Patents by Inventor Takahiro Yokota
Takahiro Yokota 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: 12221099Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 12214783Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 12110014Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Publication number: 20240157967Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for performing autonomous driving of a host vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes an operating section information acquisition unit configured to acquire operating section information that is information of an operating section in which vehicle stability control by brake control has been operated in a vehicle in autonomous driving in the past; an operation plan generation unit configured to generate an operation plan of autonomous driving of the host vehicle based on a preset target route and map information; and a vehicle controller configured to perform autonomous driving along the operation plan, wherein the operation plan generation unit generates the operation plan so that the host vehicle does not stop in the operating section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Yokota, Atsushi Kodama, Hiroki Fukuda, Taichi Kawanai, Daichi Hotta, Nobuhide Kamata
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Patent number: 11768500Abstract: An autonomous driving system includes an electronic control unit configured to generate, based on a target route, a target path in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time at a control point on the target path, and rebuild, based on an actual speed of a vehicle, the speed plan when an operation intervention is performed during autonomous driving performed by autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path according to the speed plan, the operation intervention changing a braking force acting on the vehicle, and perform the autonomous driving control by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Go Inoue, Takahiro Yokota, Yoshinori Watanabe, Takaaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11667288Abstract: A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle including a driving actuator configured to apply a driving force and a braking actuator configured to apply a braking force. The vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to correct, when a predetermined condition including at least that the vehicle is decelerating is satisfied, the required driving force and the required braking force so as to increase the required driving force and the required braking force such that a sum of a magnitude of the required driving force and a magnitude of the required braking force is equal to or larger than a magnitude of the component of the gravity acting on the vehicle in the movement direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Yokota
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Publication number: 20230122841Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi SONE, Yoji KUNIHIRO, Takahiro YOKOTA, Ryo IRIE, Yoshinori WATANABE, Masateru AMANO
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Patent number: 11524706Abstract: An override conciliating portion executes processing to conciliate an override request during an execution of automated driving control (i.e., override conciliation processing). In the override conciliation processing, it is determined whether or not there is the override request (step S20). If the determination result of the step S20 is positive, it is determined whether or not a second automated driving mode is selected as an operation mode (step S21). If the determination result of the step S21 is negative, acceptance processing of the override request is executed (step S22). If the determination result of the step S21 is positive, invalidation processing of the override request is executed (step S23).Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Kojo, Shun Mizoo, Takahiro Yokota, Shunsuke Tanimori, Hisaya Akatsuka, Masaki Shiota, Hirotaka Tokoro
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Patent number: 11479244Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Publication number: 20220212666Abstract: A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle including a driving actuator configured to apply a driving force and a braking actuator configured to apply a braking force. The vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to correct, when a predetermined condition including at least that the vehicle is decelerating is satisfied, the required driving force and the required braking force so as to increase the required driving force and the required braking force such that a sum of a magnitude of the required driving force and a magnitude of the required braking force is equal to or larger than a magnitude of the component of the gravity acting on the vehicle in the movement direction of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Yokota
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Patent number: 11318943Abstract: A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle including a driving actuator configured to apply a driving force and a braking actuator configured to apply a braking force. The vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to correct, when a predetermined condition including at least that the vehicle is decelerating is satisfied, the required driving force and the required braking force so as to increase the required driving force and the required braking force such that a sum of a magnitude of the required driving force and a magnitude of the required braking force is equal to or larger than a magnitude of the component of the gravity acting on the vehicle in the movement direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro Yokota
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Publication number: 20220073069Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi SONE, Yoji KUNIHIRO, Takahiro YOKOTA, Ryo IRIE, Yoshinori WATANABE, Masateru AMANO
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Publication number: 20220063611Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi SONE, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 11220262Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 11180138Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Sone, Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Yokota, Ryo Irie, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masateru Amano
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Patent number: 11110794Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus executes braking assist control to decelerate a vehicle by automatic operation of a braking device. When the vehicle control apparatus obtains a deceleration request from a driver during execution of the braking assist control, while a driver request deceleration requested to the braking device by the driver is constant or in an increasing trend, the vehicle control apparatus executes first arithmetic processing to suppress a system request deceleration requested to the braking device by the braking assist control from being decreased by the braking assist control.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Yokota, Mitsutaka Tanimoto, Toshihiko Seki, Yoshinori Watanabe
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Publication number: 20200324792Abstract: An override conciliating portion executes processing to conciliate an override request during an execution of automated driving control (i.e., override conciliation processing). In the override conciliation processing, it is determined whether or not there is the override request (step S20). If the determination result of the step S20 is positive, it is determined whether or not a second automated driving mode is selected as an operation mode (step S21). If the determination result of the step S21 is negative, acceptance processing of the override request is executed (step S22). If the determination result of the step S21 is positive, invalidation processing of the override request is executed (step S23).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Yoji Kunihiro, Takahiro Kojo, Shun Mizoo, Takahiro Yokota, Shunsuke Tanimori, Hisaya Akatsuka, Masaki Shiota, Hirotaka Tokoro
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Patent number: 10752234Abstract: A SS control device is configured to: be allowed to stop an internal combustion engine when a required voltage is smaller than or equal to a first voltage value under a state where a stopping condition is satisfied, and be prohibited from stopping the internal combustion engine when the required voltage is larger than the first voltage value under a state where the stopping condition is satisfied; and be allowed to restart the internal combustion engine when the required voltage is smaller than or equal to a second voltage value smaller than the first voltage value under a state where the restart condition is satisfied, and be prohibited from restarting the internal combustion engine when the required voltage is larger than the second voltage value under a state where the restart condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoji Kunihiro, Hiroki Asada, Yoshio Kudo, Takahiro Yokota, Masateru Amano
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Publication number: 20200238985Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi SONE, Yoji KUNIHIRO, Takahiro YOKOTA, Ryo IRIE, Yoshinori WATANABE, Masateru AMANO
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Publication number: 20200231153Abstract: A vehicle control device is mounted on a vehicle including a driving actuator configured to apply a driving force and a braking actuator configured to apply a braking force. The vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to correct, when a predetermined condition including at least that the vehicle is decelerating is satisfied, the required driving force and the required braking force so as to increase the required driving force and the required braking force such that a sum of a magnitude of the required driving force and a magnitude of the required braking force is equal to or larger than a magnitude of the component of the gravity acting on the vehicle in the movement direction of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahiro YOKOTA