Patents by Inventor TAKERU GOTO
TAKERU GOTO 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: 12139017Abstract: A vehicle is provided. A detector detects an object at least ahead of the vehicle. A display is provided on an instrument panel of the vehicle and displays a signal at a position corresponding to a direction of the object detected by the detector. The display includes a part recessed forward in a vehicle longitudinal direction in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naotoshi Fujimoto, Ryo Shimoe, Takahiro Matsuoka, Takeru Goto
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Patent number: 12077152Abstract: A travel control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; generating a target path of the subject vehicle according to the surrounding situation; calculating a correction amount for correcting the target path in a direction away from a first other vehicle traveling in a first adjacent lane in the vehicle width direction, when the subject vehicle is predicted to pass a side of the first other vehicle or the first other vehicle is predicted to pass a side of the subject vehicle; when a second other vehicle traveling in a second adjacent lane is recognized, determining whether to correct the target path based on a traveling situation of the second other vehicle; and correcting the target path based on the correction amount when the target path is determined to be corrected in the determining.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shota Ishikawa, Nana Niibo, Takeru Goto, Shun Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20240140468Abstract: A driving assistance device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object, a determiner configured to determine, on the basis of the surrounding situation, whether to prompt a driver of the mobile object to perform a steering operation and whether there is a possibility of a risk occurring for the mobile object, and a notification controller configured to cause a speaker to output a guidance sound prompting the driver of the mobile object to perform a steering operation and a warning sound with respect to the risk on the basis of a result of the determination by the determiner, in which the notification controller causes output modes for the guidance sound and the warning sound to be different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Aya Miura, Yuji Yasui, Takeru Goto, Kosuke Toda, Keming Ding, Kenjiro Torii
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Publication number: 20240109552Abstract: According to an embodiment, a driving assistance device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object, a decider configured to decide whether or not to prompt a driver of the mobile object to perform acceleration or deceleration on the basis of the surrounding situation, and a notification controller configured to cause a speaker to output a notification sound for prompting the driver of the mobile object to perform the acceleration or deceleration on the basis of a decision result. The notification sound is a notification sound obtained by continuously changing a structure of a sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kosuke Toda, Yuji Yasui, Takeru Goto, Aya Miura, Kenjiro Torii, Keming Ding
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Publication number: 20240092365Abstract: Provided is an estimation device configured to: acquire prediction parameters, which are distribution information on second parameters, by inputting actual parameters, which are first parameters, into: a first trained model, which is trained to output distribution information on second parameters in response to input of first parameters by using training data and correct data; and a second trained model, which is trained to output distribution information on second parameters in response to input of first parameters by using training data and correct data; and estimate whether or not the second mobile object is to take the predetermined action by comparing the prediction parameters with the actual parameters at a subject time of the prediction parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Takeru Goto
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Publication number: 20230382396Abstract: Provided is a gaze estimation device for estimating toward which gaze candidate an occupant of a mobile object is directing his or her gaze from among a plurality of gaze candidates including gaze candidates existing on a structure of the mobile object and an object near the mobile object, the gaze estimation device being configured to: calculate, for each of the plurality of gaze candidates, a probability value of the occupant directing his or her gaze toward the gaze candidate based on the gaze and a probability distribution representing probabilities of directing his or her gaze toward each of the plurality of gaze candidates; and estimate that the occupant is directing his or her gaze toward a gaze candidate for which the probability value is equal to or larger than a threshold value among the plurality of gaze candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Takeru Goto
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Publication number: 20230382413Abstract: Provided is a driving assistance device including a storage medium storing computer-readable commands and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable commands to: recognize an external object near a mobile object; estimate toward which gaze candidate an occupant of the mobile object is directing his or her gaze from among a plurality of gaze candidates including gaze candidates existing on a structure of the mobile object and the external object; determine that the occupant visually recognizes a gaze candidate from among the plurality of gaze candidates when the occupant is estimated to direct his or her gaze toward the gaze candidate for a first predetermined period or more; and execute driving assistance for the mobile object based on a determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Takeru Goto
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Publication number: 20230182731Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; controlling a traveling actuator so that the subject vehicle travels along a target path generated based on a recognition result; and predicting, when an object is recognized in a current lane or in an adjacent lane, whether a passing run is occur based on a relative speed with the object. The generating includes, when the passing run is predicted to occur, generating the target path so that the subject vehicle executes an offset driving in which the subject vehicle is offset in a vehicle width direction relative to the object, and so that an acceleration of the subject vehicle in the vehicle width direction while shifting to or returning from the offset driving is equal to or less than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Shota Ishikawa, Nana Niibo, Shun Iwasaki, Takeru Goto
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Publication number: 20230158889Abstract: A vehicle is provided. A detector detects an object at least ahead of the vehicle. A display is provided on an instrument panel of the vehicle and displays a signal at a position corresponding to a direction of the object detected by the detector. The display includes a part recessed forward in a vehicle longitudinal direction in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naotoshi Fujimoto, Ryo Shimoe, Takahiro Matsuoka, Takeru Goto
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Patent number: 11544556Abstract: A learning device includes a plurality of individual learners. Each of the individual learners includes a planner configured to generate information for defining an operation of the operation subject corresponding to itself, and a reward deriver configured to derive a reward obtained by evaluating information to be evaluated including feedback information obtained from a simulator by inputting information based on the information for defining the operation of the operation subject to the simulator. The planner performs reinforcement learning based on the reward derived by the reward deriver, and at least two of the plurality of individual learners are different in the operations of the operation subject in which the reward derived by the reward deriver is maximized.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeru Goto
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Patent number: 11498574Abstract: A learning device includes a planner configured to generate information indicating an action of a vehicle, and a reward deriver configured to derive a plurality of individual rewards obtained by evaluating each of a plurality of pieces of information to be evaluated, which include feedback information obtained from a simulator or an actual environment by inputting information based on the information indicating the action of the vehicle to the simulator or the actual environment, and derive a reward for the action of the vehicle on the basis of the plurality of individual rewards. The planner performs reinforcement learning that optimizes the reward derived by the reward deriver.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeru Goto
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Patent number: 11465627Abstract: A first possible space, for which a lane change of the vehicle is possible, is specified from an inter-vehicle distance between the preceding other vehicle and the nearby vehicle, a speed of the preceding other vehicle, and a speed of the nearby vehicle. A second possible space, for which the lane change of the vehicle is possible, is specified from an inter-vehicle distance between the nearby vehicle and the following other vehicle, the speed of the nearby vehicle, and a speed of the following other vehicle. The control unit controls the traveling of the vehicle to make the lane change to the adjacent lane based on a result of the evaluation of the first possible space and the second possible space.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Takeru Goto, Shun Iwasaki, Masanori Takeda
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Patent number: 11449058Abstract: A traveling track determination device includes an ECU. The ECU calculates a second course target point, and determines a future traveling track for the vehicle at right/left turn using a first straight line that extends from the vehicle through an intersection in a forward direction, a second straight line that extends along a second course through the second course target point and intersects with the first straight line in the intersection, and a curved track configured of a quadratic Bézier curve.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Nakanishi, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga, Yuki Ichino, Takeru Goto
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Publication number: 20220234576Abstract: A travel control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; generating a target path of the subject vehicle according to the surrounding situation; calculating a correction amount for correcting the target path in a direction away from a first other vehicle traveling in a first adjacent lane in the vehicle width direction, when the subject vehicle is predicted to pass a side of the first other vehicle or the first other vehicle is predicted to pass a side of the subject vehicle; when a second other vehicle traveling in a second adjacent lane is recognized, determining whether to correct the target path based on a traveling situation of the second other vehicle; and correcting the target path based on the correction amount when the target path is determined to be corrected in the determining.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Shota Ishikawa, Nana Niibo, Takeru Goto, Shun Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11352026Abstract: Provided are a vehicle, a vehicle monitoring server, a vehicle monitoring system, and a vehicle monitoring method, that can be suitably used in a configuration whereby the vehicle and the vehicle monitoring server communicate in relation to a travel caution region. A first control device in the vehicle sends an entry notification signal to the vehicle monitoring server prior to entry into a travel caution region, if the travel caution region is included in a target route or a target track. The first control device may also send a passage completed signal to the vehicle monitoring server after passing through the travel caution region. A second control device in the vehicle monitoring server performs an error output if, after receiving an entry notification signal from a specified vehicle, a passage completed signal has not been received by a second prescribed point in time.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Nagashima, Hideki Matsunaga, Takeru Goto, Toshiaki Takano
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Patent number: 11338803Abstract: An ECU of an automated drive device determines a future traveling track for a vehicle using a first straight line that extends in a forward direction of the vehicle, a second straight line that extends along a second course, and a curved track that extends between a first predetermined point on the first straight line and a second predetermined point on the second straight line. After determination of the future traveling track, the vehicle turns to the right in an intersection during actual traveling on the traveling track, if a median strip is present in a course of the vehicle, a changed track is calculated so as to avoid interference of the vehicle with the median strip.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Nakanishi, Yuji Yasui, Hideki Matsunaga, Takeru Goto, Yuki Ichino
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Patent number: 11325589Abstract: This vehicle control device comprises: action amount determination units that determine evasive action amounts indicating the degree of evasive action relative to a recognized obstacle; and a travel control unit that performs travel control whereby a vehicle is caused to take evasive action corresponding to the determined evasive action amount. The action amount determination units determine the amount of evasive action, according to user preferences for the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Nagashima, Hideki Matsunaga, Takeru Goto, Hirokiyo Kasahara, Yoshimitsu Murahashi
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Patent number: 11305779Abstract: A behavior prediction device predicts behavior of another vehicle traveling around a host vehicle, and the behavior prediction device includes: a reference position setting unit that sets a reference position (reference line) along a shape of a road; a position detection unit that detects a position of the other vehicle; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance from the reference position (reference line) to the other vehicle on the basis of information about the reference position (reference line) and information about the position of the other vehicle; and a prediction unit that predicts a trajectory of the other vehicle on the basis of information about the distance in time series calculated by the distance calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Mine, Takeru Goto
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Patent number: 11180166Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device which, when traffic participants are waiting in the vicinity of a railroad crossing for a train to pass, appropriately controls driving of a vehicle about to pass through the railroad crossing. Entry of the vehicle into the railroad crossing is restrained until a waiting time elapses since when the railroad crossing transitioned from a passage blocking state to a passage allowing state, the waiting time being set in accordance with the kind or the number of the traffic participants present in the vicinity of the railroad crossing. When the waiting time has elapsed, the vehicle is caused to enter the railroad crossing and pass (through) the railroad crossing.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeru Goto, Hideki Matsunaga, Masaaki Nagashima, Yoshimitsu Murahashi
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Patent number: 11142189Abstract: A forward movement limit determination unit determines to execute a forward movement limit in the case it is recognized that there is an intersecting road or an entering vehicle, and further, it is recognized that an event that limits traveling of a host vehicle is occurring on a more forward side of the travel direction of the host vehicle than an intersecting position or an entry position. In the case it is determined that the forward movement limit is to be executed, a vehicle control unit performs the forward movement limit, on a more opposite direction side of the travel direction than the intersecting position or the entry position.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Takeru Goto, Hirokiyo Kasahara, Toshiaki Takano