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).

  • Publication number: 20240131989
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240083247
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240083449
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240083248
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240083246
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki TSUDA, Toshinori AOKI