Patents by Inventor Yuu Tanaka
Yuu Tanaka 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: 7039504Abstract: A vehicle backward movement assist device includes a vehicle path determining means for determining a path from a current position of the vehicle moved at a moving amount detected by a vehicle moving amount detecting means to a first target position or a second target position, the vehicle path determining means determining the path by repeatedly calculating the path, and a displaying means for displaying an image of a rear view from a captured by an image capturing means, the displaying means superimposing the first or second target position of the vehicle moved based upon the first or second target position and the detected moving amount on the image of the rear view from the vehicle, the second target position calculated by updating the first target position.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hisashi Satonaka, Tomohiko Endo, Yuichi Kubota, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 7012550Abstract: Parking assist apparatus and method cause a vehicle driver to set a target parking position in which the vehicle is to be parked by prompting the driver to specify the position of a parking space frame in the screen of a touch display by touch-operating arrow button switches shown in the screen, and then calculate a path to the target parking position. If a path to the target parking position is not generated by calculation, the arrow button switches for moving the parking space frame in such directions that a path will not be generated (i.e., the vehicle cannot be parked), among all the arrow button switches, are made non-displayed or are displayed dimmer than the other arrow button switches, and are disabled.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideyuki Iwakiri, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20050264432Abstract: A parking assist apparatus for a vehicle includes a recognizing apparatus for recognizing a target position for parking the vehicle, a calculating apparatus for calculating a course for parking the vehicle from a current vehicle position to the target position recognized by the recognizing apparatus during the vehicle being moving and an informing apparatus for informing a user of the vehicle that the vehicle can be parked at the recognized target position when the course of the vehicle has been correctly calculated by the calculating apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Tomohiko Endo, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Yoichi Iwata, Hisashi Satonaka, Takuya Itoh
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Patent number: 6950035Abstract: A parking assist system includes an image obtaining means for obtaining an image of a view from a vehicle, a displaying means for displaying the image obtained by the image obtaining means in a monitor display provided in the vehicle, an inputting means for inputting a target parking position, at which the vehicle is parked, on the monitor display, a detecting means for detecting a relative relationship between the vehicle and the target parking position, and a judging means for judging whether or not the vehicle can be parked at the target parking position based upon the relative relationship detected by the detecting means.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hisashi Satonaka, Tomohiko Endo, Mitsuhiko Morita, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Seiji Kawakami, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 6929082Abstract: In a parking assist apparatus that assists with moving, by automatic steering, a vehicle from an arbitrary stopping position to a target parking position set by the driver, a setting portion (i.e., a parking assist ECU) sets both a path from the stopping position to the target parking position and a steering operation necessary to bring the vehicle along that path. When this path cannot be set with the steering angle in the stopping position set as the initial steering angle, and when the path can be set with another steering angle as the initial steering angle, an instruction portion (i.e., a monitor or a speaker) instructs the driver to turn the steering wheel to this other steering angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aishin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Kataoka, Hisashi Satonaka, Seiji Kawakami, Mitsuhiko Morita, Tomohiko Endo, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Yoshifumi Iwata, Yuu Tanaka
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Patent number: 6919822Abstract: According to a parking assist device and a method for assisting parking of the invention, when a parking assist is canceled after a start of the parking assist, and the parking assist is restarted, a target parking position (P2B) is reset at a reset position (P1B). In the invention, at this time, the target parking position (P2B) is determined based on a target parking position (P2A) which is set at a parking preparation position (P1A), and the determined target parking position (P2B) is displayed on a screen of a monitor (4) as a default display position of a target parking frame (11) at a reset time.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2003Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Tomohiko Endo, Hisashi Satonaka, Mitsuhiko Morita, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 6898495Abstract: A parking assist system for a driver to confirm a relationship between relative positions to obstacles and one's own vehicle. A top plane creating image 7B in which a circumstance situation of one's own vehicle is indicated from a point of upward view is created based on a backward image of one's own vehicle taken by a CCD camera and displayed on a screen of a display. A mobile locus including a marker G of one's own vehicle, a marker, a parking path, and a current position is displayed on the top plane creating image in a duplicate way.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20050057374Abstract: A parking assist device includes a leading path generation judging device for judging whether an effective leading path to a target parking position is generated. According to the parking assist device, a parking assist for leading a vehicle to the target parking position is conducted in accordance with a judged result of the leading path generation judging device. The leading path generation judging device includes a first judging device for judging whether the leading path is generated when an initial steering angle of the vehicle is determined as a steering angle initial value, and a second judging device for judging whether the leading path is generated when a steering angle other than the initial steering angle is determined as the steering angle initial value in case it is judged that the leading path is not generated by the first judging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20050060073Abstract: A parking assist device for assisting parking operation to a target parking position includes an initial position setting device for setting an initial position of the target parking position to park a vehicle, a designation display showing the target parking position, a display position calculation device for calculating an initial display position of the designation display showing the target parking position at a screen showing vehicle surroundings based on the initial position determined by the initial position setting device, and an initial display position shifting device for shifting the initial display position of the designation display to a position within a display range on the screen in case the initial display position calculated by the display position calculation device is positioned outside of the display range on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20050055139Abstract: A vehicle backward movement assist device includes a vehicle path determining means for determining a path from a current position of the vehicle moved at a moving amount detected by a vehicle moving amount detecting means to a first target position or a second target position, the vehicle path determining means determining the path by repeatedly calculating the path, and a displaying means for displaying an image of a rear view from a captured by an image capturing means, the displaying means superimposing the first or second target position of the vehicle moved based upon the first or second