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: 20190389460
    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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: DAISUKE TOKUNAGA, NOBUYUKI NAKANO, TOSHIYA MORI
  • Publication number: 20190391392
    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 ? 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: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: MASAHITO OGATA, TOSHIYA MORI, KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, HIROAKI OKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10502953
    Abstract: A display device includes: a video display that displays a video for projecting a virtual image onto a target space on a video display surface; an optical element; and a projector. The optical element moves a partial video, which is a part of the video displayed on the video display surface, to a position distant from the video display in a projection direction in which the video is projected. The projector projects a virtual image viewed by a user by projecting light output from the video display and the optical element to a reflecting member. The optical element has an incident surface on which the partial video is incident, and an emitting surface from which the partial video incident on the incident surface emits. The incident surface and the emitting surface are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Kubota, Toshiya Mori, Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Masahito Ogata
  • Patent number: 10488656
    Abstract: A display device includes a video display, an optical element, and a projector. The video display displays a video on the video display surface. The optical element receives, on an incident surface, at least a part of the video displayed on the video display surface, and emits an incident video, which is the part of the video received on the incident surface, from an emitting surface. The projector projects a virtual image viewed by a user by projecting light output from the video display and the optical element to a reflecting member. An inclined portion inclined with respect to at least a part of the video display surface is provided on at least a part of the emitting surface of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito Ogata, Toshiya Mori, Kosuke Kubota, Ken'Ichi Kasazumi
  • Patent number: 10488655
    Abstract: A display device displays a virtual image of a first picture and a virtual image of a second picture by using a display medium. This display device includes a light source that emits light, a fixed screen, a movable screen, a driver, and a scanner. The fixed screen is fixedly disposed on an optical path between the light source and the display medium. The movable screen is also disposed on this optical path. The driver moves the movable screen along the optical path. The scanner scans the fixed screen and the movable screen with the light emitted from the light source, thereby forming the first picture on the fixed screen and the second picture on the movable screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Shinsuke Nakazono
  • Patent number: 10473929
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display device and a projection optical system. The projection optical system has a lens group including at least one lens element and projects onto a reflecting member an image displayed on the display device. The lens group includes a drive lens that shifts along an optical path to change its distance from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroaki Okayama, Toshiya Mori
  • Publication number: 20190340522
    Abstract: Event prediction system includes accumulation unit and model generator. Accumulation unit accumulates a plurality of pieces of data for learning including history information. The history information indicates a situation of moving body at the time of occurrence of an event related to driving of moving body. Model generator generates a prediction model for predicting occurrence of the event with the plurality of pieces of data for learning. The history information includes raster data for learning. The raster data for learning indicates, with a plurality of cells, the situation of moving body at the time of occurrence of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: TOSHIYA MORI, SHOHEI HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190340448
    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: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: SHOHEI HAYASHI, TOSHIYA MORI, TADASHI SHIBATA, NOBUYUKI NAKANO, MASANAGA TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20190329716
    Abstract: A display device that displays a virtual image by projecting an image onto a display medium includes: a light source unit; a screen that is movably disposed on an optical path from the light source unit to the display medium; a self-emitting display unit that is disposed adjacent to the optical path; a scan unit that scans the screen with the light emitted from the light source unit; and a drive unit that moves the screen along the optical path. The screen is disposed to project an image imaged on the screen by scanning of the scan unit onto the display medium. The self-emitting display unit is disposed to project an image generated by the self-emitting display unit onto the display medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: KOSUKE KUBOTA, KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, TOSHIYA MORI
  • Patent number: 10451872
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that can easily perform control for driving a movable screen. Display device includes light source that emits a light beam, scanner that causes the light beam from light source to scan, movable screen in which a first image is formed by transmitting the light beam from scanner, projection unit that projects the first image formed in movable screen on windshield and displays a virtual image of the first image in a space in front of windshield, and driver that causes movable screen to reciprocate in a first direction separating from scanner and in a second direction approaching scanner. Movable screen reciprocates in a posture inclined to moving directions of movable screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroyuki Furuya, Hiroshi Gotou, Akira Kurozuka
  • Publication number: 20190302456
    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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Kosuke KUBOTA, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Yoshiteru MINO, Toshiya MORI
  • Publication number: 20190295508
    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: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Masanaga TSUJI, Toshiya MORI, Ken'ichi KASAZUMI, Yoshiteru MINO, Tadashi SHIBATA, Nobuyuki NAKANO, Akira TANAKA, Shohei HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190293936
    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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: HIROAKI OKAYAMA, SATOSHI KUZUHARA, MASAHITO OGATA, TOSHIYA MORI, KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, MASAFUMI SUEYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190283773
    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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: TOSHIYA MORI, NOBUYUKI NAKANO, MASANAGA TSUJI, TADASHI SHIBATA, AKIRA TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190241198
    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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiya MORI, Masanaga TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20190196187
    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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: KEN'ICHI KASAZUMI, KOSUKE KUBOTA, MASAHITO OGATA, TOSHIYA MORI
  • Publication number: 20190168772
    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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: KOICHI EMURA, MASANAGA TSUJI, TOSHIYA MORI, WATARU NAKAI
  • Patent number: 10313666
    Abstract: This display device is provided with a display unit and a control unit. The display unit projects and reflects, onto a light-transmitting display medium, light expressing an image, to allow the image to be viewed, as a virtual image, by a user. The control unit performs first stereoscopic display processing for causing light respectively expressing a left-eye image and a right-eye image of an object to be displayed, to be projected in the display unit. As a result of this processing, the object to be displayed can be stereoscopically viewed in a three-dimensional image space by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori
  • Patent number: 10252726
    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: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Emura, Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Wataru Nakai
  • Publication number: 20190071101
    Abstract: An automation level determination section selects one of automation levels defined at a plurality of stages based on a deviation degree of reliability, the deviation degree corresponding to each of a plurality of kinds of driving behaviors that are estimation results obtained using a driving behavior model. A generator generates presentation information by applying the plurality of kinds of driving behaviors to an output template corresponding to one selected automation level in output templates corresponding to the automation levels defined at the plurality of stages respectively. An output unit outputs the presentation information that is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: KOICHI EMURA, HIDETO MOTOMURA, SAHIM KOURKOUSS, YOSHIHIDE SAWADA, MASANAGA TSUJI, TOSHIYA MORI