Patents by Inventor Yugo Ueda

Yugo Ueda 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: 11932251
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize an object around a host vehicle, a driving controller configured to control a speed and steering of the host vehicle and cause the host vehicle to overtake a moving body recognized as the object by the recognizer in a predetermined case, the moving body being a moving body present at a side of a road on which the host vehicle is present, and a predictor configured to predict that the host vehicle will be overtaken by the overtaken moving body at a future point in time when the moving body has been recognized by the recognizer, and the driving controller is configured to not cause the host vehicle to overtake the moving body when the predictor predicts that the host vehicle will be overtaken by the overtaken moving body at a future point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dan Umeda, Yugo Ueda, Yuki Motegi
  • Patent number: 11390302
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a driving controller configured to perform first driving control such that one or both of an acceleration or deceleration speed and steering of a vehicle is controlled to travel the vehicle; an occupant intention detector configured to detect an intention of the occupant to switch from manual driving to a state in which the driving controller performs the first driving control; and a one-way traffic determiner configured to determine whether a road on which the vehicle is predicted to be traveling or travel in future is a one-way traffic road. The driving controller determines whether to start the first driving control based on whether the one-way traffic determiner determines the road on which the vehicle is predicted to be traveling or travel in future is the one-way traffic road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yugo Ueda, Katsuaki Sasaki, Atsushi Arai
  • Patent number: 11390275
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a pedestrian recognizer configured to recognize a pedestrian present in the periphery of a vehicle, and a driving controller configured to decelerate at least the vehicle irrespective of an occupant's operation of the vehicle in accordance with the vehicle and a pedestrian approaching each other, and delays a timing at which the vehicle is stopped in a case where a plurality of pedestrians recognized by the pedestrian recognizer are present on a traveling route of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda, Katsuaki Sasaki, Yuki Motegi
  • Patent number: 11352009
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a road recognizer that recognizes a road form around a vehicle; a second-vehicle recognizer that recognizes a state of another vehicle around the vehicle; and a driving controller that allows the vehicle to travel by controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and that prevents, upon passing of the vehicle through an intersection, passing of the vehicle through the intersection based on a presence of the other vehicle recognized by the second-vehicle recognizer, wherein in a case where the driving controller recognizes, by the road recognizer, that a plurality of lanes are present in a road of a right/left turn destination of the vehicle and recognizes, by the second-vehicle recognizer, that the other vehicle, which was an opposing vehicle approaching from a direction opposing the vehicle, has entered a lane on a rear side in a view from the vehicle among the plurality of lanes in the road of the right/left turn destination, the drivin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda
  • Patent number: 11225249
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer that is configured to recognize an object around a subject vehicle, a driving controller that is configured to control a speed or steering of the subject vehicle, and a predictor that is configured to predict that a predetermined vehicle will move to a front of the subject vehicle on a subject lane. The driving controller is configured to perform a behavior control in a case where it is predicted that the predetermined vehicle will move to the front of the subject vehicle on the subject lane and limits the vehicle behavior control in a case where it is predicted that the predetermined vehicle does not move to the front of the subject vehicle on the subject lane as compared with a case where it is predicted that the vehicle will move to the front of the subject vehicle on the subject lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda, Dan Umeda
  • Patent number: 11167761
    Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a situation occurring near an own-vehicle, and a driving controller (140, 160) that controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the own-vehicle on the basis of a result of the recognition of the recognizer. When performing travel control according to a behavior of a preceding vehicle that is traveling in front of the own-vehicle such that the own-vehicle follows the preceding vehicle to pass through an intersection, the driving controller does not perform following of the preceding vehicle if a turning start point of the preceding vehicle does not match a turning start point in a route predicted for the own-vehicle to pass through the intersection in a scheduled direction or if a turning angle of the preceding vehicle does not match a turning angle in the predicted route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda, Dan Umeda
  • Patent number: 11130492
