Patents by Inventor Goro Asai
Goro Asai 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: 10668856Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle includes at least one electronic control unit configured to: cause a display device to display a host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image, the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image being an image of an area behind a host vehicle, the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image being captured by a sensor of the host vehicle; detect a rearward vehicle, the rearward vehicle being another vehicle existing behind the host vehicle; cause the display device to display the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image with a first contrast ratio when the rearward vehicle is not detected; and cause the display device to display the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image with a second contrast ratio when the rearward vehicle is detected, the second contrast ratio being higher than the first contrast ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: TOYTOA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro Asai, Tomoaki Iida
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Publication number: 20200156543Abstract: A vehicular electronic mirror system includes a rear imaging device configured to capture an image of a rear side of a vehicle, rear lateral imaging devices respectively configured to capture images of right and left rear sides of the vehicle, and an electronic control device configured to perform, according to at least one of a state of the vehicle and a situation around the vehicle, different image processing processes on a rear image captured by the rear imaging device and rear lateral images captured by the rear lateral imaging devices and selected according to at least one of the state of the vehicle and the situation around the vehicle, and to cause a display device to display the rear image and the rear lateral images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosuke KUBOTA, Goro ASAI
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Publication number: 20200079307Abstract: A vehicle surroundings display device includes an imaging device, a display device, and a controller is provided. The imaging device images a region toward a rear side of a vehicle and sideways from the vehicle. The display device is capable of displaying an image captured by the imaging device. The controller controls display of the display device, and selectively a normal active mode, a power-off active mode, a standby mode and a shut-down mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro ASAI, Tomoaki IIDA, Kunihiro SUGIHARA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Taichi HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20200070723Abstract: A vehicle surroundings display device is provided. The vehicle surroundings display device includes an imaging device, a display device, and a display controller. The imaging device images a region toward a rear side of a vehicle and sideways from the vehicle. The display device is capable of displaying an image captured by the imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro ASAI, Kunihiro SUGIHARA, Tomoaki IIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Taichi HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20200053295Abstract: A rear-facing camera of an electronic mirror device acquires a rear image of an area to the rear of a vehicle, and a left rear-side facing camera and a right rear-side facing camera acquire rear side-images of areas to the rearward sides of the vehicle. An electronic mirror ECU then creates a normal synthesized image by synthesizing the rear image acquired by the rear-facing camera with the rear side-images acquired by the rear-side facing cameras, and then displays the normal synthesized image on a display unit. Additionally, the electronic mirror ECU creates a blind spot priority synthesized image in which the rear side-image that contains an image area corresponding to the object is superimposed onto the rear image, and switches the image displayed on the display unit to this blind spot priority synthesized image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro ASAI, Yousuke KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20190199940Abstract: An image display apparatus has: a synthesizing device (132) for synthesizing a rear image (111B) captured by a rear imaging device (11B) for imaging a rear area of the vehicle (1) and a first rear side image (111BL, 111BR) captured by a first rear side imaging device (11BL, 11BR) for imaging a first rear side area of the vehicle to generate a synthesized image (111C); and a displaying device (14) for displaying the synthesized image. The synthesizing device varies a proportion of an area of each of the rear image and the first rear side image to the synthesized image on the basis of a first information relating to a first turn indicator configured to operate to inform that the vehicle travels rightward or leftward.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuka SHIDOCHI, Goro ASAI, Kunihiro SUGIHARA
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Publication number: 20190191081Abstract: An image display apparatus has: a synthesizing device (132) for synthesizing a rear image (111B) captured by a rear imaging device (11B) for imaging rear area of a first vehicle (1) and a rear side image (111BL, 111BR) captured by a rear side imaging device (11BL, 11BR) for imaging rear side area of the first vehicle to generate a synthesized image (111C); and a display (14) for displaying the synthesized image. The synthesizing device varies a proportion of each of a rear image area and a rear side image area to the synthesized image based on velocity of the first vehicle and/or a distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle existing at the rear of the first vehicle, wherein the rear image area and the rear side image area are areas in which the rear image and the rear side image are displayed, respectively, in the synthesized image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuka SHIDOCHI, Goro ASAI, Kunihiro SUGIHARA
