Patents by Inventor Takeshi Hato

Takeshi Hato 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: 11301695
    Abstract: An orientation detection device obtains a detection information of a sensor that detects a displacement in the vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, computes a pitch angle of the vehicle on the basis of the detection information, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels, and corrects a correlation between the detection information used in computation and the pitch angle on the basis of the gradient information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Shibata, Masayuki Imanishi, Takeshi Hato, Daisuke Takemori, Hiroto Banno
  • Patent number: 11264000
    Abstract: A display control device controls display of a virtual image which is superimposed on foreground of a vehicle by projection of a display light image from an optical unit to a projection area. The display control device sets a projection position of the display light image which is projected in the projection area on the basis of a relative position of a superimposition object on which the virtual image is superimposed, obtains a measurement information from one vehicle height sensor measuring a displacement in a vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels on the basis of three-dimensional map data, and corrects the projection position of the display light image on the basis of the measurement information and the gradient information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Shibata, Masayuki Imanishi, Norio Samma, Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Sei Iguchi, Hiroto Banno, Daisuke Takemori
  • Patent number: 11247565
    Abstract: A virtual image display device that displays a virtual image by projecting a display light image to a projection area of a vehicle, includes: a low-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a low-frequency band; a high-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a high-frequency band; an image renderer that renders image data of the display light image corrected to reduce misalignment attributed to the attitude change at the low-frequency band; a projection optical unit that includes a display surface to display an original image based on the image data, and projects light of the original image as the display light image; and a display controller that displaces the original image to reduce the misalignment of the virtual image attributed to the attitude change at the high-frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Banno, Takeshi Hato, Yuichiro Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11220274
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device controls display performed by a head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display is configured to project an image on a projection member to cause a virtual image to be displayed in superimposed relation on a front view of the vehicle. The vehicle display control device determines a host vehicle situation as a road structure of a road on which a host vehicle is running, and controls to limit or not to limit a superimposed display of the virtual image with respect to a target object on which the virtual image is to be displayed in superimposed relation according to the host vehicle situation determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Banno, Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Daisuke Takemori, Akira Kamiya, Shingo Yamashita, Yasushi Sakuma, Satoshi Horihata
  • Publication number: 20210372810
    Abstract: When the display is controlled by the head-up display used in the vehicle, prior to the display of the superimposed contents to be superimposed and displayed on the specific superimposed object existing in the foreground of the vehicle, the non-superimposed content which has substantially the same meaning as the superposed content to be superimposed and displayed on the foreground in a non-superimposed state on the superimposed object is superimposed and displayed on the foreground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi HATO, Takashi ICHIDA, Takamitsu SUZUKI, Yusuke KONDO, Kohji OHYAMA, Kazuki KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11189250
    Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display position of a virtual image displayed and superimposed on a foreground in a vehicle (A), includes: an information acquisition unit for acquiring state information of the vehicle and extracting attitude change information and vibration information of the vehicle from the state information; a position correction unit for correcting a displacement of the display position of the virtual image with respect to the foreground caused by the attitude change of the vehicle, based on the attitude change information; a rough road determination unit for determining whether a road is a rough road, the road on which the vehicle is traveling or scheduled to travel, based on the vibration information; and a correction suppression unit for suppressing a correction control of the display position executed by the position correction unit and continuing to display the virtual image, based on a rough road determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Hato, Takeshi Kawashima, Daisuke Takemori, Hiroto Banno, Akira Kamiya, Shingo Yamashita, Shunsuke Shibata, Masayuki Imanishi, Norio Samma
  • Publication number: 20210356289
    Abstract: A display system applied to a vehicle includes a navigation device guiding a route to a destination and a display control device displaying multiple route guidance contents in superimposed manner on a road surface using a head-up display. When the navigation device determines that a first route guidance and a second route guidance included in route guidance information are successive guidance, (i) the navigation device concurrently displays images of the first route guidance and the second route guidance, and (ii) the display control device activates display of a first guidance content that performs the first route guidance, and then activates display of a second guidance content that performs the second route guidance after deactivating the display of the first guidance content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Kazuki KOJIMA, Akira KAMIYA, Motohiro FUKUMOTO, Takeshi HATO
  • Publication number: 20210223058
    Abstract: A virtual image is superimposed on a foreground scenery of an occupant of a vehicle. A position of the vehicle is acquired. High-precision map information or low-precision map information with lower accuracy than the high-precision map information, corresponding to the position is acquired. The virtual image is generated in a first display mode based on the high-precision map information when the high-precision map information can be acquired. The virtual image is generated in a second display mode different from the first display mode based on the low-precision map information when the high-precision map information cannot be acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi HORIHATA, Yusuke KONDO, Takeshi HATO, Kazuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210031776
    Abstract: A display control unit controls a virtual image display device that superimposes a virtual image on a foreground of an occupant of the vehicle. The display control unit acquires posture information indicating a change in posture of the vehicle based on a signal of a posture sensor attached to the vehicle. The display control unit acquires driving force information indicating a state of a driving force acting on the vehicle. The display control unit determines that the vehicle is traveling on a rough road when the change in posture indicated by the posture information exceeds a threshold value in a state where the driving force indicated by the driving force information is stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Takeshi HATO, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO
  • Publication number: 20200311442
    Abstract: An orientation detection device obtains a detection information of a sensor that detects a displacement in the vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, computes a pitch angle of the vehicle on the basis of the detection information, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels, and corrects a correlation between the detection information used in computation and the pitch angle on the basis of the gradient information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Takeshi HATO, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO
  • Publication number: 20200269696
    Abstract: A virtual image display device that displays a virtual image by projecting a display light image to a projection area of a vehicle, includes: a low-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a low-frequency band; a high-frequency information acquisition portion that acquires attitude change information of the vehicle at a high-frequency band; an image renderer that renders image data of the display light image corrected to reduce misalignment attributed to the attitude change at the low-frequency band; a projection optical unit that includes a display surface to display an original image based on the image data, and projects light of the original image as the display light image; and a display controller that displaces the original image to reduce the misalignment of the virtual image attributed to the attitude change at the high-frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takeshi HATO, Yuichiro HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200273435
    Abstract: A display control device controls display of a virtual image which is superimposed on foreground of a vehicle by projection of a display light image from an optical unit to a projection area. The display control device sets a projection position of the display light image which is projected in the projection area on the basis of a relative position of a superimposition object on which the virtual image is superimposed, obtains a measurement information from one vehicle height sensor measuring a displacement in a vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels on the basis of three-dimensional map data, and corrects the projection position of the display light image on the basis of the measurement information and the gradient information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Norio SAMMA, Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Sei IGUCHI, Hiroto BANNO, Daisuke TAKEMORI
  • Publication number: 20200132462
    Abstract: A sensor calibration device acquires a measured value of an attitude of a vehicle based on an output of an attitude sensor, acquires vehicle speed information indicating a traveling speed of the vehicle, acquires map information on a road on which the vehicle travels, and sets a calibration value applied to the measured value to cause a calculated position of the vehicle calculated based on the vehicle speed information and the measured value to come close to a reference position indicated in the map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Norio SAMMA, Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO, Sei IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190359228
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device controls display performed by a head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display is configured to project an image on a projection member to cause a virtual image to be displayed in superimposed relation on a front view of the vehicle. The vehicle display control device determines a host vehicle situation as a road structure of a road on which a host vehicle is running, and controls to limit or not to limit a superimposed display of the virtual image with respect to a target object on which the virtual image is to be displayed in superimposed relation according to the host vehicle situation determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Akira KAMIYA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Yasushi SAKUMA, Satoshi HORIHATA
  • Publication number: 20190333481
    Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display position of a virtual image displayed and superimposed on a foreground in a vehicle (A), includes: an information acquisition unit for acquiring state information of the vehicle and extracting attitude change information and vibration information of the vehicle from the state information; a position correction unit for correcting a displacement of the display position of the virtual image with respect to the foreground caused by the attitude change of the vehicle, based on the attitude change information; a rough road determination unit for determining whether a road is a rough road, the road on which the vehicle is traveling or scheduled to travel, based on the vibration information; and a correction suppression unit for suppressing a correction control of the display position executed by the position correction unit and continuing to display the virtual image, based on a rough road determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi HATO, Takeshi KAWASHIMA, Daisuke TAKEMORI, Hiroto BANNO, Akira KAMIYA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Shunsuke SHIBATA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Norio SAMMA
  • Patent number: 8128181
    Abstract: A braking control apparatus includes a brake operating member, a hydraulic circuit supplying a wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure to a wheel cylinder, a pump generating a hydraulic pressure so that the wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure reaches a value in response to an operation of the brake operating member, a circulation conduit provided at a portion of the hydraulic circuit, the circulation conduit through which a partial amount of brake fluid discharged from the pump is circulated back to the pump, a pressure regulating valve adjusting a pressure difference between an upstream side of the pressure regulating valve connected to the wheel cylinder and a downstream side, and a controlling device calculating, on the basis of a circulation flow rate of the brake fluid passing through the pressure regulating valve, an applied current to the pressure regulating valve for obtaining a target of the pressure difference and controlling the applied current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Yamauchi, Koichi Kokubo, Hiroaki Niino, Takeshi Hato, Masayoshi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20090243382
    Abstract: A braking control apparatus includes a brake operating member, a hydraulic circuit supplying a wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure to a wheel cylinder, a pump generating a hydraulic pressure so that the wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure reaches a value in response to an operation of the brake operating member, a circulation conduit provided at a portion of the hydraulic circuit, the circulation conduit through which a partial amount of brake fluid discharged from the pump is circulated back to the pump, a pressure regulating valve adjust a pressure difference between an upstream side of the pressure regulating valve connected to the wheel cylinder and a downstream side, and a controlling device calculating, on the basis of a circulation flow rate of the brake fluid passing through the pressure regulating valve, an applied current to the pressure regulating valve for obtaining a target of the pressure difference and controlling the applied current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Hidehiro Yamauchi, Koichi Kokubo, Hiroaki Niino, Takeshi Hato, Masayoshi Takeda