Patents by Inventor Masumi Dakemoto
Masumi Dakemoto 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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Publication number: 20240123971Abstract: The vehicle control device includes an arbitration unit configured to arbitrate between a plurality of control commands acquired from a plurality of driving support applications that respectively implements driving support functions, configured to output instructions based on a control command after arbitration to a first control unit that is able to control a steering actuator and a second control unit that is able to control at least one of a brake actuator or a drive actuator, and configured to acquire a steering angle and a yaw rate as the control commands from the driving support applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi DAKEMOTO, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA
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Patent number: 11884260Abstract: The vehicle control device includes an arbitration unit configured to arbitrate between a plurality of control commands acquired from a plurality of driving support applications that respectively implements driving support functions, configured to output instructions based on a control command after arbitration to a first control unit that is able to control a steering actuator and a second control unit that is able to control at least one of a brake actuator or a drive actuator, and configured to acquire a steering angle and a yaw rate as the control commands from the driving support applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Kaiji Itabashi, Yoshihisa Yamada
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Publication number: 20230415733Abstract: A vehicle comprises a plurality of drive assist devices configured to implement a plurality of drive assist functions, respectively. The plurality of drive assist devices includes a first drive assist device, which includes an update information generation device configured to generate update information to update a middle point in steering control performed by at least one of the drive assist devices, and a second drive assist device which does not include the update information generation device. The update information generation device in the first drive assist device generates the update information when the first drive assist device receives a notification that permits updating the middle point. The second drive assist device receives the update information from the first drive assist device when the second drive assist device receives the notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi DAKEMOTO, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA
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Patent number: 11834037Abstract: A control device mounted on a vehicle, the control device includes one or more processors configured to: receive a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; arbitrate the first requests; calculate a second request based on an arbitration result, wherein the first requests and the second request are different physical quantities from each other; distribute the second request to at least one of a plurality of actuator systems; and output, to the driver assistance system, information regarding a middle point of a steering actuator included in the actuator systems in the driver assistance system.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Kaiji Itabashi, Yoshihisa Yamada
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Patent number: 11787400Abstract: A control device mounted on a vehicle, the control device includes one or more processors configured to: receive a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; arbitrate the first requests; calculate a second request based on an arbitration result, wherein the first requests and the second request are different physical quantities from each other; distribute the second request to at least one of a plurality of actuator systems; and output, to the driver assistance system, information regarding a middle point of a steering actuator included in the actuator systems in the driver assistance system.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Kaiji Itabashi, Yoshihisa Yamada
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Patent number: 11738762Abstract: A control device includes one or more processors that is configured to: receive a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; arbitrate the plurality of first requests; calculate a second request, which has a physical quantity different from the first request, based on an arbitration result; and distribute the second request to at least one of a plurality of actuator systems. When a difference between the second request based on a previous arbitration result and the second request based on a current arbitration result is larger than a threshold value, the one or more processors are configured to distribute a request that is a value between the second request based on the previous arbitration result and the second request based on the current arbitration result.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Yoshihisa Yamada, Kaiji Itabashi
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Publication number: 20210291821Abstract: A control device mounted on a vehicle, the control device includes one or more processors configured to: receive a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; arbitrate the first requests; calculate a second request based on an arbitration result, wherein the first requests and the second request are different physical quantities from each other; distribute the second request to at least one of a plurality of actuator systems; and output, to the driver assistance system, information regarding a middle point of a steering actuator included in the actuator systems in the driver assistance system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi DAKEMOTO, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA
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Publication number: 20210237748Abstract: A control device includes one or more processors that is configured to: receive a plurality of first requests from a driver assistance system; arbitrate the plurality of first requests; calculate a second request, which has a physical quantity different from the first request, based on an arbitration result; and distribute the second request to at least one of a plurality of actuator systems. When a difference between the second request based on a previous arbitration result and the second request based on a current arbitration result is larger than a threshold value, the one or more processors are configured to distribute a request that is a value between the second request based on the previous arbitration result and the second request based on the current arbitration result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi DAKEMOTO, Yoshihisa YAMADA, Kaiji ITABASHI
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Publication number: 20210139015Abstract: The vehicle control device includes an arbitration unit configured to arbitrate between a plurality of control commands acquired from a plurality of driving support applications that respectively implements driving support functions, configured to output instructions based on a control command after arbitration to a first control unit that is able to control a steering actuator and a second control unit that is able to control at least one of a brake actuator or a drive actuator, and configured to acquire a steering angle and a yaw rate as the control commands from the driving support applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi DAKEMOTO, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA
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Patent number: 11001270Abstract: A driving support device includes an electric control unit and a cleaning device. The electric control unit is configured to select one mode of a first mode based on a premise that a driver is touching a steering wheel and a second mode not based on the premise that the driver is touching the steering wheel. The electric control unit is configured to permit cleaning of the cleaning device when a cleaning request is issued and the mode is the first mode and to prohibit cleaning of the cleaning device when the mode is the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masumi Dakemoto
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Patent number: 10814873Abstract: A driving support apparatus is configured to execute steering support control of changing a steering angle of a vehicle based on vehicle surroundings information. The driving support apparatus includes a cleaning apparatus configured to execute cleaning processing for cleaning a window section when a cleaning request is generated. The driving support apparatus is configured to determine whether or not a predetermined cleaning prohibition condition is satisfied, the predetermined cleaning prohibition condition being satisfied when the vehicle is predicted to be likely to approach an object present near the vehicle on the assumption that the cleaning processing is executed. The driving support apparatus prohibits the cleaning apparatus from executing the cleaning processing when the cleaning prohibition condition is determined to be satisfied in a case where the cleaning request is generated during execution of the steering support control.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masumi Dakemoto
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Publication number: 20190315353Abstract: A driving support apparatus is configured to execute steering support control of changing a steering angle of a vehicle based on vehicle surroundings information. The driving support apparatus includes a cleaning apparatus configured to execute cleaning processing for cleaning a window section when a cleaning request is generated. The driving support apparatus is configured to determine whether or not a predetermined cleaning prohibition condition is satisfied, the predetermined cleaning prohibition condition being satisfied when the vehicle is predicted to be likely to approach an object present near the vehicle on the assumption that the cleaning processing is executed. The driving support apparatus prohibits the cleaning apparatus from executing the cleaning processing when the cleaning prohibition condition is determined to be satisfied in a case where the cleaning request is generated during execution of the steering support control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masumi DAKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20190308634Abstract: A driving support device includes an electric control unit and a cleaning device. The electric control unit is configured to select one mode of a first mode based on a premise that a driver is touching a steering wheel and a second mode not based on the premise that the driver is touching the steering wheel. The electric control unit is configured to permit cleaning of the cleaning device when a cleaning request is issued and the mode is the first mode and to prohibit cleaning of the cleaning device when the mode is the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masumi DAKEMOTO
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Patent number: 9164799Abstract: A multiprocessor system includes plural processing parts configured to execute a program stored in a program memory; a common resource shared by the processing parts; a resource status table in which an occupation status of the common resource is written; a resource access table in which address areas are associated with occupation manners of the common resource on a function basis of the program stored in the program memory; and a controlling part configured to determine whether to permit execution of a function which involves occupation of the common resource by one of the processing parts using the resource status table and the resource access table.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Akira Nakashima, Masaru Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20130298136Abstract: A multiprocessor system includes plural processing parts configured to execute a program stored in a program memory; a common resource shared by the processing parts; a resource status table in which an occupation status of the common resource is written; a resource access table in which address areas are associated with occupation manners of the common resource on a function basis of the program stored in the program memory; and a controlling part configured to determine whether to permit execution of a function which involves occupation of the common resource by one of the processing parts using the resource status table and the resource access table.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Akira Nakashima, Masaru Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20130013902Abstract: A dynamically reconfigurable processor which executes a series of processes on an instruction basis for respective instructions, comprises: a dynamically configurable computing unit; and a clock generating circuit, wherein start timing for processes in the series of processes is determined based on the main clock except for an instruction execution process of executing the instruction with the dynamically configurable computing unit, the instruction execution process of executing the instruction with the dynamically configurable computing unit includes a computing element generating sub-process of dynamically configuring, with dynamically configurable computing unit, a computing element corresponding to the instruction, and an operation sub-process of performing an operation according to the instruction with the computing element configured in the computing element generating sub-process, start timing for the computing element generating sub-process and the operation sub-process is determined based on the subType: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Isomura, Masumi Dakemoto
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Patent number: 7683941Abstract: As to an image signal of a solid-state image pickup device, an average value calculating unit calculates average values of pixel values of individual color components constituting an image of each frame. A gain calculating unit calculates, for the number of frames in one cycle of flicker generation, maximum values of the average values of the pixel values of the individual color components of the image, which average values are calculated by the average value calculating unit; calculates, according to the maximum values, gains for adjusting to a maximum range the average values of the pixel values of the individual color components constituting other images; and outputs the gains as gains of the individual color components to be supplied to a signal amplifying unit. The signal amplifying unit amplifies all pixels of color components of the image according to the gains of the individual color components supplied.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Narihiro Matoba, Takeo Fujita
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Publication number: 20080225147Abstract: For an image signal of a solid-state image pickup element, average value calculation means calculates an average value of pixel values for the respective color components constituting an image of each frame. Gain calculation means calculates a maximum value from the average values of the pixel values of the respective color components of the image calculated by the average value calculation means for the number of frames for one cycle of flicker generation, calculates, according to these maximum values, a gain for adjusting the average value of the pixel value of the respective components constituting the other image to a maximum width, and outputs it as a gain of each color component to be given to signal amplification means. The signal amplification means amplifies all the pixels of the color components of the image according to the gain of the respective color components given.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Masumi Dakemoto, Narihiro Matoba, Takeo Fujita