Patents by Inventor Ryosuke NAMBA

Ryosuke NAMBA 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: 20240071223
    Abstract: A travelling control system includes a plurality of vehicles each including a controller, a server including a generator configured to generate a travelling control information for the plurality of vehicles, a predictor configured to predict a merging interference between a first vehicle travelling from a merging road toward a main road and a second vehicle travelling on the main road, a sender which is provided in the first vehicle to send an interference suppressing request, and a receiver which is provided in the second vehicle to receive the interference suppressing request. The controller of the second vehicle travelling on the main road is configured to execute interference suppressing control of suppressing an approach of the second vehicle to the first vehicle travelling from the merging road to the main road, in a case that the receiver receives the interference suppressing request from the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Ryosuke NAMBA, Hiroaki KAWAMURA, Norikazu EBISAWA, Kengo KOBAYASHI, Masaru NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 11904936
    Abstract: A driving support device for a vehicle includes a separation line recognizer configured to recognize pairs of right and left separation lines ahead of the vehicle on vehicle's traveling roads, a target route setting unit configured to set a target route along center lines of lanes defined with respective centers of each of the pairs of the separation lines, a steering controller configured to perform steering control for driving the vehicle along the target route, and a target route corrector configured to correct the target route when an intersecting road is on the target route and an angle between a center line of the vehicle's current traveling road before the intersecting road and a center line on the intersecting road is a set angle or less, set a route correction section, calculate a arc tangent to the two center lines, and correct the target route based on the calculated arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Namba
  • Patent number: 11845436
    Abstract: A vehicle travel locus transmission system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a GNSS receiver, a vehicle-side transceiver, a locator processor, a wheel speed sensor, a gyro sensor, and an acceleration rate sensor. The locator processor generates, on predetermined cycles, a latest first linear coordinate as a linear function parameter that couples latest first positional coordinates and second positional coordinates on a previous cycle. The first and second positional coordinates are to be acquired on the basis of a positioning signal received by the GNSS receiver. On the condition that an angle formed by the first linear coordinate with an extension of a second linear coordinate generated on the previous cycle exceeds a predetermined threshold, the locator processor sends data regarding the first linear coordinate together with vehicle identification data, from the vehicle-side transceiver to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Namba, Keisuke Kuwahara, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 11816988
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects field information on movement of mobile bodies using communication apparatuses provided in respective predetermined zones or sections. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies based on the collected information. The generator generates course-related information based on mapping information on the positions of the mobile bodies. The controller is provided for each mobile body and controls movement of the mobile body based on the course-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Oyama, Ryosuke Namba, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11816982
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects field information on movement of mobile bodies using communication apparatuses provided in predetermined zones. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies based on the collected field information. The generator generates course-related information based on the mapped positions of the mobile bodies. The controller is provided for each mobile body and controls or determines movement of the mobile body based on the course-related information. If the collected field information includes information that hinders the movement of the mobile bodies, the mapping unit maps the positions of the mobile bodies moving on a road on which the mobile bodies are movable and sets a movement restricted section, and the generator generates the course-related information for each mobile body to regulate the movement of the mobile bodies in the movement restricted section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Oyama, Ryosuke Namba, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11688279
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects information about movement of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates course-related information by using information including the positions of the mobile bodies mapped by the mapping unit. The controller controls movement of each of the mobile bodies, by using the generated course-related information, or information obtained on the basis of the course-related information and usable for determination or control of the movement of the corresponding one of the mobile bodies. The generator generates the course-related information for each of the mobile bodies, to prevent hindrance to movement of a first mobile body moving in emergency, out of the mobile bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Oyama, Ryosuke Namba, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11674819
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects information about movement of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates course-related information by using information including the positions of the mobile bodies mapped by the mapping unit. The controller controls movement of each of the mobile bodies on the basis of the generated course-related information. The mapping unit maps a position error of a first mobile body together with a position of the first mobile body, in a case of determining that the position error occurs on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates the course-related information that allows the first mobile body to move within a range including the position and the position error thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Namba, Hajime Oyama, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoyuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11538335
    Abstract: A traffic control system for an automatic driving vehicle includes a vehicle control system and a management and control system. The management and control system collects snow removal information by a snow removal information collector, and calculates traveling environment information of the snow-removed area by a snow-removed area traveling environment information calculator. The vehicle control system performs, by a first automatic driving controller, first automatic driving control that is made redundant by a control system based on map information and location information and by a control system based on external environment recognition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Namba
  • Publication number: 20220256082
    Abstract: A traveling environment recognition apparatus includes a camera, a first traveling environment recognition unit, a second traveling environment recognition unit, and an imaging mode switching unit. The first traveling environment recognition unit calculates the movement amount of a vehicle on the basis of an optical flow in an image captured by the camera. The second traveling environment recognition unit calculates a vehicle position in the real space on the basis of positioning signals received from positioning satellites. The imaging mode switching unit drives the camera in a first imaging mode when positioning accuracy based on the positioning signals is high, while the imaging mode switching unit drives in a second imaging mode when the positioning accuracy is low. When the camera is driven in the second imaging mode, the second traveling environment recognition unit estimates the vehicle position on a road map based on the movement amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Hajime OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220242408
    Abstract: An automatic driving assistance system to be applied to a vehicle includes an intersection detector and an ACC-set-vehicle-speed changing section. The intersection detector detects, on the basis of a traveling environment in a predetermined range of a target traveling course in front of the vehicle, a set of intersections whose interval is shorter than a predetermined interval within the predetermined range of the target traveling course in front of the vehicle. The traveling environment is to be acquired on the basis of road map data and traveling-environment data on an environment in front of the vehicle. The ACC-set-vehicle-speed changing section changes, in a case where the intersection detector detects the set of intersections whose interval is shorter than the predetermined interval, an ACC set vehicle speed from a first ACC set vehicle speed that is set to a second ACC set vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke NAMBA
  • Publication number: 20220204047
    Abstract: A vehicle driving support system capable of supporting driving of a vehicle that travels on a road includes a notifier, and an acquirer. In a case where there is a first vehicle that moves between lanes, the notifier is configured to, provide notification of presence of the first vehicle to a second vehicle travelling in a target lane into which the first vehicle is to move. The acquirer is configured to acquire a size of a merging space that is to be provided by the second vehicle for merging of the first vehicle. In a case where the first vehicle is travelling under autonomous operation or assisted operation, the acquirer is configured to acquire the size of the merging space such that the size of the merging space is longer than when acquired in a case where the first vehicle is travelling under manual operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Masato MIZOGUCHI, Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA
  • Publication number: 20220203980
    Abstract: A vehicle driving control system includes a road map information updating unit, a control information calculation unit, and a driving control execution unit. Upon determining that a stopped vehicle is present ahead of a target vehicle and that the target vehicle is able to pass by the stopped vehicle, the control information calculation unit calculates control information to be used to restrict a vehicle speed to a first set vehicle speed or less until the target vehicle passes by the stopped vehicle, and calculates, if a door of the stopped vehicle has been opened, the control information to be used to restrict the vehicle speed to a second set vehicle speed or less until a set time period elapses from the opening of the door or until the target vehicle passes by the stopped vehicle. The second set vehicle speed is lower than the first set vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAMBA, Hajime OYAMA, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220169253
    Abstract: A vehicle travel locus transmission system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a GNSS receiver, a vehicle-side transceiver, a locator processor, a wheel speed sensor, a gyro sensor, and an acceleration rate sensor. The locator processor generates, on predetermined cycles, a latest first linear coordinate as a linear function parameter that couples latest first positional coordinates and second positional coordinates on a previous cycle. The first and second positional coordinates are to be acquired on the basis of a positioning signal received by the GNSS receiver. On the condition that an angle formed by the first linear coordinate with an extension of a second linear coordinate generated on the previous cycle exceeds a predetermined threshold, the locator processor sends data regarding the first linear coordinate together with vehicle identification data, from the vehicle-side transceiver to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAMBA, Keisuke KUWAHARA, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220119013
    Abstract: A surrounding space data providing system for a control apparatus for a vehicle includes a space generation processor and a signal generation processor. The space generation processor generates a surrounding space around the vehicle with the vehicle assuming a post-control position and a post-control posture, on the basis of a motion of the vehicle based on control data to be outputted by the control apparatus. The signal generation processor generates a generated signal of a space in which an object present in the surrounding space is arranged in the surrounding space in corresponding relation to the post-control position and the post-control posture of the vehicle. The generated signal is as suppliable to the control apparatus as a detection signal to be obtained by detection by an autonomous sensor provided in the vehicle. The signal generation processor outputs the generated signal to the control apparatus in place of the detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11267488
    Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus for a vehicle can selectively switch between a manual driving mode in which a driver manually performs driving operation of the vehicle and an automatic driving mode in which driving operation is performed automatically along a target traveling route. The apparatus includes a driver identifier that identifies the driver, a driving experience value evaluation unit that evaluates a driving experience value based on a traveling history in the manual driving mode of the identified driver, a shift permission time setting unit that sets a shift permission time from the manual driving mode to the automatic driving mode based on the driving experience value, and a driving mode switching unit that controls the driving mode so as to be switchable to the automatic driving mode on condition that at least a driving time by the driver in the manual driving mode exceeds the shift permission time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Namba, Hajime Oyama, Masato Mizoguchi, Keisuke Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20220009493
    Abstract: A travel control device includes a first recognizer recognizing first travel environment information based on information acquired by an autonomous sensor, a second recognizer recognizing second travel environment information acquired by external communication, a main deceleration controller performing main deceleration control against an obstacle when it is determined, based on the first information, that the vehicle is traveling on a branch road merging with a main road and an obstacle may interfere with the vehicle at a merging point with the main road at a predicted time, and a preliminary deceleration controller performing preliminary deceleration control against the obstacle before the main deceleration control when it is determined, based on the second information, that the vehicle is traveling on the branch road, and the obstacle is to exist at the merging point at the predicted time and the obstacle is not recognized yet based on the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masato MIZOGUCHI, Ryosuke NAMBA
  • Publication number: 20210323606
    Abstract: A driving support device for a vehicle includes a separation line recognizer configured to recognize pairs of right and left separation lines ahead of the vehicle on vehicle's traveling roads, a target route setting unit configured to set a target route along center lines of lanes defined with respective centers of each of the pairs of the separation lines, a steering controller configured to perform steering control for driving the vehicle along the target route, and a target route corrector configured to correct the target route when an intersecting road is on the target route and an angle between a center line of the vehicle's current traveling road before the intersecting road and a center line on the intersecting road is a set angle or less, set a route correction section, calculate a arc tangent to the two center lines, and correct the target route based on the calculated arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Ryosuke NAMBA
  • Publication number: 20210200241
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, a controller, and an identification unit. The collector collects information about movement of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates course-related information by using information including the mapped positions. The controller controls movement of each of the mobile bodies, by using the generated course-related information. The identification unit identifies one or more first mobile bodies to be caused to make movement different from or to be prioritized over movement of one or more second mobile bodies, on the basis of the collected information, or the information including the mapped positions. The mapping unit assigns a tag to make the identified first mobile bodies distinguishable from the second mobile bodies, in the information including the mapped positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210201682
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects field information on movement of mobile bodies using communication apparatuses provided in respective predetermined zones or respective predetermined sections. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies based on the collected field information. The generator generates course-related information based on information on the mapped positions of the mobile bodies. The controller is provided for each of the mobile bodies and controls movement of corresponding one of the mobile bodies based on the course-related information. If the collected field information includes information on an obstacle that would hinder the movement of the mobile bodies, the mapping unit maps the obstacle together with the positions of the mobile bodies, and the generator generates the course-related information for the mobile bodies to cause the mobile bodies to move avoiding the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210201674
    Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects information about movement of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates course-related information by using information including the positions of the mobile bodies mapped by the mapping unit. The controller controls movement of each of the mobile bodies, by using the generated course-related information, or information obtained on the basis of the course-related information and usable for determination or control of the movement of the corresponding one of the mobile bodies. The generator generates the course-related information for each of the mobile bodies, to prevent hindrance to movement of a first mobile body moving in emergency, out of the mobile bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Ryosuke NAMBA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoyuki KITAMURA