Patents by Inventor Mikihiro Amano

Mikihiro Amano 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: 11338706
    Abstract: A vehicle cabin control device includes: a plurality of seating surface changing devices; a determination unit; and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such an orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Mikihiro Amano, Kihiro Kato, Hiroshi Mizobata, Kazuhiro Matsui
  • Patent number: 10896610
    Abstract: A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Publication number: 20200223328
    Abstract: A vehicle cabin control device includes a plurality of seating surface changing devices a determination unit and an output unit. The seating surface changing devices is configured to change orientations of seating surfaces of a plurality of vehicle seats. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing devices so as to change orientations of bodies of the occupants to such orientations that the occupants easily communicate with each other. When the determination unit determines that the sharing state is not desirable, the output unit operates the seating surface changing device so as to change an orientation of the body of the occupant to such a orientation that the occupant does not easily communicates with the other occupants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Mikihiro Amano, Kihiro Kato, Hiroshi Mizobata, Kazuhiro Matsui
  • Publication number: 20190235251
    Abstract: A vehicle dispatch service coordinated search assistance system, includes a glasses-type wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition section; a gaze information acquisition section; a vehicle dispatch responder-side position information acquisition section; a vehicle dispatch requester-side position information acquisition section; and a control unit that, in coordination with a vehicle dispatch service system that matches the vehicle dispatch requester with the dispatch response vehicle, displays position information relating to the vehicle dispatch requester on a lens section of the wearable terminal based on the orientation information relating to the wearable terminal, the gaze information relating to the vehicle dispatch responder, the position information relating to the vehicle dispatch responder and to the dispatch response vehicle, and the position information relating to the vehicle dispatch requester, such that the display is overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the vehicle d
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Publication number: 20190228660
    Abstract: A position-finding assist system includes a glasses-type wearable terminal worn by a user; a terminal position information acquisition unit that acquires position information relating to the wearable terminal; a terminal orientation information acquisition unit that acquires orientation information relating to the wearable terminal; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires gaze information relating to the user; a target parking position information acquisition unit that acquires target parking position information relating to an occupant-carrier vehicle; and a control unit that displays the target parking position information on a lens section of the wearable terminal so as to be overlaid on an actual scene viewed by the user through the lens section, to assist the user in finding a target parking position, based on the position information, the orientation information, the gaze information, and the target parking position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Publication number: 20190220238
    Abstract: A vehicle display nexus control apparatus includes: a first display part provided at a vehicle main body; a wearable terminal that is worn at a head region of an occupant, and that is provided with a second display part disposed in front of an eye of the occupant in a worn state; a display information acquisition unit that acquires information to be displayed at at least one of the first display part or the second display part; and a display location selection unit that determines whether to display the information acquired by the display information acquisition unit at both the first display part and the second display part, at only the first display part, or at only the second display part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Mikihiro Amano, Yusuke Takeuchi, Akinori Shin, Tomomi Ogawa, Tsutomu Onagi
  • Patent number: 6857675
    Abstract: A damper unit includes a gear having a core member projecting at a shaft core portion thereof and rotatably housed in a case, a string wound around the core member, a rotary damper engaging the gear for damping a rotational force of the gear, and a spring. One end of the spring is fixed to the case and the other end thereof is fixed to the core member so that an elastic force is accumulated when the string is pulled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhito Kurachi, Shunsuke Okabayashi, Ken Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Mikihiro Amano
  • Publication number: 20040189035
    Abstract: A damper unit includes a gear having a core member projecting at a shaft core portion thereof and rotatably housed in a case, a string wound around the core member, a rotary damper engaging the gear for damping a rotational force of the gear, and a spring. One end of the spring is fixed to the case and the other end thereof is fixed to the core member so that an elastic force is accumulated when the string is pulled out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhito Kurachi, Shunsuke Okabayashi, Ken Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Mikihiro Amano