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: 20190279507
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a prediction and derivation unit configured to predict a future action of a nearby vehicle near an own vehicle and derive an index value obtained by quantifying a possibility of the predicted future action being taken; and a display controller configured to cause a display to display an image in which an image element according to the index value obtained by quantifying the possibility of the future action being taken for each nearby vehicle and derived by the prediction and derivation unit is associated with the nearby vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Kentaro Ishisaka, Yoshitaka Mimura
  • Publication number: 20190271985
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an external-world recognition unit configured to recognize a position of a peripheral vehicle of a vehicle; a trajectory generation unit configured to generate a plurality of trajectory candidates based on the position of the peripheral vehicle recognized by the external-world recognition unit; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image indicating a trajectory along which the vehicle is able to travel and a trajectory along which the vehicle is not able to travel among the plurality of trajectory candidates generated by the trajectory generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kentaro Ishisaka, Masahiko Shimada
  • Publication number: 20190263262
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller that is configured to execute automated driving of automatedly controlling at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle; an estimator that is configured to estimate a degree of wakefulness of a vehicle occupant of the vehicle; and an output controller that is configured to cause an outputter to output a first content requiring the vehicle occupant of the vehicle engage in active behavior in a case in which the degree of wakefulness is estimated as being equal to or lower than a criterion by the estimator when the automated driving is executed by the automated driving controller, whereby the degree of wakefulness of the vehicle occupant of the vehicle can be maintained at a necessary level or higher in automated driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Masahiko Asakura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Hironori Takano
  • Patent number: 10386838
    Abstract: A vehicle control device performs driving mode switching processing from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode according to the intention of a vehicle occupant of a vehicle. A vehicle control device includes: a switching controller that is configured to switch a driving mode of a vehicle from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode based on a predetermined manipulated variable of a steering wheel; and a steering reaction force setting unit that is configured to set, according to how a vehicle occupant grips the steering wheel, a steering reaction force applied when the vehicle occupant steers the steering wheel in the automated driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naotaka Kumakiri, Kohei Okimoto, Yoshitaka Mimura
  • Publication number: 20190250001
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a searcher that searches for a route along which a vehicle is to travel to a destination, an automated driving controller that executes automated driving of causing the vehicle to automatically travel along the route found by the searcher, a receiving unit that receives an operation performed by an occupant of the vehicle, and a search controller that causes the searcher to recalculate the route on the basis of a predetermined condition when the occupant has performed an operation on the receiving unit to cause the vehicle to travel in a direction out of the route at a branch road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Yoshitaka Mimura
  • Publication number: 20190144004
    Abstract: A display system includes: a first display unit (400) that displays an image indicating a driving assist state of a vehicle which includes an automated driving state; a second display unit (400) that displays an image that resembles a road on which the vehicle travels; and a display control unit (120) that allows the second display unit to display approximately the entire region of a region corresponding to a recommended lane applied to a control unit that performs the automated driving in a predetermined color, and allows a target trajectory generated by the control unit that performs the automated driving to be displayed in a region narrower than the recommended lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kenji Sugiyama, Masayuki Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe, Masaya Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20190138002
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving control unit automatically performing at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle by executing one of a plurality of driving modes of which degrees of automated driving are different from each other; one or more detection devices used for detecting a surrounding environment of the vehicle; and a management unit managing states of the one or more detection devices and outputting a request used for causing a vehicle occupant of the vehicle to monitor a part of the surroundings of the vehicle in accordance with a change in the states of the one or more detection devices by controlling an output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190118831
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an operation reception unit configured to receive an operation of an occupant of a vehicle, an automated driving control unit configured to automatically perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle and switch from automated driving to manual driving on the basis of the operation received by the operation reception unit, an output unit configured to output information, and an interface control unit configured to cause the output unit to output information indicating a relationship between an operation amount related to the speed control or the steering control from the occupant of the vehicle received by the operation reception unit and a threshold value of an operation amount at which control for switching from the automated driving to the manual driving is implemented by the automated driving control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kohei Okimoto, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190118832
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an external environment recognition unit configured to recognize an external environment situation, an automated driving control unit configured to perform automated driving for automatically controlling at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, the automated driving control unit executing handover to switch a driving mode from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode on the basis of the external environment situation recognized by the external environment recognition unit, a handover prediction unit configured to predict a possibility of occurrence of the handover on the basis of the recognized external environment situation, an output unit configured to output information, and an interface control unit configured to control the output unit so that information for prompting the vehicle occupant to prepare for the handover is output when the handover prediction unit predicts that the possibility of occurrence of the handover is hig
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kohei Okimoto, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190113930
