Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro MATSUGI

Yoshihiro MATSUGI 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: 11495128
    Abstract: An in-vehicle information system mounted on a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a registration unit configured to register identification information and a name of each user and a name of a group including a plurality of users; a recognition unit configured to recognize a user who is an occupant of the vehicle based on the identification information; and a control unit configured to cause an output unit to output a name corresponding to the user recognized by the recognition means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsugi, Kenji Okuma
  • Publication number: 20220312191
    Abstract: A setting apparatus includes: a CPU and a memory connected to the CPU. The memory is configured to store information regarding each of a plurality of users individually using a single space. The CPU is configured to perform: identifying a user to use the space; authenticating the user identified in the identifying; setting devices provided in the space based on the information stored in the memory. The information stored in the memory includes: first information; and second information given stricter restriction than the first information. The CPU is configured to perform: the setting including performing a predetermined setting of the devices provided in the space based on the first information of the user identified in the identifying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsugi, Kazune Furudo, Naoki Shibata, Naoki Kikuchi, Shigeki Takahashi, Yuki Matsuura, Shogo Usui, Koji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210241617
    Abstract: An in-vehicle information system mounted on a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a registration unit configured to register identification information and a name of each user and a name of a group including a plurality of users; a recognition unit configured to recognize a user who is an occupant of the vehicle based on the identification information; and a control unit configured to cause an output unit to output a name corresponding to the user recognized by the recognition means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Kenji OKUMA
  • Patent number: 10963064
    Abstract: A control device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes predetermined behavior of a user; an estimation unit that estimates a situation of the user on the basis of the predetermined behavior that is recognized by the recognition unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates certainty of an estimation result from the estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs to the control unit, an operation instruction in accordance with the certainty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Saito, Yoshihiro Matsugi, Yuki Matsuura, Seungho Choi, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Hiromi Sato
  • Publication number: 20210049250
    Abstract: An authentication device includes a display unit configured to have a display surface and have a function of detecting that a user has contacted the display surface, an imaging unit that is provided around the display surface of the display unit, a display control unit configured to control the display unit such that the display unit displays a reception image that receives an instruction to start user authentication, and an authentication device configured to execute the user authentication using an image captured by the imaging unit at a time at which a predetermined time has elapsed since a time at which it is detected by the display unit that an operation of contacting the reception image has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Matsugi
  • Patent number: 10870436
    Abstract: An operation assistance system includes: a motion recognition unit that recognizes predetermined motion of a hand of a vehicle occupant; a position recognition unit that recognizes a first relative position corresponding to a relative position of the hand of the vehicle occupant with respect to a first vehicle; a specifying unit that specifies a second on-vehicle device of a second vehicle that is operated by using an operation unit of the second vehicle provided at a second relative position that is a relative position with respect to the second vehicle and corresponds to the first relative position; and a control unit that assists an operation for a first on-vehicle device of the first vehicle, the first on-vehicle device including a function common with that of the second on-vehicle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Saito, Yoshihiro Matsugi, Yuki Matsuura, Seungho Choi, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Hiromi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200031369
    Abstract: An operation assistance system includes: a motion recognition unit that recognizes predetermined motion of a hand of a vehicle occupant; a position recognition unit that recognizes a first relative position corresponding to a relative position of the hand of the vehicle occupant with respect to a first vehicle; a specifying unit that specifies a second on-vehicle device of a second vehicle that is operated by using an operation unit of the second vehicle provided at a second relative position that is a relative position with respect to the second vehicle and corresponds to the first relative position; and a control unit that assists an operation for a first on-vehicle device of the first vehicle, the first on-vehicle device including a function common with that of the second on-vehicle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kota SAITO, Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Yuki MATSUURA, Seungho CHOI, Yoshikazu MATSUO, Hiromi SATO
  • Publication number: 20200026937
    Abstract: An information providing device can appropriately select how to provide information from the outside depending on the number of occupants in a vehicle. The information providing device includes an individual recognition function that recognizes the occupant in the vehicle, and performs individual recognition in the vehicle before the information is provided to the vehicle occupant. The vehicle includes the information providing device. In an information providing method, the individual recognition in the vehicle is performed prior to providing the occupant in the vehicle with the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Weifeng ZHANG, Hisumi ESAKI, Hiromi SATO, Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Yuki MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190384410
    Abstract: A control device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes predetermined behavior of a user; an estimation unit that estimates a situation of the user on the basis of the predetermined behavior that is recognized by the recognition unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates certainty of an estimation result from the estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs to the control unit, an operation instruction in accordance with the certainty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Kota SAITO, Yoshihiro MATSUGI, Yuki MATSUURA, Seungho CHOI, Yoshikazu MATSUO, Hiromi SATO