Patents by Inventor Masamitsu Tsuchiya

Masamitsu Tsuchiya 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).

  • Publication number: 20220283636
    Abstract: A calibration device for calibrating line-of-sight detection processing based on an image of a face of a user includes an instruction unit configured to instruct the user to look at each of a plurality of positions, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each of the plurality of positions, the image of the face of the user looking at each position. The instruction unit is configured to, when giving an instruction to look at a position that is not in front of the user of the plurality of positions without moving the face, give an instruction to look in front of the user each time a position at which the user is instructed to look switches from one position that is not in front of the user to another position that is not in front of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yutaka Nishizaki
  • Publication number: 20220174265
    Abstract: Provided is a display method, which is executed by a display device capable of forming an image in both of an inside of a lens area and an outside of the lens area and enabling a user to visually recognize the image, the display method including displaying, by the display device, one or more objects from a predetermined area inside the lens area toward the outside of the lens area so that an object near the predetermined area is displayed in a different display mode relating to at least one of a density, a color strength, a luminance, and a size compared to an object away from the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11325593
    Abstract: An automated driving apparatus acquires a position relation between a vehicle in front and a host vehicle based on peripheral state data D_info. When an intervehicular distance D1 between the host vehicle and the vehicle in front in a front-and-back direction has a value smaller than a first predetermined value D1ref, it is estimated that a risk of appearance Risk_ap is low compared with a case in which the distance in the front-and-back direction has a value equal to or larger than the first predetermined value D1ref.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rei Sakai, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11230283
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to perform control of causing at least the vehicle to move forward or causing the vehicle to move backward on the basis of the surrounding status recognized by the recognizer; and a notification controller that is configured to notify traffic participants in the vicinity of the vehicle using an outputter in a case in which the vehicle having stopped is caused to advance in a second direction opposite to a first direction in which the vehicle has advanced before stopping by the driving controller, the driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to advance in the second direction after the outputter is configured to perform the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20220014999
    Abstract: A base station notifies a terminal apparatus of information on a communication delay predicted for communication via the base station. The terminal apparatus acquires, from the base station, information on the communication delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220009511
    Abstract: A control device of a mobile object includes a control unit configured to restrict, based on information specifying a suppression area where occurrence of a communication delay is to be suppressed, the mobile object from performing an operation that induces a communication delay in the suppression area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Masaru OTAKA, Toshiaki TAKANO, Satoshi ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20220011770
    Abstract: A remote operation device for operating a remote target device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring quality of communication between the target device and the remote operation device, and a setting unit for setting an authority of the remote operation device related to an operation of the target device based on the communication quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220014977
    Abstract: A base station acquires information of a communication delay predicted in communication carried out by a terminal apparatus via another base station, and notifies the terminal apparatus of the acquired information of the communication delay. The terminal apparatus acquires this information of the communication delay from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220014934
    Abstract: A control device acquires quality information indicating a correspondence relationship between a position and communication quality related to wireless communication at the position, and route information indicating a movement route of a mobile base station, specifies an area in which the communication quality is determined to be lower than a predetermined communication quality based on the quality information, and executes control for moving the mobile base station to a position at which a wireless communication service can be provided in at least a part of the area in a case where the position is included in the movement route based on the route information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Toshiaki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220014941
    Abstract: A control device of a mobile object is configured to execute a function using communication. The control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire communication quality on a planned movement route of the mobile object, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the acquired communication quality, whether or not the planned movement route includes a position that does not satisfy communication quality required for execution of the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi ONODERA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Hideki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210300347
    Abstract: A vehicle control method includes recognizing surrounding conditions of a vehicle and controlling a speed and a steering of the vehicle based on the surrounding conditions of the vehicle. The method includes controlling the vehicle to stop before a stop line such that the vicinity of a center or the center in a width direction of the vehicle is aligned with the vicinity of a center or the center in a length direction of the stop line in a width direction of a road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20210295681
    Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system that includes one or more terminal units and a monitoring unit that monitors an unknown mobile object around the one or more terminal units. Each terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information; a detected information generation component that generates a detected information set concerning an unknown mobile object; and a terminal-side communication component that transmits the detected information set. The monitoring unit includes: a collecting-side communication component that receives the detected information set; and a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object based on a collection of one or more detected information sets that have been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kenji KOMORI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hiroki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210295682
    Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kenji KOMORI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hiroki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210286366
    Abstract: A movable object control device to appropriately collaborate with other movable objects comprises a processor including an event detection section detecting a possible event that influences a movable object of interest running, a communication section for communicating with other movable objects, an area determining section determining a presence area for each of plural action plans associated with the possible event detected by the event detection section, the presence area being an area where other movable objects are present with which the movable object of interest needs to communicate, an evaluation section evaluating communication between the movable object of interest and each of the other movable objects included in the presence area and an action plan determining section selecting an action plan to be performed from among the plural action plans based an evaluation result by the evaluation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kenji KOMORI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hiroki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210276551
    Abstract: An information processing system for movable objects includes a processor comprising an information receiving section receiving information on a distance from a rear end of a most rearward first movable object in a row of plural first movable objects on a road to a movable object stopping prohibited area and a length of a second movable object that is stopping behind the most rearward first movable object, a determining section determining whether the distance and the length that are received by the information receiving section meet a predetermined condition, and a signal sending section sending the plural first movable objects forming the row a signal including a first instruction to instruct the plural first movable objects to shorten a gap distance between movable objects next to each other to a first distance, if the first determining section determines that the distance and the length meet the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Kenji KOMORI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hiroki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11100345
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to run on the basis of a first reference line deviating to one side of a road in a case in which a target obstacle is not recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer and, is configured to cause the vehicle to avoid the target obstacle after causing the vehicle to run on the basis of a second reference line disposed on an other side of the road from the first reference line, in a case in which the target obstacle is recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11099564
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit (140, 160) that controls steering and acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. In a case where a traffic participant is recognized in a progress direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, the driving control unit sets an entry inhibition region where an entry of the vehicle is to be avoided, using the traffic participant as a reference, based on a degree of recognition of the vehicle by the traffic participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani
  • Patent number: 11091152
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device including: a recognition unit that recognizes a nearby situation of a vehicle; and a driving control unit that automatically controls at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the nearby situation that is recognized by the recognition unit. In a case where an obstacle that exists in an advancing direction of the vehicle and a road-side structure that is provided in a road edge are recognized by the recognition unit, the driving control unit generates a target trajectory of the vehicle in a state in which a trajectory along which a wheel of the vehicle passes over the road-side structure is included as a candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11079762
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit, an intersection road recognition determination unit, and a driving control unit. When a subject vehicle turns in a first direction that is one of left and right directions at an intersection road, in a case where it is determined that a situation of the intersection road is able to be recognized at a predetermined degree or more by the intersection road recognition determination unit, the driving control unit performs control of moving the subject vehicle toward a side of the first direction in front of the intersection road, and in a case where it is determined that the situation of the intersection road is not able to be recognized at the predetermined degree or more, the driving control unit suppresses the control of moving the subject vehicle toward the side of the first direction in front of the intersection road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11077849
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control an acceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein, in a case in which a plurality of pedestrians are recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer, the driving controller is configured to executes follow control for following the plurality of pedestrians and is configured to determines details of the follow control on the basis of a behavior of a nearest pedestrian who is closest to the vehicle among the plurality of pedestrians and a behavior of a second pedestrian who is a monitoring target other than the nearest pedestrian among the plurality of pedestrians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoma Taguchi