Patents by Inventor Takahiro HIROTA

Takahiro HIROTA 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: 20240127612
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: an obstacle information acquisition section configured to acquire information relating to a plurality of obstacles in surroundings of a vehicle; and a mark display section configured to display a predetermined individual mark prompting caution toward an individual obstacle among the plurality of obstacles by superimposed display in a display region inside a vehicle cabin, and to display a predetermined cluster mark prompting caution toward a plurality of the obstacles by superimposed display in the display region in a case in which a predetermined condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro HIROTA, Yuting ZHANG, Junichi TODAKA
  • Publication number: 20240110722
    Abstract: The louver 1 includes a first member 2 including a lid portion 22, slits 24 disposed at intervals from the lid portion 22, and rising portions 25 and rising portions 26 extending from peripheral edge portions of the slits 24 toward one side in a depth direction and a second member 3 including a lid portion 32, slits 34 disposed at intervals from the lid portion 32, and rising portions 35 and rising portions 36 extending from the peripheral edge portions of the slits 34 toward the other side in the depth direction. The first member 2 and the second member 3 are disposed to face each other and the slits 24 of the first member 2 and the slits 34 of the second member 3 are disposed to be shifted from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kakizaki, Takashi Hirota, Atsushi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11921220
    Abstract: To provide a positioning technology capable of measuring a position of a moving object moving at high speed with high reliability, high accuracy, and high speed. The positioning system 1000 can obtain accurate position data using the positioning information collected from a plurality of base stations, and deliver the obtained accurate position data to the base station. In the positioning system 1000, the base station serving as the position reference station can always hold the accurate position data based on the accurate measurement result data. In the positioning system 1000, the base station whose accurate position is known is used as a position reference station to perform RTK positioning with, for example, the mobile station, thus allowing the position of the mobile station to be measured with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hideyuki Torimoto, Masahiro Asako, Takahiro Shinohara, Masumi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20240059148
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: detect when an operation region including plural switches provided to a steering wheel has been operated; and in a case in which operation of the operation region has been detected, display, at a display region set in front of a driving seat, an operation region image corresponding to the operation region and a status image indicating a current status of a function allocated to the switch that is being operated among the plural switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo HORI, Ryota HAMABE, Takahiro HIROTA, Yoshinori MURATA
  • Publication number: 20240043030
    Abstract: In cases in which an other vehicle traveling along an adjacent lane, which is adjacent to a travel lane of a host vehicle is executing a cut-in operation to move from the adjacent lane to a cut-in position ahead of the host vehicle in the travel lane, a processor controls a display section configured to display a travel lane image representing the travel lane, an adjacent lane image representing the adjacent lane, a lane boundary line image representing a lane boundary line defining a boundary between the travel lane and the adjacent lane, and an other vehicle image representing the other vehicle, such that the display section causes the other vehicle image to move in a discontinuous manner from a first position on the adjacent lane image to a second position on the lane boundary line image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota HAMABE, Keigo HORI, Takahiro HIROTA, Yoshinori MURATA
  • Patent number: 11893812
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: an obstacle information acquisition section configured to acquire information relating to a plurality of obstacles in surroundings of a vehicle; and a mark display section configured to display a predetermined individual mark prompting caution toward an individual obstacle among the plurality of obstacles by superimposed display in a display region inside a vehicle cabin, and to display a predetermined cluster mark prompting caution toward a plurality of the obstacles by superimposed display in the display region in a case in which a predetermined condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirota, Yuting Zhang, Junichi Todaka
  • Patent number: 11884156
    Abstract: A processor controls a first display section and a second display section provided to a vehicle such that when an occupant of the vehicle has performed a first operation while in a state in which a message is being displayed on the first display section and the second display section, the message is cleared from the first display section and the message continues to be displayed on the second display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Hamabe, Keigo Hori, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Publication number: 20230415573
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device acquires position information of a detection object ahead of a vehicle. The vehicle display control device generates an image indicating a direction from the vehicle toward the detection object based on the acquired position information of the detection object. When the generated image is displayed on a display area in front of a driver's seat of the vehicle, the vehicle display control device causes display of the image overlaid on a forward scene of the vehicle while limiting display of the image in a specific region inside the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230406104
    Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle includes a processor configured to: acquire information relating to an obstacle in a vehicle's surroundings; perform superimposed display of information at a position of the obstacle as viewed by a vehicle occupant, at a display region provided in front of the vehicle occupant; and delete the display of the information in a case in which the vehicle occupant has perceived the obstacle in a state in which the information is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Akira OGINO, Takahiro HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230406338
    Abstract: A display control device comprises a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire positional information about a target based on detection information of a target detection section that detects the target in surroundings of a vehicle, set a virtual origin in an output range of an output section that outputs an image to a display area provided in a cabin of the vehicle, set a hypothetical line connecting the virtual origin to a position of the positional information, and generate, based on the hypothetical line, a mark that urges caution toward the target and that is overlay displayed on the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Norihisa HOTTA, Toshinori AOKI, Takahiro HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230410383
    Abstract: A display control device comprises a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire positional information related to a position of a target based on detection information of the target detected in surroundings of a vehicle, acquire velocity information related to a velocity of the vehicle, acquire an approach direction along which the target approaches the vehicle, offset the positional information in the approach direction based on the velocity information, and generate a mark urging caution with respect to the target for overlay display on a display area provided in a cabin of the vehicle based on the positional information that has been offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Toshinori AOKI, Norihisa HOTTA, Takahiro HIROTA
  • Patent number: 11820396
    Abstract: In cases in which an other vehicle traveling along an adjacent lane, which is adjacent to a travel lane of a host vehicle is executing a cut-in operation to move from the adjacent lane to a cut-in position ahead of the host vehicle in the travel lane, a processor controls a display section configured to display a travel lane image representing the travel lane, an adjacent lane image representing the adjacent lane, a lane boundary line image representing a lane boundary line defining a boundary between the travel lane and the adjacent lane, and an other vehicle image representing the other vehicle, such that the display section causes the other vehicle image to move in a discontinuous manner from a first position on the adjacent lane image to a second position on the lane boundary line image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Hamabe, Keigo Hori, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Patent number: 11820226
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: detect when an operation region including plural switches provided to a steering wheel has been operated; and in a case in which operation of the operation region has been detected, display, at a display region set in front of a driving seat, an operation region image corresponding to the operation region and a status image indicating a current status of a function allocated to the switch that is being operated among the plural switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo Hori, Ryota Hamabe, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Publication number: 20230364994
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a display section that is configured to cause display at a plurality of display areas provided adjacent to each other inside a vehicle cabin; and a display item changing section that is configured to change respective display items displayed at the plurality of display areas by the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuaki NADAYA, Akinori SHIN, Takahiro HIROTA
  • Patent number: 11807299
    Abstract: There is provided a display device for a vehicle, the display device including: a display unit that is visible to an occupant of a vehicle; a memory; and a processor that is connected to the memory, the processor changing a content image displayed on the display unit so as to be displayed in the same direction as a direction in which a travel path of the vehicle curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirota, Koji Aikawa, Shigeto Muramatu
  • Publication number: 20230237940
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: detect when a right-side operation region provided on a right side of a steering wheel has been operated; detect when a left-side operation region provided on a left side of the steering wheel has been operated; in a case in which operation of the right-side operation region has been detected, display a right-side image corresponding to the right-side operation region in a right-side area of a display region set in front of a driving seat; and in a case in which operation of the left-side operation region has been detected, display a left-side image corresponding to the left-side operation region in a left-side area of the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo HORI, Ryota HAMABE, Takahiro HIROTA, Yoshinori MURATA
  • Patent number: 11657741
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: detect when a right-side operation region provided on a right side of a steering wheel has been operated; detect when a left-side operation region provided on a left side of the steering wheel has been operated; in a case in which operation of the right-side operation region has been detected, display a right-side image corresponding to the right-side operation region in a right-side area of a display region set in front of a driving seat; and in a case in which operation of the left-side operation region has been detected, display a left-side image corresponding to the left-side operation region in a left-side area of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo Hori, Ryota Hamabe, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Publication number: 20230097073
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device that is configured to: switch between a plurality of screen displays containing information relating to a variety of functions; display one of the plurality of screen displays at a display region of a display; and between an on state and an off state of a specific function, change a number of the plurality of screen displays being switched between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota HAMABE, Keigo HORI, Takahiro HIROTA, Yoshinori MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230097248
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device is configured to: acquire a physical quantity relating to a travel state of a vehicle; in a display region for displaying a predetermined range of the vehicle travel state-related physical quantity in increments using numerical values, change a display format of the numerical values based on the acquired vehicle travel state-related physical quantity; and display the numerical values for which the display format has been changed on a display including the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo HORI, Ryota HAMABE, Takahiro HIROTA, Yoshinori MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230096390
    Abstract: A processor controls a first display section and a second display section provided to a vehicle such that when an occupant of the vehicle has performed a first operation while in a state in which a message is being displayed on the first display section and the second display section, the message is cleared from the first display section and the message continues to be displayed on the second display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota HAMABE, Keigo HORI, Takahiro HIROTA, Yoshinori MURATA