Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Sugiyama
Hiroaki Sugiyama 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).
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Patent number: 10759302Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: a rotary electric machine configured to generate a driving force for driving driving wheels; a driving battery storing power to drive the rotary electric machine; a converter connected to the driving battery; an auxiliary battery connected to the driving battery via the converter; and a cooling box connected to the auxiliary battery. When the driving battery has an SOC reduced to be smaller than a prescribed threshold value, the converter is stopped and power remaining in the auxiliary battery is used to drive the cooling box.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
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Patent number: 10726756Abstract: The display device includes a display panel, gate line driving circuitry that includes gate drivers provided for each of gate lines, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit supplies a control signal to at least one gate driver corresponding to a gate line to be scanned first in a unit period in which the gate lines are scanned. The gate driver which received the control signal is driven on the basis of the control signal, and the gate drivers in subsequent stages are each driven on the basis of a scanning signal of the gate driver in a preceding stage. The signal processing circuit outputs, on the basis of a scanning signal of at least one gate driver corresponding to a gate line to be scanned last in the unit period and the control signal, a detection signal that indicates whether the gate driver is normal.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Kanda, Hiroaki Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20200223345Abstract: A vehicle includes: a main body; a rotary electric machine provided in the main body; a driving battery configured to be chargeable and dischargeable and supply power to the rotary electric machine; a cooling box detachable from the main body; at least one detachable battery detachable from the main body; and a charger configured to charge the detachable battery with power supplied from the driving battery, the detachable battery being configured to be attachable to the cooling box.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zekai QIU, Hironobu KITAOKA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Kozo KOSHO, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Makoto IKEGAMI
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Publication number: 20200195893Abstract: In a monitoring area such as a resort house area that a user cannot directly monitor, a vehicle owned by the user performs patrol driving to capture an image of a surrounding state and transmits the image to a user terminal and a monitoring server as imaging data. The monitoring server analyzes the imaging data transmitted from the vehicle to determine whether an abnormality occurs in the monitoring area or not, and notifies the user terminal and the vehicle of a determination result. When the vehicle receives an abnormality notice from the monitoring server, the vehicle notifies outside that the abnormality occurs by light or sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200193460Abstract: A vehicle information management device includes: an acquisition section that acquires location information from a traveling vehicle; a determination section that determines whether the vehicle has traveled in a specified underpopulated area on the basis of the location information; and an offering section that offers a travel reward to a user of the vehicle in the case where it is determined that the vehicle has traveled in the specified underpopulated area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200160394Abstract: A vehicle information managing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire vehicle data on a vehicle which is traveling from the vehicle and a provision unit configured to provide advertisement information of a commercial facility which is selected based on user data on a user of the vehicle and the vehicle data to the vehicle which is traveling.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200161884Abstract: A vehicle includes a supply unit supplying electric power to a target apparatus, a first reception unit receiving settlement information including an amount of charge to be charged to a user as value for a service provided by the target apparatus, from the target apparatus being supplied with electric power, a first transmission unit transmitting the settlement information and a user identifier to a settlement apparatus, a second reception unit receiving a notification indicating that settlement of the amount of charge is possible or settlement of the amount of charge has been completed from the settlement apparatus, and a second transmission unit transmitting information indicating that settlement of the amount of charge is possible or settlement of the amount of charge has been completed to the target apparatus so as to cause the target apparatus to execute the service in a case where the notification is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200163180Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage unit configured to store area information for designating an area in which a lighting device is to be illuminated and illuminating time period information for designating a time period in which the lighting device is to be illuminated; and a first processor configured to acquire a current position of each of a plurality of vehicles, to extract at least one vehicle of which the current position is in the area from among the plurality of vehicles, and to instruct the at least one extracted vehicle to illuminate the lighting device in the time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Patent number: 10654412Abstract: The notification system includes: an electric vehicle provided with a cooling box, a battery, and wheels driven by the electric power from the battery; an acquisition device configured to obtain storage information indicating storage conditions for a commodity selected by a user; a processor configured to send a warning signal when a travelling distance which can be covered by the electric vehicle with the selected commodity being preserved in the cooling box under the storage conditions indicated by the storage information is shorter than a predetermined distance; and a notification device configured to notify the user of a warning upon receiving the warning signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
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Publication number: 20200141743Abstract: A patrol system includes a vehicle and a server. The server includes: a first decision unit that decides a priority of each of a plurality of patrol points to be patrolled and located in a prescribed area, based on resident data including data of the number of residents living in the prescribed area and addresses of the residents; a second decision unit that decides a patrol route for patrolling the patrol points, based on map information of the prescribed area and the priorities; and a transmission unit that transmits the patrol route to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200141751Abstract: The search system includes a vehicle and a server. The server includes: a first determination unit that determines a search route for searching for a user who rides on transportation based on a timetable of the transportation and map information; a second determination unit that determines a time for the vehicle to start moving from a current position of the vehicle to a boarding point of the transportation based on the current position, a current time, a location of the boarding point, and a departure time of the transportation; a third determination unit that determines a travel route to move from the current position to the boarding point based on the map information; and a transmitter unit that transmits the search route and the travel route to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Ryohei OBARA, Masaki ITO, Makoto KAKUCHI, Mutsumi MATSUURA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Yuichi TASHIRO
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Patent number: 10618445Abstract: A vehicle includes: a main body; a rotary electric machine provided in the main body; a driving battery configured to be chargeable and dischargeable and supply power to the rotary electric machine; a cooling box detachable from the main body; at least one detachable battery detachable from the main body; and a charger configured to charge the detachable battery with power supplied from the driving battery, the detachable battery being configured to be attachable to the cooling box.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Zekai Qiu, Hironobu Kitaoka, Naoki Yamamuro, Kozo Kosho, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Makoto Ikegami
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Publication number: 20200034434Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to prevent inattentive listening to a dialogue of an agent without taking it seriously and to make it easier to understand the dialogue with the agent. A dialogue system 100 conducts a dialogue with a user 101. A humanoid robot 50-1 presents a leap-in-logic utterance, which is an utterance, of which a logical structure is partially missing. The user 101 expresses a confirmation action which is an action confirming the missing information in the leap-in-logic utterance. The humanoid robot 50-1 presents a supplementary utterance which is an utterance describing the missing information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Hiromi NARIMATSU, Yuichiro YOSHIKAWA, Takamasa IIO, Tsunehiro ARIMOTO, Hiroshi ISHIGURO
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Publication number: 20200027455Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a dialog technique that can reduce a user's uncomfortable feeling. A dialog system 100 is a dialog system that conducts a dialog with the user, the dialog system including a presentation part 50 that presents an action to fill a gap between a user utterance and a response utterance of the dialog system, after it is estimated or determined that the user utterance has ended or after a predicted time at which the user utterance ends, and before the dialog system makes a response utterance to the user utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Hiromi NARIMATSU, Yuichiro YOSHIKAWA, Takamasa IIO, Tsunehiro ARIMOTO, Hiroshi ISHIGURO
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Publication number: 20200013404Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to induce a dialogue to a topic that a dialogue system tries to present. A dialogue system 100 presents a first utterance which is a certain utterance and a target utterance related to the first utterance to a user 101. A humanoid robot 50-1 presents the first utterance. A microphone 11-1 receives a user utterance of the user 101 after the first utterance. A humanoid robot 50-2 presents at least one topic-inducing utterance for inducing the topic to the target utterance based on a recognition result of the user utterance and an utterance sentence of the target utterance after the user utterance. The humanoid robot 50-1 presents the target utterance after the topic-inducing utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Hiromi NARIMATSU, Yuichiro YOSHIKAWA, Takamasa IIO, Tsunehiro ARIMOTO, Hiroshi ISHIGURO
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Publication number: 20200013403Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to promote a user's understanding or agreement, and to cause a dialogue to last long. A dialogue system 100 conducts a dialogue with a user 101. A humanoid robot 50-1 presents a first utterance which is a certain utterance. When the user 101 performs an action indicating that the user cannot understand the first utterance or it is predicted that the user performs an action indicating that the user cannot understand the first utterance or when the user does not perform any action indicating that the user can understand the first utterance, or it is predicted that the user will not perform any action indicating that the user can understand the first utterance, then the humanoid robot 50-1 presents a second utterance which is at least one utterance resulting from paraphrasing the contents of the first utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Hiromi NARIMATSU, Yuichiro YOSHIKAWA, Hiroshi ISHIGURO
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Patent number: 10490019Abstract: A lever handle includes a body portion that has a plate shape and is attached to a game machine so as to be able to rotationally move between a home position and a stroke end around a rotary shaft main body provided at one end, and a main light-show portion for causing the body portion to emit light. The main light-show portion includes a light source, and a light guide plate having a light incident face on which light from the light source is incident and a light exit face from which light from the light incident face exits, and includes, as the light guide plate, a light guide plate on which a reflection pattern for causing light in one of a character shape or a diagram shape to exit from the light exit face is formed.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20190325797Abstract: The display device includes a display panel, gate line driving circuitry that includes gate drivers provided for each of gate lines, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit supplies a control signal to at least one gate driver corresponding to a gate line to be scanned first in a unit period in which the gate lines are scanned. The gate driver which received the control signal is driven on the basis of the control signal, and the gate drivers in subsequent stages are each driven on the basis of a scanning signal of the gate driver in a preceding stage. The signal processing circuit outputs, on the basis of a scanning signal of at least one gate driver corresponding to a gate line to be scanned last in the unit period and the control signal, a detection signal that indicates whether the gate driver is normal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Keisuke KANDA, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20190304451Abstract: The present invention keeps a dialogue continuing for a long time without causing uncomfortable feeling to a user. A dialogue system 10 includes at least an input part 1 that receives a user utterance, which is an utterance from a user and a presentation part 5 that presents the utterance. The input part 1 receives a user utterance performed by the user. A presentation part 5-1 presents a dialogue-establishing utterance which does not include any content words. A presentation part 5-2 presents a second utterance associated with a generation target utterance, which is one or more utterances performed before user utterance that includes at least the user utterance, after the dialogue-establishing utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Toyomi MEGURO, Junji YAMATO, Yuichiro YOSHIKAWA, Hiroshi ISHIGURO, Takamasa IIO, Tsunehiro ARIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190294638Abstract: The present invention provides a dialog system comprising a speech receiving step in which the dialog system receives input of a speech of a human, a first speech determination step in which the dialog system determines a first speech which is a speech in response to the speech of the human, a first speech presentation step in which the first speech is presented by a first agent, a reaction acquisition step in which the dialog system acquires a reaction of the human to the first speech, a second speech determination step in which the dialog system determines, when the reaction of the human is a reaction indicating that the first speech is not a speech in response to the speech of the human, a second speech which is different from the first speech, and a second speech presentation step in which the second speech is presented by the second agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Toyomi MEGURO, Junji YAMATO, Yuichiro YOSHIKAWA, Hiroshi ISHIGURO