Patents by Inventor Yasutaka MATSUNAGA
Yasutaka MATSUNAGA 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).
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Patent number: 11760374Abstract: A vehicle alert apparatus acquires an object distance between an object and a vehicle, presumes a predicted moving route of the vehicle when the object distance is shorter than or equal to a threshold object distance. The vehicle alert apparatus calculates a collision distance which the vehicle has moves along the predicted moving route until the vehicle collides with the object or the vehicle has moved to a position closest to the object when determining that the vehicle potentially collides with the object, based on the predicted moving route. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a first alert when the collision distance is larger than a threshold collision distance. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a second alert having a higher alert level of alerting the driver than the alert level of the first alert when the collision distance is shorter than or equal to the threshold collision distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Takagi, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Masumi Fukuman
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Patent number: 11685312Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Takuya Nakagawa, Yuki Minase
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Patent number: 11643070Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Chenyang Wang, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda
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Patent number: 11613273Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Yuusuke Nomura, Ryou Izumi, Mayuko Maeda
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Patent number: 11440538Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus registers information on a parking lot as parking lot information and executes a parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparats allows a user of a vehicle to request a deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control without using the parking lot information and prevents the user of the vehicle from requesting the deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus deletes the parking lot information when the deletion of the parking lot information is requested.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yuusuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20220274620Abstract: A vehicle alert apparatus acquires an object distance between an object and a vehicle, presumes a predicted moving route of the vehicle when the object distance is shorter than or equal to a threshold object distance. The vehicle alert apparatus calculates a collision distance which the vehicle has moves along the predicted moving route until the vehicle collides with the object or the vehicle has moved to a position closest to the object when determining that the vehicle potentially collides with the object, based on the predicted moving route. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a first alert when the collision distance is larger than a threshold collision distance. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a second alert having a higher alert level of alerting the driver than the alert level of the first alert when the collision distance is shorter than or equal to the threshold collision distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Takagi, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Masumi Fukuman
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Patent number: 11358610Abstract: A vehicle alert apparatus acquires an object distance between an object and a vehicle, presumes a predicted moving route of the vehicle when the object distance is shorter than or equal to a threshold object distance. The vehicle alert apparatus calculates a collision distance which the vehicle has moves along the predicted moving route until the vehicle collides with the object or the vehicle has moved to a position closest to the object when determining that the vehicle potentially collides with the object, based on the predicted moving route. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a first alert when the collision distance is larger than a threshold collision distance. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a second alert having a higher alert level of alerting the driver than the alert level of the first alert when the collision distance is shorter than or equal to the threshold collision distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Takagi, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Masumi Fukuman
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Publication number: 20220111793Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: MASAHIRO IINO, MICHIHIRO TAKADA, MAYUKO MAEDA, YASUTAKA MATSUNAGA, TOSHIHIRO TAKAGI, TAKUYA NAKAGAWA, YUKI MINASE
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Patent number: 11153484Abstract: An image processing device used on a mobile body has: a determiner configured to determine one out of a plurality of combination patterns as to the presence or absence of an object in a plurality of predetermined regions around the mobile body; and a generator configured to generate a composite image by projecting onto a virtual projection surface a plurality of shot images acquired by a plurality of cameras taking images of the surroundings of the mobile body. The generator is configured to select, out of a plurality of projection surfaces prepared beforehand, the projection surface used in generating the composite image in accordance with the combination pattern determined by the determiner.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignees: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda, Toshihiro Takagi, Yasutaka Matsunaga
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Patent number: 11104355Abstract: A parking support apparatus determines whether or not a leaving condition becomes satisfied while the controller is executing the automatic parking control and the current shift range is at range other than a parking range, the leaving condition being a condition that is satisfied when the driver performs a leaving action. The parking support apparatus determines whether or not the vehicle has already reached the target parking area. The parking support apparatus generates a first alert having a first alerting capability, if the vehicle has already reached the target parking area when the leaving condition has been satisfied, and generates a second alert having a second alerting capability lower than the first alerting capability or no alerts, if the vehicle has not reached the target parking area yet when the leaving condition has been satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yuki Minase, Miyuki Omori, Toshihiro Takagi
