Patents by Inventor Katsuya YASHIRO

Katsuya YASHIRO 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: 20210053588
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a vehicle includes a selection unit configured to select one of a plurality of travel states which have different automation rates from each other, a storage unit configured to store an upper limit travel speed of each of the plurality of travel states, and a changing unit configured to change, based on at least one of an operation by a driver and/or information of the driver, an upper limit travel speed of a travel state which is currently selected by the selection unit. The changing unit changes, in accordance with the change in the upper limit travel speed of the travel state which is currently selected, an upper limit travel speed of a travel state which is not currently selected among the plurality of travel states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ayumu HORIBA, Tadahiko KANOH, Katsuya YASHIRO, Chihiro OGURO
  • Publication number: 20210034063
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus of an embodiment includes a recognizer which recognizes a surrounding environment of a host vehicle, and a driving controller which controls one or both of a speed and steering of the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer to perform driving control, wherein the driving controller performs the driving control in at least any of a first driving state and a second driving state having a higher rate of automation or fewer tasks requested for an occupant of the host vehicle than the first driving state, and an operation environment in which route change of the host vehicle in the second driving state is executed is limited as compared to a case of the first driving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Chihiro Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20210016778
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a recognizer which is configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a host vehicle and a driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to perform passing control of causing the host vehicle to pass a preceding vehicle if at least one of a first condition according to a relative speed of the host vehicle with respect to the preceding vehicle and a second condition according to a type of the preceding vehicle is satisfied when the recognizer recognizes the preceding vehicle, and is configured to curb the passing control by changing at least one of the first condition and the second condition when a continuity of a first route on which the host vehicle is traveling decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Chihiro Oguro, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20210009127
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognition unit recognizing a surrounding environment of an own vehicle, and a driving control unit controlling a speed or steering of the own vehicle on the basis of a recognition result from the recognition unit, in which the driving control unit causes the own vehicle to perform a first operation in which an inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle and the own vehicle is reduced, and a second operation in which an inter-vehicle distance between the preceding vehicle and the own vehicle is increased after the first operation in a case where a change amount of another vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition or another vehicle is identified as a cutting-in vehicle, on the basis of one of a behavior or a position of another vehicle when another vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane that is adjacent to a traveling lane of the own vehicle changes lane to the traveling lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Katsuya Yashiro, Chihiro Oguro, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20210009126
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize surrounding conditions of a vehicle, a driving control unit configured to control a speed and a steering of the vehicle on the basis of a result of recognition from the recognition unit, and a reception unit configured to receive an operation of an occupant of the vehicle of selecting on which of a first path and a second path the vehicle is to travel at a branching point through which the vehicle passes. The driving control unit is configured to control the speed and the steering of the vehicle in a plurality of modes with different automation levels, to decrease the automation level at a point before the branching point, and to delay a time at which the automation level is decreased when the operation of selecting one of the first path and the second path is received by the reception unit in comparison with when the operation is not received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Chihiro Oguro, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20210009134
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller configured to control a speed and steering of a vehicle to perform an automatic lane change, in which the driving controller limits the automatic lane change when it is detected that the vehicle is in a first area having a length of a first distance in a longitudinal direction of a road with a starting point of a specific road structure set as a reference or in a second area having a length of a second distance in the longitudinal direction of the road with an end point of the specific road structure set as a reference on the basis of information of at least one of an external recognition result and map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Katsuya Yashiro, Chihiro Oguro, Nozomu Hirosawa, Toru Kokaki, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20210009148
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to control a speed or steering of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer. The driving controller selects one of a plurality of traveling states in which rates of automation related to control of the vehicle are different from each other. The driving controller switches the selected traveling state to the traveling state different from the traveling state selected among the plurality of traveling states when a continuous traveling time or a continuous traveling distance that the vehicle continuously travels in the selected traveling state exceeds a standard value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Chihiro Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh
  • Publication number: 20210009103
    Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a host vehicle and a driving controller configured to perform driving control by controlling one or both of a speed and steering of the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. In a case where a speed relationship between the host vehicle and a forward vehicle traveling in front of the host vehicle satisfies predetermined conditions, the driving controller is configured to perform passing control for passing the forward vehicle, and holds feature information of the forward vehicle under predetermined conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Chihiro Oguro, Tadahiko Kanoh
  • Publication number: 20210004615
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; and a driving controller configured to control a speed and steering of the vehicle according to a recognition result of the recognizer. The driving controller is configured to stop following travel of following a front vehicle recognized by the recognizer according to a state of a target recognized by the recognizer in a traveling region through which the front vehicle has passed when the following travel is performed. The target is a regulation sign for regulating a part of a lane in which a vehicle is traveling, a regulation sign for regulating a lane, or a guiding sign for guiding a visual line of an occupant of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Chihiro Oguro
  • Publication number: 20210001888
    Abstract: A control system of a vehicle that can travel in a first state in which travel control is performed based on a position of a white line on a travel lane and in a second state in which travel control is performed based on a travel position of another vehicle, includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain periphery information of the vehicle; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the periphery information obtained by the obtainment unit, that an emergency vehicle is approaching; and a control unit configured to perform control so that the travel control by the first state is prioritized when the determination unit determines that the emergency vehicle is not approaching, and so that the travel control by the second state is prioritized when the determination unit determines that the emergency vehicle is approaching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Chihiro OGURO, Katsuya YASHIRO, Ayumu HORIBA, Tadahiko KANOH
