Patents by Inventor Yuhei MIYAMOTO
Yuhei MIYAMOTO 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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Patent number: 11926316Abstract: A driving assist ECU determines that a current situation is a specific situation where it is predicted that there is no object that is about to enter an adjacent lane from an area outside of a host vehicle road on which a host vehicle is traveling, when a road-side object is detected at a part around an edge of the adjacent lane, and/or when a white line painted to define the adjacent lane is detected at the part around the edge of the adjacent lane and no object near the detected white line is detected. The driving assist ECU does not perform a steering control for avoiding a collision, the steering control for letting the vehicle enter the adjacent lane, when it is not determined that the current situation is the specific situation.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi
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Publication number: 20230347885Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus comprises an electronic control unit which executes a driving assistance control to alert a driver of an own vehicle for avoiding a collision of the own vehicle with an oncoming vehicle when the own vehicle performs a crossing movement. The crossing movement is a movement of the own vehicle to turn, crossing a line along which the oncoming vehicle moves. The electronic control unit detects and sets the oncoming vehicle as an alert-target oncoming vehicle, executes the driving assistance control when determining that the own vehicle is going to collide with the alert-target oncoming vehicle after determining that the crossing movement of the own vehicle starts and before a predetermined after-crossing-start elapsing time elapses, and keeps the driving assistance control unexecuted after the after-crossing-start elapsing time threshold elapses.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuhei MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 11760343Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus performs automatic braking control when an execution condition is satisfied, in a case where a lap rate of the obstacle is a threshold lap rate or more. Furthermore, the vehicle control apparatus performs automatic steering control when the execution condition is satisfied, in a case where the lap rate is less than the threshold lap rate and furthermore an avoidance area in which the vehicle can avoid a collision with the obstacle without traveling out of a self-lane and passage of the vehicle is not blocked by a passage inhibition object. The vehicle control apparatus performs the automatic braking control when a special condition including a condition that the execution condition is satisfied at least is satisfied, if the passage inhibition object exists, in a case where the lap rate is less than the threshold lap rate and furthermore the avoidance area does not exist.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi, Tooru Takahashi
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Patent number: 11691621Abstract: A driving support apparatus comprises a controller for performing collision avoidance braking control and lane deviation suppressing control. When a performing condition of the lane deviation suppressing control is satisfied at a timing of the collision avoidance braking control is about to be performed, the controller makes direction determination processing for determining whether or not the own vehicle travels to a direction toward which it will collide with a target object or to a direction toward which it will avoid colliding with the target object. In the direction determination processing, when it is determined the own vehicle travels to a collision direction, the controller stops the lane deviation suppressing control to perform the collision avoidance braking control, and when it is determined the own vehicle travels to a collision avoidance direction, the controller performs cooperative control for making the lane deviation suppressing control cooperate with the collision avoidance braking control.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi
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Publication number: 20230166727Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a driving assistance control which provides a driver of an own vehicle with a driving assistance when a predetermined execution condition becomes satisfied. The apparatus performs an assistance delay function and a positive assistance function. The assistance delay function is a function to change the predetermined execution condition such that a timing of starting to execute the driving assistance control is later than a base timing. The positive assistance function is a function to change the predetermined execution condition such that the timing of starting to execute the driving assistance control is earlier than the base timing. The apparatus does not perform the assistance delay function even when the assistance delay function is requested to be performed while the positive assistance function is requested to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuhei MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230159028Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device for a vehicle includes a driving assistance ECU which executes vehicle speed suppression control of suppressing a speed of the vehicle when an obstacle condition indicating that an obstacle exists and an erroneous operation condition indicating that an operation of an accelerator pedal executed is an erroneous operation for a brake pedal are satisfied. The driving assistance ECU inhibits the vehicle speed suppression control in a case in which an avoidance operation condition indicating that a steering operation is an operation for avoiding the collision with the obstacle is satisfied when the vehicle speed is higher than a threshold value, and does not inhibit the vehicle speed suppression control in a case in which the avoidance operation condition is satisfied when the speed of the vehicle is equal to or lower than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke FUKUI, Yuhei Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20230150488Abstract: A driving assist ECU determines that a current situation is a specific situation where it is predicted that there is no object that is about to enter an adjacent lane from an area outside of a host vehicle road on which a host vehicle is traveling, when a road-side object is detected at a part around an edge of the adjacent lane, and/or when a white line painted to define the adjacent lane is detected at the part around the edge of the adjacent lane and no object near the detected white line is detected. The driving assist ECU does not perform a steering control for avoiding a collision, the steering control for letting the vehicle enter the adjacent lane, when it is not determined that the current situation is the specific situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISAInventors: Yuhei MIYAMOTO, Kohei Morotomi
