Patents by Inventor Youko FUJITA

Youko FUJITA 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).

  • Route search device, control method, program and storage medium
    Patent number: 10520324
    Abstract: An enhanced map information processing unit 14 of a driving assistance device 1 acquires from a determination unit 13 information on surroundings of a vehicle which is needed to perform autonomous driving, and acquires from a server device 2 environment information on surroundings of a route on which autonomous driving is performed. On the basis of the acquired environment information, the enhanced map information processing unit 14 extracts, as an autonomous driving unsuitable location Pn, a location at which the accuracy of the acquirement of the sensor unit 12 is predicted not to satisfy a standard for acquiring the information on the surroundings of the vehicle needed to perform autonomous driving. An informing unit 18 alerts the extracted autonomous driving unsuitable location Pn to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, INCREMENT P CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Iwai, Yuji Tawaragi, Tomoyuki Fujieda, Tetsuya Kawahara, Youko Fujita
  • ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180038701
    Abstract: An enhanced map information processing unit 14 of a driving assistance device 1 acquires from a determination unit 13 information on surroundings of a vehicle which is needed to perform autonomous driving, and acquires from a server device 2 environment information on surroundings of a route on which autonomous driving is performed. On the basis of the acquired environment information, the enhanced map information processing unit 14 extracts, as an autonomous driving unsuitable location Pn, a location at which the accuracy of the acquirement of the sensor unit 12 is predicted not to satisfy a standard for acquiring the information on the surroundings of the vehicle needed to perform autonomous driving. An informing unit 18 alerts the extracted autonomous driving unsuitable location Pn to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoaki IWAI, Yuji TAWARAGI, Tomoyuki FUJIEDA, Tetsuya KAWAHARA, Youko FUJITA
  • ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180023966
    Abstract: An enhanced map information processing unit 14 of a driving assistance device 1 acquires from a determination unit 13 information on surroundings of a vehicle which is needed to perform autonomous driving, and acquires from a server device 2 environment information on surroundings of a route on which autonomous driving is performed. On the basis of the acquired environment information, the enhanced map information processing unit 14 extracts, as an autonomous driving unsuitable location Pn, a location at which the accuracy of the acquirement of the sensor unit 12 is predicted not to satisfy a standard for acquiring the information on the surroundings of the vehicle needed to perform autonomous driving. An informing unit 18 alerts the extracted autonomous driving unsuitable location Pn to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoaki IWAI, Yuji TAWARAGI, Tomoyuki FUJIEDA, Tetsuya KAWAHARA, Youko FUJITA