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Publication number: 20190176702Abstract: An image display apparatus has: a synthesizing device (132) for synthesizing a rear image (111B) and a rear side image (111BL, 111BR) to generate a synthesized image (111C), wherein the rear image is captured by a rear imaging device (11B) for imaging a rear area of a vehicle (1) and the rear side image is captured by a rear side imaging device (11BL, 11BR) for imaging a rear side area of the vehicle; and a displaying device (14) for displaying the synthesized image, the synthesizing device generates the synthesized image so that the synthesized image generated when the vehicle goes in reverse includes a first scene that is below, viewed from the vehicle, a second scene that is included in the synthesized image generated when the vehicle does not go in reverse.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuka SHIDOCHI, Goro ASAI, Kunihiro SUGIHARA
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Publication number: 20190174065Abstract: An image display apparatus has: a setting device (132) for setting a synthesizing plane (CS) at a position that is away backward from a first vehicle; a synthesizing device (133) for synthesizing a rear image (111B) captured by a rear imaging device (11B) for imaging a rear area of the first vehicle and a rear side image (111BL, 111BR) captured by a rear side imaging device (11B) for imaging a rear side area of the first vehicle to generate a synthesized image (111C) in which a scene in the rear image and a scene in the rear side image are seamlessly connected at a position of the synthesizing plane, the setting device sets the synthesizing plane at a position that is different from a position at which the synthesizing plane is set when a second vehicle does not exist at the rear of the first vehicle, when the second vehicle exists at the rear of the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro ASAI, Yuka SHIDOCHI
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Publication number: 20190075250Abstract: An image display apparatus has: a first imaging device (11B) for imaging an area on the rear of a vehicle (1); a second imaging device (11BL, 11BR) for imaging an area on the rear and side of the vehicle; a synthesizing device (12) for generating a synthesized image in which a first image captured by the first imaging device and a second image captured by the second imaging device are adjacent to each other and a vanishing point of the first image in the synthesized image is different from a vanishing point of the second image in the synthesized image; and a displaying device (13) for displaying the synthesized image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Goro ASAI
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Publication number: 20190071015Abstract: An image display apparatus has: an imaging device (11L, 11R) that is placed at a door (15L, 15R) of a vehicle (1) and that is configured to image an external circumstance of the vehicle; a displaying device (14) that is configured to display an external image captured by the imaging device; and a controlling device (132, 133) that is configured to control an display aspect of the display when the display displays the external image, the controlling device is configured to control the display aspect such that the display aspect when the door is in an opened state is different from the display aspect when the door is in a closed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoji INAGAKI, Goro ASAI, Kunihiro SUGIHARA, Tomoaki IIDA
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Patent number: 10166922Abstract: An image display device includes an imaging unit that captures an area including at least a part of a rear wheel of the vehicle and an electronic control unit that: determines whether the vehicle will turn and travel; displays a whole or a part of the area on a display as a non-turning-time image when it is determined by the electronic control unit that the vehicle will travel without turning; displays the whole or a part of the area on the display as a turning-time image when it is determined by the electronic control unit that the vehicle will turn and travel; and sets the turning-time image in such a way that a driver visually recognizes a state of the rear wheel more easily through the turning-time image than through the non-turning-time image.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Goro Asai
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Publication number: 20180276795Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle is mounted on a host vehicle, and the display control device for a vehicle is configured to generate a non-rectangular image from a rectangular image of an area located rearward of the host vehicle, the rectangular image being captured by a capturing unit mounted on the host vehicle, and display the non-rectangular image in a rectangular display area of a display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro ASAI, Tomoaki IIDA
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Publication number: 20180272938Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle includes at least one electronic control unit configured to: cause a display device to display a host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image, the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image being an image of an area behind a host vehicle, the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image being captured by a sensor of the host vehicle; detect a rearward vehicle, the rearward vehicle being another vehicle existing behind the host vehicle; cause the display device to display the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image with a first contrast ratio when the rearward vehicle is not detected; and cause the display device to display the host vehicle's behind-the-vehicle image with a second contrast ratio when the rearward vehicle is detected, the second contrast ratio being higher than the first contrast ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Goro ASAI, Tomoaki IIDA
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Patent number: 10037595Abstract: An image processing device according to an embodiment includes a display control unit, a pattern specification unit, and a pattern collating unit. The display control unit generates a composite image that is a surrounding image of a vehicle viewed from a virtual viewpoint, based on images input from in-vehicle cameras, and displays thereof on a display unit. The pattern specification unit specifies an image pattern to be output as the input image among image patterns, for each in-vehicle camera. The pattern collating unit determines whether all image pattern responses from the in-vehicle cameras match with the image pattern. The display control unit displays a certain preparation image on the display unit when the display switching condition to the composite image is satisfied, and displays the composite image thereon instead of the preparation image, when the pattern collating unit determines that all the image pattern responses match with the image pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignees: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouei Kiyo, Satoru Matsuyama, Shinichi Moriyama, Goro Asai, Masato Okuda, Yohei Satomi, Yuka Shidochi
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Publication number: 20180131877Abstract: An image display device for a vehicle, the device includes an imaging unit capturing images of a periphery of a vehicle; first display unit displaying captured images by the imaging unit; second display unit; detecting unit detecting brightness of the periphery of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to carry out display control, in a case in which brightness that is greater than or equal to a predetermined luminance raising threshold value is detected by the detecting unit, so as to simultaneously raise respective luminances of the first display unit and the second display unit, and to carry out display control, in a case in which brightness that is less than a predetermined luminance lowering threshold value, which is less than or equal to the luminance raising threshold value, is detected, so as to simultaneously lower the respective luminances of the first display unit and the second display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI
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Publication number: 20180126904Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle rear region image display device that may suppress a sense of incongruity to a displayed image, due to offset in timings between a timing at which a vehicle occupant sways due to vibrations and a timing at which the displayed image of a display section shakes. Namely, an acceleration sensor, which detects acceleration as a physical amount corresponding to an amount of displacement in a vehicle vertical direction of a rearview mirror monitor due to vibrations inputted to front wheels of a vehicle, is provided in a vicinity of the rearview mirror monitor. On the basis of results of detection of the acceleration sensor, a control device computes an amount of shake of a rear camera, and carries out shake correction so as match a timing at which vibrations are inputted to rear wheels of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI, Takumi KOCHIYA
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Patent number: 9963071Abstract: An electronic mirror apparatus includes an imaging part mounted at one-side or each of both-side surfaces of a vehicle and taking an image in a rear-and-side directions of the vehicle; and a display part mounted in the vehicle interior and displaying an image taken by the imaging part or an image acquired through a predetermined transform process on the image taken by the imaging part. The display part displays the image corresponding to an imaging range that is different between a case where a shift position of the vehicle is a forward position and a case where the shift position is a reverse position.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Goro Asai
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Publication number: 20180115708Abstract: An imaging and display device for a vehicle includes: a display unit configured to display a captured image which is obtained through image capturing by an imaging unit that images a rear side of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform view angle switching control of switching an angle of view of the captured image displayed on the display unit to a wider angle than a current angle of view when a predetermined wide-angle condition is satisfied as a distance between an object on the rear side of the vehicle and the vehicle decreases and switching the angle of view to an original angle of view when a predetermined return condition for returning to the original angle of view is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI, Tomoaki OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20170028921Abstract: An image display device includes an imaging unit that captures an area including at least a part of a rear wheel of the vehicle and an electronic control unit that: determines whether the vehicle will turn and travel; displays a whole or a part of the area on a display as a non-turning-time image when it is determined by the electronic control unit that the vehicle will travel without turning; displays the whole or a part of the area on the display as a turning-time image when it is determined by the electronic control unit that the vehicle will turn and travel; and sets the turning-time image in such a way that a driver visually recognizes a state of the rear wheel more easily through the turning-time image than through the non-turning-time image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Goro ASAI