Patents by Inventor Satoshi Horihata
Satoshi Horihata 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: 12183205Abstract: An obstacle information management device includes a vehicle behavior acquisition unit that is configured to acquire vehicle behavior data indicative of behaviors of a plurality of vehicles in association with position information; an appearance determination unit that is configured to specify a point, as an obstacle registration point, where an obstacle has appeared based on the vehicle behavior data acquired by the vehicle behavior acquisition unit; and a disappearance determination unit that is configured to determine, based on the vehicle behavior data acquired by the vehicle behavior acquisition unit, whether the obstacle remains or has disappeared at the obstacle registration point where the obstacle was determined to exist by the appearance determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi Horihata
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Publication number: 20240426631Abstract: A data generation device includes a data generation unit configured to generate data. The data generation unit is further configured to generate, as the data, traffic light identification data including lane information for identifying a lane in which a vehicle is traveling, traffic light information for identifying a plurality of traffic lights installed at an intersection to which the lane is connected, and confidence information indicating a degree of confidence set for each of the plurality of traffic lights. The traffic light identification data has a data structure that allows the traffic light that should be trusted to be identified based on the degrees of confidence set for the plurality of traffic lights depending on the lane in which the vehicle is traveling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Taiki SUZUKI, Satoshi HORIHATA
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Publication number: 20240377204Abstract: A map information system manages map information stored in a storage unit in a vehicle. The map information system includes an information generation unit that generates matching information indicating that periphery information, which is detected by a periphery detection sensor mounted on the vehicle, and the map information match each other when a difference between the periphery information and the map information is within an allowable range. The information generation unit does not generate difference information indicating that the periphery information and the map information do not match when the difference is out of the allowable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: SHINYA ABE, SATOSHI HORIHATA
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Patent number: 12073722Abstract: A parking lot identification system includes a control apparatus mounted to each of a plurality of vehicles and a central apparatus that communicates with the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles. In the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles, a parking determination unit is configured to determine whether a parking action of the vehicle is recognized, a parking-related data acquisition unit is configured to, in response to the parking action of the vehicle being recognized, acquire parking-related data including data of a location and an orientation of the vehicle during the parking action, and a parking-related data transmission unit is configured to transmit the parking-related data to the central apparatus. The central apparatus is configured to identify a parking lot area based on the parking-related data transmitted from the plurality of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Baba, Yasuhiko Mukai, Kyoichi Sugahara, Satoshi Horihata
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Publication number: 20240199040Abstract: By a map update system, an in-vehicle device, or a server, it is determined whether a failure is in vehicle control executed by a vehicle controller configured to control behavior of a vehicle using map information stored in a storage mounted on the vehicle. Further, the map update system or the server, it is determined to whether to update the map information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2024Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: SHINYA ABE, SATOSHI HORIHATA, TOMOHITO TERAZAWA
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Patent number: 11982539Abstract: A display system applied to a vehicle includes a navigation device guiding a route to a destination and a display control device displaying multiple route guidance contents in superimposed manner on a road surface using a head-up display. When the navigation device determines that a first route guidance and a second route guidance included in route guidance information are successive guidance, (i) the navigation device concurrently displays images of the first route guidance and the second route guidance, and (ii) the display control device activates display of a first guidance content that performs the first route guidance, and then activates display of a second guidance content that performs the second route guidance after deactivating the display of the first guidance content.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Horihata, Kazuki Kojima, Akira Kamiya, Motohiro Fukumoto, Takeshi Hato
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Publication number: 20240102823Abstract: A map update system includes a map data storage unit storing therein map data. The map update system acquires a position of a road marking painted on a surface of a road. The map update system acquires a determination value to be subjected to determination of blurring of the road marking based on at least either of measurement information on the road marking and analysis information analyzing the measurement information. The map update system compares the determination value to a reference value and acquires blur information indicating a degree of blurring of the road marking. The map update system reflects the blur information in the map data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shigehiro MUTO, Tomoo NOMURA, Toshio NOMURA, Satoshi HORIHATA, Hirohisa WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240094025Abstract: A server includes: a generating target location setting unit setting, as a target location for generating a virtual marking line, a region where a lane center line exists and part of a marking line does not exist; an origin point setting unit setting an origin point on the lane center line; a start point setting unit setting a start point on a marking line parallel to the lane center line, with the start point positioned forward or rearward relative to the origin point; an end point setting unit setting an end point on the marking line, with the end point being set in the other one of the forward position and rearward position relative to the origin point; a virtual marking line generating unit generating a virtual marking line by connecting the start end points; and a marking line connecting unit connecting the marking line and the virtual marking line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Taiki SUZUKI, Satoshi HORIHATA
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Publication number: 20230349719Abstract: A server is provided with a probe data acquiring unit that acquires probe data from a plurality of vehicles; a signal information identifying unit that identifies, for a plurality of signals in an intersection, signal information related to respective signals based on the probe data; a stop line information identifying unit that identifies, for a plurality of stop lines in the intersection, stop line information related to respective stop lines based on the probe data; and a pairing unit that identifies, using a method for identifying a plurality of pairing candidates, a combination of the signal and the stop line as a pairing candidate among a plurality of signals in the intersection and a plurality of stop lines in the intersection, and pairs the signal information and the stop line information based on an identification result of the combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Shigehiro MUTO
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Patent number: 11803053Abstract: A display control device that controls a display state of a virtual image to be overlapped on an overlapping target in front of a passenger of the vehicle includes: a display image generator that generates a guide display object image formed by a combination of a plurality of image elements overlapped and displayed along a travel route to notify a passenger of the travel route of the vehicle; and an abandonment determination unit that determines whether each of the image elements is disposed out of a displayable range of the virtual image. When one of the image elements is disposed out of the displayable range, the display image generator displays a part of the image elements as the guide display object image, which is disposed along the travel route just before the one of the image elements that is determined to be out of the displayable range.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Horihata, Yasushi Sakuma
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Publication number: 20230169861Abstract: A parking lot identification system includes a control apparatus mounted to each of a plurality of vehicles and a central apparatus that communicates with the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles. In the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles, a parking determination unit is configured to determine whether a parking action of the vehicle is recognized, a parking-related data acquisition unit is configured to, in response to the parking action of the vehicle being recognized, acquire parking-related data including data of a location and an orientation of the vehicle during the parking action, and a parking-related data transmission unit is configured to transmit the parking-related data to the central apparatus. The central apparatus is configured to identify a parking lot area based on the parking-related data transmitted from the plurality of vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Atsushi BABA, Yasuhiko MUKAI, Kyoichi SUGAHARA, Satoshi HORIHATA
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Publication number: 20230118619Abstract: A parking-stopping point management device includes a determination criterion acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of vehicle behavior data indicative of a behavior of at least one vehicle and sensing information of a surrounding monitoring sensor mounted in the at least one vehicle in association with position information of the at least one vehicle; a parking-stopping point detection unit configured to detect, as a parking-stopping point, a street parking point which is a point where the parking-stopping vehicle is parked on a normal road; an existence state determination unit configured to determine whether the parking-stopping vehicle still exists at the street parking point detected by the parking-stopping point detection unit based on the information acquired by the determination criterion acquisition unit; and a distribution processing unit configured to distribute information on the street parking point detected by the parking-stopping point detection unit to the at least one vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventor: Satoshi HORIHATA
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Publication number: 20230120095Abstract: An obstacle information management device includes a vehicle behavior acquisition unit that is configured to acquire vehicle behavior data indicative of behaviors of a plurality of vehicles in association with position information; an appearance determination unit that is configured to specify a point, as an obstacle registration point, where an obstacle has appeared based on the vehicle behavior data acquired by the vehicle behavior acquisition unit; and a disappearance determination unit that is configured to determine, based on the vehicle behavior data acquired by the vehicle behavior acquisition unit, whether the obstacle remains or has disappeared at the obstacle registration point where the obstacle was determined to exist by the appearance determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventor: Satoshi HORIHATA
