Patents by Inventor Takumi MACHIDA
Takumi MACHIDA 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: 11312394Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of suitably controlling the driving (autonomous driving or driving assistance) of a host vehicle when the host vehicle turns left from a side road into a main road (to merge into traffic). When the host vehicle is about to turn left into the main road, if the host vehicle recognizes that another vehicle is traveling along the main road behind the point [the intersection region of the side road and the main road] where the host vehicle enters the main road, then the host vehicle determines a risk that is associated with the other vehicle and that is dependent on the traveling position of the other vehicle, and determines whether or not to enter the main road, on the basis of the determined risk associated with the other vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Takumi Machida
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Patent number: 11249473Abstract: A remote driving managing apparatus is provided. The remote driving managing apparatus includes: a path information acquiring unit that acquires path information indicating a path of movement to a destination of a vehicle; a time period identifying unit that, based on the path information, identifies a scheduled time period in which the vehicle is scheduled to travel through a remote driving section which is a section in which the vehicle travels by being remotely driven; and a driver selecting unit that refers to management data for managing an available remote driving time period of each of a plurality of remote drivers that are capable of remotely driving vehicles, and selects a remote driver that is available for remote driving of the vehicle during the scheduled time period identified by the time period identifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Shintani, Takumi Machida
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Patent number: 10902729Abstract: A travel control device for a host vehicle determines whether or not the presence of the vehicle prevents an external object, having the intension of moving from a second side lane to a first side lane, from crossing a host vehicle lane. Upon determining that the presence of the host vehicle prevents the external object from crossing the host vehicle lane, the travel control device moves the host vehicle to create a space for the external object to cross the host vehicle lane.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Takumi Machida
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Publication number: 20200386559Abstract: Provided are a traveling control apparatus, a vehicle, and a traveling control method in which appropriateness of a user target destination can be taken into consideration. A vehicle target destination calculation unit sets a vehicle target destination where a vehicle is to be stopped, on the basis of a user target destination inputted by a user via a target destination input unit. Further, in the case where it is determined, on the basis of information about the road of the user target destination, that the user target destination is an inappropriate stopping point which is on the road but is unsuitable for stopping the vehicle, the vehicle target destination calculation unit sets an appropriate stopping point off track from the user target destination as a vehicle target destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Masaaki NAGASHIMA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Takeru GOTO, Takumi MACHIDA, Toshiaki TAKANO
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Publication number: 20200370904Abstract: Provided are a traveling control apparatus, a vehicle, and a traveling control method in which appropriateness of a user target destination can be taken into consideration. A traveling control apparatus acquires vicinity environment information from a vicinity environment detection unit. In addition, the traveling control apparatus determines whether or not a user target destination is appropriate for stopping a vehicle, on the basis of the vicinity environment information regarding the user target destination. Further, in the case where it is determined that the user target destination is not appropriate for stopping a vehicle, the traveling control apparatus stops a vehicle at a corrected target destination off track from the user target destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Masaaki NAGASHIMA, Hideki MATSUNAGA, Takeru GOTO, Takumi MACHIDA, Toshiaki TAKANO
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Patent number: 10845204Abstract: If it is determined that, at a target exit of a roundabout that exists in a target route, a travel restricting event that restricts passing of a vehicle through the target exit has occurred on the basis of a peripheral travel environment detected by a peripheral environment detection unit, a route calculation device of the vehicle adds one circulation or a part of the circulation in the roundabout to the target route.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masaaki Nagashima, Takeru Goto, Hirokiyo Kasahara, Yoshimitsu Murahashi, Takumi Machida, Toshiaki Takano
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Patent number: 10821980Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an overtaking prediction unit configured to predict an overtaking section where a host vehicle overtakes another vehicle that exists ahead of the host vehicle and in a second lane different from a first lane where the host vehicle is traveling, and a travel controller configured to perform travel control to overtake another vehicle. The travel controller performs travel control to adjust speed of the host vehicle in a case where the overtaking section predicted by the overtaking prediction unit entirely or partially overlaps a restricted section in which overtaking is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masaaki Nagashima, Takumi Machida
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Publication number: 20200255033Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device capable of suitably controlling the driving (autonomous driving or driving assistance) of a host vehicle when the host vehicle turns left from a side road into a main road (to merge into traffic). When the host vehicle is about to turn left into the main road, if the host vehicle recognizes that another vehicle is traveling along the main road behind the point [the intersection region of the side road and the main road] where the host vehicle enters the main road, then the host vehicle determines a risk that is associated with the other vehicle and that is dependent on the traveling positionof the other vehicle, and determines whether or not to enter the main road, on the basis of the determined risk associated with the other vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Takumi MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20190294160Abstract: A remote driving managing apparatus is provided. The remote driving managing apparatus includes: a path information acquiring unit that acquires path information indicating a path of movement to a destination of a vehicle; a time period identifying unit that, based on the path information, identifies a scheduled time period in which the vehicle is scheduled to travel through a remote driving section which is a section in which the vehicle travels by being remotely driven; and a driver selecting unit that refers to management data for managing an available remote driving time period of each of a plurality of remote drivers that are capable of remotely driving vehicles, and selects a remote driver that is available for remote driving of the vehicle during the scheduled time period identified by the time period identifying unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Hidekazu SHINTANI, Takumi MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20190170522Abstract: If it is determined that, at a target exit of a roundabout that exists in a target route, a travel restricting event that restricts passing of a vehicle through the target exit has occurred on the basis of a peripheral travel environment detected by a peripheral environment detection unit, a route calculation device of the vehicle adds one circulation or a part of the circulation in the roundabout to the target route.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaaki NAGASHIMA, Takeru GOTO, Hirokiyo KASAHARA, Yoshimitsu MURAHASHI, Takumi MACHIDA, Toshiaki TAKANO
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Publication number: 20190122558Abstract: A travel control device for a host vehicle determines whether or not the presence of the vehicle prevents an external object, having the intension of moving from a second side lane to a first side lane, from crossing a host vehicle lane. Upon determining that the presence of the host vehicle prevents the external object from crossing the host vehicle lane, the travel control device moves the host vehicle to create a space for the external object to cross the host vehicle lane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Takumi MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20190111931Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an overtaking prediction unit configured to predict an overtaking section where a host vehicle overtakes another vehicle that exists ahead of the host vehicle and in a second lane different from a first lane where the host vehicle is traveling, and a travel controller configured to perform travel control to overtake another vehicle. The travel controller performs travel control to adjust speed of the host vehicle in a case where the overtaking section predicted by the overtaking prediction unit entirely or partially overlaps a restricted section in which overtaking is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Hideki MATSUNAGA, Masaaki NAGASHIMA, Takumi MACHIDA