Patents by Inventor Gaku SHIMAMOTO
Gaku SHIMAMOTO 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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Patent number: 11584364Abstract: A vehicle control device comprising: a control unit configured to control an automated parking mode based on a shift position of a transmission when an automated parking is instructed, wherein the automated parking mode includes a first automated parking mode in which steering is not executed and forward movement or rearward movement is possible and a second automated parking mode in which a parking space is detected and steering is executed automatically, and the control unit controls the automated parking mode to be in the first automated parking mode, in a case where the shift position is a first position, and selectively controls the automated parking mode to be in the first automated parking mode or the second automated parking mode, in a case where the shift position is a second position that differs from the first position.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Tomonori Watanabe
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Patent number: 11586224Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus that controls movement of a vehicle in response to an instruction from a remote control terminal located outside the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image captured by an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a periphery of the vehicle; an operator detecting unit configured to detect an operator of the remote control terminal on the basis of the image obtained by the obtaining unit; a terminal detecting unit configured to detect a position of the remote control terminal relative to the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control, on the basis of a detection result from the operator detecting unit and a detection result from the terminal detecting unit, whether to permit or prohibit a remote control operation of the vehicle performed through the remote control terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Naotoshi Takemura, Hidetoshi Kobori, Masafumi Sagara, Tatsuro Fujiwara
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Patent number: 11584384Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a terminal configured to be carried by a user; and a control device configured to execute a remote autonomous moving process to move a vehicle from an initial position to a prescribed stop position based on an input from the terminal and to stop the vehicle at the stop position. The remote autonomous moving process proceeds on condition of continuation of a reciprocating operation on the terminal by the user, and has a plurality of modes in which a vehicle speed to move the vehicle is set to values different from each other. The control device or the terminal is configured to select one of the plurality of modes based on a speed of the reciprocating operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Naotoshi Takemura
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Patent number: 11553303Abstract: The vehicle control system includes a first position measuring unit measuring a position of a mobile terminal by performing first position measuring processing, a second position measuring unit measuring a position of the mobile terminal by performing second position measuring processing having less power consumption in a vehicle by wireless communication than that of the first position measuring processing, and a position measurement control unit handling, as monitoring areas, a first area outside the vehicle and a second area outside the first area and, if the position of the mobile terminal is within the second area, continuing measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the second position measuring unit, and, after the position of the mobile terminal comes into the first area, switching to measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the first position measuring unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Fumiaki Yamaguchi, Yusuke Takahashi, Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto
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Patent number: 11537385Abstract: A notification device, configured to notify an accommodation area that can accommodate a moving body, in which the performance of the moving body that can be accommodated in the accommodation area is predetermined; includes: a first determination unit configured to determine a first accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the current performance, based on the current performance of the moving body; a second determination unit configured to determine a second accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the performance after rewriting, based on the performance after the rewriting the software of the moving body; and a notification unit configured to separately notify the first accommodation area and the second accommodation area.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi, Hidekazu Ohnishi
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Patent number: 11535243Abstract: A remote parking system includes: a terminal configured to transmit a ranging signal; plural reception units provided with a reception surface to receive the ranging signal and configured to detect an arrival direction of the ranging signal with respect to the reception surface; and a control device configured to acquire a distance from the terminal to a vehicle based on the arrival direction of the ranging signal and a reference posture of each of the reception units and to move the vehicle toward a parking position based on an operation input to the terminal in a case where the control device determines that the acquired distance from the terminal to the vehicle is equal to or less than a prescribed threshold. The control device is configured to cause the terminal to display an intensity of the ranging signal received by at least one of the reception units.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi
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Patent number: 11480957Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a control device mounted on a vehicle and configured to execute remote automatic moving processing; an operation terminal configured to be carried by a user and to transmit a control signal to the control device based on an input by the user; and a position determination unit mounted on the vehicle and/or the operation terminal and configured to measure a distance between the operation terminal and the vehicle. When the control device determines that the distance exceeds a first threshold based on a signal from the position determination unit, the control device stops the vehicle and transmits an output signal to the operation terminal, the output signal being a signal to cause the operation terminal to output a fact that the distance exceeds the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi
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Patent number: 11461817Abstract: An accommodation area management device, which manages an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a desired environment regarding an accommodation position of the moving body when the moving body enters the accommodation area, an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine the accommodation position of the moving body based upon the information, and a use fee determination unit configured to determine a use fee of the accommodation area based upon at least one of the information and the accommodation position.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220306090Abstract: A stop assist system for moving a moving body to a stop position and making the moving body stop at the stop position includes: an external environment recognizing unit that recognizes an external environment of the moving body; and a moving body control unit that executes a driving process to make the moving body travel to the stop position based on a recognition result of the external environment recognizing unit. The moving body control unit suspends the driving process when, while the moving body is traveling to the stop position, the moving body control unit determines, based on the recognition result, that there is an object within a range of a prescribed lateral threshold value on a lateral outside of the moving body and the object extends over a prescribed longitudinal threshold value or more along a travel direction within the range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Takuma SEKINO, Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Akiko NAKAMURA, Kazuya KOBAYASHI, Masafumi SAGARA, Takeshi SASAJIMA
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Patent number: 11455162Abstract: A software rewriting device, configured to rewrite software of a moving body, includes: a required time acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a required time for rewriting the software; a scheduled stop time acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a scheduled stop time at a predetermined position of the moving body; and a rewriting processing unit configured to execute a rewriting process of rewriting the software. When the required time is shorter than the scheduled stop time based on the information regarding the required time and the information regarding the scheduled stop time, the rewriting processing unit executes the rewriting process at the predetermined position, and when the required time is longer than the scheduled stop time based on the information regarding the required time and the information regarding the scheduled stop time, the rewriting processing unit does not execute the rewriting process at the predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
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Patent number: 11449334Abstract: A software rewriting device, configured to rewrite software of a moving body, includes: a rewriting processing unit configured to execute a rewriting process of rewriting the software; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an accommodation area management device managing an accommodation area for accommodating the moving body. When the moving body executes the rewriting process in the accommodation area, the communication unit notifies execution of the rewriting process to the accommodation area management device.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Hidekazu Ohnishi
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Patent number: 11443630Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined accommodation position in the parking lot, includes a priority assigning unit which assigns a priority to each of a plurality of moving bodies traveling in the parking lot according to an order in which each vehicle is traveled. The priority assigning unit assigns the priority to each vehicle according to a moving destination of each vehicle in the parking lot.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11420619Abstract: A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot for accommodating a vehicle and stops the vehicle at a predetermined parking space in the parking lot includes an acquisition unit which acquires position information of the vehicle in the parking lot, a determination unit which determines whether it is necessary to change a target parking space in which the vehicle should be stopped to a second parking space different from a first parking space in the parking lot when the vehicle is stopped in the first parking space in the parking lot based on the position information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a processing unit which performs a process of changing the target parking space subject to permission of a user of the vehicle when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to change the target parking space.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11372401Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an operation screen including a contact sensor and remotely issues an instruction to move a vehicle, wherein output of the instruction to move the vehicle is started based on a reciprocating operation on the operation screen in a case in which the reciprocating operation has satisfied a predetermined condition, and the predetermined condition includes a condition related to at least one of a cumulative distance and a count of a stroke of the reciprocating operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Rikuro Shiraishi
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Patent number: 11347216Abstract: A remote parking system includes: a control device mounted on a vehicle and configured to execute remote parking processing; an operation terminal configured to be carried by a user; and a position determination unit mounted on the vehicle and/or the operation terminal and configured to determine a terminal position which is a position of the operation terminal. The control device is configured to calculate a first traveling route and a first recommended area. The first traveling route is a traveling route of the vehicle from an alighting position to a parking position. The first recommended area is an area where the user should be present when the vehicle moves along the first traveling route. The control device calculates a second traveling route on determining that the terminal position is not present within the first recommended area set for the first traveling route that has already been calculated.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi
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Patent number: 11318839Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a vehicle controller that, if a predetermined state transition condition is satisfied, makes a state transition of a vehicle from a drive possible state to a drive impossible state. The vehicle control device includes a vehicle occupant detection unit that detects a vehicle occupant in the vehicle. The vehicle controller makes the state transition to the drive impossible state that is different depending on a detection result from the vehicle occupant detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Kojima, Katsuyasu Yamane, Tomonori Watanabe, Gaku Shimamoto
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Publication number: 20220030384Abstract: The vehicle control system includes a first position measuring unit measuring a position of a mobile terminal by performing first position measuring processing, a second position measuring unit measuring a position of the mobile terminal by performing second position measuring processing having less power consumption in a vehicle by wireless communication than that of the first position measuring processing, and a position measurement control unit handling, as monitoring areas, a first area outside the vehicle and a second area outside the first area and, if the position of the mobile terminal is within the second area, continuing measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the second position measuring unit, and, after the position of the mobile terminal comes into the first area, switching to measurement of a position of the mobile terminal by the first position measuring unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Fumiaki Yamaguchi, Yusuke Takahashi, Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto
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Publication number: 20210304519Abstract: An accommodation area management device includes: a reception unit configured to receive from a user of a moving body an instruction that a task is to be executed for the moving body; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of generating an accommodation plan for the moving body when the moving body is accommodated in an accommodation area. Before the moving body approaches the accommodation area and when the moving body approaches the accommodation area, the reception unit can receive from the user the instruction that the task is to be executed for the moving body. The processing unit generates the accommodation plan including the execution of the task if the instruction that the task is to be executed for the moving body is received before the moving body approaches the accommodation area and the instruction is received again when the moving body approaches the accommodation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210304081Abstract: An accommodation area management device is configured to manage an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body and includes a reservation reception unit configured to receive a use reservation when the moving body uses the accommodation area, and an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine an accommodation position of the moving body. The reservation reception unit is configured to acquire information on the moving body when receiving the use reservation. The accommodation position determination unit is configured to set the accommodation position based on the information at the time of receiving the use reservation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI, Shogo KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210302978Abstract: An accommodation area management device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a moving body which includes information indicating an autonomous movement performance of the moving body, and a control unit which causes a first moving body to enter an accommodation area after notifying the first moving body of a first route which is a movement route of the first moving body in the accommodation area when the first moving body having a predetermined level of the autonomous movement performance enters the accommodation area, and causes a second moving body to enter the accommodation area after notifying the second moving body of a second path which is a movement path of the second moving body in the accommodation area when the second moving body having the autonomous movement performance higher than the predetermined level enters the accommodation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Yuta TAKADA, Ryoma TAGUCHI, Hidekazu OHNISHI