Patents by Inventor Takafumi Hirose

Takafumi Hirose 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: 10706711
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of an automatically driven vehicle, and a driving controller (120, 160) that automatically controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer and also includes a situation information acquirer that acquires situation information indicating an in-vehicle situation of an automatically driven vehicle, a detector that detects a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of the situation information acquired by the situation information acquirer, and a controller that controls the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the detection of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20200209011
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an area indicator that specifies an operation area of an autonomous vehicle, a discriminator that discriminates a user with respect to the autonomous vehicle, and a use permitter that allows a user discriminated to be a user who is able to use the autonomous vehicle by the discriminator to occupy and use at least a portion of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Hisakazu Yamane, Masaaki Onoda
  • Publication number: 20200198648
    Abstract: An automated driving control unit sets an automated driving state to a first automated driving state (step S3), in a case that an automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which a destination is set by a destination setting unit, sets the automated driving state to a second automated driving state (step S4), in a case that the automated driving instruction unit has instructed the initiation of automated driving in a state in which the destination is not set by the destination setting unit, and causes the automated driving state to transition from the first automated driving state to the second automated driving state (step S13), in a case that a current travel position lies outside of a travel route during the travel control in the first automated driving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIOKA, Kanta TSUJI, Daiki NISHIDA, Shigehiro HONDA, Takafumi HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20200175432
    Abstract: A travel schedule determining device includes: an acquirer that acquires schedule information of a plurality of users and attribute information indicating a mutual relationship between some users out of the plurality of users; and a determiner that determines a travel schedule of an automated-driving vehicle on the basis of the information acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Hisakazu Yamane, Masaaki Onoda
  • Publication number: 20200169705
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving of a vehicle and an environment provider configured to provide an interior of the vehicle with state information indicating a state of external equipment operable using an operation interface in the interior of the vehicle when the vehicle travels or stops, the external equipment being external equipment outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Iwasaki, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Jun Ito, Rie Fukushima, Hisakazu Yamane, Masaaki Onoda
  • Publication number: 20200159251
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    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
  • Patent number: 10640128
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a recognizer (13) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; a driving controller (140 or 160) that executes driving control of controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer; and a notifier (30 or 180) that notifies a vehicle occupant of the subject vehicle of predetermined information, wherein the driving controller sets a degree of margin for a surrounding environment set in the driving control after start of the notification of the predetermined information using the notifier to be higher than that before start of the notification of the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Kentaro Ishisaka, Takashi Watanabe, Takemi Tsukada, Katsuya Yashiro, Toru Kokaki, Hisashi Matsuda, Masaya Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200110407
    Abstract: A notification system in a vehicle that performs automated driving and includes a plurality of detection unit configured to acquire peripheral information, comprises: a specifying unit that specifies dirt of each of the plurality of detection units; an acquisition unit that acquires information of a scheduled traveling route; a determination unit that determines whether a range where automated driving is possible is included in the traveling route; and a notification unit that makes a notification of information concerning dirt specified for each of the plurality of detection units if it is determined by the determination unit that the range where automated driving is possible is included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIURA, Takafumi HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20190310631
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle, a driving controller (140, 160) that controls at least one of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, a continuation determiner (131, 132) that determines whether or not a specific action by a driver of the subject vehicle other than an action required of the driver continues for a predetermined time or more so that the driving controller operates in a state in which the driving controller is operated, an output (133) that outputs information, and an output controller that causes the output to output request information for requesting a specific operation from the driver in a case in which it is determined by the continuation determiner that the specific action continues for the predetermined time or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Tadashi Naruse, Takafumi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20190286135
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a recognition unit (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle and recognizes a state of a vehicle occupant having boarded the subject vehicle; and a driving control unit (140 or 160) that controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, wherein, in a case in which the subject vehicle is parked, the driving control unit sets a parking completion state in a case in which it is recognized by the recognition unit that no vehicle occupant has boarded the subject vehicle to be different from a parking completion state in a case in which it is recognized by the recognition unit that a vehicle occupant has boarded the subject vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190286129
