Patents by Inventor Keisuke OKA

Keisuke OKA 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: 20240140470
    Abstract: A control device includes: an external environment recognition unit configured to acquire recognition data of an external environment; an automatic driving control unit configured to perform automatic driving control; a storage unit configured to store target position information; and a target position detection unit configured to detect a target position. When the target position is detected, the automatic driving control unit executes first determination processing of determining whether a self-position of the moving body with respect to the target position is estimated, executes, when the self-position is estimated, second determination processing of determining whether a target not included in the target position information is present around the target position, issues, when the target is present, a notification inquiring of a user of the moving body necessity of executing the automatic driving control, and executes, when the target is not present, the automatic driving control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke OKA, Shun Iwasaki, Shota Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240119475
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer is not peeled off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Kenji YAMAGUCHI, Junya OGAWA, Yuki NAGANUMA, Junya YAMAMOTO, Yuta TONE, Naoki ISHIZUKA, Tadayuki TANAKA, Keisuke ITO, Yuka YOKOI, Takashi HAYASHI, Naoya OKA, Yu HAMADA
  • Patent number: 11933682
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive sensor includes: a first conductive member formed into a long shape, the first conductive member having conductivity and elasticity; a second conductive member internally including a long space to arrange the first conductive member, the second conductive member having conductivity and elasticity; and an insulating member having an insulating property and elasticity, the insulating member holding the first conductive member to separate the first conductive member from the second conductive member, the insulating member being movable relative to one or both of the first conductive member and the second conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Kentaro Abe, Tomomi Onose, Taichi Oka, Manabu Kako
  • Publication number: 20240069008
    Abstract: The living cell counting method includes: a step of measuring an amount of suspensoids contained in a cell suspension; a step of measuring capacitance of the cell suspension; and a step of calculating one or more of the number of living cells, the number of dead cells, and a survival rate of cells contained in the cell suspension, based on capacitance per unit of living cells, capacitance per unit of dead cells, the amount of the suspensoids, and the capacitance of the cell suspension. A living cell counting device includes: a turbidity sensor; a measuring instrument measuring capacitance of the cell suspension; a storage unit storing data of the capacitance per unit of living cells and the capacitance per unit of dead cells; and a calculation unit calculating one or more of the number of living cells, the number of dead cells, and a survival rate of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Plant Services Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke SHIBUYA, Kenichirou OKA
  • Publication number: 20230406289
    Abstract: A moving body control device includes: an external environment recognition unit configured to acquire recognition data of an external environment; a detection unit configured to detect, based on the recognition data, a following moving body; a search unit configured to search, based on a current position of the moving body and passage information indicating a passage through which the moving body is movable, for a route from the current position to a predetermined parking position; and a control unit configured to move the moving body to the parking position along the found route. When the following moving body is detected while the moving body is moving to the parking position along a first route, the search unit searches for a second route different from the first route, and, when the second route is found, the control unit moves the moving body to the parking position along the second route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota ISHIKAWA, Shun IWASAKI, Keisuke OKA
  • Publication number: 20230294678
    Abstract: A driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle operates together with an automated driving control device for automatically controlling steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle in either of a first state in which a driver is not gripping a steering operation element and a second state in which the driver is gripping the steering operation element, the driving assistance device including a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor connected to the storage medium. The at least one processor makes an operation start condition of a second preliminary operation loose when the automated driving control device is operating in the second state as compared with when the automated driving control device is not operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Shinya Maruo, Shunya Ishikawa, Yohei Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20230294681
    Abstract: At least one processor executes one or both of a braking control process of stopping a vehicle, and a steering-based avoidance control process of avoiding a collision with the object, execute a first preliminary operation control process of performing a first preliminary operation of notifying a driver that the object is present; and execute a second preliminary operation control process of performing a second preliminary operation of notifying the driver that the object is present when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and there is no travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel after the vehicle avoids the collision with the object in the steering. Control content is changed in accordance with a type of the object in at least some of the steering-based avoidance control process, the first preliminary operation control process, and the second preliminary operation control process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Yohei Kitahara, Yuji Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20230294673
    Abstract: A driving assistance device is configured to: refer to an output of a detection device for detecting that an object is located in front of a vehicle; execute one or both of instructing a brake device of the vehicle to stop the vehicle and instructing a steering device of the vehicle to avoid a collision with the object by steering, when an indicator value is less than a first threshold; execute a first preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a second threshold; execute a second preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and it is determined that there is no travel path on both lateral sides of the object; and determine whether there is an available travel path on the basis of presence of any vehicle other than a two-wheeled vehicle in a travel path on the lateral side of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Yuji Kaneda, Yohei Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20230294680
    Abstract: A driving assistance device is configured to: refer to an output of a detection device for detecting that an object is located in front of a vehicle; execute one or both of instructing a brake device of the vehicle to stop the vehicle and instructing a steering device of the vehicle to avoid a collision with the object by steering when an indicator value is less than a first threshold; execute a first preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a second threshold; execute a second preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and it is determined that there is no travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel on both lateral sides of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Yohei Kitahara, Yuji Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20230294679
    Abstract: A driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle includes a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor connected to the storage medium. The at least performs a first preliminary operation and a second preliminary operation, and a start timing of at least one of the first preliminary operation and the second preliminary operation when the recognized lane is a leftmost or rightmost lane on the road is earlier than that when the recognized lane is not the leftmost or rightmost lane on the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Yuji Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20230294675
