Patents by Inventor Ryoma Taguchi

Ryoma Taguchi 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: 10858014
    Abstract: A vehicle control system of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a peripheral environment of a vehicle, a driving controller that performs driving control based on speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, an acquirer that acquires a remaining energy amount of a terminal device, and a notifier that performs a notification for prompting an increase of the remaining energy amount when the remaining energy amount acquired by the acquirer while an occupant is aboard the vehicle is less than a first threshold in a case where an instruction to cause a vehicle to enter a parking area in which the vehicle is able to be parked by traveling based on the driving control or an instruction to cause the vehicle to exit the parking area is performed by the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200365019
    Abstract: An information-processing device includes a first controller configured to determine the number of users using a vehicle that enters or leaves a parking lot or a weight of the vehicle and a second controller configured to determine a position where the vehicle is stopped within a predetermined area of the parking lot on the basis of the number of users or the weight determined by the first controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200361414
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor a memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to transmit a virtual key enabling an operation on a vehicle through automated valet parking control to another device by using a communicator communicating with the other device; and an operation controller configured to operate the vehicle according to operation information of the vehicle in a case where the communicator receives use information of the virtual key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200361496
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle, and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer. When moving the vehicle to a parking area after detecting that an occupant gets off the vehicle at a stop position, the driving controller adjusts a start timing for starting the vehicle based on the number of vehicles stopped at the stop position recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20200365027
    Abstract: A management device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a use situation of a specific area for stopping of a vehicle, and a guide configured to guide a second vehicle having a smaller vehicle body than a vehicle body of a first vehicle to the specific area when there is no first stop space and there is a second stop space in the specific area, on the basis of the use situation recognized by the recognizer, the first stop space is a space in which the first vehicle or the second vehicle is able to stop, and the second stop space is a space in which the first vehicle is not able to stop and the second vehicle is able to stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200365025
    Abstract: A control device includes a transport mechanism that can transport one or more vehicles placed on the transport mechanism in an area where at least boarding or alighting is performed and a transport mechanism controller that controls an operation of the transport mechanism, wherein the transport mechanism controller controls the transport mechanism to transport a vehicle placed on the transport mechanism to a parking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20200361450
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a first vehicle and a driving controller configured to cause the first vehicle to stop in a predetermined area of a parking lot by controlling at least one of steering and a speed of the first vehicle on the basis of the situation recognized by the recognizer. When a specific user having priority over another user to get into or out of the first vehicle uses the first vehicle, the driving controller causes the first vehicle to stop at a priority position closer to a pedestrian gate leading to an outside of the parking lot than other positions within the area in preference to a second vehicle different from the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200361462
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, A vehicle control device includes: a processor; a memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to: recognize a surrounding environment of a host vehicle; and perform driving control of one or both of a speed and steering of the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein performing driving control comprises storing a traveling trajectory until the host vehicle enters a parking place in a storage, generating a scheduled traveling route for leaving using the traveling trajectory when the host vehicle leaves the parking place, and causing the host vehicle to travel on the basis of the generated scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200361451
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mountable in a vehicle and including an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of a frame line of a second parking frame from other vehicle stopped at the second parking frame adjacent to a first parking frame at which the vehicle automatically parks, and a calculator configured to calculate a position of a frame line of the first parking frame on the basis of the positional information of the frame line of the second parking frame acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200365026
    Abstract: A parking lot management apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a parking lot management apparatus including a processor a memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to receive designation of an exit reservation time at which a vehicle will exit a parking lot and confirm presence or absence of the designation of the exit reservation time for a vehicle intended to be parked in the parking lot, wherein receiving designation of the exit reservation time with respect to an unreserved vehicle for which to confirm that the exit reservation time has not been designated before a user alights from the vehicle to be parked in the parking lot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200311641
