Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Hashimoto

Yasuharu Hashimoto 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: 11760366
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a first control unit and a second control unit each configured to perform travel control of a vehicle based on a recognition result of an external recognition device group configured to obtain external information of the vehicle and a detection result of a vehicle information detection unit configured to obtain state information of an actuator group of the vehicle. In a case in which functional degradation of at least one of the external recognition device group, the actuator group, and the vehicle information detection unit is detected, based on the recognition result and the detection result, the first control unit determines contents of vehicle control in fallback control for restricting a travel control function of the vehicle and determines whether to execute the fallback control by one of the first control unit and the second control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Aoyagi, Kanta Tsuji, Tadahiko Kanoh, Takuyuki Mukai, Jun Ochida, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Yuichi Komori, Takashi Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 11701967
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display that is configured to display information, a detector that is configured to detect a partition line for partitioning a lane on a road on which a vehicle is present, and a display controller that is configured to cause the display to display the partition line detected by the detector variably, and the display controller is configured to change a length of the partition line which is displayed by the display on the basis of a detection distance of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11438000
    Abstract: An atomic oscillator including an oscillator that outputs an oscillation signal, a light emitter to which a signal based on the oscillation signal is inputted, an atomic cell, a light receiver that detects the light passing through the atomic cell and outputs a detection signal, a first temperature controller, and a control circuit, and the control circuit has a first mode including the process of operating the light emitter and the first temperature controller and the process of causing the oscillator to output the oscillation signal, a second mode including the process of causing the light emitter and the first temperature controller to stop operating and the process of causing the oscillator to stop outputting the oscillation signal, and a third mode including the process of causing the light emitter to stop operating, the process of operating the first temperature controller, and the process of causing the oscillator to stop outputting the oscillation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: Yasuharu Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20220203989
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a position and a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving control unit configured to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle independently of an operation of a driver of the vehicle, and a mode determination unit configured to determine any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle and change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode in which a task is severer when a task associated with the determined driving mode is not executed by the driver, the second driving mode being a driving mode in which a task imposed on the driver is milder than that in the first driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hosoya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Hirofumi Kanazaki
  • Publication number: 20210376843
    Abstract: An atomic oscillator including an oscillator that outputs an oscillation signal, a light emitter to which a signal based on the oscillation signal is inputted, an atomic cell, a light receiver that detects the light passing through the atomic cell and outputs a detection signal, a first temperature controller, and a control circuit, and the control circuit has a first mode including the process of operating the light emitter and the first temperature controller and the process of causing the oscillator to output the oscillation signal, a second mode including the process of causing the light emitter and the first temperature controller to stop operating and the process of causing the oscillator to stop outputting the oscillation signal, and a third mode including the process of causing the light emitter to stop operating, the process of operating the first temperature controller, and the process of causing the oscillator to stop outputting the oscillation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Yasuharu HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11183069
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display that is configured to display information and a display controller that is configured to cause the display to display a plurality of partition lines for partitioning a host lane in which a vehicle is present and an adjacent lane adjacent to the host lane, and the display controller is configured to cause the display to display a partition line of the adjacent lane in a case where the adjacent lane is a lane in which a lane change from the host lane is possible, and restrict causing the display to display the partition line of the adjacent lane in a case where the adjacent lane is not a lane in which a lane change from the host lane is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Yasuharu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11099564
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit (140, 160) that controls steering and acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. In a case where a traffic participant is recognized in a progress direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, the driving control unit sets an entry inhibition region where an entry of the vehicle is to be avoided, using the traffic participant as a reference, based on a degree of recognition of the vehicle by the traffic participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani
  • Patent number: 11100345
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to run on the basis of a first reference line deviating to one side of a road in a case in which a target obstacle is not recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer and, is configured to cause the vehicle to avoid the target obstacle after causing the vehicle to run on the basis of a second reference line disposed on an other side of the road from the first reference line, in a case in which the target obstacle is recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11091152
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device including: a recognition unit that recognizes a nearby situation of a vehicle; and a driving control unit that automatically controls at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the nearby situation that is recognized by the recognition unit. In a case where an obstacle that exists in an advancing direction of the vehicle and a road-side structure that is provided in a road edge are recognized by the recognition unit, the driving control unit generates a target trajectory of the vehicle in a state in which a trajectory along which a wheel of the vehicle passes over the road-side structure is included as a candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11077849
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to control an acceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, wherein, in a case in which a plurality of pedestrians are recognized in an advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognizer, the driving controller is configured to executes follow control for following the plurality of pedestrians and is configured to determines details of the follow control on the basis of a behavior of a nearest pedestrian who is closest to the vehicle among the plurality of pedestrians and a behavior of a second pedestrian who is a monitoring target other than the nearest pedestrian among the plurality of pedestrians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11079762
