Patents by Inventor Hiroto BANNO
Hiroto BANNO 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: 11820383Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Takuhiro Omi, Yutaka Munaoka, Takeshi Enya
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Patent number: 11301695Abstract: An orientation detection device obtains a detection information of a sensor that detects a displacement in the vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, computes a pitch angle of the vehicle on the basis of the detection information, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels, and corrects a correlation between the detection information used in computation and the pitch angle on the basis of the gradient information.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Shibata, Masayuki Imanishi, Takeshi Hato, Daisuke Takemori, Hiroto Banno
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Patent number: 11264000Abstract: A display control device controls display of a virtual image which is superimposed on foreground of a vehicle by projection of a display light image from an optical unit to a projection area. The display control device sets a projection position of the display light image which is projected in the projection area on the basis of a relative position of a superimposition object on which the virtual image is superimposed, obtains a measurement information from one vehicle height sensor measuring a displacement in a vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels on the basis of three-dimensional map data, and corrects the projection position of the display light image on the basis of the measurement information and the gradient information.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Shibata, Masayuki Imanishi, Norio Samma, Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Sei Iguchi, Hiroto Banno, Daisuke Takemori
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Patent number: 11247565Abstract: A virtual image display device that displays a virtual image by projecting a display light image to a projection area of a vehicle, includes: a low-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a low-frequency band; a high-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a high-frequency band; an image renderer that renders image data of the display light image corrected to reduce misalignment attributed to the attitude change at the low-frequency band; a projection optical unit that includes a display surface to display an original image based on the image data, and projects light of the original image as the display light image; and a display controller that displaces the original image to reduce the misalignment of the virtual image attributed to the attitude change at the high-frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Takeshi Hato, Yuichiro Hayakawa
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Patent number: 11220274Abstract: A vehicle display control device controls display performed by a head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display is configured to project an image on a projection member to cause a virtual image to be displayed in superimposed relation on a front view of the vehicle. The vehicle display control device determines a host vehicle situation as a road structure of a road on which a host vehicle is running, and controls to limit or not to limit a superimposed display of the virtual image with respect to a target object on which the virtual image is to be displayed in superimposed relation according to the host vehicle situation determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Daisuke Takemori, Akira Kamiya, Shingo Yamashita, Yasushi Sakuma, Satoshi Horihata
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Patent number: 11189250Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display position of a virtual image displayed and superimposed on a foreground in a vehicle (A), includes: an information acquisition unit for acquiring state information of the vehicle and extracting attitude change information and vibration information of the vehicle from the state information; a position correction unit for correcting a displacement of the display position of the virtual image with respect to the foreground caused by the attitude change of the vehicle, based on the attitude change information; a rough road determination unit for determining whether a road is a rough road, the road on which the vehicle is traveling or scheduled to travel, based on the vibration information; and a correction suppression unit for suppressing a correction control of the display position executed by the position correction unit and continuing to display the virtual image, based on a rough road determination.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Daisuke Takemori, Hiroto Banno, Akira Kamiya, Shingo Yamashita, Shunsuke Shibata, Masayuki Imanishi, Norio Samma
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Publication number: 20210158064Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takuhiro OMI, Yutaka MUNAOKA, Takeshi ENYA
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Patent number: 10936888Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Takuhiro Omi, Yutaka Munaoka, Takeshi Enya
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Publication number: 20210031776Abstract: A display control unit controls a virtual image display device that superimposes a virtual image on a foreground of an occupant of the vehicle. The display control unit acquires posture information indicating a change in posture of the vehicle based on a signal of a posture sensor attached to the vehicle. The display control unit acquires driving force information indicating a state of a driving force acting on the vehicle. The display control unit determines that the vehicle is traveling on a rough road when the change in posture indicated by the posture information exceeds a threshold value in a state where the driving force indicated by the driving force information is stable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Takeshi HATO, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO
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Patent number: 10909399Abstract: An apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: an inclination detection portion that detects inclination of a head of a driver with respect to a trunk of the driver lower than a neck, based on an image of a driver seat captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle; and a posture collapse detection portion that detects the driver is incapable of driving when the inclination of the head detected by the inclination detection portion is greater than a relative inclination threshold during travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Yutaka Munaoka, Takuhiro Omi, Takeshi Enya
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Publication number: 20200311442Abstract: An orientation detection device obtains a detection information of a sensor that detects a displacement in the vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, computes a pitch angle of the vehicle on the basis of the detection information, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels, and corrects a correlation between the detection information used in computation and the pitch angle on the basis of the gradient information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Takeshi HATO, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO
