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).

  • Patent number: 11377124
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize at least a surroundings situation and an in-vehicle situation of a vehicle, and a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, the recognizer is configured to recognize an object to be loaded including at least any one of an occupant candidate present outside the vehicle and scheduled to board the vehicle and a baggage candidate present outside the vehicle and scheduled to be loaded into the vehicle, and to recognize that the object to be loaded has been loaded into the vehicle, and the driving controller is configured to permit start of travel of the vehicle in a case where the recognizer has recognized that all of the objects to be loaded have been loaded into the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Katsuyasu Yamane, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11370457
    Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a controller configured to control a window portion of the vehicle, and the controller controls opening and closing of the window portion on the basis of a result of the recognizing has recognized a gesture which is performed by a user of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11364930
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a display and a display controller configured to cause the display to display an image related to a state of a vehicle and perform control for switching display details to be displayed on the display when a predetermined event has occurred in the vehicle before driving assistance of the vehicle is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kubota, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Yoshitaka Mimura, Masayuki Takahashi, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 11358607
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a steering wheel including an annular rim portion and a spoke portion that extends inward from the rim portion, an indicator that is disposed on the spoke portion and is able to be lit, and a controller that controls a lighting state of the indicator according to a state of driving assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Shimada
  • Patent number: 11338821
    Abstract: A display system includes a display that displays a first image simulating a road on which a host vehicle is traveling, and a display controller that causes the display to display a second image simulating a recommended lane given to a controller that performs driving control of the host vehicle at a position associated with the first image, and to display a third image simulating a target trajectory generated by the controller that performs driving control of the host vehicle at a position associated with the first image, wherein the display controller changes the third image to an image simulating the target trajectory for lane change without changing a display position of the second image when the controller executes driving control for causing the host vehicle to return to an original lane after causing the host vehicle to perform lane change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Kenji Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Watanabe, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11302194
    Abstract: A management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a plurality of requests for automated exit processing, a classifier configured to classify the requests into first requests of first users who are permitted to use a specific parking space and second requests of second users who are not permitted to use the specific parking space, and an instructor configured to cause vehicles associated with terminal devices which are transmission sources of the first requests to perform automated exit processing such that automated exit processing according to the first requests is continuously executed, or to cause vehicles associated with terminal devices which are transmission sources of the second requests to perform automated exit processing such that automated exit processing according to the second requests is continuously executed, on the basis of a result of the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11292415
    Abstract: An airbag device includes: an airbag body that is configured to deploy toward a front side of a driver; and a control unit that is configured to deploy the airbag body using a first deployment method when a central axis of a rim portion of a steering member of a vehicle is in a first state and a deployment condition is satisfied and deploy the airbag body using a second deployment method in a second state when an inclination angle of the central axis in relation to the central axis in the first state exceeds a threshold and the deployment condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Hironori Takano, Junichi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11267397
    Abstract: In an autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus, based on outside information, an identification unit searches for a person present around a host vehicle and identifies whether the person extracted by the search matches a user of the host vehicle. When a result of the identification by the identification unit indicates that the person extracted by the search matches the user of the host vehicle, the information presentation unit presents information by using a preset presenting state to a specific person, as a presentation target, identified to match the user of the host vehicle by the identification unit with an exterior display apparatus provided at a front portion of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Oshima, Yuji Tsuchiya, Yuki Kizumi
  • Patent number: 11267484
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automated driving control unit that automatically controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, the automated driving control unit performing automated driving control in any one of a plurality of modes with different degrees of automated driving, and an interface control unit that receives an operation of an occupant of the subject vehicle and restricts an operation with respect to an interface device on which predetermined information is output, according to the mode of automated driving performed by the automated driving control unit, and when the change to the mode of the automated driving in which the degree of automated driving decreases is performed in a state in which the restriction is relaxed or released, the interface control unit causes a state of the interface device to return to a state before the restriction is relaxed or released or performs a predetermined notification before a predetermined time at which the change
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20220063675
    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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yuki KIZUMI, Takashi OSHIMA, Yuji TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220066444
    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: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yuji TSUCHIYA, Takashi OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220063486
