Patents by Inventor Hideki TSUDA
Hideki TSUDA 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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Publication number: 20260192666Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a first image generating section that generates a first image displayed at a display position based on a position of an object at a vehicle front side, and a second image generating section that generates a second image different from the first image. A display control section controls such that, in a case in which the display position of the first image overlaps with the second image in a display area which includes a first area that is assigned to display the first image and a second area that is assigned to display the second image and which is provided at a front portion of a vehicle cabin interior, the first image is displayed at a position that does not overlap with the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: July 9, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
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Patent number: 12649364Abstract: A display ECU is configured to detect, from an image acquired by a camera, a vehicle to be followed that precedes a host vehicle, project a marker image, in the screen display frame, with any one of a display near the vehicle to be followed and a display on the vehicle to be followed in a superimposed manner, and control the AR-HUD such that the marker image exhibits, when the entire vehicle to be followed is in the screen display frame, a first shape in which the marker image is displayed at maximum size, and the marker image exhibits, when the vehicle to be followed deviates from the screen display frame, a second shape in which the marker image deforms in a state of being in contact with the screen display frame according to a position of the vehicle to be followed present outside the screen display frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Go Matsunobu, Kazuhisa Ishimaru
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Patent number: 12600235Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle display control device including a processor and an image forming section configured to form an AR image having a shape that conforms to a dividing line of a lane in which a vehicle travels, using information from a sensor that recognizes the dividing line, wherein the processor is configured to control the image forming section so as to form the AR image, and determine a length, in an extension direction of the lane, of the AR image that the image forming section is caused to form, based on a reliability of a detection result of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Tsuda
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Patent number: 12594832Abstract: Given that an intersection point of a straight line, which connects a relatively moving body and an eyeball reference position of a driver of a vehicle, and a virtual surface, which includes a virtual display region and is wider than the virtual display region, is defined as a first intersection point, and an intersection point between the virtual display region and a straight line, which connects the eyeball reference position and an AR image, is defined as a second intersection point, a position of the second intersection point is controlled such that a second distance, which is a distance between the first intersection point and the second intersection point, is longer when a first distance, which is a distance between the relatively moving body and the vehicle, is longer than a predetermined value, than when the first distance is the predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Toshinori Aoki
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Patent number: 12594947Abstract: A display control device configured to include a processor coupled to a memory, the processor calculating, based on sets of sensing information acquired from plural sensors that sense objects in front of a vehicle, a position of a detection object in front of the vehicle and, when displaying a position image representing the position of the detection object so as to overlay the position image on a foreground in a display area in front of a driver's seat, deciding whether or not to display the position image based on reliabilities of the sets of sensing information acquired from the plural sensors.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Toshinori Aoki
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Publication number: 20260057576Abstract: A display control device includes a display control section that is configured to: perform first display in cases in which a display position of a following mark corresponding to a lead vehicle detected by a lead vehicle detection section for detecting lead vehicles is within a set display region set in advance in a display area of a display device by displaying the following mark at the display position; and perform second display to indicate that the lead vehicle is being detected in cases in which the display position falls outside the set display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: February 26, 2026Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Kazuhisa ISHIMARU
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Patent number: 12499590Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle, includes an image forming section configured to form an AR image having a shape that conforms to a dividing line of a lane in which a vehicle travels, an object recognition section configured to recognize object positioned in the lane, and a processor configured to control the image forming section so as to form the AR image. In a case in which it has been determined, based on a distance between the vehicle and the object, that there is a possibility that the AR image will overlap with the object, the processor reduces a visibility of a specific portion of the AR image, which is a portion that has a possibility of overlapping with the object, relative to a case in which it has not been determined that there is a possibility that the AR image will overlap with the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 16, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Tsuda
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Patent number: 12491767Abstract: A display control device installed to a vehicle that, while inter-vehicle distance control is being executed to maintain an inter-vehicle distance from a lead vehicle traveling on a road, forms an AR image corresponding to the lead vehicle in a hypothetical display area set ahead of a vehicle traveling on the road. The display control device acquires curvature information related to curvature of an extension direction of an area on the road between the vehicle and the lead vehicle, and forms the AR image in the hypothetical display area with a shape changed to match a curvature represented by the curvature information.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: December 9, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Toshinori Aoki
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Patent number: 12475610Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle, includes an image forming section configured to form an AR image having a shape that conforms to a dividing line of a lane in which a vehicle travels, an object recognition section configured to recognize object positioned in the lane, and a processor configured to control the image forming section so as to form the AR image. In a case in which it has been determined, based on a distance between the vehicle and the object, that there is a possibility that the AR image will overlap with the object, the processor reduces a visibility of a specific portion of the AR image, which is a portion that has a possibility of overlapping with the object, relative to a case in which it has not been determined that there is a possibility that the AR image will overlap with the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2023Date of Patent: November 18, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Tsuda
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Patent number: 12466258Abstract: A display control device installed in a vehicle and forming an AR image corresponding to a display target object at a position in front of the vehicle in a hypothetical display area set in front of the vehicle. The display control device causes the AR image to disappear from the hypothetical display area while being faded out when a first specific condition has been satisfied after the AR image was formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Toshinori Aoki
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Patent number: 12427924Abstract: A display control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire information of a moving body in surroundings of a vehicle; and display a specific image on a display area provided to the vehicle according to a position of the moving body based on the acquired information of the moving body, the specific image being displayed either overlaid on or adjacent to the moving body; and in a case in which the moving body inside the display area has exited from the display area, continue to display the specific image until a specific period of time has elapsed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Tsuda
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Patent number: 12428012Abstract: A display control device configured to include a processor coupled to a memory, the processor calculating, based on sets of sensing information acquired from plural sensors that sense objects in front of a vehicle, a position of a detection object in front of the vehicle and, when displaying a position image representing the position of the detection object so as to overlay the position image on a foreground in a display area in front of a driver's seat, deciding whether or not to display the position image based on reliabilities of the sets of sensing information acquired from the plural sensors.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Toshinori Aoki
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Publication number: 20250206138Abstract: A display control device includes a display control unit that causes a marker to be displayed in a display area of a display device in a position corresponding to an object included in a foreground of a vehicle visible through the display area of the display device or in an image resembling the foreground of the vehicle displayed in the display area of the display device, and the marker comprising a plurality of partial images lined up next to and spaced apart from each other in a vehicle width direction and having sides along a lengthwise direction of the partial images that are not parallel to a vehicle vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Go MATSUNOBU, Kazuhisa ISHIMARU
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Publication number: 20250206140Abstract: A display ECU is configured to detect, from an image acquired by a camera, a vehicle to be followed that precedes a host vehicle, project a marker image, in the screen display frame, with any one of a display near the vehicle to be followed and a display on the vehicle to be followed in a superimposed manner, and control the AR-HUD such that the marker image exhibits, when the entire vehicle to be followed is in the screen display frame, a first shape in which the marker image is displayed at maximum size, and the marker image exhibits, when the vehicle to be followed deviates from the screen display frame, a second shape in which the marker image deforms in a state of being in contact with the screen display frame according to a position of the vehicle to be followed present outside the screen display frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2024Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Go MATSUNOBU, Kazuhisa ISHIMARU
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Publication number: 20250171045Abstract: A display control device including a display control section. In cases in which a change amount of a position of a target object as represented by position information output from a detection section for detecting target objects, or a physical quantity derived from this change amount, is a first specific value or lower, the display control section displays a mark in a display area of a display device at a position corresponding to a position of the target object as represented by the position information. In cases in which the change amount or the physical quantity has exceeded a second specific value that is the first specific value or greater, the display control section limits movement of a display position of the mark in the display area of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: May 29, 2025Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Kazuhisa ISHIMARU
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Patent number: 12246598Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: recognize an object ahead of a host vehicle; and cause display of respective superimposed images, having lengths in a vehicle vertical direction, at each side of the recognized object in a vehicle width direction, at a display area so as to be superimposed on a view ahead of the host vehicle, the superimposed images being spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Tsuda, Go Matsunobu, Kazuhisa Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20240246538Abstract: A display control device that displays an image in a display area of a display unit showing a scene ahead of a vehicle or an image replicating the scene ahead. The display control device includes a detection section that detects a lead vehicle, and a display control section that, based on an acceleration or deceleration of a specific value or greater occurring in the vehicle due to following cruise control with the lead vehicle as a follow target, displays an image corresponding to acceleration or deceleration in the display area between the vehicle and the lead vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki TSUDA
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Publication number: 20240239195Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: recognize an object ahead of a host vehicle; and cause display of respective superimposed images, having lengths in a vehicle vertical direction, at each side of the recognized object in a vehicle width direction, at a display area so as to be superimposed on a view ahead of the host vehicle, the superimposed images being spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Go MATSUNOBU, Kazuhisa ISHIMARU
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Publication number: 20240227678Abstract: A display control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire information of a moving body in surroundings of a vehicle; and display a specific image on a display area provided to the vehicle according to a position of the moving body based on the acquired information of the moving body, the specific image being displayed either overlaid on or adjacent to the moving body; and in a case in which the moving body inside the display area has exited from the display area, continue to display the specific image until a specific period of time has elapsed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki TSUDA
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Publication number: 20240198800Abstract: A vehicle display control device including at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to generate a linear superimposed image indicating a travel path of a vehicle by being drawn so as to be superimposed on a landscape at a vehicle front side and extend toward the vehicle front side, and carry out control so as to change a direction in which a leading end side of the superimposed image faces, according to a road curvature, based on road information for the vehicle front side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI