Patents by Inventor Kazuya Nishimura

Kazuya Nishimura 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).

  • Publication number: 20230324193
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory configured to store a history of travel of a vehicle, a communication interface, and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface. The controller is configured to output a first history for a first period in response to a predetermined instruction during the first period and to refrain from outputting the first history, even upon receiving the predetermined instruction, during a second period partitioned from the first period based on information transmitted by a terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230319240
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface, wherein the controller is configured to transmit information to a vehicle about a boarding point, designated by a terminal apparatus, at which a user is to board the vehicle, and transmit, to the terminal apparatus, a captured image of surroundings of the vehicle, the captured image being captured by the vehicle during travel to the boarding point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230316913
    Abstract: A service support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user or a staff member, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a parking status of shared vehicles at a plurality of locations, and transmit presentation data to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface upon detecting an excess of shared vehicles at a first location, a shortage of shared vehicles at a second location, or both based on the acquired status data, the presentation data encouraging the user or the staff member to travel to the second location in a shared vehicle parked at the first location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11774258
    Abstract: A device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to receive information for traveling guidance, which is generated based on an image of a specific point. The image of the specific point is captured by another vehicle, and the specific point is a point at which a traveling route of a different vehicle deviates from a guidance route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11762955
    Abstract: A waste collecting device includes an inlet unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire waste information on waste thrown into the inlet unit, and a control unit configured to specify a category of the waste based on the waste information, determine whether the category of the waste matches a predetermined category, and output a determination result via an output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Yuko Mizuno, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11763667
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11755039
    Abstract: A server device transmits an instruction for causing a plurality of flying bodies to perform flight operation to the flying bodies. The flight operation includes a step in which a first flying body urges a penetrating tool toward an object placed in a predetermined space and flies out of the predetermined space while holding a first part and a second part of a string member attached to the penetrating tool, the first part having penetrated the object and the second part not having penetrated the object, a step in which a second flying body receives either the first or second part from the first flying body, and a step in which the first and second flying bodies transport the object while towing the object with the string member as the first and second flying bodies fly while respectively holding one or the other of the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230278527
    Abstract: A linking structure of a wiper blade 12 includes a wiper arm 10, the wiper blade 12, a hook part 10a provided at the wiper arm 10, and a linking part 13 provided at the wiper blade 12. The hook part 10a has a tip side extension part 10b in which a through hole 10c is formed. The linking part 13 has: a pair of sidewalls 13a, 13b facing each other; a cylindrical part 13c bonded to the pair of sidewalls 13a, 13b and engaged with the hook part 10a; a release lever 13d provided at the cylindrical part 13c; and a bridging part 13g bonded to the pair of sidewalls 13a, 13b. The release lever 13d is flexible, and includes a protrusion part 13f fittable with the through hole 10c. The tip part 13e of the release lever 13d protrudes to the outside of the linking part 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: KAZUHISA TAMURA, KAZUYA NISHIMURA, NOBUTAKA NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11687584
    Abstract: A method of generating log data that includes a plurality of records, in which information detected through image recognition processing on a plurality of image frames is recorded. The method includes, detecting objects in each image frame through the image recognition processing, generating a record including identification information of each image frame and the aggregated number of objects detected in the image frame for each image frame, and adding metadata relating to the detected objects to the corresponding record when the aggregated number of objects is equal to or greater than one. When the aggregated number of objects is zero, the metadata related to the detected objects is not added to the record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230194272
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. When the controller receives information for reserving use of a vehicle from a terminal apparatus, and a distance between an end point of a first use and a start point of a second use that starts after the first use is equal to or less than a reference distance, the controller is configured to transmit a movement instruction to a first terminal apparatus corresponding to the first use for a user to move the vehicle to the start point of the second use at an end of the first use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230152215
    Abstract: Provided are an analysis device, an analysis method, and the like that predict a concentration even for a sample having high concentration that can be outside a measurement range as it is, using an absorbance measurement result in a reaction course at the time of measurement of a test liquid containing an immunological reagent and the sample, and determine an optimum dilution rate to conduct measurement. As the present invention, for example, an analysis device having means (A) that detects a prozone during measurement of a sample, and means (B) that determines a high concentration region by automatically determining a dilution rate of the test liquid can be recited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yosuke DOI, Yuko FUKUMOTO, Shiqin WU
  • Patent number: 11625767
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technique to encourage a user who is lent a vehicle to obey manners at time of using the vehicle. In the present disclosure, a controller executes: informing a user who is lent a vehicle of information indicating a plurality of manners provisions about use of the vehicle; acquiring a picked-up image of the vehicle about the plurality of manners provisions at time of returning the vehicle; and calculating an evaluation value for obedience of the plurality of manners provisions, based on the picked-up image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Masaru Ando, Toshinari Honda
  • Patent number: 11620699
    Abstract: In a system for renting vehicles to users, the operation rate of the vehicles is improved. An information processing apparatus for managing the rental of vehicles to users is configured to perform: generating a rental schedule of a vehicle for a first user; obtaining demand data related to a demand for the vehicle; and changing, based on the demand data, a vehicle return point included in the rental schedule, the vehicle return point being a point at which the first user returns the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Kazuya Nishimura, Masaru Ando, Toshinari Honda
  • Patent number: 11594201
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a display device that is visible from a front side, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance between the vehicle and a front vehicle which travels in the same direction as the vehicle, and a display control unit configured to horizontally invert display content on the display device based on the measured distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshihiro Oe, Naoki Uenoyama, Hirofumi Kamimaru
  • Patent number: 11587438
    Abstract: A control apparatus is a control apparatus for causing light emitting devices to display a crosswalk when the control apparatus detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a road. The control apparatus includes a controlling portion configured to perform: detect, as a first vehicle, a vehicle traveling in a crosswalk display region where a crosswalk is to be displayed; determine whether or not the speed of the first vehicle is less than a reference speed; and in a case where the speed is less than the reference speed and a predetermined safety standard is satisfied, determine to cause the light emitting devices to display the crosswalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Shin Sakurada, Soutaro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230019735
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Soutaro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20230009433
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that determines a travel path of a wheelchair that crosses a road. The control unit determines the travel path of the wheelchair based on information on undulations of a road surface of the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yuko Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20230011883
    Abstract: A control device outputs control information to a sidewalk configured such that an inclination of a road surface is changeable. When the control device detects a wheelchair waiting on the sidewalk for crossing a road, the control device outputs, as the control information, information of instruction to reduce the inclination of the road surface of the sidewalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yuko MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230010783
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that determines a travel path of a wheelchair. The control unit determines the travel path of the wheelchair based on information on a step existing on a road surface on which the wheelchair travels and information on a wheel of the wheelchair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shin SAKURADA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yuko MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220415163
    Abstract: A route control device includes a control unit that sets an angle of a guideway for guiding a wheelchair user with respect to a roadway in accordance with a length of a waiting time for which a vehicle traveling on the roadway is kept waiting, when the wheelchair user who is about to cross the roadway is detected, and performs a control of displaying a pedestrian crossing including the guideway on the roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yuko MIZUNO, Shin SAKURADA