Patents by Inventor Katsumi Iwano

Katsumi Iwano 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: 11280628
    Abstract: An in-vehicle processing device includes a storage part configured to store route information on routes on which a host vehicle has previously traveled; a candidate point generation part configured to generate a plurality of candidate points in a predetermined zone relative to a stored route of the route information stored in the storage part based on current peripheral information around the host vehicle and current information on the host vehicle; a candidate route generation part configured to generate a plurality of candidate routes by connecting the plurality of candidate points generated by the candidate point generation part; and a route selection part configured to select one of the plurality of candidate routes generated by the candidate route generation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Iwano, Shinya Tagawa, Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11279379
    Abstract: Provided is an assist apparatus for a vehicle leaving a parking space, including an automatic leaving execution unit configured to execute automatic leaving by automatic travel control mode of the vehicle and a switching control unit configured to switch driving of the vehicle from the automatic travel control mode to driver's driving operation mode, in which a state of the vehicle is determined and whether or not to perform a predetermined automatic travel control before switching the drive of the vehicle to the driver's driving operation mode is determined based on the determination result of the state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sakurai, Yasuhiko Kodate, Toshiyuki Anzai, Katsumi Iwano
  • Publication number: 20200223448
    Abstract: Provided is an assist apparatus for a vehicle leaving a parking space, including an automatic leaving execution unit configured to execute automatic leaving by automatic travel control mode of the vehicle and a switching control unit configured to switch driving of the vehicle from the automatic travel control mode to driver's driving operation mode, in which a state of the vehicle is determined and whether or not to perform a predetermined automatic travel control before switching the drive of the vehicle to the driver's driving operation mode is determined based on the determination result of the state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SAKURAI, Yasuhiko KODATE, Toshiyuki ANZAI, Katsumi IWANO
  • Publication number: 20200209006
    Abstract: The in-vehicle processing device includes a storage part configured to store the route information (learning map) on the routes on which the host vehicle has previously traveled; a candidate point generation part configured to generate a plurality of candidate points in a predetermined zone relative to a stored route of the route information stored in the storage part based on current peripheral information around the host vehicle and current information on the host vehicle; a candidate route generation part configured to generate a plurality of candidate routes by connecting the plurality of candidate points generated by the candidate point generation part; and a route selection part configured to select one of the plurality of candidate routes generated by the candidate route generation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Katsumi IWANO, Shinya TAGAWA, Takayuki KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20200198622
    Abstract: In an onboard processing device, a parking path when a vehicle, which is a target vehicle, enters a parking place and a parking map including the parking place are obtained by an information obtaining unit, a peripheral environment of the vehicle is detected by a periphery detection unit, a vehicle position on the parking map is estimated by a vehicle position estimation unit, and a drive-out path when the vehicle is driven out from the parking place is set based on the estimated vehicle position, the parking path, and the detected peripheral environment by a path setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya TAGAWA, Morihiko SAKANO, Katsumi IWANO
  • Publication number: 20200166349
    Abstract: A parking support apparatus includes: a first parking space setting unit that sets a first parking space including information of a parking position and a parking angle of a vehicle at a parking completion position; a second parking space setting unit that calculates a second parking space, which is obtained by correcting the parking angle of the first parking space, based on information of measurement of the first parking space by using a vehicle surrounding sensor which measures a surrounding area of the vehicle; a parking space determination unit that calculates reliability of the second parking space and determines to use the first parking space or the second parking space based on the calculated reliability; and a parking route generation unit that generates a parking route to the first parking space or the second parking space determined by the parking space determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Takehito OGATA, Toshihisa KUWAHARA, Ryosuke UMINO, Katsumi IWANO
  • Patent number: 8302025
    Abstract: Weather information is acquired and stored from a satellite radio broadcast. On the basis of this weather information, weather information image data is created for displaying the weather information superimposed upon a map. When the weather information display map is scrolled, the range of the map data shifts. Together therewith, the range of the weather information image data also shifts. After a map has been drawn on the basis of the map data for the shifted range, icons or the like that describe the weather information are drawn as superimposed upon this map on the basis of the weather information image data for the shifted range. Then the image data stored in the image memory is read in, and the weather information display map that has been drawn is display upon the display monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventor: Katsumi Iwano
  • Publication number: 20110018818
    Abstract: A circular contour is drawn by hand so as to surround icons 21a through 21f that are crowded together. As a result, a circle 32 is drawn upon a display monitor 16 at almost the same position and of almost the same size as the circle that was drawn by hand. The user presses a position on the circumference of this circle 32. As a result, among the icons 21a through 21f that are crowded together, only the icons 21b, 21d, and 21f that are shifting in the direction from the center of the circle 32 towards the position of pressing are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsumi Iwano
  • Publication number: 20100192088
    Abstract: Weather information is acquired and stored from a satellite radio broadcast. On the basis of this weather information, weather information image data is created for displaying the weather information superimposed upon a map. When the weather information display map is scrolled, the range of the map data shifts. Together therewith, the range of the weather information image data also shifts. After a map has been drawn on the basis of the map data for the shifted range, icons or the like that describe the weather information are drawn as superimposed upon this map on the basis of the weather information image data for the shifted range. Then the image data stored in the image memory is read in, and the weather information display map that has been drawn is display upon the display monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsumi Iwano