Patents by Inventor Nobuharu Nagaoka

Nobuharu Nagaoka 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: 11945466
    Abstract: A detection device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a plurality of targets present in a traveling direction of a vehicle from an imaging device attached to the vehicle; a calculation unit configured to determine whether the plurality of targets detected with movement of the vehicle are an identical target based on the detection result acquired by the acquisition unit and calculate a coordinate of each of the plurality of targets in chronological order; and a detection unit configured to detect a pitch angle and a roll angle of the imaging device with respect to a horizontal direction based on the coordinate calculated in chronological order by the calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Takayuki Tsuji, Yuki Sugano
  • Patent number: 11697323
    Abstract: A fogging suppression apparatus that suppresses fogging of a window of vehicle, comprises an acquisition unit that acquires an external temperature of the vehicle, a heater that heats the window, the heater differing from an air conditioning apparatus including a blower provided in the vehicle; and a control unit that controls the heater so as to heat the window when the external temperature of the vehicle is lower than or equal to a predetermined temperature and there is a request for activation of the air conditioning apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tashiro, Shintaro Ohtaki, Tatsunori Kobayashi, Nobuharu Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 11516892
    Abstract: A transportation apparatus includes: a window member; a first heating unit arranged to heat a first region of the window member; a second heating unit arranged to heat a second region of the window member; and a control unit configured to control driving of the first heating unit and the second heating unit. The first region and the second region are adjacent regions. The control unit performs first heating control of making a heating output of the first heating unit larger than a heating output of the second heating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Shintaro Ohtaki, Masaki Nakajima, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20220315038
    Abstract: A detection device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a plurality of targets present in a traveling direction of a vehicle from an imaging device attached to the vehicle; a calculation unit configured to determine whether the plurality of targets detected with movement of the vehicle are an identical target based on the detection result acquired by the acquisition unit and calculate a coordinate of each of the plurality of targets in chronological order; and a detection unit configured to detect a pitch angle and a roll angle of the imaging device with respect to a horizontal direction based on the coordinate calculated in chronological order by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Takayuki Tsuji, Yuki Sugano
  • Publication number: 20220315050
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer that recognizes a situation around a host vehicle based on a detection result of an object detection device including a camera and an action plan generator that generates an action plan of the host vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer about a situation around the host vehicle. The action plan generator generates an action plan for, when it is predicted that the camera will be backlit while the host vehicle is traveling, avoiding that the camera is backlit at a prediction point and a prediction timing when it is predicted that the camera will be backlit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Sugano, Nobuharu Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20220314989
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control device including: a recognizer that recognizes a situation of the vicinity of a subject vehicle and an action plan generator that generates an action plan of the subject vehicle based on a result of the recognition of the vicinity of the subject vehicle acquired by the recognizer, in which the recognizer recognizes an inter-vehicle distance between the subject vehicle and another vehicle traveling in front of the subject vehicle, and the action plan generator generates an action plan for changing the inter-vehicle distance between the subject vehicle and the other vehicle based on the result of the recognition of the inter-vehicle distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Yuki Sugano, Ryota Okutsu
  • Patent number: 11208118
    Abstract: A travel control device for controlling travel of a vehicle, comprises a device that acquires external information of a vehicle; a travel control unit configured to control travel of the vehicle using an acquisition result by the device; a diagnosis start unit configured to start a diagnosis process of the device; and a restriction unit configured to restrict a function of travel control of the vehicle after the diagnosis process of the device is started by the diagnosis start unit according to a state of travel control of the vehicle before the diagnosis process of the device is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luwei Jia, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Tadahiko Kanoh
  • Patent number: 11180164
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control apparatus for controlling traveling of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a stop control unit configured to move the vehicle in a vehicle width direction and stop the vehicle in a traveling state; a notification unit configured to make a notification of the stop of the vehicle; and a change unit configured to change a notification method by the notification unit in accordance with a stop mode of the vehicle stopped by the stop control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Horii, Tadahiko Kanoh, Jun Ochida, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Hirofumi Kanazaki, Luwei Jia
  • Patent number: 11014558
    Abstract: Even in the case that a learning flag and an ACC permission flag are not set, if a power switch is in an ON state, a travel control of a second control state, which is capable of being executed in a setting in which an inter-vehicle distance setting is a short setting or a host vehicle velocity setting is a low setting, is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Horii, Tadahiko Kanoh, Jun Ochida, Hirofumi Kanazaki, Luwei Jia, Nobuharu Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20200398868
    Abstract: A vehicle control system (1, 100) includes: a recognizer (120) configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a controller (120, 160) configured to control one or both of steering and a decelerated or accelerated speed of the vehicle and perform driving support of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer; and a mode controller (170) configured to cause the controller to perform first control such that the driving support is ended when the driving support ends in accordance with a first state in the vehicle and to cause the controller to perform second control such that the vehicle is decelerated while reducing a risk and subsequently end the second control when the driving support ends in accordance with a second state in the vehicle in a case in which the controller performs the driving support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroaki Horii, Tadahiko Kanoh, Jun Ochida, Nobuharu Nagaoka, Hirofumi Kanazaki, Luwei ` Jia
  • Publication number: 20200391765
    Abstract: A travel control device for controlling travel of a vehicle, comprises a device that acquires external information of a vehicle; a travel control unit configured to control travel of the vehicle using an acquisition result by the device; a diagnosis start unit configured to start a diagnosis process of the device; and a restriction unit configured to restrict a function of travel control of the vehicle after the diagnosis process of the device is started by the diagnosis start unit according to a state of travel control of the vehicle before the diagnosis process of the device is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Luwei JIA, Nobuharu NAGAOKA, Tadahiko KANOH
  • Publication number: 20200389945
    Abstract: A transportation apparatus includes: a window member; a first heating unit arranged to heat a first region of the window member; a second heating unit arranged to heat a second region of the window member; and a control unit configured to control driving of the first heating unit and the second heating unit. The first region and the second region are adjacent regions. The control unit performs first heating control of making a heating output of the first heating unit larger than a heating output of the second heating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Shintaro Ohtaki, Masaki Nakajima, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200282804
    Abstract: A fogging suppression apparatus that suppresses fogging of a window of vehicle, comprises an acquisition unit that acquires an external temperature of the vehicle, a heater that heats the window, the heater differing from an air conditioning apparatus including a blower provided in the vehicle; and a control unit that controls the heater so as to heat the window when the external temperature of the vehicle is lower than or equal to a predetermined temperature and there is a request for activation of the air conditioning apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tashiro, Shintaro Ohtaki, Tatsunori Kobayashi, Nobuharu Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20200283021
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control apparatus for controlling traveling of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a stop control unit configured to move the vehicle in a vehicle width direction and stop the vehicle in a traveling state; a notification unit configured to make a notification of the stop of the vehicle; and a change unit configured to change a notification method by the notification unit in accordance with a stop mode of the vehicle stopped by the stop control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroaki HORII, Tadahiko KANOH, Jun OCHIDA, Nobuharu NAGAOKA, Hirofumi KANAZAKI, Luwei JIA
  • Patent number: 10565438
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle periphery monitor device for accurately distinguishing between and detecting two side-by-side pedestrians and a vehicle that is lighting lights. With regard to a pedestrian candidate having at least two head candidates, a reference image creation unit creates the peripheral image of one of the head candidates as a reference image and creates an inverted image in which the right and left sides of the reference image are inverted. An object determination unit sets the peripheral image of the other heat candidate as a comparative image, and determines whether the head candidates are the pedestrians or the vehicle on the basis of the consistency of the reference image and the inverted image relative to the comparative image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Makoto Aimura
  • Publication number: 20190256093
    Abstract: Even in the case that a learning flag and an ACC permission flag are not set, if a power switch is in an ON state, a travel control of a second control state, which is capable of being executed in a setting in which an inter-vehicle distance setting is a short setting or a host vehicle velocity setting is a low setting, is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroaki HORII, Tadahiko KANOH, Jun OCHIDA, Hirofumi KANAZAKI, Luwei JIA, Nobuharu NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20190202407
    Abstract: A control apparatus that can be mounted on a vehicle which includes an observation apparatus for observing a peripheral environment and a performance recovering apparatus for recovering a performance of the observation apparatus, comprising a predicting unit configured to predict, based on driving information of the vehicle, a degree of performance degradation of the observation apparatus while the vehicle is traveling, and a determination unit configured to determine execution of a driving operation of the performance recovering apparatus based on a prediction result by the predicting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Luwei Jia, Nobuharu Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20180074492
    Abstract: An automatic driving control unit initiates automatic driving under a condition in which, after a manual driving recognition unit has recognized execution of manual driving, and a right/left turn recognition unit has recognized completion of a right or left turn of the vehicle, a state of being capable of generating a target travel trajectory by a trajectory generating unit is brought about, and in addition, the manual driving recognition unit no longer recognizes execution of manual driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamamoto, Takemi Tsukada, Nobuharu Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 9324235
    Abstract: A vehicle (1) having a vehicle information acquisition unit (11) which acquires image captured by a vehicle mounted sensor (20) and a camera (21), a vehicle information transmission unit (13) which transmits vehicle information data indicating information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit (11) to a host computer (50), a first arithmetic processing result reception unit (14) which receives first arithmetic processing result data replied from the host computer (50), and a driving assistance unit (17) which executes driving assistance processing based on the first arithmetic processing result data, the host computer (50) has a vehicle information reception unit (52) which receives vehicle information data, a first arithmetic processing unit (53) which executes first arithmetic processing on vehicle information data, and a first arithmetic processing result transmission unit (54) which transmits first arithmetic processing result data indicating the first arithmetic processing result to the veh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Makoto Aimura, Yusuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9321399
    Abstract: A surrounding area monitoring apparatus, which is built into a vehicle, images the area surrounding the vehicle and detects physical objects in the area surrounding the vehicle based on the image taken. The apparatus determines whether the detected physical object is a pedestrian or an animal, and a warning is given to the driver of the vehicle if the determined physical object is present within a specified area from the vehicle. If it is determined that the detected physical object is an animal and that the animal is present within the specified area, the warning in continued for a specified period even after the animal has left the specified area. Since animals have habits of behaving in a herd, the risk of lurking animals can be brought to the driver's attention by the continuation of the warning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Aimura, Nobuharu Nagaoka