Patents by Inventor Takanori Imazu
Takanori Imazu 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: 11941988Abstract: A parking lot management device configured to manage traveling of vehicles by setting a scheduled passage time for each node indicating a travel route in a parking lot includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual passage time at which a first vehicle has actually passed a first node; a determination unit configured to determine a collision risk between a second vehicle and the first vehicle based on the actual passage time, the second vehicle being scheduled to pass, following the first vehicle, a second node that is located forward of the first node in a traveling direction of the first vehicle; and a setting unit configured to delay a first scheduled passage time at which the second vehicle passes the second node to cause the second vehicle to pass the second node following the first vehicle when it is determined that there is the collision risk.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takanori Imazu
-
Patent number: 11897455Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Omi, Takanori Imazu, Yoshiki Fukada, Takashi Hayashi, Yuta Kataoka, Kohki Baba, Ryuji Okamura, Akihiro Kusumoto
-
Patent number: 11893887Abstract: Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori Imazu, Yoshiki Fukada, Ryuji Okamura, Takashi Hayashi, Kohki Baba, Satoshi Omi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Yuta Kataoka
-
Patent number: 11834036Abstract: There is provided an automated valet parking server that causes an autonomous driving vehicle in a parking place to perform automated valet parking by instructing the autonomous driving vehicle. The automated valet parking server includes an illuminance information acquisition unit configured to acquire illuminance information of front lighting devices of the autonomous driving vehicle, an illuminance suppression point setting unit configured to set an illuminance suppression point which is a position in the parking place at which illuminance of the front lighting devices of the autonomous driving vehicle is suppressed based on parking place map information of the parking place and the illuminance information of the front lighting devices of the autonomous driving vehicle, and an illuminance suppression instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle to perform illuminance suppression at the illuminance suppression point.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20230294597Abstract: A parking action notification device includes an information notification unit configured to give a notice of information to an exterior of a vehicle. The information notification unit displays parking information to the exterior of the vehicle, the parking information being relevant to a parking action of the vehicle when the vehicle performs automatic parking.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Ryuji OKAMURA, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
-
Patent number: 11749113Abstract: A parking lot management device configured to manage traveling of vehicles by setting a scheduled passage time for each node indicating a travel route in a parking lot includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual passage time at which a first vehicle has actually passed a first node; a determination unit configured to determine a collision risk between a second vehicle and the first vehicle based on the actual passage time, the second vehicle being scheduled to pass, following the first vehicle, a second node that is located forward of the first node in a traveling direction of the first vehicle; and a setting unit configured to delay a first scheduled passage time at which the second vehicle passes the second node to cause the second vehicle to pass the second node following the first vehicle when it is determined that there is the collision risk.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20230136213Abstract: An upper-limit speed of a vehicle in automatic parking control is set, and the vehicle is caused to park automatically in a parking space at a vehicle speed equal to or lower than the set upper-limit speed. In this case, the upper-limit speed is set according to a vehicle body size of the vehicle, and the upper-limit speed is lower when the vehicle body size of the vehicle is greater than a preset size than when the vehicle body size of the vehicle is less than the preset size.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
-
Publication number: 20230117379Abstract: The position of the vehicle for loading articles on a cart with a self-propelled function is acquired, the travel route of the cart to the vehicle is determined, and the cart is self-propelled to the vehicle along the determined travel route and stopped around the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
-
Publication number: 20230114453Abstract: When an autonomous vehicle is caused to depart from a current position to a pickup location, a waiting location for temporarily parking the autonomous vehicle is set between the current position and the pickup location. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously driven from the current position to the waiting location, temporarily parked at the waiting location, and then autonomously driven to the pickup location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
-
Publication number: 20230116789Abstract: A parking lot management device configured to manage traveling of vehicles by setting a scheduled passage time for each node indicating a travel route in a parking lot includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual passage time at which a first vehicle has actually passed a first node; a determination unit configured to determine a collision risk between a second vehicle and the first vehicle based on the actual passage time, the second vehicle being scheduled to pass, following the first vehicle, a second node that is located forward of the first node in a traveling direction of the first vehicle; and a setting unit configured to delay a first scheduled passage time at which the second vehicle passes the second node to cause the second vehicle to pass the second node following the first vehicle when it is determined that there is the collision risk.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20230103109Abstract: A parking lot management system for managing a parking lot intended for autonomous vehicles and manually driven vehicles includes: a reservation unit configured to reserve a parking space for an autonomous vehicle; and a reserved parking space notification unit configured to notify a manually driven vehicle in the parking lot of the reserved parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki Fukada, Ryuji Okamura, Takashi Hayashi, Kohki Baba, Satoshi Omi, Akihiro Kusumoto, Yuta Kataoka
