Patents by Inventor Shigenori Hayase

Shigenori Hayase 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: 11914028
    Abstract: The present invention provides a object detection device for vehicle capable of performing distance measurement more reliably than in the past and having high compatibility for distance measurement. The present invention provides an object detection device 100 for vehicle including a first detection unit 10, a second detection unit 20, an error quantity calculation unit 30, a correction quantity calculation unit 40, and a distance correction unit 50. The error quantity calculation unit 30 compares the distances D1 and D1? of the same object detected by the first detection unit 10 and the second detection unit 20 to calculate the error quantity ?D. The correction quantity calculation unit 40 calculates the correction quantity CAt based on the error quantity ?D. The distance correction unit 50 corrects the distances D1? and D2? of the object detected by the second detection unit 20 based on the correction quantity CAt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ichinose, Shigenori Hayase, Akira Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11799820
    Abstract: A mobile-side IP address is translated into an intranet-side MAC address, and an IP address for an intranet is acquired. The present invention provides a network system for transferring a packet, including: a first network that controls transfer of data at a first layer; a second network that is connected to the first network and controls transfer of data at a second layer different from the first layer; and a translation device that translates an address between networks, in which the translation device translates the address of the first layer of the first network attached to data transferred from the first network to the second network into the address of the second layer of the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oishi, Shigenori Hayase, Masayuki Takase, Mikio Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20230146620
    Abstract: An arithmetic device includes: an input unit to which information pertaining to a detection target that is a target recognized by a sensor is input from the sensor; a processing-unit allocation unit that is configured to allocate a plurality of the targets to any one of a plurality of groups; an association unit that is configured to retrieve a second one of the targets to be associated with a first one of the targets from a part of the plurality of groups included in the plurality of groups; and a state fusion unit that is configured to fuse the first target and the second target that have been associated with each other by the association unit to produce a tracking target that is a target being tracked. The first target is any one of the detection target and the tracking target. The second target is any one of the detection target and the tracking target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori HAYASE, Michihiko IKEDA, Tatsuhiko MONJI
  • Patent number: 11636691
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor recognition integration device capable of preventing a rapid change in coordinates of an integrated object and preventing, for example, an erroneous determination in an autonomous driving plan determination device, even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes. In the present invention, since an object position is estimated in a state where information of a position detected by a sensor that recognizes an object in an external field is corrected or changed, the rapid change of coordinates of an integrated object is prevented even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Aoki, Shigenori Hayase
  • Publication number: 20230004169
    Abstract: An apparatus and the like for controlling a mobile body that are capable of adjusting a detection result by a radar device in accordance with a three-dimensional shape for each region of a three-dimensional map generated from an image captured by an image-capturing device are provided. A mobile body control unit 105 is an apparatus for controlling the vehicle (mobile body) including an image-capturing device 101 and a millimeter wave radar device 102 (radar device). A three-dimensional map generation unit 203 generates a three-dimensional map around the vehicle from an image captured by the image-capturing device 101. A radar weight map estimation unit 204 (weight estimation unit) estimates the weight of the detection result by the millimeter wave radar device 102 for each region of the three-dimensional map from the three-dimensional shape for each region of the three-dimensional map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hideaki KIDO, Tatsuhiko MONJI, Shigenori HAYASE
  • Patent number: 11538241
    Abstract: Provided is a position estimation device capable of highly accurate position estimation. A position estimation device 1 of the present invention is the position estimation device 1 which estimates a current position of a moving object 100 equipped with an imaging device 12, estimates the current position of the moving object 100, create a plurality of virtual positions based on the current position, creates virtual images at the plurality of virtual positions, respectively, compares the plurality of virtual images with an actual image to calculate a comparison error, calculates a weight based on at least one of information acquired by the imaging device 12 and information of a current position error of the moving object, performs weighting on the comparison error using the weight, and corrects the current position based on the comparison error to be weighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo Kaneko, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Shigenori Hayase
  • Publication number: 20220357163
    Abstract: An electronic control unit includes: a target information acquiring section that acquires information about a target around a user's vehicle; a storage section that stores management information related to at least either an entrance position or exit position of the target in a predetermined subject area on a basis of the information about the target acquired by the target information acquiring section; and a driving trajectory planning section that plans a driving trajectory of the user's vehicle on a basis of the management information stored in the storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenori HAYASE, Akira KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220227395
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an integration unit that estimates information on a position and a speed of a target existing in an external field and errors of the position and the speed of the target, based on information from a movement sensor that acquires movement information including a vehicle speed and a yaw rate of an own vehicle, and information from an external field sensor that acquires information on the external field of the own vehicle. The integration unit uses not the information from the external field sensor, but the vehicle speed and the yaw rate acquired by the movement sensor, to predict a position and a speed of the target and errors of the position and the speed of the target at a second time after a first time, from a position and a speed of the target and errors of the position and the speed at the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Naoto AOKI, Shigenori HAYASE, Akira KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220227396
    Abstract: To improve accuracy of a grouping process by accurately obtaining an error of an observation value of a sensor. A vehicle control system includes an integration unit that estimates information on a position and a speed of a target existing in an external field, and errors of the position and the speed based on information from a sensor that acquires information on the external field of an own vehicle. The integration unit estimates an error of a detection result from the detection result of a sensor that detects an external field of a vehicle in accordance with a characteristic of the sensor, determines correlation between detection results of a plurality of the sensors, and integrates correlated detection results and calculates the errors of the position and the speed of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi TSUCHIDA, Naoto AOKI, Akira KURIYAMA, Shigenori HAYASE
  • Publication number: 20220182357
    Abstract: A mobile-side IP address is translated into an intranet-side MAC address, and an IP address for an intranet is acquired. The present invention provides a network system for transferring a packet, including: a first network that controls transfer of data at a first layer; a second network that is connected to the first network and controls transfer of data at a second layer different from the first layer; and a translation device that translates an address between networks, in which the translation device translates the address of the first layer of the first network attached to data transferred from the first network to the second network into the address of the second layer of the second network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji Oishi, Shigenori Hayase, Masayuki Takase, Mikio Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11346670
    Abstract: A position estimating device is provided with an image acquiring unit that acquires images around a moving body, a moving body movement amount estimating unit that estimates an amount of movement of the moving body based on the images, and a moving body position estimating unit that estimates the position of the moving body based on the estimated amount of movement. The moving body movement amount estimating unit includes a tracking unit that tracks a first feature point to a second feature point, a distance calculating unit that calculates the distance from the moving body to the second feature point, an azimuth estimating unit that estimates the azimuth of the moving body based on the distance from the moving body to the second feature point, and a movement amount estimating unit which estimates the amount of movement of the moving body based on the azimuth of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo Kaneko, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Shigenori Hayase
  • Patent number: 11151729
    Abstract: Improvement in the accuracy of estimating the position of a mobile entity even while traveling or if there is an error in the calibration performed utilizing: a mobile entity; an imaging device provided in the mobile entity; and an information processing device for determining a first movement amount by which a detection point that is the same object has moved on the basis of a first image and a second image acquired by the imaging device and a second movement amount by which the mobile entity has moved while the first image and the second image were acquired, determining the accuracy of recognizing the detection point acquired by the imaging device on the basis of the first movement amount and the second movement amount, and estimating the position of the mobile entity on the basis of the accuracy of recognition and position information that pertains to the detection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo Kaneko, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Shinya Ootsuji, Shigenori Hayase
  • Patent number: 11148684
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of performing automatic driving in accordance with driving characteristics of a driver while considering a vehicle peripheral state, even in the case where the vehicle peripheral state during manual driving is different from the vehicle peripheral state during the automatic driving. The present invention is a vehicle control device 120 that can switch between manual driving in which a vehicle is caused to travel by the operation of a driver and automatic driving in which the vehicle is caused to travel automatically in accordance with a traveling plan. The vehicle control device 120 is provided with a vehicle control planning unit 123 that devises the traveling plan, and a verification unit 124 that verifies a vehicle traveling state on the basis of the traveling plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Itou, Shigenori Hayase
  • Publication number: 20210271902