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit, an intersection road recognition determination unit, and a driving control unit. When a subject vehicle turns in a first direction that is one of left and right directions at an intersection road, in a case where it is determined that a situation of the intersection road is able to be recognized at a predetermined degree or more by the intersection road recognition determination unit, the driving control unit performs control of moving the subject vehicle toward a side of the first direction in front of the intersection road, and in a case where it is determined that the situation of the intersection road is not able to be recognized at the predetermined degree or more, the driving control unit suppresses the control of moving the subject vehicle toward the side of the first direction in front of the intersection road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210229683
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a first control unit and a second control unit each configured to perform travel control of a vehicle based on a recognition result of an external recognition device group configured to obtain external information of the vehicle and a detection result of a vehicle information detection unit configured to obtain state information of an actuator group of the vehicle. In a case in which functional degradation of at least one of the external recognition device group, the actuator group, and the vehicle information detection unit is detected, based on the recognition result and the detection result, the first control unit determines contents of vehicle control in fallback control for restricting a travel control function of the vehicle and determines whether to execute the fallback control by one of the first control unit and the second control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiko AOYAGI, Kanta TSUJI, Tadahiko KANOH, Takuyuki MUKAI, Jun OCHIDA, Yasuharu HASHIMOTO, Yuichi KOMORI, Takashi KUBOSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10974725
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control apparatus (100) which includes a recognition unit (130) configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and driving control units (140 and 160) configured to automatically control acceleration or deceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of a surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, in which, in a case that a stop position of the vehicle is recognized in the traveling direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, and a traffic participant proceeding at a speed lower than the speed of the vehicle in the traveling direction is recognized in front of the stop position, the driving control unit determines whether the traffic participant catches up with the vehicle before the vehicle reaches the stop position, and determines to cause the vehicle to reach further ahead of the traffic participant in the traveling direction on the basis of a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10891498
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle and a driving controller that is configured to control at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surroundings status recognized by the recognizer, and, in a case in which a obstacle present in an advancement direction of the vehicle and traffic participants present near the obstacle are recognized by the recognizer, and the vehicle is caused to avoid the obstacle, the driving controller is configured to control the vehicle on the basis of advancement directions of the traffic participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Hideki Matsunaga, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe, Yuki Oshitani, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20200307380
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display that is configured to display information, a detector that is configured to detect a partition line for partitioning a lane on a road on which a vehicle is present, and a display controller that is configured to cause the display to display the partition line detected by the detector variably, and the display controller is configured to change a length of the partition line which is displayed by the display on the basis of a detection distance of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200312151
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display that is configured to display information and a display controller that is configured to cause the display to display a plurality of partition lines for partitioning a host lane in which a vehicle is present and an adjacent lane adjacent to the host lane, and the display controller is configured to cause the display to display a partition line of the adjacent lane in a case where the adjacent lane is a lane in which a lane change from the host lane is possible, and restrict causing the display to display the partition line of the adjacent lane in a case where the adjacent lane is not a lane in which a lane change from the host lane is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Yasuharu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10470119
    Abstract: For selection of a wireless access point, a terminal apparatus is configured to include a transmitter transmitting terminal information to a communication control apparatus, a receiver receiving access point candidate information from the communication control apparatus, a bandwidth estimator estimating current bandwidth associated with each of the candidate wireless access points included in the access point candidate information, and an access point selector selecting at least one wireless access point for communication from the candidate wireless access points included in the access point candidate information. Terminal information includes information on a communication location where the terminal apparatus communicates with the communication control apparatus and the access point candidate information includes information on candidate wireless access points for the communication location and past bandwidth information acquired associated with each of the candidate wireless access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Yoshino, Hiroaki Asano, Yasuharu Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20190283802
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving controller (140, 160) that automatically controls at least steering of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to, when the recognizer has recognized a single pedestrian ahead in a travel direction of the vehicle, make a distance between the vehicle and the pedestrian equal to or greater than a first minimum interval and to, when the recognizer has recognized a plurality of pedestrians ahead in the travel direction of the vehicle, make the distance between the vehicle and a pedestrian closest to the vehicle equal to or greater than a second minimum interval which is greater than the first minimum interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190283742
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic driving control device (100) including: a recognition unit (130) that recognizes a nearby situation of a vehicle; a driving control unit (140, 160) that automatically controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the nearby situation that is recognized by the recognition unit; an output unit that outputs information; and a notification control unit (180) that controls the output unit to notify a traffic participant of existence of the vehicle in a case where the traffic participant who exists in an advancing direction of the vehicle is recognized by the recognition unit. The notification control unit adjusts the degree of notification with respect to the traffic participant on the basis of a distance between an edge portion that is disposed away from the traffic participant in a width direction of a road on which the vehicle travels, and the traffic participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Kawabe, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190286147
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit, an intersection road recognition determination unit, and a driving control unit. When a subject vehicle turns in a first direction that is one of left and right directions at an intersection road, in a case where it is determined that a situation of the intersection road is able to be recognized at a predetermined degree or more by the intersection road recognition determination unit, the driving control unit performs control of moving the subject vehicle toward a side of the first direction in front of the intersection road, and in a case where it is determined that the situation of the intersection road is not able to be recognized at the predetermined degree or more, the driving control unit suppresses the control of moving the subject vehicle toward the side of the first direction in front of the intersection road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Etsuo Watanabe