Patents by Inventor Umiaki Matsubara

Umiaki Matsubara 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: 20250014359
    Abstract: A road boundary detection method and apparatus, and an electronic device, a storage medium and a computer program product are provided. The method includes that: a road image, which is collected by an image collection device arranged on a vehicle is identified, and then a plurality of road boundaries from the road image is determined; and a road boundary inside which the vehicle can travel is selected from the plurality of road boundaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Chenguang LI, Guangliang CHENG, Jianping SHI, Tokitomo ARIYOSHI, Umiaki MATSUBARA, Yuji YASUI, Yusuke NAKAZATO, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Nobuaki AMANO
  • Publication number: 20250010854
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a road image acquired by an image acquisition apparatus mounted on a vehicle; detecting multiple road boundaries in the road image on the basis of the road image; and determining a target road boundary that is dangerous to the vehicle among the multiple road boundaries. In this case, the driving of the vehicle can be controlled more accurately on the basis of the target road boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Guangliang CHENG, Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Umiaki Matsubara, Yuji Yasui, Yusuke Nakazato, Tatsuya Suzuki, Nobuaki Amano
  • Patent number: 11794733
    Abstract: Provided is a risk estimation device capable of appropriately estimating a risk in a traveling direction of an own vehicle even under the condition that a relationship between a traffic participant and a road condition is inappropriate. The risk estimation device recognizes a traffic participant, a road condition, and a condition of the traffic participant in the traveling direction of the own vehicle based on a surrounding condition data, determines, by using a reference relationship model, whether the relationship between the traffic participant and the road condition is appropriate, estimates, by using a risk model, a traveling risk in a case where the relationship between the traffic participant and the road condition is determined to be appropriate, and estimates the traveling risk according to the condition of the traffic participant in a case where the relationship between the traffic participant and the road condition is determined to be inappropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rei Sakai, Umiaki Matsubara, Tokitomo Ariyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230242109
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor and an exterior environment detection unit configured to detect an exterior environment situation in a predetermined region around the subject vehicle. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a division line defining a lane of a road on which the subject vehicle travels based on a detection value of the exterior environment detection unit; acquiring a movement amount of the subject vehicle in a vehicle width direction; and determining a reliability of a recognition result of the division line based on a first movement amount which is the acquired movement amount of the subject vehicle and a second movement amount, which is a change amount of a recognized position of the division line in the vehicle width direction, when a traveling position of the subject vehicle moves in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki Kizumi, Umiaki Matsubara, Takahiro Fujita, Yuhi Goto
  • Patent number: 11447155
    Abstract: Provided herein is a vehicle control device that includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding status of a vehicle and a driving control unit that controls a speed and/or a steering of the vehicle. The driving control unit performs switching to a second driving state in which a driver has a higher degree of a monitoring obligation than in a first driving state. The vehicle control device further includes a map updating unit that updates intrinsic map information on the basis of the recognition result and when switching from the first driving state to the second driving state is performed by the driving control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Umiaki Matsubara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20220222946
    Abstract: Provided are a traffic environment recognition device and the like capable of quickly recognizing a traffic environment in a traveling direction of a host vehicle. On the basis of surrounding situation data D_info, a vehicle control device 1 recognizes a moving object and a landmark within a predetermined range in a traveling direction of a host vehicle 3, and also recognizes a positional relationship between the moving object and the landmark. When a bicycle 21 is recognized as the moving object, a first moving object noun “bicycle” is selected, and when a guard fence 23 is recognized as the landmark, a first landmark noun “fence” is selected. Further, a positional relationship word “behind” indicating a positional relationship between the bicycle 21 and the guard fence is selected. Then, first scene data is created by associating “bicycle”, “behind”, and “fence” with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rei Sakai, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11370420
    Abstract: A vehicle control device comprising a processor configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and perform driving control according to speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The processor is configured to recognize a physical object present on a route of the vehicle on the basis of an image representing a space in a traveling direction of the vehicle and determine whether or not the physical object is a specific obstacle that hinders traveling in a lane where the vehicle is currently traveling. The processor is further configured to start a lane change execution possibility determination before determining whether the specific obstacle hinders travel or simultaneously with a start of the determining in a case where the physical object and the vehicle is allowed to make the lane change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20210139027
    Abstract: Provided is a risk estimation device capable of appropriately estimating a risk in a traveling direction of an own vehicle even under the condition that a relationship between a traffic participant and a road condition is inappropriate. The risk estimation device recognizes a traffic participant, a road condition, and a condition of the traffic participant in the traveling direction of the own vehicle based on a surrounding condition data, determines, by using a reference relationship model, whether the relationship between the traffic participant and the road condition is appropriate, estimates, by using a risk model, a traveling risk in a case where the relationship between the traffic participant and the road condition is determined to be appropriate, and estimates the traveling risk according to the condition of the traffic participant in a case where the relationship between the traffic participant and the road condition is determined to be inappropriate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Rei SAKAI, Umiaki MATSUBARA, Tokitomo ARIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20210086797
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a surrounding status of a vehicle; and a driving control unit configured to control one or both of a speed and steering of the vehicle. The driving control unit performs switching to a second driving state in which a driver has a higher degree of a monitoring obligation than in a first driving state in a case in which the vehicle is caused to travel in the first driving state in which the driver has a lower degree of the monitoring obligation among driving states of a plurality of types, and a recognition result acquired by the recognition unit satisfies a predetermined condition relating to the driving state. The vehicle control device further includes a map updating unit configured to update intrinsic map information on the basis of the recognition result acquired by the recognition unit in a case in which switching from the first driving state to the second driving state is performed by the driving control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Umiaki Matsubara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10817730
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus, comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire peripheral information of an own vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the peripheral information, whether a behavior prediction target on a road visually recognizes a predetermined object, and a prediction unit configured to, if it is determined by the determination unit that the behavior prediction target visually recognizes the predetermined object, predict that the behavior prediction target moves across the road in a crossing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20200307569
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to perform driving control according to speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The recognizer includes a physical object recognizer configured to recognize a physical object present on a route of the vehicle on the basis of an image acquired from an imaging unit configured to image a space in a traveling direction of the vehicle and an obstacle determiner configured to determine whether or not the physical object recognized by the physical object recognizer is a specific obstacle that hinders traveling in a lane where the vehicle is currently traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20200298843
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of an own vehicle; and a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the own vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer. The driving controller causes the own vehicle to continuously travel forward when the recognizer recognizes that an obstacle and an oncoming vehicle are in a travel direction of the own vehicle and the recognizer recognizes that the oncoming vehicle is moving in a direction away from the own vehicle in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Kosuke Nakanishi, Takayasu Kumano, Umiaki Matsubara, Misa Komuro
  • Patent number: 10733705
    Abstract: An information processing device, a learning processing method, a learning device and an object recognition device capable of improving learning processing accuracy are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20190197669
    Abstract: An information processing device, a learning processing method, a learning device and an object recognition device capable of improving learning processing accuracy are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Umiaki Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20180349714
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus, comprising an acquisition unit configured to acquire peripheral information of an own vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine, based on the peripheral information, whether a behavior prediction target on a road visually recognizes a predetermined object, and a prediction unit configured to, if it is determined by the determination unit that the behavior prediction target visually recognizes the predetermined object, predict that the behavior prediction target moves across the road in a crossing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yosuke Sakamoto, Kazuma Ohara, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Umiaki Matsubara