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).

  • Patent number: 10919540
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for improving accuracy in determining the next action. Travel history generator generates, for each driver, a travel history associating an environmental parameter indicating a travel environment through which a vehicle has previously traveled with an action selected by the driver in response to the environmental parameter. Acquisition unit acquires a travel history similar to a travel history of a current driver from among travel histories generated by travel history generator. Driver model generator generates a driver model based on the travel history acquired by acquisition unit. Determination unit determines the next action based on the driver model generated by driver model generator) and an environmental parameter indicating a current travel environment of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Koichi Emura, Wataru Nakai
  • Publication number: 20210019867
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei HAYASHI, Toshiya MORI, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Masanaga TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20200355930
    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: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Toshiya MORI
  • Patent number: 10793165
    Abstract: During autonomous driving of a vehicle, useful Information is presented to an occupant. An image generator in driving assistance device generates a first image representing an action the vehicle is capable of executing depending on a travel environment during autonomous driving and a second image representing a basis of the action. Image output unit outputs the first image and the second image generated by the image generator to notification device in the vehicle in association with each other. The action vehicle is capable of executing may be selected from among action candidates by a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Koichi Emura, Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Wataru Nakai
  • Publication number: 20200312146
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
  • Publication number: 20200309554
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure determines whether or not a route section is a linear section on the basis of positional relationship among nodes within the route section including three or more nodes, and, for a route section which is determined to be a linear section, forms and displays a line connecting a start node with a terminal node of the route section as an AR route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
  • Patent number: 10759446
    Abstract: An information processing system that appropriately estimates a driving conduct includes: a detector that detects a vehicle environment state, which is at least one of surroundings of a vehicle and a driving state of the vehicle; a behavior learning unit configured to cause a neural network to learn a relationship between the vehicle environment state detected by the detector and a behavior of the vehicle implemented after the vehicle environment state; and a behavior estimation unit configured to estimate a behavior of the vehicle by inputting, into the neural network that learned, the vehicle environment state detected at a current point in time by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Motomura, Mohamed Sahim Kourkouss, Yoshihide Sawada, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10754154
    Abstract: A display device includes an image forming unit, a projection unit, a main body, and a position correcting unit. The image forming unit includes a display surface and forms an image on the display surface. The projection unit projects a virtual image corresponding to an image on a target space by using output light from the image forming unit. The main body is equipped with an image forming unit and a projection unit. The position correcting unit changes a display position of a virtual image relative to the main body on the basis of an orientation signal representing an orientation of the main body. The position correcting unit includes a plurality of correcting units that change a display position of a virtual image by using different means. The position correcting unit selects at least one correcting unit from a plurality of correcting units in accordance with a frequency component of an orientation signal, and causes the selected correcting unit to change a display position of a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Kosuke Kubota, Masahito Ogata, Masanaga Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10705334
    Abstract: To provide a display device that can suppress generation of a double image. Display device includes plate-shape windshield having translucency and a projection unit that projects light expressing an image onto windshield such that the light is reflected toward a user by windshield. The projection unit changes a display distance between an eye of the user and a position of an image visually recognized as a virtual image by the user through windshield by the light projection. Windshield is formed such that a wedge angle that is of an angle formed between a front side and a back side at a region located at any level of windshield is continuously decreased with increasing level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara
  • Patent number: 10670780
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Fresnel lens that can reduce generation of concentric stray light. The Fresnel lens includes a sawtooth corrugated face that is formed by alternately disposing a first face inclined relative to optical axis A and a second face substantially parallel to optical axis A, and a light shielding mask is formed at a position corresponding to the second face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken′ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Kosuke Kubota, Masahito Ogata, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara
  • Patent number: 10663722
    Abstract: The display device includes: a display unit that projects a light beam onto a windshield so that the light beam is reflected from the windshield such that one or more virtual images are displayed in a space further than the windshield in a depth direction through the windshield; and a controller that controls the display unit so that a first vertical image and a second vertical image included in the one or more virtual images and have different distances from the windshield in the depth direction, are displayed in a time-division manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMNET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Kosuke Kubota, Masahito Ogata
  • Patent number: 10642032
    Abstract: A head-up display includes an optical system that radiates light forming a projected image toward an eye box. The eye box is a predetermined range in which eyes of an observer are assumed to be present. The optical system includes a Fresnel lens having a bumpy surface having a sawtooth-shaped cross-section. The bumpy surface is formed concentrically around an optical axis, and formed by alternately disposing first surfaces as light condensing surfaces that allow incident light to converge toward a focal point, and second surfaces as wall surfaces that do not allow the incident light to converge toward the focal point. The second surfaces are inclined with respect to the optical axis of the Fresnel lens at an angle to reflect the incident light striking the wall surfaces, in a direction toward outside of a range of the eye box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara, Yosuke Asai
  • Patent number: 10625673
    Abstract: An information processing system is provided with a modeling unit. The modeling unit models, based on a degree of similarity among individual travel histories of a plurality of drivers, individual travel histories of at least one or more drivers from among the individual travel histories of the plurality of drivers to construct a driver model indicating a relationship between conditions of the at least one or more drivers and travel environments of at least one or more vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Shibata, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji, Nobuyuki Nakano
  • Patent number: 10627813
    Abstract: An information processing system capable of estimating a driving conduct suited to a driver includes: a history obtainer that obtains a personal driving environment history of each of a plurality of drivers, each of the personal driving environment histories indicating one or more vehicle behaviors selected by the driver, and a driving environment associated with each of the one or more behaviors, the driving environment being a driving environment of the vehicle at a point in time of selection of the behavior it is associated with; and a modeler that models, from a driving environment history including the personal driving environment histories of the plurality of drivers, the personal driving environment history of at least one of the plurality of drivers, to build a driver model indicating a relationship between a behavior and a driving environment for the vehicle of the at least one of the plurality of drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Koichi Emura
  • Patent number: 10591725
    Abstract: A display device is provided and may include a light source that emits a light beam, a scanner that causes the light beam to scan, a movable screen in which an image is formed by transmitting the light beam from scanner, an optical system configured to project the image on a display medium, and a driver configured to cause the movable screen to reciprocate in moving directions. The image includes a first image and a second image. The movable screen reciprocates in a posture inclined with respect to the moving directions such that a second end of the movable screen is positioned closer to the scanner than a first end of the movable screen. The scanner forms the second image in the movable screen while the movable screen moves such that a forming direction of the second image is inclined with respect to a direction approaching the scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroyuki Furuya, Hiroshi Gotou, Akira Kurozuka
  • Patent number: 10569373
    Abstract: There are provided a bolt caulking method and a bolt caulking device which ensure supply and caulking of a bolt as a single operation. The method is a bolt caulking method including supplying a bolt into a nose piece having a vertical hole, and lowering a punch from above to drive the bolt into a metal plate. The bolt is supplied through a pipe connected to a side of the nose piece, and dropped into a vertical hole formed in the nose piece along an inclined hole formed at a tip end of the pipe with a head part of the bolt being located on the topside. Thereafter, the punch which ejects air from a central hole is lowered within the vertical hole to drive the bolt into a metal plate while holding the bolt at a lower part of the vertical hole by the ejecting air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Hoshino, Toshiya Mori, Yukinori Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10571701
    Abstract: Provided is a display device that allows a distance from a display medium to an object ahead to be easily ascertained. The display device includes a display unit that projects a light beam onto a windshield so as to be reflected from the windshield such that a virtual image is displayed in a space further than the windshield in the depth direction, and a controller that controls the display unit so that a reference pattern to be superimposed on a pedestrian present in the space is displayed so as to correspond to the position of the pedestrian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Kosuke Kubota, Masahito Ogata
  • Publication number: 20200012097
    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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: KOSUKE KUBOTA, KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, MASAHITO OGATA, TOSHIYA MORI
  • Publication number: 20200012103
    Abstract: A display device includes an image forming unit, a projection unit, a main body, and a position correcting unit. The image forming unit includes a display surface and forms an image on the display surface. The projection unit projects a virtual image corresponding to an image on a target space by using output light from the image forming unit. The main body is equipped with an image forming unit and a projection unit. The position correcting unit changes a display position of a virtual image relative to the main body on the basis of an orientation signal representing an orientation of the main body. The position correcting unit includes a plurality of correcting units that change a display position of a virtual image by using different means. The position correcting unit selects at least one correcting unit from a plurality of correcting units in accordance with a frequency component of an orientation signal, and causes the selected correcting unit to change a display position of a virtual image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, TOSHIYA MORI, KOSUKE KUBOTA, MASAHITO OGATA, MASANAGA TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20200004015
    Abstract: A display device is provided and may include a light source that emits a light beam, a scanner that causes the light beam to scan, a movable screen in which an image is formed by transmitting the light beam from scanner, an optical system configured to project the image on a display medium, and a driver configured to cause the movable screen to reciprocate in moving directions. The image includes a first image and a second image. The movable screen reciprocates in a posture inclined with respect to the moving directions such that a second end of the movable screen is positioned closer to the scanner than a first end of the movable screen. The scanner forms the second image in the movable screen while the movable screen moves such that a forming direction of the second image is inclined with respect to a direction approaching the scanner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Toshiya MORI, Hiroaki OKAYAMA, Satoshi KUZUHARA, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Hiroshi GOTOU, Akira KUROZUKA