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).

  • Patent number: 11036235
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including a first recognizer recognizing one or more other vehicles present in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; a second recognizer recognizing that a road on which the subject vehicle is running is a road having no center line; an estimator estimating a state of a driver of an oncoming vehicle facing the subject vehicle among the one or more other vehicles recognized by the first recognizer; a determiner determining whether the oncoming vehicle is a vehicle executing manual driving; and a controller decelerating the subject vehicle to a speed equal to or lower than a predetermined speed on the basis of the state of the driver of the oncoming vehicle in a case in which the oncoming vehicle is a vehicle executing manual driving, and the road on which the subject vehicle is running is a road having no center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroshi Miura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20210176722
    Abstract: A base station that includes a memory for storing computer readable code and a processor operatively coupled to the memory is provided herein. The processor is configured to transmit, to a terminal apparatus, information associated with communication delays predicted for communication between the base station and the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus acquires the information associated with the communication delays from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210176721
    Abstract: A base station that includes a memory for storing computer readable code and a processor operatively coupled to the memory is described herein. The processor is configured to acquire other base station delay information, which is information associated with communication delays predicted for communications between the other base stations and a terminal apparatus. The processor is further configured to notify the terminal apparatus of the acquired other station delay information. The terminal apparatus acquires the other station delay information from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Masaru OTAKA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210168190
    Abstract: A communication system includes a communication device that may transmit a command for requesting a response about communication quality to a specific type of user terminal, and a user terminal that may transmit the communication quality in response to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaru OTAKA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210168709
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may acquire first information on communication status of a fixed terminal device and second information on communication status of a mobile terminal device, and may determine which of the first information and the second information is preferentially used to execute predetermined control processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaru OTAKA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 10974725
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control apparatus (100) which includes a recognition unit (130) configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and driving control units (140 and 160) configured to automatically control acceleration or deceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of a surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, in which, in a case that a stop position of the vehicle is recognized in the traveling direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, and a traffic participant proceeding at a speed lower than the speed of the vehicle in the traveling direction is recognized in front of the stop position, the driving control unit determines whether the traffic participant catches up with the vehicle before the vehicle reaches the stop position, and determines to cause the vehicle to reach further ahead of the traffic participant in the traveling direction on the basis of a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10974722
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus of an embodiment includes a surrounding situation recognition unit which recognizes a situation of surroundings of a vehicle, a branch point recognition unit which recognizes a branch point present in a traveling direction of the vehicle on the basis of the recognition result of the surrounding situation recognition unit, a main lane recognition unit which recognizes a main lane connected to the branch point, and a driving control unit which controls one or both of the steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and causes the vehicle to travel in the direction of the main lane recognized by the main lane recognition unit at the branch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20210086797
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a surrounding status of a vehicle; and a driving control unit configured to control one or both of a speed and steering of the vehicle. The driving control unit performs switching to a second driving state in which a driver has a higher degree of a monitoring obligation than in a first driving state in a case in which the vehicle is caused to travel in the first driving state in which the driver has a lower degree of the monitoring obligation among driving states of a plurality of types, and a recognition result acquired by the recognition unit satisfies a predetermined condition relating to the driving state. The vehicle control device further includes a map updating unit configured to update intrinsic map information on the basis of the recognition result acquired by the recognition unit in a case in which switching from the first driving state to the second driving state is performed by the driving control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Umiaki Matsubara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10906550
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control apparatus capable of traveling a vehicle by automated driving, comprising a state detection unit configured to detect a state of an occupant in the vehicle, and a control unit configured to set a traveling mode of automated driving in accordance with a change in the state of the occupant detected by the state detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara
  • Patent number: 10891498
    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 at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, and, in a case in which a obstacle present in an advancement direction of the vehicle and traffic participants present near the obstacle are recognized by the recognizer, and the vehicle is caused to avoid the obstacle, the driving controller is configured to control the vehicle on the basis of advancement directions of the traffic participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Patent number: 10870431
