Patents by Inventor Masafumi SAGARA
Masafumi SAGARA 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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Patent number: 11938931Abstract: A stop assist system for moving a moving body to a stop position and making the moving body stop at the stop position includes: an external environment recognizing unit that recognizes an external environment of the moving body; and a moving body control unit that executes a driving process to make the moving body travel to the stop position based on a recognition result of the external environment recognizing unit. The moving body control unit suspends the driving process when, while the moving body is traveling to the stop position, the moving body control unit determines, based on the recognition result, that there is an object within a range of a prescribed lateral threshold value on a lateral outside of the moving body and the object extends over a prescribed longitudinal threshold value or more along a travel direction within the range.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Takuma Sekino, Tatsuro Fujiwara, Akiko Nakamura, Kazuya Kobayashi, Masafumi Sagara, Takeshi Sasajima
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Publication number: 20240067166Abstract: A control device includes: an external environment recognition unit configured to acquire an external environment recognition image showing a recognition result of surroundings of a moving body; and a display control unit configured to display the external environment recognition image on a display device. The display control unit is configured to superimpose and display a stop guide indicating a position where movement of the moving body needs to be stopped on the external environment recognition image on the display device, and, when the stop guide is superimposed on the external environment recognition image, the display control unit makes a display mode of the stop guide different according to whether a specific portion of the moving body included in the external environment recognition image and the stop guide overlap with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Masafumi SAGARA
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Publication number: 20230311917Abstract: A control device includes circuitry configured to: detect a first parking candidate position based on external environment recognition data of a moving body and a second parking candidate position registered in advance by a user of the moving body; cause a display device to display detected parking candidate positions; receive, from a user of the moving body, selection of a target parking position from among the displayed parking candidate positions; and park the moving body at the selected target parking position. The circuitry causes to display the first parking candidate position preferentially over the second parking candidate position, when the first parking candidate position and the second parking candidate position are detected and the first parking candidate position and the second parking candidate position overlap each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi SAGARA, Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Mizuki OWADA
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Publication number: 20230316916Abstract: A control device includes circuitry configured to: detect a first parking candidate position based on external environment recognition data of a moving body and a second parking candidate position registered in advance by a user of the moving body; cause a display device to display detected parking candidate positions; receive, from a user of the moving body, selection of a target parking position from among the displayed parking candidate positions; and park the moving body at the selected target parking position. The circuitry causes to display the second parking candidate position preferentially over the first parking candidate position, when the first parking candidate position and the second parking candidate position are detected and the first parking candidate position and the second parking candidate position overlap each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi SAGARA, Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Mizuki OWADA
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Publication number: 20230192072Abstract: A control device includes: a retry determination unit configured to determine whether to execute retry control based on a current position of a moving object and a target position when the moving object is moved to the target position by automatic steering; and a notification control unit configured to transmit a retry notification, including information indicating that the retry control is to be executed based on a determination result of the retry determination unit, to a terminal device. The notification control unit transmits the retry notification to the terminal device when the retry control, executed after at least a part of the moving object reaches the target position, is determined, and the notification control unit does not transmit the retry notification to the terminal device when the retry control, executed before at least a part of the moving object reaches the target position, is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Akiko SATO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Takeshi SASAJIMA, Hiroki TAKAKU, Masafumi SAGARA
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Patent number: 11586224Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus that controls movement of a vehicle in response to an instruction from a remote control terminal located outside the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image captured by an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a periphery of the vehicle; an operator detecting unit configured to detect an operator of the remote control terminal on the basis of the image obtained by the obtaining unit; a terminal detecting unit configured to detect a position of the remote control terminal relative to the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control, on the basis of a detection result from the operator detecting unit and a detection result from the terminal detecting unit, whether to permit or prohibit a remote control operation of the vehicle performed through the remote control terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gaku Shimamoto, Junpei Noguchi, Naotoshi Takemura, Hidetoshi Kobori, Masafumi Sagara, Tatsuro Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20220306090Abstract: A stop assist system for moving a moving body to a stop position and making the moving body stop at the stop position includes: an external environment recognizing unit that recognizes an external environment of the moving body; and a moving body control unit that executes a driving process to make the moving body travel to the stop position based on a recognition result of the external environment recognizing unit. The moving body control unit suspends the driving process when, while the moving body is traveling to the stop position, the moving body control unit determines, based on the recognition result, that there is an object within a range of a prescribed lateral threshold value on a lateral outside of the moving body and the object extends over a prescribed longitudinal threshold value or more along a travel direction within the range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Junpei NOGUCHI, Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Takuma SEKINO, Tatsuro FUJIWARA, Akiko NAKAMURA, Kazuya KOBAYASHI, Masafumi SAGARA, Takeshi SASAJIMA
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Publication number: 20210157335Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus that controls movement of a vehicle in response to an instruction from a remote control terminal located outside the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image captured by an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a periphery of the vehicle; an operator detecting unit configured to detect an operator of the remote control terminal on the basis of the image obtained by the obtaining unit; a terminal detecting unit configured to detect a position of the remote control terminal relative to the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control, on the basis of a detection result from the operator detecting unit and a detection result from the terminal detecting unit, whether to permit or prohibit a remote control operation of the vehicle performed through the remote control terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Gaku SHIMAMOTO, Junpei NOGUCHI, Naotoshi TAKEMURA, Hidetoshi KOBORI, Masafumi SAGARA, Tatsuro FUJIWARA