Patents by Inventor Itsuki CHIBA

Itsuki 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).

  • Patent number: 11976929
    Abstract: In a localization apparatus for a vehicle, a landmark detector detects a landmark from camera information acquired from a camera mounted to the vehicle. An associator associates the landmark with a specific set of radar information by setting an error region in which the landmark may exist, selecting, from a radar observation point cluster formed of a set of radar observation points corresponding to a set of radar information acquired from a radar mounted to the vehicle, a radar observation point cluster formed of a set of radar observation points included in the error region, and associating the landmark with the specific set of radar information corresponding to the selected radar observation point cluster. A positional relationship calculator calculates a positional relationship between the landmark and the vehicle based on the specific set of radar information associated with the landmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ariya Terani, Itsuki Chiba, Naohiro Fujiwara, Makoto Ohkado, Keisuke Hachisuka
  • Patent number: 11959752
    Abstract: A lateral position of a vehicle is estimated by collating a position of a lane division line in map data with a relative position of the lane division line with respect to the vehicle indicated by a recognition result by a peripheral monitoring sensor. The lateral position of the vehicle is precluded from being specified using the estimated lateral position of the vehicle in response to a lateral deviation between (i) a position of a landmark in the map data and (ii) a translated landmark position being equal to or greater than a first threshold value. The translated landmark position is a position on map deviated from the estimated lateral position of the vehicle assumed to be the lateral position of the vehicle on map by a relative position of the landmark with respect to the vehicle indicated by the recognition result by the peripheral monitoring sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuusuke Matsumoto, Itsuki Chiba
  • Publication number: 20240083445
    Abstract: An autonomous driving ECU as a control device includes a processor. The processor executes: acquiring sensor information as a detection result regarding a detection target existing in an outside a vehicle by a periphery monitoring sensor mounted on the vehicle; acquiring communication information regarding the detection target received from an external device of the vehicle; evaluating detection quality in the sensor information and the communication information; and changing an operation mode of the application in response to the detection quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: ITSUKI CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20220317281
    Abstract: A self-location estimation device includes a landmark detection unit that detects a landmark from camera information, an association unit that associates the landmark detected by the landmark detection unit with a radar information group, a landmark sorting unit that performs sorting of the landmarks detected by the landmark detection unit based on the radar information groups associated with the landmarks by the association unit, and a positional relation calculation unit that calculates a positional relation between an own vehicle and the landmark employed by the landmark sorting unit, based on the radar information group associated with the landmark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Itsuki CHIBA, Makoto OHKADO, Ariya TERANI, Naohiro FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20220215673
    Abstract: In an occupancy grid map generation device for generating an occupancy grid map that indicates, for each of cells of a grid into which a region is divided, an occupancy probability that an object occupies the cell, an occupancy probability updating unit is configured to, based detection result data of an object therearound, successively update the occupancy probability for each of the cells calculated at a previous time to calculate a latest occupancy probability. An updating weight calculation unit is configured to acquire data about presence or absence of an object in each of the cells therearound based on map data, and determine a weight of the detection result data used by the occupancy probability updating unit to update the occupancy probability for the cell, based on a degree of match between the data about presence or absence of an object in the cell and the detection result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Naohiro Fujiwara, Makoto Ohkado, Ariya Terani, Itsuki Chiba
  • Publication number: 20220187079
    Abstract: A lateral position of a vehicle is estimated by collating a position of a lane division line in map data with a relative position of the lane division line with respect to the vehicle indicated by a recognition result by a peripheral monitoring sensor. The lateral position of the vehicle is precluded from being specified using the estimated lateral position of the vehicle in response to a lateral deviation between (i) a position of a landmark in the map data and (ii) a translated landmark position being equal to or greater than a first threshold value. The translated landmark position is a position on map deviated from the estimated lateral position of the vehicle assumed to be the lateral position of the vehicle on map by a relative position of the landmark with respect to the vehicle indicated by the recognition result by the peripheral monitoring sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: YUUSUKE MATSUMOTO, ITSUKI CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20210190507
    Abstract: In a localization apparatus for a vehicle, a landmark detector detects a landmark from camera information acquired from a camera mounted to the vehicle. An associator associates the landmark with a specific set of radar information by setting an error region in which the landmark may exist, selecting, from a radar observation point cluster formed of a set of radar observation points corresponding to a set of radar information acquired from a radar mounted to the vehicle, a radar observation point cluster formed of a set of radar observation points included in the error region, and associating the landmark with the specific set of radar information corresponding to the selected radar observation point cluster. A positional relationship calculator calculates a positional relationship between the landmark and the vehicle based on the specific set of radar information associated with the landmark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Ariya TERANI, Itsuki CHIBA, Naohiro FUJIWARA, Makoto OHKADO, Keisuke HACHISUKA