Patents by Inventor Yasushi Shoda

Yasushi Shoda 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: 11370416
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer that recognizes a peripheral situation of a vehicle, a driving controller that automatically performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and a determiner that determines whether a predetermined condition indicating that automated parking is not adequate is satisfied when a user exits the vehicle. The driving controller causes the vehicle to start to travel from a stop state and stop at a parking lot in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the vehicle not to start to travel from a stop state and stop at a parking lot in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Patent number: 11364897
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a display device configured to display a parking space candidate; and a control device configured to control a screen display of the display device, to set the parking space candidate selected by a user to a target parking space, to set a stop position where the vehicle should be stopped in the target parking space, and to execute a driving process to autonomously move the vehicle along a trajectory to the stop position. While executing the driving process, the control device causes the display device to display the trajectory and the stop position and determines whether the stop position is suitable based on external environment information. Upon determining that the stop position is not suitable, the control device corrects the stop position and causes the display device to display the stop position that has been corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakada, Yasushi Shoda, Syoichi Kobayashi, Yuki Hara, Miki Tsujino, Hiroshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11351914
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mounted on a first vehicle, and the vehicle control device includes a light source configured to project light outside of a vehicle; and a light source controller configured to control the light source to project a projection image which is positioned outside the first vehicle viewed from above and is along at least part of a periphery of the first vehicle in a case where the first vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Patent number: 11338826
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to control a vehicle so as to move the vehicle autonomously from a current position to a target position; and an external environment sensor configured to detect an obstacle. During control of the vehicle to the target position, the control device is configured to recognize the obstacle present in a first area and a second area based on information from the external environment sensor. In a case where the control device recognizes the obstacle in the first area, the control device stops the vehicle, and in a case where the control device recognizes the obstacle in the second area and the obstacle in the second area is a moving object and/or a moving creature, the control device moves the vehicle in a decelerated state in which the vehicle is decelerated to a prescribed speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Masaaki Kawano
  • Patent number: 11340627
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control steering, acceleration, and deceleration on the basis of the surrounding situation, a second recognizer configured to recognize a physical object placed in an interior, and an acquirer configured to acquire a movement instruction for moving the vehicle to a parking area according to control of the driving controller, the movement instruction being output on the basis of an action of a user who has not got into the vehicle, wherein the driving controller causes the vehicle to move to an accessible area capable of being accessed by the user or causes the vehicle to stay in the accessible area when the acquirer has acquired the movement instruction and the second recognizer has recognized the physical object placed in the interior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Patent number: 11305769
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle regardless of an operation of an occupant on the basis of a recognition result obtained by the recognizer; and a wiper controller that controls a wiper attached to a window of the vehicle, wherein the wiper controller changes a degree of operation of the wiper according to a boarding position and a degree of approach when the vehicle moves to the boarding position at which an occupant boards the vehicle after the vehicle starts traveling under the control of the driving controller or when the vehicle starts traveling to move away from the boarding position under the control of the driving controller after the occupant alights from the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20210300349
    Abstract: A vehicle movement assist system includes: an external environment sensor unmovably fixed to a vehicle; and a control device configured to acquire the position of an obstacle relative to the vehicle based on a result of detection performed by the external environment sensor and to execute an automatic moving process to autonomously move the vehicle. During execution of the automatic moving process, if the obstacle is detected in a recognition range set by the control device, the control device performs a notification to the driver and/or executes a process including deceleration or stopping of the vehicle. The control device is configured to change the recognition range in accordance with the travel state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HARA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210300336
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an acquiring unit, a display unit, and a control unit. In a case where the acquiring unit acquires information about an obstacle on a first target route during traveling of a vehicle along the first target route and thus the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route, the control unit tries to calculate a second target route to a target position from a position where the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route. Upon failing to calculate the second target route, the control unit prohibits a notification about automatic parking while a user is performing a brake operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210300335
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes an acquiring unit, a display unit, and a control unit. In a case where the acquiring unit acquires information about an obstacle on a first target route during traveling of a vehicle along the first target route and thus the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route, the control unit tries to calculate a second target route to a target position from a position where the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route. Upon succeeding in calculating the second target route, the control unit causes the display unit to display surrounding information corresponding to the second target route. Upon failing to calculate the second target route, the control unit causes the display unit to display a notification about an operation method of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210300341
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: an external environment information acquiring device, a parking space extracting device, a display device, a selection input member, and a control device. The control device is configured to set a parking position candidate at a prescribed position in a parking space, to set the parking position candidate selected by a user as a target parking position, to calculate a first trajectory to the target parking position, and to execute a first driving process to autonomously move a vehicle along the first trajectory. The control device is configured to set a corrected parking position different from the target parking position, to calculate a second trajectory from the target parking position to the corrected parking position, and to execute a second driving process to autonomously move the vehicle along the second trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yasushi SHODA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI, Yuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20210303881
    Abstract: A parking space recognition system includes an external environment information acquiring device and a parking space candidate detecting device. The parking space candidate detecting device includes: a virtual line calculating unit configured to calculate a virtual line connecting road side ends of parking space lines adjacent to each other; an angle calculating unit configured to calculate an angle between the virtual line and one of the parking space lines; a parking type determining unit configured to determine a parking type; and a parking space candidate setting unit configured to set at least one provisional parking space in an area between the parking space lines based on positions of the parking space lines, and to set an available parking area among the provisional parking space to the parking space candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179130
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to execute an automatic parking process and an automatic unparking process. The control device is configured to cause a notification device to output an end-of-parking notification when, in the automatic parking process, the vehicle has reached the target parking position and the control device ends the automatic parking process, and to cause the notification device to output an instruction notification to request the occupant to perform a prescribed operation on an operation member when, in the automatic unparking process, the vehicle has reached the target unparking position and the control device ends the automatic unparking process, and to cause the notification device to output an end-of-unparking notification when the prescribed operation is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Miki TSUJINO, Yuki HARA, Masaaki KAWANO, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179085
    Abstract: A parking support system of a vehicle, comprises: a detection unit configured to detect information of a periphery of the vehicle; a control unit configured to control, based on the information detected by the detection unit, a parking space entry operation of the vehicle to a parking space and a parking space exit operation of the vehicle from the parking space; and a stationary state control unit configured to maintain a stationary state of the vehicle after one of the parking space entry operation and the parking space exit operation has been completed. The stationary state control unit maintains the stationary state by first maintenance control when the parking space entry operation has been completed and maintains the stationary state by second maintenance control, which is different from the first maintenance control when the parking space exit operation has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki NAKADA, Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179080
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to control a powertrain, a brake device, and a steering device to autonomously move a vehicle to a target position; a display device; and operation members configured to receive an operation performed by an occupant of the vehicle. The control device is configured to set at least one target position candidate according to a first operation performed on one of the operation members and cause the display device to display the at least one target position candidate, decide the target position from the at least one target position candidate according to a second operation performed on one of the operation members, and execute driving control for autonomously moving the vehicle to the target position according to a third operation performed on one of the operation members, wherein the first operation and the third operation are an identical operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Miki TSUJINO, Yuki HARA, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179079
    Abstract: A parking assist system for a vehicle includes a control device configured to execute an automatic parking process for autonomously moving the vehicle from a current position to a parking position. The control device is configured such that in a case where the control device has stopped the vehicle according to detection of an obstacle by an external environment sensor in a prescribed range from the parking position during execution of the automatic parking process, the control device does not permit resumption of movement of the vehicle in the automatic parking process, and in a case where the control device has stopped the vehicle according to an operation of a brake operation member by the driver in the prescribed range from the parking position during the execution of the automatic parking process, the control device permits the resumption of movement of the vehicle in the automatic parking process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yuki NAKADA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179084
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to execute a driving process for autonomously moving a vehicle to a target position; a steering operation member configured to receive a steering operation performed by an occupant; a vehicle state detecting device; and a notification device configured to make a notification to the occupant. In the driving process, the control device executes vehicle speed control and steering control. When, during execution of the driving process, the control device determines that the vehicle is a suspension state in which the driving process should be temporarily suspended, the control device causes the notification device to output a prescribed notification and executes a suspension process. In the suspension process, the control device executes the vehicle speed control to stop the vehicle and stops the steering control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA, Megumi KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210179082
    Abstract: A driving assistance system for a vehicle, comprising: a detection unit configured to detect information regarding surroundings of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform driving assistance control based on information detected by the detection unit, wherein, when the control unit performs an operation of stopping movement due to an object detected by the detection unit during the driving assistance control, the control unit restarts the movement after a predetermined time elapses from when the stop operation is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki HARA, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Miki TSUJINO, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179076
    Abstract: A parking assist system is configured to autonomously move a vehicle to a target parking position. The parking assist system includes: a distance acquiring unit configured to acquire a distance between the vehicle and a vehicle stopper provided in the target parking position; and a control unit configured to control a movement of the vehicle to the target parking position based on the distance acquired by the distance acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki NAKADA, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20210179077
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: an image display unit configured to display a direction indicating image that indicates a travel direction of the vehicle; and a control device configured to execute travel control of the vehicle. The direction indicating image is switchable between a first image that indicates a first travel direction of the vehicle and a second image that indicates a second travel direction of the vehicle, the second travel direction being opposite to the first travel direction. In a case where the control device switches the travel direction of the vehicle from the first travel direction to the second travel direction, the image display unit switches the direction indicating image from the first image to the second image based on a vehicle speed of the vehicle, a state of a power transmission device, and a steering state of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Miki TSUJINO, Yasushi SHODA, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20210179088
    Abstract: A parking assistance device including a recognition part configured to acquire recognition information through recognition of surroundings, a parking region determiner configured to determine a space between other vehicles as a parking region of the host vehicle based on the recognition information, an automatic parking controller configured to perform a parking operation to park the host vehicle in the parking region, and a parking location determiner. In response to determining that an entry width of the parking region is less than a predetermined value, the parking location determiner is configured to determine a parking location of the host vehicle in the parking region that is at a central location as viewed from an entry side of the parking region. In response to determining that the entry width is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the parking location determiner is configured to determine the parking location that is closer to one of the other vehicles as viewed from the entry side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki NAKADA, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI