Patents by Inventor Koichiro OZAKI

Koichiro OZAKI 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: 11935307
    Abstract: A vehicle control automatically distinguishes between a moving body and a stationary body, reduces user's operation process, and reduces burdens to shorten time for a parking process. Obstruction points are grouped so as to be divided between obstructions, coloring of moving and stationary bodies are changed for each obstruction, and it is determined whether there is an obstruction for which the coloring has not been changed. If there is an obstruction for which the coloring has not been changed, whether there is license plate information and whether the obstruction is a moving body or a stationary body are determined, and a moving body is changed to red and a stationary body to blue. A display device displays the obstruction information distinguished between stationary or moving objects, and a message to the user such as “obstruction stored” notifies the user of completion of the distinction of the obstruction types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Ozaki, Takashi Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20220227387
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor, a memory and a sensor that acquires surrounding environment information of the vehicle, a host vehicle position estimation unit that estimates the route of the vehicle, a surrounding environment storage unit that stores the surrounding environment information and the route estimated by the host vehicle position estimation unit in association with each other, a vehicle-speed threshold determination unit that sets a vehicle-speed threshold value when the surrounding environment storage unit stores the surrounding environment information and the route in association with each other, and determines whether or not a current vehicle speed exceeds the vehicle-speed threshold value when the surrounding environment storage unit stores the surrounding environment information and the route, and a warning unit that performs a notification of an excess of the vehicle speed when the vehicle-speed threshold determination unit determines that the vehicle speed exceeds the vehicl
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro OZAKI, Masashi SEIMIYA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20220063625
    Abstract: A vehicle braking force proportional to a gradient is reduced to zero after the vehicle is stopped by the braking force, thereby reducing the time for applying a braking force. A system and method for vehicle control includes a processor and a memory. The vehicle control method including a first step of the processor generating a command for applying a first braking force preset to hold the vehicle in a stopped state, a second step of the processor acquiring, from a gradient detection device, a gradient of a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling after applying the first braking force, the gradient being detected by the gradient detection device, a third step of the processor computing a second braking force proportional to the gradient of the road surface, and a fourth step of the processor applying the second braking force to the braking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro OZAKI, Yusuke KOGURE, Yoshitaka FUKASAWA, Tomoyasu SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210049380
    Abstract: A vehicle control automatically distinguishes between a moving body and a stationary body, reduces user's operation process, and reduces burdens to shorten time for a parking process. Obstruction points are grouped so as to be divided between obstructions, coloring of moving and stationary bodies are changed for each obstruction, and it is determined whether there is an obstruction for which the coloring has not been changed. If there is an obstruction for which the coloring has not been changed, whether there is license plate information and whether the obstruction is a moving body or a stationary body are determined, and a moving body is changed to red and a stationary body to blue. A display device displays the obstruction information distinguished between stationary or moving objects, and a message to the user such as “obstruction stored” notifies the user of completion of the distinction of the obstruction types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro OZAKI, Takashi TSUTSUI