Driving assistance apparatus
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170022
A driving assistance apparatus including an approach detection part detecting an approach of a railway vehicle along a travel path from a diagonally backward of a subject vehicle to the subject vehicle without using a road-to-vehicle communication, a notification part notifying a driver of information and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform estimating a traveling direction of the subject vehicle at an intersection, and controlling the notification part so as to…
Information processing method and information processing apparatus
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170021
Provided is an information processing method of determining the influence of the event on the traffic condition, and this method includes a first link setting step of setting a link, related to an occurrence position of the event, as a target link, a determining step of determining a degree of influence of the event on the traffic condition of the target link, and a second link setting step of setting a link adjacent to the target link as a new target link based on a determination result…
System and method for providing weakly-supervised online action segmentation
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169964
A system and method for providing weakly-supervised online action segmentation that include receiving image data associated with multi-view videos of a procedure, wherein the procedure involves a plurality of atomic actions. The system and method also include analyzing the image data using weakly-supervised action segmentation to identify each of the plurality of atomic actions by using an ordered sequence of action labels. The system and method additionally include training a neural…
Angular direction identifying device and angular direction identifying method
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169946
An angular direction identifying device includes: a photographed image acquiring unit configured to acquire a photographed image by a camera provided in a movable body; an angular direction information acquiring unit configured to acquire angular direction information in a case where a predetermined physical object suggesting an angular direction is shown in the photographed image, the angular direction information indicating the angular direction suggested by the predetermined physical…
Minimization method, computer-readable storage medium, and minimization apparatus
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169717
A minimization method for minimizing the size of a file is provided, the minimization method including preparing an absolute value length that is equal to or larger than the largest data length among the data lengths of the data of a plurally of coordinates, and a plurality of relative value lengths equal to or less than the absolute value length, and identifying a relative value length causing minimization of the size among a plurality of relative value lengths.
Information processing apparatus, control system, system, information processing method, control method and computer-readable storage medium
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169705
Provided is a control system, including: an acquisition unit, configured to acquire, from an mobile object, version information of each of a plurality of programs for controlling each of a plurality of mobile object control units included in the mobile object; a storage control unit, configured to store the acquired version information; a selection unit, configured to select an update program of at least one mobile object control unit among the plurality of mobile object control units;…
Power assist device for bicycles, and bicycle
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12168496
An electric power assist device for bicycles includes: a dynamic brake controller configured to stop supply of a current from a battery to an electric motor and bring a dynamic brake circuit to an ON state when a crank rotational angle is within one or more predetermined crank rotational angle ranges; a pedaling force estimator configured to estimate a pedaling force put on pedals of a bicycle on a value of reverse current caused by a counter electromotive force and detected by a current…
Safety support device
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12168450
A safety support device includes an object detection camera and a radar device, which serve as detectors, and a controller that controls a dual-purpose speaker and a dual-purpose speaker, which serve as three-dimensional sound outputters, and a monaural speaker that serves as a sound outputter, based on detection information of a monitoring camera that serves as a monitor. The controller selects, in accordance with the positions of the ears of a driver, which are detected by the…
Vehicle cooling device
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12168384
This vehicle cooling device includes a duct communicating with a heating element disposed in a vehicle, an opening provided in the duct, positioned below a seat surface part of a seat disposed above a floor panel, and opening to a passenger compartment, and a fan supplying air suctioned into the duct from the opening to the heating element, in which the opening is positioned on a vehicle-body rear side with respect to a seat fixing part on a vehicle-body front side among seat fixing…
Moving object control system, moving object, control method, and storage medium
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12164300
A moving object control system includes a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors executes the instructions stored in the storage device to determine whether or not an element selected on a basis of a priority based on the type of a specific location near the sidewalk among a plurality of elements satisfies a criterion defined for each element, and determine whether or not a sidewalk is to be included in a route of a…
Wheel for automobile
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
D1053775
Misfire determination device for internal combustion engine
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12163858
A misfire determination device, for an internal combustion engine, according to the present invention detects a combustion state parameter of the internal combustion engine, retrieves an extreme value of the combustion state parameter in an extreme value retrieval section from a start timing of a combustion stroke to a predetermined crank angle (step 5), upon retrieval of the extreme value, sets a predetermined crank angle section subsequent to a crank angle corresponding to the extreme…
Map generation apparatus and position recognition apparatus
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12163802
A map generation apparatus includes: an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle in traveling; and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting one or more feature points from detection data acquired by the in-vehicle detection unit; generating a map using the extracted feature points; dividing an area on the map generated in the generating in a traveling direction of a subject vehicle and dividing the area in the…
Vehicle driving apparatus
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12163578
A vehicle driving apparatus includes a rotating shaft driven by the power source, a fluid pump driven by the rotating shaft. The fluid pump includes a rotor rotated by the rotating shaft, and a case. The case includes a fluid discharge port provided on an inner peripheral surface of an insertion hole through which the rotating shaft is inserted. The rotating shaft includes an attachment portion fittable to a shaft hole, and an internal flow path. A supply groove communicating with the…
Control apparatus for internal combustion engine
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12163495
A control apparatus, for an internal combustion engine, detects a rotational speed parameter (time parameter) that represents a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders, detects a single misfire that is a misfire for every ignition for each of the plurality of cylinders, based on the rotational speed parameter that has been detected in each combustion stroke of the plurality of cylinders (steps 2 to 7 and 9), counts, as a misfire counter…
Battery charge difference calculation system
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12162617
A power supply device includes a power generator, a drive source, a plurality of power supply lines, a plurality of batteries, a difference calculating unit 11, a difference summing unit 12, and an electric power summing unit 13. The difference calculating unit 11 is configured to calculate differences D1, D2, D3, and D4 between a target charge state set for each battery and an estimated charge state. The difference summing unit 12 is configured to sum the differences D1, D2, D3, and D4…
Display device for watercraft
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12162570
Provided is a display device for a watercraft with which a disparity between an operation instruction and an actual speed of the watercraft can be grasped easily. The display device for a watercraft is provided with a first indicator 131 that shows a specified speed based on an operation by a user and a second indicator 132 that shows an actual speed of the watercraft. The first indicator 131 and the second indicator 132 each include a forward indicator 131F, 132F and a reverse indicator…
Driving assistance device, vehicle, driving assistance method, and storage medium
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12162508
A driving assistance device comprises: a recognition unit configured to recognize a lighting color of a traffic light from an image captured by a camera that images an outside world of a vehicle; and an alarm output unit configured to output an alarm to a driver of the vehicle when the lighting color is red and there is no braking operation of the vehicle. When a plurality of traffic lights are recognized from the image by processing of the recognition unit, the alarm output unit…
Driving support device
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12162496
A driving support device is provided which can estimate the line-of-sight of an occupant with high accuracy. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40 which acquires peripheral information of the periphery of a vehicle 1; a driver monitor camera 50 which acquires occupant information related to the occupant of the vehicle 1; an outside-world information detection unit 201 which detects the outside-world information including the position and speed…
Vehicular lamp fitting and radar structure
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12162397
A vehicular lamp fitting and the like capable of preventing (or suppressing) vibrations of a radar unit (and as a result, capable of preventing the detection area of the radar unit from being significantly changed) are provided. A vehicular lamp fitting includes: a lamp housing; an outer lens attached to the lamp housing, the outer lens including a recessed part and forming a first space between the outer lens and the lamp housing; a lamp unit disposed in the first space; a radar cover…
