Patents by Inventor Shinya OOTSUJI

Shinya OOTSUJI 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: 11692846
    Abstract: Road information of surroundings of an own vehicle is kept as latest version as possible, and road information of distant areas are updated efficiently. A map providing device according to the present invention searches for an update target portion included in a planned travel route, and also searches for an update target portion with an end point of the planned travel route being a starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Ootsuji, Akihiko Sato, Mitoshi Yajima, Seiji Tokunaga
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210140782
    Abstract: Road information of surroundings of an own vehicle is kept as latest version as possible, and road information of distant areas are updated efficiently. A map providing device according to the present invention searches for an update target portion included in a planned travel route, and also searches for an update target portion with an end point of the planned travel route being a starting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicants: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya OOTSUJI, Akihiko SATO, Mitoshi YAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10783781
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic driving system capable of clearly identifying the factors responsible for causing an abnormality such as an accident or malfunction of a vehicle during automatic driving after the fact. The automatic driving system automatically selects, from each automatic driving function provided in the vehicle or each level of driving automation into which each automatic driving function is classified, an automatic driving function or a level of driving automation according to the circumstances surrounding the vehicle or the driving state of the vehicle, automatically performs a part of or the entirety of a vehicle driving operation to automatically drive the vehicle, and, remembers the time of automatic driving and information indicating the selected automatic driving function or level of driving automation at that time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Ootsuji
  • Publication number: 20200279380
    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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Masuo KANEKO, Kenjiro YAMAMOTO, Shinya OOTSUJI, Shigenori HAYASE
  • Publication number: 20190162547
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus and a travel control system capable of reducing a correspondence-unclear section, generated when associating route information to a destination on a travel control map, as small as possible in a driving support function of supporting driving by automating some or all of driving operations of an occupant so as to continue travel control along an appropriate route in as long a section as possible. In the present invention, a search route searched based on a route search map different from a travel control map is collated with the travel control map, and correspondence unclearness information is output when a part or a whole of the search route has unclear correspondence with the travel control map. In addition, a search for a search route different from the initial search route is performed based on the output correspondence unclearness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Shinya OOTSUJI
  • Publication number: 20170294120
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic driving system capable of clearly identifying the factors responsible for causing an abnormality such as an accident or malfunction of a vehicle during automatic driving after the fact. The automatic driving system automatically selects, from each automatic driving function provided in the vehicle or each level of driving automation into which each automatic driving function is classified, an automatic driving function or a level of driving automation according to the circumstances surrounding the vehicle or the driving state of the vehicle, automatically performs a part of or the entirety of a vehicle driving operation to automatically drive the vehicle, and, remembers the time of automatic driving and information indicating the selected automatic driving function or level of driving automation at that time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya OOTSUJI