公开(公告)号：US11615627B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-28

申请号：US16597958

申请日：2019-10-10

Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation ,  MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION

Inventor： Noriyoshi Yamashina ,  Masanori Mori ,  Koji Iida ,  Tomohiro Akiyama ,  Shinichi Tateiwa ,  Takayuki Moritani ,  Hiroyuki Ueda ,  Hideaki Tamazumi ,  Junki Tamaru ,  Yoshihiro Yamamoto

IPC: G06V20/56 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/04 ,  G01S7/41 ,  G01S13/86 ,  G01S13/931

Abstract: There are provided an object recognition apparatus that raises the recognition accuracy for a surrounding object and a vehicle control apparatus, and an object recognition method and a vehicle control method. An object recognition apparatus receives object data, which is a state value of the object, from a first sensor for detecting a surrounding object; compares estimation data obtained through estimation of a state value of the object, based on recognition data calculated in a past period, with the object data, and determines whether or not the object data is data in a low-resolution state; then, in accordance with the determination result, calculates the state value of the object by use of object data and estimation data and then generates the state value as recognition data, so that the recognition accuracy for an object is raised.

公开(公告)号：US11897537B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17614037

申请日：2020-06-17

Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION

Inventor： Yoshihiro Yamamoto ,  Yasuyuki Tonohara ,  Keiichi Yamasaki ,  Katsuhisa Maedo ,  Kenichi Nakamoto

IPC: B62D1/04 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60K26/04

CPC classification number: B62D1/046 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60K26/04 ,  B60K2026/046

Abstract: A driver assistance system is provided that allows a driver to easily perform an accelerator operation by a finger of his/her hand while grasping a steering holding section. The driver assistance system includes an operation member near a steering wheel held by a driver, which rotates about a rotation shaft in a vehicle front-rear direction and thereby steers the vehicle. The operation member has an operation section that the driver can manually operate to accelerate/decelerate the vehicle, and includes a support member on the steering wheel, the support member supporting the operation member in a slidingly displaceable manner along a steering axial direction. The operation section is disposed near a radially inner side of a rim section of the steering wheel, and the operation section and the rim section overlap in the steering axial direction within a movable range of the operation member along the steering axial direction.

公开(公告)号：US11755054B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17614104

申请日：2020-06-17

Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION

Inventor： Yoshihiro Yamamoto ,  Yasuyuki Tonohara ,  Keiichi Yamasaki ,  Katsuhisa Maedo ,  Kazutaka Aihara

IPC: G05G1/54 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60T7/08 ,  G05G5/05 ,  G05G9/02

CPC classification number: G05G1/54 ,  B60K26/02 ,  B60T7/08 ,  G05G5/05 ,  G05G9/02 ,  G05G2505/00

Abstract: A driver assistance system enables brake and accelerator operation by an operation bar in a manner close to a sense of a driver of a vehicle, regardless of the degree of operation of the operation bar. Embodiments include an operation bar extending downward toward a vehicle floor panel from a manual operation area where a seated driver manually operates the operation bar, and whose lower portion is supported in a slidingly displaceable manner along an axial direction in a front-down, rear-up tilted state. The operation bar includes a brake actuation section, below the manual operation area, that actuates a brake mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a front-down direction; and an accelerator actuation section that actuates an acceleration mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a rear-up direction that is a reverse direction on the same axis from the sliding displacement in the front-down direction.

公开(公告)号：US11100340B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-24

申请号：US16448009

申请日：2019-06-21

Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION

Inventor： Junki Tamaru ,  Takayuki Moritani ,  Hiroyuki Ueda ,  Hideaki Tamazumi ,  Yoshihiro Yamamoto

IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract: A line detector apparatus and method on a vehicle for detecting a line on a road with a higher degree of accuracy. The vehicle includes front, right-side and left-side image capturing sensors mounted on a vehicle and respectively capture an image, including a road surface, at the front and right and left sides of the vehicle to respectively generate front, right-side and left-side images. The line detector includes a processor that calculates a line on a road as a first line from the front image, the line on the road as a second line from the right-side image, and the line on the road as a third line from the left-side image. The processor selects one of multiple mutually-different algorithms based on the first to third lines, and calculates the line on the road based on the first to third lines by using the selected algorithm.