Patents by Inventor Shion Tokunaga
Shion Tokunaga 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: 11586223Abstract: A vehicle includes a communicator configured to receive driving information from a management server, a controller configured to drive the vehicle on the basis of the driving information from the communicator, a manager configured to manage a compartment of the vehicle in which a service user receives a service from a service provider, and an interface set up in association with service-related information provided by the service provider and the compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Hisao Asaumi, Kentaro Ishisaka, Izumi Kondo, Satoshi Koike, Tomohisa Manabe, Yo Ito, Yuki Hayashi, Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada, Kovi Ahego, Liyan Liu, Hirotaka Uchitomi, Masashi Yuki, Takafumi Hirose, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Masaaki Onoda, Christopher Lang
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Patent number: 11545262Abstract: An automated driving vehicle (200) includes a communication device (220), a biometric information acquirer (240), and an automated driving controller (250). The communication device (220) is configured to transmit biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquirer (240) to an external device and receives a response signal including attribute information for the transmitted biometric information. The automated driving controller (250) is configured to execute automated driving according to route information formed on the basis of the attribute information included in the received response signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Patent number: 11494950Abstract: An experience providing system includes: a passenger information detector configured to detect information regarding a passenger of a vehicle; an outside information detector configured to detect information outside the vehicle; an output section configured to output sound; a virtual image generator configured to output display; and a provider configured to dynamically provide an interaction to the passenger of the vehicle by causing the sound output from the output section to be synchronized with the display output from the virtual image generator on the basis of detection results of the passenger information detector and the outside information detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada
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Patent number: 11397322Abstract: An image providing system for vehicles includes an imaging unit; a display unit which generates a virtual image of a person; a communication unit which connects for communication to an apparatus outside a vehicle; and a seat occupancy detection unit which detects a seat occupancy state in the vehicle, wherein the display unit controls a display mode of the virtual image on the basis of the seat occupancy state in the vehicle detected by the seat occupancy detection unit in an operating state of the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Patent number: 11017666Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control system including an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a situation of a transit point of autonomous driving, and a determination unit that determines whether an autonomously driven vehicle will pass the transit point based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20210150656Abstract: Provided is a service management device (300, 700) including an acquisitor (320, 720, 722, 724) that acquires a riding-together request (service use request information) for a service user U to request riding together with a service provider S within a moving vehicle (200, 500), and a plan decider (330, 740) that decides a riding-together plan of the service user and the service provider in response to the riding-together request acquired by the acquisitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20210150772Abstract: An experience providing system includes: a passenger information detector configured to detect information regarding a passenger of a vehicle; an outside information detector configured to detect information outside the vehicle; an output section configured to output sound; a virtual image generator configured to output display; and a provider configured to dynamically provide an interaction to the passenger of the vehicle by causing the sound output from the output section to be synchronized with the display output from the virtual image generator on the basis of detection results of the passenger information detector and the outside information detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada
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Publication number: 20210148720Abstract: A vehicle allocation service providing device includes: an acquirer configured to acquire a use request of a main user; an instructor configured to instruct an automated driving vehicle of a route in response to the use request acquired by the acquirer; a route setter configured to set the route of the automated driving vehicle based on the use request and a use request of a user different from the main user; and a service manager configured to allocate a plurality of automated driving vehicles as relays to the main user based on one of a joining plan for the main user and a user different from the main user to use the same vehicle on the route or a branching plan for the main user and the user different from the main user to ride separately into a plurality of vehicles on the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20200160707Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control system including an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a situation of a transit point of autonomous driving, and a determination unit that determines whether an autonomously driven vehicle will pass the transit point based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20200159014Abstract: An image providing system for vehicles includes an imaging unit; a display unit which generates a virtual image of a person; a communication unit which connects for communication to an apparatus outside a vehicle; and a seat occupancy detection unit which detects a seat occupancy state in the vehicle, wherein the display unit controls a display mode of the virtual image on the basis of the seat occupancy state in the vehicle detected by the seat occupancy detection unit in an operating state of the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20200159251Abstract: A vehicle includes a communicator configured to receive driving information from a management server, a controller configured to drive the vehicle on the basis of the driving information from the communicator, a manager configured to manage a compartment of the vehicle in which a service user receives a service from a service provider, and an interface set up in association with service-related information provided by the service provider and the compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Hisao Asaumi, Kentaro Ishisaka, Izumi Kondo, Satoshi Koike, Tomohisa Manabe, Yo Ito, Yuki Hayashi, Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada, Kovi Ahego, Liyan Liu, Hirotaka Uchitomi, Masashi Yuki, Takafumi Hirose, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Masaaki Onoda, Christopher Lang
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Publication number: 20200143940Abstract: An automated driving vehicle (200) includes a communication device (220), a biometric information acquirer (240), and an automated driving controller (250). The communication device (220) is configured to transmit biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquirer (240) to an external device and receives a response signal including attribute information for the transmitted biometric information. The automated driving controller (250) is configured to execute automated driving according to route information formed on the basis of the attribute information included in the received response signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20200117195Abstract: A medical network system includes medical examination equipment 300 and a medical diagnosis terminal communicator 420 installed at a community center CC, an automated driving vehicle 200 in which a round doctor DR rides, and a determiner 110 that determines a next vehicle allocation schedule of the automated driving vehicle 200. The automated driving vehicle 200 includes a communication device and a navigation device. The medical diagnosis terminal communicator 420 transmits a medical examination result according to the medical examination equipment 300 to the communication device disposed in the automated driving vehicle 200. The navigation device outputs biological information based on the medical examination result received by the communication device to the round doctor DR.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Hisao Asaumi, Shion Tokunaga, Masashi Yuki, Yo Ito, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Publication number: 20200104881Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an outside display provided on the exterior of a vehicle and configured to display content toward the outside of the vehicle, a vehicle environment acquirer configured to acquire an environment of the vehicle, and a display controller configured to control display of the content on the outside display on the basis of the environment of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle environment acquirer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Shion Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Kazuki Nishioka, Yudai Hirohata, Hisakazu Yamane, Takayuki Shimoyamada
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Patent number: 10576976Abstract: A drivable area setting device and a drivable area setting method, which can perform driving control based on a drivable area also in a road section in which a lane marker is not present. A terminal node specifying unit specifies a terminal node of a lane marker on an entry side and a terminal node of a lane marker on an exit side in a road section, such as an intersection, in which lane marker data are not present, a virtual lane marker generating unit for generating a virtual lane marker linking the terminal node of the lane marker on the entry side to the terminal node of the lane marker on the exit side, and an area setting unit for setting, as a drivable area of a vehicle, an area interposed between the generated virtual lane markers.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuichi Suto, Hitoshi Konishi, Daichi Kato, Chihiro Abe, Shion Tokunaga
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Patent number: 10324472Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a lane shape acquisition unit which acquires lane shape data of a lane of a predetermined region from map information, at a stage at which a host vehicle has arrived at the predetermined region or prior to the host vehicle arriving at the predetermined region, a peripheral image acquisition unit which acquires peripheral image data including lane markings of the predetermined region, and a lane marking selection unit which collates the acquired lane shape data with the peripheral image data, and from within the peripheral image data, selects lane markings to be used at least for lane keeping.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shion Tokunaga, Fumio Hamano
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Publication number: 20180284799Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a lane shape acquisition unit which acquires lane shape data of a lane of a predetermined region from map information, at a stage at which a host vehicle has arrived at the predetermined region or prior to the host vehicle arriving at the predetermined region, a peripheral image acquisition unit which acquires peripheral image data including lane markings of the predetermined region, and a lane marking selection unit which collates the acquired lane shape data with the peripheral image data, and from within the peripheral image data, selects lane markings to be used at least for lane keeping.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Shion Tokunaga, Fumio Hamano
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Publication number: 20180148052Abstract: A drivable area setting device and a drivable area setting method, which can perform driving control based on a drivable area also in a road section in which a lane marker is not present. A terminal node specifying unit specifies a terminal node of a lane marker on an entry side and a terminal node of a lane marker on an exit side in a road section, such as an intersection, in which lane marker data are not present, a virtual lane marker generating unit for generating a virtual lane marker linking the terminal node of the lane marker on the entry side to the terminal node of the lane marker on the exit side, and an area setting unit for setting, as a drivable area of a vehicle, an area interposed between the generated virtual lane markers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Shuichi Suto, Hitoshi Konishi, Daichi Kato, Chihiro Abe, Shion Tokunaga
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Publication number: 20180149488Abstract: A guide route setting apparatus may include a lane-basis route setting unit configured to follow lane networks in a direction of a vehicle position from a starting point at an end of the lane networks and to set lane networks connecting from the end to a lane where the vehicle position presents a lane-basis guide route based on lane network data acquired by a lane network data acquisition unit along a preset road-basis guide route. A disadvantage that lane guidance is not made until just before a guide intersection is avoided by setting the road-basis guide route for a section from the end of the lane networks to the vehicle position, indicated by the lane network data acquired not only when the vehicle approaches the guide intersection but also along the road-basis guide route.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicants: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC., HONDA MOTOR CO, LTD.Inventors: Shuichi Suto, Hitoshi Konishi, Daichi Kato, Chihiro Abe, Shion Tokunaga