Patents by Inventor Takuhiro Omi

Takuhiro Omi 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: 20240333882
    Abstract: A data transmitter is to be mounted on an autonomous driving vehicle. The data transmitter determines whether a confidence score indicating the degree of reliability of detection of the object from the area image is greater than a predetermined confidence score threshold; transmits, when the confidence score regarding the area image is greater than the confidence score threshold, the area image or a face image representing the face of a driver to a terminal, together with a first setting for displaying the area image or the face image on the terminal in first mode; and transmits, when the confidence score is less than the confidence score threshold, the area image to the terminal, together with a second setting for displaying the area image on the terminal in second mode that draws more attention of a user of the terminal than the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Takuhiro Omi
  • Publication number: 20240326877
    Abstract: A control device is configured to: perform automated driving for automatically performing driving operations of the vehicle; make a driver practice taking back driving from automated driving to manual driving, where at least part of the driving tasks are performed by the driver, during automated driving and calculate proficiency level of taking back driving based on one or both of a time period required for taking back driving when practicing taking back driving and action of the driver in the period for taking back driving; identify a current driving scene based on surrounding data showing a state of the surroundings of the vehicle; and practice taking back driving by a frequency in accordance with the proficiency level calculated when last practicing taking back driving in the same driving scene as the present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta YAMADA, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Takuhiro OMI, Udara Eshan MANAWADU
  • Publication number: 20240308535
    Abstract: A notification device is provided with an output device configured to notify information to a driver of a vehicle and a control device configured to control the output device. The control device detects behavior of the driver based on driver data expressing the state of the driver, calculates a score showing a degree by which the driver is relaxing based on the behavior of the driver, notifies the score, calculated based on behavior of the driver during automated driving by which driving operations of the vehicle are automatically performed, through the output device when a predetermined timing is reached, and does not notify the score when a predetermined condition stands even when the predetermined timing is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Takuhiro Omi, Udara Eshan Manawadu, Kenta Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240300508
    Abstract: A data transmitter to be mounted on a vehicle detects the driver's state from output data of a camera mounted on the vehicle. The data transmitter determines whether the driver's state is suitable for continuing the control by the level of autonomous driving; transmits, when it is determined that the state is suitable for continuing the control, the face image to a terminal communicably connected via a communication network, together with a first setting for displaying the face image on the terminal in first mode; and transmits, when it is determined that the state is unsuitable for continuing the control, the face image to the terminal, together with a second setting for displaying the face image on the terminal in second mode that draws more attention of a user of the terminal than the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: Takuhiro Omi
  • Publication number: 20240262380
    Abstract: A driver monitor includes a processor configured to detect orientation of the face of a driver of a vehicle from a plurality of driver images generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle to take a picture of the driver, determine whether a duration during which the orientation of the driver's face inclines more than a predetermined angle in a yaw direction of the vehicle with respect to a reference direction is not less than a predetermined time threshold, when the vehicle is under autonomous driving control, notify a transition demand for taking over driving of the vehicle to the driver via a notification device when the duration is less than the predetermined time threshold, and omit to notify the transition demand to the driver when the duration is not less than the predetermined time threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuhiro Omi
  • Publication number: 20240257938
    Abstract: A health management system comprising a first body shape prediction means for predicting a future body shape of a first user, a first predicted body shape image generation means for generating a first predicted body shape image showing the body shape predicted by the first body shape prediction means, a second body shape prediction means for predicting a future body shape of a second user, a second predicted body shape image generation means for generating a second predicted body shape image showing the body shape predicted by the second body shape prediction means, and output means for outputting the first predicted body shape image and the second predicted body shape image to a user terminal of the first user in such a way that both the first predicted body shape image and the second predicted body shape image are displayed, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Toru MIYAGAWA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yusuke KINOSHITA, Takuhiro OMI, Yuta MORI, Yasutomo MASUDA, Hajime KATSUDA, Yumi KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240246457
    Abstract: A seat control device has a processor configured to determine whether a control transfer demand for transferring driving of a vehicle from a manual control operation to an automatic control operation or from the manual control operation to the automatic control operation has been made, determine whether a seat position of a seat on which a driver is seated is in a displaceable state based on information representing a state of the driver, and displace the seat position from a position for the automatic control operation to a position for the manual control operation or from the position for the manual control operation to the position for the automatic control operation using a seat drive unit when the control transfer demand has been made and the seat position is in the displaceable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Yamada, Hiroshi Morimoto, Udara Eshan Manawadu, Takuhiro Omi
  • Publication number: 20240101133
    Abstract: With reference to a message table associating a plurality of messages to be notified to a driver of a vehicle with a first condition, a second condition, last notification time of the message, and renotification requirement, a notification device selects messages associated with an identified first condition corresponding to a situation of surroundings of a vehicle or a state of a driver, selects, from among the messages associated with the identified first condition, messages associated with an identified second condition corresponding to a state of the driver, specifies, from among the messages associated with the identified second condition, a message without a record of last notification time or a message with a record of last notification time and with a renotification requirement requiring a renotification, and notifies the specified message to the driver through an output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuhiro OMI, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Kenta YAMADA, Udara Eshan MANAWADU
  • Publication number: 20240067054
    Abstract: A position displacing device has a processor configured to set a recommendation range of the seat position, capable of displacing the seat position to a manual control position representing the seat position when a driver is operating a vehicle manually within a predetermined time, based on the manual control position, set an intermediate position between the manual control position and an automatic control position set within the recommendation range, and determine whether a level to which the driver is contributing to driving is equal to or below a predetermined reference threshold based on information that describes physical condition of the driver, wherein the seat position is displaced from the automatic control position to the intermediate position when the seat position is at the automatic control position and it is determined that the level to which the driver is contributing to driving is equal to or below the reference threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuhiro OMI, Udara Eshan MANAWADU, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Kenta YAMADA, Kenichiroh HARA
  • Publication number: 20240067201
    Abstract: A notification device detecting a predetermined action of a driver of a vehicle in which travel is controlled by an autonomous driving system from a driver image including a face region representing a face of the driver and outputting a confidence rate indicating a certainty in the detection, specifying a message for inhibiting a control ending action which possibly follows the detected action and corresponds to an ending condition of control by the autonomous driving system, and notifying the driver of the specified message through an output device when an effectiveness level is higher than a predetermined notification threshold, the effectiveness level calculated by multiplying the confidence rate by a first probability of the control ending action being inhibited when notifying the driver of the specified message or by a second probability of the control ending action being performed when not notifying the driver of the specified message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta YAMADA, Takuhiro OMI, Hiroshi MORIMOTO, Udara Eshan MANAWADU
  • Publication number: 20240013887
    Abstract: A schedule management system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a plurality of task items and information about a target exercise amount of a first user for each predetermined period; a task dividing unit configured to extract at least one task item from among the plurality of task items by referring to a database, and assign the extracted at least one task item to the first user as a task item for the predetermined period, the at least one task item representing a task with which the first user achieves an exercise amount corresponding to his/her target exercise amount for each predetermined period, and in the database, information about, for each of the plurality of task items, an exercise amount per unit time corresponding to that task item being registered; and an output unit that outputs information about the task item assigned to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Toru MIYAGAWA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yusuke KINOSHITA, Takuhiro OMI, Yuta MORI, Hajime KATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11820383
    Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Banno, Takuhiro Omi, Yutaka Munaoka, Takeshi Enya
  • Patent number: 11561408
    Abstract: A state detection device includes a camera configured to capture an image of an imaging area where a driver is present, a laser configured to emit light toward the imaging area, and an optical member configured to emit the light of the laser with spreading to a predetermined irradiation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakai, Takuhiro Omi
  • Patent number: 11163980
    Abstract: A feature point position estimation device is provided. The feature point position estimation device includes a subject detection section for detecting a subject region from a subject image, a feature point positioning section for positioning a feature point at a preliminarily prepared initial feature point position with respect to the subject region, a feature amount acquisition unit for acquiring a feature amount of the feature points arranged, a regression calculation unit for calculating a deviation amount of a position of a true feature point with respect to the position of the feature point by performing a regression calculation on the feature amount, and a repositioning unit for repositioning the feature points based on the deviation amount. The regression calculation unit calculates the deviation amount by converting the feature amount in a matrix-resolved regression matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Ambai, Yutaka Munaoka, Takuhiro Omi
  • Publication number: 20210158064
    Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Takuhiro OMI, Yutaka MUNAOKA, Takeshi ENYA
  • Patent number: 10936888
    Abstract: Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Banno, Takuhiro Omi, Yutaka Munaoka, Takeshi Enya
  • Patent number: 10909399
    Abstract: An apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: an inclination detection portion that detects inclination of a head of a driver with respect to a trunk of the driver lower than a neck, based on an image of a driver seat captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle; and a posture collapse detection portion that detects the driver is incapable of driving when the inclination of the head detected by the inclination detection portion is greater than a relative inclination threshold during travel of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Banno, Yutaka Munaoka, Takuhiro Omi, Takeshi Enya
  • Publication number: 20200327368
    Abstract: A feature point position estimation device is provided. The feature point position estimation device includes a subject detection section for detecting a subject region from a subject image, a feature point positioning section for positioning a feature point at a preliminarily prepared initial feature point position with respect to the subject region, a feature amount acquisition unit for acquiring a feature amount of the feature points arranged, a regression calculation unit for calculating a deviation amount of a position of a true feature point with respect to the position of the feature point by performing a regression calculation on the feature amount, and a repositioning unit for repositioning the feature points based on the deviation amount. The regression calculation unit calculates the deviation amount by converting the feature amount in a matrix-resolved regression matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru AMBAI, Yutaka MUNAOKA, Takuhiro OMI
  • Publication number: 20200257128
    Abstract: A state detection device includes a camera configured to capture an image of an imaging area where a driver is present, a laser configured to emit light toward the imaging area, and an optical member configured to emit the light of the laser with spreading to a predetermined irradiation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke SAKAI, Takuhiro OMI
  • Publication number: 20200082190
    Abstract: An apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: an inclination detection portion that detects inclination of a head of a driver with respect to a trunk of the driver lower than a neck, based on an image of a driver seat captured by an imaging device mounted on a vehicle; and a posture collapse detection portion that detects the driver is incapable of driving when the inclination of the head detected by the inclination detection portion is greater than a relative inclination threshold during travel of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroto BANNO, Yutaka MUNAOKA, Takuhiro OMI, Takeshi ENYA