Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Uchitomi

Hirotaka Uchitomi 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).

  • Patent number: 11657723
    Abstract: A management device allows: an information acquisition unit to acquire information that identifies an unmanned aerial vehicle that is an investigation target; a flight position determination unit to determine a flight position of the unmanned aerial vehicle that is the investigation target at a certain point in time; a search unit to search for one or more other unmanned aerial vehicles having a photographing function and positioned around the unmanned aerial vehicle that is the investigation target at the certain point in time; and an acquisition assist processing unit to assist acquisition of photographed data taken by the one or more other unmanned aerial vehicles that are searched for. Further, the management device may perform the above processing using communications through a blockchain network to cooperate with the blockchain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Nakajima, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11586223
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a communicator configured to receive driving information from a management server, a controller configured to drive the vehicle on the basis of the driving information from the communicator, a manager configured to manage a compartment of the vehicle in which a service user receives a service from a service provider, and an interface set up in association with service-related information provided by the service provider and the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Hisao Asaumi, Kentaro Ishisaka, Izumi Kondo, Satoshi Koike, Tomohisa Manabe, Yo Ito, Yuki Hayashi, Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada, Kovi Ahego, Liyan Liu, Hirotaka Uchitomi, Masashi Yuki, Takafumi Hirose, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Masaaki Onoda, Christopher Lang
  • Patent number: 11545262
    Abstract: An automated driving vehicle (200) includes a communication device (220), a biometric information acquirer (240), and an automated driving controller (250). The communication device (220) is configured to transmit biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquirer (240) to an external device and receives a response signal including attribute information for the transmitted biometric information. The automated driving controller (250) is configured to execute automated driving according to route information formed on the basis of the attribute information included in the received response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11541908
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11397322
    Abstract: An image providing system for vehicles includes an imaging unit; a display unit which generates a virtual image of a person; a communication unit which connects for communication to an apparatus outside a vehicle; and a seat occupancy detection unit which detects a seat occupancy state in the vehicle, wherein the display unit controls a display mode of the virtual image on the basis of the seat occupancy state in the vehicle detected by the seat occupancy detection unit in an operating state of the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11363508
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle uses a calculation unit to calculate a distance between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a controller, uses a search unit to search for an available moving body communication line when the distance exceeds a predetermined threshold in a case where the unmanned aerial vehicle and the controller are directly communicating with each other, and uses a communication continuation processing unit to perform predetermined processing for continuing the communication depending on a search result. The unmanned aerial vehicle, the controller, and the management device may be linked to a block-chain network by communication via the block-chain network in association with processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Nakajima, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11231281
    Abstract: An information-processing device of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires sensor detection information indicating a detection result from a sensor mounted in a vehicle, a derivation unit that derives a plurality of indices for a surrounding environment based on the sensor detection information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an evaluation unit that evaluates attribute information of a point at which the sensor detection information is acquired based on the plurality of indices derived by the derivation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11069239
    Abstract: An event vehicle dispatch device includes: an event notifier configured to notify a plurality of vehicles or owners of the vehicles of an event held in an area in which the plurality of vehicles are able to park; and an adjuster configured to adjust the number of vehicles corresponding to vehicle attributes of vehicles arriving at the area based on the vehicle attribute of each of the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Patent number: 11017666
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control system including an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a situation of a transit point of autonomous driving, and a determination unit that determines whether an autonomously driven vehicle will pass the transit point based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210150656
    Abstract: Provided is a service management device (300, 700) including an acquisitor (320, 720, 722, 724) that acquires a riding-together request (service use request information) for a service user U to request riding together with a service provider S within a moving vehicle (200, 500), and a plan decider (330, 740) that decides a riding-together plan of the service user and the service provider in response to the riding-together request acquired by the acquisitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210148720
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation service providing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire a use request of a main user; an instructor configured to instruct an automated driving vehicle of a route in response to the use request acquired by the acquirer; a route setter configured to set the route of the automated driving vehicle based on the use request and a use request of a user different from the main user; and a service manager configured to allocate a plurality of automated driving vehicles as relays to the main user based on one of a joining plan for the main user and a user different from the main user to use the same vehicle on the route or a branching plan for the main user and the user different from the main user to ride separately into a plurality of vehicles on the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210146955
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detector configured to detect objects around a vehicle; a predictor configured to predict the extent of stress caused to an occupant by the objects according to a distribution of the objects detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate a trajectory when the vehicle is traveling by automated driving according to the extent of stress predicted by the predictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210142797
    Abstract: An assistance device (100 or 500) includes an acquisitor (110 or 510) configured to acquire user-side information including input information input using voice or text by a user from a terminal device (200) of the user, an interface (160 or 540) configured to perform an operation for a work reservation, and an intermediary unit (120, 140, 520, or 560) configured to perform intention estimation of input information included in the user-side information acquired by the acquisitor, to control the interface on the basis of a result of the intention estimation, and to realize work reservation intended by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210110722
    Abstract: A management device allows: an information acquisition unit to acquire environmental data acquired by an unmanned aerial vehicle during flight, the environmental data enabling determination of a three-dimensional position of a certain environment; a path determination unit to determine the three-dimensional position of the certain environment on the basis of the environmental data and to determine a recommended flight path of another unmanned aerial vehicle on the basis of the three-dimensional position determined; and an information management unit to provide information on the recommended flight path determined to a controller of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kei Nakajima, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210099931
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle uses a calculation unit to calculate a distance between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a controller, uses a search unit to search for an available moving body communication line when the distance exceeds a predetermined threshold in a case where the unmanned aerial vehicle and the controller are directly communicating with each other, and uses a communication continuation processing unit to perform predetermined processing for continuing the communication depending on a search result. The unmanned aerial vehicle, the controller, and the management device may be linked to a block-chain network by communication via the block-chain network in association with processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kei Nakajima, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20210097872
    Abstract: A management device allows: an information acquisition unit to acquire information that identifies an unmanned aerial vehicle that is an investigation target; a flight position determination unit to determine a flight position of the unmanned aerial vehicle that is the investigation target at a certain point in time; a search unit to search for one or more other unmanned aerial vehicles having a photographing function and positioned around the unmanned aerial vehicle that is the investigation target at the certain point in time; and an acquisition assist processing unit to assist acquisition of photographed data taken by the one or more other unmanned aerial vehicles that are searched for. Further, the management device may perform the above processing using communications through a blockchain network to cooperate with the blockchain network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kei Nakajima, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200164899
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200160335
    Abstract: A vehicle payment support device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire payment information of a fee which is able to be associated with identification information of a vehicle providing a service from a fee collection system; and an associator configured to associate the service from the vehicle and the payment information with identification information of the vehicle and determine a charged amount based on association of a price of the service by the vehicle and a price of a service or a product of which payment is confirmed by the fee collection system with the identification information of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200160707
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control system including an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a situation of a transit point of autonomous driving, and a determination unit that determines whether an autonomously driven vehicle will pass the transit point based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
  • Publication number: 20200158520
    Abstract: A map update apparatus includes: a storage part that stores map information; an acquisition part that acquires, from a vehicle, sensor detection information based on a detection result of a sensor that is provided on the vehicle; and an estimation part that estimates a position of an entrance of a facility of which a position of an entrance is unknown among facilities that are included in the map information based on the sensor detection information that is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Ishisaka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kovi Ahego, Christopher Lang, Liyan Liu, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi