Patents by Inventor Kenta Miyahara

Kenta Miyahara 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: 20220083966
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire route information on a route along which a vehicle is to travel and determine, based on the acquired route information, a delivery site at which a user on board the vehicle is to receive a delivery item to be delivered to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada, Michael C. Edwards
  • Publication number: 20220067615
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes a controller configured to: estimate whether an ingredient of a first meal to be cooked with the ingredient in a vehicle will be in surplus, in which the first meal was scheduled to be provided to a first user but will not be provided to the first user; and in a case in which it is estimated that the ingredient will be in surplus, determine a site at which to provide a second meal to be cooked with the ingredient in the vehicle, to a second user different from the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Ayana Takeshita, Changyi Luo, Yuhei Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220067594
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to identify each passenger in a plurality of passengers on board a vehicle based on information on the plurality of passengers, select at least two facilities from among a plurality of facilities based on user attributes indicating attributes of each passenger in the plurality of passengers, notify the plurality of passengers of the at least two facilities, and select one facility from among the at least two facilities based on a response from each passenger in the plurality of passengers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada, Joshua Babcock
  • Publication number: 20220032917
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user; and a controller configured to: detect a use state of a functional component of at least one vehicle; determine weather around the at least one vehicle, based on the use state detected; select at least one facility to be recommended to the user, according to the weather determined; and transmit facility information indicating the at least one facility selected. to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20220036485
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus; and a controller configured to: select either one of a food-serving facility and an accommodation facility as a facility to be recommended to a user, according to an arrival time slot in which the user is to arrive at a destination; refer to, when selecting a food-serving facility, first profile data indicating preference of the user for food to select at least one of a plurality of food-serving facility candidates; refer to, when selecting an accommodation facility, second profile data indicating preference of the user for accommodation services to select at least one of a plurality of accommodation facility candidates; and transmit, regardless of which of a food-serving facility and an accommodation facility has been selected, facility data indicating a selected candidate, to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tae Sugimura, Kenta Miyahara, Shin Sakurada, Tim Wang
  • Publication number: 20220035381
    Abstract: A flight controller of a drone calculates a target attitude of the drone on a port based on the result of acquisition by an anemometer. The flight controller of the drone controls each of a plurality of rotors independently, and controls each of the rotors so as to make the drone on the port take a target attitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuhiro OKUNO, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210398047
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire user information regarding each of users. The user information is information relating to a site that is a location where each of the users desires snow removal, and information relating to a completion timing that is a timing at which each of the users desires the snow removal to be completed. The processor is configured to decide a dispatching schedule for dispatching a snow removal movable body to the site, based on the user information regarding each of the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Kyochika, Riho Matsuo, Kenta Miyahara, Ryotaro Kakihara
  • Publication number: 20210357620
    Abstract: A moving object includes: an imaging device configured to take images of surroundings of the moving object that moves autonomously; a storage unit configured to store a reference image, which is an image taken at an imaging position in a predetermined area; and a controller configured to transmit, to a server, a first image that is an image taken by the imaging device at the imaging position and that is different by a predetermined value or more from the reference image, and information on the position at which the first image has been taken. The server is configured to determine, based on the first image received, a situation of damage in the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru KYOCHIKA, Riho MATSUO, Kenta MIYAHARA, Ryotaro KAKIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210357830
    Abstract: A system according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is a system including a plurality of user terminals associated with a plurality of users, and an information processing apparatus configured to manage a plurality of collection vehicles for collecting garbage, where each user terminal transmits, to the information processing apparatus, garbage information including the amount of garbage that an associated user wants collected in a predetermined region, and the information processing apparatus calculates the total amount of garbage that is desired to be collected in the predetermined region, based on the garbage information received from each user terminal, and determines at least one dispatch vehicle to be dispatched to the predetermined region from among the plurality of collection vehicles, based on the total amount of garbage that is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru KYOCHIKA, Riho MATSUO, Kenta MIYAHARA, Ryotaro KAKIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210315159
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a sensor, a server device, a user terminal, and a work device. The sensor detects a state of a crop. The server device includes a controller comprising at least one processor acquiring state information on the state of the crop based on an output of the sensor, generating first information based on the state information, and transmitting a work command to the work device. The user terminal notifies a user of the first information received from the server device and transmits, to the server device, second information that is input by the user and related to a work area. The controller of the server device transmits the work command to the work device, according to the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru KYOCHIKA, Riho MATSUO, Kenta MIYAHARA, Ryotaro KAKIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210221253
    Abstract: A battery provided in a vehicle and configured to supply electric power is cooled down by coolant the heat of which is exchanged with the heat of external air by a radiator. The radiator is provided near the battery and performs heat-exchange between the coolant and the external air taken in through introduction holes provided on a bottom face of the vehicle. Thus, even in a case where the radiator is provided in a vehicle floor portion so that the battery is upsized, it is possible to restrain a coolant pipe from being elongated. This accordingly makes it possible to improve mountability to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Toshio WATANABE, Keisuke SHIBATA, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210221219
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle including: a vehicle main body capable of traveling in both directions along a vehicle front-rear direction; a first radiator that is provided at an end of the vehicle main body on one side in the vehicle front-rear direction and performs heat exchange with an object-to-be-cooled provided in the vehicle main body through a refrigerant; and a second radiator that is provided at an end of the vehicle main body on the other side in the vehicle front-rear direction and performs heat exchange with the object-to-be-cooled through a refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Toshio WATANABE, Keisuke SHIBATA, Masao WATANABE, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210221252
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery pack as a temperature control target that needs to be subjected to temperature control, a radiator which is a heat exchanger configured such that a heating medium circulates between the battery pack and the heat exchanger, a cover member that covers the radiator and forms an upper surface of a vehicle body and of which the transparency is changeable, a solar radiation detection unit configured to detect solar radiation, and a controller that is able to change the transparency of the cover member based on the result of detection performed by the solar radiation detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Toshio WATANABE, Keisuke SHIBATA, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210201376
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technique that enables customization of a vehicle. In an information processing apparatus, a controller presents vehicle units extracted from among a plurality of types of under units each of which is provided with a driving mechanism configured to cause wheels to rotate and a plurality of types of upper units to be loaded on any of the under units to a user, the vehicle units being combinable as a vehicle. Furthermore, the controller executes: accepting selection by a user from among the presented vehicle units; and calculating a fee in the case of providing the selected vehicle units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki YABUSHITA, Keiichi KONDO, Kaori TAKAHASHI, Jin XIN, Daisuke MIZUSHIMA, Satoru ANDO, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Yuchi YAMANOUCHI, Kenta MIYAHARA, Katsuhisa YOSHIKAWA, Yuji SUZUKI, Keita YAMAZAKI, Kei MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO, Takashi OGAWA, Yukiya SUGIYAMA, Masaru ANDO, So SAWAHIRA, Rina MUKAI, Azusa NAKAGAME, Erina TOYAMA, Yasushi FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20210174680
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining route information indicating an operation route of a vehicle utilized by unspecified users; and obtaining desired location information indicating desired locations at which the users desire to get on the vehicle or desired locations at which the users desire to get off the vehicle. Then, the controller of the information processing apparatus determines a stop location, at which the vehicle is stopped for the users to get on or off, based on a plurality of pieces of the desired location information and the route information, and presents stop location information indicating the stop location thus determined to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki YABUSHITA, Keiichi KONDO, Kaori TAKAHASHI, Xin JIN, Daisuke MIZUSHIMA, Satoru ANDO, Takeshi MURAKAMI, Yuchi YAMANOUCHI, Kenta MIYAHARA, So SAWAHIRA, Rina MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20210162959
    Abstract: A vehicle has: a communicating portion that communicates a passenger compartment interior with a passenger compartment exterior; a discharging device that, by operating, discharging at least one of dust or liquid which is within the passenger compartment through the communicating portion to the passenger compartment exterior; and a control section that, in a case of judging that there are no vehicle occupants within the passenger compartment, operates the discharging device, and causes dust within the passenger compartment to be discharged to the passenger compartment exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Takeo MORIAI, Kazunori MITOMI, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Kazuhide TABATA, Hiromi NOSAKA, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210166302
    Abstract: A vehicle rental assistance device includes a memory and a processer connected to the memory, and the processor is configured to acquire vehicle condition information relating to at least one level of a level of decline in quality of appearance of a vehicle or a level of decline in cleanliness inside a cabin of the vehicle, and is configured to determine an incentive for vehicle rental according to the at least one level, based on the acquired vehicle condition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Yukinori II, Takeo MORIAI, Kazunori MITOMI, Yasuyuki KAMEZAKI, Kenta MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210155146
    Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Publication number: 20210138953
    Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to freely exchange interior of a vehicle. An interior unit according to the present disclosure is provided with: a frame portion attachable to and detachable from a vehicle; and interior parts installed on the frame portion. The frame portion is foldable, or extendable and contractible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Publication number: 20210129909
    Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure comprises an under unit which is equipped with a driving mechanism configured to rotate wheels of the vehicle, and an upper unit which is mounted on the under unit. The upper unit comprises an extension/contraction mechanism which is configured to extend or contract the upper unit according to a size of the under unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki YABUSHITA, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai