Patents by Inventor Hajime Oyama

Hajime Oyama 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: 11395208
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system, for mobile bodies, includes terminal devices and communication apparatuses. The terminal devices are usable in respective mobile bodies. The communication apparatuses are provided in respective predetermined zones or sections in which the mobile bodies are to move. The communication apparatuses are each configured to communicate with the terminal device used in a mobile body moving in the predetermined zone or section of which the communication apparatus is in charge, out of the mobile bodies. The communication apparatuses are each configured to transmit information to the terminal device used in the mobile body moving in the predetermined zone or section of which the communication apparatus is in charge. The information to be transmitted includes information used to determine movement of corresponding one of the mobile bodies or information used to control the movement of the corresponding one of the mobile bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Oyama, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20220203980
    Abstract: A vehicle driving control system includes a road map information updating unit, a control information calculation unit, and a driving control execution unit. Upon determining that a stopped vehicle is present ahead of a target vehicle and that the target vehicle is able to pass by the stopped vehicle, the control information calculation unit calculates control information to be used to restrict a vehicle speed to a first set vehicle speed or less until the target vehicle passes by the stopped vehicle, and calculates, if a door of the stopped vehicle has been opened, the control information to be used to restrict the vehicle speed to a second set vehicle speed or less until a set time period elapses from the opening of the door or until the target vehicle passes by the stopped vehicle. The second set vehicle speed is lower than the first set vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAMBA, Hajime OYAMA, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220204040
    Abstract: A vehicle driving control system includes: a first road-traffic detection information acquisition unit and a first communicator of a mobile body; a road traffic information recognition unit, a control information calculation unit, and a second communicator of a traffic control apparatus; a second road-traffic detection information acquisition unit and a third communicator of a monitoring apparatus; and a driving control execution unit of a vehicle. The first and second road-traffic detection information acquisition units respectively acquire first and second road-traffic detection information. The road traffic information recognition unit recognizes road traffic information from the first and second road-traffic detection information received by the second communicator respectively through the first and third communicators. The control information calculation unit calculates, from the road traffic information, control information for the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Hajime OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220204047
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support system capable of supporting driving of a vehicle that travels on a road includes a notifier, and an acquirer. In a case where there is a first vehicle that moves between lanes, the notifier is configured to, provide notification of presence of the first vehicle to a second vehicle travelling in a target lane into which the first vehicle is to move. The acquirer is configured to acquire a size of a merging space that is to be provided by the second vehicle for merging of the first vehicle. In a case where the first vehicle is travelling under autonomous operation or assisted operation, the acquirer is configured to acquire the size of the merging space such that the size of the merging space is longer than when acquired in a case where the first vehicle is travelling under manual operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Masato MIZOGUCHI, Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA
  • Patent number: 11370425
    Abstract: A traveling controller for vehicle includes a first computing unit, a traveling control unit, a first calculating unit, a second calculating unit, and a second computing unit. The first calculating unit is configured to calculate estimated positions. The second calculating unit is configured to calculate estimated position reliability on the basis of pieces of positional information, including information on one or more estimated positions. The second computing unit is configured to compute control information on the basis of one or more estimated positions when lane line information is unobtainable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Oyama
  • Patent number: 11335195
    Abstract: A traffic control system includes a vehicle control system that transmits traveling information during traveling of a vehicle, and a management and control system that collects the traveling information from vehicle control systems of other vehicles and transmit recommended traveling information based on the collected traveling information. The vehicle control system transmits traveling data containing a traveling trajectory of the vehicle as the traveling information, and determines a third traveling route on which the vehicle travels, based on a first traveling route based on the recommended traveling information and a second traveling route based on a recognition result of a traveling environment of the vehicle. The management and control system collects the traveling data of vehicles traveling on a same travel lane and extract highly reliable data, and calculates the recommended traveling information based on the extracted traveling data and transmits the calculated recommended traveling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Oyama
  • Patent number: 11325617
    Abstract: An automatic driving system includes a driver monitor, a driver state determining unit, a first automatic driving controller, and a second automatic driving controller. The first automatic driving controller controls a first automatic driving mode for causing a vehicle to travel by automatic driving under a preset first traveling environment regardless of whether a driver is in a forward monitoring state. The second automatic driving controller controls a second automatic driving mode for causing the vehicle to travel by the automatic driving in a situation where the driver state determining unit determines, based on a driver state detected by the driver monitor, that the driver is in the forward monitoring state, and the vehicle is under a second traveling environment which is more complicated than the first traveling environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Oyama
  • Patent number: 11325613
    Abstract: An automatic driving system allows a vehicle to travel by automatic driving. The system includes first and second detectors and first and second determiners. The first detector is disposed on a movable part of the vehicle and detects an object located around the vehicle. The second detector is disposed on the vehicle and has an object detection region that partially overlaps a detection region of the first detector. The first determiner determines whether a detection state of the first detector based on a position of the object detected by the second detector and behavior of the object estimated from a detection position of the first detector and a traveling state of the vehicle. The automatic driving availability determiner determines availability of the automatic driving according to the detection state of the first detector and disables the automatic driving when the first detector is not in a regular detection state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Oyama
  • Publication number: 20220121864
    Abstract: An object estimation device includes an acquisition unit and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a space image including an object present in a space. The estimation unit estimates image region data on the basis of a portion or all of the space image including the object. The image region data indicates a location of the object in the space image. On the condition that the object included in the space image acquired by the acquisition unit is included in an oblique posture, the estimation unit estimates an image region widened from an image region of the object included in the oblique posture in the space image, as the image region data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Hajime OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220119013
    Abstract: A surrounding space data providing system for a control apparatus for a vehicle includes a space generation processor and a signal generation processor. The space generation processor generates a surrounding space around the vehicle with the vehicle assuming a post-control position and a post-control posture, on the basis of a motion of the vehicle based on control data to be outputted by the control apparatus. The signal generation processor generates a generated signal of a space in which an object present in the surrounding space is arranged in the surrounding space in corresponding relation to the post-control position and the post-control posture of the vehicle. The generated signal is as suppliable to the control apparatus as a detection signal to be obtained by detection by an autonomous sensor provided in the vehicle. The signal generation processor outputs the generated signal to the control apparatus in place of the detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11267488
    Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus for a vehicle can selectively switch between a manual driving mode in which a driver manually performs driving operation of the vehicle and an automatic driving mode in which driving operation is performed automatically along a target traveling route. The apparatus includes a driver identifier that identifies the driver, a driving experience value evaluation unit that evaluates a driving experience value based on a traveling history in the manual driving mode of the identified driver, a shift permission time setting unit that sets a shift permission time from the manual driving mode to the automatic driving mode based on the driving experience value, and a driving mode switching unit that controls the driving mode so as to be switchable to the automatic driving mode on condition that at least a driving time by the driver in the manual driving mode exceeds the shift permission time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Namba, Hajime Oyama, Masato Mizoguchi, Keisuke Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11236817
    Abstract: A gear shift operation device for a vehicle to which a multiple-stage automatic transmission is mounted, is provided. By a control lever being manually operated in a range switchable mode, a range position is switched at least between a D-range where automatic transmission is performed and an R-range, and by the control lever being manually operated in a manual transmission mode, a gear change is performed. An operation reaction force when the control lever is manually operated is set larger when the gear change is performed in the manual transmission mode than when the range position is switched in the range switchable mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Oyama, Kenji Sasaki, Junichi Kubo, Hideyuki Nishi, Kenta Kubo, Yasuhiko Shinya, Takashi Hasegawa, Shigeo Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210404552
    Abstract: A transmission system configured to perform a gear change based on a shift operation by an operator is provided, which includes a power transmission system including a transmission and configured to transmit an engine driving force to wheels, a shift operation detecting module, and a transmission controlling module adapted to be executable of a manual rotation synchronizing mode having first and second steps. In the first step, when a first shift operation for changing the transmission to a lower-speed side is detected, the transmission controlling module sends a control signal to a connecting-and-disconnecting mechanism provided to the power transmission system to suspend the transmission of the driving force. In the second step, when a second shift operation is detected, the transmission controlling module sends a control signal to the connecting-and-disconnecting mechanism to resume the transmission of the driving force while the transmission is switched to the lower-speed side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime Oyama, Kenji Sasaki, Takeo Moriuchi, Yasuhiko Shinya, Tomonari Itagaki
  • Patent number: 11204608
    Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a first traveling environment recognition unit using an onboard sensor, a second traveling environment recognition unit using external information, a visibility distance calculating unit, a first deceleration control unit, a second deceleration control unit, and a start timing changing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Oyama
  • Publication number: 20210310556
    Abstract: A shift control system for an automatic transmission is provided, which is mounted on a vehicle configured to be started by an ignition switch being turned on, where an automatic transmission mode or a manual transmission mode is selectively set. The system includes a shift switch through which a manual transmission command for arbitrarily changing a gear stage of the automatic transmission can be inputted in the manual transmission mode, and a controller. The manual transmission mode includes a first manual mode in which the gear stage is changed and maintained by inputting the manual transmission command using the shift switch, and a second manual mode in which the automatic transmission mode is resumed by satisfying a resuming condition after the gear stage is changed. When the ignition switch is turned on, the controller selects in advance the second mode to be set to the automatic transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shirasago, Tomohiro Okubo, Shoji Abe, Hideyuki Nishi, Hajime Oyama, Kiminori Higo
  • Publication number: 20210310555
    Abstract: A shift control system for an automatic transmission is provided. The system includes a shift switch through which a manual transmission command for arbitrarily changing a gear stage of the automatic transmission can be inputted in a manual transmission mode. The manual transmission mode includes a first manual mode in which the gear stage is changed and maintained by inputting the manual transmission command using the shift switch, and a second manual mode in which an automatic transmission mode is resumed by satisfying a resuming condition after the gear stage is changed. The system includes a mode input device configured to select in advance one of the first manual mode and the second manual mode to be set, the mode input device setting to the automatic transmission mode by the selected mode being changed from the first manual mode to the second manual mode, or vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shirasago, Tomohiro Okubo, Shoji Abe, Hideyuki Nishi, Hajime Oyama, Kiminori Higo
  • Publication number: 20210204188
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system, for mobile bodies, includes terminal devices and communication apparatuses. The terminal devices are usable in respective mobile bodies. The communication apparatuses are provided in respective predetermined zones or sections in which the mobile bodies are to move. The communication apparatuses are each configured to communicate with the terminal device used in a mobile body moving in the predetermined zone or section of which the communication apparatus is in charge, out of the mobile bodies. The communication apparatuses are each configured to transmit information to the terminal device used in the mobile body moving in the predetermined zone or section of which the communication apparatus is in charge. The information to be transmitted includes information used to determine movement of corresponding one of the mobile bodies or information used to control the movement of the corresponding one of the mobile bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Tomoyuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210201677
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects field information on movement of mobile bodies using communication apparatuses provided in respective predetermined zones or sections. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies based on the collected information. The generator generates course-related information based on mapping information on the positions of the mobile bodies. The controller is provided for each mobile body and controls movement of the mobile body based on the course-related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210199462
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects information about movement of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates course-related information by using information including the positions of the mobile bodies mapped by the mapping unit. The controller controls movement of each of the mobile bodies on the basis of the generated course-related information. The mapping unit maps a position error of a first mobile body together with a position of the first mobile body, in a case of determining that the position error occurs on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates the course-related information that allows the first mobile body to move within a range including the position and the position error thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAMBA, Hajime OYAMA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210201682
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects field information on movement of mobile bodies using communication apparatuses provided in respective predetermined zones or respective predetermined sections. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies based on the collected field information. The generator generates course-related information based on information on the mapped positions of the mobile bodies. The controller is provided for each of the mobile bodies and controls movement of corresponding one of the mobile bodies based on the course-related information. If the collected field information includes information on an obstacle that would hinder the movement of the mobile bodies, the mapping unit maps the obstacle together with the positions of the mobile bodies, and the generator generates the course-related information for the mobile bodies to cause the mobile bodies to move avoiding the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA