Patents by Inventor Yuki KIZUMI

Yuki KIZUMI 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: 11897499
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation device includes a traffic congestion information acquisition unit that acquires information on traffic congestion ahead in a traveling direction of an own vehicle, a traveling lane identification unit that identifies a lane where the own vehicle is currently located, a stop position prediction unit that acquires a traveling state of a preceding vehicle based on an external environment information and the traffic congestion information, and to predict a stop position related to the preceding vehicle based on the acquired traveling state, an action plan generation unit that generates an action plan of the own vehicle based on the stop position and the currently located lane, and an information presentation unit that presents information including the generated action plan through using an external display device provided at a rear portion of a vehicle interior of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Oshima, Yuji Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20230311870
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a subject vehicle includes: an exterior environment detection unit configured to an external situation in a predetermined area around the subject vehicle while the subject vehicle traveling; and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a pair of right and left division lines that define the lane in which the subject vehicle is traveling based on a detection value from the exterior environment detection unit; calculating a direction vector of the pair of right and left division lines recognized in the recognizing; calculating a movement vector of a forward vehicle ahead of the subject vehicle based on the detection value from the exterior environment detection unit; and determining the self-driving capability or the driving support capability to be applied to the subject vehicle based on the direction vector and the movement vector calculated in the calculating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki Tsuboi, Yuki Kizumi
  • Publication number: 20230242108
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor and a first and second exterior environment detection units configured to detect an exterior environment situation in a predetermined region around the subject vehicle respectively. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a pair of left and right first division lines defining a current lane on which the subject vehicle is traveling based on a detection value of the first exterior environment detection unit and a pair of left and right second division lines defining the current lane based on a detection value of the second exterior environment detection unit; electing each of left and right division lines having short distances from the subject vehicle from the pair of left and right first division line and the pair of left and right second division line recognized in the recognizing; and generating the target path based on the left and right division lines selected in the selecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Ito, Tadahiko Kanoh, Yuki Kizumi
  • Publication number: 20230242109
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor and an exterior environment detection unit configured to detect an exterior environment situation in a predetermined region around the subject vehicle. The microprocessor is configured to perform: recognizing a division line defining a lane of a road on which the subject vehicle travels based on a detection value of the exterior environment detection unit; acquiring a movement amount of the subject vehicle in a vehicle width direction; and determining a reliability of a recognition result of the division line based on a first movement amount which is the acquired movement amount of the subject vehicle and a second movement amount, which is a change amount of a recognized position of the division line in the vehicle width direction, when a traveling position of the subject vehicle moves in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki Kizumi, Umiaki Matsubara, Takahiro Fujita, Yuhi Goto
  • Patent number: 11685406
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment including a structure of a road near a vehicle and another vehicle, a deriver configured to derive a predicted probability that the other vehicle will travel in the future along each of routes which are assumed when a plurality of routes along which the other vehicle is able to travel are assumed on a road on which the other vehicle recognized by the recognizer travels, and a travel controller configured to control behavior of the vehicle based on the predicted probability derived by the deriver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Yoshihara, Takashi Mine, Yuki Kizumi
  • Patent number: 11654837
    Abstract: A moving body including an external world information acquisition device is autonomously movable based on external world information acquired by the external world information acquisition device. The external world information acquisition device is arranged on an inner side of the moving body than an outer shell member of the moving body, and is formed with an external world information acquisition surface. The outer shell member has an opening portion. The moving body includes a cover member which is provided between the external world information acquisition device and the opening portion. The external world information acquisition surface acquires the external world information via the cover member. The cover member has a flat plate shape, and is arranged to face the external world information acquisition surface, and to be inclined in an upper-lower direction and a left-right direction of the moving body with respect to the external world information acquisition surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Nakayama, Yuki Kizumi, Tadahiro Matori, Shohei Iwamoto, Tohko Nakai
  • Patent number: 11631257
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a surroundings recognition device includes an acquirer configured to acquire first road information including a road boundary near a host vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the host vehicle, a recognizer configured to recognize a road boundary near the host vehicle on the basis of an output of an external environment sensor, and a determiner configured to determine that a first road boundary matches a second road boundary when the second road boundary included in second road information that is a recognition result of the recognizer is within a road boundary determination area based on a position of the first road boundary included in the first road information acquired by the acquirer. The determiner sets a size of the road boundary determination area on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Mine, Keisuke Oka, Masahiko Asakura, Yuta Takada
  • Patent number: 11440546
    Abstract: There is provided a travel control apparatus. A control unit controls a position of the self-vehicle in a width direction so as to ensure a first predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle and to ensure a second predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the boundary of the first lane. In a case in which both the first predetermined interval and the second predetermined interval cannot be ensured, the control unit controls the position of the self-vehicle in the width direction to preferentially ensure the first predetermined interval when the other vehicle has crossed a first boundary between the first lane and the second lane and to preferentially ensure the second predetermined interval when the other vehicle has not crossed the first boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Oka, Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Mine, Masahiko Asakura
  • Patent number: 11300961
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus configured to control automated driving of a vehicle acquires information relating to a situation in a surrounding area of the vehicle, acquires, for each of a plurality of positions, a first value relating to a probability that an object that is present in the surrounding area will be present at a future point in time and a second value obtained based on travel data of a predetermined driver based on the information, and determines a path on which the vehicle is to move, by selecting positions at which the vehicle is to be present at a plurality of future points in time from the plurality of positions based on combinations of the first values and the second values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Kizumi
  • Patent number: 11275379
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling automated driving of a vehicle acquires information relating to a situation in a surrounding area of the vehicle, acquires, for each position, a first value relating to a probability that an object present in the surrounding area will be present at a future point in time, and a second value obtained based on travel data of a predetermined driver based on the information, the second values being specified using a model defined for a portion of regions through which the vehicle travels, and if the vehicle travels through a region for which a model is not defined, the second values being each specified by combining two values acquired using two models defined for two regions sandwiching the position through which the vehicle is traveling, and determines a path on which the vehicle is to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Kizumi
  • Patent number: 11267397
    Abstract: In an autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus, based on outside information, an identification unit searches for a person present around a host vehicle and identifies whether the person extracted by the search matches a user of the host vehicle. When a result of the identification by the identification unit indicates that the person extracted by the search matches the user of the host vehicle, the information presentation unit presents information by using a preset presenting state to a specific person, as a presentation target, identified to match the user of the host vehicle by the identification unit with an exterior display apparatus provided at a front portion of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Oshima, Yuji Tsuchiya, Yuki Kizumi
  • Publication number: 20220063514
    Abstract: A moving body including an external world information acquisition device is autonomously movable based on external world information acquired by the external world information acquisition device. The external world information acquisition device is arranged on an inner side of the moving body than an outer shell member of the moving body, and is formed with an external world information acquisition surface. The outer shell member has an opening portion. The moving body includes a cover member which is provided between the external world information acquisition device and the opening portion. The external world information acquisition surface acquires the external world information via the cover member. The cover member has a flat plate shape, and is arranged to face the external world information acquisition surface, and to be inclined in an upper-lower direction and a left-right direction of the moving body with respect to the external world information acquisition surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Nakayama, Yuki Kizumi, Tadahiro Matori, Shohei Iwamoto, Tohko Nakai
  • Publication number: 20220063675
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation device includes a traffic congestion information acquisition unit that acquires information on traffic congestion ahead in a traveling direction of an own vehicle, a traveling lane identification unit that identifies a lane where the own vehicle is currently located, a stop position prediction unit that acquires a traveling state of a preceding vehicle based on an external environment information and the traffic congestion information, and to predict a stop position related to the preceding vehicle based on the acquired traveling state, an action plan generation unit that generates an action plan of the own vehicle based on the stop position and the currently located lane, and an information presentation unit that presents information including the generated action plan through using an external display device provided at a rear portion of a vehicle interior of the own vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yuki KIZUMI, Takashi OSHIMA, Yuji TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 11151871
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus includes: a traffic signal information obtaining unit that obtains traffic signal information on a traffic light at an intersection ahead of a host vehicle in a direction of advance; a check-recognition unit that recognizes change timing of a traffic signal of the traffic light based on the traffic signal information on the traffic light; and an information presentation unit that presents traffic signal information including an instruction to stop, a warning for advance, or a permission to advance expressed by the traffic signal of the traffic light, with a rear display unit provided at a position at which the rear display unit is visible to an occupant in a trailing vehicle. The information presentation unit presents the traffic signal information further containing the change timing of the traffic signal of the traffic light recognized by the check-recognition unit, with the rear display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Oshima, Yuji Tsuchiya, Yuki Kizumi
  • Publication number: 20210284142
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control device including a recognizing unit that recognizes another vehicle present in an adjacent lane adjacent to a travel lane in which a self-vehicle travels, a determining unit that, on the basis of behavior of the other vehicle recognized by the recognizing unit and a determination standard set with respect to the behavior, determines whether or not the other vehicle will change lanes into the travel lane of the self-vehicle, and a controller that, in accordance with a result of the determination by the determining unit as to whether or not the other vehicle will change lanes, controls travel of the self-vehicle, wherein the determining unit changes the determination standard in accordance with a distance between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle in a travel direction of the self-vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Mine, Yuki Kizumi, Keisuke Oka, Masahiko Asakura
  • Publication number: 20210253136
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment including a structure of a road near a vehicle and another vehicle, a deriver configured to derive a predicted probability that the other vehicle will travel in the future along each of routes which are assumed when a plurality of routes along which the other vehicle is able to travel are assumed on a road on which the other vehicle recognized by the recognizer travels, and a travel controller configured to control behavior of the vehicle based on the predicted probability derived by the deriver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Koichi Yoshihara, Takashi Mine, Yuki Kizumi
  • Publication number: 20210245753
    Abstract: There is provided a travel control apparatus. A control unit controls a position of the self-vehicle in a width direction so as to ensure a first predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle and to ensure a second predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the boundary of the first lane. In a case in which both the first predetermined interval and the second predetermined interval cannot be ensured, the control unit controls the position of the self-vehicle in the width direction to preferentially ensure the first predetermined interval when the other vehicle has crossed a first boundary between the first lane and the second lane and to preferentially ensure the second predetermined interval when the other vehicle has not crossed the first boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke OKA, Yuki KIZUMI, Takashi MINE, Masahiko ASAKURA
  • Publication number: 20210248391
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a surroundings recognition device includes an acquirer configured to acquire first road information including a road boundary near a host vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the host vehicle, a recognizer configured to recognize a road boundary near the host vehicle on the basis of an output of an external environment sensor, and a determiner configured to determine that a first road boundary matches a second road boundary when the second road boundary included in second road information that is a recognition result of the recognizer is within a road boundary determination area based on a position of the first road boundary included in the first road information acquired by the acquirer. The determiner sets a size of the road boundary determination area on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Kizumi, Takashi Mine, Keisuke Oka, Masahiko Asakura, Yuta Takada
  • Publication number: 20210171064
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus including: a congestion information obtaining unit; a stop position prediction unit; an action plan generation unit; and an information presentation unit is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIMURA, Yuji TSUCHIYA, Takashi OSHIMA, Yuki KIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20210170943
    Abstract: In an autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus, based on outside information, an identification unit searches for a person present around a host vehicle and identifies whether the person extracted by the search matches a user of the host vehicle. When a result of the identification by the identification unit indicates that the person extracted by the search matches the user of the host vehicle, the information presentation unit presents information by using a preset presenting state to a specific person, as a presentation target, identified to match the user of the host vehicle by the identification unit with an exterior display apparatus provided at a front portion of the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Oshima, Yuji Tsuchiya, Yuki Kizumi