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).

  • Publication number: 20200307635
    Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a controller configured to control a window portion of the vehicle, and the controller controls opening and closing of the window portion on the basis of a result of the recognizing has recognized a gesture which is performed by a user of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200298874
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to automatically perform speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to cause, after letting a user alight the vehicle, the vehicle to start traveling from a stopped state when the recognizer has recognized a specific operation that the alighted user performs on or toward a body of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200302199
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a vicinity situation recognizer configured to recognize a vicinity situation of a vehicle, and a driving controller configured to perform driving control on steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of a vicinity situation recognized by the vicinity situation recognizer, in which, in automated entrance processing for causing the vehicle to enter a parking lot with the driving control after a predetermined event of the vehicle, the driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to travel with a first behavior in a first predetermined period from a first timing at which the vehicle has started to a second timing at which a predetermined condition is satisfied, and cause the vehicle to travel with a second behavior in which a proceeding distance per unit time is longer than with the first behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200298837
    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: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200290598
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a detector configured to detect a vicinity situation of a vehicle, a first controller configured to cause the vehicle to move to a position at which a user of the vehicle gets on or gets off the vehicle by controlling a speed and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the vicinity situation detected by the detector, and a second controller configured to reduce a detection load of the detector when the vehicle moves to the position as compared to when the vehicle does not move to the position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200290649
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle according to a recognition result of the recognizer; and a receiver configured to receive a trigger transmitted from a vehicle exterior device in response to occurrence of a predetermined event to a user who is outside of the vehicle. The driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to automatically travel to a boarding position of the user in response to the reception of the trigger by the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Junpei Noguchi, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200290599
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and a schedule information acquirer configured to acquire schedule information of a rider of the vehicle, wherein the driving controller is configured to determine an exiting mode for the vehicle letting the rider exit or a boarding mode for the vehicle letting the rider board on the basis of the schedule information acquired by the schedule information acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200282978
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to automatically perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, a communicator configured to communicate with a terminal device, and a notificator configured to notify the terminal device of information according to a parking environment recognized by the recognizer using the communicator when the driving controller causes the vehicle to travel and stop at a vehicle stop position after the occupant has got off the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200282976
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller configured to control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of a vicinity situation recognized by a vicinity situation recognizer, a first determiner configured to determine whether the vehicle may enter a specific parking facility in which vehicles autonomously park, a second determiner configured to determine whether the vehicle is a vehicle that can enter the specific parking facility, and an information provider configured to notify an occupant of the vehicle that entrance to the specific parking facility is inappropriate before the vehicle enters the specific parking facility when it is determined that the vehicle may enter the specific parking facility and it is determined that the vehicle is a vehicle that cannot enter the specific parking facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200285044
    Abstract: A display device that is mounted in a vehicle includes a light projection device configured to emit projection light, an adjuster configured to adjust a direction of the projection light emitted by the light projection device, and a control device configured to control the light projection device and the adjuster. The control device is configured to control the adjuster to change the direction of the projection light according to whether the vehicle travels by autonomous parking control or whether the vehicle travels without using the autonomous parking control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200282977
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to perform driving control including at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a result of recognition from the recognizer; and an information acquirer configured to acquire surrounding environment information of the surrounding environment of the vehicle in a predetermined space on the basis of the result of recognition from the recognizer in a period after the vehicle enters the predetermined space and before the vehicle exits the predetermined space under the driving control of the driving controller, and to upload the acquired surrounding environment information to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200283020
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control on at least one of steering and a speed of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, an environment controller configured to control an operation of a predetermined device for providing a comfortable environment of the vehicle and limit an operation state of the predetermined device at a timing when a user gets out of the vehicle, and a reproducer configured to reproduce the operation state of the predetermined device at a timing when the user gets into the vehicle when the driving controller performs driving control for moving the vehicle from a parking area and picking up the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200283022
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a vehicle control system including a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control based on one or both of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, an acquirer configured to acquire the remaining amount of energy of a terminal device of an occupant of the vehicle or the remaining amount of energy of the vehicle, and a notification controller configured to provide a notification to the occupant when traveling based on the driving control is predicted to be started by the driving controller and when the remaining amount of energy acquired by the acquirer is less than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200285245
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle and includes an information provider configured to transmit information on a route from a parking position to a boarding position of the vehicle to a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200276982
    Abstract: A vehicle control system of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a peripheral environment of a vehicle, a driving controller that performs driving control based on speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, an acquirer that acquires a remaining energy amount of a terminal device, and a notifier that performs a notification for prompting an increase of the remaining energy amount when the remaining energy amount acquired by the acquirer while an occupant is aboard the vehicle is less than a first threshold in a case where an instruction to cause a vehicle to enter a parking area in which the vehicle is able to be parked by traveling based on the driving control or an instruction to cause the vehicle to exit the parking area is performed by the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200276987
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle; and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle automatically on the basis of a recognition result obtained by the recognizer. When the vehicle is moved to a boarding position at which an occupant boards the vehicle and is stopped, the driving controller stops the vehicle on the basis of at least one of weather information at the boarding position, a state of the occupant recognized by the recognizer, and an environment of the boarding position recognized by the recognizer and determines a stopping position of the vehicle according to the environment of the boarding position or the state of the occupant when the weather information is a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200269748
    Abstract: A vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle includes: a first recognizer configured to recognize a person near the vehicle; a first determiner configured to determine whether the person recognized by the first recognizer is a pre-registered user; and a controller configured to control a lighting device to project a projection image to a position for which a stop position of the vehicle is a criterion in a case where the first determiner determines that the person recognized by the first recognizer is the pre-registered user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Katsuyasu Yamane, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200269834
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a detector configured to detect a specific operation performed on a vehicle from an outside of the vehicle, a vicinity situation recognizer configured to recognize a vicinity situation of the vehicle, and a driving controller configured to control steering, and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of a vicinity situation recognized, wherein, when the specific operation is detected by the detector before the vehicle arrives at a boarding area in automated exit processing, the driving controller is configured to bring the vehicle into a stopped state, the boarding area being area in which a user of the vehicle is allowed to get on the vehicle, the automated exit processing being process in which the vehicle is caused to exit from a parking lot and allowing the user to get on the vehicle in the boarding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200269749
    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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20200269835
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a vehicle control device including a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control based on speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result, and an acquirer configured to acquire the remaining amount of energy of the vehicle, wherein the driving controller causes the vehicle to move from a first parking area to a second parking area where parking is possible according to traveling based on the driving control and traveling based on manual driving in a state in which the vehicle is parked or has been parked in the first parking area where the vehicle is parked according to the traveling based on the driving control and when the remaining amount of energy acquired is less than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada