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).

  • Publication number: 20220113547
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihito INUKAI, Toshiya MORI, Masanaga TSUJI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220113138
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Fumihito INUKAI, Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220082853
    Abstract: This display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels that is arrayed; an optical element array arranged in parallel with a light exit surface of the display unit and including a plurality of optical elements that is arrayed; and a controller that controls a pixel among the plurality of pixels to be non-lighting, the pixel overlapping a boundary portion between adjacent optical elements among the plurality of optical elements in a facing direction in which the display unit and the optical element array face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Satoru TANAHASHI, Shigeo Kasahara, Naoki Kamada, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi
  • Patent number: 11260856
    Abstract: An information display device includes a surrounding environment detector, a vehicle information acquirer, a predictor, an avoidance path provider, and an information display. The surrounding environment detector detects position relevant information related to a position of at least a surrounding object in a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The vehicle information acquirer detects vehicle information including a speed and a steering direction of the vehicle. The predictor predicts a contact of the vehicle with the surrounding object, based on the position relevant information and the vehicle information. When the predictor has predicted that there is a possibility of the contact of the vehicle with the surrounding object, the avoidance path provider assumes an avoidance path for avoiding the contact, based on the position relevant information and the vehicle information. The information display displays the avoidance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Nakano, Toshiya Mori
  • Publication number: 20220013046
    Abstract: A virtual image display system includes an image data producing unit, an image display, and an optical system. The image data producing unit produces, based on image data of a rendering target and position information about a display position of the target, image data to display a virtual image of the target. The image display displays, on a display screen, an image based on the image data to display the virtual image. The display screen is arranged to be tilted with respect to an optical path leading from the display screen to the optical system. The image data of the rendering target includes first image data of a stereoscopic rendering target. The image data producing unit produces, based on the first image data and position information about a display position of the stereoscopic rendering target, second image data to make the user view the stereoscopic rendering target stereoscopically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Satoru TANAHASHI, Shigeo KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220009414
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220011574
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihito INUKAI, Toshiya MORI, Masanaga TSUJI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Yukihiro CHOKYU
  • Publication number: 20220003998
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito OGATA, Yoshiteru MINO, Kosuke KUBOTA, Toshiya MORI
  • Patent number: 11181737
    Abstract: A HUD device that allows an occupant of a moving body to view a virtual image by projecting an image on a display medium includes a display item information acquisition unit that acquires display item information showing position and display content of display item, a travel information acquisition unit that acquires travel information indicating position of the moving body at predetermined time intervals, and a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information indicating state of the moving body, and specifies at display timings display position on the basis of position indicated by display item information and position indicated by travel information acquired last.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Kubota, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Masahito Ogata, Toshiya Mori
  • Patent number: 11175501
    Abstract: A screen includes a surface inclined with respect to a reference plane. A driver moves the screen in a movement direction orthogonal to the reference plane. When forming a first virtual image serving as a virtual image on a first virtual plane whose inclination angle ? with respect to an optical axis of a projector is smaller than a predetermined value, a controller is configured to hold the screen in the movement direction. When forming a second virtual image serving as the virtual image on a second virtual plane whose inclination angle ß with respect to the optical axis of the projector is larger than the predetermined value, the controller is configured to move the screen in the movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito Ogata, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Hiroaki Okayama
  • Patent number: 11137599
    Abstract: In a display device, an irradiation unit includes an imaging optical system. The imaging optical system scans and irradiates a front surface of a screen with light to form an image. The light passing through the screen and output from the screen in a movement direction is incident on a projection unit as incident light. The projection unit irradiates a reflective member with the incident light to allow the reflective member to reflect the incident light to form a virtual image corresponding to the image in a target space. A locus of a focal position of the imaging optical system when the irradiation unit wholly scans the front surface of the screen is within a range between the front surface of the screen at a first position and the front surface of the screen at a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara, Masahito Ogata, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Masafumi Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 11125994
    Abstract: A display apparatus that displays a virtual image having a shape that follows an object to be superimposed when viewed from a user is provided. An optical system that is included in the display apparatus and displays a virtual image that is three-dimensional includes a laser that emits laser light, a MEMS scanner that performs scanning with the laser light, a screen that forms an image on a surface of the screen with the MEMS scanner scanning the surface with the laser light, a projection unit that generates a virtual image by projecting the image formed onto a display medium, and a drive unit that reciprocates the screen scanned with the laser light in a predetermined section along an optical path of the optical system at a predetermined cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Kosuke Kubota, Masahito Ogata, Toshiya Mori
  • Patent number: 11106045
    Abstract: The display system displays a virtual image as if it is at a target position in a target space. The system satisfies a condition where |1/L1?1/L2max| is larger than 0 but is equal to or smaller than 0.06. L1 [m] denotes a display distance defined as a distance from a point-of-view position for the virtual image to a display position of the virtual image. L2max [m] denotes a maximum value of a target distance defined as a distance from the point-of-view position to the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori
  • Patent number: 11091172
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor, and the processor acquires a vehicle driving environment composed of N-dimensional parameters, refers to an ideal driving driver model indicating an ideal driving environment region in an N-dimensional coordinate system, and selects one ideal driving environment included in the ideal driving environment region based on a distance between the ideal driving environment region and the acquired vehicle driving environment in the N-dimensional coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210233499
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanaga TSUJI, Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Yoshiteru MINO, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Shohei HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11072343
    Abstract: The driving assistance device acquires, from an autonomous driving controller that determines an action of a vehicle during autonomous driving of the vehicle, action information indicating a first action that the vehicle is caused to execute. The driving assistance device acquires, from a detector that detects a surrounding situation and a travel state of the vehicle, detection information indicating a detection result. The driving assistance device determines a second action which is executable in place of the first action, based on the detection information. The driving assistance device generates a first image representing the first action and a second image representing the second action. The driving assistance device outputs the first image and the second image to a notification device such that the first image and the second image are displayed within a fixed field of view of a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Emura, Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Wataru Nakai
  • Patent number: 11004424
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Yoshiteru Mino, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Akira Tanaka, Shohei Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11003925
    Abstract: An event prediction system includes an accumulation unit and a generator. The accumulation unit accumulates a plurality of pieces of learning data each including history information representing a situation of a mobile object upon occurrence of an event associated with driving of the mobile object. The generator generates a prediction model for prediction of relative coordinates of an occurrence place of the event relative to the mobile object by using the plurality of pieces of learning data. Each of the plurality of pieces of learning data further includes label information representing the relative coordinates of the occurrence place of the event relative to the mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Hayashi, Toshiya Mori, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Masanaga Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10994745
    Abstract: An information estimating system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an operation item for vehicle-mounted equipment mounted on a vehicle and a vehicle environment state, which is at least one of a vehicle status and a traveling state of the vehicle when the operation item is operated for each of a plurality of drivers, a learning unit configured to learn the operation item and the vehicle environment state of each of the plurality of drivers acquired by the acquisition unit in association with each other, and an estimator configured to estimate the operation item for the vehicle environment state at a predetermined time point of a specific driver based on the learned result learned by the learning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya Mori, Nobuyuki Nakano, Masanaga Tsuji, Tadashi Shibata, Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10983343
    Abstract: A display system according to an aspect includes a screen, a drive control unit, and a projection unit. The drive control unit has the screen moved in a movement direction. The projection unit renders an image on the screen by irradiating the screen with a light beam that scans the screen and projects a virtual image onto a projection plane with the light beam transmitted through the screen. The drive control unit has the screen moved in the movement direction such that an optical path leading to a rendering point on the screen varies its length according to a tilt angle defined by the projection plane with respect to a reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Kubota, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Yoshiteru Mino, Toshiya Mori