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Patent number: 11008019Abstract: An alert apparatus of a vehicle generates an alert to a driver when an object is a target alert object that is is an object that is present in one of predetermined areas around the vehicle and that has object distance equal to or shorter than a first distance threshold. The alert apparatus sets each one or more of said predetermined areas to a high level alert area based on a current shift range, and set each of the rest of said predetermined areas to a low level alert area.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Masumi Fukuman
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Publication number: 20210107468Abstract: The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Chenyang WANG, Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Satoshi KOZAI, Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Mayuko MAEDA
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Publication number: 20210107568Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus displaces a position of a parking area, based on an operation applied to at least one displacing operation device, limits an amount of a displacement of the position of the parking area to a predetermined amount or less when the amount of the displacement of the position of the parking area is larger than the predetermined amount; and registers the displaced position of the parking area as parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires information on the parking lot and executes a parking assist control with using the currently-acquired information on the parking lot and the parking lot information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Yuusuke NOMURA
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Publication number: 20210107462Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus can register information on a first parking lot as first parking lot information and information on a second parking lot as second parking lot information. The first parking lot information includes information on a camera image of the first parking lot, and the second parking lot information includes information on the camera image of the second parking lot The vehicle parking assist apparatus executes a parking assist control to display the registered camera image of the first parking lot as a first parking lot image and the registered camera image of the second parking lot as a second parking lot image on a display when the camera images which represent the first parking lot and the second parking lot are requested to be displayed on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Yuusuke NOMURA
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Publication number: 20210107505Abstract: An alert apparatus of a vehicle generates an alert to a driver when an object is a target alert object that is is an object that is present in one of predetermined areas around the vehicle and that has object distance equal to or shorter than a first distance threshold. The alert apparatus sets each one or more of said predetermined areas to a high level alert area based on a current shift range, and set each of the rest of said predetermined areas to a low level alert area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Masumi FUKUMAN
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Publication number: 20210107461Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus registers information on a parking lot as parking lot information and executes a parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparats allows a user of a vehicle to request a deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control without using the parking lot information and prevents the user of the vehicle from requesting the deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus deletes the parking lot information when the deletion of the parking lot information is requested.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yuusuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20210107506Abstract: A vehicle alert apparatus acquires an object distance between an object and a vehicle, presumes a predicted moving route of the vehicle when the object distance is shorter than or equal to a threshold object distance. The vehicle alert apparatus calculates a collision distance which the vehicle has moves along the predicted moving route until the vehicle collides with the object or the vehicle has moved to a position closest to the object when determining that the vehicle potentially collides with the object, based on the predicted moving route. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a first alert when the collision distance is larger than a threshold collision distance. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a second alert having a higher alert level of alerting the driver than the alert level of the first alert when the collision distance is shorter than or equal to the threshold collision distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro TAKAGI, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Masumi Fukuman
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Publication number: 20210107511Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Satoshi KOZAI, Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Yuusuke NOMURA, Ryou IZUMI, Mayuko MAEDA
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Publication number: 20210107359Abstract: The driver assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When a customization button is touched while the ECU is displaying a surrounding monitoring screen that includes a surrounding image and the customization button, the ECU starts displaying a customization screen in place of the surrounding monitoring screen. When a predetermined condition is satisfied while the ECU is displaying the customization screen, the ECU starts displaying an alert screen in place of the customization screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Takagi, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Ryo Izumi
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Publication number: 20210107507Abstract: A parking support apparatus determines whether or not a leaving condition becomes satisfied while the controller is executing the automatic parking control and the current shift range is at range other than a parking range, the leaving condition being a condition that is satisfied when the driver performs a leaving action. The parking support apparatus determines whether or not the vehicle has already reached the target parking area. The parking support apparatus generates a first alert having a first alerting capability, if the vehicle has already reached the target parking area when the leaving condition has been satisfied, and generates a second alert having a second alerting capability lower than the first alerting capability or no alerts, if the vehicle has not reached the target parking area yet when the leaving condition has been satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Yuki MINASE, Miyuki OMORI, Toshihiro TAKAGI