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer which recognizes objects around a host vehicle, a determiner which determines whether a speed of a preceding vehicle present ahead of the host vehicle in a host lane in which the host vehicle is present among one or more objects recognized by the recognizer is less than a predetermined speed and determines whether predetermined conditions with respect to conditions ahead of the preceding vehicle are satisfied when it is determined that the speed of the preceding vehicle is less than the predetermined speed, and a driving controller which causes the host vehicle to overtake at least the preceding vehicle by controlling the speed and steering of the host vehicle when the determiner determines that the predetermined conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yugo Ueda, Dan Umeda
  • Patent number: 10981597
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to perform mirror control as driving control when recognizing a mirror in front of the vehicle. By adopting this configuration, it is possible to perform appropriate driving control for automated driving. Another purpose of the present invention is to perform mirror processing as recognition processing when recognizing a mirror in front of a vehicle. By adopting this configuration it is possible to perform appropriate recognition processing in automated driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Maiko Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210046936
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize an object around a host vehicle, a driving controller configured to control a speed and steering of the host vehicle and cause the host vehicle to overtake a moving body recognized as the object by the recognizer in a predetermined case, the moving body being a moving body present at a side of a road on which the host vehicle is present, and a predictor configured to predict that the host vehicle will be overtaken by the overtaken moving body at a future point in time when the moving body has been recognized by the recognizer, and the driving controller is configured to not cause the host vehicle to overtake the moving body when the predictor predicts that the host vehicle will be overtaken by the overtaken moving body at a future point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Dan UMEDA, Yugo UEDA, Yuki MOTEGI
  • Publication number: 20210003411
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to execute automated driving in which acceleration or deceleration and steering of the vehicle are controlled according to the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer; a first acquirer configured to acquire a first arrival time for the vehicle to arrive at a destination of the vehicle or a parking lot subsidiary to the destination from a predetermined position by the automated driving; a second acquirer configured to acquire a second arrival time for an occupant of the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the predetermined position in an alternative way in place of movement of the vehicle; an outputter configured to output information; and a proposer configured to cause the outputter to output proposal information regarding a proposal to head for the destination in the alternative way to the occupant according to comparison between the first arrival time
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Dan Umeda
  • Publication number: 20200290643
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a road width recognizer configured to recognize a width of a road on which a vehicle travels, a pedestrian recognizer configure to recognize pedestrians present in a vicinity of the vehicle, and a driving controller configured to cause the vehicle to travel by controlling one or both of steering and acceleration of the vehicle independently from an operation of an occupant of the vehicle, and to cause the vehicle to travel behind a pedestrian who has substantially the same proceeding direction as the vehicle and has a high priority level among the pedestrians recognized by the pedestrian recognizer when a width of the road recognized by the road width recognizer is equal to or less than a predetermined width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Atsushi Arai, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200282997
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a road recognizer that recognizes a road form around a vehicle; a second-vehicle recognizer that recognizes a state of another vehicle around the vehicle; and a driving controller that allows the vehicle to travel by controlling one or both of steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and that prevents, upon passing of the vehicle through an intersection, passing of the vehicle through the intersection based on a presence of the other vehicle recognized by the second-vehicle recognizer, wherein in a case where the driving controller recognizes, by the road recognizer, that a plurality of lanes are present in a road of a right/left turn destination of the vehicle and recognizes, by the second-vehicle recognizer, that the other vehicle, which was an opposing vehicle approaching from a direction opposing the vehicle, has entered a lane on a rear side in a view from the vehicle among the plurality of lanes in the road of the right/left turn destination, the drivin
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda
  • Publication number: 20200231144
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a pedestrian recognizer configured to recognize a pedestrian present in the periphery of a vehicle, and a driving controller configured to decelerate at least the vehicle irrespective of an occupant's operation of the vehicle in accordance with the vehicle and a pedestrian approaching each other, and delays a timing at which the vehicle is stopped in a case where a plurality of pedestrians recognized by the pedestrian recognizer are present on a traveling route of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda, Katsuaki Sasaki, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200223452
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a driving controller configured to perform first driving control such that one or both of an acceleration or deceleration speed and steering of a vehicle is controlled to travel the vehicle; an occupant intention detector configured to detect an intention of the occupant to switch from manual driving to a state in which the driving controller performs the first driving control; and a one-way traffic determiner configured to determine whether a road on which the vehicle is predicted to be traveling or travel in future is a one-way traffic road. The driving controller determines whether to start the first driving control based on whether the one-way traffic determiner determines the road on which the vehicle is predicted to be traveling or travel in future is the one-way traffic road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yugo Ueda, Katsuaki Sasaki, Atsushi Arai
  • Publication number: 20190382049
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to perform mirror control as driving control when recognizing a minor in front the vehicle. By adopting this configuration, it is possible to perform appropriate d control for automated driving. Another purpose of the present invention is to perform mirror processing as recognition processing when recognizing a mirror in front of a vehicle. By adopting this configuration it is possible to perform appropriate recognition processing in automated driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yugo UEDA, Maiko ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20190283751
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer that is configured to recognize an object around a subject vehicle, a driving controller that is configured to control a speed or steering of the subject vehicle, and a predictor that is configured to predict that a predetermined vehicle will move to a front of the subject vehicle on a subject lane. The driving controller is configured to perform a behavior control in a case where it is predicted that the predetermined vehicle will move to the front of the subject vehicle on the subject lane and limits the vehicle behavior control in a case where it is predicted that the predetermined vehicle does not move to the front of the subject vehicle on the subject lane as compared with a case where it is predicted that the vehicle will move to the front of the subject vehicle on the subject lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda, Dan Umeda
  • Publication number: 20190283740
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle, and a driving controller that is configured to control a speed and steering of the subject vehicle according to map information including a travel route of the subject vehicle and a recognition result by the recognizer. The driving controller is configured to cause the control of the speed or the steering of the subject vehicle to be different between a case where a predetermined point at which a median strip is broken is recognized by the recognizer and a case where the predetermined point is not recognized by the recognizer, while the subject vehicle is traveling in a section in which a lane is separated by the median strip extending in an extending direction of a road indicated by the map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yugo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20190283741
    Abstract: A vehicle control device 100 includes a recognizer 130 which recognizes a surrounding situation of a host vehicle, and driving controllers 140 and 160 which control acceleration or deceleration and steering of the host vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer, in which a driving controller determines whether another vehicle enters in front of the host vehicle according to a movement of the another vehicle proceeding or intending to proceed in a direction which intersects with a traveling direction of the host vehicle recognized by the recognizer, and causes the host vehicle to decelerate or stop when it is determined that the another vehicle enters in front of the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yugo Ueda, Dan Umeda, Yuki Motegi, Chie Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20190276029
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a situation in the vicinity of a host vehicle, a first determiner configured to determine whether or not speed of a preceding vehicle present in front of the host vehicle in a host vehicle lane where the host vehicle is present is less than prescribed speed, a second determiner configured to determine whether or not a following vehicle present behind the host vehicle in the host vehicle lane has overtaken the host vehicle when the first determiner determines that the speed of the preceding vehicle is less than the prescribed speed, and a driving controller configured to control speed and steering of the host vehicle and cause the host vehicle to overtake the preceding vehicle when the second determiner determines that the following vehicle has overtaken the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Dan Umeda, Yugo Ueda, Akihiro Toda, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20190278285
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer (120) configured to recognize a surrounding situation of an own vehicle; and a driving controller (140 or 160) configured to control acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the own vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer and allowing the own vehicle to overtake a plurality of preceding vehicles in front of the own vehicle in an own lane in which the own vehicle is present when the overtaking by the own vehicle is allowed, the plurality of preceding vehicles are congested in a row and a position of the foremost preceding vehicle among the plurality of preceding vehicles is closer to the own vehicle than a predetermined position to which the own vehicle is scheduled to travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Dan Umeda, Akihiro Toda, Yugo Ueda