target position and the detected moving amount on the image of the rear view from the vehicle, the second target position calculated by updating the first target position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hisashi Satonaka, Tomohiko Endo, Yuichi Kubota, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20050049766Abstract: A vehicle backward movement assist device includes an image capturing means for capturing an image of an outside area in back of a vehicle, a parking mode judging means for judging whether a parking mode by reversing of the vehicle is a back-in parking or a parallel parking, a target parking position inputting means for setting a target parking position where the vehicle is parked based on the parking mode determined by the parking mode judging means, and a displaying means for displaying the image captured by the image capturing means and superimposedly displaying the target parking position set by the target parking position inputting means on the captured image so as to guide the vehicle to the target parking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Inventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Hisashi Satonaka, Tomohiko Endo, Yuichi Kubota, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20050049767Abstract: A parking assist apparatus performs a guidance of a vehicle toward a target parking position, even after the guidance has been canceled. The target parking position is set in accordance with an operation applied to a target parking position designation display that is displayed on a screen showing a periphery of the vehicle. It is determined whether a cancellation condition of canceling the guidance of the vehicle toward the target parking position is established. A memory continuously holds target parking position information even after the cancellation condition is established.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Inventors: Tomohiko Endo, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050043871Abstract: A parking-assist device for an automotive vehicle comprises an imaging unit which creates an image of an exterior behind the vehicle. A target-parking-position input unit inputs a target parking position to park the vehicle when requested. A target-parking-position memory access unit stores the target parking position and reads the stored target parking position when requested. A vehicle-travel-amount detection unit detects an amount of travel of the vehicle. A parking-route determining unit calculates a parking route from a current position of the vehicle to the target parking position. A display unit displays the created image and displays one of the target parking position inputted and the stored target parking position read on the created image in a superimposed manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Tomohiko Endo, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20050033495Abstract: A parking assist system for a driver to confirm a relationship between relative positions to obstacles and one's own vehicle. A top plane creating image 7B in which a circumstance situation of one's own vehicle is indicated from a point of upward view is created based on a backward image of one's own vehicle taken by a CCD camera and displayed on a screen of a display. A mobile locus including a marker G of one's own vehicle, a marker, a parking path, and a current position is displayed on the top plane creating image in a duplicate way.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2004Publication date: February 10, 2005Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20050027415Abstract: A driving assist apparatus and method for a vehicle capable of guiding the vehicle at appropriate vehicle speed in accordance with the path is provided. The alarm vehicle speed for informing a driver of overspeed during driving assist is set lower for a changing steer region than for a fixed steer region. The lower alarm vehicle speed is set before the changing steer region is entered. Therefore, in the changing steer region, the vehicle speed can be sufficiently reduced, so that a set amount of steering can be accomplished. In the fixed steer region, the vehicle speed can be increased so as to reduce the time of travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20050027414Abstract: A driving assist apparatus for a vehicle which calculates a path by an algorithm suitable for real-time path calculation in a vehicle-installed computing device is provided. A basic path that changes the deflection angle of the vehicle to 0 is computed from an initial vehicle position. From the basic path, a target path is computed, for example, by adding straight-line paths to the two opposite ends of the basic path. On the basis of the target path, a driving assist is performed. During the driving assist, a basic path is re-calculated. If it is determined that a similarity-enlarged path obtained through similarity enlargement of the basic path can be used to reach the target position point, a target path is re-set on the basis of the similarity-enlarged path. Then a driving assist is performed on the basis of the re-set target path.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20040267423Abstract: A vehicle driving assist apparatus for guiding a vehicle to a target position is provided. A basic path that changes the deflection angle &thgr; to 0 is determined, and is subjected to similarity transformation. On the basis of the similarity-transformed path, a path factoring in transition from the initial steering angle is set. Then, a correction is made such that the area in the running distance-curvature graph regarding this path becomes equal to a corresponding area regarding the basic path, thereby setting a corrected path. The corrected path is similarity-transformed, and then is re-corrected in accordance with transition from the initial steering angle. Thus, a final target path is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20040267420Abstract: A method for performing a parking assist control for automatically guiding a vehicle to a target parking position includes the steps of calculating a change of a vehicle direction based on a traveling distance of the vehicle and a steering angle obtained by a steering angle sensor, calculating the change of the vehicle direction based on a yaw rate obtained by a yaw rate sensor, and determining whether or not the parking assist control is required to be stopped based on a result of a comparison between the calculated changes of the vehicle direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata, Akira Matsui, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Tomohiko Endo, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20040260439Abstract: A parking assist apparatus of the invention allows a target parking position to be set by a user moving a target parking frame displayed together with an actual image of surroundings of a vehicle, and automatically guides the vehicle to the set target parking position. In the parking assist apparatus, the target parking frame is initially displayed through the use of past setting position by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiko Endo, Hisashi Satonaka, Yuichi Kubota, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata
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Publication number: 20040257244Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes a display unit that displays a target parking frame to be superimposed on an actual image around a vehicle with its position adjustable by a user, a position determining unit that determines a target parking position corresponding to the position of the target parking frame displayed on the actual image, and a parking assist control unit that controls to guide the vehicle to the target parking position on a target path. The parking assist apparatus further includes a feature determining unit that determines a feature on the actual image through an image recognition, and a path correction unit that automatically corrects the target path such that a correlation between the target parking position upon start of a parking assist control and the feature is maintained during execution of the parking assist control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Kubota, Hisashi Satonaka, Tomohiko Endo, Akira Matsui, Hideyuki Iwakiri, Toru Sugiyama, Seiji Kawakami, Katsuhiko Iwazaki, Hiroaki Kataoka, Yuu Tanaka, Yoshifumi Iwata