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation device includes an identification unit that searches for a person existing around the own vehicle, identifies whether the person extracted by the search coincides with a user of the own vehicle, and determines whether the person extracted by the search is an owner of the own vehicle, and an information presentation unit that performs information presentation to the person through using an external display device. In a case where it is identified that the person extracted by the search coincides with the user of the own vehicle and it is determined that the person extracted by the search is the owner of the own vehicle, the information presentation unit presents information unique to the owner in a preset presentation mode with the owner serving as a presentation target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIMURA, Takashi OSHIMA, Yuji TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20220063487
    Abstract: A rear window that is provided with a vehicle display device for displaying information toward the outside of the vehicle, includes a rear display portion on which the information is projected, in which in which at least a part of an outer surface of the rear display portion has hydrophilicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yuji TSUCHIYA, Takashi OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220044337
    Abstract: A management device that is configured to manage a robot device, the management device comprising: a memory configured to store instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire identification information for identifying the user and time information on a time at which a vehicle having a user therein is scheduled to arrive at an arrival point, wherein the arrival point is point at which the vehicle is scheduled to arrive and the user is scheduled to exit; and provide the robot device with instruction information including the identification information for causing the robot device to guide the user from the arrival point to a destination of the user on the basis of the acquired time information and the acquired identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Naokatsu Sato, Yoshitaka Mimura, Koji Kawabe, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11235782
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving in which at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a vehicle is automatically controlled; and a mode setter configured to set a mode of the automated driving which is executed by the automated driving controller and to set the mode of automated driving to an exchangeable mode in which an occupant who sits in a driver seat is able to be exchanged when the automated driving is executed in a mode in which an occupant needs to sit in the driver seat of the vehicle and predetermined conditions have been satisfied. Accordingly, it is possible to enable smooth exchange of an occupant during automated driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Hironori Takano, Junichi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11203360
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system including a driving assistance controller configured to execute driving assistance of a vehicle at a plurality of different degrees, an information output configured to output information, and an output controller configured to control the information output so that information indicating a target to be monitored or operated by an occupant required for the occupant is output on the basis of a change in a degree of driving assistance of the driving assistance controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Tatsuya Iwasa, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Naohiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11198439
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a display; a recognizer; a driving controller that generates a target trajectory of a subject vehicle on the basis of states of objects recognized and controls one or both of a speed and steering of the subject vehicle on the basis of the generated target trajectory; and a display controller that causes to display images resembling the other vehicles recognized as the objects, wherein the display controller causes to display a first image resembling a first vehicle having an influence on a behavior of the subject vehicle according to the driving controller and a second image resembling a second vehicle having an influence on generation of the target trajectory among the other vehicles recognized as the objects with more emphasis than a third image resembling a third vehicle other than the first vehicle and the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Mimura
  • Patent number: 11192485
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an object placement portion in which an object can be placed, an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration or deceleration and steering of a vehicle, and an object placement controller configured to change the object placement portion from a first mode to a second mode in which the object placement portion is more easily used by an occupant of the vehicle than in the first mode in accordance with a control state of automated driving executed by the automated driving controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura
  • Patent number: 11186297
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automated driving control unit that executes automated driving for autonomously controlling at least one of steering or acceleration and deceleration of a vehicle, an occupant state determination unit that determines a state of an occupant of the vehicle, and a learning unit that learns automated driving control executed by the automated driving control unit so that the state of the occupant determined by the occupant state determination unit approaches a predetermined state on the basis of a combination of a behavior of the vehicle occurring with the automated driving control or a notification to the vehicle occupant of information relating to the automated driving control and the state of the occupant determined by the occupant state determination unit after the behavior of the vehicle or the information notification to the vehicle occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Mimura
  • Patent number: 11175658
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automatic driving control unit executing a first driving mode in which at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle is automatically controlled and an environment control unit controlling an environment device of the subject vehicle such that an environment of the inside of a vehicle cabin is in a state appropriate for a second driving mode in a case in which the automatic driving control unit ends execution of the first driving mode and transitions to a second driving mode of which a degree of automatic driving is lower than that of the first driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Okimoto, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri