Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Miura

Hiroshi Miura 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: 20190272744
    Abstract: An action planning unit determines an amount of deceleration of a host vehicle corresponding to a traffic regulation on the basis of at least one item of information from among a situation of other vehicles traveling in a second travel path recognized by an external environment recognition unit, a number of the other vehicles traveling in the second travel path, a speed limit of the second travel path, and environmental information of the second travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Toshifumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi MIURA, Suguru YANAGIHARA, Marina SAIKYO
  • Publication number: 20190265709
    Abstract: If an external environment recognition unit recognizes another vehicle that is positioned along a travel lane, an offset setting unit sets an offset amount in a direction of separating a host vehicle from the other vehicle. The offset setting unit sets the offset amount (predetermined amount) to be smaller in a case where the external environment recognition unit identifies the other vehicle as a streetcar, than the offset amount (predetermined amount) in a case where the external environment recognition unit identifies the other vehicle as an vehicle other than the streetcar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Marina SAIKYO, Hiroshi MIURA, Suguru YANAGIHARA, Yuta TAKADA, Shogo KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190265728
    Abstract: An external environment recognition unit identifies a hearse or a funeral attendant vehicle following the hearse, from among at least one other vehicle traveling in a same forward traveling direction as a host vehicle in front of or on a side of the host vehicle. In the case that the external environment recognition unit identifies the hearse or the funeral attendant vehicle, the action planning unit plans an action of positioning the host vehicle at a location more rearwardly than a vehicle at a trailing end (trailing end vehicle) from among the hearse and the funeral attendant vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Marina SAIKYO, Hiroshi MIURA, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Suguru YANAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190266889
    Abstract: When a host vehicle crosses a track of a streetcar, if an external environment recognition unit recognizes a stop line (or a section line) between the host vehicle and the track, a stop position setting unit sets the stop line as a target stop position. In addition, if the external environment recognition unit does not recognize the stop line between the host vehicle and the track, the stop position setting unit sets a predetermined position that is separated from the track toward the host vehicle as the target stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Toshifumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi MIURA, Marina SAIKYO, Suguru YANAGIHARA, Yuta TAKADA, Shogo KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190263411
    Abstract: In a vehicle control device and a vehicle control method, the vehicle control device comprises a lane recognition unit adapted to recognize lane types of a host vehicle lane and an adjacent lane, a control condition setting unit adapted to set first to third control conditions in order to make a lane change depending on the lane types that were recognized by the lane recognition unit, and a vehicle control unit adapted to carry out a lane change control with respect to a host vehicle on the basis of the first to third control conditions set by the control condition setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Marina SAIKYO, Hiroshi MIURA, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Suguru YANAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190265727
    Abstract: An action planning unit predicts a first travel route, a first passage time, a second travel route, and a second passage time. In the case that an approach point exists at which a separation distance between the first travel route and the second travel route becomes less than or equal to a predetermined distance, then if the second passage time at the approach point occurs earlier than the first passage time, and a time difference therebetween lies within a predetermined time period, the action planning unit plans an action of the host vehicle in a manner so that the host vehicle does not hinder traveling of a hearse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Toshifumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi MIURA, Suguru YANAGIHARA, Marina SAIKYO, Yuta TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20190266895
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is equipped with an external environment recognition unit, an action planning unit, and a vehicle control unit. The external environment recognition unit identifies a hearse that is traveling toward a host vehicle from among at least one other vehicle traveling in front of or behind the host vehicle, and in the case that the external environment recognition unit identifies the hearse, the action planning unit plans an action that keeps the host vehicle away from the hearse by causing the host vehicle to move in a direction of an edge of a travel lane or a host vehicle travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Toshifumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi MIURA, Suguru YANAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190263412
    Abstract: In a vehicle control device and a vehicle control method, the vehicle control device comprises a lane recognition unit adapted to recognize a lane type of an adjacent lane adjacent to a host vehicle lane in which a host vehicle is traveling, a determination condition setting unit adapted to set a determination condition for permitting a lane change of the host vehicle from the host vehicle lane to the adjacent lane depending on the lane type of the adjacent lane that was recognized by the lane recognition unit, a lane change determining unit adapted to permit the lane change in the case that the determination condition is satisfied, and a vehicle control unit adapted to carry out a travel control or an assist control in relation to the lane change, in the case that the lane change determining unit has permitted the lane change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Marina SAIKYO, Hiroshi MIURA, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Suguru YANAGIHARA, Yuta TAKADA, Shogo KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190258269
    Abstract: If an external environment recognition unit recognizes another vehicle traveling in a particular section ahead of an own vehicle toward the own vehicle, a prediction unit predicts a position where the other vehicle crosses a first travel path (crossing position PA to PD) on the basis of at least one piece of information regarding an entering position of the other vehicle to the particular section, a travel time of the other vehicle in the particular section, a travel distance of the other vehicle in the particular section, a travel state of the other vehicle, and a position of a ground object on a first travel path side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Suguru Yanagihara, Toshifumi Suzuki, Hiroshi Miura, Marina Saikyo
  • Publication number: 20190258259
    Abstract: If an external environment recognition unit recognizes a particular section adjacent to a first travel path, a trajectory generation unit generates a first travel trajectory that causes the own vehicle to enter the first travel path after a travel along the first travel path inside the particular section, and if the external environment recognition unit does not recognize the particular section, the trajectory generation unit generates a second travel trajectory that causes the own vehicle to directly enter the first travel path from outside the first travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Suguru YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi MIURA, Marina SAIKYO
  • Publication number: 20190256098
    Abstract: If an external environment recognition unit recognizes a particular section (yellow lane) where an own vehicle can travel between a first travel path and a second travel path, a vehicle controller causes the own vehicle to move from the first travel path to the particular section and enter a second road from the particular section after a travel along the first travel path in the particular section. On the other hand, if the external environment recognition unit does not recognize the particular section, the vehicle controller causes the own vehicle to enter the second road from the first travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Suguru YANAGIHARA, Hiroshi MIURA, Marina SAIKYO
  • Patent number: 10386346
    Abstract: A data processing system for a chromatograph has an impurity detector including a differential chromatogram creator and a determining section. The differential chromatogram creator calculates a wavelength differential coefficient by differentiating an absorbance spectrum with respect to the wavelength at each point in time of the measurement and creates a differential chromatogram which shows a temporal change in the wavelength differential coefficient. Based on a shape of the thus created differential chromatogram, the determining section determines whether or not a peak of a target component contains an impurity. By this method, whether or not the peak of the target component contains an impurity can be determined with high accuracy, without requiring complex calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mito, Etsuho Kamata, Hiroshi Miura, Kenichi Mishima, Toshinobu Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20190193726
    Abstract: A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a recognition unit that recognizes moving bodies present near a subject vehicle, a deriving unit that derives an index value indicating that a following vehicle present behind the subject vehicle in a subject lane among the moving bodies recognized by the recognition unit approaches the subject vehicle, and a driving control unit that performs predetermined control in a case that the index value derived by the deriving unit is smaller than a threshold value in a case that the subject vehicle changes a route to another lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroshi Miura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190196486
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including a first recognizer recognizing one or more other vehicles present in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; a second recognizer recognizing that a road on which the subject vehicle is running is a road having no center line; an estimator estimating a state of a driver of an oncoming vehicle facing the subject vehicle among the one or more other vehicles recognized by the first recognizer; a determiner determining whether the oncoming vehicle is a vehicle executing manual driving; and a controller decelerating the subject vehicle to a speed equal to or lower than a predetermined speed on the basis of the state of the driver of the oncoming vehicle in a case in which the oncoming vehicle is a vehicle executing manual driving, and the road on which the subject vehicle is running is a road having no center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroshi Miura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190181886
    Abstract: A likelihood generation device is included in a receiving apparatus that receives a code-modulated signal including n?k information bits and k parity bits in N-dimensional arrangement, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to four, and n and k are natural numbers with k<n. The likelihood generation device includes: a temporary likelihood determination unit to determine, by using a table that includes an L-dimensional address space and stores a likelihood in each of the L-dimensional address spaces, likelihoods of an information bit and a parity bit that are transmitted by the code-modulated signal received, where L is a natural number with L<N; and a likelihood correction unit to update, among the likelihoods determined by the likelihood derivation unit, the likelihood of the information bit on a basis of a rule for generation of the parity bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi YOSHIDA, Keisuke DOHI, Keisuke MATSUDA, Hiroshi MIURA
  • Publication number: 20190161090
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a preceding vehicle that is in front of a subject vehicle on the basis of information collected by an information collection unit including an information collection surface oriented toward an outside of the subject vehicle, a determiner configured to determine whether or not a situation in front of the subject vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of a recognition result by the recognizer, and determine that a minute object on a road that is being flung up by the preceding vehicle affects a recognition accuracy of the recognizer by adhering to the information collection surface in a case where the situation in front of the subject vehicle satisfies the predetermined condition, and a driving controller configured to control a speed of the subject vehicle to increase a relative distance between the subject vehicle and the preceding vehicle in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the minute object on the ro
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190161087
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an imaging unit that images surroundings of an own-vehicle, a detector that detects a state of an external appearance of an oncoming vehicle facing the own-vehicle in a tunnel on the basis of an image captured by the imaging unit, and a determiner that determines whether or not the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle detected by the detector and determines that the outside of the tunnel toward which the own-vehicle is traveling has bad weather if the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20190155303
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a measurement unit measuring a vibration of a subject vehicle and a prediction unit predicting the presence of a predetermined place, at which a control state of the subject vehicle is to be changed, in front of the subject vehicle in an advancement direction on the basis of a degree of coincidence between a trend of vibrations measured by the measurement unit and a vibration trend of a vehicle measured in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20190146519
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100 or 400) includes a recognizer (130 or 432) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving controller (150 and 160, or 452) that controls at least acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle, the driving controller decelerating the vehicle with different deceleration patterns on the basis of whether a pedestrian crossing the crosswalk has been recognized by the recognizer at a point in time when a marking indicating the presence of the crosswalk in advance has been recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20190135281
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a first recognizer recognizing, in the vicinity of a first vehicle, a plurality of second vehicles; a second recognizer recognizing a road shoulder of a road on which the first vehicle is present; and a controller executing driving control of controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the first vehicle, wherein the controller sets a degree of monitoring of one of the plurality of second vehicles present on a road shoulder in a section from a branching point to a point a predetermined distance from the branching point, to be higher than another of the plurality of second vehicles present on a road shoulder out of the section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe