Patents by Inventor Takumi KOCHIYA

Takumi KOCHIYA 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: 10744877
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a camera that takes a rear-view image; a rear-view-image display unit including a mirror surface and a display for displaying the rear-view image; a distance obtainer that obtains a distance between a vehicle and a following vehicle; a cutout-image creator that cuts out a cutout image from the taken rear-view image based on a view-angle value; and a display controller that creates, based on the cutout image, a display image matching a size of a display region of the display and controls the display to display the created display image. The cutout-image creator is configured to, based on the obtained distance, determine the view-angle value to such a view-angle value that a size of the following vehicle to be displayed on the display image is equal to a size of the following vehicle that is to reflect in the mirror surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takumi Kochiya
  • Patent number: 10259325
    Abstract: The image display device includes a distance obtainer configured to obtain a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a vehicle and a following vehicle. A controller is configured to: determine a magnitude of an image-cutout angle value based on the obtained vehicle-to-vehicle distance, such that a display state of a rear-view display unit is to be switched from a mirror-surface showing state to a display showing state such that a size of the following vehicle in the mirror-surface showing state is identical to a size of the following vehicle to be displayed in the display showing state; control a display to display a display image created from a cutout image that is cut out in the determined image-cutout angle value; and adjust the image-cutout angle value so as to gradually decrease a size of the following vehicle displayed on the display when the obtained vehicle-to-vehicle distance is greater than a set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujisaki, Takumi Kochiya, Kohji Usui
  • Publication number: 20180222319
    Abstract: The image display device includes a distance obtainer configured to obtain a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a vehicle and a following vehicle. A controller is configured to: determine a magnitude of an image-cutout angle value based on the obtained vehicle-to-vehicle distance, such that a display state of a rear-view display unit is to be switched from a mirror-surface showing state to a display showing state such that a size of the following vehicle in the mirror-surface showing state is identical to a size of the following vehicle to be displayed in the display showing state; control a display to display a display image created from a cutout image that is cut out in the determined image-cutout angle value; and adjust the image-cutout angle value so as to gradually decrease a size of the following vehicle displayed on the display when the obtained vehicle-to-vehicle distance is greater than a set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujisaki, Takumi Kochiya, Kohji Usui
  • Publication number: 20180222320
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a camera that takes a rear-view image; a rear-view-image display unit including a mirror surface and a display for displaying the rear-view image; a distance obtainer that obtains a distance between a vehicle and a following vehicle; a cutout-image creator that cuts out a cutout image from the taken rear-view image based on a view-angle value; and a display controller that creates, based on the cutout image, a display image matching a size of a display region of the display and controls the display to display the created display image. The cutout-image creator is configured to, based on the obtained distance, determine the view-angle value to such a view-angle value that a size of the following vehicle to be displayed on the display image is equal to a size of the following vehicle that is to reflect in the mirror surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Takumi Kochiya
  • Publication number: 20180126904
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle rear region image display device that may suppress a sense of incongruity to a displayed image, due to offset in timings between a timing at which a vehicle occupant sways due to vibrations and a timing at which the displayed image of a display section shakes. Namely, an acceleration sensor, which detects acceleration as a physical amount corresponding to an amount of displacement in a vehicle vertical direction of a rearview mirror monitor due to vibrations inputted to front wheels of a vehicle, is provided in a vicinity of the rearview mirror monitor. On the basis of results of detection of the acceleration sensor, a control device computes an amount of shake of a rear camera, and carries out shake correction so as match a timing at which vibrations are inputted to rear wheels of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki AMANO, Goro ASAI, Takumi KOCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20180086268
    Abstract: In a case in which an ignition switch is turned off, imaging by a camera and display of a monitor are continued for a predetermined time, and thereafter, display of the monitor is stopped. Next, when opening of a door is detected by a courtesy switch, in a case in which display of the monitor is stopped, control is carried out to restart the display and enable confirmation of the vehicle periphery. Further, the display of the monitor is stopped in a case in which closing of a door is detected by a courtesy switch and locking is sensed by a door lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi KOCHIYA