Patents by Inventor Yuki YOSHIHAMA

Yuki YOSHIHAMA 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: 11731637
    Abstract: A driver assistance control device includes a detection part detecting a degree of concentration of a driver; an acquisition part acquiring assistance levels set by the driver; a driver assistance control part performing a plurality of the functions; and a changing part automatically changing setting of the plurality of the functions in accordance with the degree. The changing part automatically changes the settings of first driver assistance functions including one of a plurality of the functions so that the assistance levels become higher than the levels set by the driver when the degree becomes lower than a first value, and automatically changes the settings of second driver assistance functions including at least another of a plurality of the functions so that the assistance levels become higher than the levels set by the driver when the degree becomes lower than a second value different from the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamaoka, Florin Baiduc, Yuki Yoshihama, Masayasu Tanase, Toshinobu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220289185
    Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to: detect a lane being traveled by the vehicle, set a planned trajectory to be traveled by the vehicle along the detected lane, detect a lane line demarcating the lane being traveled by the vehicle and an obstacle in an area around the vehicle, identify an effective section of the planned trajectory, the effective section being a section in which the planned trajectory and the detected lane line match, and control motion of the vehicle to avoid a collision between the obstacle and the vehicle in the case that the obstacle is located in the effective section and on the planned trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki YOSHIHAMA, Taiyo UEJIMA, Toshiki FURUTANI, Yoshinao TAKEMAE
  • Publication number: 20210245769
    Abstract: A driver assistance control device includes a detection part detecting a degree of concentration of a driver; an acquisition part acquiring assistance levels set by the driver; a driver assistance control part performing a plurality of the functions; and a changing part automatically changing setting of the plurality of the functions in accordance with the degree. The changing part automatically changes the settings of first driver assistance functions including one of a plurality of the functions so that the assistance levels become higher than the levels set by the driver when the degree becomes lower than a first value, and automatically changes the settings of second driver assistance functions including at least another of a plurality of the functions so that the assistance levels become higher than the levels set by the driver when the degree becomes lower than a second value different from the first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Masaaki YAMAOKA, Florin BAIDUC, Yuki YOSHIHAMA, Masayasu TANASE, Toshinobu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11055545
    Abstract: An object recognition apparatus is provided with: a recognizer configured to recognize a plurality of objects; an acquirer configured to obtain behavior information; a parallel moving determinator configured to determine whether or not a parallel moving condition is satisfied, indicating that there are a first object and a second object, which move in parallel; a recognition determinator configured to determine whether or not a recognition condition is satisfied, indicating that there is the second object among the objects recognized in second timing; a recognition number determinator configured to determine whether or not a recognition number condition is satisfied, indicating that a number of the objects recognized in the second timing is reduced; and a parallel moving loss determinator configured to determine that the first object is in a parallel-moving-object-lost state, if the parallel moving condition, the recognition condition and the recognition number conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Yoshihama
  • Publication number: 20210070288
    Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a visibility determination unit that determines whether visual recognition within a predetermined distance from a vehicle can be achieved in a traveling direction of the vehicle, an operation detection unit that detects an operation of causing the vehicle to enter a space in which an oncoming vehicle travels, based on information representing an operation of the vehicle by a driver, and a control warning unit that warns the driver or controls the vehicle in such a way that the vehicle does not enter the space when the visibility determination unit determines that visual recognition within the predetermined distance cannot be achieved, and the operation detection unit detects the operation of causing the vehicle to enter the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki YAMAOKA, Florin BAIDUC, Yuki YOSHIHAMA, Yuki HAYAKAWA, Masayasu TANASE, Gang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190377960
    Abstract: An object recognition apparatus is provided with: a recognizer configured to recognize a plurality of objects; an acquirer configured to obtain behavior information; a parallel moving determinator configured to determine whether or not a parallel moving condition is satisfied, indicating that there are a first object and a second object, which move in parallel; a recognition determinator configured to determine whether or not a recognition condition is satisfied, indicating that there is the second object among the objects recognized in second timing; a recognition number determinator configured to determine whether or not a recognition number condition is satisfied, indicating that a number of the objects recognized in the second timing is reduced; and a parallel moving loss determinator configured to determine that the first object is in a parallel-moving-object-lost state, if the parallel moving condition, the recognition condition and the recognition number conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki YOSHIHAMA
