Patents by Inventor Yuki Hara
Yuki Hara 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: 11370457Abstract: A vehicle control device of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a controller configured to control a window portion of the vehicle, and the controller controls opening and closing of the window portion on the basis of a result of the recognizing has recognized a gesture which is performed by a user of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
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Patent number: 11370416Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer that recognizes a peripheral situation of a vehicle, a driving controller that automatically performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and a determiner that determines whether a predetermined condition indicating that automated parking is not adequate is satisfied when a user exits the vehicle. The driving controller causes the vehicle to start to travel from a stop state and stop at a parking lot in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the vehicle not to start to travel from a stop state and stop at a parking lot in a case where it is determined by the determiner that the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
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Publication number: 20220201176Abstract: To suppress a temperature rise in an imaging apparatus without giving an unnatural impression to the user. An imaging device generates imaging data. A data buffer stores the imaging data. An image processing unit performs image processing on the imaging data using the data buffer. A storage control unit causes a storage unit to store the processed imaging data. A temperature monitoring unit monitors temperatures of a plurality of different locations in the imaging apparatus. A speed control unit controls a storage speed in the storage unit on the basis of the temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: YUKI HARA, YUYA YAMAZAKI, HIDEO KAWATAKI
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Patent number: 11364897Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a display device configured to display a parking space candidate; and a control device configured to control a screen display of the display device, to set the parking space candidate selected by a user to a target parking space, to set a stop position where the vehicle should be stopped in the target parking space, and to execute a driving process to autonomously move the vehicle along a trajectory to the stop position. While executing the driving process, the control device causes the display device to display the trajectory and the stop position and determines whether the stop position is suitable based on external environment information. Upon determining that the stop position is not suitable, the control device corrects the stop position and causes the display device to display the stop position that has been corrected.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Nakada, Yasushi Shoda, Syoichi Kobayashi, Yuki Hara, Miki Tsujino, Hiroshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11351914Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mounted on a first vehicle, and the vehicle control device includes a light source configured to project light outside of a vehicle; and a light source controller configured to control the light source to project a projection image which is positioned outside the first vehicle viewed from above and is along at least part of a periphery of the first vehicle in a case where the first vehicle is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
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Patent number: 11338826Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to control a vehicle so as to move the vehicle autonomously from a current position to a target position; and an external environment sensor configured to detect an obstacle. During control of the vehicle to the target position, the control device is configured to recognize the obstacle present in a first area and a second area based on information from the external environment sensor. In a case where the control device recognizes the obstacle in the first area, the control device stops the vehicle, and in a case where the control device recognizes the obstacle in the second area and the obstacle in the second area is a moving object and/or a moving creature, the control device moves the vehicle in a decelerated state in which the vehicle is decelerated to a prescribed speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Masaaki Kawano
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Patent number: 11340627Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a first recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control steering, acceleration, and deceleration on the basis of the surrounding situation, a second recognizer configured to recognize a physical object placed in an interior, and an acquirer configured to acquire a movement instruction for moving the vehicle to a parking area according to control of the driving controller, the movement instruction being output on the basis of an action of a user who has not got into the vehicle, wherein the driving controller causes the vehicle to move to an accessible area capable of being accessed by the user or causes the vehicle to stay in the accessible area when the acquirer has acquired the movement instruction and the second recognizer has recognized the physical object placed in the interior of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
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Patent number: 11305769Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle regardless of an operation of an occupant on the basis of a recognition result obtained by the recognizer; and a wiper controller that controls a wiper attached to a window of the vehicle, wherein the wiper controller changes a degree of operation of the wiper according to a boarding position and a degree of approach when the vehicle moves to the boarding position at which an occupant boards the vehicle after the vehicle starts traveling under the control of the driving controller or when the vehicle starts traveling to move away from the boarding position under the control of the driving controller after the occupant alights from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Hara, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada
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Publication number: 20220078351Abstract: Data transmission systems and methods. In one embodiment, a data transmission system includes a plurality of imaging devices, a plurality of control devices, and an information processing device. One of the plurality of control devices operates as a master control device and a remainder of the plurality of control devices operate as client control devices. The information processing device is configured to transmit an acquisition request for one or more images captured by a first imaging device of the plurality of imaging devices to the master control device. The master control device is configured to transfer the acquisition request to one of the client control devices that controls the first imaging device. In response to receiving the acquisition request, the one of the client control devices is configured to transfer a list of images captured by the first imaging device to the information processing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Yuki Hara, Tatsuya Ueda, Natsumi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11212432Abstract: Data transmission systems and methods. In one embodiment, a data transmission system includes a plurality of imaging devices, a plurality of control devices, and an information processing device. One of the plurality of control devices operates as a master control device and a remainder of the plurality of control devices operate as client control devices. The information processing device is configured to transmit an acquisition request for one or more images captured by a first imaging device of the plurality of imaging devices to the master control device. The master control device is configured to transfer the acquisition request to one of the client control devices that controls the first imaging device. In response to receiving the acquisition request, the one of the client control devices is configured to transfer a list of images captured by the first imaging device to the information processing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuki Hara, Tatsuya Ueda, Natsumi Kaneko
