Patents by Inventor Yuki Motegi

Yuki Motegi 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).

  • Publication number: 20200285235
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a recognition result of a surroundings situation of a vehicle from a recognition device, and a driving controller configured to control steering and a speed of the vehicle on the basis of the recognition result to move the vehicle so that a user located in a boarding area is able to board the vehicle, and the driving controller is configured to stop the vehicle at a first stop position in a case in which the user has been recognized in the boarding area when the vehicle is moved to the boarding area, and is configured to stop the vehicle at a second stop position in a case in which the user has not been recognized in the boarding area when the vehicle is moved to the boarding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200276987
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle; and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle automatically on the basis of a recognition result obtained by the recognizer. When the vehicle is moved to a boarding position at which an occupant boards the vehicle and is stopped, the driving controller stops the vehicle on the basis of at least one of weather information at the boarding position, a state of the occupant recognized by the recognizer, and an environment of the boarding position recognized by the recognizer and determines a stopping position of the vehicle according to the environment of the boarding position or the state of the occupant when the weather information is a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyasu Yamane, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200279487
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a program that can curb unnecessary driving control are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200269756
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to perform speed control and steering control of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer; a communication unit configured to communicate with a terminal device of a user boarding the vehicle; a vehicle exterior notification unit configured to notify information regarding vehicle identification to the vehicle exterior; and a notification controller configured to cause the communication unit to transmit information for notifying the information regarding the vehicle identification to the terminal device and to cause the vehicle exterior notification unit to notify the information regarding the vehicle identification when the driving controller causes the vehicle to travel toward a position at which the user is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200269748
    Abstract: A vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle includes: a first recognizer configured to recognize a person near the vehicle; a first determiner configured to determine whether the person recognized by the first recognizer is a pre-registered user; and a controller configured to control a lighting device to project a projection image to a position for which a stop position of the vehicle is a criterion in a case where the first determiner determines that the person recognized by the first recognizer is the pre-registered user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Katsuyasu Yamane, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200262453
    Abstract: A pick-up management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire first information about a situation of movement of a vehicle from a parking area to a stopping area, second information indicating a situation of the stopping area, and third information about occupant candidates who are present in or are approaching the stopping area and a pick-up mode determiner configured to associate one or more occupant candidates or one or more items of luggage with the vehicle on the basis of at least one of the first information, the second information, and the third information and determine a pick-up mode in the stopping area of the vehicle on the basis of at least some of the number of occupant candidates, the number of items or sizes of items of the luggage, and priorities of the occupant candidates included in the third information associated with each vehicle in the stopping area when a predetermined number of vehicles or more are predicted to move to the stopping area within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Katsuyasu Yamane, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • 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: 20200207349
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a driving control unit configured to control steering and a speed of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer irrespective of an operation by an occupant; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device. When the communication unit receives a pickup request for requesting the vehicle to move from a parking area and causing the occupant to get into the vehicle in a stopping area, the driving control unit causes the vehicle to move from the parking area to the stopping area and changes a condition for the vehicle to leave the stopping area based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer near the stopping area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200210731
    Abstract: A vehicle control system of an embodiment includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control of speed control and steering control of the vehicle without depending on an operation of an occupant on the basis of a result of the recognition performed by the recognizer, a communicator configured to communicate with a terminal device of the occupant, and an acquirer configured to acquire a communication state between the communicator and the terminal device, in which the driving controller causes a vehicle to leave from a first parking area when the vehicle is parked in the first parking area in which the vehicle parks according to traveling based on the driving control and the communication state with the terminal device acquired by the acquirer is worse than a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yasushi Shoda, Junpei Noguchi, Yuki Hara, Yoshitaka Mimura, Ryoma Taguchi, Yuta Takada, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Publication number: 20200164872