    Abstract: A driving assistance device is configured to: refer to an output of a first detection device for detecting that an object is located in front of a vehicle; execute one or both of instructing a brake device of the vehicle to stop the vehicle and instructing a steering device of the vehicle to avoid a collision with the object by steering when an indicator value is less than a first threshold; execute a first preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a second threshold; execute a second preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and it is determined that there is no travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel on both lateral sides of the object after the vehicle avoids the collision with the object by steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Keisuke Oka
  • Publication number: 20230294674
    Abstract: A driving assistance device is configured to: refer to an output of a first detection device for detecting that an object is located in front of a vehicle; execute one or both of instructing a brake device of the vehicle to stop the vehicle and instructing a steering device of the vehicle to avoid a collision with the object by steering when an indicator value is less than a first threshold; execute a first preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a second threshold; execute a second preliminary operation when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and it is determined that there is no travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel on both lateral sides of the object after the vehicle avoids the collision with the object by steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Keisuke Oka
  • Publication number: 20230294677
    Abstract: A driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle operates together with an automated driving control device for automatically controlling steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle in either of a first state in which a driver is not gripping a steering operation element and a second state in which the driver is gripping the steering operation element, the driving assistance device including a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor connected to the storage medium. The at least one processor makes an operation start condition of a second preliminary operation strict when the automated driving control device is operating in the first state as compared with when the automated driving control device is not operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Shinya Maruo, Shunya Ishikawa, Yohei Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20230294676
    Abstract: At least one processor executes a first preliminary operation control process of notifying that an object is present when an indicator value is less than a second threshold and there is a travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel on one of left and right sides of the object and executes a second preliminary operation control process of notifying a driver when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and there is no travel path on both left and right sides of the object. The second preliminary operation or the first preliminary operation is executed when the indicator value is less than the third threshold, there is a travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel, and it is estimated that there is an interfering object in the travel path on the assumption that the vehicle has approached the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Masayuki Nakatsuka, Shinya Maruo, Shunya Ishikawa, Yohei Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11631257
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a surroundings recognition device includes an acquirer configured to acquire first road information including a road boundary near a host vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the host vehicle, a recognizer configured to recognize a road boundary near the host vehicle on the basis of an output of an external environment sensor, and a determiner configured to determine that a first road boundary matches a second road boundary when the second road boundary included in second road information that is a recognition result of the recognizer is within a road boundary determination area based on a position of the first road boundary included in the first road information acquired by the acquirer. The determiner sets a size of the road boundary determination area on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Mine, Keisuke Oka, Masahiko Asakura, Yuta Takada
  • Patent number: 11465627
    Abstract: A first possible space, for which a lane change of the vehicle is possible, is specified from an inter-vehicle distance between the preceding other vehicle and the nearby vehicle, a speed of the preceding other vehicle, and a speed of the nearby vehicle. A second possible space, for which the lane change of the vehicle is possible, is specified from an inter-vehicle distance between the nearby vehicle and the following other vehicle, the speed of the nearby vehicle, and a speed of the following other vehicle. The control unit controls the traveling of the vehicle to make the lane change to the adjacent lane based on a result of the evaluation of the first possible space and the second possible space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Takeru Goto, Shun Iwasaki, Masanori Takeda
  • Patent number: 11440546
    Abstract: There is provided a travel control apparatus. A control unit controls a position of the self-vehicle in a width direction so as to ensure a first predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle and to ensure a second predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the boundary of the first lane. In a case in which both the first predetermined interval and the second predetermined interval cannot be ensured, the control unit controls the position of the self-vehicle in the width direction to preferentially ensure the first predetermined interval when the other vehicle has crossed a first boundary between the first lane and the second lane and to preferentially ensure the second predetermined interval when the other vehicle has not crossed the first boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Mine, Masahiko Asakura
  • Patent number: 11358599
    Abstract: A first specifying unit specifies a first possible space, for which a lane change of a vehicle is possible, from an inter-vehicle distance between a first preceding other vehicle and the vehicle, a speed of the first preceding other vehicle, and a speed of the vehicle. A second specifying unit specifies a second possible space, for which the lane change of the vehicle is possible, from an inter-vehicle distance between a second preceding other vehicle and a following other vehicle, a speed of the second preceding other vehicle, and a speed of the following other vehicle. A judgment unit judges, based on the first possible space and the second possible space, whether the lane change of the vehicle is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Takayasu Kumano
  • Publication number: 20210284163
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling traveling of a vehicle comprises an acquisition unit configured to acquire information around the vehicle, and a control unit configured to control a lane change of the vehicle in accordance with a guidance route. If it is determined, based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, that a bus stop exists near a point where the lane change is scheduled to be made, the control unit controls the vehicle to complete the lane change before the bus stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke OKA, Shun IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210284142
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control device including a recognizing unit that recognizes another vehicle present in an adjacent lane adjacent to a travel lane in which a self-vehicle travels, a determining unit that, on the basis of behavior of the other vehicle recognized by the recognizing unit and a determination standard set with respect to the behavior, determines whether or not the other vehicle will change lanes into the travel lane of the self-vehicle, and a controller that, in accordance with a result of the determination by the determining unit as to whether or not the other vehicle will change lanes, controls travel of the self-vehicle, wherein the determining unit changes the determination standard in accordance with a distance between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle in a travel direction of the self-vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Mine, Yuki Kizumi, Keisuke Oka, Masahiko Asakura