Patents by Inventor Makoto NAKATSUKA
Makoto NAKATSUKA 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).
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Publication number: 20240111515Abstract: The present invention provides a driving support device for supporting driving of a vehicle, the driving support device comprising: a detection unit configured to detect a current position of the vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire data for updating a driving support function equipped on the vehicle; a control unit configured to control update of the driving support function based on the data acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the control unit is configured to execute the update in a state in which an ignition of the vehicle is on, in a case of determining, based on the current position detected by the detection unit, that the update is to be completed before reaching a situation in which the driving support function may be activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki KYOSHIMA, Makoto NAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 11527115Abstract: A control device including: a determination unit that determines whether or not a malfunction has occurred in a monitoring target on the basis of a state of the monitoring target; an arithmetic unit that is capable of reconfiguring a function; a storage unit that stores software used for causing the arithmetic unit to reconfigure a function relating to an operation of the monitoring target; and a processing unit that reads the software from the storage unit and reflects the software on the arithmetic unit in a case in which it is determined by the determination unit that a malfunction has occurred in the monitoring target.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Satoru Otsuka
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Publication number: 20220295310Abstract: A moving object capable of automatic movement control includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a server; and a control unit configured to execute the automatic movement control based on the communication. The control unit changes a method of the automatic movement control in a case where quality of the communication changes during the execution of the automatic movement control.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Makoto NAKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20220289242Abstract: A movement control system includes: a server; and a moving object configured to perform first automatic movement control in which control contents are determined based on outside information and second automatic movement control in which the control contents are given by the server receiving the outside information. The moving object performs the second automatic movement control in a case where both the first automatic movement control and the second automatic movement control are performable. The moving object does not perform the second automatic movement control in a case where the second automatic movement control is performable but the first automatic movement control is unperformable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruki TAKAHASHI, Makoto NAKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20220289231Abstract: A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire history information of a past operation of a moving object; and a control unit configured to perform control, based on the history information, to notify a user of the moving object of an unexecuted function in the past operation among automatic-movement-related functions executable by the moving object in the past operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruki TAKAHASHI, Akihiro SEKINO, Makoto NAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 11327491Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering or acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. The driving control unit determines whether or not an occupant is riding in the vehicle, and differentiates a road on which the vehicle is caused to travel, between a case where it is determined that the occupant is riding in the vehicle and a case where it is determined that the occupant is not riding in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 11243542Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a running controller (120) that executes running control of a vehicle without depending on a driving operation of a vehicle occupant and a running device (44) that is a control target of the running controller and outputs a predetermined signal to the running controller are included, and the running controller stops the running control of the vehicle in a case in which the predetermined signal has been blocked from the running device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Shinya Shirokura
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Patent number: 11106206Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a situation near an own-vehicle, and a driving controller (140, 160) that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the own-vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller does not perform determination of an operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration when the recognizer has recognized that an occupant is riding in the own-vehicle, and determines the operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration on the basis of a state of another vehicle present near the own-vehicle recognized by the recognizer when the recognizer has recognized that no occupant is riding in the own-vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Publication number: 20210086649Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a storage battery configured to store electric power used to drive a vehicle, a power reception unit configured to receive electric power supply from a moving body capable of supplying electric power stored in the storage battery, a communication unit configured to communicate with the moving body, a detection unit configured to detect a charge state of the storage battery, and a communication control unit configured to request the moving body to supply electric power using the communication unit on the basis of the charge state detected by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 10921813Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20200379472Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a running controller (120) that executes running control of a vehicle without depending on a driving operation of a vehicle occupant and a running device (44) that is a control target of the running controller and outputs a predetermined signal to the running controller are included, and the running controller stops the running control of the vehicle in a case in which the predetermined signal has been blocked from the running device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Shinya Shirokura
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Publication number: 20200013245Abstract: A control device including: a determination unit that determines whether or not a malfunction has occurred in a monitoring target on the basis of a state of the monitoring target; an arithmetic unit that is capable of reconfiguring a function; a storage unit that stores software used for causing the arithmetic unit to reconfigure a function relating to an operation of the monitoring target; and a processing unit that reads the software from the storage unit and reflects the software on the arithmetic unit in a case in which it is determined by the determination unit that a malfunction has occurred in the monitoring target.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Satoru Otsuka
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Publication number: 20190291699Abstract: A vehicle purification device includes: a determiner (45, 300) configured to determine a state of a vehicle; a necessity determiner configured to determine whether purification of the vehicle is necessary according to the state of the vehicle determined by the determiner; a possibility determiner configured to determine that the purification of the vehicle is possible using equipment of the vehicle when the necessity determiner determines that the purification of the vehicle is necessary; and a device controller (190) configured to perform a predetermined operation so that the purification is performed by another unit different from the equipment of the vehicle when the possibility determiner determines that the purification of the vehicle is not possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Publication number: 20190286136Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering or acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. The driving control unit determines whether or not an occupant is riding in the vehicle, and differentiates a road on which the vehicle is caused to travel, between a case where it is determined that the occupant is riding in the vehicle and a case where it is determined that the occupant is not riding in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Publication number: 20190278278Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20190271982Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a situation near an own-vehicle, and a driving controller (140, 160) that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the own-vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller does not perform determination of an operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration when the recognizer has recognized that an occupant is riding in the own-vehicle, and determines the operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration on the basis of a state of another vehicle present near the own-vehicle recognized by the recognizer when the recognizer has recognized that no occupant is riding in the own-vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 9333109Abstract: The present invention provides a motion assist apparatus capable of reducing the discomfort of a user that may be caused when a motion is assisted. A motion assist apparatus 1 has actuators 11, which apply a force for controlling the posture of the upper body of a user P through the intermediary of a second frame 14, a posture estimation sensor PS, which detects a posture angle ? of the upper body of the user P, a control unit C, which controls the actuators 11 to reduce a deviation d? of a posture angle ? from a reference posture angle ?0, and a trigger sensor TS, which detects the occurrence of a trigger event. The control unit C sets the posture angle at the time of the occurrence of the trigger event as the reference posture angle ?0.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhito Kuromiya, Hiroyuki Goto, Makoto Nakatsuka, Hideo Shimizu, Tatsuya Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20150335461Abstract: The present invention provides a motion assist apparatus capable of reducing the discomfort of a user that may be caused when a motion is assisted. A motion assist apparatus 1 has actuators 11, which apply a force for controlling the posture of the upper body of a user P through the intermediary of a second frame 14, a posture estimation sensor PS, which detects a posture angle ? of the upper body of the user P, a control unit C, which controls the actuators 11 to reduce a deviation d? of a posture angle ? from a reference posture angle ?0, and a trigger sensor TS, which detects the occurrence of a trigger event. The control unit C sets the posture angle at the time of the occurrence of the trigger event as the reference posture angle ?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Yasuhito KUROMIYA, Hiroyuki GOTO, Makoto NAKATSUKA, Hideo SHIMIZU, Tatsuya ISHIKAWA