Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Kusayanagi
Yoshinori Kusayanagi 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: 11893890Abstract: Included are an identification data input unit (11) to which identification data for identifying an occupant of a vehicle is input, a preference data storage unit (12) configured to store preference data regarding a preference of the occupant in association with the identification data, an object acquisition unit (13) configured to acquire object data of objects existing around an occupant on board the vehicle, a determination unit (15) configured to determine whether or not an object included in the object data is visually or audibly recognizable by the occupant on board the vehicle, and a notification data generator (16) configured to generate notification data for the occupant on board the vehicle based on the preference data of the occupant and the object for which the determination unit determines that it is recognizable by the occupant. The preference data of the occupant is stored in the preference data storage unit and associated with the identification data.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi
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Patent number: 11841980Abstract: An information output device includes: an event detection unit that detects an event occurring inside or outside a vehicle; a member identification unit that identifies a person or persons who can perceive the event as a first member; an event storage unit that stores event data related to the detected event in association with the first members; and a data output unit that automatically outputs the event data stored in the event storage unit. The member identification unit identifies a person or persons who can view the event data outputted from the data output unit as a second member. The information output device further comprises an output control unit that determines whether the second members include persons other than the first members, and that prohibits the data output unit from automatically outputting the event data upon determining the second members include persons other than the first members.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi
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Publication number: 20230267233Abstract: An information output device includes: an event detection unit that detects an event occurring inside or outside a vehicle; a member identification unit that identifies a person or persons who can perceive the event as a first member; an event storage unit that stores event data related to the detected event in association with the first members; and a data output unit that automatically outputs the event data stored in the event storage unit. The member identification unit identifies a person or persons who can view the event data outputted from the data output unit as a second member. The information output device further comprises an output control unit that determines whether the second members include persons other than the first members, and that prohibits the data output unit from automatically outputting the event data upon determining the second members include persons other than the first members.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Yoshinori KUSAYANAGI, Takura YANAGI
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Publication number: 20230050142Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller, a ride detection device configured to detect a ride of a user, a storage device configured to store action data of the user, an output device configured to output question data for requesting an answer from the user, and an input device configured to receive an input from the user. The controller outputs, from the output device, output data including at least a question regarding an action of the user taken before riding in a vehicle in accordance with positional information of the vehicle when detecting the ride of the user based on a signal acquired from the ride detection device, acquires an answer to the question from the user as input data via the input device, and associates the input data with the positional information of the vehicle or a POI to store the associated data in a storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi
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Patent number: 11551485Abstract: An information output device is provided, which includes a request acquisition unit that acquires a maintenance request for a vehicle; a user information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding each of a plurality of users; a message generator that generates a message associated with the maintenance request acquired by the request acquisition unit; and a message output unit that outputs the message generated by the message generator. The user information acquisition unit acquires maintenance records of the vehicle that are records of maintenance executed for the vehicle by the plurality of users. The message generator selects a presentation destination user to be presented with the message and generates the message based on a maintenance record of the presentation destination user among the maintenance records of the vehicle. The maintenance record of the presentation destination user is a record of the maintenance executed by the presentation destination user.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi
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Publication number: 20220343765Abstract: Included are an identification data input unit (11) to which identification data for identifying an occupant of a vehicle is input, a preference data storage unit (12) configured to store preference data regarding a preference of the occupant in association with the identification data, an object acquisition unit (13) configured to acquire object data of objects existing around an occupant on board the vehicle, a determination unit (15) configured to determine whether or not an object included in the object data is visually or audibly recognizable by the occupant on board the vehicle, and a notification data generator (16) configured to generate notification data for the occupant on board the vehicle based on the preference data of the occupant and the object for which the determination unit determines that it is recognizable by the occupant. The preference data of the occupant is stored in the preference data storage unit and associated with the identification data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Nissan Moto Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi
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Patent number: 11479149Abstract: An occupant posture control method is provided that can suppress motion sickness. The occupant posture control method predicts a vehicle motion based on information relating to the vehicle motion, and imparts a stimulus that generates a muscle tension such that the occupant assumes a posture corresponding to the vehicle motion, when a predicted vehicle motion occurs.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Tomohiro Yamamura, Mitsuhiro Makita
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Publication number: 20220319241Abstract: An information output device is provided, which includes a request acquisition unit that acquires a maintenance request for a vehicle; a user information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding each of a plurality of users; a message generator that generates a message associated with the maintenance request acquired by the request acquisition unit; and a message output unit that outputs the message generated by the message generator. The user information acquisition unit acquires maintenance records of the vehicle that are records of maintenance executed for the vehicle by the plurality of users. The message generator selects a presentation destination user to be presented with the message and generates the message based on a maintenance record of the presentation destination user among the maintenance records of the vehicle. The maintenance record of the presentation destination user is a record of the maintenance executed by the presentation destination user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi
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Patent number: 11338824Abstract: A surrounding situation display method of detecting a surrounding situation around a host vehicle with an autonomous driving function and displaying the detected surrounding situation, includes displaying, in a varying display bar that has a prescribed display frame and displays an indication position within the display frame in synchronization with movement of an attention target, the indication position having moved to one endpoint of the varying display bar as a timing when an action of the host vehicle is changed by the autonomous driving function.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Takura Yanagi
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Publication number: 20220016998Abstract: An occupant posture control method is provided that can suppress motion sickness. The occupant posture control method predicts a vehicle motion based on information relating to the vehicle motion, and imparts a stimulus that generates a muscle tension such that the occupant assumes a posture corresponding to the vehicle motion, when a predicted vehicle motion occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Yoshinori KUSAYANAGI, Tomohiro YAMAMURA, Mitsuhiro MAKITA
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Patent number: 10981495Abstract: A display control device includes: a turn signal installed in a vehicle; indicators for displaying a lighting state of the turn signal to an occupant of the vehicle; and a controller for controlling the lighting state of the turn signal and a lighting state of the indicators. The controller makes timing of starting to turn on the turn signal and timing of starting to turn on the indicators different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Takura Yanagi, Jeanphilippe Alexander, Tarek Saad
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Patent number: 10864856Abstract: A mobile body surroundings display method is performed by a mobile body surroundings display apparatus that includes an image capturing element that acquires surroundings information on a mobile body by image capturing, a controller that creates a captured image using the surroundings information and a virtual image representing a situation around the mobile body, and a display that displays the virtual image. The method detects an attention-required range around the mobile body, creates a captured image of the attention-required range, and displays the captured image of the attention-required range on the display.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Norimasa Kishi
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Publication number: 20200353948Abstract: A surrounding situation display method of detecting a surrounding situation around a host vehicle with an autonomous driving function and displaying the detected surrounding situation, includes displaying, in a varying display bar that has a prescribed display frame and displays an indication position within the display frame in synchronization with movement of an attention target, the indication position having moved to one endpoint of the varying display bar as a timing when an action of the host vehicle is changed by the autonomous driving function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Takura Yanagi
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Publication number: 20200269747Abstract: A display control device includes: a turn signal installed in a vehicle; indicators for displaying a lighting state of the turn signal to an occupant of the vehicle; and a controller for controlling the lighting state of the turn signal and a lighting state of the indicators. The controller makes timing of starting to turn on the turn signal and timing of starting to turn on the indicators different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Takura Yanagi, Jeanphilippe Alexander, Tarek Saad
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Publication number: 20190337455Abstract: A mobile body surroundings display method is performed by a mobile body surroundings display apparatus that includes an image capturing element that acquires surroundings information on a mobile body by image capturing, a controller that creates a captured image using the surroundings information and a virtual image representing a situation around the mobile body, and a display that displays the virtual image. The method detects an attention-required range around the mobile body, creates a captured image of the attention-required range, and displays the captured image of the attention-required range on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Takura Yanagi, Seigo Watanabe, Norimasa Kishi
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Patent number: 10457327Abstract: A method of assisting a driver of a vehicle includes obtaining a feature of a road to be traveled by the vehicle with a sensor and/or a GPS system. A parameter is selected to assist a driver of the vehicle in driving a segment of the road based on the feature of the road. The parameter includes information on the location of a boundary along the road and a preferred trajectory to be driven along the road. A controller determines whether a current trajectory of the vehicle while travelling the road is deviating from the preferred trajectory of the vehicle along the road. A feedback operation is provided to assist the driver in guiding the vehicle nearer to the preferred trajectory based on the selected parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: Nissan North America, Inc., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiro Takamatsu, Yuji Takada, Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Norimasa Kishi
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Patent number: 10311618Abstract: A display assistance device detects the steering angle of a vehicle by using a steering angle sensor, and changes the position of a virtual viewpoint behind the host vehicle based on the detected steering angle. Then, the display assistance device converts images captured using a plurality of cameras such as a front camera and a rear camera into an overhead image of a downward view from the virtual viewpoint, and displays the converted overhead image on a display with a host vehicle icon superimposed on the overhead image, the host vehicle icon indicating the position of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Norimasa Kishi
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Patent number: 10272946Abstract: A method of assisting a driver of a vehicle, the method includes obtaining a location of a road boundary relative to the vehicle using a sensor, selecting, via a controller, a parameter to assist a driver of the vehicle when approaching the location of the road boundary based on a condition, determining, via the controller, based on the location of the road boundary whether the vehicle will be a predetermined distance from the road boundary, and providing a feedback operation to assist the driver in avoiding the road boundary based on the selected parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: Nissan North America, Inc., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiro Takamatsu, Yuji Takada, Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Norimasa Kishi
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Patent number: 10118642Abstract: A method of assisting a driver of a vehicle in driving a road, the method includes determining a location of a road boundary along a segment of a road relative to the vehicle using a sensor, selecting, via a controller, a parameter for the segment of the road, the parameter including a plurality of values corresponding to a plurality of boundary locations along the segment of the road, determining, via the controller, whether the vehicle is approaching the road boundary based on a vehicle trajectory and the location of the plurality of boundary locations, and providing a feedback operation to assist the driver in avoiding the road boundary, the feedback operation based on the selected parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignees: Nissan North America, Inc., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiro Takamatsu, Yuji Takada, Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Norimasa Kishi
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Publication number: 20180286095Abstract: A display assistance device detects the steering angle of a vehicle by using a steering angle sensor, and changes the position of a virtual viewpoint behind the host vehicle based on the detected steering angle. Then, the display assistance device converts images captured using a plurality of cameras such as a front camera and a rear camera into an overhead image of a downward view from the virtual viewpoint, and displays the converted overhead image on a display with a host vehicle icon superimposed on the overhead image, the host vehicle icon indicating the position of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Kusayanagi, Norimasa Kishi