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Patent number: 11577720Abstract: A driving assist ECU determines that a current situation is a specific situation where it is predicted that there is no object that is about to enter an adjacent lane from an area outside of a host vehicle road on which a host vehicle is traveling, when a road-side object is detected at a part around an edge of the adjacent lane, and/or when a white line painted to define the adjacent lane is detected at the part around the edge of the adjacent lane and no object near the detected white line is detected. The driving assist ECU does not perform a steering control for avoiding a collision, the steering control for letting the vehicle enter the adjacent lane, when it is not determined that the current situation is the specific situation.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi
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Patent number: 11541883Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus of the invention starts a collision avoidance steering assist control to automatically steer the vehicle to avoid a collision of the vehicle with the obstacle in response to a driver performing a collision avoidance steering operation for avoiding the collision when there is a possibility that the vehicle collides with the obstacle. The vehicle driving assist apparatus cancels the collision avoidance steering assist control in response to the driver performing a counter collision avoidance steering operation against automatically steering the vehicle intended to be achieved by the collision avoidance steering assist control after a first predetermined time elapses from starting the collision avoidance steering assist control.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Morotomi, Hirotaka Hatakeyama, Yuhei Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11305761Abstract: Provided is a collision avoidance control apparatus for a vehicle including a first sensor configured to detect a first object present in a first area; a second sensor configured to detect a second object present in a second area; and a controller configured to execute collision avoidance control when determining the first object and the second object as the same object, in which the controller is further configured to determine the first object and the second object as the same object when determining that the first object enters the first area, and determining that at least part of the second object is present in a specific region, the specific region being a region which includes a first object region in which the first object exists, and which includes a part of a region contiguous to the first object region and outside of the first area.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi
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Publication number: 20210253092Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus performs automatic braking control when an execution condition is satisfied, in a case where a lap rate of the obstacle is a threshold lap rate or more. Furthermore, the vehicle control apparatus performs automatic steering control when the execution condition is satisfied, in a case where the lap rate is less than the threshold lap rate and furthermore an avoidance area in which the vehicle can avoid a collision with the obstacle without traveling out of a self-lane and passage of the vehicle is not blocked by a passage inhibition object. The vehicle control apparatus performs the automatic braking control when a special condition including a condition that the execution condition is satisfied at least is satisfied, if the passage inhibition object exists, in a case where the lap rate is less than the threshold lap rate and furthermore the avoidance area does not exist.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhei MIYAMOTO, Kohei MOROTOMI, Tooru TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20210179093Abstract: A driving support apparatus comprises a controller for performing collision avoidance braking control and lane deviation suppressing control. When a performing condition of the lane deviation suppressing control is satisfied at a timing of the collision avoidance braking control is about to be performed, the controller makes direction determination processing for determining whether or not the own vehicle travels to a direction toward which it will collide with a target object or to a direction toward which it will avoid colliding with the target object. In the direction determination processing, when it is determined the own vehicle travels to a collision direction, the controller stops the lane deviation suppressing control to perform the collision avoidance braking control, and when it is determined the own vehicle travels to a collision avoidance direction, the controller performs cooperative control for making the lane deviation suppressing control cooperate with the collision avoidance braking control.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei MIYAMOTO, Kohei MOROTOMI
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Publication number: 20210024059Abstract: A driving assist ECU determines that a current situation is a specific situation where it is predicted that there is no object that is about to enter an adjacent lane from an area outside of a host vehicle road on which a host vehicle is traveling, when a road-side object is detected at a part around an edge of the adjacent lane, and/or when a white line painted to define the adjacent lane is detected at the part around the edge of the adjacent lane and no object near the detected white line is detected. The driving assist ECU does not perform a steering control for avoiding a collision, the steering control for letting the vehicle enter the adjacent lane, when it is not determined that the current situation is the specific situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei MIYAMOTO, Kohei MOROTOMI
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Publication number: 20200247398Abstract: Provided is a collision avoidance control apparatus for a vehicle including a first sensor configured to detect a first object present in a first area; a second sensor configured to detect a second object present in a second area; and a controller configured to execute collision avoidance control when determining the first object and the second object as the same object, in which the controller is further configured to determine the first object and the second object as the same object when determining that the first object enters the first area, and determining that at least part of the second object is present in a specific region, the specific region being a region which includes a first object region in which the first object exists, and which includes a part of a region contiguous to the first object region and outside of the first area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuhei Miyamoto, Kohei Morotomi
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Publication number: 20200047749Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus of the invention starts a collision avoidance steering assist control to automatically steer the vehicle to avoid a collision of the vehicle with the obstacle in response to a driver performing a collision avoidance steering operation for avoiding the collision when there is a possibility that the vehicle collides with the obstacle. The vehicle driving assist apparatus cancels the collision avoidance steering assist control in response to the driver performing a counter collision avoidance steering operation against automatically steering the vehicle intended to be achieved by the collision avoidance steering assist control after a first predetermined time elapses from starting the collision avoidance steering assist control.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei MOROTOMI, Hirotaka HATAKEYAMA, Yuhei MIYAMOTO