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an imaging unit that images surroundings of an own-vehicle, a detector that detects a state of an external appearance of an oncoming vehicle facing the own-vehicle in a tunnel on the basis of an image captured by the imaging unit, and a determiner that determines whether or not the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle detected by the detector and determines that the outside of the tunnel toward which the own-vehicle is traveling has bad weather if the state of the external appearance of the oncoming vehicle satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10839680
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) comprising: a recognizer (130) recognizing surrounding situations of a vehicle; a setting unit (154) setting a virtual lane in an area inside a crossing that is present in an advancement direction of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result acquired by the recognizer; and a driving controller (150, 160) controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and causing the vehicle to run within the virtual lane and pass through the crossing in a case in which an object recognized by the recognizer is not present on the virtual lane, wherein, in a case in which an area inside the crossing has a width for which only one virtual lane is settable, the driving controller handles an oncoming vehicle recognized by the recognizer as an object present on the virtual lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20200339156
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of an own vehicle; and a driving controller configured to perform driving control of the own vehicle with reference to a recognition result by the recognizer and configured to determine whether the own vehicle is caused to travel behind a first vehicle or the own vehicle is caused to travel behind a second vehicle traveling in a second traveling lane based on a state of the second traveling lane of a destination to which the first vehicle moves to avoid an obstacle by steering when the recognizer recognizes the first vehicle which is traveling in front of the own vehicle in a first traveling lane in which the own vehicle is traveling and the obstacle which is in front of the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Koji Kawabe
  • Patent number: 10817730
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus, comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire peripheral information of an own vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the peripheral information, whether a behavior prediction target on a road visually recognizes a predetermined object, and a prediction unit configured to, if it is determined by the determination unit that the behavior prediction target visually recognizes the predetermined object, predict that the behavior prediction target moves across the road in a crossing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10803307
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control apparatus that controls automated driving of a vehicle. The apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract an object existing around the vehicle from a scene image representing a peripheral status of the vehicle, and a control unit configured to calculate a moving locus of the object and a moving locus of the vehicle for a predetermined time from time when the scene image is acquired, and generate a moving locus by correcting the moving locus of the object based on the moving locus of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kazuma Ohara
  • Patent number: 10796570
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes: a detection device having a detection area in an advancement direction of a vehicle; and a crossing recognizer (132) determining whether or not a concave part extending in a direction intersecting the advancement direction is present on the basis of an output of the detection device and recognizing presence of a crossing in the advancement direction of the vehicle in a case in which a concave part is determined as being present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miura, Makoto Ishikawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Koji Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20200310431
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a vehicle that receives a remote driving service from a remote driving apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select one of a plurality of operation modes that include a remote driving mode, and a control unit configured to control the vehicle in the selected operation mode. During the vehicle is in the remote driving mode, the selection unit is allowed to select another operation mode on the condition of permission from the remote driving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Masaru OTAKA, Toshiaki TAKANO, Satoshi ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20200310416
    Abstract: A control apparatus for remotely operating an operation target is provided. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding an object that exists in the surroundings of the operation target, and is not to be operated by the control apparatus, from an information providing unit outside the control apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a virtual object for representing the object, based on the information regarding the object, and a display control unit configured to display the virtual object at a display position corresponding to a geographical location of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Toshiaki TAKANO, Satoshi ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20200309553
    Abstract: A path setting apparatus that sets a path of a mobile body having a plurality of operation modes is provided. The apparatus includes a quality acquisition unit configured to acquire communication qualities at a plurality of geographical locations, and a setting unit configured to set a path of the mobile body so as to pass through an area that satisfies a requirement of communication quality that is determined according to an operation mode of the mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi ONODERA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Hideki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20200309560
    Abstract: A control apparatus that controls a display apparatus of a mobile body to which a remote operation service is provided from a remote operation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information that is generated by the remote operation apparatus and is displayed on a display apparatus of the remote operation apparatus, and a control unit configured to display the information on the display apparatus of the mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaru OTAKA, Masamitsu TSUCHIYA, Toshiaki TAKANO, Satoshi ONODERA