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Publication number: 20210300342Abstract: A parking assist system includes a control device. The control device continues an automatic parking process as a driver releases an operation on a brake pedal in a case where an obstacle is detected in a suspension area and an operation amount of the brake pedal has been equal to or more than a second threshold. The control device causes a brake device to stop a vehicle with a second brake force and suspends the automatic parking process in a case where the obstacle is detected in the suspension area and the operation amount of the brake pedal is less than the second threshold. The control device causes the brake device to stop the vehicle and cancels the automatic parking process in a case where the obstacle is detected in a cancellation area and the operation amount of the brake pedal is less than a first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yuki NAKADA, Takuya KASHIKI, Renji KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20210300349Abstract: A vehicle movement assist system includes: an external environment sensor unmovably fixed to a vehicle; and a control device configured to acquire the position of an obstacle relative to the vehicle based on a result of detection performed by the external environment sensor and to execute an automatic moving process to autonomously move the vehicle. During execution of the automatic moving process, if the obstacle is detected in a recognition range set by the control device, the control device performs a notification to the driver and/or executes a process including deceleration or stopping of the vehicle. The control device is configured to change the recognition range in accordance with the travel state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI, Yasushi SHODA
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Publication number: 20210303881Abstract: A parking space recognition system includes an external environment information acquiring device and a parking space candidate detecting device. The parking space candidate detecting device includes: a virtual line calculating unit configured to calculate a virtual line connecting road side ends of parking space lines adjacent to each other; an angle calculating unit configured to calculate an angle between the virtual line and one of the parking space lines; a parking type determining unit configured to determine a parking type; and a parking space candidate setting unit configured to set at least one provisional parking space in an area between the parking space lines based on positions of the parking space lines, and to set an available parking area among the provisional parking space to the parking space candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
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Publication number: 20210300336Abstract: A parking assist system includes an acquiring unit, a display unit, and a control unit. In a case where the acquiring unit acquires information about an obstacle on a first target route during traveling of a vehicle along the first target route and thus the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route, the control unit tries to calculate a second target route to a target position from a position where the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route. Upon failing to calculate the second target route, the control unit prohibits a notification about automatic parking while a user is performing a brake operation of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
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Publication number: 20210300335Abstract: A parking assist system includes an acquiring unit, a display unit, and a control unit. In a case where the acquiring unit acquires information about an obstacle on a first target route during traveling of a vehicle along the first target route and thus the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route, the control unit tries to calculate a second target route to a target position from a position where the vehicle stops traveling along the first target route. Upon succeeding in calculating the second target route, the control unit causes the display unit to display surrounding information corresponding to the second target route. Upon failing to calculate the second target route, the control unit causes the display unit to display a notification about an operation method of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yasushi SHODA
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Publication number: 20210300341Abstract: A parking assist system includes: an external environment information acquiring device, a parking space extracting device, a display device, a selection input member, and a control device. The control device is configured to set a parking position candidate at a prescribed position in a parking space, to set the parking position candidate selected by a user as a target parking position, to calculate a first trajectory to the target parking position, and to execute a first driving process to autonomously move a vehicle along the first trajectory. The control device is configured to set a corrected parking position different from the target parking position, to calculate a second trajectory from the target parking position to the corrected parking position, and to execute a second driving process to autonomously move the vehicle along the second trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Yasushi SHODA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI, Yuki HARA
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Publication number: 20210179079Abstract: A parking assist system for a vehicle includes a control device configured to execute an automatic parking process for autonomously moving the vehicle from a current position to a parking position. The control device is configured such that in a case where the control device has stopped the vehicle according to detection of an obstacle by an external environment sensor in a prescribed range from the parking position during execution of the automatic parking process, the control device does not permit resumption of movement of the vehicle in the automatic parking process, and in a case where the control device has stopped the vehicle according to an operation of a brake operation member by the driver in the prescribed range from the parking position during the execution of the automatic parking process, the control device permits the resumption of movement of the vehicle in the automatic parking process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Yuki NAKADA, Syoichi KOBAYASHI, Yasushi SHODA
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Publication number: 20210179077Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: an image display unit configured to display a direction indicating image that indicates a travel direction of the vehicle; and a control device configured to execute travel control of the vehicle. The direction indicating image is switchable between a first image that indicates a first travel direction of the vehicle and a second image that indicates a second travel direction of the vehicle, the second travel direction being opposite to the first travel direction. In a case where the control device switches the travel direction of the vehicle from the first travel direction to the second travel direction, the image display unit switches the direction indicating image from the first image to the second image based on a vehicle speed of the vehicle, a state of a power transmission device, and a steering state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Miki TSUJINO, Yasushi SHODA, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yuki HARA
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Publication number: 20210179083Abstract: A parking assist system for a vehicle includes a control device configured to control the vehicle to execute an automatic moving process for autonomously moving the vehicle from a current position to a target position. The control device is configured such that, in a case where a parking brake driving condition is satisfied when the control device stops the vehicle during movement to the target position in the automatic moving process and thereafter cancels the automatic moving process without permitting resumption of the movement of the vehicle, the control device switches a shift position of the shift device of the vehicle to a parking position and drives the parking brake device of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Miki TSUJINO, Hiroshi YAMANAKA, Yuki NAKADA, Yasushi SHODA
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Publication number: 20210179081Abstract: The present invention provides a travel support system of a vehicle, including a detection unit configured to detect information of a periphery of the vehicle, a control unit configured to perform travel support control based on the information detected by the detection unit, and a stationary state control unit configured to cause the vehicle to be stationary at one of completion and suspension of the travel support control by the control unit, wherein the stationary state control unit performs steering control to maintain a steering angle at one of the completion and suspension of the travel support control while the vehicle is stationary.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Yuki HARA, Miki TSUJINO