  • Publication number: 20200377083
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a distribution state of obstacles in an advancement direction of a vehicle; a trajectory determiner that determines a target trajectory for each vehicle wheel of the vehicle on the basis of the distribution state of the obstacles recognized by the recognizer; and an automated driving controller that executes automated driving of the vehicle along the target trajectory determined by the trajectory determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Toru Kokaki, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Masanori Takeda, Hiroshi Oguro
  • Patent number: 10810878
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a lane line recognizer that recognizes lane lines of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, a virtual line setter that sets, when there is a section in which the lane lines are not recognizable by the lane line recognizer after passing through a gate installed on the road, a virtual line with a terminating end portion of a lane line extending from the gate or an object present near the gate as one end and a beginning end portion of the lane line in a future travel area of the vehicle which is present ahead of the section in which the lane lines are not recognizable as another end, and an automated driving controller that performs automated driving in the section in which the lane lines are not recognizable on the basis of the virtual line set by the virtual line setter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200307584
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a surrounding area recognition unit that detects a state surrounding a subject vehicle; a human detection unit that detects a specific target object in a specific area into which entry of the specific target object is restricted; an automated driving control part that provides control such that the subject vehicle follows a vehicle traveling ahead thereof, based on a result detected by the surrounding area recognition unit. The automated driving control part makes the subject vehicle operate at at least one of a first support status, and a second support status which has an automated degree higher than that of the first support status or has a task required to be done by a vehicle occupant of the subject vehicle less than that of the first support status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Katsuya YASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20200307634
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a recognizer which recognize a surrounding situation of a host vehicle, and a driving controller which controls acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller causes the host vehicle to operate in any of a first driving state and a second driving state which has a higher rate of automation or fewer tasks requested with respect to an occupant than the first driving state, and changes a driving state of the host vehicle to the second driving state on the basis of at least one of presence or absence of a recognized following vehicle positioned behind the host vehicle and a following vehicle detection situation when the host vehicle is operating in the first driving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Katsuya Yashiro
  • Publication number: 20200307583
    Abstract: A vehicle control device which controls acceleration/deceleration of a vehicle includes: a switch controller; a recognizer; an actual vehicle-to-vehicle distance calculator; and a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance calculator. Switching criteria for the switch controller's switching the control condition from the first control condition to the second control condition include a criterion that the absolute value of a difference between an actual vehicle-to-vehicle distance calculated by the actual vehicle-to-vehicle distance calculator and a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance calculated by the target vehicle-to-vehicle distance calculator is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuya YASHIRO, Hiroshi OGURO
  • Publication number: 20200307643
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle, an information terminal apparatus that can provide, on a display unit, a plurality of contents which provide training on an operation method of the vehicle, and a server that can communicate with the vehicle and the information terminal apparatus. The information terminal apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display a first content that provides training on an operation method including a method to start an operation of a specific function of the vehicle and a second content that provides, to a user of the vehicle who has been trained by the first content and is registered in the server, training on an operation method corresponding to a phenomenon that can occur while the specific function is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya IKEDA, Takafumi HIROSE, Kentaro ISHISAKA, Takashi WATANABE, Junpei YASHIMA, Katsuya YASHIRO, Toru KOKAKI, Daiki NISHIDA, Yuta TAKADA, Yuji FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20200307593
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize situations around a vehicle; a determiner configured to determine any of lanes included in a road on which the vehicle travels as a reference lane; and a driving controller configured to control at least one of a speed and steering of the vehicle according to the situations recognized by the recognizer and the reference lane determined by the determiner, wherein the determiner is configured to, when the vehicle moves from a first road to a second road different from the first road, among a plurality of lanes included in the first road, according to a relative position of a first reference lane determined at a time before the vehicle moves to the second road with respect to the plurality of lanes, determine a second reference lane on the second road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirosawa, Tadahiko Kanoh, Kanta Tsuji, Atsushi Ishioka, Daichi Kato, Katsuya Yashiro
  • Publication number: 20200307570
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; an interruption vehicle specifier configured to specify an interruption vehicle attempting to interrupt a travel lane from a lateral side of the travel lane of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer; and a driving controller configured to control at least one of an acceleration or deceleration speed or steering of the vehicle based on a position of the specified interruption vehicle. The interruption vehicle specifier specifies the other vehicle as the interruption vehicle when a side movement amount by which another vehicle on a lateral side of the travel lane heads for the travel lane in a road width direction during a predetermined period exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junya Yoda, Katsuya Yashiro
  • Publication number: 20200307596
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding state of a subject vehicle traveling in a road lane; an area specification unit that specifies a specific area in the lane in which the subject vehicle travels; and a driving control part that controls the subject vehicle with respect to a vehicle traveling ahead thereof, based on a result recognized b the recognition unit. The driving control part determines a condition of shifting from a first support status to a second support status such that there is a vehicle traveling ahead of the subject vehicle in the lane; and, if the subject vehicle enters the specific area at the first support status, the subject vehicle keeps the first support status, and if the subject vehicle enters the specific area at the second support status, shifts the support status from the second to the first support status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Katsuya YASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20200307571
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; an interruption vehicle specifier configured to specify an interruption vehicle attempting to interrupt a travel lane from a lateral side of the travel lane of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer; and a driving controller configured to control at least one of an acceleration or deceleration speed or steering of the vehicle based on a position of the specified interruption vehicle. The interruption vehicle specifier determines whether a side movement amount of another vehicle on the lateral side of the travel lane exceeds a threshold during each of a plurality of predetermined periods in which a traceback amount to the past is different and specifies the other vehicle as the interruption vehicle based on a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junya Yoda, Katsuya Yashiro