Patents by Inventor Naotaka Kumakiri

Naotaka Kumakiri 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: 20220297712
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes an unable-to-drive state detection unit configured to detect that a driver is in an unable-to-drive state, the unable-to-drive state detection unit being provided in a vehicle, and a stop control unit configured to execute an automatic stop control causing the vehicle to decelerate and stop based on whether the unable-to-drive state is detected by the unable-to-drive state detection unit, wherein the vehicle is provided with an operator configured to operate the vehicle, includes an operation state detection unit configured to detect an operation state of the operator, and cancels the execution of the automatic stop control in a case where the operation state detection unit detects that the operation state of the operator has changed multiple times during transition to the automatic stop control or during the automatic stop control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yugo Kajiwara, Yuichi Masukake, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Patent number: 11267484
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automated driving control unit that automatically controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, the automated driving control unit performing automated driving control in any one of a plurality of modes with different degrees of automated driving, and an interface control unit that receives an operation of an occupant of the subject vehicle and restricts an operation with respect to an interface device on which predetermined information is output, according to the mode of automated driving performed by the automated driving control unit, and when the change to the mode of the automated driving in which the degree of automated driving decreases is performed in a state in which the restriction is relaxed or released, the interface control unit causes a state of the interface device to return to a state before the restriction is relaxed or released or performs a predetermined notification before a predetermined time at which the change
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Patent number: 11203360
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system including a driving assistance controller configured to execute driving assistance of a vehicle at a plurality of different degrees, an information output configured to output information, and an output controller configured to control the information output so that information indicating a target to be monitored or operated by an occupant required for the occupant is output on the basis of a change in a degree of driving assistance of the driving assistance controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Tatsuya Iwasa, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Naohiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11175658
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automatic driving control unit executing a first driving mode in which at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle is automatically controlled and an environment control unit controlling an environment device of the subject vehicle such that an environment of the inside of a vehicle cabin is in a state appropriate for a second driving mode in a case in which the automatic driving control unit ends execution of the first driving mode and transitions to a second driving mode of which a degree of automatic driving is lower than that of the first driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Okimoto, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Patent number: 11077862
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a control unit configured to support a driving of a vehicle by selectively operating in one driving support mode among a plurality of driving support modes including a low speed following travel mode in which the vehicle travels while maintaining a constant inter-vehicle distance between a preceding traveling vehicle and the vehicle in a case where the speed is equal to or less than a predetermined speed, and an equipment control unit configured to release a use restriction on a specific function in which the line of sight of a driver is removed from the vehicle surroundings due to its utilization in a case where the control unit operates the low speed following travel mode is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 11046332
    Abstract: When a second condition is satisfied in a case in which an automated driving control unit performs switching from automated driving to manual driving, a request for a remote operation is sent to an outside-vehicle facility using a communicator, and remote driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a vehicle is executed on the basis of control information received from the outside-vehicle facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Akaba, Kazuyuki Kaneko, Genta Boda, Masahiko Asakura, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 11027748
    Abstract: An automatic driving control device changes the degree of automation during an automatic control or the degree of change to the vehicle behavior during the automatic control, on the basis of the peripheral monitoring state of a driver, and on the basis of how easy it is to perform a switching operation for prioritizing manual control over automatic control. Thus, the automatic driving control device makes it possible to ensure the convenience of automatic control, by dynamically changing the degree of automation or the degree of change to the vehicle behavior, without uniformly stopping automatic control of steering and acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yoshinobu Mukai, Naotaka Kumakiri, Naohiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11016497
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a vehicle control system includes: a determination unit determining a schedule of a running locus and speed control of a subject vehicle; a running control unit automatically performing at least speed control of the subject vehicle on the basis of the schedule determined by the determination unit; and an interface control unit causing a display unit to display information representing a position or a section at which the subject vehicle accelerates or decelerates in the speed control in association with information representing the running locus on the basis of the schedule determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Patent number: 11001271
    Abstract: Provided is a drive assistance device for a self-driving car with which drive assistance is less liable to be deactivated, even if an abnormality of a monitoring device for monitoring a state of a driver occurs. A device checking ECU checks whether a plurality of monitoring devices for monitoring the state of the driver are normal or abnormal. On the basis of the check result, an assistance degree determination unit (function availability determination unit) determines a use degree (availability) of a plurality of drive assistance functions (ACC function, LKAS function, and ALC function) including an ACC function. Drive assistance effected by a vehicle with respect to the driver is therefore less liable to be deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Sakamoto, Shotaro Odate, Naotaka Kumakiri, Masaru Kanda
  • Patent number: 10921804
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automatic driving control unit configured to automatically control at least one of acceleration or deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, an operation reception unit configured to receive an operation of a vehicle occupant of the subject vehicle, an estimation unit configured to estimate a state of the vehicle occupant, and an override control unit configured to perform an override for switching from automatic driving to manual driving on the basis of the operation from the vehicle occupant received by the operation reception unit and suppress the override in a case where a decrease of a driving intention of the vehicle occupant is estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Okimoto, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Masahiko Asakura, Naoto Sen