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to control acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle independently of an operation of an occupant of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. When it is recognized that the vehicle passes through a complex intersection where two or more intersections are combined by turning left or right at the complex intersection, the recognizer excludes at least a traffic signal closest to the vehicle among traffic signals present at positions capable of being visually recognized from the vehicle in a traveling direction of the vehicle from traffic signals whose states are required to be taken into account by the vehicle in a state in which the vehicle has entered the complex intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Suguru Yanagihara, Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Kazuma Ohara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200156645
    Abstract: A vehicle control device in an embodiment includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle on the basis of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit, and in a case where the vehicle merges into a second lane from a first lane in which the vehicle travels, and a section of the second lane before merging recognized by the recognition unit is downhill, the driving control unit makes a speed or acceleration of the vehicle higher than in a case where the section before merging is not downhill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya Niioka, Takayasu Kumano, Kazuma Ohara, Suguru Yanagihara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20200159234
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a driving control unit that controls steering and a speed of a subject vehicle; and a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding environment of the subject vehicle, wherein, in a case in which a preceding vehicle is estimated to stop in an area in which it is not desirable for a vehicle to stop in an advancement direction of the subject vehicle by the recognition unit, the driving control unit controls the speed or the steering of the subject vehicle such that a space for the preceding vehicle to move backward from the area and stop in front of the subject vehicle is vacated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuma Ohara, Takayasu Kumano, Takuya Niioka, Suguru Yanagihara, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20190299985
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane adjacent to a subject lane on which a subject vehicle is present and a two-wheeled vehicle that is present in front of the subject vehicle, and a driving controller configured to control at least steering of the subject vehicle and cause the subject vehicle to move far away from the two-wheeled vehicle in a first case where the two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane is not recognized and the two-wheeled vehicle is recognized by the recognizer, in comparison with a second case where the two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane is recognized and the two-wheeled vehicle is recognized in the two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20190299987
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane that is present adjacent to a subject lane on which a subject vehicle is present, and a driving controller configured to control at least steering of the subject vehicle and cause the subject vehicle to move far away from the two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane in the subject lane in comparison with a case where the two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane is not recognized by the recognizer, in a case where the two-wheeled vehicle dedicated lane is recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yuki Motegi, Chie Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20190291699
    Abstract: A vehicle purification device includes: a determiner (45, 300) configured to determine a state of a vehicle; a necessity determiner configured to determine whether purification of the vehicle is necessary according to the state of the vehicle determined by the determiner; a possibility determiner configured to determine that the purification of the vehicle is possible using equipment of the vehicle when the necessity determiner determines that the purification of the vehicle is necessary; and a device controller (190) configured to perform a predetermined operation so that the purification is performed by another unit different from the equipment of the vehicle when the possibility determiner determines that the purification of the vehicle is not possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20190286136
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and a driving control unit that controls one or both of steering or acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the surrounding situation recognized by the recognition unit. The driving control unit determines whether or not an occupant is riding in the vehicle, and differentiates a road on which the vehicle is caused to travel, between a case where it is determined that the occupant is riding in the vehicle and a case where it is determined that the occupant is not riding in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Nakatsuka, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
  • 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: 20190271982
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a situation near an own-vehicle, and a driving controller (140, 160) that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the own-vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller does not perform determination of an operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration when the recognizer has recognized that an occupant is riding in the own-vehicle, and determines the operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration on the basis of a state of another vehicle present near the own-vehicle recognized by the recognizer when the recognizer has recognized that no occupant is riding in the own-vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Watanabe, Makoto Nakatsuka, Seiichi Yamamoto, Yuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20190225231
    Abstract: A prediction device including: a recognizer (130) recognizing a road structure and another vehicle in the vicinity of a subject vehicle; and a predictor (140) predicting a running locus of the other vehicle recognized by the recognizer in the future on the basis of the road structure recognized by the recognizer in a predetermined situation, wherein, in the predetermined situation, in a case in which at least a part of the road structure used for predicting the running locus of the other vehicle in the future is not recognizable for the recognizer, the predictor predicts the running locus of the other vehicle in the future on the basis of a running locus of the other vehicle in the past acquired on the basis of a result of recognition in the past that is acquired by the recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuma Ohara, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yuki Motegi