Patents by Inventor Toshiya Mori
Toshiya Mori 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: 12158343Abstract: A video control device includes a processor and a memory including a program that, when executed, causes the processor to perform operations including: obtaining a position of a vehicle determined by a satellite positioning system; obtaining an estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on dead reckoning; estimating a deviation in an orientation of the vehicle, based on the position of the vehicle determined by the satellite positioning system and the estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on the dead reckoning; calculating an estimated orientation of the vehicle, based on the deviation in the orientation of the vehicle estimated; and outputting the estimated orientation of the vehicle to a video display device that displays information which is based on the orientation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Fumihito Inukai, Toshiya Mori, Ken′ichi Kasazumi
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Publication number: 20240361143Abstract: A display device includes: a controller that determines a form in which to display a display object indicating a guide image based on a route (scheduled route) a vehicle is scheduled to drive on; and a display that projects light that forms the display object in the form determined by the controller onto a display medium in the vehicle that reflects the light toward a user in the vehicle, making the display object displayed beyond the display medium visible to the user as a virtual image. When a condition related to driving of the vehicle is satisfied, the controller determines the form so as to give the display object a shape corresponding to a view of the virtual image from an angle of depression greater than an angle of depression corresponding to a view of the virtual image from a viewpoint of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumihito INUKAI, Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI, Makoto FUNABIKI, Takuma SHIMURA
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Publication number: 20240328811Abstract: A display system includes: a drawer that draws a display image for guiding a vehicle to a destination; a display that projects light representing the display image to a windshield of the vehicle, to display the display image as a virtual image through the windshield; and a vehicle direction estimator that estimates a direction of the vehicle. When a difference angle between a route direction at a current location of the vehicle on a route that is set for guiding the vehicle to the destination and the direction of the vehicle estimated is less than a threshold, the display displays the display image pointing in a first direction along the route as the virtual image. When the difference angle is greater than or equal to the threshold, the display displays the display image pointing in a second direction obtained by correcting the first direction as the virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
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Publication number: 20240312227Abstract: A display system includes: a road surface undulation estimator that estimates undulation of a road surface; a superimposing position determiner that determines, based on the estimated undulation, a superimposing position at which content is to be displayed by being superimposed on a foreground; and a display that displays the content with the content superimposed on the foreground at the determined superimposing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumihito INUKAI, Toshiya MORI
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Patent number: 11983856Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei Hayashi, Toshiya Mori, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Masanaga Tsuji
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Patent number: 11922836Abstract: A rendering system includes a first obtainer, a second obtainer, a renderer, an estimator, and a corrector. The first obtainer obtains position information indicating a position of an object from a detector. The second obtainer obtains movement information indicating a movement state of the moving body. The renderer renders a display image including a content related to the object. The estimator estimates a delay period by comparing the position information to estimated-position information indicating an estimated position of the object estimated based on the movement information of the object. The corrector corrects displacement of a display position of the content on the display image which is caused by movement of the moving body over the delay period.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumihito Inukai, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji
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Patent number: 11892628Abstract: A video display system includes: a screen on which an mage for displaying a virtual image is projected; a light source that emits laser light; a scanner that projects the image onto the screen by biaxially scanning the laser light onto the screen; and a controller that generates the image and controls the light source using an image signal for causing the generated image to be projected onto the screen by the laser light, and receives an input of sensing information measured using a temperature sensor and controls the scanner in accordance with the input sensing information. When the sensing information indicates a temperature outside a given temperature range, the controller causes the scanner to reduce an amplitude of the biaxial scanning in at least one axial direction to a smaller value than when the sensing information indicates a second brightness or a temperature within the given temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahito Ogata, Yoshiteru Mino, Kosuke Kubota, Toshiya Mori
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Patent number: 11860372Abstract: A display control device is configured to control a display position of an image in an image projector configured to project the image onto a display object of a mobile body. The display control device includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the display control device to perform operations including: acquiring a detection value of an acceleration acting on the mobile body; calculating an attitude angle of the mobile body based on the detection value of the acceleration; and setting a correction amount of the display position for controlling the display position of the image to be projected onto the display object by adjusting a correction amount per predetermined unit time in accordance with a change amount of the attitude angle in a predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumihito Inukai, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji, Ken'ichi Kasazumi
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Patent number: 11837121Abstract: A display correction system includes a first obtainer, a second obtainer, a third obtainer, a predictor, and a corrector. The first obtainer obtains travel route information on a travel route ahead of a moving body. The second obtainer obtains speed information on a speed of the moving body. The third obtainer obtains orientation information on an orientation of the moving body. The predictor predicts, based on the travel route information and the speed information, a time period during which the moving body travels through a specific section in the travel route. The corrector performs correction of a displacement of a display position of a content on a display image based on the orientation information. Based on prediction result of the predictor, the corrector executes first control when the moving body is traveling in a normal section, and executes second control when the moving body is traveling in the specific section.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Fumihito Inukai, Tadashi Shibata
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Patent number: 11780368Abstract: An electronic mirror system presents circumstances surrounding a moving vehicle by displaying an image presenting the circumstances surrounding the moving vehicle. The electronic mirror system includes an image display and an optical system. The image display displays, every time image data is acquired from an image capturing unit, the image, based on the image data acquired from the image capturing unit, on a display screen. The image capturing unit continuously shoots video presenting the circumstances surrounding the moving vehicle. The optical system condenses, into an eye box, a light beam representing the image displayed on the display screen to make a user, who has a viewpoint inside the eye box, view a virtual image based on the image displayed on the display screen. The display screen is arranged to be tilted with respect to an optical path that leads from the display screen to the optical system (30).Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi
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Publication number: 20230302904Abstract: A display device includes a processing circuit and a display. The processing circuit obtains an ambient temperature of a gyro sensor, obtains a sensitivity associated with a temperature range including the ambient temperature, corrects an angular velocity of the gyro sensor in accordance with the sensitivity, estimates a first estimated vehicle orientation based on the angular velocity corrected, estimates a second estimated vehicle orientation based on the angular velocity detected by the gyro sensor, derives a third estimated vehicle orientation by correcting the first estimated vehicle orientation using a position and a speed of vehicle, and updates the sensitivity of the temperature range using a calculated sensitivity that is based on the second estimated vehicle orientation and the third estimated vehicle orientation. The display displays an image that is in accordance with the third estimated vehicle orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
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Publication number: 20230196953Abstract: A display device includes a controller that determines the mode of inclination of a display object that is an image shaped to point to one direction, and a drawing unit that projects light representing the display object in the mode of inclination determined by the controller onto a windshield to cause the light to be reflected off the windshield toward a user in the vehicle to enable the user to visually recognize the display object in the mode of inclination as a virtual image through the windshield. The controller determines the mode of inclination of the display object that points to the one direction as a navigation direction, by controlling yaw and roll angles of the display object depending on the attribute of a path point that is set on the path to navigate the vehicle to a destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI, Tadashi SHIBATA, Fumihito INUKAI
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Patent number: 11646000Abstract: An image display system includes a display unit displaying an image, a projection unit projecting in a target space a virtual image corresponding to the image with an output light of the display unit, a body unit provided thereto the display unit and the projection unit, and an image producing unit including a first correction unit and a second correction unit. The first correction unit performs a first correction processing of correcting, based on a first orientation signal indicative of a first orientation change of the body unit, a display position of the virtual image in the target space. The second correction unit performs a second correction processing of correcting, based on a second orientation signal indicative of a second orientation change of the body unit which is faster than the first orientation change, the display position of the virtual image in the target space.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC IN TEI IFCTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Yoshiteru Mino, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Shohei Hayashi
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Patent number: 11619811Abstract: An image display system includes: an image projection unit that projects and displays an image on a display target for a moving body; a posture angle calculation unit that calculates a posture angle for the moving body on the basis of chronological data for acceleration detection values for the acceleration of the moving body in a prescribed time period; and a display control unit that controls the display position at which the image is projected and displayed on the display target, in accordance with the posture angle calculated by the posture angle calculation unit. The acceleration detection values include bi-directional components. The posture angle calculation unit excludes acceleration detection values from the chronological data used when calculating the posture angle, said acceleration detection values being included in an exclusion time period which has a ratio for the bidirectional components, in the prescribed time period, that is outside a prescribed range.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumihito Inukai, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji, Ken′ichi Kasazumi, Yukihiro Chokyu
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Publication number: 20230086164Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei HAYASHI, Toshiya MORI, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Masanaga TSUJI
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Publication number: 20230018240Abstract: A display device includes a light guide body and displays an image of light emitted from the light guide body. The light guide body is of a curved shape, and includes a light guide plate and an optical element that diffracts and emits light propagating inside the light guide plate. The optical element is provided in the light guide body so that the angle of the optical element relative to a propagation direction in which the light propagates inside the light guide plate is constant irrespective of where in the optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Toshiya MORI
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Publication number: 20230018634Abstract: A light guide body in a display device includes a first incident surface on which an image light is incident, and a second emission surface from which the image light is emitted. The light guide body includes a second emission optical element that diffracts the image light to emit a portion of the image light at a predetermined emission angle every time the image light enters the second emission optical element from a predetermined direction. The image light is diverged by being emitted from the second emission optical element such that the predetermined emission angle varies in accordance with a location in one predetermined region included in a plurality of predetermined regions of the optical element. The degree of divergence varies between the one predetermined region and other predetermined region included in the plurality of predetermined regions in accordance with the location of the virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI
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Publication number: 20230019596Abstract: Imaging and display system includes: a display; an optical system including a first mirror and a second mirror; a housing; a light-transmissive cover transparent to light and disposed to cover at least part of an opening of the housing; and a driver monitoring camera supported by a supporting body connected outside of the housing. First light emitted from the display passes through the light-transmissive cover via the optical system, and is reflected by a windshield toward a direction of the user. The driver monitoring camera captures an image of a driver shown on the light-transmissive cover by second light from a direction of the driver reflected by the windshield toward a direction of the light-transmissive cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiteru MINO, Hideki TAKAHASHI, Masaki TADA, Toshiya MORI, Hiroaki OKAYAMA, Kazuhiro MINAMI
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Patent number: 11514785Abstract: A display system of the present disclosure forms an AR route by shifting node information included in road map data to a lane on which a subject vehicle is to travel on the basis of lane information. Thus, it is possible to display the AR route which matches a shape of a route on which the subject vehicle is to travel without providing a feeling of strangeness while resolving inconvenience that the AR route is largely displaced from the route on which the subject vehicle is to travel at positions such as an intersection and a branch point, where a plurality of roads intersect.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Toshiya Mori
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Patent number: 11514559Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei Hayashi, Toshiya Mori, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Masanaga Tsuji