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).

  • Patent number: 10930150
    Abstract: When an automatic parking registration method is selected, a vehicle control ECU performs a pre-registration automatic parking control and stores a position determined based on a position of a vehicle at a time point at which the vehicle is set to a stop state by the pre-registration automatic parking control as a registered parking position in a non-volatile memory. When an execution condition of a post-registration automatic parking control is satisfied, the vehicle control ECU performs the post-registration automatic parking control after setting a target parking position to registered parking position which has been stored in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yu Hiei, Yuusuke Nomura
  • Publication number: 20210006713
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro IINO, Michihiro TAKADA, Mayuko MAEDA, Toshihiro TAKAGI, Yasutaka MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20200242936
    Abstract: When an automatic parking registration method is selected, a vehicle control ECU performs a pre-registration automatic parking control and stores a position determined based on a position of a vehicle at a time point at which the vehicle is set to a stop state by the pre-registration automatic parking control as a registered parking position in a non-volatile memory. When an execution condition of a post-registration automatic parking control is satisfied, the vehicle control ECU performs the post-registration automatic parking control after setting a target parking position to registered parking position which has been stored in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yu Hiei, Yuusuke Nomura
  • Publication number: 20190344828
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus executes parking assist control for moving a vehicle along a determined target path to a target region. The parking assist apparatus displays on a display device an image of the vehicle and a vicinity of the vehicle as viewed from a position separated from the vehicle in a direction different from a direction directly above the vehicle at a point in time at which the vehicle is determined to have reached the target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miyuki OMORI, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai
  • Patent number: 10144418
    Abstract: A disclosed control apparatus used for a host vehicle includes a radar apparatus, a control execution part configured to perform a predetermined control to reduce a probability of a collision between the object and the host vehicle based on information about the object from the radar apparatus; and a prevention part configured to prevent the predetermined control related to a first object when the radar apparatus simultaneously detects the first object and a second object at different distances and a difference between a lateral position of the first object and the lateral position of the second object is smaller than a predetermined value, the first object being closer to the host vehicle than the second object, the lateral position being determined in a lateral direction with respect to a traveling direction of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yuma Hoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9783195
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a controller configured to (i) calculate, based on a distance and a relative speed between a host vehicle and a forward obstacle, a collision prediction time of a collision between the forward obstacle and the host vehicle; (ii) execute a predetermined control when the collision prediction time is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the predetermined control reducing a probability of the collision between the forward obstacle and the host vehicle, and (iii) decrease the predetermined threshold, when an accelerator pedal releasing operation is performed under a situation where the forward obstacle exists, depending on a first distance between the host vehicle and the forward obstacle at a time at which the accelerator pedal releasing operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikuta, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Sho Komai, Yuma Hoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20160339909
    Abstract: A disclosed control apparatus used for a host vehicle includes a radar apparatus, a control execution part configured to perform a predetermined control to reduce a probability of a collision between the object and the host vehicle based on information about the object from the radar apparatus; and a prevention part configured to prevent the predetermined control related to a first object when the radar apparatus simultaneously detects the first object and a second object at different distances and a difference between a lateral position of the first object and the lateral position of the second object is smaller than a predetermined value, the first object being closer to the host vehicle than the second object, the lateral position being determined in a lateral direction with respect to a traveling direction of the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Yuma HOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160221574
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a controller configured to (i) calculate, based on a distance and a relative speed between a host vehicle and a forward obstacle, a collision prediction time of a collision between the forward obstacle and the host vehicle; (ii) execute a predetermined control when the collision prediction time is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the predetermined control reducing a probability of the collision between the forward obstacle and the host vehicle, and (iii) decrease the predetermined threshold, when an accelerator pedal releasing operation is performed under a situation where the forward obstacle exists, depending on a first distance between the host vehicle and the forward obstacle at a time at which the accelerator pedal releasing operation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya IKUTA, Yasutaka MATSUNAGA, Sho KOMAI, Yuma HOSHIKAWA