Patents by Inventor Tomonobu Inaba

Tomonobu Inaba 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: 9812007
    Abstract: A map generation system includes: an extraction unit that collects vehicle speed information, which includes at least a speed, acceleration, and deceleration, from a vehicle and that extracts rapid deceleration information, which includes a first location where a rapid deceleration event satisfying predetermined conditions has occurred, and a traveling direction of the vehicle at the time when the rapid deceleration event has occurred from the collected vehicle speed information; a storage unit that stores map data; a division unit that generates mesh map data by dividing the map data stored in the storage unit into a plurality of meshes in a predetermined size and a predetermined number of divisions; and an estimation unit that estimates a location that requires caution when the vehicle travels therethrough, as a caution-required place, based on the rapid deceleration information extracted by the extraction unit and the mesh map data generated by the division unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonobu Inaba, Hiromi Satou, Naoko Imai
  • Patent number: 9501934
    Abstract: A notification system includes: a first extraction unit configured to extract caution-required locations present within a predetermined distance range centered on a current position of a vehicle from a plurality of caution-required locations of which the positional information is previously acquired; a second extraction unit configured to extract caution-required locations present within a predetermined angle centered on a current traveling direction of the vehicle from the plurality of caution-required locations; a third extraction unit configured to extract, as a notification target point, a caution-required location where the current position of the vehicle is present within a predetermined angle range centered on the orientation of a link through which the vehicle is determined to pass by referring to map data holding information of a plurality of links in which positions and orientations are matched with each other, from caution-required locations extracted in common by both the first extraction unit and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonobu Inaba, Kenta Kawakami, Tomoya Komizo
  • Publication number: 20160078757
    Abstract: A map generation system includes: an extraction unit that collects vehicle speed information, which includes at least a speed, acceleration, and deceleration, from a vehicle and that extracts rapid deceleration information, which includes a first location where a rapid deceleration event satisfying predetermined conditions has occurred, and a traveling direction of the vehicle at the time when the rapid deceleration event has occurred from the collected vehicle speed information; a storage unit that stores map data; a division unit that generates mesh map data by dividing the map data stored in the storage unit into a plurality of meshes in a predetermined size and a predetermined number of divisions; and an estimation unit that estimates a location that requires caution when the vehicle travels therethrough, as a caution-required place, based on the rapid deceleration information extracted by the extraction unit and the mesh map data generated by the division unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonobu Inaba, Hiromi Satou, Naoko Imai
  • Publication number: 20160027305
    Abstract: A notification system includes: a first extraction unit configured to extract caution-required locations present within a predetermined distance range centered on a current position of a vehicle from a plurality of caution-required locations of which the positional information is previously acquired; a second extraction unit configured to extract caution-required locations present within a predetermined angle centered on a current traveling direction of the vehicle from the plurality of caution-required locations; a third extraction unit configured to extract, as a notification target point, a caution-required location where the current position of the vehicle is present within a predetermined angle range centered on the orientation of a link through which the vehicle is determined to pass by referring to map data holding information of a plurality of links in which positions and orientations are matched with each other, from caution-required locations extracted in common by both the first extraction unit and
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonobu Inaba, Kenta Kawakami, Tomoya Komizo