Patents Assigned to TOYOTA Connected Corporation
  • Patent number: 10679080
    Abstract: A digital signage control device includes a display controller that displays information on a digital signage installed in the vicinity of a predetermined road, a target vehicle detector that detects a target vehicle located in a predetermined range on the road in which an occupant visually recognizes the digital signage, and a visual recognition frequency information acquisition unit that acquires visual recognition frequency information on a frequency at which the occupant of the target vehicle visually recognizes the information on the digital signage. The display controller changes content of information to be displayed on the digital signage according to the visual recognition frequency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Nomura, Masato Endo, Naoki Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20190075426
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a vehicle movement history information storage unit that stores vehicle movement history information concerning a movement history including position information and clock time information of each of a plurality of vehicles, a terminal movement history information storage unit that stores terminal movement history information concerning a movement history including position information and clock time information of each of a plurality of mobile terminals, and a vehicle specifying unit that specifies one or more vehicles having a possibility of being boarded by a user of each mobile terminal, from among the vehicles, based on the vehicle movement history information and the terminal movement history information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu NOMURA, Masato ENDO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20190050656
    Abstract: A digital signage control device includes a display controller that displays information on a digital signage installed in the vicinity of a predetermined road, a target vehicle detector that detects a target vehicle located in a predetermined range on the road in which an occupant visually recognizes the digital signage, and a visual recognition frequency information acquisition unit that acquires visual recognition frequency information on a frequency at which the occupant of the target vehicle visually recognizes the information on the digital signage. The display controller changes content of information to be displayed on the digital signage according to the visual recognition frequency information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu NOMURA, Masato ENDO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20190050905
    Abstract: An information providing device includes: a target vehicle detecting unit configured to detect a vehicle which is located near an information display object displaying information; and an information providing unit configured to provide information related to the information displayed on the information display object to at least one of a user in the vehicle and a user who is likely to be in the vehicle when the vehicle detected by the target vehicle detecting unit has passed near the information display object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu NOMURA, Masato ENDO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20190050907
    Abstract: A digital signage control device includes: a traffic condition related information acquiring unit configured to acquire the traffic condition related information on traffic conditions near each of a plurality of digital signages; and a display control unit configured to: cause the plurality of digital signages to display advertisement information, and switch a digital signage on which the advertisement information is displayed among the plurality of digital signages based on traffic condition related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu NOMURA, Masato ENDO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20190050906
    Abstract: A digital signage control device includes: a display controller configured to display predetermined information on a digital signage disposed around a predetermined road; a target vehicle detector configured to detect a vehicle located in a predetermined range on the road; and a work load information acquisition unit configured to acquire work load information regarding a work load state of an occupant of the vehicle. The predetermined range on the road is a range in which the occupant of the vehicle visually recognizes the digital signage. The display controller changes the amount of predetermined information to be displayed on the digital signage according to the work load information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu NOMURA, Masato ENDO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20190051287
    Abstract: An information providing device includes: an utterance contents acquiring unit configured to acquire contents of utterance; a feature word extracting unit configured to extract a feature word; an utterance-time information acquiring unit configured to acquire information on a position or a destination of the vehicle when the feature word has been uttered; an utterance number counting unit configured to count the number of times of utterance of each of a plurality of different words for each of position indicators; a current information acquiring unit configured to acquire information on a position or a destination of a predetermined target vehicle; and an information providing unit configured to provide information to the user based on the counting results of the position indicator corresponding to the position of the target vehicle or the destination indicator corresponding to the destination of the target vehicle from the utterance number counting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu NOMURA, Masato ENDO, Naoki YAMAMURO
  • Publication number: 20180172465
    Abstract: A user guidance system includes a departure point acquisition unit that acquires departure point information, a destination acquisition unit that acquires destination information, a candidate route generation unit that generates a plurality of candidate routes, a point resource acquisition unit that acquires point resource information, a desire information acquisition unit that acquires desire information indicating a via point desired by the attraction desirer, a non-desire information acquisition unit that acquires non-desire information indicating a via point not desired by the attraction desirer, a point calculation unit that calculates a point that is imparted to the candidate route, or a via route or the via point included in the candidate route, and a point providing unit that provides point information indicating the point that is imparted to the candidate route or the via point included in the candidate route to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA Connected Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu NOMURA