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).
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Patent number: 11966052Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Minoru Higuchi, Yuya Kishimoto, Toshiaki Seo, Masuhito Tanaka, Kazuki Takano, Hidehiro Takeda, Misaki Koseki
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Publication number: 20220405985Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Junichi KUWATA, Shotaro TAMAYAMA, Masaki TAKANO
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Patent number: 11409369Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Takano, Junichi Kuwata, Sayuri Hashizume
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Publication number: 20210389827Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masaki TAKANO, Junichi KUWATA, Sayuri HASHIZUME
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Patent number: 10800410Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Shimizu, Masaki Takano, Masato Takagi
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Patent number: 10479362Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
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Patent number: 10399571Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
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Patent number: 10300916Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
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Patent number: 10252748Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiji Sakaguchi, Masaki Takano
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Publication number: 20190092321Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi SHIMIZU, Masaki TAKANO, Masato TAKAGI
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Patent number: 10220825Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotada Otake, Masaki Takano
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Publication number: 20190064827Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Masaki TAKANO, Kuniaki TANAKA
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Publication number: 20180237019Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Yuji SATO, Kuniaki TANAKA, Masaki TAKANO
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Publication number: 20180237018Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirohiko GOTO, Yuji SATO, Kuniaki TANAKA, Masaki TAKANO
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Patent number: 10020163Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Yayoi Konishi, Mitsugu Sato, Masaki Takano, Shotaro Tamayama, Masako Nishimura, Shunya Watanabe, Mami Konomi
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Patent number: 10000236Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotada Otake, Masaki Takano
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Patent number: 9964950Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaki Takano
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Patent number: D849048Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Misato Fukami, Masaki Takano, Junko Suzuki, Chikook Ha, Dai Inagi
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Patent number: D872754Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Kuwata, Yayoi Konishi, Masaki Takano, Wataru Takeuchi
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Patent number: D882603Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Misato Fukami, Masaki Takano, Junko Suzuki, Chikook Ha, Dai Inagi