Patents by Inventor Masahiro IINO

Masahiro IINO 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: 11685312
    Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Takuya Nakagawa, Yuki Minase
  • Patent number: 11643070
    Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenyang Wang, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda
  • Patent number: 11613273
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Yuusuke Nomura, Ryou Izumi, Mayuko Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220111793
    Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: MASAHIRO IINO, MICHIHIRO TAKADA, MAYUKO MAEDA, YASUTAKA MATSUNAGA, TOSHIHIRO TAKAGI, TAKUYA NAKAGAWA, YUKI MINASE
  • Patent number: 11188767
    Abstract: An image generation device includes: an image acquisition unit which acquires images taken by cameras installed in a vehicle; a storage unit which stores self vehicle data indicating the vehicle having such gloss that a certain region is higher in brightness than the other region; a bird's eye image generation unit which generates a neighborhood image that is an image of the vehicle and a neighborhood of the vehicle as viewed from a virtual point of view based on the acquired images; a 3D image generation unit which generates a three-dimensional self-vehicle image being a three-dimensional image of the vehicle; and an image synthesis unit which generates a synthesized image in which the self-vehicle image is superimposed on the neighborhood image, and the 3D image generation unit generates the three-dimensional self-vehicle image based on the self vehicle data that is read out from the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda
  • Patent number: 11153484
    Abstract: An image processing device used on a mobile body has: a determiner configured to determine one out of a plurality of combination patterns as to the presence or absence of an object in a plurality of predetermined regions around the mobile body; and a generator configured to generate a composite image by projecting onto a virtual projection surface a plurality of shot images acquired by a plurality of cameras taking images of the surroundings of the mobile body. The generator is configured to select, out of a plurality of projection surfaces prepared beforehand, the projection surface used in generating the composite image in accordance with the combination pattern determined by the determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda, Toshihiro Takagi, Yasutaka Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20210107468
    Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenyang WANG, Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Satoshi KOZAI, Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Mayuko MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210107511
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Satoshi KOZAI, Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Yuusuke NOMURA, Ryou IZUMI, Mayuko MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210006713
    Abstract: An image processing device used on a mobile body has: a determiner configured to determine one out of a plurality of combination patterns as to the presence or absence of an object in a plurality of predetermined regions around the mobile body; and a generator configured to generate a composite image by projecting onto a virtual projection surface a plurality of shot images acquired by a plurality of cameras taking images of the surroundings of the mobile body. The generator is configured to select, out of a plurality of projection surfaces prepared beforehand, the projection surface used in generating the composite image in accordance with the combination pattern determined by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Mayuko MAEDA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Yasutaka MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20200311441
    Abstract: An image generation device includes: an image acquisition unit which acquires images taken by cameras installed in a vehicle; a storage unit which stores self vehicle data indicating the vehicle having such gloss that a certain region is higher in brightness than the other region; a bird's eye image generation unit which generates a neighborhood image that is an image of the vehicle and a neighborhood of the vehicle as viewed from a virtual point of view based on the acquired images; a 3D image generation unit which generates a three-dimensional self-vehicle image being a three-dimensional image of the vehicle; and an image synthesis unit which generates a synthesized image in which the self-vehicle image is superimposed on the neighborhood image, and the 3D image generation unit generates the three-dimensional self-vehicle image based on the self vehicle data that is read out from the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Mayuko MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10725543
    Abstract: An input device according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a touch position number calculation unit, a vibration unit, and a vibration control unit. The detection unit detects one or more touch positions on an operation surface. The touch position number calculation unit calculates the number of the touch positions detected by the detection unit. The vibration unit vibrates the operation surface. The vibration control unit controls the vibration unit to provide different vibration modes depending on the number of the touch positions calculated by the touch position number calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Iino
  • Patent number: 10720054
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a change unit. The acquisition unit acquires notification information. The setting unit sets, for each of a plurality of display screens, notification information to be displayed on a corresponding display screen based on a priority of the notification information. The change unit changes, when changing notification information of one of the plurality of display screens based on a user's operation on a display screen set by the setting unit, notification information to be displayed on another of the plurality of display screens based on a change in the notification information on the one display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Kukimoto, Chiharu Yamamoto, Masahiro Iino
  • Patent number: 10586363
    Abstract: An output processing device includes: an accepter which accepts output requests for information that include parameters concerning priority of output of information and parameters concerning output regions for information; and a mediator which, on accepting output requests for a plurality of items of information, mediates the output regions for the plurality of items of information respectively and the output modes of the plurality of items of information respectively based on the parameters concerning priority and the parameters concerning output regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Iino
  • Publication number: 20190251840
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a change unit. The acquisition unit acquires notification information. The setting unit sets, for each of a plurality of display screens, notification information to be displayed on a corresponding display screen based on a priority of the notification information. The change unit changes, when changing notification information of one of the plurality of display screens based on a user's operation on a display screen set by the setting unit, notification information to be displayed on another of the plurality of display screens based on a change in the notification information on the one display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Osamu KUKIMOTO, Chiharu YAMAMOTO, Masahiro IINO
  • Publication number: 20190156542
    Abstract: An output processing device includes: an accepter which accepts output requests for information that include parameters concerning priority of output of information and parameters concerning output regions for information; and a mediator which, on accepting output requests for a plurality of items of information, mediates the output regions for the plurality of items of information respectively and the output modes of the plurality of items of information respectively based on the parameters concerning priority and the parameters concerning output regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro IINO
  • Patent number: 10191548
    Abstract: A touch sensor that generates an output based on an operation performed to the touch sensor by an operator; a transducer attached to the touch sensor and configured to vibrate the touch sensor so as to give a touch feeling to the operator contacting the touch sensor; and a controller configured to (i) determine a content of the operation performed to the touch sensor by the operator based on the output of the touch sensor and (ii) select one of the plurality of operation modes based on the determined content of the operation performed to the touch sensor by the operator. The controller causes the transducer to vibrate the touch sensor with different patterns of vibration so as to give different touch feelings to the operator contacting the touch sensor depending on the determined content of the operation performed to the touch sensor by the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu Kukimoto, Teru Sawada, Tadayuki Yamashita, Masahiro Iino
  • Patent number: 10168780
    Abstract: An input device according to the present embodiment includes a detection unit, a vibration unit, and a vibration control unit. The detection unit detects a touch position on an operation surface. The vibration unit vibrates the operation surface. The vibration control unit controls the vibration unit to provide different vibration modes between a case where a direction of movement of the touch position is a first direction defined on the operation surface and a case where the direction of movement is a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Iino
  • Publication number: 20180335851
    Abstract: An input device according to a mode of an embodiment includes a detection unit, at least one vibration element, and a vibration control unit. The detection unit detects a contact position of a user on an operation surface. The vibration element vibrates the operation surface. The vibration control unit controls the vibration element in such a manner that a vibration state of the vibration element becomes a first vibration state when the contact position detected by the detection unit is in a predetermined region and that a vibration state of the vibration element becomes a second vibration state different from the first vibration state when the contact position is outside the predetermined region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUMOTO, Hitoshi TSUDA, Teru SAWADA, Yoshihiro NAKAO, Masahiro IINO
  • Patent number: 10083546
    Abstract: An augmented reality information displaying device according to the embodiment includes a storage, a display-position deciding unit, and a display controller. The storage stores augmented reality information associated with a real position. The display-position deciding unit decides a display position of the augmented reality information on a display screen of a transmission-type display device based on a real position of a user that visually recognizes the display screen, a real position of the display screen, the real position in the scene through the display screen associated with the augmented reality information. The display controller controls to display, at a display position decided by the display-position deciding unit, the augmented reality information corresponding to a mode according to positional relationship between the real position of the user and the real position associated with the augmented reality information in the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomofumi Soda, Masahiro Iino, Chiharu Yamamoto, Satoru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20170294046
    Abstract: An augmented reality information displaying device according to the embodiment includes a storage, a display-position deciding unit, and a display controller. The storage stores augmented reality information associated with a real position. The display-position deciding unit decides a display position of the augmented reality information on a display screen of a transmission-type display device based on a real position of a user that visually recognizes the display screen, a real position of the display screen, the real position in the scene through the display screen associated with the augmented reality information. The display controller controls to display, at a display position decided by the display-position deciding unit, the augmented reality information corresponding to a mode according to positional relationship between the real position of the user and the real position associated with the augmented reality information in the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomofumi SODA, Masahiro IINO, Chiharu YAMAMOTO, Satoru IKEDA