Patents by Inventor Haozhou Li

Haozhou Li 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: 20240282216
    Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes a driving proficiency acquisition unit acquiring a driving proficiency level of a driver, a driving proficiency determination unit determining the driving proficiency level of the driver; and a function learning presentation unit presenting learning of functions to the driver in stepwise manner according to a determination result of the driving proficiency level of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi NOHARA, Masato UTSUNOMIYA, Kazuki IZUMI, Asaki UMEZAWA, Keiji OKAMOTO, Yo KITAMURA, Haozhou LI, Taro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240184862
    Abstract: A personal information system includes an acquisition unit, a storage unit, a personal storage unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit is configured to identify an occupant of a vehicle and acquire a status of the occupant. The storage unit stores usage history information of a vehicle device and state information of the occupant acquired by the acquisition unit. The personal storage unit is set for each occupant and is configured to retrieve, as personal information, the usage history information and the state information from the storage unit for each occupant and sequentially store the usage history information and the state information. The control unit is configured to perform control that utilizes the personal information stored in the personal storage unit to provide a service, in a manner matching characteristics of each occupant when operating the vehicle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Natsuko KURATA, Asuka SAKAI, Taro KOBAYASHI, Masafumi NOHARA, Kazuhiro MATSUI, Haozhou Li, Keiji OKAMOTO, Jinhae CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240157897
    Abstract: A device for mobile object, which is usable in a mobile object, includes an occupant information specifying unit and a request estimation unit. The occupant information specifying unit specifies an occupant information record for each of multiple occupants existing in the mobile object by distinguishing the multiple occupants from one another. The multiple occupants are detected by a sensor of the mobile object. The request estimation unit estimates a request of one of the multiple occupants corresponding to a combination of the occupant information records of the multiple occupants based on the occupant information records of the multiple occupants specified by the occupant information specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Haozhou LI, Masafumi NOHARA, Natsuko MIYAZAKI, Keiji OKAMOTO, Taro KOBAYASHI, Asuka SAKAI, Kazuhiro MATSUI, Jinhae CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240106989
    Abstract: A surrounding information acquisition unit is configured to acquire surrounding information around a subject vehicle. A vehicle speed acquisition unit is configured to acquire a subject vehicle speed. A display control unit is configured to cause a display device to display a surrounding image indicating the surrounding information and a subject vehicle image indicating the subject vehicle. The display control unit is configured to, when the subject vehicle speed is low, set a display scale to telescopic and cause the display device to display the surrounding image and the subject vehicle image. The display control unit is configured to, when the subject vehicle speed is high, set the display scale to a wide angle and cause the display device to display the surrounding image and the subject vehicle image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi NOHARA, Haozhou LI, Taro KOBAYASHI, Asaki UMEZAWA, Yo KITAMURA, Jinhae CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240083459
    Abstract: In a technique for controlling a first vehicle, display information and position specifying information are received from a second vehicle different from the first vehicle via inter-vehicle communications. The display information is information for display and independently set for the second vehicle in the second vehicle. The position specifying information is information for specifying a position of the second vehicle. The position of the second vehicle relative to the first vehicle is specified based on the position specifying information. Display on a display device is controlled to superimpose information indicated by the display information on the position of the second vehicle in a landscape in front of the first vehicle based on the position of the second vehicle and the display information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Asuka SAKAI, Taro KOBAYASHI, Natsuko MIYAZAKI, Masafumi NOHARA, Haozhou LI, Kazuhiro MATSUI, Jinhae CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240071231
    Abstract: A human machine interface is configured to select an information display destination from among a plurality of display areas. The HCU acquires a sight line direction of a driver based on an image of an in-vehicle camera. The HCU displays, upon detecting a hop-off action of the driver based on an output signal of an in-vehicle sensor in a situation in which an attention target event such as a puddle, a step, other vehicle or the like exists on a road surface near a door of a driver's seat, in the display area corresponding to the driver's sight line direction, text or an image practically indicating (a) a content of an attention target event or (b) how to deal with a situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi Nohara, Taro Kobayashi, Natsuko Miyazaki, Keiji Okamoto, Asuka Sakai, Kazuhiro Matsui, Haozhou Li, Jinhae Choi
  • Publication number: 20240025420
    Abstract: An information provision system is configured to detect driver information, which is information including biological information of a driver, transmit information acquired inside the vehicle to a user terminal provided outside the vehicle, acquire the driver information, extract information necessary for grasping health condition of the driver from the driver information to generate health-related information, and transmit the health-related information to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Taro KOBAYASHI, Masafumi NOHARA, Keiji OKAMOTO, Kazuhiro MATSUI, Natsuko MIYAZAKI, Jinhae CHOI, Haozhou LI, Asuka SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9965957
    Abstract: An image of the nearby surroundings of a user's vehicle is displayed, which includes images of the user's vehicle and threshold lines that define a range of distance from the user's vehicle. The image of the nearby surroundings of the user's vehicle is changed in accordance with a positional relationship between another vehicle and the range of distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haozhou Li, Hitoshi Sawada, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20170330463
    Abstract: An image of the nearby surroundings of a user's vehicle is displayed, which includes images of the user's vehicle and threshold lines that define a range of distance from the user's vehicle. The image of the nearby surroundings of the user's vehicle is changed in accordance with a positional relationship between another vehicle and the range of distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haozhou LI, Hitoshi SAWADA, Tsutomu MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: D791144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Haozhou Li, Takaki Yagisawa, Taro Kumagai
  • Patent number: D823858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Haozhou Li, Hitoshi Sawada, Tsutomu Matsubara
  • Patent number: D1026348
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Haozhou Li