Patents by Inventor Misako YOSHIMURA
Misako YOSHIMURA 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: 12221126Abstract: A control device performs: setting a moving area including a trajectory along which a mobile object is scheduled to move with behavior of the mobile object and a surrounding area when the mobile object moves straight, turns right, or turns left; controlling an information provision device configured to provide a driver with information such that the driver is notified of presence of a first type of object when a first type of object is present in the surrounding area and the driver does not see the first type of object; and controlling the information provision device such that the driver is re-notified of the first type of object when the first type of object is present in the moving area and the driver does not see the first type of object after the driver has seen the first type of object through the notification.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura, Shigenobu Saigusa
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Patent number: 12189391Abstract: A control system of a mobile object that can move in any one operation mode determined from a plurality of operation modes is provided. The control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: generate evaluation information for a trajectory of the mobile object including a trajectory on a sidewalk; each of the plurality of operation modes being associated with an acceptance level for an event that may occur when the mobile object moves along a trajectory; and generate the evaluation information for the trajectory based on the acceptance level in the operation mode associated with an event that occurs when moving along the trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Baba, Misako Yoshimura, Yosuke Koike, Kosuke Nakanishi, Koki Aizawa
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Patent number: 12164300Abstract: A moving object control system includes a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors executes the instructions stored in the storage device to determine whether or not an element selected on a basis of a priority based on the type of a specific location near the sidewalk among a plurality of elements satisfies a criterion defined for each element, and determine whether or not a sidewalk is to be included in a route of a moving object on a basis of a result of determination of whether or not the element satisfies the criterion.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Koki Aizawa, Misako Yoshimura, Ichiro Baba, Kosuke Nakanishi, Yosuke Koike
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Patent number: 12139016Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit which controls a display unit which can display an image of a character and a graphical user interface (GUI) which accepts an operation instruction for an apparatus. The information processing device includes an obtaining unit which obtains information indicating an operation content of an apparatus intended by a user. The display control unit determines the presentation duration for which a presentation image of the character operating the GUI is displayed based on the operation content and causes a display unit to display the presentation image for the presentation duration.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Nanami Tsukamoto, Misako Yoshimura, Kentaro Yamada, Hisashi Ishimatsu
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Patent number: 12122426Abstract: A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: acquire an image in which a road surface around the mobile object is imaged; recognize support information for supporting walking of a specific traffic participant who is a traffic participant having a predetermined attribute obtained from the road surface imaged in the image and the traffic participant imaged in the image; predict a behavior of the recognized traffic participant based on the support information; and control the behavior of the mobile object based on the support information and the prediction result.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Misako Yoshimura, Ichiro Baba, Kosuke Nakanishi, Yosuke Koike, Koki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20240308539Abstract: A control device for controlling a vehicle is configured to identify a risk factor present in surroundings of the vehicle and a direction of the risk factor with respect to the vehicle, display, on the display device, risk information indicating the direction of the risk factor with a first emphasis degree, and take a guidance action using the steering operation element. The guidance action guides a driver of the vehicle to operate the steering operation element to avoid the risk factor. When the guidance action using the steering operation element is taken, avoidance information indicating an advancing direction of the vehicle to avoid the risk factor is displayed on the display device, and the risk information is displayed with a second emphasis degree lower than the first emphasis degree, or the risk information is not displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Gakuyo FUJIMOTO, Misako YOSHIMURA
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Patent number: 12090993Abstract: A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store a instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: determining whether a roadway is a pedestrian road in which passage of vehicles is restricted; expanding a movable area in which the mobile object can move in a width direction of the roadway when it is determined that the roadway is the pedestrian road; and controlling the mobile object based on the movable area.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Nakanishi, Misako Yoshimura, Yosuke Koike, Ichiro Baba, Koki Aizawa
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Patent number: 11999385Abstract: A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: acquire an image in which a road where a mobile object is present is imaged; recognize support information for supporting movement of a specific traffic participant who is a traffic participant having a predetermined attribute appearing on a road surface included in the image; recognize a road structure included in the image or a road structure which is a structure provided on the road; move the mobile object at least based on a trajectory determined using the support information when the support information is recognized; and move the mobile object based on a trajectory determined using the road structure without using the support information when the support information has not been recognized.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Koike, Misako Yoshimura, Ichiro Baba, Kosuke Nakanishi, Koki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20240109550Abstract: A control device of an embodiment is a control device that makes a proposal for steering to avoid a risk object present on a traveling direction side of a mobile object to a driver of the mobile object and includes a determiner configured to determine, when it is assumed that the mobile object is caused to travel straight from a current position of the mobile object in a current traveling direction for a predetermined time, whether an assumed reference position of the mobile object intersects a traveling road boundary, and a proposer configured to suppress the proposal when it is determined that the reference position intersects the traveling road boundary, and makes the proposal when it is determined that the reference position does not intersect the traveling road boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Atsushi Kato, Shigenobu Saigusa, Kotaro Fujimura, Misako Yoshimura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20240109549Abstract: A control device performs: setting a moving area including a trajectory along which a mobile object is scheduled to move with behavior of the mobile object and a surrounding area when the mobile object moves straight, turns right, or turns left; controlling an information provision device configured to provide a driver with information such that the driver is notified of presence of a first type of object when a first type of object is present in the surrounding area and the driver does not see the first type of object; and controlling the information provision device such that the driver is re-notified of the first type of object when the first type of object is present in the moving area and the driver does not see the first type of object after the driver has seen the first type of object through the notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura, Shigenobu Saigusa
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Publication number: 20240109554Abstract: A control device is configured to perform: performing a first process when an index value indicating a degree of closeness to a risky object which is present in front of a mobile object is less than a first threshold value; performing a second process when the index value is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and less than a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value; and performing a third process and the second process when the index value is equal to or greater than the second threshold value. The third process includes a fourth process of proposing a driving operation for avoiding the risky object to a driver. The fourth process is not performed when the driver has performed an action for reducing or releasing an operation of an operator instructing an accelerating operation for accelerating the mobile object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kotaro Fujimura, Atsushi Kato, Shigenobu Saigusa, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20240109551Abstract: A notification control device performs: detecting a sightline of a driver; causing an information output device to output a first warning when a first condition is satisfied; and causing the information output device to output a second warning when a second condition is satisfied. The first condition is a condition that the driver's sight line is out of a predetermined range in which the driver is considered to see a view in front of the mobile object and a state in which the sightline is out of the range is maintained for a first time. The second condition is a condition that the driver's sightline is out of the range, a risky object to be noticed is present in a reference area, and the state in which the sightline is out of the range is maintained for a second time shorter than the first time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Gakuyo Fujimoto, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Misako Yoshimura, Shigenobu Saigusa
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Publication number: 20240109583Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a storage medium configured to store computer-readable instructions, and a processor that is connected to the storage medium, in which the processor executes the computer-readable instructions to determine to prompt a driver of a mobile object to avoid contact with an object detected by an object detection device whose detection range is at least on a traveling direction side of the mobile object according to steering, and a steering direction for avoiding contact with the object, and when it is determined to prompt the driver of the mobile object to avoid contact with the object according to steering, cause an actuator capable of outputting force to a steering operator to execute outputting, first, a force to reach a first target force in the same direction as the steering direction in a first period to maintain the state, and causing, then, a force output in a second period longer than the first period to reach zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Misako Yoshimura, Gakuyo Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11914386Abstract: A mobile object control device includes a first controller that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile object based on an output of a detection device having a space around the mobile object as a detection range and generates a first movement plan for the mobile object in a first period based on the recognized surrounding situation of the mobile object, and a second controller that generates a second movement plan for the mobile object in a second period shorter than the first period, and when the second controller generates label data in which label information indicating different values depending on at least the presence or absence of a moving object is imparted to each of division elements obtained by dividing the space around the mobile object into a finite number, and generates the second movement plan based on the label data.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Gakuyo Fujimoto, Misako Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11465504Abstract: A control device controls a display device capable of displaying visual information for a passenger of a moving body, in two or more display regions. The control device causes adjacent target regions of the display regions to change from a display state in which the information is displayed to a display restricted state in which display is restricted, according to a predetermined order, when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The control device determines the target regions and the order, based on a traveling direction of the moving body at the time when the condition is satisfied or a traveling direction of the moving body that is predicted after the time when the condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Misako Yoshimura, Kentaro Yamada, Nanami Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20220319191Abstract: A control device of a mobile object including an imaging device attached with a lens having a wide angle of view is given. The control device acquires, from the imaging device, an image acquired by imaging an outside of the mobile object, and detects a target object through image recognition, based on the acquired image. The control device performs a distortion reduction process for reducing a distortion of the image on a partial area in the image acquired from the imaging device, in accordance with the detection result. The partial area is an area whose center is set to be either a detection position of the target object or a vicinity of the detection position. The control device recognizes the outside of the mobile object, based on an image that has been acquired by the distortion reduction process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Akira KANEHARA, Misako YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20220297680Abstract: A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store a instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: determining whether a roadway is a pedestrian road in which passage of vehicles is restricted; expanding a movable area in which the mobile object can move in a width direction of the roadway when it is determined that the roadway is the pedestrian road; and controlling the mobile object based on the movable area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Kosuke Nakanishi, Misako Yoshimura, Yosuke Koike, Ichiro Baba, Koki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20220291689Abstract: A control system of a mobile object that can move in any one operation mode determined from a plurality of operation modes is provided. The control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: generate evaluation information for a trajectory of the mobile object including a trajectory on a sidewalk; each of the plurality of operation modes being associated with an acceptance level for an event that may occur when the mobile object moves along a trajectory; and generate the evaluation information for the trajectory based on the acceptance level in the operation mode associated with an event that occurs when moving along the trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Ichiro Baba, Misako Yoshimura, Yosuke Koike, Kosuke Nakanishi, Koki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20220291684Abstract: A control system of a mobile object that can move in any one operation mode determined from a plurality of operation modes is provided. The control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: determine whether a predetermined road is a first road in which passage of vehicles in a mode other than a first operation mode in which a maximum moving speed of the mobile object is less than a predetermined speed is restricted; and execute a first process of generating a route of the mobile object so as to include the road determined to be first road and a second process of generating a route of the mobile object so as not to include the road determined to be the first road.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Misako Yoshimura, Ichiro Baba, Kosuke Nakanishi, Yosuke Koike, Koki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20220274630Abstract: A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: acquire an image in which a road where a mobile object is present is imaged; recognize support information for supporting movement of a specific traffic participant who is a traffic participant having a predetermined attribute appearing on a road surface included in the image; recognize a road structure included in the image or a road structure which is a structure provided on the road; move the mobile object at least based on a trajectory determined using the support information when the support information is recognized; and move the mobile object based on a trajectory determined using the road structure without using the support information when the support information has not been recognized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Yosuke KOIKE, Misako YOSHIMURA, Ichiro BABA, Kosuke NAKANISHI, Koki AIZAWA