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Publication number: 20200269696Abstract: A virtual image display device that displays a virtual image by projecting a display light image to a projection area of a vehicle, includes: a low-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a low-frequency band; a high-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a high-frequency band; an image renderer that renders image data of the display light image corrected to reduce misalignment attributed to the attitude change at the low-frequency band; a projection optical unit that includes a display surface to display an original image based on the image data, and projects light of the original image as the display light image; and a display controller that displaces the original image to reduce the misalignment of the virtual image attributed to the attitude change at the high-frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takeshi HATO, Yuichiro HAYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20200273435Abstract: A display control device controls display of a virtual image which is superimposed on foreground of a vehicle by projection of a display light image from an optical unit to a projection area. The display control device sets a projection position of the display light image which is projected in the projection area on the basis of a relative position of a superimposition object on which the virtual image is superimposed, obtains a measurement information from one vehicle height sensor measuring a displacement in a vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels on the basis of three-dimensional map data, and corrects the projection position of the display light image on the basis of the measurement information and the gradient information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Norio SAMMA, Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Sei IGUCHI, Hiroto BANNO, Daisuke TAKEMORI
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Publication number: 20200132462Abstract: A sensor calibration device acquires a measured value of an attitude of a vehicle based on an output of an attitude sensor, acquires vehicle speed information indicating a traveling speed of the vehicle, acquires map information on a road on which the vehicle travels, and sets a calibration value applied to the measured value to cause a calculated position of the vehicle calculated based on the vehicle speed information and the measured value to come close to a reference position indicated in the map information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Norio SAMMA, Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO, Sei IGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200082190Abstract: An apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: an inclination detection portion that detects inclination of a head of a driver with respect to a trunk of the driver lower than a neck, based on an image of a driver seat captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle; and a posture collapse detection portion that detects the driver is incapable of driving when the inclination of the head detected by the inclination detection portion is greater than a relative inclination threshold during travel of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Yutaka MUNAOKA, Takuhiro OMI, Takeshi ENYA
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Patent number: 10572746Abstract: An apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that detects a head of the driver based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle; and a shake detection portion that detects the driver is incapable of driving when an amplitude of a shake of the head detected by the head detection portion is smaller than a first amplitude or larger than a second amplitude, which is larger than the first amplitude, before a shake determination time elapses after external force has been applied to the vehicle during travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Minori Yamataka, Yutaka Munaoka, Takeshi Enya, Takuhiro Omi
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Patent number: 10569649Abstract: An in-vehicle control apparatus performs a hazard avoidance process. The in-vehicle control apparatus includes an anomaly determination section, an alarm control section, and a hazard avoidance control section. The anomaly determination section determines whether a driver is under driving inability state during travel of the vehicle, based on information on monitoring of state of the driver. The alarm control section activates an alarm annunciator to issue an alarm outwardly from the vehicle when the driver is determined to be under driving inability state. After the alarm annunciator starts the alarm, the hazard avoidance control section fails to perform the hazard avoidance process when the alarm is stopped by a manipulation of the driver and performs the hazard avoidance process when a specified time elapses under state where the alarm is not stopped since the starting of the alarm.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Munaoka, Hiroto Banno
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Publication number: 20200057898Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takuhiro OMI, Yutaka MUNAOKA, Takeshi ENYA
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Patent number: 10503987Abstract: An apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: an inclination detection portion that detects inclination of a head of a driver with respect to a trunk of the driver lower than a neck, based on an image of a driver seat captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle; and a posture collapse detection portion that detects the driver is incapable of driving when the inclination of the head detected by the inclination detection portion is greater than a relative inclination threshold during travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Yutaka Munaoka, Takuhiro Omi, Takeshi Enya
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Publication number: 20190359228Abstract: A vehicle display control device controls display performed by a head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display is configured to project an image on a projection member to cause a virtual image to be displayed in superimposed relation on a front view of the vehicle. The vehicle display control device determines a host vehicle situation as a road structure of a road on which a host vehicle is running, and controls to limit or not to limit a superimposed display of the virtual image with respect to a target object on which the virtual image is to be displayed in superimposed relation according to the host vehicle situation determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Akira KAMIYA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Yasushi SAKUMA, Satoshi HORIHATA