Patents by Inventor Masatoshi HOSHINA
Masatoshi HOSHINA 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: 11046312Abstract: A vehicle travel support device includes: a guide route setting unit; a travel environment information acquisition unit; a target traveling path setting unit; an inter-vehicle distance keep control unit; a lateral movement amount calculation unit; an obstacle avoidance action detection unit; and a preceding vehicle following controller. The guide route setting unit sets a guide route for a host vehicle. The travel environment information acquisition unit acquires travel environment information. The target traveling path setting unit sets a target traveling path. The inter-vehicle distance keep control unit causes the host vehicle to travel to keep a set distance from a preceding vehicle. The lateral movement amount calculation unit calculates a lateral movement amount of the preceding vehicle. The obstacle avoidance action detection unit detects an obstacle avoidance action of the preceding vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Terayama, Masatoshi Hoshina, Yasuhiro Sekijima, Keisuke Kuwahara
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Patent number: 10795376Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus includes a controller. Upon execution of an automatic driving control of a vehicle, the controller determines, on the basis of a result of positioning and map information, presence or absence of a tollgate within a predetermined distance from the vehicle. The controller makes a transition to a tollgate passing mode, on a condition that the presence of the tollgate is determined within the predetermined distance and an increase in width of the road is further recognized on the basis of a result of recognition of an outside environment. In the tollgate passing mode, the controller sets a first target path on the basis of position information, of the tollgate, that is recognized on the basis of the result of the recognition of the outside environment. The first target path is a target path along which the vehicle is to pass through the tollgate.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki Abe, Masatoshi Hoshina, Keisuke Kuwahara, Yasuhiro Sekijima
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Patent number: 10569788Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus includes a controller. Upon execution of automatic driving control, the controller determines, on the basis of positioning and map information, presence of a tollgate within a predetermined distance from a vehicle. The controller makes a transition to a tollgate passing mode, on a condition that the presence of the tollgate is determined within the predetermined distance and an increase in width of the road is recognized on the basis of the recognition of the outside environment. The controller causes the vehicle to approach the tollgate, on the basis of one or both of the map information and position information of an object recognized on the basis of the recognition of the outside environment, in a first period of time during which the tollgate passing mode is set and a position of the tollgate is unrecognizable on the basis of the recognition of the outside environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki Abe, Masatoshi Hoshina, Yasuhiro Sekijima, Keisuke Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20180281793Abstract: A vehicle travel support device includes: a guide route setting unit; a travel environment information acquisition unit; a target traveling path setting unit; an inter-vehicle distance keep control unit; a lateral movement amount calculation unit; an obstacle avoidance action detection unit; and a preceding vehicle following controller. The guide route setting unit sets a guide route for a host vehicle. The travel environment information acquisition unit acquires travel environment information. The target traveling path setting unit sets a target traveling path. The inter-vehicle distance keep control unit causes the host vehicle to travel to keep a set distance from a preceding vehicle. The lateral movement amount calculation unit calculates a lateral movement amount of the preceding vehicle. The obstacle avoidance action detection unit detects an obstacle avoidance action of the preceding vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Satoshi TERAYAMA, Masatoshi HOSHINA, Yasuhiro SEKIJIMA, Keisuke KUWAHARA
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Publication number: 20180148070Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus includes a controller. Upon execution of automatic driving control, the controller determines, on the basis of positioning and map information, presence of a tollgate within a predetermined distance from a vehicle. The controller makes a transition to a tollgate passing mode, on a condition that the presence of the tollgate is determined within the predetermined distance and an increase in width of the road is recognized on the basis of the recognition of the outside environment. The controller causes the vehicle to approach the tollgate, on the basis of one or both of the map information and position information of an object recognized on the basis of the recognition of the outside environment, in a first period of time during which the tollgate passing mode is set and a position of the tollgate is unrecognizable on the basis of the recognition of the outside environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Akiyuki ABE, Masatoshi HOSHINA, Yasuhiro SEKIJIMA, Keisuke KUWAHARA
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Publication number: 20180150084Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus includes a controller. Upon execution of an automatic driving control of a vehicle, the controller determines, on the basis of a result of positioning and map information, presence or absence of a tollgate within a predetermined distance from the vehicle. The controller makes a transition to a tollgate passing mode, on a condition that the presence of the tollgate is determined within the predetermined distance and an increase in width of the road is further recognized on the basis of a result of recognition of an outside environment. In the tollgate passing mode, the controller sets a first target path on the basis of position information, of the tollgate, that is recognized on the basis of the result of the recognition of the outside environment. The first target path is a target path along which the vehicle is to pass through the tollgate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Akiyuki ABE, Masatoshi HOSHINA, Keisuke KUWAHARA, Yasuhiro SEKIJIMA
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Patent number: 9630620Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a single manipulandum that selects at least one of first to n-th modes in which ON/OFF states of mutually related functions are set, or a function OFF as an operation support function of a vehicle. An operation support controller selects a transition order according to the current mode when the current state is any one of the first to n-th modes, and sequentially selects each one of the first to n-th modes other than the current mode, and the function OFF based on the selected transition order, each time an operation of the manipulandum is detected. The n is a natural number of 2 or greater.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tasuku Maruyama, Masatoshi Hoshina
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Publication number: 20160114812Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a single manipulandum that selects at least one of first to n-th modes in which ON/OFF states of mutually related functions are set, or a function OFF as an operation support function of a vehicle. An operation support controller selects a transition order according to the current mode when the current state is any one of the first to n-th modes, and sequentially selects each one of the first to n-th modes other than the current mode, and the function OFF based on the selected transition order, each time an operation of the manipulandum is detected. The n is a natural number of 2 or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Tasuku MARUYAMA, Masatoshi HOSHINA