  • Publication number: 20180264322
    Abstract: An exercise support device includes a processor, a memory, and a sensor. The processor executes a program stored in the memory to perform operations including: acquiring, from the sensor, at least one of biological information about a user related to an exercise and exercise information about the user related to the exercise; and acquiring predetermined information in an outdoor activity involving a movement, on the basis of at least one of the biological information and the exercise information having been acquired, wherein the processor is further configured to acquire at least one of the biological information and the exercise information resulting from an exercise performed the user other than an exercise performed by the user as the movement in the outdoor activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki YOSHIHAMA
  • Patent number: 9852633
    Abstract: The present invention resides in a travel assist apparatus that performs assist of warning or support so that departure of a vehicle from a traveling lane is avoided, wherein a timing to the assist is to be performed is changed depending on a lane entering angle of an oncoming vehicle and a lane departure angle of a subject vehicle with respect to the traveling lane. Accordingly, the timing at which the assist is to be performed is changed depending on the lane entering angle of the oncoming vehicle and the lane departure angle of the subject vehicle with respect to the traveling lane. Therefore, it is possible to advance the timing at which the assist is to be performed as the possibilities is higher that the behaviors of the oncoming vehicle and the subject vehicle hinder the traveling of the subject vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Igarashi, Tomonori Akiyama, Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9604640
    Abstract: Disclosed is a collision avoidance assistance device including: an assistance region setting unit is configured to set an assistance region in the vicinity of a vehicle based on a set lateral acceleration determined according to a vehicle speed during steering; and an assistance control unit is configured to permit collision avoidance assistance for the vehicle when an obstacle is detected within the assistance region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Yoshihama, Toshinori Okita
  • Patent number: 9514729
    Abstract: A musical instrument includes memory that stores layout information defining regions arranged on a predetermined virtual plane, and a position sensor that detects the position coordinates on the virtual plane of a music playing member that can be held by a player. First, it is determined whether the position coordinates of the music playing member belong to a region arranged on the virtual plane based on the layout information, at a timing at which a specific music playing operations is made. Herein, in a case of having determined as belonging to a region, the generation of sound of a musical note corresponding to this region is instructed, in a case of having determined as not belonging to a region, the layout information stored in the memory is modified in order to modify this region so as to include the position coordinates of the music playing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9505401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a driving support apparatus for setting a traveling lane in which a vehicle can travel on the basis of a road marking to indicate a lane boundary or a traveling-prohibited region and performing support by combining steering of the vehicle and deceleration of the vehicle so that the vehicle is allowed to travel in the traveling lane if the vehicle is to be departed from the traveling lane, wherein the steering of the vehicle and the deceleration of the vehicle, which are to be performed when the support is performed so that the vehicle is allowed to travel in the traveling lane, are individually controlled depending on a difference ?Y between a target yaw rate Ytrg and an actual yaw rate Yrea if the actual yaw rate Yrea is smaller than the target yaw rate Ytrg in order not to allow the vehicle to exceed the traveling lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonori Akiyama, Shinji Igarashi, Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9336626
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a 3D model using a photographed image of a subject and generates a 3D image based on the 3D model. When a corresponding point corresponding to a point forming the 3D model does not form a 3D model generated using a photographed image photographed at a different photographing position, the imaging apparatus determines that the point is noise, and removes the point determined as noise from the 3D model. The imaging apparatus generates a 3D image based on the 3D model from which the point determined as noise is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu Nakajima, Keiichi Sakurai, Takashi Yamaya, Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9208128
    Abstract: A course determining system of a vehicle determines, when two or more objects that are present around the vehicle are detected, whether a passable road which the vehicle can enter is present between the two or more objects, recognizes the two or more objects as a single object when it is determined that there is no passable road between the two or more objects, and determines a running course based on at least one road including the passable road when it is determined that the passable road is present between the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Yoshihama, Tomonori Akiyama, Shinji Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9201498
    Abstract: The matching processor acquires the key information such as position information and/or the like by the key information acquirer, and notifies to an external apparatus via the communicator. The matching processor stores the acquired key information in the storer corresponding to the identification information which is acquired from the external apparatus. When the acquired identification information does not exist in a AR data management table, the matching processor acquires the AR data by notifying the identification information to the external apparatus. When there is no empty record in a key information management table, key information of which usage date and time is old is considered as a deletion target. Moreover, when there is no empty record in the AR data management table, the AR data of which usage date and time is old is considered as the deletion target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sakurai, Mitsuyasu Nakajima, Takashi Yamaya, Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9180911
    Abstract: A vehicle operating condition determining system determines, when a turning angle of wheels or a steering angle of a steering wheel changes, that the turning angle of the wheels or the steering angle of the steering wheel changes due to a driver's intention, under a condition that the magnitude of steering torque applied to a steering device is kept equal to or larger than a threshold value after the torque reaches a peak, for a period of time equal to or longer than a reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9058686
    Abstract: The utility of a service using AR is improved. The information display apparatus which applies an information display according to augmented reality (AR) acquires a reference image for matching with a subject in a captured image and scale information which shows a scale of the subject in the reference image from an information provision apparatus. Then, an inputter-outputter of the information display apparatus displays the captured image as well as a distribution of the reference images by a scale of the subject. On this distribution display, a guide display according to the scale of the subject in the captured image is performed. This guide display moves on the distribution display corresponding to a change of an angle of view. Accordingly, it is easily set the angle of view by which the matching using the acquired reference image can be performed appropriately, and the convenience improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sakurai, Mitsuyasu Nakajima, Takashi Yamaya, Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 9018510
    Abstract: At a timing at which a music playing operation is made by way of a music playing member, it is determined whether the position coordinates of the music playing member belong to any of a plurality of regions arranged on a virtual plane based on layout information store in memory, and in a case of having determined as belonging to the region, it is determined whether the pitch angle of the music playing member detected by way of a pitch angle sensor belongs to the pitch angle range corresponding to the region, and in the case of having determined as belonging to the pitch angle range corresponding to the region, the generation of a sound of a musical note corresponding to the region is instructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Yoshihama
  • Publication number: 20150094943
    Abstract: Disclosed is a collision avoidance assistance device including: an assistance region setting unit is configured to set an assistance region in the vicinity of a vehicle based on a set lateral acceleration determined according to a vehicle speed during steering; and an assistance control unit is configured to permit collision avoidance assistance for the vehicle when an obstacle is detected within the assistance region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Yoshihama, Toshinori Okita
  • Patent number: 8941479
    Abstract: An object recognition system of a vehicle includes detecting means for detecting an object that is present around the vehicle, and enlarging means for enlarging the size of the object detected by the detecting means and recognizing the enlarged object, wherein a direction of enlargement of the object is determined according to a basis other than the object. When an object that is present around the vehicle is detected, the enlarging means enlarges the size of the object in a direction parallel to an indicator indicative of a lane boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Igarashi, Tomonori Akiyama, Yuki Yoshihama
  • Patent number: 8817075
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a 3D model using a photographed image of a subject and generates a 3D image based on the 3D model. When a corresponding point corresponding to a point forming the 3D model does not form a 3D model generated using a photographed image photographed at a different photographing position, the imaging apparatus determines that the point is noise, and removes the point determined as noise from the 3D model. The imaging apparatus generates a 3D image based on the 3D model from which the point determined as noise is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu Nakajima, Keiichi Sakurai, Takashi Yamaya, Yuki Yoshihama