    Abstract: A vehicle use system includes an authentication information assignor that assigns authentication information for using a vehicle to a user, an authenticator (180) that acquires the authentication information to permit use of the vehicle, at least a part of the authenticator being mounted in the vehicle (100), and a driving controller (220, 260) that automatedly controls acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle, in which the authentication information assignor assigns the authentication information in which constraints are applied to both a time period and an area in which traveling is possible to the user, and the driving controller enables the user to use the vehicle in a range of the constraints applied to the authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190286144
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a detection unit (132) configured to detect an abnormal factor occurring in an own vehicle capable of performing automatic driving, and a control unit (180, 190) configured to supply information for recovering the own vehicle from the abnormal factor to the outside of the own vehicle in a case that the own vehicle stops due to the abnormal factor detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190283775
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a recognizer (13) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; a driving controller (140 or 160) that executes driving control of controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer; and a notifier (30 or 180) that notifies a vehicle occupant of the subject vehicle of predetermined information, wherein the driving controller sets a degree of margin for a surrounding environment set in the driving control after start of the notification of the predetermined information using the notifier to be higher than that before start of the notification of the predetermined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Kentaro Ishisaka, Takashi Watanabe, Takemi Tsukada, Katsuya Yashiro, Toru Kokaki, Hisashi Matsuda, Masaya Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20190283774
    Abstract: A travel control apparatus controls automated driving travel of a vehicle by making a transition between a plurality of control states based on a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The travel control apparatus includes a skill level acquisition unit configured to acquire a skill level of a vehicle occupant about automated driving, and a control unit configured to control the automated driving travel of the vehicle in one of the plurality of control states based on the surrounding environment of the vehicle sensed by a sensing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Kentaro ISHISAKA, Takashi WATANABE, Takafumi HIROSE, Takemi TSUKADA, Katsuya YASHIRO, Toru KOKAKI, Hisashi MATSUDA, Masaya IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190286163
    Abstract: An automatic driving control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) which recognizes a peripheral situation of an automatic driving vehicle, and driving control units (120 and 160) which automatically control acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatic driving vehicle on the basis of the peripheral situation recognized by the recognition unit, performs control such that a host vehicle and the other vehicles perform platooning on the basis of a result of the communication with other vehicles, selects one or more vehicles satisfying a first condition as a preceding vehicle among platooning vehicles, and determines that the one or more vehicles separately travel as the preceding vehicle preceding the platooning vehicles by a distance larger than an inter-vehicle distance between the platooning vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190286127
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a vehicle control device that carries out driving support or automated driving of a self-vehicle is provided. The vehicle control device comprises a steering controller that performs steering control on a manual operation by a driver or an automated operation. The steering controller accepts steering input by a manual operation by the driver in addition to a system steering amount by the vehicle control device while steering control by the vehicle control device is performed, returns a predetermined reaction force to the manual operation upon accepting the steering input, and makes the reaction force to the manual operation larger in a case where traveling is performed in a second state where steering wheel grasping is unrequired, as compared with a case where traveling is performed in a first state where steering wheel grasping is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi WATANABE, Kentaro ISHISAKA, Takafumi HIROSE, Takemi TSUKADA, Katsuya YASHIRO, Toru KOKAKI, Hisashi MATSUDA, Masaya IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190278266
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a travel control unit configured to perform travel control of the vehicle and a guidance unit capable of providing guidance relating to the travel control. When an operation of the travel control unit is controlled by an operation apparatus, the guidance unit determines whether to provide guidance on a basis of a past operation state of at least one of the travel control unit or the guidance unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Hisashi MATSUDA, Kentaro ISHISAKA, Takashi WATANABE, Takafumi HIROSE, Takemi TSUKADA, Katsuya YASHIRO, Toru KOKAKI, Masaya IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190279487
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of an automatically driven vehicle, and a driving controller (120, 160) that automatically controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer and also includes a situation information acquirer that acquires situation information indicating an in-vehicle situation of an automatically driven vehicle, a detector that detects a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of the situation information acquired by the situation information acquirer, and a controller that controls the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the detection of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190278278
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Yasuda, Takafumi Hirose, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190279119
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a generator (184) configured to generate a first travel plan of an automatic driving vehicle; a controller (120, 160, 180) configured to cause the automatic driving vehicle to travel based on the first travel plan generated by the generator; and an acquirer (182) configured to acquire a change request for changing the first travel plan generated by the generator. The generator generates a second travel plan satisfying the change request in accordance with a situation of the automatic driving vehicle when the acquirer acquires the change request in a situation in which an authorized person who has a predetermined authority to use the automatic driving vehicle does not board the automatic driving vehicle and the automatic driving vehicle starts traveling in accordance with the first travel plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirose, Naoto Yasuda, Yuki Oshitani, Susumu Iwamoto