Patents by Inventor Atsushi IKEGAYA

Atsushi IKEGAYA 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).

  • Patent number: 11709466
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute acquiring operation information for a network-connected home appliance that is home electronic equipment which is provided in a dwelling house, and is configured to be accessible to a prescribed network and is capable of being controlled via the network, making an estimation as to entering/exiting of a vehicle utilized by a user of the dwelling house into/from a parking lot associated with the dwelling house on the basis of the operation information for the network-connected home appliance in the dwelling house, and issuing, to a management apparatus that manages entering/exiting of the vehicle, an enter/exit instruction for causing the vehicle to enter or exit if entering/exiting of the vehicle into/from the parking lot is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Nakabayashi, Naoki Yamada, Daigo Fujii, Atsushi Ikegaya
  • Patent number: 11457184
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute: acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined input from the outside to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked, identifying a vehicle target vehicle for which the predetermined input is made among the parked vehicles, and issuing a command for activating a first vehicle sensor configured to detect a peripheral information of a first vehicle and provided to the first vehicle based on the predetermined input to target vehicle, the first vehicle being a vehicle parked around target vehicle in the predetermined parking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Nakabayashi, Naoki Yamada, Daigo Fujii, Atsushi Ikegaya
  • Publication number: 20210312822
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the disclosure of the present application includes a controller that is configured to acquire landing information about landing of a flying object on a landing platform that is provided on a housing facility for housing the flying object, the landing platform being where the flying object lands when the flying object is to be housed in the housing facility, the landing platform being movable between a stored state of being stored in an inner space separated by an outer wall of the housing facility and a protruding state of protruding from the outer wall of the housing facility, and issue a command for controlling the landing platform to be in the stored state, based on the landing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki YAMADA, Daigo FUJII, Atsushi IKEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210311443
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute acquiring operation information for a network-connected home appliance that is home electronic equipment which is provided in a dwelling house, and is configured to be accessible to a prescribed network and is capable of being controlled via the network, making an estimation as to entering/exiting of a vehicle utilized by a user of the dwelling house into/from a parking lot associated with the dwelling house on the basis of the operation information for the network-connected home appliance in the dwelling house, and issuing, to a management apparatus that manages entering/exiting of the vehicle, an enter/exit instruction for causing the vehicle to enter or exit if entering/exiting of the vehicle into/from the parking lot is estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki YAMADA, Daigo FUJII, Atsushi IKEGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210304241
    Abstract: An information processor includes a control unit configured to: acquire a store visit behavior, related to a visit to a member store belonging to a commercial accumulation, of a user of a vehicle parked in a parking lot associated with the commercial accumulation and the commercial accumulation having a plurality of the member stores; calculate the number of visited stores based on the store visit behavior, the number of visited stores being the number of member stores visited by the user; determine a preferential service to be offered to the user regarding use of the parking lot, the preferential service being determined in such a manner that a level of the preferential service increases as the number of visited stores by the user increases; and perform a preferential treatment process of applying the preferential service to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki Yamada, Daigo Fujii, Atsushi Ikegaya
  • Publication number: 20210281804
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute: acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined input from the outside to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked, identifying a vehicle target vehicle for which the predetermined input is made among the parked vehicles, and issuing a command for activating a first vehicle sensor configured to detect a peripheral information of a first vehicle and provided to the first vehicle based on the predetermined input to target vehicle, the first vehicle being a vehicle parked around target vehicle in the predetermined parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota NAKABAYASHI, Naoki YAMADA, Daigo FUJII, Atsushi IKEGAYA