Patents by Inventor Takayasu Kumano

Takayasu Kumano 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: 20200167574
    Abstract: A traffic guide object recognition device includes an imager configured to image surroundings of a vehicle and a recognizer configured to recognize surrounding circumstances of the vehicle. The recognizer selects a traffic guide object which the vehicle is to follow on the basis of forms of traffic guide objects in an image captured by the imager out of traffic guide objects which are provided near the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20200164872
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to control acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle independently of an operation of an occupant of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. When it is recognized that the vehicle passes through a complex intersection where two or more intersections are combined by turning left or right at the complex intersection, the recognizer excludes at least a traffic signal closest to the vehicle among traffic signals present at positions capable of being visually recognized from the vehicle in a traveling direction of the vehicle from traffic signals whose states are required to be taken into account by the vehicle in a state in which the vehicle has entered the complex intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Suguru Yanagihara, Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200168097
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a determiner configured to determine that entry into an intersection is allowed, on the basis of a certain determination condition, when the recognizer has recognized that there is the intersection ahead of the vehicle, a driving controller configured to cause the vehicle to enter the intersection when the determiner has determined that the entry into the intersection is allowed, and a condition changer configured to change the determination condition to a condition under which it is easier for the entry into the intersection to be determined to be allowed in a case in which the intersection recognized by the recognizer is a circular intersection, in comparison with a case in which the intersection recognized by the recognizer is another intersection different from the circular intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20200156645
    Abstract: A vehicle control device in an embodiment includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, and in a case where the vehicle merges into a second lane from a first lane in which the vehicle travels, and a section of the second lane before merging recognized by the recognition unit is downhill, the driving control unit makes a speed or acceleration of the vehicle higher than in a case where the section before merging is not downhill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya Niioka, Takayasu Kumano, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200159234
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a driving control unit that controls steering and a speed of a subject vehicle; and a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding environment of the subject vehicle, wherein, in a case in which a preceding vehicle is estimated to stop in an area in which it is not desirable for a vehicle to stop in an advancement direction of the subject vehicle by the recognition unit, the driving control unit controls the speed or the steering of the subject vehicle such that a space for the preceding vehicle to move backward from the area and stop in front of the subject vehicle is vacated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuma Ohara, Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Suguru Yanagihara, Yuki Motegi