Vehicle taillight recognition based on a velocity estimation
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249161
A method for controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes associating, by a velocity model, one or more objects within the environment with a respective velocity instance label. The method also includes selectively, by a recurrent network of the taillight recognition system, focusing on a selected region of the sequence of images according to a spatial attention model for a vehicle taillight recognition task. The method further includes concatenating the selected region with the…
Response system, response method, and storage medium
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250181
A response system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the question sentence of a user, a response sentence selection unit configured to select a response sentence, stored in a storage unit in advance, according to the acquired question sentence, a response sentence conversion unit configured to convert the selected response sentence according to the question sentence, and an output unit configured to output the converted response sentence. The response sentence conversion…
Power generation device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249918
A power generation device includes a first generator connected to a prime mover, a second generator connected to the prime mover, a first DCDC converter connected to the first generator, and a second DCDC converter connected to the second generator.
Power control device and power supply system using the same
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249912
A power control device comprising: a step-down converter configured to step down DC power supplied from a DC power source; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the step-down converter or a temperature correlated therewith; and a control device configured to control an operation of the step-down converter based on a target value for an output voltage of the step-down converter. The control device is configured to change the target value between at least two values in…
Battery control device, battery control method, operation management system, and operation management method
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249695
A battery control device includes: a charging/discharging control unit; an outside air temperature acquiring unit; and a state-of-charge upper limit setting unit setting a state-of-charge upper limit which is an upper limit of the management range of the state of charge when the acquired outside air temperature is lower than a predetermined air temperature to a low-temperature state-of-charge upper limit which is lower than the state-of-charge upper limit when the outside air temperature…
All solid state battery
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249687
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery capable of decreasing the heating value. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and the cathode layer includes a complex cathode active material containing a spinel type active material, and a lithium oxide layer coating a surface of the…
Power electronic device assemblies having an electrically insulating S-cell
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249554
In one embodiment, a power electronics assembly includes a power device assembly further including an S-cell. The S-cell includes a first metal layer having a recess, a graphite layer bonded to the first metal layer, a second metal layer bonded to the graphite layer, and a ceramic layer, wherein the ceramic layer has a first metalized surface and a second metalized surface, and the first metalized surface is bonded to the second metal layer by a solder layer. The power electronics…
Information processing device that acquires a rotational angle of a head of a user, method that acquires a rotational angle of a head of a user, and storage medium that acquires a rotational angle of a head of a user
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249235
An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and being configured to: acquire a rotation angle by which a head of a user has rotated and a maintained time during which the rotation angle has been maintained, and in a case in which the rotation angle is less than a preset angle, or in a case in which the rotation angle is equal to or greater than the preset angle and the maintained time is less than a preset time, cause a notification unit to…
Deterioration estimation device, method, solar system, and vehicle
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249198
A deterioration estimation device that is provided in an in-vehicle component (such as an ECU) mounted in a vehicle includes a processor, and the processor is configured to acquire information about a temperature variation of the in-vehicle component based on electric power generated by a solar panel mounted in the vehicle, and estimate deterioration of the in-vehicle component based on the acquired information about the temperature variation of the in-vehicle component.
Partial sensor data sharing for connected vehicles
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249193
A method of partial sensor data sharing is described. The method includes detecting an occluded area relative to a receiver vehicle. The method also includes defining an area of interest (AoI) based on a traffic topology and state information of a selected sender vehicle. The method further includes transmitting the area of interest to the selected sender vehicle. The method also includes receiving a sensor data corresponding to the area of interest when the detected occluded area is…
Control device for collision avoidance assistance, and collision avoidance assistance method
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246707
A control device for collision avoidance assistance includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute region setting processing for setting an assistance determination region indicating a particular region forward of a vehicle, and to execute accumulation processing in which the processor gives an object a determination value and accumulates the determination value. The object is located in the assistance determination region. The determination value is decided according to…
Electrically heating support and exhaust gas purification device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12247510
An electrically heating support according to the present invention includes: a ceramic honeycomb structure, the honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral wall and a partition wall arranged on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells each extending from one end face to other end face to form a flow path; and a pair of metal electrodes 5 for applying a voltage to a honeycomb structure, wherein each of the pair of metal electrodes…
Method for producing a SiC seed crystal for growth of a SiC ingot by heat-treating in a main container made of a SiC material
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12247319
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel technology capable of achieving high-quality SiC seed crystal, SiC ingot, SiC wafer and SiC wafer with an epitaxial film. The present invention, which solves the above object, is a method for producing a SiC seed crystal for growth of a SiC ingot, the method including a heat treatment step of heat-treating a SiC single crystal in an atmosphere containing Si element and C element. As described above, by heat-treating the SiC single…
Takeoff and landing assist apparatus
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246865
A stage has a takeoff and landing surface. The takeoff and landing surface has an opening through which loading and unloading to and from a flying object is carried out. The takeoff and landing surface has a plurality of markers formed thereon. Each marker is a figure or the like for identifying a relative position between the flying object and the stage. The opening is formed in the takeoff and landing surface such that an edge of the opening does not cross the markers.
Vehicle rear component
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246771
The rear component is an integrally cast hollow member, and is composed of a main body, a tower, and a suspension member. Arm brackets to which the arms of the suspension device are connected are attached to the outer surfaces of the main body and the suspension in the vehicle width direction. The body portion includes a first connecting member that connects the right side plate and the left side plate in the vehicle width direction at a position where the arm bracket is provided.
Vehicle controller, vehicle control method, and computer program for vehicle control
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246755
A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to determine whether to transfer driving control of a vehicle under autonomous driving control to a driver, notify the driver of a transition demand via a notification device in the case where driving control will be transferred to the driver, execute deceleration control of the vehicle at predetermined timing after notification timing of the transition demand, and continue deceleration control of the vehicle even after a predetermined…
Vehicle controller, and method and computer program for distance notification
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246741
A vehicle controller includes a memory configured to store map information including information on a predetermined area used in autonomous driving control of a vehicle; and a processor configured to: refer to the map information to identify an autonomous-driving practicable point at which a planned travel route from the current position of the vehicle outside the predetermined area to a destination of the vehicle enters the predetermined area, calculate a manual-driving section length…
Driving support device for vehicle, driving support method for vehicle, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246719
A driving support ECU (21) of a driving support device (11a) executes automatic deceleration control for decelerating a vehicle (10) without a driver operating a brake pedal (105) when it is determined that a specific condition indicating that the driver intends to turn the vehicle (10) to the right or left at an intersection present in front of the vehicle (10) is satisfied. When a direction indicator (34, 35) stops operating during execution of the automatic deceleration control, the…
Control device of vehicle, control method, and storage medium
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246716
The control device according to the present disclosure executes a process of acquiring an image captured by a camera provided in a vehicle and estimating an vehicle-to-vehicle distance and a relative speed with the preceding vehicle based on an image, a process of calculating a time to collision with respect to the preceding vehicle from the vehicle-to-vehicle distance and the relative speed, a deceleration process of decelerating the vehicle based on the vehicle-to-vehicle distance, the…
Driving support device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12246711
A driving support device including: an in-vehicle sensor configured to acquire and output each of position information relating to a position of an own vehicle, target information relating to a target positioned around the own vehicle, and operation information relating to an operation of an operating element of the own vehicle; and a control device having a lane departure prevention function for preventing the own vehicle from departing from a lane in which the own vehicle is traveling…