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor recognition integration device capable of preventing a rapid change in coordinates of an integrated object and preventing, for example, an erroneous determination in an autonomous driving plan determination device, even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes. In the present invention, since an object position is estimated in a state where information of a position detected by a sensor that recognizes an object in an external field is corrected or changed, the rapid change of coordinates of an integrated object is prevented even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto AOKI, Shigenori HAYASE
  • Publication number: 20210256260
    Abstract: Provided is a position estimation device capable of highly accurate position estimation. A position estimation device 1 of the present invention is the position estimation device 1 which estimates a current position of a moving object 100 equipped with an imaging device 12, estimates the current position of the moving object 100, create a plurality of virtual positions based on the current position, creates virtual images at the plurality of virtual positions, respectively, compares the plurality of virtual images with an actual image to calculate a comparison error, calculates a weight based on at least one of information acquired by the imaging device 12 and information of a current position error of the moving object, performs weighting on the comparison error using the weight, and corrects the current position based on the comparison error to be weighted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo KANEKO, Kenjiro YAMAMOTO, Shigenori HAYASE
  • Publication number: 20210213938
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control device capable of avoiding a problem due to insufficient energy remaining in a vehicle in a parking lot. The vehicle control device 100 includes a remaining energy amount calculation unit 110, a parking lot information acquisition unit 120, a prediction unit 130, a required energy amount calculation unit 140, and a parking determination unit 150. The remaining energy amount calculation unit 110 calculates a remaining amount of energy of a vehicle V. The parking lot information acquisition unit 120 acquires map information and other vehicles information of a parking lot. The prediction unit 130 predicts a traveling speed and a movement time of the vehicle V at the time of entry and exit. The required energy amount calculation unit 140 calculates a required amount of energy. The parking determination unit 150 determines whether or not the vehicle V can be parked based on the remaining amount of energy and the required amount of energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuro WATANABE, Shigenori HAYASE, Shunsuke KATOH
  • Patent number: 11049398
    Abstract: A surrounding environment recognizing apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle and recognizes a surrounding environment of the vehicle includes: an own vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires own vehicle information about motion of the vehicle; a surrounding environment factor acquiring unit that acquires surrounding environment factor information about an environment factor around the vehicle; a time-of-presence range determining unit that determines, based on the own vehicle information, an own vehicle time-of-presence range representing a time-of-presence range of the vehicle for each position around the vehicle; and a risk-of-driving determining unit that determines a risk of driving in an area around the vehicle based on the own vehicle time-of-presence range and the surrounding environment factor information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Horita, Shigenori Hayase, Makoto Kudo
  • Publication number: 20210146953
    Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a control unit that controls automatic traveling of a vehicle, an information generation unit that generates information necessary for the automatic traveling, an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality, and a function reconfiguration unit that lowers a functional level of the information generation unit and activates the control unit when the abnormality detection unit detects an abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HORITA, Shigenori HAYASE, Makoto KUDO
  • Publication number: 20210141079
    Abstract: The present invention provides a object detection device for vehicle capable of performing distance measurement more reliably than in the past and having high compatibility for distance measurement. The present invention provides an object detection device 100 for vehicle including a first detection unit 10, a second detection unit 20, an error quantity calculation unit 30, a correction quantity calculation unit 40, and a distance correction unit 50. The error quantity calculation unit 30 compares the distances D1 and D1? of the same object detected by the first detection unit 10 and the second detection unit 20 to calculate the error quantity ?D. The correction quantity calculation unit 40 calculates the correction quantity CAt based on the error quantity ?D. The distance correction unit 50 corrects the distances D1? and D2? of the object detected by the second detection unit 20 based on the correction quantity CAt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori ICHINOSE, Shigenori HAYASE, Akira KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210122396
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of performing automatic driving in accordance with driving characteristics of a driver while considering a vehicle peripheral state, even in the case where the vehicle peripheral state during manual driving is different from the vehicle peripheral state during the automatic driving. The present invention is a vehicle control device 120 that can switch between manual driving in which a vehicle is caused to travel by the operation of a driver and automatic driving in which the vehicle is caused to travel automatically in accordance with a traveling plan. The vehicle control device 120 is provided with a vehicle control planning unit 123 that devises the traveling plan, and a verification unit 124 that verifies a vehicle traveling state on the basis of the traveling plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ITOU, Shigenori HAYASE