Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Kaji

Toshiyuki Kaji 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: 20200103907
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer configured to recognize an obstacle in a moving direction of a vehicle; an estimator configured to estimate at least one of a kind and a shape of the obstacle recognized by the recognizer; and an action plan generator configured to generate an action plan of the vehicle based on an estimation result of the estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kaji, Katsuya Yashiro, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda, Hiroshi Oguro
  • Publication number: 20200086860
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detection unit configured to detect an obstacle in front of a vehicle; a risk determining unit configured to determine a degree of risk to a vehicle of the obstacle detected by the detection unit; and an action plan generating unit configured to search for a retreat destination candidate for the vehicle, determine a degree of safety of the retreat destination candidate, and generate a retreat action plan for the vehicle on the basis of a result of the determination of the degree of safety of the retreat destination candidate in a case in which the degree of risk determined by the risk determining unit is equal to or higher than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200079377
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires an index value relating to easiness of merging which is evaluated on the basis of at least one of vehicle information relating to an operation of another vehicle that has advanced from a merging lane to a main lane before a subject vehicle and external system information acquired near a merging point using the other vehicle in a case in which the subject vehicle is running in the merging lane merging into the main lane; and an automated driving control unit that executes automated driving of the subject vehicle on the basis of the index value acquired by the information acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda, Hiroshi Oguro
  • Publication number: 20200082724
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a lane line recognizer that recognizes lane lines of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, a virtual line setter that sets, when there is a section in which the lane lines are not recognizable by the lane line recognizer after passing through a gate installed on the road, a virtual line with a terminating end portion of a lane line extending from the gate or an object present near the gate as one end and a beginning end portion of the lane line in a future travel area of the vehicle which is present ahead of the section in which the lane lines are not recognizable as another end, and an automated driving controller that performs automated driving in the section in which the lane lines are not recognizable on the basis of the virtual line set by the virtual line setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda
  • Publication number: 20190382023
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a partition line recognizing unit that recognizes partition lines of a road on which a subject vehicle is running; an information acquiring unit that acquires information relating to running histories of other vehicles for a section in which no partition line can be recognized by the partition line recognizing unit from an external device; and an automated driving control unit that determines a behavior of the subject vehicle and performs automated driving on the basis of the running histories acquired by the information acquiring unit in a case in which there is a section in which no partition line can be recognized by the partition line recognizing unit after passing through a gate installed on the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori Takeda, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Hiroshi Oguro
  • Publication number: 20190286128
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle is provided. The control apparatus includes a travel control unit capable of controlling travel of the vehicle in any of a travel states in accordance with a circumstance of the vehicle and an acquisition unit configured to acquire a movement of a driver of the vehicle. The travel states include a first travel state and a second travel state that is higher in a degree of automation or lower in a driver task than the first travel state. The movement of the driver includes a first movement prohibited in the first travel state and allowed in the second travel state. A condition for determining whether to execute travel control in the second travel state includes an execution state of the first movement or an operation state of the vehicle that relates to the first movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAJI, Takashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190271980
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is equipped with a state control unit adapted to perform a state transition control in which there are combined plural types of travel states in accordance with a travel control mode, and plural types of assist states in accordance with a driving assist mode. Under a sports mode (second travel state) in which a preference of the driver for manual driving is strong, as compared with a normal travel mode (first travel state), the state control unit suppresses a transition from a manual driving state (first assist state) to a normal automated driving state (second assist state) in which a level of driving assistance is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAJI, Yoshifumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190202473
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognition unit (16, 321, or 322) recognizing a surrounding status of a vehicle; a control unit (200 or 300) executing driving support for the vehicle by controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding status recognized by the recognition unit; a reception unit (40 or 80) receiving an instruction relating to the driving support from a vehicle occupant of the vehicle; and an inhibition unit (130) inhibiting inactivation or reduction in functionality of the driving support using the control unit in a case in which a surrounding status of the vehicle is a predetermined surrounding status, or the predetermined surrounding status in the future is predicted in a case in which an instruction for inactivation or reduction in functionality of the driving support is received by the reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kaji, Yoshifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190202468
    Abstract: A vehicle control system (1) includes: a recognition unit (16) that recognizes surrounding conditions of a host vehicle; a control unit (300) that performs driving support of the host vehicle in a plurality of modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode with a higher percentage of automation or less required work than that of the first driving mode by controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle on the basis of the surrounding conditions recognized by the recognition unit; an acquisition unit that acquires a driving history of an occupant of the host vehicle; and a prohibition unit that prohibits driving support in the second driving mode on the basis of the driving history acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kaji, Yoshifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180373250
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first detection unit configured to detect a direction of a face or a line of sight of an occupant of a subject vehicle, an automatic driving control unit configured to execute an automatic driving control, and a switching control unit configured to switch an automatic driving mode for causing the automatic driving control unit to execute the automatic driving control to one of a plurality of automatic driving modes including a first automatic driving mode and a second automatic driving mode. The switching control unit prevents the automatic driving control executed by the automatic driving control unit on the basis of a detection result by the first detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Nakamura, Toshiyuki Kaji
  • Publication number: 20180345988
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a control unit configured to support a driving of a vehicle by selectively operating in one driving support mode among a plurality of driving support modes including a low speed following travel mode in which the vehicle travels while maintaining a constant inter-vehicle distance between a preceding traveling vehicle and the vehicle in a case where the speed is equal to or less than a predetermined speed, and an equipment control unit configured to release a use restriction on a specific function in which the line of sight of a driver is removed from the vehicle surroundings due to its utilization in a case where the control unit operates the low speed following travel mode is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Hironori Takano
  • Publication number: 20180348758
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first detection unit configured to detect an operation of a driving operation element by an occupant, a second detection unit configured to detect a direction of a face or a line of sight of the occupant, and a switching control unit configured to switch an automatic driving mode executed by an automatic driving control unit to one of a plurality of automatic driving modes including a first automatic driving mode and a second automatic driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Nakamura, Toshiyuki Kaji
  • Publication number: 20180284789
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a detector that detects an obstacle present in a space around a vehicle and separated from a road surface, and an action plan generating part that estimates at least one of a size and a type of the obstacle detected by the detector, predicts a behavior of the obstacle on the basis of the estimated result, and generates a danger avoidance action plan of the vehicle on the basis of the predicted result of the behavior of the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda
  • Publication number: 20180173236
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognition part that recognizes a state of a peripheral object; an approach determination part that determines, based on the behavior of a rearward vehicle recognized by the recognition part, approach of the rearward vehicle; and an action plan generation part that displaces a vehicle in an intersect direction which intersects with a travel route within a travel road when the approach determination part determines that there is an approach and when the recognition part recognizes an object in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda, Hiroshi Oguro
  • Publication number: 20180126990
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a first switch that accepts an operation of an occupant of a vehicle; and a performance part that performs, when the first switch is operated, travel assist in a node in which an assist degree is the largest at that time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiko Shimada, Yoshitaka Mimura, Toshiyuki Kaji, Mahito Shikama, Masanori Takeda, Kentaro Ishisaka
  • Publication number: 20150288223
    Abstract: A power failure detector includes a reference voltage storing part storing as a reference voltage state at least one of weak voltages that are generated due to an inter-wire capacity induction and an inter-wire electromagnetic induction of a wiring of interior wirings on a ground side and a wiring of the interior wirings on a non-ground side into which a wall switch is interposed and that are detected in an OFF state of the wall switch during a non-power failure, a monitored voltage detection part monitoring and detecting as a monitored voltage state at least one of week voltages that are generated due to the inter-wire capacity induction and the inter-wire electromagnetic induction, and a power failure determination partdetermining a power failure by comparing the reference voltage state and the monitored voltage state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Toshiyuki Kaji
  • Patent number: 8382579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a card stack reader, a card thereof, a card case, a method for manufacturing the card, a game machine using the same, and a computer-readable storage medium on which a game program is recorded. The card stack reader comprises an imaging unit which reads an image from a peripheral side portion of a stack of cards, each card having a read code along a peripheral side edge thereof, the read code identifying the card, and a code recognizing unit which recognizes the read code of each card from the image read by the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Yoshida, Hidenori Shiba, Toshiyuki Kaji, Takao Yamauchi, Fumihiro Kato, Akira Nishino, Toru Ohara, Takaharu Terada
  • Patent number: 8264624
    Abstract: Provided is a digitizer function-equipped liquid crystal display device capable of preventing the wire shadows of a loop antenna from being projected on a liquid crystal panel and capable of being applied to a large size liquid crystal panel. It is also possible to provide an information processing electronic device and a game device provided with the digitizer function-equipped liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kaji, Gou Hirose, Takayuki Ohnishi, Hirofumi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8191896
    Abstract: A card game apparatus includes a large-size panel display, a main control unit that controls screens on the large-size panel display, and a plurality of terminal apparatuses that are communicably connected to the main control unit. A game player purchases an integrated circuit card and, for example, eleven player cards on each of which, a soccer player's photograph is printed. When the game player arranges the player cards on a player card arrangement panel of one of the terminal apparatuses, card data recorded on the back of the player card will be read by an internal image sensor. Then, a team is organized by the player cards, and a game starts. The game player can direct a player's position and formation by changing placement of the player card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kaji, Toshikazu Yoshida, Hidenori Shiba, Takao Yamauchi, Fumihiro Kato, Junichi Tsuchiya, Yoshitaka Maeyama, Jinichiro Okuda, Mitsuhiko Kakita
  • Patent number: 8172229
    Abstract: A card game system, including a plurality of terminal apparatuses, a card data reading unit for detecting unique data of each of cards when an operator arranges and manipulates a set of cards selected by the operator on a flat surface of the panel on the terminal apparatus, and a game execution unit which is arranged to organize a playing team in a virtual game space based on the data detected from the cards placed on the flat surface of the panel and to execute a game against another playing team organized on another terminal apparatus connected via a network. A progress of the game is controlled in response to manipulation by the operator with the cards on the panel, a main control unit to which individual game data is transmitted from the plurality of the terminal apparatuses, and a display connected to the main control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kaji, Toshikazu Yoshida, Hidenori Shiba, Takao Yamauchi, Fumihiro Kato, Junichi Tsuchiya, Yoshitaka Maeyama, Jinichiro Okuda, Mitsuhiko Kakita