Patents by Inventor Hiroya Chiba

Hiroya Chiba 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: 20220169268
    Abstract: A machine learning method performs training of values of model parameters forming a machine learning model, and is performed in a machine learning system including a vehicle having the machine learning model and a server able to communicate with the vehicle. The machine learning method includes: detecting, by the server, a current processing load of the server; determining, by the server, processing amounts of training respectively performed by the server and the vehicle, based on the processing load; performing, by the server, training of the values of the model parameters in accordance with the determined processing amount in the server; and performing, by the vehicle, training of the values of the model parameters in accordance with the determined processing amount in the vehicle. The server decreases a processing amount at the server when the processing load is relatively high compared to when it is relatively low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroya Chiba, Yohei Hareyama, Daiki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20220161780
    Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle, when a host vehicle is predicted to enter the inside of an engine drive restricted zone where operation of an internal combustion engine (20) is restricted, it is judged if congestion occurs or congestion is predicted as occurring in at least one of a running route leading to the inside of the engine drive restricted zone and a running route at the inside of the engine drive restricted zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Sui KURIHASHI, Hiroki MORITA, Makoto OGISO
  • Publication number: 20220131411
    Abstract: A moving object includes: a contact power receiver connected to an external contact power feeding device and configured to receive power from the external contact power feeding device; a non-contact power receiver configured to receive power from an external non-contact power feeding device in a non-contact manner; a detector configured to detect a state of an occupant boarding the moving object; and determination circuitry configured to determine which of the contact power receiver and the non-contact power receiver is utilized to receive the power based on the state of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shogo TSUGE, Kengo HACHIYA, Kyoko ITOH, Hitoshi HIBINO, Hiroya CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20220089142
    Abstract: A vehicle drive route instruction system in a hybrid vehicle in which when it is judged that currently the vehicle is driving through the inside of the engine drive restriction zone where driving by the internal combustion engine is restricted, the internal combustion engine is made to stop operating, the electric motor is used to drive the vehicle, and the shortest route from the current position to the boundary of the inside of the engine drive restriction zone and the outside of the engine drive restriction zone is searched. When it is judged that the SOC amount will fall to the preset judgment standard when driving the vehicle through the searched shortest route from the current position to the boundary, an occupant of the vehicle is given information to guide the vehicle from the current position through the searched shortest route to the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20220089144
    Abstract: The home position estimation system includes a GNSS receiver, an object detection device for detecting an object in surroundings of the hybrid vehicle, an identifying part configured to identify the object detected by the object detection device, and a position estimating part configured to estimate a position of the hybrid vehicle based on an output of the GNSS receiver. If a predetermined condition is satisfied and the object identified by the identifying part is an object indicating a boundary of a low emission zone which requires that the internal combustion engine be stopped, the position estimating part is configured to judge whether the hybrid vehicle is located within the low emission zone, regardless of the output of the GNSS receiver, based on a result of identification by the identifying part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20220089146
    Abstract: The control device of a hybrid vehicle for controlling a hybrid vehicle includes a position estimating part configured to estimate a position of the hybrid vehicle using the vehicle position detection device, a reliability calculating part configured to calculate a reliability of position information of the hybrid vehicle, and a power output part configured to control the internal combustion engine and the electric motor to output power for driving use. The power output part is configured to reduce the output of the internal combustion engine when the reliability is equal to or less than a reference value, compared to when the reliability is higher than the reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki YOKOYAMA, Hiroya CHIBA, Yoshiyuki KAGEURA, Masanori SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Hiroyuki SUGIHARA, Yuji MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20210358305
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation device for allocating a vehicle in response to a vehicle allocation request from a user terminal, includes a vehicle selector configured to select a vehicle having a relatively small learning amount in a category learnable while a user is driving from a plurality of vehicles learning a relation between input and output of a parameter related to traveling for each predetermined category in response to acquiring the vehicle allocation request, and output a vehicle allocation instruction to the selected vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Kazuki FUJII
  • Publication number: 20210357825
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation device for allocating a vehicle in response to a vehicle allocation request from a user terminal, includes a vehicle selector configured to select a vehicle having a relatively large learning amount in a category learnable while a user is driving from a plurality of vehicles learning a relation between input and output of a parameter related to traveling for each predetermined category in response to acquiring the vehicle allocation request, and output a vehicle allocation instruction to the selected vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroya CHIBA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Kazuki FUJII
  • Patent number: 5886694
    Abstract: A computer-based method of sizing and positioning controls within a window is disclosed. The method divides a window, and in particular a dialog window, into rectangular regions, referred to as frames. A logical description of the relative positions and sizes of the controls and frames within the dialog window is specified. The method automatically determines the coordinates of each control and positions the controls accordingly during execution of the computer program that is displaying the dialog window. The method is performed in two stages: a specification stage and a layout stage. In the specification stage, a dialog window is subdivided into multiple nested rectangular frames. The set of frames for a dialog window forms a hierarchical tree of frames. In the layout stage, the method traverses the tree of frames twice. The first traversal of the frame tree occurs in postorder sequence, and determines the minimum required size of each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Adam Breinberg, Marc Rene Keller, Hannes Helmut Ruescher, Hiroya Chiba