    Abstract: A parking area management device includes: a recognizer that recognizes vehicles in a parking area; and a parking position determiner that determines a parking position of vehicles in the parking area on the basis of a vehicle length and a vehicle width of each of the vehicles recognized by the recognizer. The parking position determiner virtually sets parking frames in which the vehicles can park on the basis of outer dimensions of the vehicles recognized by the recognizer and map information of the parking area and determines the set parking frames as parking positions of the vehicles in the parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200307648
    Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a platform selector configured to refer to information associated with a parking lot having a plurality of platforms and select one or more platforms from among the plurality of platforms in response to a leaving request for requesting movement of a vehicle parked in the parking lot from a parking position of the vehicle to the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200311621
    Abstract: A management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a usage status of a parking lot, An information processor configured to refer to the usage status acquired by the acquirer and, when a first vehicle having entered a facility including a parking lot cannot use the parking lot within predetermined time after the entry, to receive a first post-entry reservation for a use of the parking lot of the first vehicle, and a provider configured to provide a user of the first vehicle with first information on the first post-entry reservation received by the information processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200311783
    Abstract: A parking lot management device includes an acceptance unit configured to accept leaving requests for requesting movement of vehicles parked in a parking lot to a stopping area for a predetermined number of vehicles in each time slot and a recognizer configured to acquire information for recognizing a stopping situation of the vehicles in the stopping area and recognize the stopping situation of the vehicles in the stopping area on the basis of the acquired information. The acceptance unit is configured to adjust the number of vehicles whose leaving requests are accepted in a subsequent time slot on the basis of whether or not the situation of the stopping area recognized by the recognizer indicates a tendency for vehicles to stop for a time period longer than a predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200307635
    Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a controller configured to control a window portion of the vehicle, and the controller controls opening and closing of the window portion on the basis of a result of the recognizing has recognized a gesture which is performed by a user of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200307514
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle on the basis of a detection result of a detector configured to detect a situation outside the vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and a door controller configured to perform opening control for opening a door of the vehicle. The door controller starts opening control for opening the door of the vehicle if the recognizer has recognized a predetermined motion of a user when the vehicle travels according to control of the driving controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200307557
    Abstract: A parking management device includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a vehicle and a terminal device of a user of the vehicle; a return manager configured to determine a sequence in which the vehicle arrives at a boarding area in which the user boards based on a position of the user recognized based on information acquired by the communicator, whether there is a return request of the vehicle from a parking lot which is acquired by the communicator, and coincidence between a time at which the return request of the vehicle is acquired and a return reservation time of the vehicle acquired in advance by the communicator; and a vehicle controller configured to transmit information which is used by a return target vehicle in autonomous traveling from the parking lot to the boarding area to the return target vehicle based on a sequence of the return target vehicle determined by the return manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200310457
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a vicinity situation recognizer configured to recognize a vicinity situation of a vehicle, and a driving controller configured to control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of a vicinity situation recognized by the vicinity situation recognizer, in which the driving controller changes a priority level of an operation when the vehicle stops near users scheduled to board the vehicle on the basis of a type of the users scheduled to board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200307556
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and recognize a locking state of the vehicle and a driving controller configured to perform driving control of one or both of a speed and steering of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The driving controller causes the vehicle to depart when a door of the vehicle is locked after an occupant of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle in a predetermined area in a state in which predetermined conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200311849
    Abstract: A parking lot management device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a reservation including designations of a reservation start time at which a vehicle enters a parking lot and a reservation end time at which the vehicle leaves the parking lot; a predicting unit configured to predict an arrival time at the parking lot in accordance with the arrival of the vehicle at a predetermined position; a control unit configured to perform control so that, when the arrival time predicted by the predicting unit is earlier than the reservation start time received by the receiving unit, it is determined whether the reservation start time is made earlier than the previously received reservation start time so that the vehicle is allowed to enter the parking lot, and when it is determined that a change in which the reservation start time is made earlier than the previously received reservation start time is possible, control is performed so that at least one of the reservation start time and the reservation end ti
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi