Patents by Inventor Kaoru Yoshida
Kaoru Yoshida 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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Publication number: 20240160432Abstract: An information processing device for constructing a traffic digital twin synchronized with a real space in a virtual space based on data received from a plurality of devices, the information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires information on service provision from an application; a setting unit that sets an update cycle for updating the traffic digital twin based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a communication unit that receives data from the plurality of devices according to the update cycle set by the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi Kakutani, Kaoru Yoshida, Kanade Kuriyama, Toshiki Shinohara
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Publication number: 20240140478Abstract: An information processing device configured to communicate with an external service provider includes a reception unit configured to receive a request regarding communication quality necessary for executing an external service from the external service provider, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a predetermined database, information on the communication quality necessary for executing the external service based on the request received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the acquisition unit to the external service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA, Kanade KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240134381Abstract: A system includes a vehicle and a control device. The vehicle includes a reception unit for receiving an instruction related to remote control from the control device, a vehicle control unit for executing any one of first vehicle control and second vehicle control, the first vehicle control being control based on the instruction related to the remote control, and the second vehicle control being control determined by the vehicle itself in accordance with a traveling environment, and a transmission unit for notifying a predetermined control result to the control device when the second vehicle control is executed by the vehicle control unit. The control device includes a remote control unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. When the control result is notified from the vehicle, the remote control unit of the control device executes the remote control based on a content of the control result.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki SHINOHARA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240080702Abstract: A communication control device for performing communication with a plurality of vehicles, comprising: a communication unit that performs communication including acquisition of vehicle data with a plurality of vehicles; a database that stores data for forming a digital twin that is time-synchronized with a real space on a virtual space based on vehicle data acquired by the communication unit; and a control unit that controls a frequency of communication performed by the communication unit, wherein when there is a first vehicle in which a distance from a surrounding object is less than a first threshold value on the digital twin, the control unit increases a frequency of communication performed between the first vehicle and the surrounding object than when the distance between the first vehicle and the surrounding object is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki SHINOHARA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240071227Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a moving object in the surrounding image of the vehicle based on a chronological change of the surrounding image of the vehicle and the information related to the behavior of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Kanade KURIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240073104Abstract: A system includes: a server; and a moving body wherein, the server is configured to communicate with the moving body, predict occurrence of a loss of communication with the moving body, and send information necessary to execute a first process to the moving body when the loss of communication with the moving body is predicted to occur; and the moving body is configured to receive the information from the server, and execute the first process based on the received information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kanade KURIYAMA, Masataka OKUDA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Toshiki SHINOHARA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI
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Patent number: 11911394Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing transmission of influenza, wherein said method comprises administering an effective amount of a compound to a patient having an influenza virus infection, herein referred to as “index patient”, wherein the compound has one of the formulae (I) and (II), or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The compound to be used in the present invention reduces infectivity of the influenza virus of the index patient, and therefore, reduces the risk of the index patient to trigger an influenza epidemic or an influenza pandemic as compared to a control patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Noshi, Takahiro Noda, Ryu Yoshida, Takao Shishido, Kaoru Baba, Aeron C. Hurt, Leo Yi Yang Lee, Steffen Wildum, Klaus Kuhlbusch, Barry Clinch, Jan Michal Nebesky, Annabelle Lemenuel, Wendy S. Barclay, Jean-Eric Charoin, Yoshinori Ando
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Publication number: 20240056845Abstract: A communication abnormality determination device mounted on a vehicle that communicates with a server includes a detection unit that detects that a communication disruption occurs between the vehicle and the server, and a determination unit that determines a cause of occurrence of the communication disruption based on a communication strength at a first position at which the communication disruption occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masataka OKUDA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20240040600Abstract: A vehicle communication control device that communicates with a plurality of vehicles, the vehicle communication control device including: a database generated from data acquired from the vehicles; and a control unit that controls data acquired from the vehicles based on information regarding a state of an own vehicle acquired from the vehicles and a completeness of the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Toshiki SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20240015078Abstract: An information processing device that performs communication via a network includes: a storage unit that stores a receiving unit that receives data acquired by a device; the data; and past data received by the receiving unit before the data; a calculating unit that calculates a delay time in the network; a determination unit that determines, based on the calculated delay time, one or more past data used for prediction of future data that is not received by the receiving unit from the past data stored in the storage unit; and a predicting unit that predicts the future data using the determined past data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kanade KURIYAMA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE, Masatoshi KAKUTANI
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Publication number: 20240010214Abstract: A vehicle information processing system includes a vehicle information processing device mounted on a vehicle, a first external information processing device provided outside the vehicle, a plurality of vehicle control applications configured to output control commands to control target devices of the vehicle, and an arbitration unit provided in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The vehicle control applications are installed in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The arbitration unit is configured to arbitrate the control commands for a predetermined one of the control target devices to determine one control command. The control commands for the predetermined one of the control target devices are obtained by the vehicle control applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Hiroki MAKI, Kanade KURIYAMA, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kosuke WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230254725Abstract: A vehicle control device includes communication equipment configured to transmit a plurality of signals to a vehicle using a plurality of communication paths, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a communication latency for each of the communication paths, and determine a communication path to allocate to each of the signals based on the communication latency that is acquired. The communication equipment is configured to execute transmission of each of the signals to the vehicle using the communication path that is allocated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Masataka OKUDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Kaoru YOSHIDA, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230152725Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising an organic pigment and a binder resin, wherein, in a solid-state NMR measurement at 60° C. using a solid fraction obtained by specific procedure for dissolving the toner in chloroform as a sample, a transverse relaxation time T2 of a peak observed between 1.5 and 2.5 ppm is from 0.08 to 0.13 ms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Kouichirou Ochi, Masayuki Hama, Yuka Gunji, Hayato Ida, Kaoru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230125426Abstract: A vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to perform communication with a plurality of vehicles, transmit and receive data to and from the vehicles, acquire a communication delay time between the vehicle control device and a controlled vehicle that is a target of remote control among the vehicles, based on the transmitted and received data, and generate a control signal to be transmitted to the controlled vehicle for the remote control based on the communication delay time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Masataka OKUDA, Kanade KURIYAMA, Masatoshi KAKUTANI, Hiroki MAKI, Kosuke WATANABE
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Patent number: 11610408Abstract: A blind spot information acquisition device includes: a processor configured to: acquire sounds in an area around a vehicle, infer positions of occurrence of the sounds that have been acquired, acquire information relating to objects in the area around the vehicle, and determine that there is a sound occurring in a blind spot in a case in which a sound source in the positions of occurrence of the sounds cannot be identified from the information relating to objects in the area around the vehicle that has been acquired.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kaoru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220337980Abstract: A communication system for transport means is provided, by which wireless communication with high quality is realized in the interior of the transport means. A communication device to mainly perform optical wireless communication with a terminal device 2 is selected among a plurality of light source devices 3A, 3B and 3C capable of performing optical wireless communication with the terminal device 2 based on a state of an occupant in the interior of the transport means. In this way, the wireless communication with high quality is realized, as the whole system, between the terminal device 2 and the plurality of light source devices 3A, 3B and 3C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Shiori FURUTA
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Publication number: 20220337315Abstract: A communication system for transport means is provided, by which wireless communication is performed between the outside and the wireless communication environment in the transport means. Optical wireless communication is performed between a terminal device 2 and a light source device 3. A body ECU 4 connected to the light source device 3 by wired connection is further connected, by the wired connection, to a DCM 7 performing wireless communication with the outside. The light source device 3 and the body ECU 4 communicate with each other by power line communication. Accordingly, the light source device 3 sends and receives information between the outside via the body ECU 4 and the DCM 7. Thus, a vehicle communication system 1 that realizes wireless communication between the outside and the in-vehicle wireless communication environment (in-vehicle wireless communication environment configured including the terminal device 2 and the light source device 3) is built.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kaoru YOSHIDA, Shiori FURUTA, Kazuya KITATANI, Daiki HAYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20220236655Abstract: An external additive for toner comprising a particle of a silicon polymer having a siloxane bond and a Si—R1 bond, wherein the R1 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, in a chart obtained by 29Si—NMR measurement of the external additive, where a total peak area attributed to the external additive is denoted by A, and a peak area attributed to the Si—R1 bond is denoted by B, a following formula (1) is satisfied, and in the chart obtained by 29Si—NMR measurement of the external additive, where a total peak area attributed to the silicon polymer is denoted by SA, and a peak area attributed to a T unit structure is denoted by S3, a following formula (2) is satisfied; 0.26 ? 0 ? B / A ? 0 ? .450 ( 1 ) 0.00 ? S ? ? 3 / SA ? 0 ? .50 .Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Ichiro Kanno, Kaoru Yoshida, Hayato Ida
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Publication number: 20220236656Abstract: An external additive for toner comprising a particle of a silicon polymer having a siloxane bond and a Si—O—C bond, wherein in an FT-IR spectrum of the external additive obtained by an ATR method, a maximum peak is present in a range of from 1030 cm?1 to 1070 cm?1, where an average intensity in a range of from 1015 cm?1 to 1025 cm?1 of the spectrum is denoted by A and an average intensity in a range of from 1085 cm?1 to 1095 cm?1 is denoted by B, the A and the B satisfy a following formula (1): 0 . 5 ? 5 ? A / B ? 1.5 .Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Ichiro Kanno, Kaoru Yoshida, Hayato Ida
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Patent number: 11370667Abstract: A silicate mixture and a combustion accelerator increase combustion efficiency in a combustion engine. The silicate mixture is formed by mixing a first component including one or two or more materials selected from silicon compounds including silicon, glass, and quartz, and a second component including one or two or more materials selected from materials formed by sintering a silicate mineral at a temperature of 1300° C. or higher and 2000° C. or lower and ores emitting a terahertz wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: YUSHIN CO. LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nasu, Kaoru Yoshida, Kuriko Nishimoto