Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Mimura

Yoshitaka Mimura 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: 20250111773
    Abstract: An action probability estimation device includes a risk calculation unit that calculates a risk index value as a numerical value representing a degree of magnitude of a collision risk between a traffic participant around a target vehicle and the target vehicle; and a probability estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of the risk index value and a driver characteristic as a characteristic of a driver of the target vehicle, an action probability that the driver executes a predetermined steering action, which is determined in advance, in the target vehicle, in which the driver characteristic includes a confidence level as a numerical value representing a degree of a level of confidence of the driver regarding his/her driving skill, and a situational daring level as a numerical value indicating a degree of magnitude of a tendency of the driver to carry out an action while knowing that it is dangerous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Mimura
  • Publication number: 20240412637
    Abstract: This traffic safety support system comprises: a target traffic area recognition unit for acquiring recognition information concerning each of traffic participants; a driving subject information acquisition unit for acquiring driving subject state information correlated to the driving ability of a driving subject of a movement body recognized as a traffic participant; a prediction unit for predicting the future of a plurality of the traffic participants on the basis of the recognition information and the driving subject state information; and a cooperative support information notification unit for making notification of cooperative support information according to a prediction result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Akihito KIMATA, Masaki OKUMOTO, Naotoshi FUJIMOTO, Hideo KADOWAKI, Takahiro KUREHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240331538
    Abstract: A traffic safety assistance system includes an acquiring device configured to acquire information about a plurality of traffic participants, a server device configured to estimate prospective behavior of the plurality of traffic participants, and a notifying device configured to give notifications to the plurality of traffic participants. The plurality of traffic participants includes a first traffic participant and a second traffic participant. The server device is configured to transmit an appearance image of the second traffic participant to the first traffic participant. The notifying device includes a display device configured to display a surrounding area image showing a surrounding area of the first traffic participant, and display the appearance image of the second traffic participant, which is transmitted from the server device to the first traffic participant, at a position corresponding to the second traffic participant in the surrounding area image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MIMURA
  • Patent number: 12090913
    Abstract: An information presentation device for an autonomous vehicle that automatically moves to a predetermined position where a user can get into an own vehicle in response to a request from the user includes an identification unit and an information presentation unit. The identification unit searches for a person present around the own vehicle based on external environment information including a target present around the own vehicle, and identifies whether a person extracted by the search coincides with the user of the own vehicle. When the identification indicating, as an identification result of the identification unit, that the person extracted by the search coincides with the user of the own vehicle is performed, the information presentation unit performs presentation of information to be presented to the user, and changes a presentation mode of information to be presented to the user according to a distance from the own vehicle to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yuji Tsuchiya, Takashi Oshima
  • Patent number: 11981255
    Abstract: A vehicle control device configured to control a self-vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising: a first detection unit configured to detect a direction change of an oncoming vehicle; a second detection unit configured to detect another vehicle on a diagonally rear side of the self-vehicle; and a control unit configured to control a notification unit on the basis of detection results of the first detection unit and the second detection unit, wherein the control unit controls the notification unit to notify the other vehicle of the direction change of the oncoming vehicle in a case where the direction change of the oncoming vehicle has been detected and the other vehicle has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Tsuyoshi Nojiri
  • Patent number: 11897499
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation device includes a traffic congestion information acquisition unit that acquires information on traffic congestion ahead in a traveling direction of an own vehicle, a traveling lane identification unit that identifies a lane where the own vehicle is currently located, a stop position prediction unit that acquires a traveling state of a preceding vehicle based on an external environment information and the traffic congestion information, and to predict a stop position related to the preceding vehicle based on the acquired traveling state, an action plan generation unit that generates an action plan of the own vehicle based on the stop position and the currently located lane, and an information presentation unit that presents information including the generated action plan through using an external display device provided at a rear portion of a vehicle interior of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Oshima, Yuji Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11820282
    Abstract: The present invention provides a notification apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle and notifies surroundings of the vehicle that the vehicle is starting, the notification apparatus comprising: a detector configured to detect a driver's intention to start the vehicle; and a lighting controller configured to cause, when the detector detects the driver's intention to start the vehicle, a lighting device in the vehicle to light in a predetermined lighting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Morimichi Nishigaki, Shunsuke Iwao
  • Publication number: 20230351895
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body will not obey a signal displayed by a traffic light. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a four-wheeled automobile acts as an oncoming mobile body and at least one of the four-wheeled automobile or a motorcycle is approaching a traffic light, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the four-wheeled automobile is present within an analogue notification actuation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hideo KADOWAKI, Akihito KIMATA, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Masaki OKUMOTO, Takahiro KUREHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230326344
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which a mobile body has merged onto a road on which a mobile vehicle as a host vehicle is traveling and is approaching the host vehicle. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle acts as an oncoming vehicle and a first travel path of a four-wheeled automobile and a second travel path of the motorcycle join, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within an analogue notification actuation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hideo KADOWAKI, Masaki OKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230326345
    Abstract: A traffic safety support system 1 includes mobile terminals that move with traffic participants in a target traffic area, and a coordination support device 6 capable of communicating with the mobile terminals. Each of the mobile terminals includes a notification device configured to make a risk notification in a hinting notification mode or in an analogue notification mode. The coordination support device includes a target area recognizer 60 configured to recognize recognition targets including the traffic participants and traffic environments and acquire recognition information, a predictor 62 configured to predict a risk in future of prediction targets that are a plurality of traffic participants in a monitoring area that is part of the target traffic area, and a risk notification specifier 64 configured to set an operation manner of risk notification for each of support targets on the basis of the recognition information and a prediction result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Masaki OKUMOTO, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Hideo KADOWAKI
  • Publication number: 20230316923
    Abstract: A traffic safety support system 1 includes a recognizer configured to recognize traffic participants present near a mobile body 94 that is a support target, a notification device configured to make a risk notification to a driver of the support target, and a risk notification specifier configured to set an operation manner of the risk notification. In a case where the support target is traveling on the road and a first pedestrian 95 is present ahead of the support target, the risk notification specifier calculates a risk value of the first pedestrian 95 and the support target on the road 90 on the basis of the recognition information, and in a case where the risk value exceeds a threshold, sets ON of the risk notification. The risk notification specifier calculates the risk value on the basis of the number of pedestrians present in the vicinity of the first pedestrian 95.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi OSHIMA, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Shinsuke ODAI, Takahiro KUREHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230311922
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body will approach a host vehicle from the front or the rear. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle is present outside an analogue notification actuation range and acts as an oncoming mobile body or acts as a following mobile body, and the risk notification setting unit sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within the analogue notification actuation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Hideo KADOWAKI, Takahiro KUREHASHI, Masaki OKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230311927
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body other than a host vehicle is shielded by a nearby vehicle present near the mobile body. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle acts as an oncoming mobile body, and where a four-wheeled automobile is present near the motorcycle and is approaching a four-wheeled automobile from the front in the traveling direction of the four-wheeled automobile, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within an analogue notification range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hideo KADOWAKI, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Masaki OKUMOTO, Akihito KIMATA, Takahiro KUREHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230316898
    Abstract: A traffic safety support system includes a target traffic area recognizer configured to acquire recognition information regarding traffic participants, and the like, in a target traffic area, a predictor 62 configured to predict a risk in the target traffic area on the basis of the recognition information, and a coordination support information notifier 65 configured to transmit coordination support information to support targets. The predictor 62 includes an area risk predictor 620 configured to extract a high risk area from a plurality of local areas obtained by subdividing the target traffic area on the basis of information obtained by performing statistical processing on the recognition information, and a traffic participant risk predictor 625 configured to predict a risk in future of traffic participants in the high risk area on the basis of information related to the high risk area among the recognition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Akihito KIMATA, Hirokazu TOKUSHIMA, Shigeru INOUE, Yuji TAKAGI, Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yoji SASABUCHI
  • Patent number: 11565713
    Abstract: There are provided an outputter provided in a vehicle and configured to output information, a controller configured to execute driving support for the vehicle, and an output controller configured to provide a notification for requesting an occupant of the vehicle to perform a predetermined action when the driving support is being executed by the controller, cause a form of the notification to be changed so that the notification is emphasized in accordance with a passage of time from a start of the notification, and cause the outputter to output the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Tatsuya Iwasa, Fue Kubota, Naohiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11541906
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11505178
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a communicator configured to communicate with a parking lot management device having a function of guiding a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control including at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle, and an abnormality determiner configured to determine the presence or absence of an abnormality in the parking lot management device. The driving controller is configured to perform the driving control based on guidance of the parking lot management device on the basis of information received by the communicator from the parking lot management device and to restrict the driving control based on the guidance of the parking lot management device in a case where the abnormality determiner determines that the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yoshitaka Mimura, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11485280
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Katsuyasu Yamane, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11475690
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize first content displayed on a terminal device, and an identifier configured to identify a person carrying the terminal device with the first content displayed thereon outside the vehicle as a user scheduled to use the vehicle or a person relevant to the user on the basis of a comparison between the first content recognized by the recognizer and one or more pieces of content associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11465645
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi