Patents by Inventor Chie Koike

Chie Koike 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: 11164117
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakanishi, Daigo Fujii, Makoto Tanaka, Kazuki Takeuchi, Chie Koike, Daiki Kaneichi, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 11105650
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nakanishi, Daigo Fujii, Makoto Tanaka, Kazuki Takeuchi, Chie Koike, Daiki Kaneichi, Tsuyoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20200074365
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: for each of ride-joining wishing users, acquire a schedule information piece relating to travel using ride sharing, the travel being desired by the user; if it is predicted that a plurality of the ride-joining wishing users can be matched with a first vehicle that is one of vehicles corresponding to the vehicle, based on the schedule information pieces, set a predetermined priority for the matching, for each of the plurality of ride-joining wishing users; and perform matching between the first vehicle and the ride-joining wishing users in such a manner that from among the plurality of ride-joining wishing users with the respective predetermined priorities set therefor, a user whose priority is high is matched with the first vehicle in preference to a user whose priority is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200065932
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure extracts, when the number of carpool vehicles falls below a predetermined lower limit, a driver user candidate who is a candidate of a user who can let carpool demanding users carpool in a vehicle he/she drives. The information processing apparatus of the present disclosure then transmits information that requests consent to let the carpool demanding users carpool in the vehicle driven by the driver user candidate, to a terminal used by the extracted driver user candidate, that is, information for requesting consent to provide the vehicle which is owned by each driver user candidate or the ownership right of which is owned by each driver user candidate as a carpool vehicle, thereby promoting an increase in the number of carpool vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200065721
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to manage reservation for a transport service for sharing a ride in a vehicle that travels to a predetermined destination; receive a cancellation request for a first reservation for the transport service provided using a first vehicle, from a user terminal of a first user who is one of a driver user of the first vehicle or a passenger user who is scheduled to get on board the first vehicle, for whom the first reservation is established; and determine a substitute driver user or a substitute passenger user for the first user, and assign a penalty to the first user, in a case where the cancellation request for the first reservation is received from the user terminal of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200065729
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200041293
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets, when determining a combination between a driver user who drives a vehicle and fellow passenger users who ride in the vehicle, a route through which the vehicle driven by the driver user can pass from a place of departure to a destination of the driver user, the route being predicted to allow the driver user to arrive at the destination by a date and time desired by the driver user, as a scheduled traveling route. The information processing apparatus then combines the driver user and a fellow passenger user whose getting-in spot and getting-off spot are located on the scheduled traveling route among fellow passenger users desiring to ride in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200034941
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is provided with a controller configured to execute: acquiring places of departure and destinations of fellow passenger users; determining as getting-in spots, spots which are different from the places of departure in a first range including the places of departure of the fellow passenger users and at which a third party can recognize a situation in which the fellow passenger users get in the vehicle; determining as getting-off spots, spots which are different from the destinations in a second range including the destinations of the fellow passenger users and at which a third party can recognize a situation in which the fellow passenger users get off the vehicle; and transmitting the getting-in spots and the getting-off spots of the fellow passenger users to an apparatus related to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200011697
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200011680
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention sets a provisional combination of users who share the same vehicle when determining a combination of the users sharing the same vehicle and acquires greeting moving images of users included in the set provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits greeting moving images of other users included in the provisional combination and information for inquiring whether or not to consent to the provisional combination to terminals of the users included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating consent to the provisional combination from the terminals of all the users included in the provisional combination, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko NAKANISHI, Daigo FUJII, Makoto TANAKA, Kazuki TAKEUCHI, Chie KOIKE, Daiki KANEICHI, Tsuyoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20060140508
    Abstract: The image combining portable terminal combines a recorded image prepared in an uncombined image recording portion (200) and a captured image captured by a camera portion (220). A plurality of sets of mask information defining at least one area in which the captured image is to be combined with the recorded image are stored in a mask recording portion (210). The mask information acquiring portion (211) selects desired mask information from the mask recording portion (210) in response to an instruction of a user. The image combining portion (230) combines the recorded image and the captured image in an area designated by the mask information selected by the mask information acquiring portion (211).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ohgishi, Ken Yamashita, Chie Koike, Hiromi Wada