-
Publication number: 20230100856Abstract: Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI, Kohki BABA, Satoshi OMI, Akihiro KUSUMOTO, Yuta KATAOKA
-
Publication number: 20230062923Abstract: Provided is an automatic parking service causes a vehicle that has arrived at a platform to enter one parking space among a plurality of parking spaces by autonomous driving and that causes the vehicle parked in the parking space exit the platform by autonomous driving. A congestion degree of a platform requested to be used in an entry-exit time zone specified by a user that uses the automatic parking service is determined when an entry-exit request in which one platform among the plurality of platforms is used is received from the user. The use of another platform is proposed to the user when the congestion degree of the platform requested to be used is high, the other platform having a lower congestion degree than the platform requested to be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Satoshi OMI, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
-
Publication number: 20230055038Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Satoshi OMI, Takanori IMAZU, Yoshiki FUKADA, Takashi HAYASHI, Yuta KATAOKA, Kohki BABA, Ryuji OKAMURA, Akihiro KUSUMOTO
-
Publication number: 20220388499Abstract: In a parking area of a parking place, a plurality of parking spaces are aligned in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction. An automated valet parking system acquires a vehicle attribute of an automated valet parking subject vehicle, sets a parking subarea that is at least part of the parking area in accordance with the vehicle attribute, based on the vehicle attribute, sets priorities of the parking spaces for parking the automated valet parking subject vehicle in the parking subarea, based on positional information on the parking spaces in the parking subarea, determines a target parking space that is the parking space serving as a target for parking the automated valet parking subject vehicle, based on vacancy information on the parking spaces in the parking subarea and the priorities, and causes the automated valet parking subject vehicle to be parked in the target parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya Sugano, Noriyuki Tsuruoka, Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20220363245Abstract: There is provided an automated valet parking server that causes an autonomous driving vehicle in a parking place to perform automated valet parking by instructing the autonomous driving vehicle. The automated valet parking server includes an illuminance information acquisition unit configured to acquire illuminance information of front lighting devices of the autonomous driving vehicle, an illuminance suppression point setting unit configured to set an illuminance suppression point which is a position in the parking place at which illuminance of the front lighting devices of the autonomous driving vehicle is suppressed based on parking place map information of the parking place and the illuminance information of the front lighting devices of the autonomous driving vehicle, and an illuminance suppression instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle to perform illuminance suppression at the illuminance suppression point.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventor: Takanori IMAZU
-
Publication number: 20220366790Abstract: A vehicle management system manages a vehicle in a management area via communication. The vehicle management system includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: acquire first vehicle information indicating at least a position of a first vehicle configured to switch between autonomous driving and manual driving; acquire second vehicle information indicating at least a position of a second vehicle that performs at least autonomous driving; determine whether a possibility of collision between the first vehicle being driven manually and the second vehicle being driven autonomously is higher than a first threshold, based on the first vehicle information and the second vehicle information; and when the possibility of collision is higher than the first threshold, instruct the first vehicle being driven manually to impose a driving limitation on the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuji Okamura, Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20220252405Abstract: A localization device configured to consecutively estimate a location of an own vehicle based on behavior of the own vehicle and configured to correct the estimated location by making reference to a landmark in a vicinity of the own vehicle includes a calculation unit configured to calculate an index related to a self-location based on a displacement error of the own vehicle and a changing unit configured to change a determination criterion for identifying the landmark based on the index.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventor: Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20220230543Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus loads a vehicle into a parking space of a parking lot or unloads the vehicle from the parking space, by causing the vehicle to run in a self-propelled manner. The vehicle control apparatus is equipped with a reception unit that receives, from a control center at the parking lot, map information including mark information on a plurality of marks for identifying a position of the vehicle at the parking lot, a computation unit that computes each of intervals between the marks, based on the mark information included in the map information, and a determination unit that determines whether or not each of the computed intervals is a predetermined interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takanori Imazu
-
Publication number: 20210362704Abstract: An AVP system comprises a parking facility and a management center. The parking facility comprises a boarding space for a passenger to get in or out of a vehicle, a path for the vehicle to travel, and a parking space for the vehicle to park. The management center manages an AVP of the vehicle in the parking facility. The management center is configured to execute traveling route calculation processing to calculate a traveling route of the vehicle in the parking facility. In the traveling route calculation processing, the traveling route including location data of nodes from a boarding space to a scheduled parking space and that of nodes to perform a swing or a turning of wheels is calculated. The location data of the nodes to perform the turning of the wheels includes that of the nodes in a vacant parking space that differs from the scheduled parking space.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventor: Takanori Imazu