Patents by Inventor Shota AKAURA
Shota AKAURA 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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Publication number: 20250050869Abstract: A parking support method is provided for performing automatic traveling of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in the past. The parking support method stores a traveling route in the parking operation performed in the past, displays information in a first display mode before the vehicle reaches a position where the vehicle is configured to merge into the traveling route, and displays the information in a second display mode after the vehicle reaches the position where the vehicle is configured to merge into the traveling route.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20250050870Abstract: A parking support method is provided for performing automatic traveling of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in the past. The parking support method stores a traveling route from the parking operation performed in the past, and displays a guidance image. The guidance image represents a change in an orientation of the vehicle on the traveling route.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20250010884Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus of the present disclosure performs parking assistance for second parking and includes a processor that generates a second parking route based on the first parking route and position information of an obstacle obtained by the teacher traveling, in which the second parking route does not overlap with the obstacle The processor parks a vehicle in a parking space by using the second parking route, and the second parking route is a parking route for the second parking.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20240416895Abstract: A parking assistance method according to the present disclosure is a method for performing automated traveling of a vehicle based on teacher traveling by a user. The method includes: causing a memory to store information on a travel path in teacher traveling; controlling the vehicle based on the stored travel path; detecting an obstacle during controlling the vehicle; determining whether an avoiding path for avoiding the obstacle is able to be generated; and notifying, when the avoiding path is not able to be generated, a communication terminal of the user not to be able to generate the avoiding path. Furthermore, the controlling is executed based on an instruction for automated traveling from the communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20240361144Abstract: An exit support method includes: acquiring a feature point present around a vehicle; estimating a positional relation between a current position of the vehicle and an entry region based on the feature point and setting information indicating a positional relation between a position of the entry region and a feature point present around the entry region; moving the vehicle to the entry region based on the positional relation; storing an entry start position of the vehicle at which the vehicle starts to move to the entry region in the setting information; and estimating, assuming that the entry start position stored in the setting information is an exit region of an exit destination, a positional relation between a current position of the vehicle and the exit region based on the feature point. The acquiring the path includes moving the vehicle to the exit region based on the positional relation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20240317313Abstract: A parking assistance device causes a vehicle to automatically travel based on a travel path in a parking operation in past by a driver, and includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: acquire at least one of environmental information concerning environment around the vehicle and user information concerning a user who gets on the vehicle; cause the memory to store a plurality of travel paths in association with at least one of the environmental information and the user information; specify a travel path on which the vehicle automatically travels based on at least one of the environmental information and the user information among the stored plurality of travel paths; cause a display unit to display information for urging the driver to approve the specified travel path; and cause the vehicle to travel based on the travel path approved by the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA, Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Yukihiro TANIZOE
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Publication number: 20240262229Abstract: A parking assistance device according to the present disclosure includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: record a travel path of a vehicle in teacher traveling by a driver; acquire information related to a position of a contactless power supply device capable of performing contactless power supply to the vehicle; correct the travel path of the vehicle recorded by the teacher traveling by the driver based on the information related to the position of the contactless power supply device; and execute automated traveling of the vehicle based on the corrected travel path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuma IIDA, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20230419394Abstract: An information presentation method is for outputting information related to a stop position of a mobile body to a user terminal in an information processing system for lending a cabin of the mobile body. The method includes registering position information representing a stop position of the mobile body, and registering purpose information representing a purpose of use of the cabin of the mobile body. The method also includes outputting, to the user terminal, trend information representing a trend of a purpose of use of the cabin in an area including the position information of mobile bodies. The trend information is output on the basis of correspondence information by which the position information of the mobile bodies is correlated with the purpose information of the mobile bodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayasu BABA, Hiroshi KATO, Kazuhiko YAMAUCHI, Akinori OZEKI, Sadako YAMAGATA, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20230365193Abstract: A parking assist device including a processor is disclosed. The processor superimposes a first parking candidate frame and a second parking candidate frame onto an image around a vehicle when a first obstacle is present at one end of a parking space and a second obstacle is present at another end of the parking space. The first parking candidate frame is parallel with a first obstacle frame indicating a position of the first obstacle. The second parking candidate frame is parallel with a second obstacle frame indicating a position of the second obstacle. The processor displays, on a display device, the first/second parking candidate frames in different display modes. The processor displays, on the display device and in a predetermined color, either one of a first region surrounded by the first parking candidate frame and a second region surrounded by the second parking candidate frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei ASHIDA, Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20220324480Abstract: A control device for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle, the control device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the control device to perform operations including: switching a control content in the autonomous driving of the vehicle based on a position of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro TSUNEKAZU, Yuya MATSUMOTO, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20220319192Abstract: A driving assistance device for assisting driving of a moving body, the driving assistance device includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the driving assistance device to perform operations. The operations include: acquiring a self-produced image obtained by capturing an image of a surrounding of a moving body by a first image capturing device mounted on the moving body and an other-produced image captured by a second image capturing device different from the first image capturing device; and generating a visible composite image by compositing a plurality of images including the self-produced image and the other-produced image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki TANI, Yuya MATSUMOTO, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20220274586Abstract: A parking support method according to the present disclosure is a method of performing automatic traveling of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in the past. The method includes: storing, in a storage unit, information on at least one of a traveling route and a parking target position in the parking operation performed in the past; and displaying, on a display unit, guidance information on a target position where automatic traveling of the vehicle can be performed based on at least one of the traveling route and the parking target position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Shota AKAURA
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Publication number: 20220266708Abstract: A parking assist device is used for a vehicle on which a power receiving coil including a first coil and a second coil is mounted. The parking assist device includes a hardware processor functioning as an acquisition unit and a vehicle control unit. The acquisition unit serves to acquire route information for parking the vehicle at a facing position where a power feeding coil and the first coil of the power receiving coil face each other. The vehicle control unit serves to perform control of parking the vehicle by using the route information. The power receiving coil is mounted on the vehicle such that a distance between a center position of the first coil and a center position of the vehicle in a vehicle length direction becomes shorter than a distance between a center position of the second coil and the center position of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio SAKAI, Shota AKAURA
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Patent number: 11332125Abstract: A parking assist device includes a hardware processor to: acquire region information on a parking region in which a contactless power feeding device is provided; perform, based on the region information, a first vehicle control for moving a vehicle to the parking region; and perform, after the vehicle is stopped in the parking region by the first vehicle control, a second vehicle control when relative positions between a power reception device provided in the vehicle and the contactless power feeding device deviate from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Sakai, Shota Akaura, Yuya Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20220073057Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is configured to perform parking control so as to park a vehicle in a parking region provided with a wireless power transmitter configured to supply electric power, in a non-contact manner, to the vehicle capable of wireless charging. The parking assist apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the parking assist apparatus to perform operations. The operations include: acquiring foreign object information indicating that a foreign object is present in a predetermined region including the wireless power transmitter in the parking region; and stopping the parking control in a case in which the foreign object information is acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio SAKAI, Shota AKAURA, Yuya MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20220009496Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to control traveling of a vehicle capable of self-driving. The vehicle control device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the vehicle control device to perform operations including: determining a control condition related to vehicle traveling when an own vehicle as a control target vehicle is in automated traveling by self-driving; and controlling traveling of the own vehicle based on a determination result. The determining the control condition includes, in a case in which an obstacle is present in front of the own vehicle, determining, as the control condition, whether passing is possible and further whether overtaking is possible. The controlling the traveling of the own vehicle comprises executing the passing or the overtaking or another travel control in accordance with whether the passing is possible and whether the overtaking is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Iori UEDA, Shota AKAURA, Yuya MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20210162986Abstract: A parking assist device includes a hardware processor to: acquire region information on a parking region in which a contactless power feeding device is provided; perform, based on the region information, a first vehicle control for moving a vehicle to the parking region; and perform, after the vehicle is stopped in the parking region by the first vehicle control, a second vehicle control when relative positions between a power reception device provided in the vehicle and the contactless power feeding device deviate from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio SAKAI, Shota AKAURA, Yuya MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10953920Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes a one-way traffic determiner that determines whether or not a vehicle is located on a one-way road, and a parking processor that, when it is determined that the vehicle is located on the one-way road case, does not perform a vehicle control for parallel parking including a path through which the vehicle reverses.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Tsunekazu, Noriyuki Tani, Yuya Matsumoto, Shota Akaura
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Publication number: 20200307630Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a determination unit configured to determine a control condition related to vehicle traveling when a host vehicle, which is a control target vehicle, travels automatically by automatic driving; and a control unit configured to control traveling of the host vehicle based on a determination result of the determination. The determination unit is configured to: acquire a position of the host vehicle; and determine whether to enter an intersection based on a detection result of a stopped vehicle stopped at the intersection when the host vehicle approaches the intersection which is designated to require vehicles on all road segments entering the intersection to stop at a same priority. The control unit is configured to perform travel control of entering and passing through the intersection in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Iori UEDA, Shota AKAURA, Yuya MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20200207416Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes a one-way traffic determiner that determines whether or not a vehicle is located on a one-way road, and a parking processor that, when it is determined that the vehicle is located on the one-way road case, does not perform a vehicle control for parallel parking including a path through which the vehicle reverses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro TSUNEKAZU, Noriyuki TANI, Yuya MATSUMOTO, Shota AKAURA