle that travels in front of the host vehicle as a first inter-vehicle distance when the host vehicle is allowed to travel in a first driving mode, designates an inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle as a second inter-vehicle distance when the host vehicle is allowed to travel in a second driving mode, and designates the target inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle in the second driving mode as a longer distance between the first inter-vehicle distance and the second inter-vehicle distance when the driving mode is switched from the first driving mode to the second driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Takafumi Hirose, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20230391332
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle and a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and a speed of the host vehicle. The driving controller allows the host vehicle to travel in any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode in which the host vehicle is allowed to travel such that an inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle and the host vehicle becomes a target inter-vehicle distance and a second driving mode in which the host vehicle is decelerated and moved to a target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Takafumi Hirose, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20230311761
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle including an external sensor that acquires surrounding information of the vehicle and a notification device capable of executing a predetermined notification to an occupant of the vehicle, the control device including processing circuitry configured to execute alarm control for causing the notification device to execute the notification, when an object that has a possibility of colliding with the vehicle exists around the vehicle, based on the surrounding information acquired by the external sensor. The processing circuitry is capable of ending processing for the alarm control when a door of the vehicle is locked, and the processing circuitry ends the processing for the alarm control or continues the processing for the alarm control depending on a locking method for the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIOKA, Takuma ANDO
  • Patent number: 11498563
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize situations around a vehicle; a determiner configured to determine any of lanes included in a road on which the vehicle travels as a reference lane; and a driving controller configured to control at least one of a speed and steering of the vehicle according to the situations recognized by the recognizer and the reference lane determined by the determiner, wherein the determiner is configured to, when the vehicle moves from a first road to a second road different from the first road, among a plurality of lanes included in the first road, according to a relative position of a first reference lane determined at a time before the vehicle moves to the second road with respect to the plurality of lanes, determine a second reference lane on the second road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirosawa, Tadahiko Kanoh, Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato, Katsuya Yashiro
  • Patent number: 11472409
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a controller that performs following control of following the preceding vehicle based on the peripheral information. The controller controls traveling of a self-vehicle by setting one of a first state which requires driving preparation by a driver and a second state which does not require the driving preparation by the driver, controls the self-vehicle by setting the first state if a behavior amount of the preceding vehicle exceeds a threshold; and controls the vehicle by setting the second state if the behavior amount of the preceding vehicle does not exceed the threshold, and changes the threshold based on the peripheral information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11440558
    Abstract: An automated driving control unit sets an automated driving state to a first automated driving state (step S3), in a case that an automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which a destination is set by a destination setting unit, sets the automated driving state to a second automated driving state (step S4), in a case that the automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which the destination is not set by the destination setting unit, and causes the automated driving state to transition from the first automated driving state to the second automated driving state (step S13), in a case that a current travel position lies outside of a travel route during the travel control in the first automated driving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kanta Tsuji, Daiki Nishida, Shigehiro Honda, Takafumi Hirose
  • Patent number: 11414079
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes one or more other vehicles present in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; a running controller that performs lane change control of performing lane change of the subject vehicle by controlling at least steering of the subject vehicle; and a determiner that determines whether or not a degree of braking predicted to be generated in a reference vehicle due to the lane change of the subject vehicle is equal to or higher than a threshold on the basis of a relative relationship between the reference vehicle present in a lane that is a destination of the lane change among the one or more other vehicles that have been recognized by the recognizer and the subject vehicle in a case in which the lane change control is performed by the running controller, wherein the running controller stops the lane change control in a case in which it is determined by the determiner that the degree of braking is equal to or higher than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11396296
    Abstract: A control system of a vehicle, comprises: a control unit that controls a lane change operation from a travel lane on which the vehicle is traveling to an adjacent lane; a detection unit that detects a driver's lane change intention; and a switching unit that switches between a first control state in which the lane change operation of the vehicle is restricted and a second control state in which the lane change operation of the vehicle is possible, wherein in a case in which the detection unit detects the driver's lane change intention when the state of the vehicle is in the first control state, the lane change operation by the control unit is performed after the switching unit has shifted the state of the vehicle from the first control state to the second control state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11392129
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an inputter that accepts an occupant's operation of a host vehicle; an autonomous driving controller that executes an autonomous driving mode for controlling steering and acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle in a case where a predetermined operation is accepted by the inputter; and a mode controller that prohibits the autonomous driving mode from being started by the autonomous driving controller in a case where the host vehicle has reached a predetermined section including at least one of a divergence point, a merging point, and a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11383734
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, comprising, a setting unit that accepts setting of a destination; an acquisition unit that acquires peripheral information of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the vehicle based on the peripheral information, wherein the control unit executes, if the destination has been set, first control in which first assist for a course change is performed in accordance with a case in which the vehicle has entered a course change area from a first road existing on a traveling route to the destination to a second road connected to the first road, and executes, if the destination has not been set, second control in which second assist with an assist level lower than in the first assist is performed on a road existing on a current traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Nozomu Hirosawa, Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11386720
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a mounting unit on which a medium storing authentication information for passing through a toll road is mountable, a detector which is configured to detect a state where the medium is mounted on the mounting unit or a state where the medium is not mounted on the mounting unit, and an automated driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving and change control details of the automated driving on the basis of detection results obtained by the detector, wherein the automated driving controller configured to determine whether to change a target gate or not on the basis of a relationship between a time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a time when the vehicle is expected to arrive at the target gate or a relationship between a position of the vehicle at the time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a position of the target gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11370448
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is equipped with a travel control unit which, in the case that a user-requested driving force exceeds a system-required driving force in a state in which a user is not in contact with an operating element, performs a travel control on the basis of a limited driving force obtained by applying a limit to the user-requested driving force, whereas in the case that the user-requested driving force exceeds the system-required driving force in a state in which the user is in contact with the operating element, performs the travel control on the basis of the user-requested driving force without applying the limit to the user-requested driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka, Daiki Nishida, Akira Shiogai, Atsuki Iwamitsu, Daisuke Nakanishi, Koichi Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 11370441
    Abstract: A position to which a turn signal lever can be moved includes a neutral position, middle positions, and end positions. A detection unit detects a start request of a lane change operation based on the turn signal lever having been operated to the middle position in one of two different directions, and detects a cancellation request of the lane change operation based on the turn signal lever having been operated to the middle position in the other of the two different directions during the execution of the lane change operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka, Nozomu Hirosawa, Haruhiko Nishiguchi, Takafumi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20220161795
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle, comprising a first acquisition unit that acquires information on a traveling path, and a first display unit that displays the traveling path based on an acquisition result of the first acquisition unit, wherein the first display unit displays the first branch lane as the adjacent lane on the one side of the current lane while the current lane is adjacent to the first branch lane, and then continues to display the adjacent lane such that the second branch lane is displayed as the adjacent lane, instead of the first branch lane while the current lane is adjacent to the second branch lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIOKA, Akito KOKUBO, Kovi ADUAYOM AHEGO
  • Patent number: 11340612
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus that controls a vehicle based on a plurality of control states, includes a detection unit configured to detect information of the vehicle and peripheral information of the vehicle and a vehicle control unit configured to control the vehicle based on a detection result of the detection unit. In a case in which the vehicle control unit can execute, based on the detection result of the detection unit, a first control state and a second control state, the vehicle control unit controls the vehicle by selecting a control state prioritizing one of the first control state and the second control state in an overlapping operation condition range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Tadahiko Kanoh, Kanta Tsuji, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11325602
    Abstract: A lane change assist control unit refers to characteristics of a remaining distance with respect to a host vehicle speed, with a lane travel speed of a second lane (main line) adjacent to a first lane (merging lane) as a parameter, and determines whether to continue or cancel a lane change assist control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kanta Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11312396
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1) configured for autonomous driving, and having a control unit (15) configured to execute a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop area when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, the control unit determines if a person is present within a predetermined range from the vehicle according to information obtained by a surrounding condition acquiring unit (61), the control unit causing the external notification device (14) to generate the acoustic notification at a first notification volume when a person is present within the predetermined range, and at a second notification volume higher than the first notification volume when a person is not present within the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Tadashi Naruse, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11299152
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recommended lane setter configured to set a recommended lane in which an own vehicle is to travel along a route to a destination; a reception unit configured to receive an operation by an occupant of the own vehicle; and an automatic driving controller configured to control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the own vehicle such that the own vehicle travels in the recommended lane set by the recommended lane setter. The automatic driving controller is configured to change a lane of the own vehicle to another lane different from the recommended lane and is configured to control the steering and the acceleration or deceleration speed of the own vehicle such that the traveling in a lane of a lane change destination is maintained until a predetermined condition is satisfied when the reception unit receives a predetermined operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11299163
    Abstract: A control system of a vehicle determines whether to require a shift from a first travel state in which an operation by a driver is not required to a second travel state in which the operation by the driver is required; makes an operation request to the driver when the shift is required; determines whether the driver has performed an operation in response to the request; and stops the vehicle in a predetermined position when the driver has not performed the operation, wherein in a case in which a lane change operation is required to stop the vehicle in the predetermined position, a speed of travel of the self-vehicle is reduced in accordance with each of a vehicle speed set for a first lane before the lane change operation and a vehicle speed set for a second lane after the lane change operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kanta Tsuji, Yuichi Komori, Daiki Nishida, Takafumi Hirose, Tadashi Naruse
  • Patent number: 11292460
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that recognizes a target in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; a first processor that repeatedly performs a process of determining a first target speed, which is a target speed of the subject vehicle in the future, at a first period on the basis of the target recognized by the recognizer and a state of the subject vehicle; a second processor that repeatedly performs a process of determining a second target speed, which is a target speed of the subject vehicle in the future, at a second period shorter than the first period on the basis of the first target speed determined by the first processor, the target recognized by the recognizer, and the state of the subject vehicle; and a running controller that controls acceleration/deceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of at least one of the first target speed determined by the first processor and the second target speed determined by the second processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Masanori Takeda