Patents by Inventor Kazuma OHARA

Kazuma OHARA 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: 10817730
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus, comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire peripheral information of an own vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the peripheral information, whether a behavior prediction target on a road visually recognizes a predetermined object, and a prediction unit configured to, if it is determined by the determination unit that the behavior prediction target visually recognizes the predetermined object, predict that the behavior prediction target moves across the road in a crossing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10803307
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control apparatus that controls automated driving of a vehicle. The apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract an object existing around the vehicle from a scene image representing a peripheral status of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to calculate a moving locus of the object and a moving locus of the vehicle for a predetermined time from time when the scene image is acquired, and generate a moving locus by correcting the moving locus of the object based on the moving locus of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kazuma Ohara
  • Publication number: 20200311400
    Abstract: In a driving assistance device, a human body specifying unit acquires, as human body information, an image of a human body existing around a host vehicle in image data acquired by a camera. A quasi-skeleton estimation unit estimates a quasi-skeleton of the human body from the human body information. The radar or the LiDAR measures a distance to a part of the human body that corresponds to the quasi-skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ryoji WAKAYAMA, Kazuma OHARA
  • Publication number: 20200293944
    Abstract: There is provided a system for computing a secure statistical classifier, comprising: at least one hardware processor executing a code for: accessing code instructions of an untrained statistical classifier, accessing a training dataset, accessing a plurality of cryptographic keys, creating a plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier, creating a plurality of trained sub-classifiers by training each of the plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier by iteratively adjusting adjustable classification parameters of the respective instance of the untrained statistical classifier according to a portion of the training data serving as input and a corresponding ground truth label, and at least one unique cryptographic key of the plurality of cryptographic keys, wherein the adjustable classification parameters of each trained sub-classifier have unique values computed according to corresponding at least one unique cryptographic key, and providing the statistical classifier, whe
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: NEC Corporation Of America, Bar-Ilan University, NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun FURUKAWA, Joseph KESHET, Kazuma OHARA, Toshinori ARAKI, Hikaru TSUCHIDA, Takuma AMADA, Kazuya KAKIZAKI, Shir AVIV-REUVEN
  • Publication number: 20200292707
    Abstract: A road surface detection device, which detects a road surface of a road on which a host vehicle runs, includes: a sensor configured to detect three-dimensional positional information at individual detection points by scanning a layer that includes the road surface; and an external environment recognition unit configured to calculate two-dimensional positional information in which positional information in a height direction has been removed from the positional information at the individual detection points included in the layer, to calculate, based on the two-dimensional positional information, a point sequence of the individual detection points in a two-dimensional coordinate plane, and to detect a trench existing in the road surface in accordance with a state of change of the point sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuma OHARA, Naoki MORI
  • Publication number: 20200287711
    Abstract: A bit-decomposition secure computation apparatus uses r1, r2, and r3 satisfying w=r1+r2+r3 mod 2{circumflex over (?)}n as share information of (2, 3) threshold type RSS (Replicated Secret Sharing) stored in a share value storage apparatus, and includes an addition sharing part that sums two values out of the share information by modulo 2{circumflex over (?)}n arithmetic and distributes the sum using (2, 3) type RSS; and a full adder secure computation part that adds the value generated by the addition sharing part by distributing the sum of the two values to share information of one remaining value other than the two values used by the addition sharing part for each digit by using secure computation of a full adder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori ARAKI, Kazuma OHARA, Jun FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 10747219
    Abstract: A processing apparatus comprises a first determination unit configured to determine, based on peripheral information of a self-vehicle, whether another vehicle that is stopped exists on one side of a road in a width direction; a second determination unit configured to determine, based on the peripheral information, whether a walker exists on the other side of the road in the width direction; and a setting unit configured to, if the other vehicle exists on the one side of the road in the width direction, and the walker exists on the other side of the road in the width direction, set, for the other vehicle, a second warning region wider than a first warning region in a case in which the other vehicle exists, and the walker does not exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20200242234
    Abstract: A method for performing secure computations on records, comprising: receiving a request to apply a computation on a record; assigning a respective partial record of a plurality of partial records of the record to each of a plurality of computational processes; instructing each of the plurality of computational proccesses to perform a computation scheme comprising: applying a semi honest multiparty computation on the partial record; iteratively repeating a predetermined number of times: using a secure multiparty arithmetic computation to generate random terms; using the secure multiparty arithmetic computation to assign the random terms and an outcome of the application to at least one predetermined equation; verifying an integrity of the semi honest multiparty computation by comparison of the assignments to the at least one predetermined equation to at least one constant; and when the integrity is valid, combining the applications of the semi honest multiparty computations on the partial records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Jun FURUKAWA, Kazuma Ohara, Toshinori Araki
  • Publication number: 20200168097
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a determiner configured to determine that entry into an intersection is allowed, on the basis of a certain determination condition, when the recognizer has recognized that there is the intersection ahead of the vehicle, a driving controller configured to cause the vehicle to enter the intersection when the determiner has determined that the entry into the intersection is allowed, and a condition changer configured to change the determination condition to a condition under which it is easier for the entry into the intersection to be determined to be allowed in a case in which the intersection recognized by the recognizer is a circular intersection, in comparison with a case in which the intersection recognized by the recognizer is another intersection different from the circular intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20200167574
    Abstract: A traffic guide object recognition device includes an imager configured to image surroundings of a vehicle and a recognizer configured to recognize surrounding circumstances of the vehicle. The recognizer selects a traffic guide object which the vehicle is to follow on the basis of forms of traffic guide objects in an image captured by the imager out of traffic guide objects which are provided near the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20200164872
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to control acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle independently of an operation of an occupant of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. When it is recognized that the vehicle passes through a complex intersection where two or more intersections are combined by turning left or right at the complex intersection, the recognizer excludes at least a traffic signal closest to the vehicle among traffic signals present at positions capable of being visually recognized from the vehicle in a traveling direction of the vehicle from traffic signals whose states are required to be taken into account by the vehicle in a state in which the vehicle has entered the complex intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Suguru Yanagihara, Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200156645
    Abstract: A vehicle control device in an embodiment includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, and in a case where the vehicle merges into a second lane from a first lane in which the vehicle travels, and a section of the second lane before merging recognized by the recognition unit is downhill, the driving control unit makes a speed or acceleration of the vehicle higher than in a case where the section before merging is not downhill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya Niioka, Takayasu Kumano, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200159234
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a driving control unit that controls steering and a speed of a subject vehicle; and a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding environment of the subject vehicle, wherein, in a case in which a preceding vehicle is estimated to stop in an area in which it is not desirable for a vehicle to stop in an advancement direction of the subject vehicle by the recognition unit, the driving control unit controls the speed or the steering of the subject vehicle such that a space for the preceding vehicle to move backward from the area and stop in front of the subject vehicle is vacated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuma Ohara, Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Suguru Yanagihara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200079371
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus comprising acquisition means for acquiring information of another vehicle existing on the periphery of a self-vehicle and information of an object existing on the periphery of the other vehicle, and prediction means for predicting a behavior of the other vehicle based on the information of the other vehicle and the information of the object acquired by the acquisition means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKAMOTO, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kazuma OHARA
  • Patent number: 10417442
    Abstract: In order to provide a server device and the like that are capable of quickly extracting data without need for a client that performs a query of search processing to have a secret key. A server device includes: data storage unit that stores concealed registration data including distribution information of registration data distributed by secret sharing scheme and a ciphertext of the registration data encrypted by searchable encryption; token calculation unit that generates a token for data search of the searchable encryption by communicating with an external server device and performs secret computation by using a search query and the distribution information; and data search unit that performs data search from the token for data search received from the token calculation unit and the concealed registration data acquired from the data storage unit, and outputs a search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Ohara, Toshinori Araki, Jun Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20190225231
    Abstract: A prediction device including: a recognizer (130) recognizing a road structure and another vehicle in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; and a predictor (140) predicting a running locus of the other vehicle recognized by the recognizer in the future on the basis of the road structure recognized by the recognizer in a predetermined situation, wherein, in the predetermined situation, in a case in which at least a part of the road structure used for predicting the running locus of the other vehicle in the future is not recognizable for the recognizer, the predictor predicts the running locus of the other vehicle in the future on the basis of a running locus of the other vehicle in the past acquired on the basis of a result of recognition in the past that is acquired by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuma Ohara, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20190212986
    Abstract: The present invention executes secure multiplication, in which a computed value, a computation result, and a value during computation cannot be known, while suppressing an overall communication amount. A secure computation system comprises a distribution information generation apparatus that generates, from at least two fixed-point numbers, data distribution values, sign distribution values and carry distribution values by distributing each of the at least two fixed-point numbers using an additive secret sharing scheme, and a secure computation apparatus group including at least two secure computation apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori ARAKI, Jun FURUKAWA, Kazuma OHARA, Haruna HIGO
  • Publication number: 20190065838
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control apparatus that controls automated driving of a vehicle. The apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract an object existing around the vehicle from a scene image representing a peripheral status of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to calculate a moving locus of the object and a moving locus of the vehicle for a predetermined time from time when the scene image is acquired, and generate a moving locus by correcting the moving locus of the object based on the moving locus of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kazuma Ohara
  • Publication number: 20190061761
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control apparatus capable of traveling a vehicle by automated driving, comprising a state detection unit configured to detect a state of an occupant in the vehicle, and a control unit configured to set a traveling mode of automated driving in accordance with a change in the state of the occupant detected by the state detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara
  • Publication number: 20180348752
    Abstract: A processing apparatus comprises a first determination unit configured to determine, based on peripheral information of a self-vehicle, whether another vehicle that is stopped exists on one side of a road in a width direction; a second determination unit configured to determine, based on the peripheral information, whether a walker exists on the other side of the road in the width direction; and a setting unit configured to, if the other vehicle exists on the one side of the road in the width direction, and the walker exists on the other side of the road in the width direction, set, for the other vehicle, a second warning region wider than a first warning region in a case in which the other vehicle exists, and the walker does not exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya