Patents by Inventor Kohei Maejima

Kohei Maejima 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: 20190193634
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body, (ii) a road width information acquisition unit that acquires road width information relating to a width of a road surrounding the vehicle main body, and (iii) a display unit that displays width positions of the road based on the road width information acquired by the road width information acquisition unit, the display unit being arranged in a compartment of the vehicle main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190193644
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display and a moving device. The display is formed in an elongate shape. The moving device moves the display between a lower position at a vehicle width direction central portion of an instrument panel of a vehicle, and an upper position at a vehicle upper side of the lower position. In the lower position the moving device orients the longitudinal direction of the display along a vehicle vertical direction. In the upper position the moving device orients the longitudinal direction of the display along a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190193752
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body configured to be operated by an autonomous driving operation, at least a part of the autonomous driving operation being able to be substituted by a manual driving operation, and (ii) an advice information presentation unit that is disposed inside the vehicle main body and presents advice information, relating to advice about the manual driving operation, to an occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190195651
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including (i) a vehicle main body, (ii) an input device that receives a destination input operation, (iii) a first display that displays information on a route to a destination inputted by the input device, the first display being arranged in the vehicle main body, (iv) an acquisition device for acquiring location-related information based on a current location of the vehicle main body or a location of a goal point of the vehicle main body, and (v) a second display that displays the location-related information acquired by the acquisition device, the second display being arranged in the vehicle main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Megumi Amano, Kohei Maejima, Chika Kajikawa, Hikaru Gotoh, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Chiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190001968
    Abstract: A vehicle surrounding display apparatus comprises a display control means for displaying images, each of which corresponding to each of a plurality of display modes on a display screen. The display control means, when at a first mode, generates a first bird's-eye view image of a vehicle and a first surrounding region thereof seen from a bird's-eye view to display this image in a first display area with a fixed size on the display screen and generates a first another image to display this image in a second display area with a fixed size on the display screen, and when at a second mode, generates a second bird's-eye view image of a vehicle and a second surrounding region thereof wider than the first surrounding region to display this image in the first display area and generates a second another image to display this image in the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yamato YORIFUJI, Kohei MAEJIMA, Takuya ITOH, Eriko YAMAZAKI, Kouei KIYO, Yukiko HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180191960
    Abstract: An image processing device according to an embodiment includes an image acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a composition unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image where an image of an environment of a vehicle is captured by an image-capturing device. The information acquisition unit acquires information regarding a detected position of an obstacle that exists in an environment of the vehicle. The generation unit generates a virtual viewpoint image where an environment of the vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, based on the captured image that is acquired by the image acquisition unit. The composition unit composites a notification image that provides notification of existence of the obstacle at the detected position with the virtual viewpoint image and composites a vehicle image with the virtual viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiko HATAKEYAMA, Kouei KIYO, Tamaki TAKEUCHI, Rie HABUTA, Akinari MOTOHIRO, Tomoyuki SATO, Kohei MAEJIMA, Atsutoshi SAKAGUCHI, Masahiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180186287
    Abstract: An image processing device according to an embodiment includes an image acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a generation unit, a composition unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image where an image of an environment of a vehicle is captured by an image-capturing device. The information acquisition unit acquires positional information regarding a detected position of an obstacle that exists in an environment of the vehicle. The generation unit generates a virtual viewpoint image where an environment of the vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, based on the captured image. The composition unit composites a notification image that provides notification of existence of the obstacle at the detected position with the virtual viewpoint image. The display control unit controls a display format of the notification image that is composited with the virtual viewpoint image, based on the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiko HATAKEYAMA, Kouei KIYO, Tamaki TAKEUCHI, Rie HABUTA, Akinari MOTOHIRO, Tomoyuki SATO, Kohei MAEJIMA, Atsutoshi SAKAGUCHI, Masahiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180178724
    Abstract: An image generation device according to an embodiment includes a synthesis unit and a superimposition unit. The synthesis unit synthesizes an overview image for a virtual viewpoint that is provided in a manner to look in a direction of travel of a vehicle so as to include at least a portion of a side of the vehicle based on a taken image that is taken by an image-taking unit that is provided on the vehicle. The superimposition unit superimposes a plane image where a vehicle has been caused to be planar, at a position of the vehicle on a road surface, on an overview image that is synthesized by the synthesis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicants: DENSO TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiko HATAKEYAMA, Kouei KIYO, Tamaki TAKEUCHI, Rie HABUTA, Akinari MOTOHIRO, Tomoyuki SATO, Kohei MAEJIMA, Atsutoshi SAKAGUCHI, Masahiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180170259
    Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus includes a camera, an electronic control unit and a display unit configured to display the display image. The ECU is configured to generate a display image of an external environment based on image information from the camera such that the display image includes a first display image from a first predetermined viewpoint from which one of right and left side surfaces of a host vehicle and a rear portion or a front portion of the host vehicle are obliquely seen from above. The ECU is configured to generate and output the display image including the first display image in at least any one of a predetermined first traveling status of the host vehicle, a predetermined periphery status of the area on either side of the host vehicle, and a state in which a turn signal lever is manipulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kohei MAEJIMA, Atsutoshi SAKAGUCHI, Yamato YORIFUJI, Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Yukiko HATAKEYAMA, Kouei KIYO, Tomoyuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20170232898
    Abstract: A surrounding image display apparatus for a vehicle includes: left and right side cameras respectively configured to take left and right obliquely rear images of the vehicle including at least side regions of left and right rear wheels; a display device arranged in a vehicle cabin; and an electronic control device configured to control an image displayed on the display device. When a preset condition is satisfied, the electronic control device displays on the display device at least one of the left and right obliquely rear images, which are taken by the side cameras, respectively, such that a rear side of the vehicle corresponds to an upper side of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kohei MAEJIMA, Yuichi INDOH, Yukihisa YAMADA, Masahiro TAKAHASHI, Miki MURASUMI, Kouei KIYO, Yuji YOSHIE, Yukiko HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160342849
    Abstract: An image processing device according to an aspect of the embodiment includes a display controller and a determining unit. The display controller generates a synthesized image when viewing a perimeter of a vehicle from a virtual viewpoint based on an image from an image capturing device and causes a display unit to display the synthesized image. The determining unit determines, in a case where a screen other than a virtual viewpoint screen including the synthesized image is displayed on the display unit, whether a switching condition to a notification screen for notifying an occupant of presence of an obstacle is satisfied when the obstacle is detected by a detector. The display controller causes the display unit to display the notification screen obtained by superimposing a predetermined notification image on the virtual viewpoint screen, when the determining unit determines that the switching condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicants: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouei KIYO, Kohei MAEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150116494
    Abstract: An overhead view image display device includes cameras and that are mounted in a vehicle and capture an image of a vehicle periphery, an image generation unit that converts a viewpoint of the captured image of the vehicle periphery, and compresses an image region of the vehicle periphery toward the vehicle side at a preset compression ratio without using position information of a target present in the vehicle periphery, so as to generate an overhead view image; and a display that displays the generated overhead view image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Esaka, Kohei Maejima