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Patent number: 11392683Abstract: A detection device that detects unauthorized communication in an on-vehicle network mounted on a vehicle includes: a monitoring unit that monitors first information that indicates a state or control related to the vehicle and that is transmitted in the on-vehicle network; a prediction unit that predicts an occurrence of second information in the on-vehicle network that indicates the state or control related to the vehicle based on the first information monitored by the monitoring unit; and a determination unit that determines, in a case where the second information is transmitted in the on-vehicle network, whether or not the transmitted second information is unauthorized, based on a result of prediction performed by the prediction unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamada, Satoshi Horihata
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Patent number: 11367417Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle to control a display of a virtual image to be superimposed on a superimposition target in a foreground of an occupant includes: a condition determination unit that determines whether a predetermined interruption condition is satisfied; and a display control unit that interrupts the display of the virtual image when the condition determination unit determines that the interruption condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Horihata, Yasushi Sakuma
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Patent number: 11220274Abstract: A vehicle display control device controls display performed by a head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display is configured to project an image on a projection member to cause a virtual image to be displayed in superimposed relation on a front view of the vehicle. The vehicle display control device determines a host vehicle situation as a road structure of a road on which a host vehicle is running, and controls to limit or not to limit a superimposed display of the virtual image with respect to a target object on which the virtual image is to be displayed in superimposed relation according to the host vehicle situation determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroto Banno, Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Daisuke Takemori, Akira Kamiya, Shingo Yamashita, Yasushi Sakuma, Satoshi Horihata
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Publication number: 20210356289Abstract: A display system applied to a vehicle includes a navigation device guiding a route to a destination and a display control device displaying multiple route guidance contents in superimposed manner on a road surface using a head-up display. When the navigation device determines that a first route guidance and a second route guidance included in route guidance information are successive guidance, (i) the navigation device concurrently displays images of the first route guidance and the second route guidance, and (ii) the display control device activates display of a first guidance content that performs the first route guidance, and then activates display of a second guidance content that performs the second route guidance after deactivating the display of the first guidance content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Kazuki KOJIMA, Akira KAMIYA, Motohiro FUKUMOTO, Takeshi HATO
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Publication number: 20210341737Abstract: A virtual image is superimposed on a foreground scenery of an occupant. It is determined whether a road condition, for associating a display position of the virtual image with a position of an object in the foreground scenery with respect to a road on which the vehicle travels, is satisfied. The virtual image is generated as a superposing virtual image that presents information by associating the display position with the position of the object when the road condition is satisfied. At least a part of the virtual image is generated as a non-superimposing virtual image that presents the information without associating the display position with the position of the object when the road condition is not satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Yusuke KONDO
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Publication number: 20210223058Abstract: A virtual image is superimposed on a foreground scenery of an occupant of a vehicle. A position of the vehicle is acquired. High-precision map information or low-precision map information with lower accuracy than the high-precision map information, corresponding to the position is acquired. The virtual image is generated in a first display mode based on the high-precision map information when the high-precision map information can be acquired. The virtual image is generated in a second display mode different from the first display mode based on the low-precision map information when the high-precision map information cannot be acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Yusuke KONDO, Takeshi HATO, Kazuki KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20210104212Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle to control displaying a virtual image includes: a display image generator that generates a guide object display image for guiding a travel route; a distance recognition unit that recognizes a remaining distance from a current location of the vehicle to a guide target point; and a display controller that: displays a non-superimposed virtual image not to be superimposed on a specific superimposition target when the remaining distance is longer than a switch distance; and displays a superimposed virtual image to be superimposed on the specific superimposition target switched from the non-superimposed virtual image when the remaining distance becomes shorter than the switch distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Yasushi SAKUMA