  • Patent number: 10836254
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller that is configured to execute automated driving of automatedly controlling at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle; an estimator that is configured to estimate a degree of wakefulness of a vehicle occupant of the vehicle; and an output controller that is configured to cause an outputter to output a first content requiring the vehicle occupant of the vehicle engage in active behavior in a case in which the degree of wakefulness is estimated as being equal to or lower than a criterion by the estimator when the automated driving is executed by the automated driving controller, whereby the degree of wakefulness of the vehicle occupant of the vehicle can be maintained at a necessary level or higher in automated driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 10829129
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an external environment recognition unit configured to recognize an external environment situation, an automated driving control unit configured to perform automated driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, the automated driving control unit executing handover to switch a driving mode from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode on the basis of the external environment situation recognized by the external environment recognition unit, a handover prediction unit configured to predict a possibility of occurrence of the handover on the basis of the recognized external environment situation, an output unit configured to output information, and an interface control unit configured to control the output unit so that information for prompting the vehicle occupant to prepare for the handover is output when the handover prediction unit predicts that the possibility of occurrence of the handover is hig
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kohei Okimoto, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20200298876
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automated driving control unit that automatically controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, the automated driving control unit performing automated driving control in any one of a plurality of modes with different degrees of automated driving, and an interface control unit that receives an operation of an occupant of the subject vehicle and restricts an operation with respect to an interface device on which predetermined information is output, according to the mode of automated driving performed by the automated driving control unit, and when the change to the mode of the automated driving in which the degree of automated driving decreases is performed in a state in which the restriction is relaxed or released, the interface control unit causes a state of the interface device to return to a state before the restriction is relaxed or released or performs a predetermined notification before a predetermined time at which the change
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20200172122
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system including a driving assistance controller configured to execute driving assistance of a vehicle at a plurality of different degrees, an information output configured to output information, and an output controller configured to control the information output so that information indicating a target to be monitored or operated by an occupant required for the occupant is output on the basis of a change in a degree of driving assistance of the driving assistance controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Tatsuya Iwasa, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Naohiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20200086764
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: seats provided in a vehicle; an occupant detection unit that detects an arrangement or a state of occupants in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle; and a seat arrangement control unit that performs seat arrangement control of changing at least one of a posture, a position, and a direction of the seats according to the arrangement or the state of the occupants detected by the occupant detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Hironori Takano, Junichi Maruyama, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20200047773
    Abstract: When a second condition is satisfied in a case in which an automated driving control unit performs switching from automated driving to manual driving, a request for a remote operation is sent to an outside-vehicle facility using a communicator, and remote driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a vehicle is executed on the basis of control information received from the outside-vehicle facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Shogo Akaba, Kazuyuki Kaneko, Genta Boda, Masahiko Asakura, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Hironori Takano
  • Publication number: 20200050212
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a receiver configured to receive an instruction from an occupant of a vehicle, and an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving after the occupant of the vehicle exits the vehicle in a case in which an instruction to perform the automated driving after the occupant of the vehicle exits the vehicle is received by the receiver. Therefore, it is possible to improve the convenience of the occupant of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 10436603
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated drive control unit that performs automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically; a route guidance unit that decides a traveling route over which the vehicle will travel to a destination that has been set, and performs guidance to the decided traveling route; and a presentation unit that presents, to the passenger, at least one of an automated drive proportion that indicates the proportion of the traveling route to the destination where the automated driving can be performed, distance over which automated driving can be performed, predicted driving time over which automated driving can be performed, timing for performing the automated driving, and number of times of performing the automated driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kohei Okimoto, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Patent number: 10427686
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller that automatically controls at least one out of acceleration/deceleration or steering of a vehicle, and that performs automated driving control in one of a plurality of modes having different levels of automated driving; and a informing section that, in cases in which the automated driving mode transitions to one of the plurality of modes in accordance with a travel environment of the vehicle, predicts a timing at which the mode will transition, and informs the predicted timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190263262
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller that is configured to execute automated driving of automatedly controlling at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle; an estimator that is configured to estimate a degree of wakefulness of a vehicle occupant of the vehicle; and an output controller that is configured to cause an outputter to output a first content requiring the vehicle occupant of the vehicle engage in active behavior in a case in which the degree of wakefulness is estimated as being equal to or lower than a criterion by the estimator when the automated driving is executed by the automated driving controller, whereby the degree of wakefulness of the vehicle occupant of the vehicle can be maintained at a necessary level or higher in automated driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Hironori Takano