Patents by Inventor Makoto Kudo

Makoto Kudo 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: 11487748
    Abstract: An in-vehicle processing device includes: a signal input unit that generates input data based on an input signal from outside; a processing unit that executes arithmetic processing for calculating output data based on the input data; a signal output unit that generates an output signal based on the output data to output the output signal to the outside; and a storage unit that stores application software for causing the processing unit to execute the arithmetic processing. The application software includes: a data management layer for managing object data which is a collection of data corresponding to a given target element on the storage unit; a data adaptation layer for generating the object data based on the input data to output the generated object data to the data management layer; and a data operation layer for acquiring the object data from the data management layer to calculate the output data based on the acquired object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Kohei Sakurai, Makoto Kudo, Kentaro Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11429108
    Abstract: Provided is a noise-canceling learning device capable of performing control so as to prevent performing processing such as useless deceleration at the same place in self driving, for example, on a highway, and a vehicle including the noise-canceling learning device. The detection determination processing unit 143 of the noise-canceling learning device 14 causes the perceived object to be stored in (a data table of) the information storage unit 144 as a determination object in association with the perceived object and the own vehicle position information, determines whether the perceived object perceived by the sensor recognition perceiving unit 141 and the determination object stored in (a data table of) the information storage unit 144 match based on the position of the own vehicle 1 estimated by the own vehicle position estimating unit 142, and determines whether the perceived object perceived by the sensor recognition perceiving unit 141 is correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Terui, Makoto Kudo
  • Patent number: 11367175
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle stereo camera which enables the continuation of automated driving if failures occur during imaging. A pair of captured images 301, 302, which is captured by a pair of imaging units so that both contain an overlapping region, are acquired (S201), it is determined whether an abnormal region is present in at least one of the pair of captured images, and if an abnormal region is present, the degree of impact from the abnormal region on an object recognition process of an object recognition unit is diagnosed (S202), and the processing content of the object recognition process is updated according to the degree of impact (S203).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shouji Muramatsu, Takeshi Shima, Makoto Kudo
  • Publication number: 20210242813
    Abstract: A robot includes a motor driven by a three-phase alternating current, an AC conversion section configured to convert a direct current into a three-phase alternating current and output the three-phase alternating current to the motor, a first detecting section configured to detect a current value of the direct current before being input to the AC conversion section, a second detecting section configured to detect a current value of the direct current before being input to the AC conversion section or the three-phase alternating current output by the AC conversion section, a power-supply adjusting section configured to adjust power supply to the motor, and a control section configured to control operation of the power-supply adjusting section based on at least one of a detection result of the first detecting section and a detection result of the second detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Makoto KUDO
  • Patent number: 11049398
    Abstract: A surrounding environment recognizing apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle and recognizes a surrounding environment of the vehicle includes: an own vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires own vehicle information about motion of the vehicle; a surrounding environment factor acquiring unit that acquires surrounding environment factor information about an environment factor around the vehicle; a time-of-presence range determining unit that determines, based on the own vehicle information, an own vehicle time-of-presence range representing a time-of-presence range of the vehicle for each position around the vehicle; and a risk-of-driving determining unit that determines a risk of driving in an area around the vehicle based on the own vehicle time-of-presence range and the surrounding environment factor information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Shigenori Hayase, Makoto Kudo
  • Publication number: 20210146953
    Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a control unit that controls automatic traveling of a vehicle, an information generation unit that generates information necessary for the automatic traveling, an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality, and a function reconfiguration unit that lowers a functional level of the information generation unit and activates the control unit when the abnormality detection unit detects an abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Shigenori HAYASE, Makoto KUDO
  • Patent number: 10922963
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing apparatus detects the relative positions multiple vehicles that travel on a road having multiple lanes in the same direction. The apparatus includes a vehicle travel information acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of position information and speed information measured for a first vehicle, and at least one of position information and speed information measured for a second vehicle included in the multiple vehicles, and a vehicle travel information processing unit configured to successively compare acquire first vehicle travel information with second vehicle travel information acquired, and determine that reciprocity which is attribute information indicating a state in which the first vehicle and the second vehicle travel in different lanes is established between the first vehicle and the second vehicle if it is determined that an event that cannot occur when the first vehicle and the second vehicle travel in the same lane occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Tsuneo Sobue, Makoto Kudo
  • Publication number: 20210019877
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle stereo camera which enables the continuation of automated driving if failures occur during imaging. A pair of captured images 301, 302, which is captured by a pair of imaging units so that both contain an overlapping region, are acquired (S201), it is determined whether an abnormal region is present in at least one of the pair of captured images, and if an abnormal region is present, the degree of impact from the abnormal region on an object recognition process of an object recognition unit is diagnosed (S202), and the processing content of the object recognition process is updated according to the degree of impact (S203).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shouji MURAMATSU, Takeshi SHIMA, Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20210004018
    Abstract: Provided is a noise-canceling learning device capable of performing control so as to prevent performing processing such as useless deceleration at the same place in self driving, for example, on a highway, and a vehicle including the noise-canceling learning device. The detection determination processing unit 143 of the noise-canceling learning device 14 causes the perceived object to be stored in (a data table of) the information storage unit 144 as a determination object in association with the perceived object and the own vehicle position information, determines whether the perceived object perceived by the sensor recognition perceiving unit 141 and the determination object stored in (a data table of) the information storage unit 144 match based on the position of the own vehicle 1 estimated by the own vehicle position estimating unit 142, and determines whether the perceived object perceived by the sensor recognition perceiving unit 141 is correct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi TERUI, Makoto KUDO
  • Patent number: 10864634
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor wherein the processor is configured to: receive designation of one or more frequency components, generate one or more second control signals obtained by reducing at least one of the frequency components from a first control signal, generate one or more third control signals obtained using two control signals among the first control signal and the one or more second control signals, output one control signal among the first control signal, the one or more second control signals, and the one or more third control signals, and generate and output a driving signal to drive a robot based on the one control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Makoto Kudo
  • Publication number: 20200034354
    Abstract: An in-vehicle processing device includes: a signal input unit that generates input data based on an input signal from outside; a processing unit that executes arithmetic processing for calculating output data based on the input data; a signal output unit that generates an output signal based on the output data to output the output signal to the outside; and a storage unit that stores application software for causing the processing unit to execute the arithmetic processing. The application software includes: a data management layer for managing object data which is a collection of data corresponding to a given target element on the storage unit; a data adaptation layer for generating the object data based on the input data to output the generated object data to the data management layer; and a data operation layer for acquiring the object data from the data management layer to calculate the output data based on the acquired object data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Kohei SAKURAI, Makoto KUDO, Kentaro YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190333386
    Abstract: A surrounding environment recognizing apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle and recognizes a surrounding environment of the vehicle includes: an own vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires own vehicle information about motion of the vehicle; a surrounding environment factor acquiring unit that acquires surrounding environment factor information about an environment factor around the vehicle; a time-of-presence range determining unit that determines, based on the own vehicle information, an own vehicle time-of-presence range representing a time-of-presence range of the vehicle for each position around the vehicle; and a risk-of-driving determining unit that determines a risk of driving in an area around the vehicle based on the own vehicle time-of-presence range and the surrounding environment factor information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Shigenori HAYASE, Makoto KUDO
  • Patent number: 10303168
    Abstract: An on-vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle and controlling traveling of the vehicle includes a vehicle position error specifying unit that estimates a position error of the vehicle, a travel control continuity information determination unit that determines information relating to continuity of a travel control state of the vehicle based on the position error of the vehicle estimated by the vehicle position error specifying unit, and a travel control continuity information output unit that outputs the information relating to the continuity of the travel control state of the vehicle determined by the travel control continuity information determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Tatsuaki Osafune, Makoto Kudo
  • Patent number: 10261509
    Abstract: An on-vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle and controlling traveling of the vehicle includes a vehicle position error specifying unit that estimates a position error of the vehicle, a travel control continuity information determination unit that determines information relating to continuity of a travel control state of the vehicle based on the position error of the vehicle estimated by the vehicle position error specifying unit, and a travel control continuity information output unit that outputs the information relating to the continuity of the travel control state of the vehicle determined by the travel control continuity information determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Tatsuaki Osafune, Makoto Kudo
  • Publication number: 20190001986
    Abstract: Provided is a surrounding environment recognition device that is mounted in a vehicle, including: a traveling path information acquisition unit that acquires traveling path information indicating a traveling path for the vehicle; a surrounding environment element information acquisition unit that acquires surrounding environment element information that includes spatial positional-relationship information indicating a spatial positional relationship to the vehicle, which relates to an environment element in the vicinity of the vehicle; a relationship-of-environment-element-to-traveling calculation unit that calculates a relationship of the environment element to traveling of the vehicle, based on the traveling path information and the spatial positional-relationship information; a surrounding environment information provision unit that provides information relating to the environment element, based on the relationship to the traveling of the vehicle, which is calculated by the relationship-of-environment-elem
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Shigenori HAYASE, Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20180281184
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor wherein the processor is configured to: receive designation of one or more frequency components, generate one or more second control signals obtained by reducing at least one of the frequency components from a first control signal, generate one or more third control signals obtained using two control signals among the first control signal and the one or more second control signals, output one control signal among the first control signal, the one or more second control signals, and the one or more third control signals, and generate and output a driving signal to drive a robot based on the one control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20180053404
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing apparatus detects the relative positions multiple vehicles that travel on a road having multiple lanes in the same direction. The apparatus includes a vehicle travel information acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of position information and speed information measured for a first vehicle, and at least one of position information and speed information measured for a second vehicle included in the multiple vehicles, and a vehicle travel information processing unit configured to successively compare acquire first vehicle travel information with second vehicle travel information acquired, and determine that reciprocity which is attribute information indicating a state in which the first vehicle and the second vehicle travel in different lanes is established between the first vehicle and the second vehicle if it is determined that an event that cannot occur when the first vehicle and the second vehicle travel in the same lane occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Tsuneo SOBUE, Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20180029232
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot, wherein the processor is configured to cause a display unite to display an operational screen, on which task information indicating each of a plurality of tasks performed by a robot provided with a force detecting unit is displayed, receive a parameter according to a task of the robot, which is indicated by selected task information once the processor receives the selection of the task information, and cause the display unite to display information indicating operation of the robot based on the received parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto OUCHI, Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20170329328
    Abstract: An on-vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle and controlling traveling of the vehicle includes a vehicle position error specifying unit that estimates a position error of the vehicle, a travel control continuity information determination unit that determines information relating to continuity of a travel control state of the vehicle based on the position error of the vehicle estimated by the vehicle position error specifying unit, and a travel control continuity information output unit that outputs the information relating to the continuity of the travel control state of the vehicle determined by the travel control continuity information determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Tatsuaki OSAFUNE, Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20170317706
    Abstract: The present invention provides a speech processing device with which it is possible to achieve smooth communication between the passengers of a host vehicle and the passengers of a desired vehicle. In a communication system according to the present invention, a first communication device 10 transmits the position of a first vehicle Mc, the speech of a speaker 601, and a direction d of utterance to multiple unspecified second vehicles Mr in the surroundings of the first vehicle Mc. A second communication device 10 processes the speech in a sound field formed inside the second vehicles Mr by a speaker array comprising a plurality of speakers 41 so that the virtual sound source of the speech is formed in the direction of the position of the first vehicle Mc, and outputs the processed speech using the speaker array at a sound volume calculated on the basis of the position of the first vehicle Mc, the positions of the second vehicles Mr, and the direction d of utterance of the speaker in the first vehicle Mc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto KUDO, Tatsuaki OSAFUNE, Yuki HORITA