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).

  • Publication number: 20200043247
    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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20200001867
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is a vehicle control apparatus includes a recognizer configured to recognize a vehicle A traveling in front of a host vehicle in a first lane in which the host vehicle travels, and a vehicle B traveling between the vehicle A and the host vehicle in a traveling direction in a second lane adjacent to the first lane, which are detected by a detector that detects a situation of a periphery of the host vehicle, an estimator configured to estimate a likelihood of changing lanes into the first lane by the vehicle B recognized by the recognizer, and a vehicle controller configured to control a speed of the host vehicle on the basis of a speed of the vehicle A and an estimation result of the estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190389463
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle selector configured to select, from among other vehicles present near an own vehicle, another vehicle that the own vehicle is to follow when traveling in front of a gate as a following target vehicle, and a gate passage controller configured to cause the own vehicle to travel following the following target vehicle selected by the vehicle selector when passing through the gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190382024
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (1) includes an automated driving control unit (100) configured to execute automated driving of a vehicle and an acquisition unit (124) configured to acquire movement states in a running direction and a lateral direction of the vehicle. The automated driving control unit is configured to execute the automated driving such that the movement states which have been acquired by the acquisition unit before the automated driving has been started are maintained in a predetermined time or a predetermined distance when automated driving has been started by switching from manual driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Akira Mizutani, Toru Kokaki
  • Publication number: 20190375412
    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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190377344
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a static information acquirer that is configured to acquire static information that is static information relating to gates; a dynamic information acquirer that is configured to acquire dynamic information that is dynamic information relating to the gates; a selector that is configured to select a gate among a plurality of gates on the basis of the static information acquired by the static information acquirer and thereafter correct a selection result of gates on the basis of the dynamic information acquired by the dynamic information acquirer; and a gate passage controller that is configured to perform control of a vehicle such that the vehicle passes through the gate selected by the selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190367018
    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: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Masanori Takeda
  • Publication number: 20190359209
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recommended lane determiner which determines a recommended lane in which a vehicle will travel, an acquirer which acquires road information including a road shape, and an automated driving controller which causes the vehicle to travel along the recommended lane determined by the recommended lane determiner, and determines details of control of automated driving on the basis of the road information acquired by the acquirer when the recommended lane determined by the recommended lane determiner is switched from a first recommended lane to a second recommended lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190354107
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a virtual line setter configured to set virtual lines in front of a gate on the basis of the position of the gate, and a gate passing controller configured to perform vehicle control when a vehicle passes through the gate on the basis of the virtual lines set by the virtual line setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190353493
    Abstract: A passing gate determining device including: an information acquirer configured to acquire a status of vehicles in front of gates in a place in which a plurality of gates are aligned; and a gate selector configured to select a gate through which a vehicle is to pass among the plurality of gates on the basis of the status acquired by the information acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20190344795
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a gate selector configured to select a gate to be merged associated with a path to be merged after passage of the gate among a plurality of gates in accordance with a merging status between vehicles after passage of the gate; and a gate passage controller configured to control a subject vehicle such that the subject vehicle passes through the gate selected by the gate selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20190329766
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a detector configured to detect a surrounding object of a host vehicle, a generator configured to generate a first target trajectory on the basis of a shape of a traveling path in which the host vehicle travels, a first potential calculator configured to calculate a guiding potential which represents safety of traveling along the first target trajectory, a second potential calculator configured to calculate a surrounding potential which represents safety based on a surrounding object of the host vehicle, a third potential calculator configured to calculate a traveling potential, which represents safety when the host vehicle is moved in a direction intersecting a traveling direction of the host vehicle at each point included in an area in which the host vehicle will be traveling in the future based on the first target trajectory, on the basis of the guiding potential and the surrounding potential, and a traveling controller configured to perform traveling control of the host v
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190317506
    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: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190265700
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a driver of a switching request from automated driving to manual driving, and a setting unit configured to set a notification timing of the notification unit. In a case in which a course change of a vehicle is needed up to a predetermined point during the automated driving, the setting unit sets a timing that comes earliest from a plurality of candidates of the notification timing. The plurality of candidates includes a first candidate based on a condition necessary for completing the course change by the manual driving up to the predetermined point, and a second candidate based on a condition necessary for setting the vehicle in a predetermined standby state by the automated driving up to the predetermined point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Shigehiro HONDA, Yoshihiro ONIWA, Atsushi ISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20190143972
    Abstract: The invention provides a vehicle control system including a vehicle detector that detects a nearby vehicle with respect to an own-vehicle and an automated driving controller that automatically controls at least acceleration/deceleration of the own-vehicle such that the own-vehicle can travel along a route to a destination, wherein the automated driving controller acquires information indicating a position of a specific region in which the number of lanes decreases from map information and sets, if a relative relationship between the own-vehicle and a nearby vehicle detected by the vehicle detector satisfies a predetermined condition when the own-vehicle passes through the acquired specific region, a target speed of the own-vehicle to less than a speed of the nearby vehicle for which the relative relationship satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Masanori Takeda, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20190092333
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a controller that sets a target area, and that executes a lane change of the host vehicle toward the set target area, the target area being an area which is a target for the host vehicle when performing the lane change to an adjacent lane which is adjacent to an own traffic lane on which the host vehicle is traveling, and a direction indicator controller that determines a timing for operating a direction indicator installed on the host vehicle on the basis of a relative relationship between the host vehicle and a vehicle that is traveling in front of or at rear of the target area set by the controller and the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190023273
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes positions of nearby vehicles traveling around a host vehicle, a respective lane speed specification unit that specifies a first vehicle speed related to a vehicle traveling in a host lane in which the host vehicle is traveling and a second vehicle speed related to the nearby vehicle traveling in a lane that is a lane change destination of lane change to be performed by the host vehicle, a target position setting unit that sets a lane change target position on the lane that is the lane change destination on the basis of a comparison result between the first vehicle speed and the second vehicle speed, and a control unit that causes the host vehicle to move to the target position by lane change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190016339
    Abstract: This vehicle control device is provided with: a detection unit configured to detect surrounding vehicles traveling in the surroundings of the host vehicle; a first estimation unit configured to estimate the future position in the travelling direction of the aforementioned surrounding vehicles detected by the detection unit; a correction unit configured to correct the distribution of the future position in the travelling direction of the surrounding vehicles estimated by the first estimation unit; said distribution having a spread in the travelling direction with an elapse of time; and a control unit configured to, on the basis of the distribution of the surrounding vehicles corrected by the correction unit, generate a target trajectory of the host vehicle for changing lanes while avoiding the aforementioned surrounding vehicles which are traveling in adjacent lanes adjacent to the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190016338
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognition unit configured to recognize a position of a neighboring vehicle traveling around a host vehicle; a target position setting unit configured to set a target position for lane change to a lane of a lane change destination to which the host vehicle changes a lane; a lane changeability determining unit configured to determine that it is possible to change lane when one or both of a first condition in which the neighboring vehicle is not present in a forbidden area which is set on a lateral side of the host vehicle and on the lane of the lane change destination and a second condition in which a collision margin time between the host vehicle and the neighboring vehicle present before or after the target position is larger than a threshold are satisfied; and a control unit configured to cause the host vehicle to change lane to the lane of the lane change destination when the lane changeability determining unit determines that it is possible to change the lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Toru Kokaki, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20190009819
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first setting part configured to set a target lane for traveling an own vehicle on the basis of a route to a set destination, a second setting part configured to temporarily set a lane between the traveling lane and the target lane as the target lane in a case a lane is present between the traveling lane in which the own vehicle is traveling and the target lane set by the first setting part, and a controller configured to automatically control at least the steering of the own vehicle such that the own vehicle travels in the target lane set by the first setting part or the second setting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Akira Mizutani