Patents by Inventor Hideo Fukamachi
Hideo Fukamachi 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: 11796344Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi Kawanai, Yasuhiro Takagi, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Eiji Sakaguchi, Keisuke Hokai, Hideyuki Matsui, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Yusuke Hayashi, Hideo Fukamachi
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Patent number: 11692848Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi Kawanai, Yasuhiro Takagi, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Eiji Sakaguchi, Keisuke Hokai, Hideyuki Matsui, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Yusuke Hayashi, Hideo Fukamachi
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Patent number: 11680821Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi Kawanai, Yasuhiro Takagi, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Eiji Sakaguchi, Keisuke Hokai, Hideyuki Matsui, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Yusuke Hayashi, Hideo Fukamachi
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Patent number: 11680820Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi Kawanai, Yasuhiro Takagi, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Eiji Sakaguchi, Keisuke Hokai, Hideyuki Matsui, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Yusuke Hayashi, Hideo Fukamachi
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Publication number: 20230109416Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi Kawanai, Yasuhiro Takagi, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Eiji Sakaguchi, Keisuke Hokai, Hideyuki Matsui, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Yusuke Hayashi, Hideo Fukamachi
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Patent number: 11390303Abstract: Permissible level information indicating the highest permissible level of driving assistance control for each of sections on a target route is stored in a storage device. In a first section of the target route, the highest permissible level is a first level. In a second section that follows the first section, the highest permissible level is a second level higher than the first level. In a third section that follows the second section, the highest permissible level is a third level different from the second level. In a case where the length of the second section or a passage time taken for a vehicle to pass through the second section is smaller than a threshold value, the processor performs a level maintenance process of maintaining the selection level in the second section at a level equal to the selection level in the first section.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideo Fukamachi
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Publication number: 20220097720Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi KAWANAI, Yasuhiro Takagi, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Eiji Sakaguchi, Keisuke Hokai, Hideyuki Matsui, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Yusuke Hayashi, Hideo Fukamachi
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Patent number: 11275378Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle control apparatus configured to set a target trajectory of a vehicle in autonomous driving, a manual driving database configured to contain manual driving trajectory information that indicates a manual driving trajectory that is a trajectory of the vehicle in manual driving, a weight acquisition device configured to acquire weight information that indicates weights of the target trajectory and manual driving trajectory, the weights being designated by a user of the vehicle, and a trajectory adjusting device configured to determine an integrated target trajectory by integrating the target trajectory and the manual driving trajectory based on the weights indicated by the weight information. The vehicle control apparatus is configured to control the autonomous driving of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows the integrated target trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Hokai, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Taichi Kawanai, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Yasuhiro Takagi, Hideo Fukamachi, Eiji Sakaguchi, Hideyuki Matsui, Yusuke Hayashi
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Publication number: 20220048524Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi KAWANAI, Yasuhiro TAKAGI, Masahiro HARADA, Nobuhide KAMATA, Eiji SAKAGUCHI, Keisuke HOKAI, Hideyuki MATSUI, Kazuhiko KAMIKADO, Yusuke HAYASHI, Hideo FUKAMACHI
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Patent number: 10991105Abstract: An image processing device includes a storage unit, an initial setting unit configured to store a position of an optical axis neighborhood point in a first image obtained by the imaging unit in the storage unit as an initial position of a specific point in the first image in association with image features of a surrounding area of the optical axis neighborhood point, a search unit configured to search for a corresponding point of the specific point in a second image obtained by the imaging unit based on the image features of the surrounding area of the specific point stored in the storage unit, and an output unit configured to output a position of the corresponding point in the second image as a position of the reference point in the second image.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo Fukamachi, Toshiki Kindo, Mineki Soga, Yoichi Kato, Shigeru Ando
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Publication number: 20200317227Abstract: Permissible level information indicating the highest permissible level of driving assistance control for each of sections on a target route is stored in a storage device. In a first section of the target route, the highest permissible level is a first level. In a second section that follows the first section, the highest permissible level is a second level higher than the first level. In a third section that follows the second section, the highest permissible level is a third level different from the second level. In a case where the length of the second section or a passage time taken for a vehicle to pass through the second section is smaller than a threshold value, the processor performs a level maintenance process of maintaining the selection level in the second section at a level equal to the selection level in the first section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideo Fukamachi
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Publication number: 20200139979Abstract: A map information system includes a map database including map information; and a driving assist level determination device. The map information is associated with an evaluation value indicating a certainty of the map information for each location in an absolute coordinate system. Information indicating that the intervention operation is performed is included in driving environment information indicating a driving environment of a vehicle. The driving assist level determination device is configured to acquire, based on the driving environment information, intervention operation information indicating an intervention operation location where the intervention operation is performed, acquire, based on the map information, the evaluation value for each point or section in a target range, and determine, based on the evaluation value and the intervention operation location, an allowable level for each point or section within the target range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichi KAWANAI, Yasuhiro TAKAGI, Masahiro HARADA, Nobuhide KAMATA, Eiji SAKAGUCHI, Keisuke HOKAI, Hideyuki MATSUI, Kazuhiko KAMIKADO, Yusuke HAYASHI, Hideo FUKAMACHI
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Publication number: 20200133277Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle control apparatus configured to set a target trajectory of a vehicle in autonomous driving, a manual driving database configured to contain manual driving trajectory information that indicates a manual driving trajectory that is a trajectory of the vehicle in manual driving, a weight acquisition device configured to acquire weight information that indicates weights of the target trajectory and manual driving trajectory, the weights being designated by a user of the vehicle, and a trajectory adjusting device configured to determine an integrated target trajectory by integrating the target trajectory and the manual driving trajectory based on the weights indicated by the weight information. The vehicle control apparatus is configured to control the autonomous driving of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows the integrated target trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke HOKAI, Kazuhiko KAMIKADO, Taichi KAWANAI, Masahiro HARADA, Nobuhide KAMATA, Yasuhiro TAKAGI, Hideo FUKAMACHI, Eiji SAKAGUCHI, Hideyuki MATSUI, Yusuke HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200098115Abstract: An image processing device includes a storage unit, an initial setting unit configured to store a position of an optical axis neighborhood point in a first image obtained by the imaging unit in the storage unit as an initial position of a specific point in the first image in association with image features of a surrounding area of the optical axis neighborhood point, a search unit configured to search for a corresponding point of the specific point in a second image obtained by the imaging unit based on the image features of the surrounding area of the specific point stored in the storage unit, and an output unit configured to output a position of the corresponding point in the second image as a position of the reference point in the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo Fukamachi, Toshiki Kindo, Mineki Soga, Yoichi Kato, Shigeru Ando
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Publication number: 20180297612Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes: a traveling control unit configured to cause a vehicle to autonomously travel to a destination; an arrival determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle has arrived at the destination; a getting in-out detection unit configured to detect whether an occupant has gotten in or gotten out of the vehicle; and a notification unit configured to send a notification to an outside of the vehicle when the getting in-out detection unit does not detect that the occupant has gotten in or gotten out of the vehicle within a predetermined getting in-out determination time after the arrival determination unit determines that the vehicle has arrived at the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideo FUKAMACHI
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Patent number: 9713981Abstract: A sound collecting unit (10) mounted on a vehicle is configured to collect sounds, a frequency resolution unit (21c) is configured to perform frequency analysis on the collected sound information, and when an object around the vehicle is detected based on a frequency characteristic of the sound information, a traveling sound detecting unit (21d) is configured to perform object detection such that object detection using a predetermined frequency band when a sound pressure of the predetermined frequency band is high in a frequency characteristic of a sound reproduced from a reproduction unit (11) mounted on the vehicle is more suppressed than object detection using a predetermined frequency band when a sound pressure of the predetermined frequency band is low in the frequency characteristic of the sound reproduced from a reproduction unit (11).Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Hideo Fukamachi
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Publication number: 20160229339Abstract: A sound collecting unit (10) mounted on a vehicle is configured to collect sounds, a frequency resolution unit (21c) is configured to perform frequency analysis on the collected sound information, and when an object around the vehicle is detected based on a frequency characteristic of the sound information, a traveling sound detecting unit (21d) is configured to perform object detection such that object detection using a predetermined frequency band when a sound pressure of the predetermined frequency band is high in a frequency characteristic of a sound reproduced from a reproduction unit (11) mounted on the vehicle is more suppressed than object detection using a predetermined frequency band when a sound pressure of the predetermined frequency band is low in the frequency characteristic of the sound reproduced from a reproduction unit (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Hideo Fukamachi
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Patent number: 9277339Abstract: In a sound source detection apparatus that detects a sound source of a detection subject on the basis of collected sounds, sounds are collected by at least one sound collector, an autocorrelation between sounds collected in time series by the sound collector is calculated, and a determination as to whether or not the sound source of the detection subject exists is made on the basis of the autocorrelation. More particularly, sounds are preferably collected respectively by two or more sound collectors such that the existence of the sound source of the detection subject is determined by determining whether or not the autocorrelations of the sounds collected by the two or more sound collectors satisfy a predetermined condition. By using the autocorrelation to detect the sound source of the detection subject in this manner, high robustness against an S/N ratio is exhibited, leading to an improved detection performance when detecting the sound source of the detection subject.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo Fukamachi, Toshiki Kindo
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Publication number: 20150331095Abstract: A sound detection device is provided in a moving body and includes a sound detection unit configured to detect an ambient sound of the moving body and a determination unit configured to determine at least one of the presence of a sound source to be detected around the moving body, the approach of the sound source to the moving body, and the separation of the sound source from the moving body, on the basis of a degree of correlation between sound pressure information of a first preset frequency band in the ambient sound detected by the sound detection unit and sound pressure information of a second frequency band different from the first frequency band in the ambient sound detected by the sound detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun SATO, Ryuji FUNAYAMA, Tomoya TAKATANI, Toshiki KINDO, Hideo FUKAMACHI, Hiroaki SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 9058247Abstract: A risk potential estimating device 20 of a driving support apparatus 10 calculates the risk potential of an object at each of a plurality of points which are set around a host vehicle 100. When there is a pedestrian M2 in a blind spot B caused by a pedestrian M1 in the field of view of the host vehicle 100, the risk potential estimating device 20 omits the calculation of the risk potential of the pedestrian M2. When there is the pedestrian M1 close to the host vehicle 100, first, the behavior of avoiding the pedestrian M1 is performed. Therefore, the risk potential of the pedestrian M1 may be calculated at each point. In many cases, the calculation of the risk potential of the pedestrian M2 which is located in the blind spot B caused by the pedestrian M1 and is away from the host vehicle 100 is redundant.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideo Fukamachi