Patents by Inventor Yu Hiei
Yu Hiei 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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Publication number: 20210107524Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires and registers first information on a parking lot from a camera image when a vehicle stops by the parking lot. The vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires and registers second information on the parking lot from the camera image when completing parking the vehicle in the parking lot by a parking assist control. The vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires the information on the parking lot as current parking lot information from the camera image when the vehicle stops by the parking lot after registering the first and second parking lot information and executes the parking assist control with realizing a relationship in position between the vehicle and the parking lot by comparing the current parking lot information with the registered parking lot information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu HIEI, Yusuke KIDA, Daiki MARUKI
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Publication number: 20210107467Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a feature image from a registration image representing a parking lot to register the feature image as parking lot information. The registration image is an image that a camera takes when the vehicle parking assist apparatus receives a registration request for registering a parking area in that the vehicle is parked. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines that the vehicle has reached the parking area specified by the parking lot information when an image part that has the same feature as the feature image is included in a post registration image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus specifies an object image being an image representing a object from the registration image when the object is present in the area corresponding to the registration image; and acquires the feature image based on the registration image from which the specified object image is excluded.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu HIEI, Yusuke KIDA, Daiki MARUKI
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Publication number: 20210107458Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a camera image when the vehicle stops by a non-determined parking lot and acquires feature points of a ground of an entrance of the non-determined parking lot as non-compared entrance feature points from the camera image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines whether the non-determined parking lot is a registered parking lot by comparing information on the non-compared entrance feature points with registered entrance feature point information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus executes a parking assist control with using the currently-acquired parking lot information and the registered parking lot information when the vehicle parking assist apparatus determines that the non-determined parking lot is the registered parking lot.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yu HIEI
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Publication number: 20210107465Abstract: A parking assist apparatus comprises an imaging apparatus and a controller configured to extract feature points from captured image where a region a driver desires to register a parking position therein is captured, and register the extracted feature points in association with the parking position, registering this position as registered parking position. When it is determined that a feature point(s) is detectable from captured image, the controller calculates the registered parking position by detecting the feature point(s), and performs parking assist control for parking the vehicle in the registered parking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yu Hiei
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Publication number: 20210107466Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus obtains a target travelling route including a forward section and a backward section and lets a vehicle move along the target travelling route such that the vehicle reaches a target parking position. The parking assistance apparatus execute a collision avoidance processing when an obstacle which is closer than a threshold distance is detected while the vehicle moves along the target travelling route. The distance between the vehicle and a specific region is kept to be larger than a clearance distance while the vehicle moves along the backward section such that the obstacle for the collision avoidance processing which cannot be detected while the vehicle moves along the forward section will not be found while the vehicle moves along the backward section. The specific region is determined on the basis of a detection region of a sensor device for detecting the obstacle and the threshold distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu HIEI, Daiki Maruki
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Patent number: 10930150Abstract: When an automatic parking registration method is selected, a vehicle control ECU performs a pre-registration automatic parking control and stores a position determined based on a position of a vehicle at a time point at which the vehicle is set to a stop state by the pre-registration automatic parking control as a registered parking position in a non-volatile memory. When an execution condition of a post-registration automatic parking control is satisfied, the vehicle control ECU performs the post-registration automatic parking control after setting a target parking position to registered parking position which has been stored in the non-volatile memory.