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a vehicle control system includes: a determination unit determining a schedule of a running locus and speed control of a subject vehicle; a running control unit automatically performing at least speed control of the subject vehicle on the basis of the schedule determined by the determination unit; and an interface control unit causing a display unit to display information representing a position or a section at which the subject vehicle accelerates or decelerates in the speed control in association with information representing the running locus on the basis of the schedule determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190086917
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automatic driving control unit configured to automatically control at least one of acceleration or deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle, an operation reception unit configured to receive an operation of a vehicle occupant of the subject vehicle, an estimation unit configured to estimate a state of the vehicle occupant, and an override control unit configured to perform an override for switching from automatic driving to manual driving on the basis of the operation from the vehicle occupant received by the operation reception unit and suppress the override in a case where a decrease of a driving intention of the vehicle occupant is estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kohei Okimoto, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri, Masahiko Asakura, Naoto Sen
  • Patent number: 10228698
    Abstract: One object is to enable a preparation period for switching between modes in automated driving to be provided for a vehicle occupant. A vehicle control system includes an automated driving control unit that automatically controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a host vehicle, the automated driving control unit performing automated driving control in any one of a plurality of modes having different degrees of automated driving, a detection unit that detects a state of an occupant in the host vehicle, an output unit that outputs notification information on the automated driving control, and a notification condition changing unit that changes a notification condition for outputting the notification information according to the state of the occupant detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kohei Okimoto, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190071075
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an output unit that outputs information, a recognition unit that recognizes nearby vehicles traveling around a subject vehicle, a control unit that controls acceleration/deceleration or steering of the subject vehicle on the basis of a relative positional relationship between at least some of the nearby vehicles recognized by the recognition unit and the subject vehicle, a specifying unit that specifies a nearby vehicle likely to influence the acceleration/deceleration or the steering of the subject vehicle among the nearby vehicles recognized by the recognition unit, and an output control unit that causes the output unit to output at least information on the presence of the nearby vehicle specified by the specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MIMURA
  • Patent number: 10198000
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated drive control unit that performs automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically, the automated drive control unit executing handover where an automated drive mode is switched to a manual driving mode; a calculating unit that calculates an occurrence frequency of the handover or an occurrence probability of the handover on a traveling route that the vehicle will travel; and a presentation unit that presents the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover that has been calculated, to an occupant of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Kohei Okimoto, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20190033860
    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: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Kohei Okimoto, Yoshitaka Mimura, Naotaka Kumakiri
  • Publication number: 20180348757
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a driving support control unit configured to execute a driving support, an information output unit configured to output information, an operation unit configured to receive an operation by an occupant of a vehicle, and an information output control unit configured to cause the information output unit to output information indicating that a start of the driving support by the driving support control unit is possible in a case where the operation by the operation unit is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Fue Kubota, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180345988
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a control unit configured to support a driving of a vehicle by selectively operating in one driving support mode among a plurality of driving support modes including a low speed following travel mode in which the vehicle travels while maintaining a constant inter-vehicle distance between a preceding traveling vehicle and the vehicle in a case where the speed is equal to or less than a predetermined speed, and an equipment control unit configured to release a use restriction on a specific function in which the line of sight of a driver is removed from the vehicle surroundings due to its utilization in a case where the control unit operates the low speed following travel mode is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Hironori Takano
  • Publication number: 20180345790
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first display unit configured to display information on a driving support in a vehicle interior, a second display unit configured to display the information on the driving support by projecting an image on a front windshield of a vehicle at a position different from a position of the first display unit, and a display control unit configured to cause the first display unit to display first information on the driving support and cause the second display unit to display second information on the driving support that is simpler than the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Fue Kubota, Noboru Okajima
  • Publication number: 20180348756
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a display unit configured to display an image, a vehicle control unit configured to perform a driving support by different degrees, and a display control unit configured to display an image indicating an action requested for an occupant at a display position corresponding to an image related to the degree of the driving support on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Fue Kubota, Noboru Okajima
  • Publication number: 20180345991
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a display unit configured to display an image, an automatic driving control unit configured to execute an automatic driving of a vehicle, and a display control unit configured to display an image indicating an occurrence of an event accompanying a change of a behavior of the vehicle executed by the automatic driving control unit on the display unit in a first display mode at a first timing before the behavior of the vehicle changes and display the image on the display unit in a second display mode in which the change of the behavior of the vehicle is emphasized compared to the first display mode at a second timing after the first timing and before the change of the behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Fue Kubota