Patents by Inventor Hirokazu TOKUSHIMA

Hirokazu TOKUSHIMA 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: 20230316898
    Abstract: A traffic safety support system includes a target traffic area recognizer configured to acquire recognition information regarding traffic participants, and the like, in a target traffic area, a predictor 62 configured to predict a risk in the target traffic area on the basis of the recognition information, and a coordination support information notifier 65 configured to transmit coordination support information to support targets. The predictor 62 includes an area risk predictor 620 configured to extract a high risk area from a plurality of local areas obtained by subdividing the target traffic area on the basis of information obtained by performing statistical processing on the recognition information, and a traffic participant risk predictor 625 configured to predict a risk in future of traffic participants in the high risk area on the basis of information related to the high risk area among the recognition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Hirokazu TOKUSHIMA, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yoji SASABUCHI
  • Patent number: 11772676
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving support device which can notify a driver of the existence of other vehicles, even in a case of a function of detecting the existence of the other vehicle temporarily not being useable. A driving support device 11 includes: a second vehicle detection unit 204 which detects the other vehicle existing behind or ahead of the vehicle 1, based on the captured image, in a case of the vehicle detection function being determined as not normally operating, in which the notification control unit 202 notifies the driver of the vehicle 1 of existence of the other vehicle, in a case of detecting the other vehicle by way of the second vehicle detection unit 204.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Katayama, Hirokazu Tokushima, Osamu Ito, Hideo Kadowaki, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220242437
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving support device which can notify a driver of the existence of other vehicles, even in a case of a function of detecting the existence of the other vehicle temporarily not being useable. A driving support device 11 includes: a second vehicle detection unit 204 which detects the other vehicle existing behind or ahead of the vehicle 1, based on the captured image, in a case of the vehicle detection function being determined as not normally operating, in which the notification control unit 202 notifies the driver of the vehicle 1 of existence of the other vehicle, in a case of detecting the other vehicle by way of the second vehicle detection unit 204.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KATAYAMA, Hirokazu TOKUSHIMA, Osamu ITO, Hideo KADOWAKI, Hiroki TANAKA