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yu Hiei, Yuusuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20200242936Abstract: When an automatic parking registration method is selected, a vehicle control ECU performs a pre-registration automatic parking control and stores a position determined based on a position of a vehicle at a time point at which the vehicle is set to a stop state by the pre-registration automatic parking control as a registered parking position in a non-volatile memory. When an execution condition of a post-registration automatic parking control is satisfied, the vehicle control ECU performs the post-registration automatic parking control after setting a target parking position to registered parking position which has been stored in the non-volatile memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yu Hiei, Yuusuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20190061818Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus including: a detector configured to detect an own-vehicle peripheral state of an own-vehicle; a mode selector configured to select any one of a parallel exit-from-parking-space mode and a parking mode as a mode based on the own-vehicle peripheral state detected by the detector; and a steering assist device configured to set a target path to a target position, and assist a steering operation of a driver in such a manner that the own vehicle travels along the target path. The mode selector selects any one the parallel exit-from-parking-space mode and the parking mode based on the own-vehicle peripheral state detected by the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yu HIEI
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Publication number: 20180118219Abstract: A feedback server includes a processing circuitry configured to determine an actual driving performance of a driver in a manual driving mode and a projected driving performance if the vehicle had been operated in an autonomous driving mode, compare the driving performance in the manual driving mode and the autonomous driving mode, and transmit a feedback to the driver based on the comparison. The processing circuitry can be further configured to determine a driver state of the driver in the manual driving mode, determine environmental driving condition of the vehicle, and establish a baseline behavior of the driver as a function of the driver state and the environmental driving condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Yu HIEI, Rini Sherony, Tina Brunetti Sayer, Joshua E. Domeyer, John Marcoux, Miles J. Johnson
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Patent number: 9846430Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an outside-of-vehicle operation device configured to cause a vehicle to travel operated by an operator from outside of the vehicle, inside of a compartment of the vehicle being isolated from the outside of the vehicle by a vehicle body; an assist instruction device configured to cause the operator to select a travel mode in which the vehicle is allowed to travel by an operation of the outside-of-vehicle operation device; a parking brake operation detector configured to detect an operation of a parking brake; and a warning device configured to issue warning in a compartment to stimulate sense of hearing or sense of sight at the time the travel mode is selected and the operation of the parking brake is detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu Hiei, Ryuji Okamura, Ken Kuretake, Kotaro Saiki, Koichiro Yamauchi
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Patent number: 9725117Abstract: A parking assist system parks a vehicle at a target parking position by automatically steering an EPS. The parking assist system includes a acquiring unit configured to acquire the position of the vehicle, a position determining unit configured to determine the target parking position, a generating unit configured to generate a path from the position of the vehicle to the target parking position, a detecting unit configured to detect the temperature of the EPS, and a assist unit configured to automatically steer the vehicle so as to move along the path generated by the generating unit. The generating unit generates a path in which a degree of stationary steering by which the vehicle is steered in a state where the vehicle stops is small when the temperature of the EPS is high, compared with when the temperature of the EPS is low.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu Hiei, Ryuji Okamura, Koichiro Yamauchi
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Patent number: 9643602Abstract: A parking support device 1 includes a calculation unit 17 that calculates a speed pattern, an acceleration recognition unit 13 that recognizes driver-requested acceleration, a parking support control unit 19 that performs parking support control in a target parking position based on the speed pattern, and a determination unit 18 that determines whether a host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at a set deceleration. When the driver-requested acceleration is recognized during the control and exceeds acceleration of the speed pattern at the time of recognition, the parking support control unit 19 accelerates the host vehicle V at the driver-requested acceleration. When the determination unit 18 determines that the host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at the set deceleration, the host vehicle V is decelerated at the set deceleration and is stopped in the target parking position regardless of the driver-requested acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Okamura, Atsushi Sagisaka, Shinya Sannodo, Yu Hiei, Kotaro Saiki, Keisuke Hata
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Patent number: 9598106Abstract: When a host vehicle moves forward, a drawing arithmetic unit and a display of an ECU which display the image of the surroundings of the host vehicle display a trajectory when the host vehicle moves forward from the current position at the current steering angle and trajectories when the host vehicle is reversed from the current position at a steering angle different from the current steering angle so as to be superimposed on a bird's-eye image.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuka Sobue, Ryuji Okamura, Chika Morimoto, Yu Hiei
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Publication number: 20160375933Abstract: A parking assist system parks a vehicle at a target parking position by automatically steering an EPS. The parking assist system includes a acquiring unit configured to acquire the position of the vehicle, a position determining unit configured to determine the target parking position, a generating unit configured to generate a path from the position of the vehicle to the target parking position, a detecting unit configured to detect the temperature of the EPS, and a assist unit configured to automatically steer the vehicle so as to move along the path generated by the generating unit. The generating unit generates a path in which a degree of stationary steering by which the vehicle is steered in a state where the vehicle stops is small when the temperature of the EPS is high, compared with when the temperature of the EPS is low.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu HIEI, Ryuji OKAMURA, Koichiro YAMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20160378104Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an outside-of-vehicle operation device configured to cause a vehicle to travel operated by an operator from outside of the vehicle, inside of a compartment of the vehicle being isolated from the outside of the vehicle by a vehicle body; an assist instruction device configured to cause the operator to select a travel mode in which the vehicle is allowed to travel by an operation of the outside-of-vehicle operation device; a parking brake operation detector configured to detect an operation of a parking brake; and a warning device configured to issue warning in a compartment to stimulate sense of hearing or sense of sight at the time the travel mode is selected and the operation of the parking brake is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu HIEI, Ryuji OKAMURA, Ken KURETAKE, Kotaro SAIKI, Koichiro YAMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20160207527Abstract: An automatic driving apparatus comprising: a driving mode switching unit that switches a driving mode between an automatic driving mode and a manual driving mode; a first determination unit that determines whether or not a switching operation is performed to switch from the automatic driving mode to the manual driving mode by operation means; and a second determination unit that determines whether or not the driving operation is performed, wherein, in a case where the switching operation is determined to be performed while the vehicle is moving in the automatic driving mode, the driving mode switching unit switches the driving mode to the manual driving mode when the driving operation is determined to be performed and the driving mode switching unit does not switch the driving mode to the manual driving mode when the driving operation is determined not to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu HIEI, Ryuji OKAMURA, Ken KURETAKE, Kotaro SAIKI, Koichiro YAMAUCHI
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Patent number: 9387853Abstract: A parking assist apparatus that causes a vehicle to be parked in a target parking position generates a traveling route of a vehicle M from a parking travel start position P0 to a target parking position P2 (S12); generates a plurality of speed patterns having different speeds when the vehicle travels on the traveling route (S14); selects a target speed pattern from the plurality of speed patterns based on information of an object around the traveling route (S18); and controls the traveling of the vehicle M based on the target speed pattern (S24).Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Sannodo, Yu Hiei
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Patent number: 9299260Abstract: In device 1 including rear view wide angle camera 11, and ECU 20 and display 30 displaying rearward image captured by the camera 11, display control section 25 of the ECU 20 and the display 30 divides the image into right and left rear lateral screens 204 and central rearward screen 202 for display, driver can determine which place is displayed. The section 25 and the display 30 do not display the same image on the screens 204, 202, the driver can understand the distance between object in the image and host vehicle 100. The section 25 performs distortion correction of correcting distortion of the image displayed on the screens 204, the driver can see the image viewable due to the distortion correction. The section 25 forms the screens 204 in shape based on the distortion correction, the driver can understand an approaching position of the object in the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuka Sobue, Ryuji Okamura, Chika Morimoto, Yu Hiei
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Patent number: 9296336Abstract: In a driving support display device 1 that includes a rear view wide angle camera 11, and an ECU 20 and a display 30 that display a rearward image captured by the rear view wide angle camera 11, a display control section 25 of the ECU 20 and the display 30 is capable of displaying a moving object approaching detection frame 210 that supports driving of a driver of a host vehicle 100 and a pedestrian detection frame 212 while dividing the rearward image into plural screens for display, and changes the number of the screens to be displayed between when the moving object approaching detection frame 210 is displayed and when the moving object approaching detection frame 210 is not displayed. Thus, the driver can easily recognize operation and non-operation of a system that displays the moving object approaching detection frame 210.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuka Sobue, Ryuji Okamura, Chika Morimoto, Yu Hiei
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Publication number: 20150375740Abstract: A parking support device 1 includes a calculation unit 17 that calculates a speed pattern, an acceleration recognition unit 13 that recognizes driver-requested acceleration, a parking support control unit 19 that performs parking support control in a target parking position based on the speed pattern, and a determination unit 18 that determines whether a host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at a set deceleration. When the driver-requested acceleration is recognized during the control and exceeds acceleration of the speed pattern at the time of recognition, the parking support control unit 19 accelerates the host vehicle V at the driver-requested acceleration. When the determination unit 18 determines that the host vehicle V can stop in the target parking position at the set deceleration, the host vehicle V is decelerated at the set deceleration and is stopped in the target parking position regardless of the driver-requested acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji OKAMURA, Atsushi SAGISAKA, Shinya SANNODO, Yu HIEI, Kotaro SAIKI, Keisuke HATA