Patents by Inventor Masaki Takano

Masaki Takano 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: 11966052
    Abstract: An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the number of targets increases, reduces the size of the surrounding icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Minoru Higuchi, Yuya Kishimoto, Toshiaki Seo, Masuhito Tanaka, Kazuki Takano, Hidehiro Takeda, Misaki Koseki
  • Publication number: 20220405985
    Abstract: An augmented reality content creation device includes: a determination part configured to, when a content virtually disposed in a real space is displayed in a display area having a transparent outer frame, determine whether or not the content has prescribed dimensions or larger with respect to the display area; and a highlighting part configured to, if the content is determined to have prescribed dimensions or larger with respect to the display area, highlight an edge of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Junichi KUWATA, Shotaro TAMAYAMA, Masaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11409369
    Abstract: An input action setting unit selects an action of a user to be accepted as an input operation. An input accepting unit accepts an output from a sensor that is worn by a user and detects a movement of at least one region of the user. When detecting based on the output of the sensor that the user has performed the action selected by the input action setting unit, the input accepting unit accepts the action as an input operation performed by the user. The input action setting unit selects an action of the user to be accepted as the input operation from among preset multiple kinds of action of the user based on at least one of an environment in which the user is placed and a working action of the user other than the input operation, and sets the action in the input accepting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Takano, Junichi Kuwata, Sayuri Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20210389827
    Abstract: The invention provides a wearable device control system such that an appropriate input action can easily be set from among a multiple of input actions. An input action setting unit selects an action of a user to be accepted as an input operation. An input accepting unit accepts an output from a sensor that is worn by a user and detects a movement of at least one region of the user. When detecting based on the output of the sensor that the user has performed the action selected by the input action setting unit, the input accepting unit accepts the action as an input operation performed by the user. The input action setting unit selects an action of the user to be accepted as the input operation from among preset multiple kinds of action of the user based on at least one of an environment in which the user is placed and a working action of the user other than the input operation, and sets the action in the input accepting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TAKANO, Junichi KUWATA, Sayuri HASHIZUME
  • Patent number: 10800410
    Abstract: The driving support ECU performs a steering control for changing a steering angle in such a manner that an own vehicle travels along a target path. When a state in which holding state information does not satisfy a first condition continues for a first time threshold or more, the ECU starts a first alert and continues the steering control. The holding state information includes information indicative of a steering torque and represents a holding state of a steering handle by a driver. When a state in which the holding state information does not satisfy a second condition for a second time threshold or more after the first alert is started, the ECU starts a deceleration control. The second condition is a condition satisfied when the holding state information indicates that the driver holds the steering handle more firmly than when the holding state information satisfies the first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shimizu, Masaki Takano, Masato Takagi
  • Patent number: 10479362
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain lane information of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, and set a planned target section for which a lane change plan of the vehicle is to be created. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, for each lane, an obstructive factor present on the road on which the vehicle is traveling and that obstructs continuation of autonomous driving assistance executed on the vehicle, and set, for each obtained obstructive factor, an avoidance route that passes through a lane avoiding the obstructive factor. The systems, methods, and programs create a lane change route that defines the lane change plan of the vehicle in the planned target section and that is set so as to preferentially pass through the avoidance route set for each obtained obstructive factor, and execute the autonomous driving assistance of the vehicle based on the lane change route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10399571
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain road information that specifies classification of lanes located ahead in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling and road connection for each lane. The systems, methods, and programs specify, based on the road information, a planned route that is to be taken by the vehicle on a presumption that the vehicle travels without changing lanes, when the vehicle travels with autonomous driving assistance, and execute the autonomous driving assistance for the vehicle according to the specified planned route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10300916
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain road information that specifies line types of lane markings and connection types of lanes and specify, when a vehicle travels with autonomous driving assistance, a planned route to be taken by the vehicle based on the road information. The systems, methods, and programs execute the autonomous driving assistance for the vehicle according to the specified planned route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10252748
    Abstract: A driving assist device comprises an electronic control unit configured to: acquire a vehicle present position that is a position at which a vehicle is present; calculate a positional relationship between a lane increase-decrease area and the vehicle, based on the lane increase-decrease area position and a vehicle present position; cause a human machine interface to output information about the lane increase-decrease area when a positional relationship is determined to satisfy a predetermined condition; acquire information about a traveling lane in which the vehicle is traveling; and cause the human machine interface to vary a way to output a information, based on whether or not the lane including the lane increase-decrease area and the traveling lane coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Sakaguchi, Masaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20190092321
    Abstract: The driving support ECU performs a steering control for changing a steering angle in such a manner that an own vehicle travels along a target path. When a state in which holding state information does not satisfy a first condition continues for a first time threshold or more, the ECU starts a first alert and continues the steering control. The holding state information includes information indicative of a steering torque and represents a holding state of a steering handle by a driver. When a state in which the holding state information does not satisfy a second condition for a second time threshold or more after the first alert is started, the ECU starts a deceleration control. The second condition is a condition satisfied when the holding state information indicates that the driver holds the steering handle more firmly than when the holding state information satisfies the first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SHIMIZU, Masaki TAKANO, Masato TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 10220825
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a vehicle speed control unit for controlling the speed of a vehicle, and provisional and final anomaly determination units for determining whether or not a driver of the vehicle is in a provisional anomalous state or in a final anomalous state in which the driver has lost his/her ability to drive the vehicle. After the driver is determined to be in the provisional anomalous state, the vehicle speed control unit decelerates the vehicle at a first deceleration before the driver is determined to be in the final anomalous state. When the vehicle speed becomes lower than a second vehicle speed, the vehicle speed control unit maintains the vehicle speed at the second vehicle speed. After the driver is determined to be in the final anomalous state, the vehicle control apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a second deceleration and stops the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotada Otake, Masaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20190064827
    Abstract: Self-driving assistance devices and programs detect a location of a vehicle and identify a planned travel route on which the vehicle travels from now on, based on the detected location of the vehicle. The devices and programs provide self-driving assistance of the vehicle according to the identified planned travel route. When a plurality of candidates for the location of the vehicle are detected after the vehicle passes through a divergence point, the devices and programs provide self-driving assistance of the vehicle according to a determined planned travel route, which is identified by the processor before the vehicle passes through the divergence point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Masaki TAKANO, Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180237019
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain road information that specifies classification of lanes located ahead in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling and road connection for each lane. The systems, methods, and programs specify, based on the road information, a planned route that is to be taken by the vehicle on a presumption that the vehicle travels without changing lanes, when the vehicle travels with autonomous driving assistance, and execute the autonomous driving assistance for the vehicle according to the specified planned route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Yuji SATO, Kuniaki TANAKA, Masaki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180237018
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain road information that specifies line types of lane markings and connection types of lanes and specify, when a vehicle travels with autonomous driving assistance, a planned route to be taken by the vehicle based on the road information. The systems, methods, and programs execute the autonomous driving assistance for the vehicle according to the specified planned route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Yuji SATO, Kuniaki TANAKA, Masaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 10020163
    Abstract: For a novice user to easily recognize a difference between imaging results caused by a difference between observation conditions, a computer has an operation screen display observation target setting buttons for changing an observation condition for a specimen including a combination of parameter setting values of a charged particle beam apparatus. The processing unit has the operation screen display a radar chart including a characteristic, indicated by three or more incompatible items, of an observation condition for each of the observation target setting buttons. The radar chart indicates at least items of high resolution, emphasis on surface structure and emphasis on material difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yayoi Konishi, Mitsugu Sato, Masaki Takano, Shotaro Tamayama, Masako Nishimura, Shunya Watanabe, Mami Konomi
  • Patent number: 10000236
    Abstract: Abnormality determination for a driver is appropriately made in accordance with a peripheral state when lane keeping assist control is being carried out. When a no-driving operation state has continued for a period equal to or more than a set period, a driving support ECU determines whether or not a change inhibition condition set in advance in relation to a peripheral state of an own vehicle is satisfied. When the change inhibition condition is not satisfied, the driving support ECU sets a control mode of LKA to a “weaker mode” to decrease a control amount of the LKA. As a result, the own vehicle swerves in a lane, and a driver who has not fallen into an abnormal state can be prompted to carry out a steering wheel operation. Thus, it is possible to discriminate a driver who has fallen into the abnormal state and a driver who has not fallen into the abnormal state from one another. When the change inhibition condition is satisfied, the driving support ECU sets the control mode of the LKA to a “normal mode”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotada Otake, Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: 9964950
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to determine, when a first junction and a second junction located ahead of the first junction exist on a travel road in an advancement direction of a vehicle, whether or not the first junction and the second junction satisfy a concurrent destination presentation condition on the basis of a distance between the first junction and the second junction; a presentation unit configured to present, when the first junction and the second junction are determined to satisfy the concurrent destination presentation condition, destination information ahead of the first junction and destination information ahead of the second junction to a driver of the vehicle; and a driving assistance unit configured to provide driving assistance to the vehicle in accordance with a destination selected by the driver on the basis of the presented destination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: D849048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Misato Fukami, Masaki Takano, Junko Suzuki, Chikook Ha, Dai Inagi
  • Patent number: D872754
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Kuwata, Yayoi Konishi, Masaki Takano, Wataru Takeuchi
  • Patent number: D882603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Misato Fukami, Masaki Takano, Junko Suzuki, Chikook Ha, Dai Inagi