Patents by Inventor Shota KUROKI

Shota KUROKI 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).

  • Publication number: 20230174093
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: a stoppage factor determination unit configured to determine whether to clear a stoppage factor of the own vehicle,; an interfering object determination unit configured to determine whether an interfering object is present that interferes with the starting of the own vehicle, based on object information of another object that has not been recognized as the stoppage factor; and a notification determination unit configured to: set, as a condition for permitting the provision of a notification for prompting the starting of the own vehicle being stopped, a determination that the stoppage factor is cleared made by the stoppage factor determination unit, and suppress the provision of the notification in response to the interfering object determination unit determining that the interfering object is present even if the stoppage factor determination unit determines that the stoppage factor is cleared during stoppage of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiko INOUE, Youhei MASUI, Hiroaki NIINO, Toshihiro MARUYAMA, Shota KUROKI
  • Publication number: 20220306111
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to: execute vehicle speed maintaining control for causing the vehicle speed to coincide with a set vehicle speed; start first control, for causing the acceleration to coincide with target acceleration for keeping maintaining acceleration no higher than limit acceleration, or second control, for controlling the acceleration such that the vehicle speed is kept no higher than a limit vehicle speed lower than the set vehicle speed, as limit control when a traffic signal correlated distance correlated with a traffic signal distance to a stop instructing traffic signal is determined to become a first threshold or less during execution of the vehicle speed maintaining control; and suspend the vehicle speed maintaining control and the limit control when a driver operates a deceleration operator during execution of the limit control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota KUROKI, Toshihiro Maruyama, Tomohiko Inoue, Norio Tsuchida